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second-class mad m ittcr.
Warned by the recent floods in the
West, several persons in tiia vicinity of
large rivers have erected the r houses on
“wannigans.” These are flat-bottomed
boats, on which the house is expected to
float in case the river disturbs the founda¬
tion.
Th* figures heretofore given out of the
total population of the United States
were close approximations c-nly, and did
not include Alaska and some of tae In-
dian tribes, The count has now been
completed and verified, and the total
population is officially stated to 62.9/9,-
766.
Justice Thompson, of Greenfield, has
hart to undertake the somewhat difficult
task of deSoing drunkenness in the Su¬
perior Court, chronicles the New York
Sun. He laid it down that becau-e a
man, as a result of drinking, was unduly
patriotic, or had been stimulate l to the
ixpression of pious or sacred seHtiments,
or had awakened his faculty for jest and
humor, he was not necessarily to be con¬
sidered drunk. Finally, the Judge de¬
clared that a man was drunk when he
had lost control of his physical and men¬
tal faculties.
Among the other great things in this
country, the number of its high moun¬
tains is a remarkable feature. Including
those of Alaska, there are 360 mountains
in the United States each exceeding
10,000 feet in height. Most are in the
Rocky and Sierra Nevada ranges, and
the greatest number are found in Colo¬
rado and Utah. In Alaska, however,are
the highest, there being in that Terri¬
tory five which each exceed 15,000 feet,
and Mount Elias, also in Alaska and
19,500 feet high, is the loftiest peak in
the United States territory.
Two Southern women, who are the
editors of the Arkansas Women’s Chroni¬
cle, have recently achieved a remarkable
feat in local politics. At the school
election in Little Rock there were two
tickets in the field. The Woman’s
Chronicle split the tickets, taking the
best man from each side. Although it
poured all day long, more than 3000
votes were cast as against 800 at the last
election, and the split ticket was elected
by an emphatic majority. The bravery
sf this action can the better be appro¬
bated, says the New York Commercial
Advertiser, when it is added that both
women are school teachers, and t>y pur¬
suing the course they did they jeopar¬
dized their positions in event of defeat.
Among the stories of Herr Forken-
beck, the late chief burgomaster of Ber¬
lin, which are being revived in this. Ai
President of the North German Reichstag,
he was sent in 1871, with Von Stauffen-
berg, to Versailles, to congratulate tbi
Prussian King upon his election as Ea-
peror. Bismarck, who had just con¬
cluded the terms of peace with France,
invited them to supper; and at that re
past the Kaiser's chief counselor said:
“This night, at 12 o’clock, the las!
shots will be exchanged between oui
troops and the French, and I have con¬
ceded to the French the honor of the
last shot.” Forckenbeck and his col¬
league left their host before midnight,
drew out their watches, stood under¬
neath a lantern of the Hotel du Reser¬
voir and waited. First, there was a
cannon-shot from the German troops,
then a solemn stillness. Then followed
the last reply from Mont Valerien. The
tower-clock at Versailles struck twelve;
the French War had ended.
The scientists representing the Sat
Francisco Academy of Sciences, who
went on an exp.dition of research into
Lower California, returned the other day
with rich collections of bugs, bones,
plants, and with baskets, earthen ware,
and other products of the Indians who
people the peninsula. “The populat idea
about Lower California, that it is a dry,
desert-like region,” says Professor Eisen,
the entomologist ot the party, “is an in¬
correct one. The lower part of the pen¬
insula is not only a tropical country, but
an exceedingly interesting and fertile
one, covered with trees and rich vege¬
tation. The valley about San Jose del
Cabo is irrigated by the largest river in
the peninsula, carrying 1500 feet of water
in tbe dryest season. Picturesque mount¬
ains rise on either side, and the valley is
filled with field of cotton, beans, maize,
etc. There is a great variety of tropical
fruits, palms and trees of many kinds,
and the whole valley is a mass of ric-h
vegetation.” Among the new trees seen
was a variety of cottonwood called the
“juerigo” (botanical name, populus
mooticoia), which is tall, straight, with
a light green foliage and a rose-colored
wood, valuable for cabinet purposes.
Seeds of this tree will be planted in Cali¬
fornia. The baskets brought home were
made out of the leaves of the yucca
plant, and are watertight. The Indians
boH food in them by dropping hot
atones into the water used.
The Government has outstanding flf
318,000,000 in credit money.
*
Canned tomatoes seem to have found
'avor in England, where both the Ameri*
:au and French products Sad a market.
The California Fruit-Grower says that
oineapple growing in that State has not
is yet reached such proportions as t*
ustify the statement that it can be mads
i success.
_
In many cases on the Continent there
ire no tolls whatever levied upon th«
canals, and in others the charges are
nereiy nominal. So much is this th*
case in France that the amount of traffie
ilong the canals and rivers is rapidly
increasing, until now the quantity of
n erchaDdise entering and leaving Paris
bv waterway is more than a third of that
conveyed by rail.
Great Britain, Germany, Denmark,
Norway and Sweden, Portugal, Turkey,
Brazil and Canada are gold-standard
countries. Austro-IIungary, Russia,
China, Mexico, India, all the Central
Ainer.can Nations, with Bolivia, Colom¬
bia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela have
the silver standard. Trie Unite 1 States,
France. Italy, Spain, Greece, Belgium,
Switzerland, the Argentine Republic,
Chile and Japan are under the double
standard, and Austro-llungary, accord¬
ing to the Boston Transcript, is prepar¬
ing to come over into this group.
The ancient port of Old Harbor Island,
of Jamaica, West Indies, which was a
place of considerable importance a hun¬
dred years before New York was settled
by the Dutch, was reopened a week or
two ago. Old Harbor was the first port
established in Jamaica by the Spaniards
soon after the discovery of the island by
Columbus on his second voyage in 1494,
and was for a considerable period the
principal port of the island. One of the
inlets of the harbor is called Galleon
Bay, and it is stated that the Spaniards
built a number ol ships there, The
vicinity has many reminiscences of
Columbus in the names of bays and in¬
cidents connected with the great dis¬
coverer. Old Harbor port was closed by
;he British in the present century. It is
i couple of miles from the railway, and
lor many years the trend of trade had
eft it practically deserted. The people
>f the port are talking great things
ibout a renewed prosperity for the his¬
torical spot.
The claim that gold is to be found in
Arkansas has often been made and as
often ridiculed. There is a tradition,
relates the New York Post, that many
years ago a mine was opened in one of
the border counties by a prospector who
died before he could obtain capital to
work the ore or would divulge the secret
of where it could be found. It is an un¬
disputed fact that some years ago the
New Orleans papers contained advertise¬
ments offering a large sum of money tor
evidence of the location of the abandoned
pockets, which came to be known, per¬
haps, because they were supposed to be
jn the border line of Louisiana, as the
“Lost Louisiana Mines.” Interest in the
matter has recently been revived by the
discovery of particles of gold in an exca¬
vation among the mountains of Mont¬
gomery County, and the finder jumped
to the conclusion that he had come upon
the “lost” mines. Professor Banner, the
State Geologist, was asked to test the
ore, but he refused to do so, saying that
“there were no gold or silver-bearing
mines in Arkansas.” A company bought
the land surrounding the excavation, set
up machinery, and has persuaded the
State officials to promise to make a test
of the ore, the claim being made that it
bean gold in paying, if not abundant,
quantities.
In the past, asserts the Century Maga¬
zine, good reasons have rendered it im¬
possible to make the weather service of
very great value to the fanner. In the
main its work has been the preparation
of the familiar predictions, which have
been made for large areas. At present
the areas selected are single States. The
predictions are made by an officer in
Washington to whom observations are
reported from a large number of stations
situated in various parts of the country.
He glances over these reports, noting the
places where rain has fallen, and the net¬
work of temperatures and barometic
pressure; sees how the conditions have
been changing since the last predictions
were made; and, perhaps with scarcely
lime to weigh the reasons for his conclu-
lions, makes np his predictions in regard
k> the weather of the immediate future.
He can give but a very small amount of
time—perhaps two minutes—to each
State. The work of forecasting the
weather must be divided, and, in addi¬
tion to the general predictions from
Washington, we must have local predic¬
tions prepared by officers in charge of
small districts. Such officers have already
been appointed by the Secretary of Agri¬
culture, and their number will doubtless
be increased when the usefulness of their
work is shown. This, however, can not
be fully demonstrated until, by the cheap¬
ening of telegraph and telephone service,
and by the extension of free mail deliv¬
ery, effective means are found for carry¬
ing the predictions to the farmer in time
for his use. The present work of the
local observers is of service in perfecting
their methods, and their forecasts are of
great usefulness to the farmers who can
be reached; but their full value can never
x realized until it is possible to put
;hem promptly into the hands oi all the
farmers who can use vaem.
NEWS IS GENERAL.
Happenings ol lie Day Called from Oar
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER¬
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
A New York dispatch says: The
American District messenger boy* went
on a strike Tuesday morning.
Anarchists Csuer and Knold were ad¬
mitted to bail in $5,000 each at Pitts¬
burg, Tuesday. The bonds have not yet
been approved.
Judge A New Y'ork dispatch issued of Tuesday order says:
Larcombe has an
continuing H- nry E. Howland as receiver
of the Florida Construction Company.
Return of triennial elections held in
provinces of France Monday for mem¬
bers of councils general have been re¬
ceived at Paris from 1,132 districts.
They show a republican gain of 110
seats.
A New York dispatch says: In accord¬
ance with the resolution passed at a re¬
cent meeting of the Richmond Terminal
advisory committee, default was made on
the interest of 6 per cent bends
which was due Monday.
The deputy and acting comptroller of
the currency on Monday declared the
first dividend of 35 per cent in favor of
tho creditors of the First National bank,
of Palatka, Fla., on claims proved,
amounting to $261,550.
Ex-United States Senator Anthony
Kennedy, aged eightv-two years, died at
Annapolis. Md., Sunday morning. Sena
tor Kennedy has been in feeble health
for a long time, but the superinducing late
cause was the excessive heat of the
torrid spell.
The thirty-third or upper union mills
in Pittsburg started up non union at 4
o'clock Monday morning. The plate mill
is running, and operation. the other department guard
appear to be in A of
police is about the property and no
trouble has occurred.
A cablegram of Monday from St. Pe¬
tersburg, Russia, states that cholera has
made its appearance in the prison at
Tomsk, the capital of the government of
that name in West Siberia. Already ten
cases cf the disease and eight deaths
have been reported by the prison au¬
thorities.
It was reported at St. Louis that a lim¬
ited express, east-bound, on the Big
Four, which left that city at 4 o’clock
Monday afternoon, collided with a freight
train at Eiwardsville Junction, III., the
engineer and fireman being killed and a
large number of passengers being injured,
several fatally.
Operations at the Champion iron mines
at Marqu tte, Mich., suspended Monday
momiog for an indefinite period and the
entire force of 600 employes discharged.
The suspension is due, it is said, to the
fact that the company is unable to mark¬
et its ore, which is of a quality that is
crowded out of the market by cheaper
ore.
A Pirisburg dispatch says: Joseph
Driver, with three companions, who ar¬
rived at Homestead Saturday, left there
Tuesday reas'on evening. for leaving Driver declares because that he
ms was
knew there were two cases of smallpox
am'-ng the non unionists in the mill. In
this statement his companions bore him
out. They claim the bodies were buried
in the the yard. Superintendent Polk denies
story.
Informations were made at Pittsburg,
Monday afternoon before Aldmerman
Reilly by ex Private lams against Colo¬
nel Hawkins, Lieutenant Colonel Streater
and Assistant Surgeon Grim,of the Tenth
regiment, for aggravated assault and bat¬
tery. Warrants were issued. The charge
of aggravated assault was for tying
lams up by the thumbs and the assault
and battery for ehaving his head.
Lieutenant Colonel Streater was ar¬
rested at his home in Washington, Pa.,
Tuesday afterno n on charges of aggra-
vated assault and battery and assault and
bath ry preferred by Private lams. Col¬
onel Streater went before a justice and
waived luaring for an appearance at the
September term of court in Pittsburg.
He cave bail in $500 on each charge aud
was re'eased. Colonel Hawkins was not
arrested, as he is still on duty at Home¬
stead.
A New Y'ork dispatch of Monday says:
The strike in the building trades, which
began by the union men quitting work
on the new criminal court building, where
the Jackson Architectural Iron Company
employed non-union men, has assumed
alarming proportions. In retaliation for
this strike the Iron League, to which or¬
ganization the Jackson company belong¬
ed, locked out all iron workers. Then
walkirg delegates ordered strikes
throughout the building trades.
The usual monthly statement prepared
by the treasury was issued Tuesday. The
figures are as follows: Aggrt'gate cash in
the treasury, $783,979,280; net cash bal¬
ance, $27,050,286; increase during the
month, $357,909; decrease of interest
and non-interest bearing debt,
$398,905; decreaso of certificates and
treasury no - es outstanding, $509,051;
total certificates and treasury notes out¬
standing, $619,675,803, offset by an
equal amount of cash in the treasury; net
debts, $967,378,935.
Telegrams of Monday from Spokane,
Wash., state that Indians on the Colville
reservation threaten an outbreak. The
Indians sre greatly incensed at the fail¬
ure of the au horities to eject prospect-
tors, and even those who have heretofore
have been peaceably dispose!, seem to
have caught the infection from others
and all are armed. The removal of all
intruders would settle the trouble, and
Indian Agent Cole has received official
notification that troops will be placed at
his disposal for this purpose.
Advices of Friday from Madison,
Wis., state that the constitutionality of
the recent democratic reapportionment
will be tested in the supreme court in
August. The paper, which is to be served
on Attorney-General O’Connor will be in
the form of a petition, signed by some
private citizens asking the attorney-gen-
i re I to institute action, and of course, if
tl e attorney-general refusts, action can
tie brought in the name of the private
•iiiz n himself. No steps have been
•nkiii >s yet in regard to un-tating the
.. -I ,n- r <• naf-r-
After John Chinaman.
A disp.teh of Thursd-y from B»is
City, Idaho, s.ys: The police have or¬
dered . 11 tbe Jap nese residents to have
;o«d immediately. At Namp» 'he
Chinese were ordered to leave, and tb< y
departed on the first train. A number
of Japanese escaped rom the smallpox
camp at Nampa and flocked to Boi* City,
but they were soon sei.t out of town.
Much uneasiness is felt th»t the smallpox
will spread to the city.
THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH.
Progress and Improvement Recorded
for the Past Week.
Ib it* review o' the industrisl gjtusfieu in
■he Souih during the past week, The Chatta¬
nooga Tradesman Mates that iu reoorts re¬
ceived from correspondents at all important
points in tbe Southern States, are lo the effect
that much attention is directed to the condi-
ti-■ and pr-spects of the new crop of cotton.
In the northern portion of the cotton area^ the
reports are to the effect that a brekward piau’-
ing time, heavy rains which prevcntol cultiva¬
tion, and. in the river valleys the re- ent exten¬
sive oveiflows will cau-e the making of a great¬
ly decreased c 1 op. The hot weather which has
generallv prevailed d iring the week is doing
good, but lias come too late to be of much help
in manv sectiom-
In the southern manufacturing, m n ng an 1
iron pr -dneing centers it is reported that th-re
is no change in the steady demand for and no
special increase in the output. Ihere is a
mark-d increase in the demand for m-ehinery
in every part of the -otrhern state?.
Forty-two nc-w industries are report d as es-
tab ished or incorporated during the week, to¬
gether with four eu argem nts of manufacto-
riee, ai d 16 important new buildings. Among
th- ’new industries repored are a 5 , 100,'«X) and brick
and tile company a 1 Charlotte, N. C . one
at Angus’a, Ga.. a $500,000 compre-s development c mpany
at Little Rock, Ark., a $ 100,000 capital Cuv-
ci mpany, and one with $50,000 at
ingtnn, Ky., an electrical company with $150,-
UOO capital at L-msvii.e. Ky., and o'hers at
Ka immee, Fla., and Caldwell, Tti. A paving
company with $100,000 capital is reported at
Vicksburg, Miss., paint works at M-mphis, Ky.,
Tenn., powder works at Covington, a
4300.000 sugar refinery »t Iberville, La., and a
tannery at San Au«-tlo, Tex. include
i he textile plants of the week cotton
mills at Chapel Hill, and Durham. N. C.,
Hidgeda e, Tenn., a ticking mill at Charioit-,
N. C., a $500,000 carpet mil. at When ing. \V.
Va., and a $-10,000 c- tton and woolen mill at
Marble Falis, Tex. A $50,000 tobacco factory
is being organiz -d at Mayfield, Ky., lumber
mills are to be built at Ashdown, Ark., Dur¬
ham, N. C.. and Tyler, Tex., furniture fact -
rie, at Cullman, Ala., and Brunson, S. C., and
saw mills at Thomson, Gs., and Cumberland
City, Tenn. works be bnilt at Alexandria, .
a er are to
La.. Shelbyville, an! Harriman, Tenn., and
Caldwell and Palestine, Texas. to be
The cotton nulls at 1 renton, Tenn.. are
en arged a? are the lumber mills at New Berne,
N. C., and Wheeling, W. Va.
Among tbe new buildings of the week a s
business houses at Ocala, Fla., Van Buren,Ark.,
and Koanoke, Va., churches at D catur, Ala.,
and Oxford, N. C., a $50,000 college bail ing
a Atlanta, Ga., and others at Newp -rt, Ky ,
Jonesboro, Ark., and Greenville, Ala , a $!0,-
000 depot at Milan, T nn , and a governm ut
building at Tallahassee, Fla.
TRADE REVIEW.
Dun & Co.’s Report of Business for tbe
Fast Week.
R G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: 'Ihe extreme hot weather
for tlie entire week has checked many
kinds of bu?ine.‘8, lut hra not prevented of
considerable excess in the volume
trade over that of last year. At the same
time the weather has been extremely fa¬
vorable for growing crops, except in the
limited districts where damage has been
done by violent storms, aud the crop
out ook is decidedly improving. iron
The great interruption of the and
steel manufactures at the wi st continues,
but there are distinct signs of a favorable
settlement. Fu ished products of iron
and steel ar: stronger—$3 to $5 higher,
but great demora izaticn is expected in
pig iron unless more of the consuming
works start speedily. Bar and sheet iron
are very active, and the manufacturers of
plite and stuictuial iron have more ordeis
t-ian they can well handle, hut no iin
provt nn nt is seen in rails.
Boot aud sUo« shops are luuniug full
of business, and shipments exceed last
year’s eve 1 y week; being for the ye»r,
thus far, 2,056.000 casts, against 1,967,-
000 to date last year. The shipments of
hides from Chicago have been 110,000,-
000, against 97,000,000 pounds last year.
At Baltimore the hot weather retards
much trade, though in dr\ goods and
boots and shoes and furnishing g- ods it
exceeds last year’s. At P.ttsburg the
products of steel and iron grow stronger.
A little improvement appears at Memphis
and Little Rock
Trade is dull at New Orleans, though
the prospects are bright there, and at
Savannah ttie receipts of cotton are light
and tbe exports are slightly more than
last year, but the sales of plantation
stock for the we> k exceeds the sales of
tangible and visible cotton about ten to
one, aggregating 7,000,000 bales.
The busine s failures occurring
throughout the countiy during the last
week, as rep Tted to R. G Dun & Co.,
number for the United Stab s 171.
COLUMBUS DAY.
Great Interest Taken in the Approach¬
ing Celebration.
The approaching celebr .tion of Colum¬
bus Day by the 13,000,000 pupils in
American public schools, is attracting
general attention . From prominent ed¬
ucators, from eminent statesmen in high
places and from the humblest citizens
come words of commendation. It appeals
to all classes and conditions becau e it
touches the institution which is closest to
the people, most representative of the
people and fullest of hop ■ for the fu ure.
Several thousand American newspapers
have championed the movement. A
bill recently passed congre-s authorizing
and instructing President Harrison to is¬
sue a proclamation making ColumbusDay,
October 21st, a general holiday, and rec¬
ommending to the people a fitting ob¬
servance of this 400th anniversary of
America’s discovery,in all their localities;
in their school houses and other plac« s
of assembly. Speaker Crip, when asked
a few days aga, “what do you think of
the movement for a national celebration
of Columbus Day,” replied: “The idea
of giving the general celebration of Co¬
lumbus D iy into the hands of the public
schools impresses me very favorably. The
public school is certainly the most char¬
acter! s’ic product of the 400 years r.f
American life. The pub ic school stands
for the spirit of enlightenment which has
b»en the mark of life in this country.
The public school may have its defects,
but take it ail in all, it is a superb
thing.
THE MAFIA AGAIN.
A Strange Letter Received by the Chief
of Police of New Orleans.
Chief of toiice Garter of New Orleans,
received a letter Saturday from what is
supposed to be the Mafij. Following is
th>- letter:
New Orleavs, July 29.—To Chief of Police
G» ter: We have in oar r>n*se-sion Juice Marr.
Will deliver him in yonr hands f >r $500, or wi.l
libera: him f r $1,000. We will send voa his
old clothes, etc., sncli as we fonnO C r. his per¬
son, bu: b »r in mind, by on? bad br ak au¬
thorial by yo 1 . his body wil be r.ddled with
shot; then sent >ou fo a preseir. Thi- monev
ram: reach u- before twenty dais, unless y,,u
wiil have hig right ear. For farther informa¬
tion ad tress gen rai delivery, po-toffies, Chi-
St. Loui- New Orleans '
cag ., or
Respectfully, P. J. Me <XEZ.
It will tie remembered that Judge Marr,
of the criminal district court in New
Orleans, mysteriouslv disappeared last
April. He was old and feeble, and was
last seen walking along th*- eve**. Tne
impression faiien of his friends was that he had
into the river and was drowned,
and that imDruiico iti.i Dr<v*iii.
XUe DEADLY HEAT.
The Highest Death Rate Known ia
Twenty Yeirs.
TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SIX DEATHS
IN NEW YORK CITY IN ONE DAY —
MORTALITY IN PHILADELPHIA.
During _ . twenty four , . hours, ending
•
noon Saturday, 286 deaths were rep rted
in New York city. This is tne heaviest
death rate for a'sinele day for twenty
The numbertor U»
week wa9 1,434, the heaviest since Ju y
6. 1876. when 1,581 deaths were reported
for the week endin" that day. Prostra-
tionsfrom beat among workmen oi the
\\ Uliamsburt! refineries ; lor .
sugar „
week exceeded 600 O...y two of toe
lartve sugar homes are in full operation,
Havemever’s j -if establishraeni employs near Of
ly odc thousand four » ,,, hundred hundred mpn men. U
these more than four hundred, or nea, ‘V
33 per cent, were carried out during the
week. The Brook yn su^ar refinery em-
ploys J 450 men. Of these between seven-
v and , hundred , , , compelled to to
i J one wete
quit work and have been replaced by new
mvn, as were those in the Havemeyer
sngar ° house.
GREAT MORTALITY IN PHILADELPHIA.
The effect of the terrible heat of the
was pas’ Startlingly week to ,h, shown city by ol tbe HiitoJ.lphto weekly re—
port made Saturday by the board of
healih During the w eek ended at 10
o'clock Saturday, Health Officer Veale
towt *» ™. I. •
gre ater mortality than h is ever been re—
corded by the officers before. This death
rate is even greater than when epidemics
or grlpp. ™I cholera, .m.llpo. «
diphtheria scourged the city.
COOLER IN' BALTIM )RE.
The weather at Biltiroore Saturl.y, was
about eight degrees cooler on an avenge
thin that of Friday, but deaths and pros-
trations from heat during the day were
nearly »s numerous as those .. on any other ,h.,
of the protracted hot sped, ihe report the
of the city healih commissioner for
week o’ivts the following facta: Total
number of deaths for the __\ week, 457 ;
under , five year*, .24, ^ otn su r0 .. n
--• >
51; choiera infantum, 89; convulsions,
18. The numb r of deuhs for tbe cor-
respon iin« week of 1891 was 207, or 250
!be Ipsa “ ihnn for the mmTabty week 'ia ins attribuld ended and
by
the health commissioner to be uoparai
leled heat here. Never before in the
history of the city have tnere be n so
m.nj deaths duiiog tt.
time.
SHE IS INSANE.
S. U, lb. Jury to the Ulee 9ftrb.il
Murder Case.
A Memphis, Tenn., dispatch siys: A
large crowd was in alt' ndance at the
criminal court Saturday, it being an¬
nounced that Judge Du Bose would de¬
liver the charge to the jury in the famous
Allc. Mitdbell ewe, n.urler... ol Fr.d.
Ward. The defendant appearc i calm
and collected during the reading of th*
charge, the time occupied in its delivery
being fifteen minutes; the question of
sanity or insanity of the prisoner at the
time of the trial being the only question
considered. The jury retired at 9:30
and at 9:50 o’clock filed into the court-
room with tbe fo.lowiuo verdict:
“We the imv D find Q the a. ti fondant lenuant,
Alice » Mitchell, insane, and J believe it
would endanger the safety of the com-
munitv to set her at Lib rty.”
Alice Mitchell was then remanded to
,b.« r dy «i ,he .id .i,i i.
ordered placed in an insane asylum,
Should she be released as sane at any
time she can then be placed upon trial on
the charge * ® of murder, as she wus only }
trie . . , 1 to her mentsl >undness ,
as s or un—
soun ine-s at the time of her trial, the
question f the as to commission her mental condition st the
time i of the homicide
»c b.i.g .o„ch„d « P o„ d U ,i ng Uhl,
now concluded.
When the verdict was read by the clerk
a faint smile spread over the defendants’
featu-esasif she had t e-n confident of
th,- jury’s verdict ,hr ugbout the entire
trial, bae was f aken to jail, g&yly chat-
ting as she went, and will be sent thence
to one of the state insane asylums.
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEES,
_ Lxaeati and I
ve ainpaign, as
by Chairman Harrity.
After several cays’ deliberation and
conference with Calvin S. Brice, William
C. Whitney and Gov. James E. Camp¬
bell, Chairman Harrity. of the demo¬
cratic national committee, announced,
Friday afternoon, the national
-md campaign committees. They are
follows:
Executive Committee—M. F Tarpey,
Californ a; ( harles 8. Thomas,
Carles French, Connecticut; Samuel Pas-
coe, Florida; Clark Howell, Georgia; J.
J. Richardson, Iowa; Charles \V. Blair,
Kan.as: Tbo„„, W.totoq.
James Jeffr,e-, Louisiana; Arthur sew-
all, Maine; Arthur P. Gorman, Mary-
lund; Daniel J. Campas, Michigan;
Micba-1 Dore, Minnesota; ? Charles B.
xr Howry, __ ww. Mississippi; . John T ^ G. t, Fra-
ther, Missouri; Alvah W. Sulloway, New
Hampshire; Miles Ross, New Jersey;
William F. Sheehan, Now York; M
BnGe, LJtoiz. Ohio; oamuel Sr tt, , c R. s ott Hovey, s' t Rhode
I-land; Holmes Cummings, Tennessee;
C. T. Pali, Texas; Bradley B Smalley,
Vermont; Basil B Gordon. Viroinia- " ’
William William F. F Harnty, of f Pennsylvania, t> •
chairm-in ex officio; S. P. Sheerin, sec—
retary ex-offi io.
The following compose the campaign
committee: Calvin 8. B'ice, Ohio; A.
P. Gorman Maryland; William F. Siee-
V rk .’ B - B - Smaller, Ver-
tt -
mont, Jl. vv. Kansom, North Caro.fna;
B. T. Cable, Ulin is; E. C. Wall, Wts-
cousin; Josiah Quincy, Massachusetts- ’
W. F. Harnty, Pennsylvania.
onrvr, POOR ALICE ,, MITCHELL .
While on Her Way to the Asylum Shedi
Tears OTer Freda Ward’s GraTe.
Tbe last scene in the famous Alic«
Mitchell case was enacted Monday a when i,
.. me insan- . murderess J
the insane asylum was conveyed to
Before leaving at Bolivar, Tenn.
the citv a carriage I1»W con-
lb, pr „ r „ halted a.
m,„, „i,h . cup a of cals. the. Hr,.,.
ing them away p-tulently with “Oh, you
can go, I don’t love you anymore.”
Reaching Freda Ward’s grave in Elm-
mother alighted from the carriage. Alice
aid nothing, but evidently was under
strong emotion. Her meditation was not
interruptid by tbe other members of the
party. She moved around the little
.id, op,..
a.,,,,., flowers, so, which ..“VoX'Td p,°Js
some she placed tastefully
and then she announced she was ready
to return
REV. DR. TALMAGE
rHE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: ‘ •Preeminence. ”
Thxt: "He that cometh from, above U
mbov* all .”—John iii., 31.
The most cons icuous character of history
gteps out upon tbe platform. The finger
which, Him diamonded with light, pointed only down
to from the Bethlehem sky was a
ratification of the finger of prophecy, the
in one direction. Christ is the overtopping
figure of all time. He is the vox hu liana iu
ail music, the gracefuiest line in ali sculp-
ture. and shades the most exquisite mingling of lights all
in all painting, the acme ot
climaxes, tbe dome of all cathedraied grand*
eur and the peroration of all splendid ian-
guage. he of
t Greek alphabet is made up twenty-
four letters, and when Christ compared
Himself to the first letter and the last letter,
the alpha aDd the omega, He appropriated
t 0 Himself alt the splendors that you can
spelt out either with those two “I letters the Alpha anl
al! letters between them. am
and the Omega, toe beginning ” anu tne end,
[he flrst auJ the Ust >, 0r _ lf 0 u prefer the
nf thfi t _ xt ^ “above ail.”
it means, after you have piled np all Al-
pine and Himalayan altitudes, the glory ot
Christ would have to spread its wings and
descend a thousand leagues to touca those
summits. Peiior., a high mountain of Thes-
"Si'l
w ^en the giants warred aga n?t the gods
they piled up these three mountains, and
from the top of them propose.! to scale tae
heavens; but the height was not great
SH&SifS liapnaelau
prophetic and apostolic cianis; c.ierubim l
Michael Angelo, artistic giants;
and seraphim and archangel, celestial
SSSSS^JMfSl^JfJK 2
the words ot the text and say, “He that
coineth from above is above all.”
homiletics scattered through the world that
all laymen, as well as all clergymen, have
made up their minds what sermons ought to
be. Tnat sermon is most effectual wm n
mQ3t pomtedly puts forth ctiristi a3 the
pardon of all sin and the correction of all
evil, individual, social, political. National,
There is no reason why we should r.ng tbe
endless changes onla few phrases. There are
those who thiak that if an exhortation or a
discourse have troquent mention of justifi-
cation, sanctification, covenant of works
and covenant of grace, that therefore it
must be profoundly evangelical, while they
are suspicious or a discourse which presents
*»«,, but under different phrase-
Kuw, I say there is nothing in all the opu-
lent realm of Angio-Sixonism or all the
word treasurers that we inheritei from tue
ious discussion. Christ sets the example.
; His illustrations were from the gras?, the
flowers, the spittle, the saive, the barnyard
iowi, the crystals of salt, as weii as from the
pit address to be put on the limits.
I know that there is a great deal said in
our day against words, as though they were
nothing. They may be misu-ed, but they
have an imperial power. They are the
bridge between soul and soul, between Al-
mighty Godaud tae human race. What did
SS
Words> 0 ut of what did Christ strike the
spark for the lltumination of the universe?
| j light Out of words. Of “Let thought there be is light,” the cargo and
was. course
SithSS the"ship?
\v hat you need, my friends, in all your
worn, in your Sabbath schxil class, m your
retormatory institutiens, and what we all
j need is to to speak enlarge about our God vocaoularv and Const when and we
come
heaveD \v e ride a few old words to death
when there is such illimitable resource,
Shakespeare employed fifteen taousan I dif-
ferent words for dramatic purposes. Milton
employed eight thousand different words lor
s^jsrss-5a”diiS2r
legal purposes, but the most ot us have less
than a thousand words that we can manage,
i less than five hnndred, and that makes us so
: When , forth , ,, the .. love
we come to . set o.
Christ we are going to taka the tenlerest
phraseology wherever we fin! it, and if it
has never been used in that direction betore,
all the more shall we use it. W hen we come
“r*; triumphal •' jaS’gist'Si’KSCiss oratorio and everything
arch and
grand and stupendous. The Frenca navy
have eighteen flags by which they give sig-
! nal i b “t those eigtiteen flags they can put
f
standards of the cross may be lilted into
combinations infinite and varieties everlast-
iu?- And let me say to young men who are
after awhile going to preach Jesus i hrist,
you will have the largest liberty and un¬
limited resource. You only have to present
Christ in your own way.
Jonathan E i wards preached Christ in the
severest argument ever penned, an subiimest 1 aohn
Bunyau preached Christ in the
allegory ever composed. Eiward Bayson,
sick and exhausted, leaned up against th*
side of the pu.pit and wept out his discourse.
W hile George Whitefield, with the mauner.
and the voice, and the start of an actor,
overwhelmed his auditory. It would have
been a different thing if Jonathan E iwards
had tried to write and dream about the pi!-
grim’s progress to the ceiestiat city or Johu
1 Banyan had attempted an essay on the
; Brighter than the light fresher than the
fountains, deeper than the seas are all these
Gospel themes. Song has no melody, flowers
baTe no sweetness, sunset sky has no color
«Gth these glorious themes. Thess
| their 5
fire, and prolucmg revolutions with
their power, lighting up dying beds with
their glory, they are the sweetest thought
the ‘bribing
illustration for the orator, and they ofT^r
j the most intense scene tor the artist, an-1
they are to the embassador of the sky aii eu-
thusiasm. Complete pardon for direct
RUllt - Sweetest comfort tor ghastliest
On, what a gospel to preacn! Christ over
all m it. His birth. His suffering, His mira-
£ les ’ R> s parables, His sweat. His tears. His
b } 03ci . His atonement. His intercession, what
glorious themes? Ho we exercise faith?
Christ is its object. Do we have Jove? It
fastens on Jesus. Have we a fondness for
thechurch? It Is because Christ died for it.
Iave we a ho P 8 of heaven? It is because
^ T ' u " s er went “head, the herald and the fore-
The royalroba of Demetrius -gas so cost-
| y , so beautiful, that after he had put it off
no one ever dared put it on; but this rob?of
Christ, richer than that, the poorest an 1 th?
wa,10st aQ d the worst may wear. “IVhera
^ a ^ ude:1 & race m “y much “ore
u n
“Oh, my sins, my sins,” sail Martin
. Luther to Staupitz; “my
The fact is sms, my sins.”
that the brawny German student
had found a Latin Bibio that bad made him
quake, and nothing else ever did make him
quake; and when he found how. through
Gh ri ?t, he was parJonedatid saved he wrote
to a frienJ, saying: “Come over and 30m
us great and awful sinners saved by the
grace of God. You seem to oe only a
slender sinner, and you don’t much extol the
mercy of 0cd ’ butwe w ho have been such
spiritual trim, "LKl
and that from theroot of the
hair to the tip of the toe you are scarless
“ nd '™ macu: fte? What you ne\! is a look-
naked from the crown of the head to the
sole ot the foot, full of wound? an! putref v-
‘ng sores. No health in us. And then take
that Christ gat here! up all the
not * 8 a * ra,nst us an<1 P ai<i them an! then
""IS Him lo „„
rs
Paul s \ n S jn the dungeon, and under that
K ra< * st - Joha from desolate Patmos heard
the Mast of the aoocalyptic treinnets
ail other caudles have been ,
ier this the sight that gets brigbST snuttej ’’l 45
is
under brighter the unto hard the hoofs perfect of calamity, day; ani ^ jS
pools of woridly enjoyment tar-T-l
trampled into deep mire, at the foot oft
eternal rock the Christian, from runs
granite, kity rimmsd an 1 vine covered a
out the thirst of his soul.
AgaiD, 1 remark thit Christ is above i
in dying alleviation?. I have not any
m
ratby with the morbidity abroai about™
demise arranrod that 1 he Emp-ror of Constantin™
on tne day of his corona-,
the stonemason should come an J consultS
anout his tombs ton - tnat after awhile
wont 1 nee i. And there are men wtioi
monom miacal on the subject oi deaaft,
from think this of it life rh j by less death, they and the more s?
This is unmauiinesi are prepared to.
an not worthy of ?
not worthy of me.
Saladin, the greatest conqueror of ]
dav, while dying, ordered the tunic hei
on hin to be carried after bi3 death »
spear at the head of his army, aud t-iene
soldier, ever an l anon, should stop and*
"B -hold, all that is left of Saladin, j
Emperor and conqueror. Of all tbe St*
he conquered, of did all the he wealth he accnj
late.), shroui.” nothing retain but s
1 have no sympatny with ,
iiehavior or such absurb demonstration, real
with much that we hear uttered in
to departure commonsensical from this life idea to the next. 3
is a on this subj
that you and I need to consider—that in
ure only two s'ylesof departure.
A thousand feet underground, by lighj(
torch, toiling in a miner’s shaft a lean,
rock may fall upon us, and we may
miner’s death. Far out to sea. failingM
the slippery ratlines and broken ou th#U
yards, we may die a sailor’s death brj j
mission of mercy in hospital, amid
bones fever, and reeling die Dhilanthronist’s leprosies and rj3 <jj
we may a
On the field of battle, serving God anjj
country, and the gun die carriage patriot’s may roll oval J
after we ail, may there a only death.
are two styles and] of |
psrture; ths death of tbe righteous
tbe death former. of the w icked, and vre all want to 1 1
Got grmt home! that when You that hour corned
may be at waut the heau
your children kindred surround in yonr hand. You You want j
to you. winij
light on your piilow from ey Y es taat |
long reflects i your love. ou want
room still. You do not want any car
strangers standing around watr-hinj -
You want your kindred from afar to!
your lad prayer. I think that is thet
of all of us. But is that all? Can ear
friends bold us when the billows o! t
come up to the girdle? Can hu-uan i
charm open heaven’s gate? Can hi
hands pilot us through the narrows of 4
into heaven’s haroor? Can an ear
Irion Iship shiel t us from the arrot.
death and in the hour when satan I
practice upon us his infernal archery? j
no, no, no! Alas! poor soul, if that*
Better die in the wilderness, far from
shadow anl from fountain, a Ion ■, van
circling through the air waiting for,
body, unknown it only Christ to men, could and to thrauj halt
burial, say
solitudes, “I wiil never leave tueejT
never forsake thee.” From that pilloi
stone a ladder would soar heaven
angels coming and going; and aero*
solitude and the barrenness would com
sweet notes of heavenly minstrelsy. earthiyi
Toward the last hour of our
donee we are speeding. When I see tin
set I say, “One day less to live.”
tee thaspring blossoms scattered VFhenlj Isay,’
other season gone forever.”
this BiDie on Sabbath night I say, “A
Sabbath departed.” When I bury ah
1 say. “Another earthly attraction yem
ever.” What nim >le feet the yeirs ki
The roebucks and the lightning, decade, rua r i
fast. From decade to from
sky they go at a bound.
There is a place for us, whether m
or not, where you and I will sleep tin
sleep, and the men are now living who
with solemn tread carry us to our ic
place. Aye, it is known in heaven
our departure will be a coronation or ji
isbment. Brighter than a bauquetin;
t rough which the light fee: of tae du
go up and down to the sound of trump
will be the sepulchre through whose ]
the holy light of heaven streamed],
will watch you. He will sen! Hissnp
tuard your slumbering ground unf
Christ’s' behest they shall roll away
itone.
So also Christ is above all in os
The Bible distinctly says that Chris 1
chief theme of the celestial ascriptioi
the thrones facing His throne, all th»>
waved before His face, all the crowns I
at His feet. Cherubim to cherubia, j
phi deemed u to spirit seraphim, shall redeemed recite the spirntj Mil
earthly sacrifice.
Stand on some high hill of heavenf
all the radiant sweep the mostghnU
ject will be Jesus. Myriads gazing* 1
■can of His suffering, in accM*
afterward nreakiug forth into
Tne martyrs, all the passed, purer will forte] sty,
througn which they died.”
is Jesus, for whom we
all tne iiappier for the shipwusi** weat. 1
scourging through which they
••This is the Jesus wnom Cappadocia, we P| l
at Corinth, aud at Lithe a.
Antioch, and at Jerusalem. tne!
Clad ill white will say, This is
who took us in His arms and blessed
when the storms of the world were *
and loud brought us into thi? «J
place.” The multitudes ot the oer«
Uv, “This is hearts the Jesus broke.” who Many cotufof *
when our
wande: el clear off from God ant P
into vagabondism, but saved by grin
say: “Tnis is the Jesus who pardoned I
were guilty aud He made us wh teusl
Mercy bounaless, grace unparalleled hi?
then, alter each one has recited p<
deliverances and peculiar mercies, l
them as by so.o, all the voices will c«
getiier in a great chorus, which sb»»
the arcues echo and re-echo with the*
reverberation of gladness and peace a
umpci. :
Eiward I was so anxious to aboutj go
Holy Land bequeathed tiiat when 4160,000 he was to M]
pire he taken to t*
heart, after his decease,
Land in Asia Minor, and his reqiiSj
complied with. But there are hua W
day whose hearts are already in t-T
lan i of heaven. Where your John tr a-g M
there are your hearts also.
of whom I spoke at. the opening of *
course, in his quaint caugnt way a glimpse he said: of “Anaf that P 1 ]* *
my dream, and to.' tne bells of the oil
a^ain for joy; and as they ope-ie l ft*, taj
to let in the men I looked in after
lo! tbe city shone like toe sun, MjJ
were streets of gold, and men
them, harps in their hands, tosm?l
with ail, and after that tney siiui
gate?, which wnen I had seen i
self among them ?’
RIOT ON A TRAIN.
Workmen Bound for Homestead
Guard Rebel.
A Pittsburg dispatch morning save: tbs
curred Thursday which on a p 1
more and Ohio train, on bei ?
fifty-six non-union men were n
p rted from Cincinnati to
work in the Carnegie Steel stsbl
Homestead. One man was tW
the forehead with a bayonet in
of an armed guard. Another
thumb chewed off and neirlj a •
others were badlv bruised in an s
to regaia their liberty, When th*
r* ached Pittsburg only twenty-’’
were nboard in addition to t
'
guard, the other thirty-tive
escaped from the car between
station and the depot in PittsbuW ^
they left Cincinnati the o*®
being (
k: ow they were ‘ aRC 7 t
Hoiuestiad mills, and when]’,
it out i hey rebelled. That
riot had inception.
farmer T. B. Ballfntin-e. Norfolk, Vs.. the million^, b as i “
of
entire square of ground in t _ :‘V J g
it “ 1TI ‘ '
proposes to erect on a ^
The building will stand in
the remainder of the trac BaUenon^
lawns and gardens. Mr. . It , —
out children, and has pror.de ^
that the reuts of his city ,,»?
to the support of the heuie. ^ a i II
of ( urriruck county, 1 •• >'f
truck farming in the vic.nu.
with a few hundred dollars.