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VOL. TV.
CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1895.
NO. 20.
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VESSELS COLLIDE.
Ono is Sunk and tlio Other is Badly
Wrecked.
Advicco from Mackinaw City, Midi.,
state tliftttho stoamship Oayugn, of the
Lehigh Valley lino, Chicago to Buffalo,
collided with the steamer Joseph L.
Hurd, of the Jjtike Superior lino, Lake
Superior ports to Chicago, noar Skilla-
galeo lighthouse, in a dense fog, at 1
o’clock Friday morning. Tho Cuyuga
sank in about twenty minutes. The
bow of the Ilurd was knocked clean of!
and only her cargo of lumber kept her
afloat.
(ieorgo Johnson, steward of the
Hurd, WftH knocked overboard by the
crash of tho collision aud drowned.
The remaining members of both crews
were picked up by the steamer Manohi
and landed at Mackinaw, Tho vessel*
were not more than two hundred feet
apart when their signalH were extin
guished, but it was too late thou to
avoid a collision.
For Increased Duty.
In the Florida senate Friday a me
morial was addressed asking congress
to increase the duty on fruit. Tho
memorial passed by a vote of 10 to 13.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
Groceries.
Ronitod coffee 21.00 JM J00 It. naans. Oreon
•—Choice 91; fair prime 18t£c- Sugar—
Standard granula o«l 4%c;off granulated 4%c;
New Orb-ant white 4e: do. yollow 4 •.
ttvmp—New Orleans open kettle 25080c; mixed
13%@20e; Mig..rh.UHO 20035c. Teas-Black
80985c; green iO05'c. Rico-II -ad Go;
choice 5V*c. Salt—dairy, Bucks, #1.40; do. bb a.
fi.26; ice cream $1; common 70c. Cheese—
Pull cream 12V*c. Match as— 65s 6^o; 90Dt
S1.3O0$I.75; LOOi 3:2.75. Soda—Boxes <D;
koga 8c. Cruel ors—Soda GKc; croam 8 l /<0;
ginger snap* 8 {o. Candy—Common stick
b x / % \ fancy 120! 2 *4- Orators-F. W. $1.70; L.
W. fl.25. Powder—Kegs $3.8-’*. Shot—$1-25
Flour, Grain and Meal.
Flonr, first ; a ont, $4.25; second patent
$4.00; straight *5.75; fanev $8.60; extra fami
ly $3.i5. Coni, wliite 64; mixed 63. Oats,
rust proof 50c; white 40•; mixed 42c. Rye,
Georgia 75c. Barley, Georgia raUed 8'c. Hay,
No- 1 timothy, large bales 90c; Hmallbil'-s 85c;
No. 2 timothy, nnall bales 80c. Meal, plain
02c; bolted flOc. Wheat bran, large sicks 90o ;
small sacks 92^*c. Short* $1. Stock Meal, 71-
Cotton Seed Meal 90c per 100 lb*. Hulls, $7.
per ton. Peas, 90c per bn. Grits $3 25.
Country Produce.
Egg* 10^(311- Butter—Western Creamery,
20022 V£c; fancy Tennessee 15018c, choic: 12V*
Georgia lO012 l /;c. Liv.i poultry—Tur-
lieya 10c Ih; bens 22V % 025c; spring
ohickens, 8'035c; ducks 18020c. Dressed poul
try—Turkova 1001 be; ducks 120
14; ohickeus 1O012%c. Irish potatoes—
Burbank $3.0033.25 V bb!; $1.10j bu.
Teunessee bu. 65075c. Sweet p uatoos
75«80c *} bn. Honey—8*rained 8010c; in
the comb iO0l2^c. Onions $1.00 »$l.25 # bu
bbla. S3 00 Cabbage 506c.
Provisions.
Clear rib sides, boxed 7c; ice*curod lollies
8^. Sugar-cured ham-* 10$£(3>l2%Cf California
7Wo, Breakfast bacon 10V^. Lanl — best quality
TjJc; second quality 7jjfo. compound
Cotton.
Vosal 0j£lMt 'bMfld psm.iniib piddling ftW.
A BENEFIT TO AMERICA.
WIU tho Pouoo Agreement Between
Japan and China Bo.
Largo opportunities for tho intro
duction of Amorioan machinery and
the investment of Amorieau capital are
offered by tho peace agreement Japan
has just effected with China. A pro
vision is made that Chiuu shall kero-
after bo open to tho introduction of
all forms of modern machinery nnd
that such machinery shall bo admitted
free of duty.
American cotton maohinery should
benefit specially from tho now open
ing presented, and also telephones,
eloctrio lights, printing presses nnd
many other devices of civilization,
which heretofore have been kept out
of China. Tho emperor of Chiuu has
heretofore prohibited the introduction
of modern machiuery. As a result the
Chinese are using wooden plows simi
lar to those used centuries ago. Mod
ern tools are included under the head
of a machinery and mechanical de
vice, so that the American plows and
all other implements aud tools will en
ter China free of duty.
It is stated that cotton machinery
will bo brought at onco into extensive
use, thus enlarging tho demand for
tho raw cotton of tho southern states.
The Chiucso use so much cotton that
tho emperor granted a monopoly of
using cotton machinery to tho viceroy
of the southern provinces of China.
He has since produced large quanti
ties and has prevented the Brit
ish and Americans at Shanghai and
elsewhere from using similar machin
ery. Now, however, the viceroy’s
monopoly is at an end, aud American
machinery is expected to be freely in
troduced throughout tho empiro.
TURNKY’S INAUGURATION.
lie Declares That Law and Right Have
Prevailed.
I’etor Turney was inaugurated gov
ernor of Tennessee fer the second time
Wednesday. Tho proceedings were
held in tho hall of tho house of rep
resentatives in tho prosenco of the
democratic members of tho general as
sembly, the justices of tho supremo
court, the state officials aud 2,000 visi
tors. All of tho republican members
of the general assembly deliberately
absented themselves and went to Chat
tanooga to spend tho day with H. Clay
Evans, the republican candidate. Pres
ident Pillow, of tho senate, in intro
ducing Governor Turney, said that
right had prevailed and tho law had
been upheld.
Referring to the absence of tho re
publican members I10 said this was tho
first time in America that a vanguish-
cd foe had sneaked away liko skulking
cowards and dared not face tho result.
Ho eulogized Governor Turney for
upholding tho law aud supporting tho
constitution.
In his inaugural address Governor
Turney said I10 had made tho contest
because lio had sworn to support the
constitution and tho law. Right., truth
nud morality had prevailed. Had ho
abandoned tho office to Evans whon
his claim was based on fraud he would
have boon a perjured man. Ho bad
folt no uneasiness. Tho wisdom of
his course had been proven. He pre
dicts that the election laws would bo
observed in 1890. Ho would support
the constitution aud enforce tho law.
WAS BROWN A VICTIM?
Tho Governor Believes that Bis Son
Was Entrapped.
Tho sensation attending tho double
killing at Lquisvillc, Ky., is not over
yet by half. Tho prosecution will at
tempt to prove that Arch Brown’s
death was duo to a deep-laid plot to
assassinate him; a trap, as tfio prose
cution believes, fostered nnd planned
by ono who, for reasons best known to
kirn s, if, was afraid to do tho work and
used Gordon oh tho tool to curry out
his designs. Tbcso statements came
directly from the prosecution.
Governor Stone has reason to bo-
lievo that his son’s coming to Louis
ville on tho (lay of tho tragedy and
tho purpose of his visit was known to
a man in Frankfort who telegraphed
to n man in Louisville. ThisLouisvilie
inan, tho prosecution claims, notified
Gordon that his wife was to meet
Brown, and “actively assisted in a foul
assassination. ”
The prosecution further says that
tho name of the man who “ucted tho
spy” is known to them and that ho will
have to be produced in court. In a
private letter Governor Brown
insisted that the man referred to be
brought into court on an attach
ment. The man who, as tho prosecu
tion believes, piloted Gordon to the
house of Lucy Smith, is a collogo
chum of Gordon’s and was married in
Frankfort.
Delaware’s Daily Ballot.
The 132d ballot of the contest for
the election of United States senator
was taken in tho Delaware legisla
ture Monday ut noon and result
ed an follows: Higgins, republican,
G; Massey, republican, G; Pennewill,
republican, 1; Ridgely, democrat, 9;
Tuunell, democrat, 1. Massey bas
written a letter to tho men who have
been voting for him, declining the
further use of his name.
Cholera In tlio Fescadora island.
Advices received ut Yokohama, Ja
pan, from the Pescudora islands show
that 1,300 persons died there from
cholera during one month. The epi
demic is now subsiding.
An Extra Session Probable.
A Nashville special says: An extra
session of tho general assembly of Ton-
nesfee is now a certainty. Tho seventy
five days’ limit expires Tuesday.
It is bettor to be unpopular L>r the
light than rmW* appl»u#« Jot wrong.
WASHINGTON NOTES
ITEMS OF NICWS FICKKD UP AT
THIi NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Saying, and Doing, of tho O.llolnl
Hoads of the Government.
Tho president 1ms filled the two vn-
oanoieu at tho bottom of tho naval pay-
master'a corps by tho appointment of
Baron Duboia, eon of Medical Inspec
tor F. Ij. Dubois, of tho navy, and O.
T. lJrawloy, eon of Circuit .fudgo W.
II. Brawlay, as assistant paymasters
with tho rank of ensigns.
Secretary Carlisle will deliver five
spoeehos in favor of Bound money, four
of whioh will bo made in Kentucky.
In his native stato ho will deliver ad
dresses at Covington, Howling Groon,
Louisville aud Lexington, and ono bo-
foro tho convention at Memphis
Tennessee., on May 23d. Tho first
speech in Kentnoky will bo mado at
Covington, his home, on May 18th, or
20th. From thero ho will go to Mem
phis, Tenn., and during tho last week
in May ho will make speeches at tho
other threo points named. Tho dates
have yet to bo fixed for thoso places.
Why Thurston was flounced.
Hawaiian advices received from Hon
olulu dated May 2, per steamer Mari
posa, are as follows: Tho letter de
manding tho rooall of Minister Thurs
ton was read to tho executive soeaion
of tho oonnoila. This loiter had boon
to Iloug Kong. It wont past, Hono
lulu in a hag with a couple of hundred
othors. Tho fault lies with tho post
ofllco nt San Frnuoisno. Tho ground
of tho objection to Thurston is con
fined to a singlo transaction. Tho solo
oflenso alleged is that Thurston at tho
legation showed to reporters private
letters to himself from Honolulu. Tho
particular letter that gave such offense
to the secretary of stuto, intimated in
strong terms that Cleveland nud
Grosham woro largely responsible for
the January uprising in Hawaii.
Tlio Treaty Signed.
An official dispatch from Tokio, ro-
ceivod nt tho Japanese legation at
Washington Thursday afternoon, Htntcs
thnt the ratifications of tho treaty of
pence botwoen Japan and China were
exchanged at ChoeFoo on Wednesday.
It is understood that no olinugo was
mado in tho text of tho tronty as orig
inally concluded, but nooording to tho
recommendations mndo ■ by Husain,
Germany and Franco tho Japanese
government has agreed to renouneo
tho permanent possession of tho
Lino-T'nng peninsula, on condition,
however, that arrangements regard
ing tho form and tho terms of the
renunciation shall ho reserved for ad
justment botwoen itself nud tho gov
ernment of Chinn. ThiH latter stipu
lation is construed to mean that Japan
will not surrender the peninsula until
a suitable indemnity shall have boon
paid, and that it may even ho agreed
between Japan nnd China that the
possession of Fort Arthur itself will ho
retained for a term of years extending
beyond tho dato when tho indemnity
shall have been paid in full, thus
gunrniitooing to Japan not nlono the
payment of tho indemnity itself, but
also Bufiioicnt time to safeguard herself
against anything liko a war of reprisal.
The Cotton Movement.
Complete nnd revised statements
furnished tlio department 'of agricul
ture at Washington by tho railway
and water transportation companies of
tho cotton movement from tlio south
ern stntos to ports and uorthorn nnd
eastern points from beginning of tho
season to April 1, 1895, togothor witli
returns mado by tho department's
county agents of tho umouut of cotton
remaining on plantations nnd in in
terior towns on April 1st, and tho
amounts reported by mills ns bought
from Heptornbor 1st to April 1st, show
ns follows: Total railway movement,
8,495,127; remaining on plantations,
etc., 384,880; bought by mills, f.02,-
890. Total crop, 9,482,918.
In addition to tho ubovo mill pur
chases are to he added 11,905 halos
bought by Alabama, Mississippi, Geor
gia, Tennessee, North and South Caro
lina mills from states in which thoir
mills are not looated; also 19,001
hales bought by Virginia and 12,200
hales bought by Kentucky mills, all of
which aro inoluded in railway move
ment, making a total of 040,128 halos
reported by southern mills as bought
from September 1, 1894, to April 1,
1895. No deduction has been mndo
of cotton remaining on plantations
and in interior towns on September 1,
1894.
Knunciatlon On tlio Mouroo Doctrine.
It can bo said upon tho authority of
a senator, whose interest in our for
eign nilairs has made him a leader on
the floor and who is of tho samo polit
ical party ns that of tho present ad
ministration, thnt ns soon as tho new
congress convenes initial stops will he
taken looking to tho emphatic enun
ciation by congress of tho Mouroo
doctrine. This will eomo about in n
very natural way, for the message of
the president will undoubtedly bring to
tho attention of congress our relations
with other powers during the interim
when congress haH been in recess. It
is the intention of tho senators, how
ever the house may act, to call for tho
correspondence in the Nicaragua affair
and an investigation may porhaps ho
asked. The message of tho president
will bo referred, in the ordinary course,
to tho committee on foreign relations
and some member of that committee
will introduce a resolution calling for
the correspondence. According to the
understanding had at the present time,
this resolution will not contain tho
usual clause, “if not incompatible with
tho public interi sts,” but will bo a
mandatory order In the shape of a Joint
resolution. Should tho correspondence
not be furnished, thou tho senate com
mittee will he asked to invostigto the
whole subjest and will bo given power
to send for persons nnd papers.
JACK FROST ON DUCK.
A Decided Drop in tlio Thermometer
Out West.
Western Minnesota was visited by
the heaviest May frost in many years
Saturday night. What tho dumngo is
to garden truck, young corn and flax
cannot yet bo told. There was a heav
ier fall of frost in Nebraska and west
ern Iowa Saturday night than Friday
night. Gardena were damaged to some
extent and fruit also in some sections,
(lorn nnd other cereals were not iu-
jnred.
A very light frost is reported through
out Kansas. Vegetables and tender
grass wero slightly injured, but no
dumngo was done to other crops.
A very heavy frost is reported all
over Chippewa county, Missouri. It
is feared that much damage has been
done to not only fruits but young llnx.
Dispatches from tho interior of
Wisconsin show killing frosts in tho
northern portion of tho state. In tho
southern and westorn pnrts tho frost
was light and oaused hut littlo if auy
damage.
The mercury rocorded a drop from
91 degrees Friday to 28 dogrees at
Lansing, Mich., Sunday morning.
Owing to a clouded sky tho damage
was roduecd to a minimum. Whoat
nnd oats nro reported nil light, but
market gardening and tho fruit crop
must hnvo suffered.
Dispatches from interior points in
Illinois indicate heavy frosts. Hoyond
nipping tender garden stock no dam
age is reported. Little corn or grain
is up. Fruit was affected.
Frosts are also roported in tho
southern part of Kansas and in tho
lowlands along tho Arknnsas Walnut
and Kansas rivers aud thoir tributaries.
Vegetables, small fruits nud small
grain wero injured. Fruit was not
materially injured.
Hnports received at DcsMoines show
heavy frosts throughout Iowa. Much
damage was dono to early vegetables,
fruit nnd ooru in low plnoos. Home
oorn will reqoiro replanting,
DISPENSARY CONSTABLE IN JAIL.
Judgo Slmoiitoii llolils that Ho Is In
Contempt of Court.
The wsr between tho South Carolina
Btnto and fodoraL authorities on tho
Mibjiyot of tho dispensary began Satur
day by the arrest of oho o;' the dispen
sary constables. L. G Byrd, of
Charleston, through his attorney,
Benjamin A Ilagood, presented an af
fidavit to tho oourt stating that while
proceeding down Mooting street with
a two-gallon demijohn of whisky,
whioh he hud just reooivod from Sa
vannah through tho Southern Express
oompany, ho was stopped by a dispen
sary oonstable, E. O. Beach, and by
him the liquor was soizod in violation
of the roocut circuit oourt injunction,
which permits tho importation of liq
uor for personal consumption.
Upon this affidavit Judge BImonton
issued a rale to ooinpol tho constable
to show oauso why ho should not bo
attached for oontempt.. Shortly bo-
foro 8 o’clock tho henring was had. On
motion of Mr. 1!. A, Ilagood a lino of
*300 was imposed by Jmlgo Simoutou
on Beach. Thereupon tho latter re
fused to pay it nnd was committed to
jail. It is understood that this will
Do made a test case and thnt thu state
authorities will institute habeas corpus
proceedings before tho United Htntcs
supremo court at Washington,demand
ing Beach's release in tho shapo of a
dissolution of tho injunction.
WILL ADVANCE MONEY
For the Purchase of tho S., A. & M.
Hallway hy the Committee.
Tho Baltimore Trust aud Guarantee
Company will advance $1100,900 to the
reorganization eommitteo for Iho pur
chase of tho Snvannnh, Americas and
Montgomery railroad, tho sale of
which is fixod for May 17th. A mini
mum price of $1,800,000 lias lieon
placed on the property by the courts.
The funds obtained by tho loan will
bo applied to tho retiring of preferred
lions, including thu bonds of tlio
Americas, l’reston and Lumpkin and
the receiver’ll certificates.
Tho road extends from Lyons, Ga.,
to Montgomery, Ala., 265 miles, and
operates under a lease the Albany,
Florida and Northern railroad, making
a total mileage of 300 miles. It is said
that tho building of nu extension of
the road from Lyons to Havuunahlnay
follow the reorganization of thu com
pany.
WARM WEATHER
Experienced In Chicago and Other
Western Cities.
Last Friday wua tho hottest day on
record for Chicago for this time of the
year, 90 degrees in tho shade nt tho
Auditorium tower station of the gov
ernment bureau being marked ou the
thermometer at 5 o’clock p. in.
A special from Indianapolis says:
Friday was the hottest May day in In
diana in twenty-four years. Tho ther
mometer reached 94.
At Dos Moines, la., Iho heat was in
tense, the thermometer several hours
standing at 94, and nt Madison, Wis.,
Friday was the hottest day for that sec
tion of tho state ever known this time
of the year.
Demands of Fnrnacemon Granted.
The fnrnncomen’s striko at Sharon
and Harpsville, Fa., furnnees lias been
settlod, the operators granting the de
mands of thoir striking employes.
Work was resumed at once. The in
creased vfagos make glad the lienrts of
about fifteen hundred mou in Sharon,
BlmrpiivUli) and West Middies!)*,
IRON WORKERS COM DINING.
An Effort for Hotter Wages and Fairer
Competition for Manufacturers.
Tho Amalgamated Association of
Tin, Iron nnd Stool Workers nnd tho
Merchant liar Iron Manufacturers'
National Association have ontered into
a combination to secure for their iron
workers of tho country hotter rates of
wages, nud for tho manufacturers fair
competitive conditions against, tho mill
operators of tho Fittsburg, Fn., dis
trict, who have bcon working thoir
employes at low wages.
An association of manufacturers has
boon formed principally outsido tho
Fittsburg district, to secure remuner
ative prices for iron produets, nnd in
cidentally to give tho workmen better
wages than are now paid, which nro
admittedly too low.
At tho Youngstown eouforonco be
twoon tho amalgamated association and
tho valley iron manufacturers, an
agreement was ontored into by tho
Merchant Bar Iron Association to ad
vance the present puddling sonic ton
per cent, provided tho non-union nnd
under scale mills of Fittslmrg could bo
forced to pay tho samo price.
Tho strike in six mills of Fittsburg
nt the present time is the result of this
agreomout, Tho Fittsburg puddlors
nro not only striking for present scale
rates, but, if successful, will make it
possibles for all tho ironworkers in tho
country to secure an advanco of ten
per cent on tho $4.00 puddling rate.
Tho manufacturers may ho willing
to grant a much higher advance if they
can secure a uniformity of labor cost
throughout tho country.
Tho Clovolnud convention will prob
ably propose a puddling rnto of $4.55
per ton nnd possibly $5.00. The finish
ers nro to ho ndvauocd also, but not in
proportion to tho puddlors. Should
iho plan suoooed, upward of 5,000 iron
workers will lio bonofitted.
THE HLACK MAN IS HAPPY.
Rejoicing Over the Decisions of Judges
Goff and Slmoiitoii.
Tho two decisions rendered hy
United States Judges Goff and Simon-
ten at Columbia, H. O., tho one making
a free ballot and tho othor sounding
the death knell uf the dispensary law,
apparently have created n big stir all
over (ho stall', and somo pretty wild
talk is lioing indulged in.
The administration ih moro or Iohb
worried, in official and legal cireleH
nothing else was thought of ap
parently and aud liquor
are givii^^^^^Mr to
the now ord J||^m$ings, brought*
about by thoHifflmqJe^ For tho pres
ent, Govornor Evans and tho stuto au
thorities aro paying no attention
whatever to tho registration matter.
As Governor Evans has already said,
ho does not promise to call an extra
susHion of tho legislature or proceed
furlhor in tho registration oasoH.
However, uh yet nothing 1ms beou
finally dooided in regard to this mat
ter.
The negroes regard tho matter as a
soeond emancipation, and the Minis
terial Union, roountly formed, of
which every negro minister is a mem
ber, an organization formed to fight
against thoir impending utter disfran
chisement, 1ms issued an address,
which thanks the attorneys in tho case
and “tho mapy friends of the negroes
in regard to their fight, for emancipa
tion from the cruel and unluwful reg
istration laws which debarred white
and black alike from Iho exereiso of
their constitutional franchise.”
BUSINESS IMPROVES.
Hrinlatreet’B Review of Trade for tlio
Past Week.
Jlradstroet’s commercial agency re
ports ou tho condition of trade for tho
week as follows:
“Tho past woek brought distinct,
nud in some instanoos, oven moro pro
nounced evidences of improvement in
business, notwithstanding the increas
ing wavo of industrial disoontont aud
strikes for higher wages, always tho
aooompanimont of an upward tendency
to prices. Homo little gain in domnud
for either dry goods, plantation sup
plies or in collections (which is most
significant), is announced hy two-
thirds of all citios reporting. Hnvun-
linh expects her carnival to stimulalo
demand, and Augustu slates that fac
tories are asking for more money than
a year ago.
Merchants at Memphis, Charleston,
Chattanooga and Atlanta have experi
enced a better demand, hut at Bir
mingham, New Orleans and Galveston
business remains quiet or unchanged.
Cotton goods aro not moving vory ac
tively at tho advances, buyers having
supplied themselves at lower figures.
Popular lines of prints nro relatively
active. First orders for dress woolens
for fall delivory have boon taken, but
domnud iH moderate. Woolen machiu
ery iB fairly employed. Wool iH quiet,
prices at the interior lioing above views
of manufacturers and stocks at eastern
cities making a light supply. Tho crop
ib late.”
LODGING HOUSE BLOWN UP.
Three Men Killed nnd a Large Number
Wounded.
A terrific explosion in tho big budd
ing at No. 10 Sherman street, Chicago,
aroused tho people in that vieiuity and
shook the big board of trade at 1 :15
o'clock Saturday morning.
When tho firemen arrived, in less
thnu fivo minutes, they found tho
whole front of tho building blown out
nnd flames bursting from tho sido nud
alloy windows. The building was oc
cupied as a lodging house, which was
run by Aug Mitoboll.
Throe men wero killod. How many
moro has not yet beon ascertained, but
thero aro wild rumors afloat of heavy
loss of life. Nntural gas was used in
thu building. Niue pooplu badly burn
ed wero rosouod, but four of them will
probably dlui
REV. DU. TALMAGE
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject : “Conscience.”
I f.xt: “Ho took water ami wnshoil his
lifinrts bo ore tho multitude, Maying:.I am in
nocent of tho blood of this just person. Hoc
yoto It.”—Matthew xxvll.. 24.
At about 7 o’clock in the morning, up tho
marble stairs of a palaoo and across tho
Ugois of richest mosaic and under ceilings
dyd with all tho splendors of color and be
tween Hitowbauks of white and glistening
sculpture, passes a poor, pale, sick young
man of thirty-three, already condemned to
death, on Ills way to bo condemned again.
Jesus or Nazareth is His name.
c uning out to moot Him on thistossollatod
pavement is an unscrupulous, compromis
ing. timeserving, cowardly man. witli a few
tra .ms of sympathy and fair dealing loft in
his composition—(Governor Pontius Pilate.
Did ever such opposites moot? Luxury nud
1'iiin, Hellish ness and generosity, arrogance
nnd humility, sin and holiness, midnight and
midnoon.
Tho bloated lipped governor takes the
cushioned seat, but tho prisoner stands, His
wrists manacled. In a pomiolrclo around
the prisoner nro the sanhedrists, with flash
ing eyes and brandished lists, prosecuting
this ease in tin* name of religion, for the bit
terest persecutions have bcon religious pros
ecutions, and when satau takes hold of a
good man he makes up by intensity for
brevity r.f occupation. Tr you have never
scon an ecclesiastical court trying a man,
then you have no idea of tho foaming in
fer,mllsin of these old religious sanhedrists.
Governor Pilate cross questions tho prisoner
and finds right away Ho Ih innocent and
wants to let Him go. His caution is also in
creased by some ono who comes to the gov
ernor and whispers in his oars. Tho gover
nor nuts his hand bohlud his ear so as to
catch the words almost inaudible. It is a
message from Claudia Prooula, his wife, who
lias had a dream about tho innoconco of this
prisoner and about the danger of executing
Him, nnd she awakens from this morning
dream in time to send tho message to her
husband, then on the Judicial bench. And
what with tho protest of his wife, and the
entire failure of the sanhedrists to mako out
their case, Govornor Pilato resolvod to dis
charge tho prisoner from custody.
Rut tho intlmatioii of such n thing brings
upon the governor an oqulnootlal storm of
indignation. They will report him to the
omnororof Rome, they will have him're
called, they will send him dp homo, und he
will be hung for treason, for the omporor at
Rome has already a suspicion in regard to
Pilate, and that suspicion does not cease un
til Pilate is bauisheil and commits suicide.
Ho Governor Pontius Pilate compromises the
matter and proposes that Christ be whipped
Instead of assassinated. So tho prisoner is
fastened to a low pillar, and on Ills bent and
bared back come the thongs of leather, with
pieces of lead and bone intertwisted, so that
every stroke shall be tho moro awful. Christ
lifts Himself from tho scourging with flushed
ohoelc and torn and quivering nnd mangled
flesh, presenting a spoatuclo of aulTortng in
which Rubens, tlio painter, founj tho theme
for his greatest masterpiece. ~
Rut the sanhedrists are not y»t satisfied.
They have had pome of JIls nervo^ lacerated;
they want them all lacerated; they have had
somo of His blood; thoy want all *}f it. down
to tlio last corpuscle. Ho Governor Pontius
Pilate, aflor all this merciful hesitation, sur
renders to tho demoniacal cry of '‘Crucify
Him!” Rut tho govornor sends for some
thing. He sends a slave out to got some
thing. Although tho constables are In liasto
to tako tlio prisoner to execution and tho
mob outside aro impatient to glare upon
their victim, a pause is necessitated. Yonder
it comes—a wash basin. Homo pure, bright
water is poured into it, and then Governor
Pilate put his white, dedicate hands into tlio
water and rubs thorn together and then lifts
thorn dripping for tho towel fastened at the
slave’s girdle, while ho practically says: “I
wash my hands of tills whole homicidal t rans-
action. I wash my hands of tilts entire re
sponsibility. You will have to boar it." That
is the moaning of my toxt whon it savs: “He
took water and washed ills hands Imforo the
multitude, saying: I am innoeont of the
blood of this lust person. See ye to it."
Behold In tills that ceremony amounts to
nothing if thoroaro not in it correspondencies
of heart and life. It is a gooj thing to wash
tho hands. God created three-quarters of
tho world water and in thnt commanded
oloniilinoHH, and when the ancients did not
tako the hint lie plunged the whole world
under water and kept it there for some time.
Handwashing was a religious ceremony
among the Jews. The Jewish Minium gave
particular direction how that tho hands
must bo thrust throe times up to tho wrists
la v/at/ir, and the palm of the hund must be
rubbed with the ofosod list of the other. All
that is well em/Agh for a symbol, but horn in
the toxt is a man who proposes to wash
away the guilt of a sin which he doos not
quit and of whioh ho does not make any re
pentance. Pilate's wash basin was a dead
failure.
Ceremonies, however beautiful and appro
priate may be no moro than this hypocriti
cal ablution. In infancy wo may besprinkled
from the baptismal font, and in manhood we
may wade into doop Immersion, anil yet
novor como to moral purification. Wo may
kuoel without prayer aud bow without rever
ence and sing without auy acceptance. All
your creeds and liturgies and sacraments
and genuflections and religious convocations
amount to nothing unless your heart life go
into them. When that bronzed slave took
from the presence of Pilato that wash basin,
lie carried away none of Pilate’s cruelty, or
Pilate’s wickedness, or Pilate’s guilt.
Nothing against creeds; we all have them,
either written or implied. Nothing against
ceremonies; they arc of infinite Importance.
Nothing n gainst saerainontH; thoy are divinely
commanded. Nothing against a rosary, if
there be as many heartfelt prayers us bo ids
counted. Nothing against incense floating
up from oonsor amid Gjthlo arches, if the
prayers bo oa genuine as tho aroma is swoet.
Nothing against Epiphany or Lout or Ash
Wednesday or Easter or Goo l Friday or
Whitsuntide or Palm Hunday, if these sym
bols have behind them gonu'.uo repentance,
and holy reminisconoe, and Christian conse
cration. Rut ceromony is only tho sheath to
the sword, It is only the shell to tho kornel,
it is only the lamp to tho flame, it is only
tho body to tho spirit. Tho outward must
bo symbolical of tho inward. Wash the
hands by all meaus; but, moro than all, wash
tho heart.
Behold, also, as you soo Governor Pontius
Pilato thrust his hand Into this wash basin,
the ’ power of conscience. Ho bad an idea
there was blood on his hand—tho blood of an
innocent person, whom ho might have ac
quitted if ho only had tho courag*. Poor
Pilate! Ills coascionce wus^nftcr him, and he
know tho stain would nover bo washed from
tho right hand or the loft hand, and until tho
day of ids death, though ho might wash in
all tho layers of tho Roman empire, there
would bo still oight Angora and two thumbs
red at the tips.
Oh, tho power of conscience when it is
fully aroused! With whip of scorpions ovor
a bod of spikes in pitch of midnight it cliases
guilt. Are there ghosts? Yes, not of tho
gruvoyurd. but of one’s mind not at rest.
And thus Brutus, amid Ills slumbering host,
Htartlod with Caisar’o stalwart ghost.
Macbeth looked at his hund after tho mid
night assassination, and ho says:
Will all great Noptuno’a ocean wash this
blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand
will rather
Tho multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the groeu ono rod.
For ovory sin, great or small, conscience,
which is the voieo of God, lias a reproof,
moro or less emphatic. Charles IX, respon
sible for Ht. Bartholomew massacre, vis
chased by the bitter memories, and in bis
dying moment said to his doctor, Ambrose
Parryi “Doutoti I dou’t know what’# the
Witli me; l tu a favsr of body ottd
mind and have boon for n long while. Oh, If I
had only spared the innocent and the imbo-
cilo and the cripple!” Rousseau declared In
old age that a sin lie committed in his youth
still gave him sleepless nights. Charles IT.
of Spain could not sleep unless ho had in the
room a confessor mid two friars. Catiline
had such bitter memories he was startle 1 at
the least sou nil. Cardinal Beaufort, having
slain the Duke cf Gloucester, often in the
night would say: “Away, awav! Why do
you look at me?” Richard IIL, having slain
his two nephews, would sometimes in the
night shout from his couch and clutch his
sword, fighting apparitions Dr. Webster,
having slain Turkman in Boston, and while
waiting for his doom, complained to the
jailor that tho prl*onors on the other side of
the wall all night long kept charging him
with Ills crime, whon there were no prisoners
on the othor side of the wall. It was tho
voice of his own conscience.
Thomas Oliver was one of John Wesley’s
pronclicrs. The early part of his life hud
been full of recklessness, and ho had made
debts wherever he could borrow. IIe was
Converted to God, umj then he wont forth to
preach and pay his debts. Ho had ii small
amount of property left him, and immedi
ately set out to pay his debts, and everybody
know ho was in earnest, and to consummate
the last payment he had to sell his horse aud
saddle and bridle. That was conscience.
That Is converted conscience. That is relig
ion. Frank Tlohout, a converted rurtiseller,
had a large amount of liquor on hand at the
time of his conversion, and lie put all the
keg8|and barrels aud domljohus in a wagon
and took them down in front of the old
church where ho bail been converted and had
everything emptied into the street. That is
religion. Why the thousands of dollars sent
every year to the United States Treasury at
Washington as “conscience money?” Why.
It simply means there are postmasters and
there are attorneys and there nro ofllciuls
who sometimes retain that which does not
belong to them, nail these meu are convert
ed. or utider powerful pressure of conscience,
an 1 make restitution. If nil tho moneys out
of which tho Htate and the United States
troftHurles have been defrauded should come
back to thoir rightful exchequers, there would
bo enough money to pay all the Htate debts
and all the United Htutos debt by day after
to-morrow.
Conversion amounts to nothing unloss tho
heart is converted, anil tho pooketbook it*
converted, and tho cash drawer Is converted,
and tho lodger is converted, nnd the fireproof
safe is converted, and tho pigeonhole con
taining tho corrospomlonce is converted, and I
his Improvement is noticed even by the
canary bird that sings in the parlor, and the
cat that licks tho platter nftor the meal, and
tho dog that comes bounding from tho ken
nel to greet him. A man half converted or
quarter converted, or a thousandth part con
verted is not converted at all. What will bo
tho groat book in the day of judgment? Con
science. Conscience recalling mlshnprovod
onportuuitios. Conscience rocalllug uufor-
S lvon sins. Coascionce bringing up all
uj past. Alas, for tills govornor, Pontius
Pilate! That night after tho court had ad-
Journod. and the sanhodrist9had gone home,
and nothing was heard outside the room but
the stop of the sentinel, I soo Pontius Pilato
arise from his tapestried anil sleepless couch
and go to the Inver and begin to wash his
hands, crying: “Out, out, crimson spot'.
Tellest thou to ino, and to God, and to the
night, my crime? Is there no alkali to re
move thoso dreadful stains? Is thero no
chemistry to dissolve this carnage? Must I
to the day of my doath carry the blood of
-this innocoafc mau on my heart and hand?
Out, thou crimson spot!’ 1 Tho worst thing
a man enu have is an evil conscience, and tho
best thing a man oau hnvo is what Taul calls
a good conscience.
But Is there no such thing as moral purifi
cation? If a man is a sinner onco, must ho
always bo a siunor, aud au unforgiven sin
ner? Wo have all had conscience nftor us.
Or do you tell mo that all tho words of your
life hnvo beon lust right, and all tho thoughts
of your heart have boon just right, and all
tho actions of your life just right? Then you
do not know voursolf, anil I tako the respon
sibility of sriylng you are a pharisee, you are
a hypocrite, you are a Pontius Pilate, and do
not know it. You commit tlio very same sin
that Pilate committed. You have crucified
the Lord of Glory. But if nine-tenths of this
audience aro made up of thoughtful and
earnest people, then nine-tenths of tills au
dience are saying within themselves: Ls
thero no such thing as moral purification? Is
there no layer in which the soul may wash
anil bo clean? Yes, yes, yes. Toll it iti song,
tell it in sermon, tell it in prayer, tell it to
tho hemispheres. That is what David cried
out for whon ho said, “Wash mo thoroughly
from mv sin, and cleanse me from mine in
iquities.” And that is what, in another place,
he cried out for whon he said, “Wash mo
and 1 shall be whiter than snow.” Behold,
the laver of the gospel, llllod with living
fountains. Did you ever soo tlio picture of
the laver in the anoieut tabernacle or in tho
ancient temple? The lavor in tlio ancient
tabernacle was made out of the women’s me
tallic looking glasses. It was a great bnslu,
standing ou a beautiful pedestal, but when
the tomplo was built, then the laver was au
immense affair, called the brazen sea, and.
oh, how deep wero tlio floods there gathered!
And there wero ten lavers bosidos—live ut
tho right and five at the loft—aud euoli laver
had 300 gallons of water. Aud tho outside
of these la vers was carved and chased with
palm trees so delicately cut you could al
most sec tho leaves tremble, aud lions so true
to life that you could imagine you saw tho
nostril throb, and the cherubim witli out
spread wings. That magnificent laver of the
old dispensation is a feeble type of the more
glorious laver of our dispensation—our sun
lit dispensation.
Hero is tho laver holding rivers of salva
tion, having for its pedestal tho Rock of
Ages, carved with tho figures of the lion of
Judah’s tribe, and having palm brauchos for
victory and wings suggestive of tho soul's
flight toward God in prayer and tho soul’s
flight heavenward when we die. Come ye
oudltory, and wash away all your sins, how
ever aggravated, and all your sorrows, how
ever agonizing. Como to tills fountain, open
for all sin and uuelouunoHS, the furthest,
the worst. You Jico.l not carry your sins
half a second. Come aud wash in this
glorious gospel laver. Why, that is au
opportunity enough to swallow up all
nations. That is au opportunity tlmt will
yet stand on the Alps and beckon to Italy,
and yet stand on tho Pyrenees und beckon to
Hpain, aud it will ynt stand on tho Ural and
beckon to Russia, and it will stau l at thu
gate of heaven and beckon to all nations.
Pardon for ull sin, and pardon right away,
through tlio blood of the Hon of God. A lit
tle child that had been blind, but through
skillful surgery brought to sight, said: “Why,
mother, why didn’t you tell mo the earth anil
sky aro so beautiful? Why didn’t you tell
me?” “Oh,” replied the mother, “my child,
I did tell you often. I often told you how
beautiful they are, but you wero blind, aud
you couldn’t see!”
Oh, If wo could have our oyo.s opened to
see tho glories in Jesus Christ wo would fool
that the half hail not boon told us, and you
would go to somo Christiau man and say,
"Why didn’t you toll me before of the glories
in the Lord Jesus Christ?” and that friend
would say, "I did tell you, but you wero
blind and could not soo, and you woro deaf
and could not hear.”
History suys that a great army camo to
capture ancient Jerusalem, and when this
army got on the hills so that they saw tho
turrets aud the towers of Jerusalem they
gave a shout that made the earth tremble and
tradition, whether false or true, says that so
great was tho shout eagles flying in the air
dropped under tho atmospheric percussion.
Oh, if wo could only catch a glimpse of thu
towers of this gospel tomplo into which
you are all invited to eomo and wash thero
would Do a song jubilant, and wide resound
ing at Now Jerusalem soon. at New Jerusa
lem taken, the hosannas of other worlds fly
ing midair would fold their wings aud drop
into our closing doxology. Against tho dis
appointing and insufUoiont laver of Pilate’s
vice and Pilate’s cowardioo and Pilate's sin
I place thu brazen sea of a Saviour’s pardon*
ing more).
County Treasuro Ii, W: Rowe, of Monte
bit nut • Xotf/t. bM dMpDShred, with him
MWtf ai uw wiTsty'n aisasyj