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The Democrat.
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BY CLEM. C. MOORE.
CflA WFORD VILLE, GEORGIA
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SI NDAY SCHOOL
ixrri;\ atjo,\a /. lesson run
AUGUST lit.
l.rsson TriD “Tin* »* Tiibfran **!«•«. 9t
xxiib, SI<1-44 -4*#ldi , n Ti*m !’*•
cxviU., !•» ( fiinuirninn' onllir Lfbuon.
Thi* chnpter nmy well lw called “The
Chapter of the Fwiku of thft Lord” or “Tho
f.'haptfpr of tho Holy Convocation*,” tha
fortnor i*xpr««sion and ending: th©
chapter, and found aim in verne* 4, 37, while
tho latter ik found no le*% than cloven time*
in this chapter. The word “feast” in then©
four verges referred to HignifteH “a set or
appointed time or wiasmi. and in tho ex
ptexKion “taliurnacle of the corntrogation” and
round t-o otUtn in KxodiH, te?vj|l uh
>uii»U*i k it is the n'iiiio word there translated
“congregation.” ('oilvocation signiiieH an
asfM*nii»ly or calling togetln r of the rendered people,
and in Keheiniah viii., h, it is
“reading” or that which caused the peo¬
ple to come to/ether. We have then before
us an account of the set times in the
year when (*<»d wouhl have His p:*»ple IsrarU
Pi fome lx Jo re Hun to remember Him merci¬
ful dealing* with them, to seek and obtain
the forgi veiicR* of their sin*, and to rejoice
ItectiuHr of their manifold t lesHinj;* 1.7, eujoveri
at Hih iiaiids. in Kx. xxiii . II we fl in-i
thntthn*<‘ tirmsf in the year they were nil the to
keep a fount unto Him, nt Tl»i* which command times i*
i»etj mitet be preuent. re
ix'Apvl in Kx. xxxiv., “ Dent, xvi., Pi; find
le*t they might tear any harm coming to
their thus apparently unprotected homes in
their abseii' e, Hod « sjir-’K tliem that when
they go uptyi apiHMir Indore Hun, He will
to the safety of tlieir pOMHomious. (Kjl xxxiv.,
oh. “And the I/>rd *|»oke,” How little we
are apt to think of this most weight y state¬
ment. It ought to cause us to give heed with
nil our i>ower* a* we remeuiiMir that while
other things pas* away “the word of our
God shall stand forever. ’ This statement i*
found in verses L U, ‘SA, ICl, of one chapter,
thus dividing it into ilvn sections, the last, of
which i* our lesson. We do well to keep in
mind that the Lor 1 *|ieiiks to Mohom from off
the mercy s«*at. Imtween the cherubim, that
blood sprinkkwi mercy neat which we saw In
last week** lessen.
*M. “H|*Mik unto the children of I •rank M
was simply th»« Lord * mouthpiece to
the jH'Opie and hud only to *uy what the Lord
told him “Sp ak with My words unto them
* ♦ hear the word nt My mouth and
give them warning from me * (Erek. Hi,, 4,
l<i, was the command to Ezekiel, and when
we hear our Lord Jesus saying “The Father
xvho sent me, gave me ncommandment, wlmt
J xii., should say How and what careful I should all teacher* speak” (John and
4*J), their
preacher# *hou!d i*» not to utter own
word*, lie but *c©k speak. to yield unto the Holy Spirit
fh*t may
, “The llflecnth day of the wvanth month.”
It .is lor (ted t< api*Oint the day, and for us
to be oiiedtent. It wr* on the first day of
this niout-h that they blew with the trum
t**ts, and on the tenth day we* the great an¬
nual ntitficinetit of l««t week's ie.«son. The
fiftieth year or year of jubilee was ushensi
in by the bl oving of truinjoiison th© atone
tlKUli (XXV., 11, tOl,
“Tin* feast of faliernaclti* seven days unto
the Lord,” In Ex. xxiii., Hi; xxxiv., *J*J, it 1*
culled the fo ist of all ingathering fruits U'causo of they the
had gathered in their out
field (also v. lid of our loss »n). Verse* 4u to
4’i t(*ll tis why it is called the feast of the
talxrnncli'S; brunches of They and all made took booth# bough# which and
hi
they dwelt seven r#fnetiils«r«sl day*, rejoicing their Indore days the
Jiord, ns wilderness, th •}’ when they had forty
in the no crop* to
gather in, butt-hoy dwelt in tent* and God
fed th m. Ill Nell vili., 14 btiijfc 18, we rend that
a* they kept this feast they their booth*
on th-* roof* of their houses, or in their
courts, or in the street*; 1ml we also read
there that the nation Joshua great y neglected Neheminh this
command, for from to
they kept not this feast. Who can tell how
itun h t he uege t of this and other command*
Im l to do with the downfall of the nation f
.’15, “An holy convocation,” Isvaus© it was
a gathering unto, and in the name of the
Holy Una of Israel. He was their holiness,
©veil as he is ours, and apart from Him there
is no holme**.
“No servile work.” Nine tinu** in this
chapter are wo told servile of no work, work or no li, man¬ 7, S,
ner of work, or no (v*
V\, ”5, >, IU, ;k\ *M\\ in iHxmoction with these
holy days. All true servi n* ought to be joy¬
ful M*r\ KH*. a glad thank offering to Him who
s(s*nks from off the tnorcy seat, who Himself
is our mercy All slavish work, or work
done because ws ought to do it, or must do
it .shmdd lta\e no place in the nervir© of such
h Uttln'imr, “whose aervica i* jwfwt free
dom. ”
V ;y\. “An Oflfering made by fire unto the
l ord.” Twice in tins verse, and five time*
idsewher© in tin* chapter do we tlmithisex
(tression tvs 8, Id, is, V5, “Ii. It was l»o
caus»' ot non otTeviug V*v but t\i*e that th- ri' vvn*
to be no w rvile work only j»iy iu the
l ord, with ibaiji humility of otfeivd st«ul Every* day
in all the year there was th# contin¬
ual burnt offering morning and evening, nechl i*e
Mir the special offerings of ad
(HH'AXSOItl and if you would now
h**w imi h lalior dm olved upon the
priest* on the *1 MS'ial OiX^doii «»f the
fo.-iM of talwis«ii’\ vou have only tv» read
«mvfuHy Num. sxix. 1.' i\
*1*, "Kvsrvthinj: upon His dny, w Hac
i and the number »f them f,■..-!< and
the onter ot them all appointed hy ticsl and
every Mime; upon Hi* day, the priestaand the
pe»pli' had on oontmand I v to in‘ a I aright “To ami I** oU'4i- th©
ent, anti the was: writ©
words of the l»ay by taw day very plainly/’ in thwit. Him
\xvii., \ we are to tx-st
who for all l© aim» our *a«’rifiiv; dav
by liveth day we are to rejoin* in Hun who ever
to make iuU*r\vs*u»n tv*r us. no t day
findtbdo, by day we are t*» do joyfully what onhaui*
"every! lung uik'n 11 - day'
. xx ye
unto the lA»r,l ' Israel wa- re pimsl t,i g ve
mite the 1a»i\1 for hi* worship and for
their own great good, l,,M,ies every -, v,-nth ,lav in
the wlnile year, ttu-M- three annual
S'AMiiii of from (Mia to M‘Vt*ii or more da vs.
when everything ordinary had t-> I* 1 laid
Mid©; they had also to give on* U'ittii of all
their increase besitie* thrir *}»e :al nifts ami
study vows and frt*© lesson will oflfermgv 1/4 all wh '
this oonsuler whether with all
our *rneat anything jxrivUejfos like Israel ami m *mistsi light w-y* of
are m the matter
fad kfulness or untaithfulnevv m roft reius* u>
worship •M Having or Ififta glanced all the
now at vere '
in fiw liMQn (twwt neni touchel ti[io*
id connection w.th verse ^4 let us look at tS.e
feast* of the l/ord in their referent to Christ
ami Mosm to deolar.-* us. ami tliem max tie* spirit that n ' «as iu
unto tis. i I If * —~ une
sfurit in 1‘aul derlarw* that lay* x .
feast dav* m*w iiwoiih »n l Sal bath <U\ >
arv a tshatiow of thiturs to th ill It*. Iwii
ItL 17 Ttiat v bruit our Pmaiawr has
MtTjfi'wi ft»r us ami that «. ar© to Ww; p tiw»
with th© uuV©av©n©d tvrva-l of wnctTsfv
axid truth imriring out all Ui** iv!«i kaax'au of
itialu*:.* aijii «Ki
He aloe U IK us that Christ Hs*n frxifti
th© dead is the* fir**! frut Is of th^tn that
luhotanc© ■loaf I. Oor. xv , *.*i. Hart* then is iltt*
of th© first throw of tiw senn
feasts. Christ the true naasover, Chn*t the
THE DEMOCRAT, CRA iRDVTLLE, GEORGIA.
true unleavened bread, and Chrint risen from
the dead the true first fruit*, Now the
fourth of the seven feasts, in the thirl
month, called the feast of weeks because it
was jnat seven week* or fiftv day* after the
last feast, called a‘so the feast of harvest
or first fruits of wheat harvest, clear 1 y
points us to that which occurred fifty
days after the resurrection of Christ,
viz., the conversion of thousands of
Jews when the spirit was poured out at
Pentecost. But all the first fruits are not in
yet, and the reaping at Pent -cost was only a
beginning. In James i., IS, writing to the
twelve tribes of the dispersion, he «f>e ika of
the believe™ as “a kind of first fruits;” and
In Rev. 14, 4, the ]44,00.» of the sealed ones
of the seventh chapter are calle I “a first
fruits unto God and to the Lamb;” then, in
Kov. xlv.. 15, we have the gre.it hnrvstor
r-aping time, after the fall of Babylon,
which is then opened Rev. ur> more xix., fully in Rev. xvii.,
xviii,; in xx., the marriage of
tfio binding Lamb, of tho judgment after of which the nations, the
Ha tan, comes the
thousand years when least Israel, in their own
land, shall, from the to the greatest,
know the lord for they shall /is a nation
have been converted by the appearing of the
Hon of Man in power and g ory, accompanied
by His saints (Zech. xii., xiii.i: and then
shall the true fea >t of taborimolee \to kept,
when “the lord shall be Ring over all the
earth,” ami shill “those that from are hit of
the nations go up year to
year to Jerusalem to womb** -
the Lord of Hofts, ana u> ke«-p th feist of
tftfK*rna les. Z*ch xiv,, *K 1<’», 17, The*©feasts
of the Ix>rd are Jewish feasts and carry us
forw ard to the redemption of Israel as a na¬
tion. and the restoration of all things of
whirl! tiie prophets have spoken. Would
you see that day and lx* one Of tho«o who ran
truly say, even now; “When Christ, who Is
rnv Iif<*. shall appear. then shall I apjiear
with Him in glory f’ Then see to it that you
are, by faitli in Cnritt, one of the righteous,
in whose laxly is seen, day by day, salvation for¬
and rejoicing, because your sin* are
given, because you are by His grace
to have all leaven purged out of your life,
and because you are Joyfully looking forward
to apart in the first resurrection at His
coming. Go 1 grant to every reader a gio
r ouk foretaste of the f *ast of tabernacles by
giving : “My bolovod is inino
and I am Hi*;” “He is the ehief-*st
ten thousand, and altogether lovely;” “My
soul doth wait for Him, and in His word
l hope .”—Lesson Helper.
LABOR NOTES.
Denver produc©* 1JKK),000 brick* atiay.
W ELDf N(j by electricity ha* come to stay.
American nilk munufacturinK i* crowd¬
ing out foreign nilk.
Hoyk g»*t tl « day and their keeping for
picking fruit in California.
Tiik industry of nur^ical instrument mak
ing ho* doubled in thro*' years.
The Federation of Labor ha* added .‘*0,000
to it# meml*#r*hip within a year.
The campaign badge industry at Attleboro,
Mhvm., has liicrewd twofold him e 1BMI.
Ost- of the 1 k*h( paid trade* in the United
State# is tlmt of the green glass blower*.
Armim ii, the Chicago packer, i« said to be
ttm greatest Individual employer in the
world.
It i* asserted that there is not one farm
hand in ten thousand who knows how to feed
live stock.
Bhakkmrn on the Duluth and Iron Itansjft
railroad have struck for » per month, an
increase of 110.
Tiiiikk hundred and forty Japan, person* in are making con¬
stantly employed at Kiota,
playing cat d*. York
In the several carpet mills of New
there are 2700 female* employed who aver
age $8 per ww^k.
A 9m sun(f fa» fcorv. the only one south of
Hie Ohio river, is in course of erection at
Nashville, Term.
Tine street laborers’ strike at. Duluth,
Minn., ha* Im*ou settled, the men returning to
work at #1.75 a day.
Tiik *hop« of the Reading Hni’road at
Heading, Penn., run nearly the length of tho
town on each #ide of the river.
Pittshchuh Knight* of Labor are agita¬ of
ted by the (juration whether members
baseball nines are workingmen.
Till v nr** using Connell#villa tre.ui.) coke
in .Newfoundland. England lias heretofore
supplied this market exclusively.
Gkiuuan. ami English manufacturer* tlnd
American wares so popular that they have
Iteguti to use American trade marks.
At Salvador, Central America, they make
umbrellas, carpets, lied*, bridle reins, lariat*
ami ropes from the lll>er of the banana tree.
Tur. Uigelow Carpet Company Mil's have at
Clinton, Mass,, employing 1 i<H) hands,
shut down on account of the scarcity of
work.
The Government of China has ordered
*i\ locomotive* of home manufacturer*.
They will each cost £2l,(KRI in gold, and will
lie like our engines.
Tiik Old Colony Railroad and Steamboat
Company of Mussschusett. Itus over (U)00 men
in iU employ, an 1 the i*av roll for hist mouth
amounted to over $J00,tHK).
Thkuk are paid #4,NGd,000 annuaUv, in
Troy, N T Y., for wage<, in the shirt an I col¬
lar industry. Annual sales amount to $10,*
(HIOJHH); numlw’i of employes 15,740.
(*xko( Philadelphia * biggest manufactur¬
ing (*oiK'«»rns of textile machinery, i* to go to
Augusta, bn., where fifty acres of land htdp nav« it
been donated and $.5",000 raistsi to
along.
about (M the 5<K)0 10,oo0 live piauomake* New York. in this Kach country,
in one
makes about $1S n week, and rareot licriong# members to an
organisation which takes \te
when sick or out of work.
Labor wark in rru«*iA days in is the rapidly week, being the form! old
st*v«m /or
xvages, and the I’russiau Oovernmaiit has
now under iamsid©ratioti a bill to restrict
lattbor to six days out of seven.
Indiana n»prx»**»nti»ig is reported the investment as having over 1 000
mills, of $'.\5(k\
(nki, ami using over H'AMfcki.OOfl xvort-h of raw
material yearly. It. taxes nearly 40.M em*
plovet to operate the mills, nmi they draw
«u>ve 81,.MlO,iiOOannually in wages,
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DOWN AN EMBANKMENT.
\ Fatal Aorldenf •>u mi In,liana
Railway
A passenger train on the Fair land and
Franklin railroad met with a frightful
^ Atel baggage ™ ear* «-«««-»• and |nreenger >*•«- era h wore •«*•*«
thrown d,,«n a st«vq, emhauktnent, and
twenty on,- |.aw».m* were injured, ten of them
*Ated>
Apevi was running at its usual rat' of
w!u-n the aroi ienl ,wurr,sl The Ire
** hnti jviss*» t a h*','koii rwd, t*ut th*»
engme«'r did not notice it \Y hen Uie lw»g
rege car struck the defect it jumfasi from
the track dragging aft *r it the mail car and
one passenger coach The t :* ours worn
plunged down an embankiuout , »f fifty four
fe<>;.
.. 1 . he hurletl violeuGy
tlieir , pns^pn^.rs were out of
seat*- The ear furniture *»« wrenched
from u> fastenings and thrown atiout,
strikinjc several of the }*i>s ngers and \ «n
n * ns ™ m to °* khe c*ar. The twi 'h
turned oxvr three or four t-me* in its tie
Not a passenger m th oar csca i ssi
injur lli©r v
mx lacilita^ for caring for the
wooihW, »* th «• OAvnlaiit ocnumxi in a
sfttiaJ knatioa wh<*r© u >^ra|»b:«
ami I'tbi'* la lif-t*-* arv* \©r>
Mt v Mary Ra it.ms an old womait
uvty yuars ot a^v, ha* Uwu taken to the n
*aa© vioVmiy asylum m l ittsl *ugU”* ^ was made
ituuw thr 1CKII « ivsultilg
from oatuig >li* -av^i fruit an i vt^j©tahhs©
taken from garbrnra t*iiivk
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle State*.
Colomx Carroll D. Wright has re
sixwl as Chief of the Bureau of Labor Sta¬
tistics of Massachusetts, and Horace 0, Wad
Mil haa been appointed to succeed him.
Tiik firm of John Taylor & Co., Trenton,
the leadin'? pork packers in New Jersey, has
failed, with liabilities estimated at *250,000.
F irk broke out at an early hour Wednes
dav morning; in trie ba-einent of a crowded
New York tenement house. The family of
top floor/were 'uZTt ’e^'Xm £
iiames and were burned to death. They
were Gustave Berg, aged forty years; his
wife, aired thirty six; Mrs. Kranss, his moth
er in-law, ami his daughter, Lizzie, aged
s v.-nUy-.n.
Tiik residence of William Graves, at Pitt*
burg, was struck by lightning during a re¬
cent severe storm. The current was attract¬
ed to the steel springs of the tied on which
Graves and his wife were sleeping, and both
■■■• ere killed.
in F; the n Delaware R women and River, a little opposite girl were Penns drowned Grove,
Del., by the capsizing or a little sloop that
hod 1-o.ei struck by a waterspout during a
heavy thunderstorm.
I'T.l.iS Coi.i.kok, Aurora, N. Y., where
Mr- Cleveland was educated, has been
destroyed by lire.
A rich discovery of gold-bearing quartz is
reported from Center County, Penn.
Diphtheria is epidemic in Everett, Mass.
There has been an average of one death a
day therefrom for the past month.)
I.rri in iiii.i). Conn . was visited by a di»
ast roug fire which consumed the new Conrt
House and a large portion of her business
blocks, ill- Joss is estimated at *150,000.
Son (I. and West.
A a niKANTiiOi sgtorra . . has visited ...... the cen
trill section of Missouri. Crops were greatly
damaged heavy In and the losses on town Glasgow property are
the vicinity of crops are
I ju red fifty j>er cent., while the damage to
t5i 8 l«^iu business bne i.ounty houses the damage will exceed will
reach * 00,000. iho loss at Norbone
vicinity reaches *1(10,000 At Water
baptist church and two business houses were
destroyed.
I v the Choctaw Nation a family named
murdered Myers—man. wife and two children—were
ten days ago on tho Red Rivey
forty miles above Denison, Texas, by a Viand
of half breed marauders.
Two hundred imported Italian laborerson
the new railroad at Findlay, < »hio, have lieon
placed on cars tor shipment back to Italy.
ii, ..... l-........... ,,, , er S. ... raa,m and -
'
ihJ. iu' ten 1 ! nil ? aaoO'iui'd R'sler, wer at *
gumey, in 111., while i . robbing his apple orchard
< HAiif.F.s 1 ‘krkinh, a noted horse thief
ami murderer, shot and killed two deputy
marshals and a citizen at Marshall’s Ferry,
lndiau Territory, while they were attempt
ing to arrest him.
The Rev. J. W. Hanford, Indian teacher
and missionary at Ht. Stephen’s Mission,
Dakota, was thrown from a mowing machine
and so badly mangled that he blod to death
before assistance could lie procured
(iKnjiiiEN. Mu,i.mt fell into a vat of licit
liquor boiled at death. Salem Mass., and was literally
to
Gkohok Stamper, a trtinnt, on the farm of
Rev. John Giddens, in Bradley County,
TVnn., hiul a quarrel with his landlord, dur¬
ing which he totally cut the preacher’s
throat.
The Kioux Indians, who have been holding
• shim- council the at proposition Standing Ro of k the Agency Government to con
to throw o)ieii their reservation to settlers,
huve adjourned, after number threatening who Bhould to kill the
ffrst one of their sign
tho treaty.
Ukti'hkk from the AlabamnState el
show that the Democrats have
ticket by a majority of 100,000. The Regia
lature is overn-helmingly Democratic in both
branches, while Governor Seay and the
Democrutic State ticket carriedevery county
by considerable majorities.
Tm; State Convention of Indiana Republi
cans ted nssembled full state at ticket, Indianapolis headed by and General nomi
na a
^miSalSs Alvin 1* 1 Invftv for (invurnor SSKSr. and itocA Trn T
II ''
Mas. Francis A. Scott, widow of a dis
tiiipmsliwl Gonfoilerata Gencrul, has com
of mittod her suicide at Memphis,T hUI., on
extremo poverty.
Fike destroyed tho inimonso lumber rail)*
of (’. See & Co., nt Saginaw, Mich., causing
a loss of over $*>00,000.
Tiik Alabama Democratic State Conven¬
tion met at Atlanta and renominated John
U. Gordon unauimously for Governor. All
the State Olliers were renominated and an
electoral ticket was selected
A demkxtkd oinplove of the Achland.after Rockwood
pottery at Cincinnati, William
ouarreling with the engineer, fatally shot James him. Flyer,
drew a revolver an 1 The
fireman, Joseph Bailey, then interfered, and
Achiand killed him and then committed
suicide.
A bold mail robbery has been committed
on the Missouri Pacific road, betweeu Joffer
son Uitv and St. Louis, in whichever $17,000
was stolen, of which $.'>000 was from the
Missouri State Treasury.
The Republicans of Michigan assembled
in State Convention at Detroit and placed in
nomination a complete State ticket headed
by Cyrus G. Lure for Governor. The Na
tonal teu.,Wmice -publican platform added was favoring indorsed
an.l a plank was s
1™->»1 not 1 ion
Washington.
Prksiiwxt Cl.EVKLA.VD has approved the
art making Decoration Day a legal holiday
in tin- District of Columbia and the act to
extend the Government the leave of printing absence office of employes thirty of
to
days each year
Bhoh D the bill granting Mrs. Irene Ruck
er Sheridan, wid -w of General introduce,!’!!! Sheridan, a
pension of f-teA) per annum,
the Senate bv Mr. Farwell, become a
law.it will 1« the only case where this
r • „• &&V a*ssj
t: s „ *»
‘
The question of the sncv«sor to General
ssas.'s.’s* i&!8sa«aa
com man-1
1 he President lias approved the warehouse act for the
erection of an appraisers <a
Chicago and the act tor the relief of certain
settlers upon tlie school lands of »> ashing
toti Territory.
News has been received at Washington
that Hon > R. Breckinridge, Means a Committee, prominent
member of the Wavs mid
was recently lvnominatsi for Congress by
the 1\ mocrats of Arkansas.
Foreign.
Tiieiik is a great deal of yellow fever in
Cuba and fourteen deaths have recently oo
cure 1 therefrom.
Tin charter of the American Foresteni
has hem rccke-l by the parent or . nutation
In England until discrimination against cob
omi jvrsgm'in * the onier was stopivd.
'
_ The tepamsh , , . Government _ . has decided ,, ,
to
inipose a heavy poll lax upon Chinamen im>
migrating to the Philippine Islands
L vyy-RENC* M. Doxotax, the jumper who
made himself famous by leaping from the
ford Brooklyn Bridge. Bridge, jumped from the Hunger
London, a few days ago, and
w-as drowned in the Thames, one hundred
feet beiow.
The bill providing for a commission to
examine into tiie charges ma le by tb*» I/xn
don Anws H|jainst Mr. Famuli, the Irish
loavler. ami other mcmfvrs of Pariiaraeiu,
has {vvssc* l th© House of Commons by a vot©
of 150 to Gi.
StRiors conflicts took pi a'© in Paris be¬
tween th© police and striking na^Hw.
•merous cafe? were sacked and sixteen
t .-son* were badly injured.
’d^cKisG a severe gale two large barks, one
English and the other French, sank in the
nar'i hr of Valparaiso. South America, after
having been in collision. The crew of the
Kng ish vejpel, consisting of seventeen hands,
sna •even of the French crew.were drowned.
yj ve other vessels were blown ashore and
dashed to pieces.
, residence of the widow of George Co
’ . tte , in the parish of St. Ignatius, chil- Ca
™ has tef . n burne , an(i five of her
perished in the flames.
TH* relative Assembly of the Sand
wich Islands has passed a military bill mer
the King,Kalakaua s veto. By this bill the
naval «fnWwhmenl; is abolished and the
army nviuced to arty-live, exclusive of tiie
mUitary band.
_
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senate Proceedings.
146th Day.—M r. Vance spoke in favor of
ratifying the Fisheries Treaty... .Mr. Jon s
offered n resolution instructing the Commit¬
tee on Finance to inquire into the alleged
combinatio >r pool bill of the presented producers of urging cot¬
ton bagg nj,. .. A was
that the i resident be requested to oprn ne.ro
with the Government of Her Britan¬
nic Majesty (in which the Dominion of
Canada and the several political sub-divis
thereof shall lie represented) with
view to the settlement of all dif¬
ferences between Her Majesty's Gov¬
ernment and the United States...
A message was received from the Presi¬
dent announcing the death of Genera! Fb-ri
Wan. Toe reading of the message was list
to with respectful attention, and upon
th" motion of Senator Edmunds the Beuate
the following resolutions:
Reso'ee d. That the Senate has learned
with profound regret of the death of Philip
H. Hheridan, lato General of the Army of
the United States
That the Senate hereby ex
L . ises it , g rate ful sense of his great and
{Jj riotic service in the cause of his country,
Jeep sensibility of the loss which the Na
t , on has sustained in his death, and its syrn
;i Resolved, thy with his family in th-ir bereavement,
That a copy of these resolutions
^ forwarded to the family of the deceased,
U7TIt Day.-T he House bill placing Gen
„ral William V. cTialdy") Smith on the re
tired list as Colonel of the army, with an
Amendment changing the grade of Colonel
to that he of Major of Engineers, the rank
which held when he left the army, was
ind passed... occupied .Mr. it Sherman during the then entire took day's the floor
sos
-'-'on while delivering an address against the
ratification of the I ishery Treaty.
14STH Day.—T he concurrent resolution to
print 1«J 100,0011 Mills extra bill copies of recently the tariff law of
and the as passe 1 by
tho U prepared yfouse, with a comparative statement to
by the Committee of Ways and
Means was adopted....Mr. Stewart moved
the regular business (billson th^ calen
Jar) lie laid aside and tho Chinese Prohibi
{ jon bill be taken up. Agreed to—Yeas, 40;
says, 8. Tho bill was then passed without a
6ivision.... The Senate then proceeded to the
«pnsideration of the Fisherieo Treaty in open
*veoutive session, and was addressed by Mr.
H urts in opposition to its ratification,
140 th Day.—T he .Senate resumed the con
sderation °f *he Fisheries Treaty in open
executive session, and Mr. I'.varts continue l
h.s speech against its ratification. H-- spoke
Jour hours, and was followed by Messrs.
Call, Morgan and Frye, who delivered short
addresses on the same measure... .Mr. Pal
rier introduced a bill appropriating $.450,000
pr tho purchase by the United States of the
Jortago Lake and River Improvement Com
jany Canal, and the Lake Superior Ship
'anal Railway and Iron Company Canal in
Michigan.
150 th Day.—T he bill for the ascertain
aient of the amounts expended bv the States
f California, Oregon, and Nevada for mili
tary purposes during the Civil War was re
.Tho bill for the relief of attend
ants at the Hospital for the Insane in the
district of Columbia introduced was reported adversely
,. .Mr. Faulkner a bill provid
og V for a public building than at Martinsburg, 8100,000
W. a., to cost not more ...
Mr. Stockbridge introduced a bill providing
f ,2 r the •*&?“, of a
, t0 /Y
*"*’<* ®- '» • r Y- Lm" mi
iHont to tho Deficiency Appropi lation bill
more than the rate for dav service.... Mr.
Call introduced a joint resolution to appro¬
priate of *'JOO,0()0, to be paid of out the in Treasury, the discre¬
tion tho Secretary for
the prevention and the suppression .The bill of yellow
fever in the United States... to reg¬
ulate interstate commerce by telegraph was
passed. The act is to take effect and be in
force from November 1, 1888.
Hons© Procood i n ir#.
1Wrn Day ,_ a joint ,solution Was ro
f erre d authorizing the Postmaster-General to
appoint a commission of three persons to in
vestigate the subject of the rapid transit of
mails in the city of New York and the udja
cent postal districts.... A bill was introduced
to establish an interstate minimum rate of
ii wages in tho United States. The rates of
wages nro to bo p ace,! ns follows: ! wry
male citizen or alien over twenty-one,
who may bo employed ns a laborer
and in any shall capacity, bo shall less be than entitled Sl.oO to
hours; paid not par
day of ten every woman of over
eighteen shall be paid not less than si. and
every minor over fourteen and und-c eight
een 8htU1 pwdnot Ires ffian seventy five
f? nts , P er ''•*?; fho Inter-State ( mnu.erce
«onsof jA»n«m«Km theact, is to and assume sl.OOJ charge U(W is appropriated ot thepera
to carry it into effect. . A message was ro
ceived from President Cleveland announcing
the death of General Sheridan. On motion
ot General Hooker the House adjourned out
«* respect. A committee of seven was ap¬
pointed funeral, to confer and with the family in regard
to tha to take such other action
the ** may circumstances. sePI1 ' appropriate or necessary under
181 st Day.—T he resolution instructing the
^ommittee Won '.' f on bitten-nagg-nc Kuian- e to make i-ol an w is investiga, adopted
members • - • .TheSpeaher the then Mil.tary app >mted the fokowmg
su Comnuttc-ns the
5.°'“ pnat fcfc-j-sss, on mnv bill: Messrs, ' lo\vn>^n ° A , I, rn \r Mush > l,|,r,> and ,'
sarsss rs?
at the, tffiio tVntennial Exposition
*— «•
iv’n Day.—'T he bill to abolish trusts was
debated....The French .-p- li rt oa Claims
section of the Deficiency bill was ,x»tis;deivd
but no action was taken .. .The b 11 granting
permission New York to to beautify the Idii Governor's k Commissioners Island of
was
1(S3 dDay.—A nother ».vno was voted for
the expenses of the Committee on Manufac
tares which is investigating the trusts....
Tho President returnxi to tiie House without
his approval five pension bills . . t onsi l, ra
tion of the Senate Chinese Restriction bill
was attempted, but Mr. Springer rais -d ©b
ject.ou. an>l the measure was referred to the
Foreign Affairs i immittea.
JS4TH Day.— The PjP inference report on the
granting a d t > M i , :n> - or disabled
volunteer* was ag, .si t ..The Pres,dent
v et<vd nine private Dension bil’s. ab.d which
oruina„d in .ne Ho,.s ' Toon t House
into tVnuu i:te- cf the Whole Mr.
Hatdi of Mfeaevin is. the chair on th,-private
L a i.. n -.lar, erel ws-isrei numerous’ tw-'.-Mk,
Word*. Words. Words.
*l?o, 1 aura, you want to marry that
fellow that play- :n a band, eh;’’
“Adolphus does not piav in a band,
papa." “Then what does he do i
a in
“Adolphus is a member o rc
tra, pa;«. ”— 2., ,er.
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that it will loin the Sugar Bounties Cc
uen if xh* lasted Stews and fcnru do.
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