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POL HI.
BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
\ DAY SERMON.
Subject: “The Ri bckbection.”
... >‘c ure rv thebittfrness of death
■Cl Samuel xv„ 32.
tbif A-ae- an 1 tie only objection I
■to Nevertheless text is fiat a bad man uttered
it is true, and in a h.gaer
better sense than that in which it was
[wily uttered. Years ago a legend
SKr was toid me: In a hut
woman by the name of
t ■Las In front of her door was tar a pear living. tree,
I her only resource a
f: tee Lord, in poor garb would was walking
h the earth and uo one enter-
j n V ain He knocked at the door
Ii-u-es and of humble dwellings. Cold
hunorv an 1 insufficiently clad, as Ho
■ none received Him. But _coming ng one
■to „ (h ,„e liutof received this woman, Him, aud whose offered name
■ -q.'.nry xf.'. .. she
|"a l-clf few crusts handful aud asked of coals, Him and to she warm sat
Eli at tho might
night that tho wayfarer have
Blow to rest on.
L the morning this divine would being asked her
(edeparted what she have Him do
fc e way of reward, and told her that He
Lj feAeri. the universe AU she asked and would that give her her what
was pear
•might be protected, and that the boys
I It stole her fruit, once climbing the tree,
Cut. not be able to get down without her
So it was granted, compelled and all who
Uj |e. the tree were Death along to stay
[the After awhile came and
poor woman she must go with him.
Lhedidnot [ want to go, for, however with
one’s lot is, no one wants to go
[h. Ivouif i hen she wiilfiist said to Death, climb “I into will go
vou down up few my
[ tree start.” and bring This rue he consented a to pears do,
[having re I
climbed into.the tree he could
again come down.
hen the troubles of the world began, for
Ih did not come. The physicians hail no
puts, the undertakers no business, law-
[no wiils to make, could the not people get them, who the waited old
Inheritances all the professions and
L staid iu oceupa-
Eg S o that tharo was no room for the
who ware coming on, and the earth
overcrowded, and from all the earth tho
went up: “Oh, for Death! Where is
Lh!” Then tbe people let came to the poor
i m and begged In her to Doath for tha deseend world,
i the tree. sympat Deat h ly
consented [iition, to let come down on one
and that was that he should never
Jest 1 Death or take her allowed away, to and pome on that down, con an ii- 1
was
tept his word and never removed her,
for that reason we always have Misery
J n i that us. allegory someone has set forth the
:h that 1 mean to present on this Baster
■hid g, which celebrates the resurrection
ihi'istand our coming resurrection that
of the grandest and migatiest mercies
;he earth is our divine permission to quit
Sixty-four persons every minute step
this planet. Thirty million people every
rboard this planet. As a steamer must
iad before it taxes another cargo, auu as
passengers of a rail train must leave u
rder to have another company of passen-
ttuter it, so with this world.
[bat would happen to an ocean should steamer
man, taking a stateroom, stay iu
trevcT? What would happen to a rail
pit one who purchases a ticket should
kys It occupy happen th" seat to this assigned world him? if all Aud who
won! I
!into it never departed from it? cradle. the
e is as much a benediction as the
t sunk that ship in the Blaci oea a law
I ago? Too many passengers. What
[the lues which, matter with few years that ago, steamer went on down tne
a
1600 lives? Too many passengers. Now
[world b six thousand is only a years ship, which ago. was it is iaunened sailing
be rate of many thousand miles an hour.
I freighted with mountains and cities,
has iiuts staterooms and steerage about
ben hundred million passengers. that So
>y are coming aboard, it is necessary
K>,1 many disembark.
iippose that all the people that have
d since the days of Adamant Eve were
alive. What a cluttered up place this
■id would be—no elbow room—no place
l walk—no anyihiug privacy—nothing left to the eat human or
r, or if were
[e e would, like a shipwrecked of crew, having have
put on small rations, each us
haps only a biscuit a day. And wuat
pea Is? wcuid there bo tor the rising genera-
The men and women who started
in the world starred would keep
Jem people back aud down, saying: Bow
e are six thousand years old.
p. History is nothing, for we are older
t history.” What a mercy for the bu-
l race was death! Within a few years
lean get from this world all there is in
Iter f you have had fifty or sixty or enough sev-
springtimes, you have seen
toms. Alter fif ty or sixty or seventy
pmns yon have seen enough sixty of gorgeous seveuty
age. iters, After fifty or enough snowstorms or
| you have seen
jnough felt enough chills and wrapped yourself length
blankets. In the ordinary
luman life you have carried enough bur-
l s, and shed enough tears, and suffered
Sigh l injustices, and felt enough pangs, aud
been clouded by enough doubts,
rounded by enough mysteries. We talk
kit the shortness of life, but if we exer-
si good sense we would realize that life is
[e f we long enough. the children of God we are at a
are
quet. and this world is only the first
jrse it of the food, and we ought to ba richer glad
there are other and better and
Irses of food to be handed ou. We are
k in one roo m of cur Father’s house, hut
re are rooms up stairs. They are better
lured, better upholstered, better fur-
ked. fercom Why do we want to stay in the
jrtmeats forever, when there are occupancy? palatial
fcat waiting for is our limitation to
[thlr a mercy that there a
environments!
lysical also makes room
ions machinery. Our bodies have won-
powers, but they are very limited.
►ere I, are beasts that can outruu us. oatlift
outcarrv us. The birds have both the
ki b tii andairior trave!,"yet we must sties
the one. In this world, which the human
ke takes for its own, there are creatures in
t tied that can far surpass us some
hinys. Death removes this slower and less
droit machinery and makes room for some-
bing better. These eyes that can see half
i mile will be removed world. for those These that cm
ee from world to ears
rbich can hear a found a few feet off, will
eaiw that can hear from
one to zone These feet will be removed
or powers of locomotion swifter than the ,
eindeef’s hoof or eagle’s plume of hghtu-
Bv’sfli'h andtothe.se
l hen we have only five sens-s, ;
re are Ebutup." Whv only hundred; five senses? why not Why a !
lot fiftv; why not one will liave
Nusandl \Ve can have, stt'isif.’WS! and we
nss^A‘^ the best that God
think that this bo.lv is when
fan do lob us. Go 1 did not halt try M‘ii
be contrived nir.yeuycui Vnur bodily ooau> m?chanwn. m....... l
il'p . iv^jlo'-ifts Bnd^'with'iiil scientists and with
an i
I rfssrjsts
Siinschinery? at.; |to make improvements in man . phy=i-
t limited cxpdtt Bhallcanalboatgjve-ay tram, bbali ^
^
unicatioi lit the t^ephone take
tbe r a voice sixty miliesaiidimitmit-
lv *) hrn ' ring back another voice, end God, wno
nude the man who does these things, not be
ROBERTA. CRAWFORD COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. APRIL 22, 1892.
able to improve the man himself with infi
nite velocities and Infinite multiplication
Beneficent Death comes in and makes the
necessary removal to make way for these
supernatural improvements. So also our
slow process oE getting information must
have a substitute.
alphabet, Through prolonged stady we learned the
and then we learned to spall, and
then we learned to read. Then the book is
put before us and the eye travels from word
to word and from page to page, and wa take
whole days to read the book, and if from
that book o£ four or five hundred pages we
have gained one or two profitable ideas we
feal we have done well. Thera must be
some swifter wav and more satisfactory
way of taking in God’s universe of thoughts
and facts and emotions and information.
But this cannot be done with your brain in
its present state. Many a brain gives way
under the present facility. This whitish
mass in the upper cavity of the skuli and at
the extremity of the nervous system—tips
cantor of perception and sensation cannot
endure more than it now endures.
But God can make a better brain, and He
sends Death to remove this inferior brain
that He may put in a superior brain.
idea “Well,” you say, “does not that destroy the
of a resurrection of the present body?”
Oh, no. It will be the old factory with new
machinery—new driving wheel, new bands,
new levers and nesv powers. Don’t you see?
So I suppose the dullest human brain after
the resurrectionary process will have more
knowledge, breadth more of acute ness, more brilliancy,
more Hamilton Hcrschel swing than any Sir William
or or Isaac Newton or
Faraday all or igassiz ever had in the mortal
state or their intellectual powers com¬
bined. You see God has only just begun to
build you. The palace of your nature has
only the foundation laid and part of the
lower story, and only part of one window,
but the great architect has made His draft
of what you will be when the Alhambra is
completed.
John was right when he sal’, "It doth
not yet appear what we shall be.” Blessed
be death! for it removes all the hindrances.
And who has not all his life run against
hindrances? We cannot go far up or far
down. If we go far up we get dizzy, and if
we go far down we get suffocated. If men
would go high up they ascend the Matterhorn
or Mount have Blanc or Himalaya, but what dis¬
asters been reported as they came
tumbling down. Or if they went down too
far, hark to the explosion of the firedamps,
and see the disfigured bodies of the poor
miners at the bottom of the coal shaft.
Then there are the climatological hin-
d ranees. We rua against unpropitious
weather of all sorts. Winter blizzard aud
summer scorch, and each season seems to
hatch a broo i of its own disorders. The
summer spreads its wings and hatches out
fever and sunstrokes, anl spring and
autumn spread their wings and hatch out
malarias, an i winter spreads its wings and
hatches out pneumonia this world and Russian hindrance grippes,
and the climate of is a
which every man and woman and child has
felt. Death is to the good transference to
superior weather—weather never fickle, and
neTer too col l, and never too hot, and never
jjgjjt, and never too dark. Have you any
doubt that God can make better weather
m j s characteristic of this planet? Blessed
i s dentil! for it prepares the way for change
zo;je yea, it clears the path to a semiom-
n i.„. es e n ce.
How often we want to bs in different places
a t the same time! How perplexed we get
being compelled to choose between inviti-
tioas, between waddings, between friendly
„ roU p Si between three or four places we
would like to be in the same morning or tho
SJla „ nojn or the same evening. While death
m no!; 0 p 3n opportunity to be in many
places at the same time, so easy and so quick
and so instantaneous wilt be the transference
that it will amount to about the same thing.
Q a i cier tjan I can speak this sentence you
w ill be among your glorious kindred, among
t be martyrs,among tne apostles, in tae gate,
on t j, e battlements, at the tamnle, an i now
f roM world to world as soon as a robin hop3
j roi n one tree branch to another tree branch,
Distance no hindrance. Immensity easily
com p a33 ed. Semiomnipresence!
“But,” says some one, “I cannot see how
God is going to reconstruct my body iu the
resurr ection.” Oh, that will be very easy as
co , n pared with what Ha has already don>
with your body four or six or ten times. All
. c ; eu tists tell us that the human body
Ganges entirely once in seven years, so that
if you are twenty-sight years of age you
have now your fourth body. If you are
forty-two years of age you have had six
bodies. It you are seventy years of ago you
have had tea bodies. Do you not, my un-
believing friend, think if God could build
f or you f 0ur 0l - five or ten bodies He could
re aUy build for you one more to be called
the resurrection body. Aye! to make that
resurrection body will not require half as
muo h ingenuity and power as those other
bodies you have had.* Is it not easier for a
gcmjptor to make a statue out of silent clay
than it would ba to make a statue out of
some ma teria! that is alive and moving, and
fanning hither and thither?
Wifi it not be easier for God to make the
resurrection body out of the silent dust of
the crumbled body than it was to make your
body over five or six or eight times while it
wa8 j n motion, walking, climbing.falling or
rising? God lias already on your four or live
bodies bestowed ten times resurrection more omnipotence body,
than He will putupon the
y 6Hi we have the foundation for the
resurrection body in us now. Surgeons and
physiologists say there are parts of the
human body the uses of which they cannot
understand. They are searching what found these
parts a re made for, but have not out.
j uan t e ll them. They are the preliminaries not make
0 f the resurrection body. God does
anything for nothing. The uses of thosa now
surplus parts of the body will bo (lemon-
gyrated when the glorified form is coastruc-
Now, if Death .... e.ears toe way _
why paint him as a hobgoblin? Why call
j.t .n king of terrors? W uy th*nk o. him
a3 a great spook? Why sketch him with
skeleton and arrows, and stondmg on a bank
of dark waters! Why have childrcu so
f r j g i,tene 1 at his name that they dare not
goto bei aiort?, and old men have
teeth chatter lest some shortness of breatn
hand them over to the monster. .Ail the a *
liava been busy m maligning Dsath. huu ug
re!nl i s ;ve metaphors at Death, slandenn„
Death. Oh, for the sweet breath of fcas.er
to C p U i 3 down ou the carta. Bigii. flowers aiyu
the ver nai equinox, and wuen the
are beginning tob.oom, well may all nation>
wit jj an d with congratulation and gar-
] an j s celebrate the resurrection of Ohrisr,
aa d our own resurrection when the time »
soue b y, an i the trumpets pour through the
fl v j n g cF>u is the harmonies that shall wa«.e
t hedmd. niche of Joseph mau-o-
Bv the the^rocks empty s
leual by that parted to let toe
. through, let ideas of chan--
Lo.-d come our
ius? worlds bs forever revolutionized, it
w hat I have been saying is true, how dif-
ferently we ought to think of our fnends
danarted. f The bolv they have put off is
oa y as when entering a hail lighted aud
refunding with musical bands, you leave
you r hat and ceiak mtheckmkroom. Afaat
would a banqueter do if he ha l to carry
tll0 se encumbrances of apparel with him in-
t3 t be brilliant reception? What would your
departeil do with their bodies .1 they bad to
bj encumbered with then* in the kwg s
tsn&’ss*, kings Md queens and con-
Gone among »«*®ij“hand
que ««! Gone to by
tell of the cuariot of Ore drawn 805 1
nT- the sensation of nsoaatusg tfe-3 sap*
| phire steefw! Gone to mrt with Moses an-I
y an t F ran cis Havergal. Gone
Why X should kiaar not ed who wonder preened.themj! if they had a
MJP father and mother
^ but they have got to-
- - r their children that went
cether. end , their cim
1
years where ago they got together again. Gons
have more room! Gone
where they have more jubilant so¬
ciety! Gone where they have mightier
capacity to love you than when the}-were
here! Gone out of hindrances into un¬
bounded liberty! Gone out of Januarr into
Juue! Gon,e where they talk about you as
we always talk about absent friends aud
say ;. “I wonder when they wil! come up here
to join us. Dark ! the outside door of heaven
swings open. Hark! there are feet on the
golden I stairs. Perha s they are coining! ’
was told at Johnstown after the flood
that many people who had been for months
and years bereft for the first time got com¬
fort when the awful flood came to think that
their departed ones were not present to see
the catastrophe. As the people were float¬
ing down on the housetops they said: “Oh,
how glad l am that father anil mother are
not here,” or “How glad I am that the chil¬
dren are not alive to see this horror!” And
ought not we who are down here amid the
upturnings of this life b9 glad that none of
the troubles which submerge us can ever
affright our friends I ascended? deptrted
Before this warrant our ones
have been introduced to all the celebrities of
heaven. Some one has said to, them: “Let
me introduce you to J oshun, the man wno
by prayer stopped two worlds for several with
hours. Let me make you acquainted
this group of three heroes— Johu Hus.-,
Philip Melancthon and Martin Luther.
Aha! here is Fenelon! Here is Archbishop
Leighton! Here are Latimer ami Ridley!
Here is Matthew Simpson! Here is poet’s
row—James Montgomery and Anna Bar-
bauld and Horatius Bonar and Phoebe
Palmer and Lowell Mason.”
Were your departed ones fond of nw .c)
What oratoris led on by Handel and B ay-
den. Were they fond of pictures? IV hat
Raphaels pointing out skies with all colors
wrought out into chariot wheels, Were wings fond of
seraphim and coronations. they by
of poetry? What eternal rhythms led glorified on
John Milton. Shall we pity our
kindred? No, they had better pity us. We,
the shipwrecked and on a raft in the hurri¬
cane, looking up at them sailing on over
calm sees, under skies that never frowned
with tempests, we hoppled with chains; they
lifted by wings. “Surely the bitterness of
death is past.
Further, if what I have been saying is
true, we should trust the Lord and be
thrilled with the fact that our own day of
escape cometh. If our lives were going to
end when our hearts ceased to pulsate and
our lungs to breathe, I would want to take
ten million years of life here for the first
installment. But, my Christian friends, we
cannot afford always to stay down in the
cellar of our Father’s house. We canuot
always lie postponing the best things. We
cannot always be tuning our violins for the
celestial orchestra. We must get our wings
out. We must mount. We cannot afford
always to stand out here in the vestibule of
the house of .many mansions, wliile the
windows are illuminated with the levee
angelic, and we can bear the laugh¬
ter of thos3 forever free, aud the
ground quakes with the bounding
feet of those who have entered upon eternal
play. Ushers of heavenl Open the gates!
Swing them clear back on their pearly
hinges! Let the celestial neusic rain on us
its cadence. Let the hanging gardens Let of
the king breath on us tlie-ir aromatics.
our re teemel ones just look out and give
us oue glance of their glorified faces. Yes,
there they are now I I see them. But I can¬
not stand the vision. Close the gate, or our
eyes will be quenche d with the overpowering
brightness. Hold back the song or our ears
will never again care for earthly shall anthem. in
Withdraw the perfume or we swoon
the fragrance that human nostrils was never
made to breath.
All these tnoughts are suggested broken as we
stand this Easter morn amid the
rocks of the Saviour’s tomb, indeed, I know
that tomb has not been rebuilt, for 1 stood in
December of 1SS9 amid the ruins of that,the
most famous sepulcher of all time. There
are thousands of tombs in our Greenwood
and Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn with
more polished stone and more elaborate ma¬
sonry and more foliage surroundings but as
I went down the steps of the suppose 1 tomb
of Christ on my return from Mount Calvary.
I said to myself: “This is the tomb of all
tombs. Around this stand more stupendous
incidents than around any grave of all the
world since death entered it.”
I could not breathe easily for overmaster¬
ing emotions as 1 walked down the four
crumbling steps till wa came abreast of tho
niche in which I think Christ was buried. I
measured the sepulcher and found it four¬
teen and a half feet long, eight feet h'gu,
nine feet wide. It is a family tomb and
seems to have been built to hold five bodies.
But I rejoice to say that the tomb was
empty, aud that the door of the rock was
gone, and the sunlight streamed in. The
day that Christ rose and came forth the
sepulcher was demolished ferever, anl no
trowel of earthly masonry cau ever rebuild
And the rupture of those roc.cs, and the
snap ot that Governmental seal, and the
crash of those walls of ii mas tone, and the
step of tho lacerated but triumphant foot
of the risen Jesus we to-day celebrate w itb
acclaim of worshiping thousands, while with
all the nations of Christendom, and all the
shining hosts of heaven ive chant, “Now is
Christ risen from the dead and become the
first fruits of them that slept.”
Ob, weep no more yonr comforts el sin,
The Lord ie risen. He lives again.
“And now may the God of peace, who
brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus,
that great shepherd the everlasting of the covenant sheep, through make
the blood of good word and work.
you perfect iu every
Hallelujah! Amen.
Flax iu the West.
pu, in the West is cultivated to-day
0 n virgin or new soil - . very snccessf 8 “ cc ®' st ullv “ l ‘y ■ ’
jt thrives better on soil that has been
wor ^ e d, tilled and pulverized. The
seeds , demand uemanu pit: nienty j of fertilizer, both
; n the shape ot well ro.ted, old manure ma -
and commercial fertilizers, rrom four
, tQ SIX hundred pounds of min-
• ckielly of pot-
eialiertiliz.rs con8 con.i istin<r k F
;ls ' a an d phosphoric acid, are appueu to
the gcre The seed used is imported
from ,, Europe, main as this is considered bet-
ter than the flaxs'. -- Afte
0
planting the flax requires cultivation
. tte n t iou the same as any other
until it attains attains a a lar^e. , healthy J growth,
w l je n it can take care ot ltseu. li s
estimated that each acre ought to jiclct
seventy dollars’ dollars worth w„ of seed, ^ and
about six hundred poun
t jj ere j s a market for the straw tne nax
„ rnwers w iR have their profits nearly, if
0 not quite, - t aouoiea. doubled. Labor is also saved
tb e new method of gathering
g[ {or the or dinary grass mower can
an ,j bundle them into
^ cut tne pie fl 1 ““ P
sheaths. Machinery, in work, ® * from the
form ncar ]y a ll of the
thc steds are fi rs t planted until the
couver ted into fibrous material
■»»
(he goil that it should not be grown on
t he same field oftener than two out of
1 far repeating
every six ._______, or se*s»» r j—* f •- K j
the - rop up on the same ground , for a
\ 5 *■»»»-«.-u-«»« in the world. The Copper Q
| m ne s and
j, one of world wide reputation
* nr \ n(T 1891 with copper down to ndicu-
| ! ment \ ork running «p of |8o0,000. '
. “* r a dividend
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
What is Being Done in Congressional
Halls for the Country's Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD—BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Friday —Whether in deference to tho
religious sentiment or in deference to the
inclement weather, a number of members
were absent Friday morning, and when
the speaker called the house to order at
noon the vacant seats far outnumbered
those which were occupied. Tho speak¬
er laid before the house a house bill to
promote the safety of national banks
with tbe senate amendment thereto. Mr.
Eicon, of New York, in charge of the
measure, not being present, a request remain was
made that the bill be permitted to this Mr.
upon the speaker’s table, but to
Bland objected, and upon his motion the
bill was referred to thc committee ou
baukiug and currency, which action, in
the opinion of thc advocates of the meas¬
ure means its death. Private business
was then proceeded with.
Saturday. —In the house, Saturday,
only private business was transacted.
Monday. —Easter Monday opened dis¬
mally. Rain fell in iorrents, and there
was a mixture of chill and warmth about
tho atmosphere which was very disagree¬
able. The result was that the attendance
of the members in the house was small
when the hour of noon arrived. Mr.
Mcltae, from the committee on public and
lauds, moved to suspend the rules
pass a bill to adjust the swamp land
grants and to fix limitations for filing
claims thereunder. The motion to sus¬
pend the rules and pass the bill was de¬
feated. Yea®, H3; nays, 77, not two-
thirds voting in the affirmative. The
house then went into committee of the
whole on the naval appropriation bill.
Mr. Elliott, of South Carolina, favored
the clause for the increse of the navy, in
thc precise language iu which it was
couched in the pending measure. He
lelieved that the committee on naval
affairs bad followed the wisest and safest
course. He was opposed to the motion
of the gentleman from Indiana (Mr.
Holman) to strike out the provision
for the construction of one cruiser,
and also to tha amendment of
the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Boutelle)
for the construction of two additional
battleships. Mr. Boutelle, in advocating
his amendment, urged the importance the of
of immediately proceeding with con¬
struction of two new battleships. Mr.
Herbert took the ground that if the
democratic party struck out the cluase for
the construction of an additional crui-er it
would commit a political blunder. Mr.
Boutc-lle’s amendment was then rejected
—65 to 102; ten«emocrats voting in the
affirmative and do republicans in the
negative. Mr. Cummings, of New Y'ork,
offered an amendment for the construc¬
tion of one battle ship and five torpedo
boats. Lost—73 to 99. Mr. Boutelle
offered an amendment for the construc¬
tion of two steel gunboats at a cost of
f500,000 each. Lost—58 to 104. Mr.
Boutelle then moved to recommit the
bill with instructions to the committee
naval affairs to report it back with the
incorporated in the original amendment
for the construction of two battle ships
at $3,000,000 each, and ten motion torpedo
boats at 120,000 each. The was
defeated—yeas, 01; nays, 134.
Tuesday. —In ihe house, a rule was
brought in by committee putting a stop
to the general leave to priu* brief in the discus¬ Con¬
gressional Record. After a
sion it was passed almost unanimously.
Mr. O’Ferrall then called up tno
Noycs-Rockwell contested election case.
He gave notice that at tire end of ten
hours debate he wonld demaud the previ¬
ous question. Judge Lawson, of Geor¬
gia, made the opening speech in favor of
the majority report that Mr. Noyes was
legally elected and entitled to the seat.
Judge Lawson’s speech was followed by
several other members of the committee
reviewing the evidence in the case.
Judge Lawson was frequently interrupted
by questions from the opposition, and
when Mr. Cockran, of New York, rose
to ask a question, Mr. O’Farrall pro¬
tested that the frequent interruptions
were intended to break the continuity of
his colleague’s argument. This brought
on a | little spat between Cockran and
O’Ferrall. Mr. Cockran warmly pro¬
tested against any interruptions from the
gentleman irom Virginia. He had ad¬
dressed his question to the gentleman
from Georgia, not to the gentleman from
Virginia. Mr. Lawson yielding to the
question, peace was restored. In con
elusion. Mr. Lawson expressed his belief
that the principles of the democratic
party were right; that the principles of
the republican party were wrong. There
were, of course, some bad democrats,
but very few. There were some good
republicans, but not many. When as
good a democrat as he was, voted to oust
■: democratic representative from his
seat, he cast his vote from a sense of doty
of the highest character. Wherever the
path o%luty pointed no man should u-ar
to go. Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, argued
that according to the positive evidence
Noyes was elected by six majority. The
question was one above party and beyond
party, and one that should be decided
upon the evidence and the law. Mr.
Bicon. of New York, supported the Pend¬ title
of Rockwell, the sitting member.
ing action the house adjourned. busi-
Wednesday—A the house resumed fter preliminary conside;ation_ of
ness
tiie Noycs-Rockwell contested election
( use. VIr. Wheeler, of Alabama, in a
speech, gave his adherence to the cause
of the contestee and criticised the report
of tbe majority of the committee on
elections. In his opinion no case bad
ever been presented for the action of the
house where so little ground existed
upon which to bate the findings of the
majority. Mr. Cobb, of Alabama, who,
with Mr. Gillespie, of Pennsylvania,
signed the minority in favor of the sir-
ting member, then took the floor. His
argument of three hours in support of
Mr. Rockwell was listened to with a
great deal of attention by the democratic
members. Mr. Magner, of New ork,
favored the claim of Mr. Rockwt 11 in a
brief speech. Fending action the house
adjourned.
THE SENATE.
Monday. —The familiar figure of ex-
Senator Edmunds was seen in the senate
chamber at the opening of Monday’s ses¬
sion of the senate. While Secretary Mc¬
Cook was reading thc journal of last
Thursday, Mr. Edmunds moved around
on the republican side and received
greetings from the senators of both polit-
icd parties. The first business transact¬
ed alter tne reading of thc journal was
the announcement by Vice President
Morton that ho had received a com¬
munication in the nature of a petition
from James P. Young, late chief
executive clerk, to be laid be¬
fore the senate, which will, Morton
added, be laid upon the table, it having
been printed. Mr. Vest introduced a
bill to prohibit the contracts by tho post¬
master-general with any steamship com¬
pany making unjust discrimination
against any part of the United States as
to imports by vessels carrying bill, foreign and
mails. In connection with the
before asking its reference to the com¬
mittee oh commerce, Mr. Vest said he
desired to submit certain resolutions
of the merchants’ exchange of
thc city of St. Louis. Mr. Sher¬
man. the chairman of the for¬
eign relations committee, gave notice in
the senate that he would on Tuesday ask
the attention of the senate to the Chinese
restoration bill. It was necessary, lie
said, that it should be passed within ten
days, as present legislation on the sub¬
ject would, under iho certain con¬
struction of it, expire some time in the
month of May next. Senators Vest,
Cockrell and Daniel called the attention
of tho senate to the alleged discrimina¬
tion made by the United States and Bra¬
zilian Steamship company against the mer¬
chants and produce dealers of the south
and west by refusal to land at the
port of Newport News, coffee shipped
from Brazil on account of the objections
by the merchants of New York. Mr/
Vist presented the resolutions of the St.
Louis merchant’s exchange, protesting
against the discrimination as being a
blow aimed at the commerce of the west
and south, and he also offered a bill to
remedy tin) evil. Mr. Daniel stated lie
had received a number of resolutions to
tbe same purport from many boards of
trade, etc., which lie would present at an
early day and address tho senate upon
this unjust discrimination. Mr Cock¬
rell supplemented these statements by
presenting resolutions of the Wholesale
Grocers’ Association, of St. Louis, to the
same effect. The bill and resolutions on
the subject were referre i to the commit¬
tee on commerce.
Tuesday.—T here was a test vote in
the senate Tuesday on the free coinage
of silver. The providing question came the up bonds in an in
Arizona bill thrt
a funding act should Ik paya’ulo in g ild
coin of the United States. Senator Kyle
moved to strike out “in gold coin” aud
insert “in lawful money.” Immediately
IhtfgWrl ot men arrayed and themselves the silver on the
side gold coin, men
to< k the side of lawful money. It was n
contest between thc gold the and silver men
of the senate, and silver men won
by a vote of 28 to 24. The vote on
tho Kyle amendment was not antici¬
pated by many senators. Many of the
gold men insist that the vote was Lot
a square test of the sentiment of the s»n-
ators on the silver question; but the sil
ver men claim a victory. Senators who
opposed the Kyle amendment hold ttiat
they were voting to allow the territory
to manage its own affairs. A feature of
the vote was thc disclosure of thc atti¬
tude of Senator Hill, who was recorded on
the silver side. There were other features
of interest, however. Mr. Gorman, wiio
was present without an announced pair,
did not vote. Hansbrougli voted
under a misunderstanding. He be¬
lieved that, in voting for thc
Kyle amendment, lie was carrying out
the wishes of Delegate Smith, of Ar zo¬
na, who had been strenuously pushing
the bill. Mr. Shoup, who was in the
cloakroom, did not vote, and his col¬
league, Duboisc, voted for the amend¬
ment with reluctance, although a silver
man, be-ause he feared that the amend¬
ment would not help thc people of Ari-
zona to place their bonds at the best
figure. Eight republicans voted with
the democrats. So did Pcffer and Kyle,
alliance senators, and two democrats
voted with the republicans. the usual
Wednesday. —After morn¬
ing business, M r. Sherman notified the
senate that the further examination of
the Chinese immigration had convinced
the committee on foreign relations that
the existing Chinese exclusion legislation
would not expire till 1894, and that there
was therefore no pressure for immediate
action on the question. He would, how¬
ever, call it up at the convenience of the
senators who desired to speak upon resolu¬ the
subject. Thereupon thc silver
tion offered by Morgan was taken up and
thc teller proceeded to address the senate
upm it.
NOTES.
The postmaster general has notified
Speaker Crisp that free delivery will be
established in Americus, Ga., on tbe first
of June.
On Wednesday the house labor com¬
mittee agreed upon .a bill relating to
limitation of hours of daily service of
laborers and mechanics employed upon
public works, It limits and restricts to
eight hours in any one calendar day the
service and employment of all laborers
aud mechanics employed by the govern¬
ment of the United States by the Dis¬
trict of Columbia, or by any contractor
or sub contractor upon any public works of
of the United States, or of the District
Columbia.
The recent liberties taken in connec-
tion with the Congressional Record were
called to the attention of the senate Tues-
,] nv morning in the shape of a resolution
which instructed the judiciary publication commutes in the
t() j n q U j re whether the
recent record of copyrighted books, with-
out t jj e consen t of the proprietor is an
j n f r j n g (mC nt of the right of such propvi-
' a „ d „j, ct }, cr ; t .objects - n such y person
who the rfiC ord containing re
, )r j nt9 to liability for damages. The
r CSO iution, however, went over without
action.
Kidina a Free Horse.
On account of the many books, of hun-
dreds of pages each, which have been
printed in The < jonoressional Record, the
past few days, the committee on ruies
> iught in a rul Tuesday morning put-
t g a stop to the generi leave to print.
There was but » few minutes’ discussion
when the house, by an almost unanimous
vote, passed it. The practice of stutli g
the Record full of all sorts of dead stuff
has become so repulsive to all the sensi¬
ble member of the house that they were
glad to get an opportunity to vote to put
a stop to it.
For Public I!uiI<iin{(o.
The house committee on public build¬
ings Friday completely negatived the
supposition that, iu construction porsuanceof of au econ¬
omical policy, tho new
public buildings was to be favorable very much
restricted, for tweuly-three it presented bills, authorizing re¬
ports upon buildings,
the construction of new as
well as upon two bills iucrcasos of origi¬
nal appropriations. Tho bills reported
were as follows: At Cumberland, Ind ;
Gardiner, Maine; Newport News, Va.;
Laredo, Texas; Brunswick. Ga.;
Anniston. Ala.: llnstiugs. Nebraska;
Joliet, III.; Spokane Falls, Wash.; Ann
Arboc, Mich ; Boise City. I laho; Helena,
Mout.; Durham, N. 0.; Massillon, Ohio;
Gallipolis, Ohio; Suspension Bedford Bridgo, City, Va.; N.
Y.; Brockton, Maes.;
Cheyenne, Wyo.; Water bury, Conn.;
Clinton, Iowa; Providenco, R. I., and
Nashua, N. H. Also increasing the limit
of cost of building at Paterson, N. J.,
and Kansas City, Mo. Also for thc sale
of the old custom house at Louisville,
Ky. All of the bills were placed upo-
the calendar.
Hull Mu tidily.
The Atlantic coast line mail subsidy
matter, over which there has be n hotiBe quite
a tight, has been settled by tlie
post-office committee, and they have re¬
ported in favor of continuing the sub¬
sidy. The appropriation last year was
$295,000 for the fast mail service between
Washington aud Tampa. Under ’V
contruct between the post-office de;. t-
ment and the coast line, however, only
$190,000 was paid, The committee
therefore decided to make the appro¬
priation this year $190,000. As the
postmaster-general recommended an cn-
tire discontinuance of tho subsidy there
will be a fight on it in the house, but. ns
this road has received a subsidy
for fourteen years, the chances arc
it will bo continued for a while
yet. Home of the southern and south¬
western congressmen think if Ihe
coast line subsidy is to be continued tho
Piedmont Air-Line, which runs the fast¬
est mail service of any railroad entering
tho south, should likewise receive addi¬
tional compensation. Perhaps an amend¬
ment to thc bill to that effc ;t will be of¬
fered, when it comes up, in either tho
house or the senate. 'I ho Air-Line peo¬
ple claim tDat tticir fast vestibuled addition¬ train
would pay if they received thc
al mail compensation allowed tho coast
line. The New Orleans, fezes and Cen¬
tral and South Ainarican mails go over
this line. They are important, and by
the fust train ou tho Piedmont Air-Line
one day is saved in the lime to Mexican
and Central and South American coun¬
tries.
SCENES OF DEVASTATION
As Witnessed in the Overflowed Bottoms
of the Tom hi ghee River.
Further news of the devastation in tho
flooded districts in Mississippi is given
in telegrams of Friday. Tho reports
from the flood-stricken regions confirm
ail heretofore sfi i and as the waters in
the Tombigliec and its tributaries’ bot¬
toms recede, toe destruction is moro fully
realized. Deputy Rherill Crocker, of Lee
county, is reporte i as s lying that he was
a passenger on the first Mobile and Ohio
train that crossed the Tombigbce river in
eight days. At that point half a mile of
truck has been w-ohed out and carriod a
mile, whore it lodged against trees. He
also says the published reports do not
give half nn idea of tho wreck and ruin
to Lowndes, Clay and Moaroc counties.
Houses, fences and bridges are alt gone.
Thousands of dead horses, mules, c ittle,
hogs, sheep, p ultry and occasionally the
body of a negro can bo seen in every di¬
rection.
The Warrior river in Alabama, just
across the line, rose forty-seven feet in
four hours. He relate* many incidents
of personal suffering these among the negroes,
with whom bottoms w>re thickly
settled, and upon whom the mad torrents
decended with torrible fury, wiping
homes and families out of existence.
'1 lie city of Columbus is feeding 500
refugee*, but telegraphs Governor 8tone
that they doubt the wisdom of asking
government aid, though they would like
a few hundred tents for shelter. Wa er
is falling in (he Yazoo and Big Black
rivers in the western portion of the state,
and tbe danger of immediate serious
overflow there is about over and trains
are running.
JUDGE MAYNARD UPHELD
In His Decision Regarding thc Con¬
tested Election Cases.
A dispatch from ^Ybany, N. Y., says:
Pne majority ard minority reports of tbe
presented Maynard invts'igating committee were
to tne legislature Mynday
night. lliemaj rity report, signed by
democratic members of tbe committee,
contained about six thousand w< rds. It
says that all that Judge Maynar l did he
did as an honorable,upright and conscien-
lious lawyer, and recommends ’lie adop-
tion of resolution* endorsing th • action
ofj udge Maynard in taking the Dutchess
county returns from the eonip roller’*
office, H..d a so endorsrs thc action of the
state board of canvassers in determining
the four contested election casts.
The minority report, signed by repub¬
licans, was about twelve thousand word*
long and reviewed the litigating in the !
election case. It characterized Mavna.1T j
action in connect! n with the Duchess !
closes county with returns resolution as a criminal demanding act, and his j |
a |
removal from the court of a: orals bench.
MORE COAL CREEK TROUBLE |
“The Convicts ami Troops Most Ko
When the Leaves tome Out.” i
A Knoxville t legam of Saturday says: j
Tiie trouble at Coal Creek continues. I
Jhe firing on the troops by the miners
has probably brought a long impending j
crisis. At Maddox, Camp Anderson, telegraph
operator, is missing. A hint j
was dropped by the miners some days ago
that the troop; and coavicts would h»Te I
to go “when the leaves come out.” All
miners have qui’ work and trouble i* '
th I
looked for ever? moment.
NO. 13.
FOSTER WINS,
He Anti-Lottery Crowd Victorious ii
the Louisiana Election.
TUE WIND-UP or AN EXOITTNO TWO
TEARS’ CAMPAIGN IN THE PELICAN
STATE.
A New Orleans dispatch of Tuesday
says: The election which was held
throughout Louisiana Tuesday was the
most important in the state since the
famous ona of 1879, which decided the
presidency, and it may indeed have
equally important effects, not on Louisi-^
ana alone, but on the whole union; for
although it is purely has a been state deeply contest,
the whole country in-
teiested in the campaign and has con-
tributed liberally to it. All the mdica-
tions are that the split now existing in
the democratic party of Louisiana is a
permanent one like that in Virginia
over the state debt. There were five full
tickets : n the field as follow*:
Anti-lottery (now claiming to- ba the
regular democrats)—Governor, M. J.
Foster; lieutenant governor, Charles Par*
lanae; secretary of state, T. 8. Adams;
auditor, W. W. Heard; treasurer, John
Pickett; attorney general, of M. J. Cun¬ edu¬
ningham; superintendent public
cate n, A. D. LaFarguc.
McEnery democrats (formerly regu¬
lars)—Governor, S. I). Wiokliffe; McEnery; lieuten¬
ant governor, R. C. secrctnry
of state, L. F. Mason; auditor, 0. B.
fcfteele; treasurer, Gabriel Montegut; at¬
torney general, It. W. Sutherlin; sup erin-
tendeut of public education, J. V. Cal-
houn.
Regular republicans—Governor, A. H.
Leonard; lieutenant governor, II. D.
Coleman; secretary of state, T, Voisin,
colored; auditor, C. A. Fcntellieu;
treasurer, O. B. Darrell; attorney-gen-
end, John Yolst; superintendent of
public education, L. Martinet, entered.
Custom house republicans—Governor,
J. E. Breaux; lieutcnant-govcruor, J. C.
Weaks; secretary of state, J. E. Slates,
colored; auditor, 8. K. Gay; treasurer.
James Lewis, colored; attorney-general, pub¬
J. M. Edwards; superintendent of
lic education, J. Barret.
People’* paity—Governor, R. L. Tan-
nerhill; lieutenant governor, J. J. Mills;
secretary of stato, T), McStravick; audi¬
tor, John Hendricks; treasurer, John
Mahoney; ' attorney gentral, Wado
Hough; superintendent of public educa¬
tion, J. D. Patten.
The campaign preceding this election
has been th# longest ever waged in gny
state. It has been carried on for twenty-
five months without amomeut’s interrup¬
tion. During all this long period of over
two years there hss not been a single day
without mass meetings, conventions, bar¬
becues, etc. The peopio are tired out,
and even busincss-is fatigued by the long
strain, while the’cost has impoverished
both democratic factions. One of them,
it is said, had to draw on tho Louisi¬
ana State Lottery aud .wfirnt ■ over n a
million dollars in legitunato politi¬
cal purposes; while the other, or
anti-lottery wing, depended on tho con¬
tributions raised in New York, Boston
and other cities to support their fight
against the lottery, and but for this as
sistance it would have been compelled
to retire from the political which field, by curi¬ Thu
strength of this faction, a
ous succession of events has become the
regular democracy of the state, came
altogether from the outside.
When the anti-lottery movrment was de-
organized it was very weak, It was
feated in the legislature two to one, and
was beaten in every contest in the state.
It appealed to tho north, however, and
received both sympathy and financial
aid, and finally,'by of its the importunities, anti-lottery
secured the passage
postal law which dealt the regular
democracy a frightful blow.
The latteT, however, was magnificently
organized; it carried on the fight, won
the state by a majority of 14,736 in tbe
democratic elections of November and
December and nominated a full stato
ticket. The anti-lottery demoern’s
bolted, as was expected, and also nomi¬
nated a state ticket.
As for the lottery question which is
the cause of all this division and confu¬
sion it has dropped completely out of the
campaign, and every one of the tickets,
democratic the as constitutional well as republican, emendment wire
against the charter ex¬
tending of the lottery com¬
pany lor twenty-nve years $1,250,*000. at a payment
of an annual license of
The election throughout the state and
city of New Orleans parsed off without
a serious disturbance anywhere as far as
heard from. It will be a long time be¬
there fore the result be is officially known, but
can no doubt of the election ol
Foster, anti-lottery democrat, over Leon-
ard and Breaux, republicans, and Mc-
Enery, democrat. This result has been
brought about by the overwhelming ma-
joritiea for Foster in the big negro par-
isnes of expected north'T.ou'.siana, for These Leonard. pamKrs And
were to go
both the republicans and JleEeery dem-
ocrats charge fraud. The returns, unof
fieial, from thirty-four parishes, includ-
jog New Orleans, and which cast two-
thirds ot the vote of the state, show
Foster, anti-lottery dem crat, 49,100.
Leonard, regular republican, 37,600:
McEnery, democrat, 37,400; Breaux,
custom house republic—, 7,200; Tanner-
hill, people’s p rty, 3,200.
THE VOTB ANALYZED,
„ Mc |°frj’« strength Ia f he lies coun principally f r V H.J.'iT in
-
^ ‘^ behind . . Marcfi.
The , P*^ to hes «l! e n0 ‘ - V< * ^“T^rTl 3’ 4 ™’ /In H
^ooo. IBs cen¬
tral committee claims the election Lj
25,090 to 30,090. The result in thi
"te
legislature, and increase thHt of the anti
lottery democrats who, however, wil
scircely have an actual regulardemocratii mijority.
In New Orleans the
ticket, headed by Fitzpatrick majority for nuyor, *t hi
^tns by about 4,500_ democratic over
independent or anti-lottery
ticket. New Orleans will send a
solid McEnery delegation to ^
turs. The famous lottery at endmeot t
the state constitution was defeated ^ unan
imously, not receiving a rote in tbeslM*