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REV. DR. TALMAGE. I’liv vnTtn Ulr.iJ iiirivrtc Olt ist,a crvniv L a .JA i ^ mSCuCKsK. Subject: “Open Windows.” Text- ••Hi* window- 1 *>ng open in’ - Chamber towaid Jerusalem.’ —Daniel vL, 1 \ Th- scoundrelly princes rf Persia ursr- i on by political jealousy against Daniel ’ hav succeeded in getting a law passed that who S verprav.to God Shall i e t ut unW th paws and teeth of the H v- w 1 ' • »-e la..'- n ttramselv-a ta rage and hunireTap and d< w-' the stone cage or putting their lower aw on the ground, bellowing till tbeeart tremble But the |ponin» threat ltd not hinder the devotion* of Daniel the Gourde Lion of the age- Hi* eneme-# might a«* well have a law that th- ->in shout* not draw water, or that rh- *outh wind should not -weep aeros* a gar i-n of mac :• .. . or that God V'th 1 he abolished T>>ey <*ould not s-ire hi’ the red hot furaaces, and they cannot now scare him w:;h the lions. A* soon as Daniel hears of this enitmenthe Wvcs his .,«»» of s-*r<^ tary of state wi:h its upbo!* r erv of crimson ‘ and gold and comes m own the whit* marc le step and coss to his -7 „ h •ise. He ore>ns h;- window and r.ut* aside the «'• •••♦ers ta-k and V the curtain kaorvd * . tha‘ h- can l toward the city of Jerusalem an 1 t hen prays. I *upp.-e the people in th" street cathered under and before his window and said Just ttiat man define the Jaw. He ught to be arrested.” An f theconstabulsrv • the city rush I)Lrfel to the police beadouan-rs and report that is on his knees at the - ie open window. “Ton are mv prisoner,” - :h- off. -r of th^ iaw dropping a heavy hand n the *h ulder of the kneeling Daniel. A* the constables or*»n the door cf the cavern to thrust in their prisoner thev J *cc the glaring eves of the monsters. Bat Dan.ei becomes th- fir*t Uo.i tamer, and they lick his hand and fawn at his feet, anl that night he sleeps wiih the shaggy man f a wild beast for his piUow. while the king tfcat night, sleepless in the raiace. has cn ;.l:n the paw and teeth >f ali-n he cant, t ; —the lion of a remorseful conscience. That a pi-ture it would be for some artist! * Darius in the early du-k of morning not waiting for footmen -r chari. % hastening to ! \ * de. n . all flushed and cerr u* and in li« c"l le and J. king thro ^.meoM^ ’h the crevi-e* * Tt - to srewhath.d prime minister. -What, n - uai"' he -av?. “Daniel is surely devoured, and the llon» are • -e; ing a'ter their horn i meal, the bones f the man mattered ac'OM the floor of 1 the cavere." With trembling voice Dario* calls out: • Daniel?” No answer, for the j lion prophet is yet ia profound slumber. But a | i more easily awakened, advances, and * with hot breath blown through the crevice seems angrily to demand the cause of this interruption, and then another wild beast lifts his mane from under Daniel s head, and SwaSrSiSi5t?S!: But Daniel's teU window, ‘“ "• ur text **an<l* u* at r>: - vs »a.“s^ land, and all the t-omp of his Babylonish sue —es could not make him forget it. He i « die tber>- from Jem«aleni at eighteen rears ' • age. and he never visited it though he ssssssssawsa grandest aspirations of his h^art he had his window t ward his native Jerusalem. j | open under There are many of you to-day who j r *.nd that without anv exr sltioD. This is getting to l-e a Nation of foreigners. They | hrtve come into all occupations and nrofes nous. They sit in all churches. It may : hi| twenty years ago since you got your naturalization papers, and you can't may be thoroughly laid Amencanize<L but you forget the of your birth, and your warmest sympathies go out toward it. Your windows are open toward Jerusalem. Your father and mother are burled there. It may have been a very humble home in which you were bora, but your memory of ten plays around it. and you hope some brook, day to go and see it—the hill, the tree, the the house, the place so sacred, the door from which you started oft with parental blessing to make your own way in the world—and God only knows how sometimes you have longed to see the familiar places of your childhood, and how in awful crises of life you would like to have caught a glimpse of the old wrinkled face that bent over you as you lay on the gentie You lap twenty or thus forty side or of fifty the years ago. may have on sea risen in fortune, and like Daniel have become great and may have come into pros perities which you never couid have reached if you had staid there, and you may have muny windows to your house—bay window* an 1 skylight windows and windows of oon servatory and windows on all sides—but you have at feast one window opentoward Jeru saiem. lYhen the foreign steamer comes to the wharf, you see the long line of sailors, with shouldered mailbags, coming down the planks, carrying as many letters as you . might suppose to l>a enough for a year’s and correspondence, and this repeated again again during the week. Multitudes of them are letters from home, and at all the post officee of the land people will go to the win dow and anxiously ask for them, hundreds of thousands of persons finding that win dow of foreign mails the open window toward Jerusalem. Messages that say: “When are you coming home to see os? Brother has gone into the army. Sister is dead. Father and mother are getting very feeble. We are having a great struggle to get on here. Would you advise us to eome to you, or will you come to us? All join In love and hope to meet you, if not in this world, then in a better. Goodby.” the Yes, yes. In all these cities and amid flowering Western prairies and on the slopes of the Pacific and amid the Sierras and on tbeffianks of the lagoon and on the ranches of Texas there is an uncounted multitude who this hour stand and sit and kneel with their windows open toward Jerusalem. Some of these peopie played on the heather of the Scottish hills; some of them were driven out by Irish famine; some of them in early life drilled in the German army, some of them were accustomed at Lyons or Marseilles or Paris to see on the street Victor Hugo and Gambetta; some ohased the chamois among the Alpine precipices; some pluckel the ripe clusters from Italian vineyard; some lifted their faces under the midnight sun of Norway. It is no dishonor to our land that they remem ber the place of their nativity. Miscreants would they be if, while they have some of their windows open to take in the free air and the sunlight of an atmosphere which no kingly despot has ever breathed, they forgot sometimes to open the window toward Jerusalem No wonder that the son of the Swim when far away from home, hearing the National air of his country sung, the malady o home sickness comes on him so powerfully the example a» to of eause his death. You have heroic Daniel of my text for keeping early memories fresh. Forget not the old folks at home. Write often, and if you have a sur plus of means and they are poor make prac tical contribution, and rejoice that America is bound to ail the world by ties of sanguin ity as in no other Nation. Who can doubt but it i.4 appoint*! for the evangelization of other lan !*? What a stirring. roe!tinsf, cos pelizing theory that all the doors of other Nations are open toward ns. while our win* dowsare open toward them? ofSdom^“ t fort^ k X| , iSd P K-a h u^ Jerusalem was the capital of sa-red infln enees. Then* had smoke t the saeriflee. Ther* was the hoi v of holies. There was the ark of the covenant. There stood the tem pie. We are all tempted to keep our win dow* open on the oj qosite side toward the world, that we may see and hear and appropriate il* advantages. What does the world sav? What does the world think? ^hat do^s the world do? YToretaipere of the world m*t**a 1 of worshipers of God. Windows open toward Babylos. Windows open toward Corinth. Windows open toward -Uhens. Windows.open toward Sodom. Win • ••wsopen toward th« flats ms'eat of win “’ w» open toward the hi 1 !s. 8%d mistake, for tW " worM as a go t is like something I saw m the museum of Strasburg. Germany—'he funm* of a virgin in wood »nd iron. The v 'T t '* 10 olden time was brought there, and thia figure would open its arms to re*relr<» him, and once enfoided the figure close-J with a hundred knivw ami lances upon him, and then let blm drop 180 feet sheer down, So the world first embraces th« Idolater*. then closes upon them with many torture*. and then lets them drop forever down. Tlie highest honor the world could con**>r was to make a man Roman emperor, but out of sixty-three emperors it allowed only six to die peacefully in their beds. Die dominion of this world overmulti tudea is illustrate 1 bv the names of coins o. tnanyeountr.es. Th-v have their pieces of ®oney which they call sovereigns, crowns ! ' rA half crowns. Napoleons and half Na p>leon*. Fredericks and double Fnalericks and ducats and laabelllnos. all of which mean not s-j much uc-fulness as Th« most of onr window* open r «rd the ex -hange, toward the salon of s hion. towari the gvl of this world. In times the length of the English yard flx-d by the length of th* arm of King L. and we are apt to measure thing* r ® variable standard and by the human that m the great enses of life can giv a no help. We need like Daniel, to ope p window* toward God and religion. But. mark vou, that go<vi lion tamer is net at the window, but kneeling while looks out. Most photograph* are taken f those in standing or sitting posture. I ^ remember but one picture of a man and that was David Livingstone, in the muse of God and eiviliaation himself, and in the heart of Africa i* servant. Majwara. found him in the tent v the light of a cand!* stuck on the top of hls head in his hands noon the oil ^and^eadon hi* knece. Bat here is a lion tam«r living under the -ash of th* light, and hi* hair by the breeze, reaving. The faet a man can see farther on his knees . standing tiptoe. .Terusalem about on wa* statute miles from Babylon, and the vast desert shifted its san Is between - Yet through that open window Dan saw heaven. :ss comfort, through temptation to rescue, dire sickness to Immortal health, nijrht to dajr. throaerh things terre– to things celestial-you will not see to the joints of the elbow, tssz-jszs but of bone cap to the knees, male so because the God the body was the God of the soui. and provision for those who want to pray and physiological structure joins with and necessity in bidding us pray and pray. To olden time the Earl of Westmoreland be had no need to pray because he had pious tenants on his estate to prav him. but ail the prayers of the church Rmount to nothing unless, like we pray for ourselves. O men and women, bounded on one side by Shadrach’s furnace and the other" side by de 'deliverance lions, learn the secret of courage by looking at that Baby lonish window open toward the southwest, •'Oh,” you dese^.” say. “that is the direction of the Arabian Yes, but on the other side of the desert is God, is Christ, is Jerusalem, is heaven. The Brussels lace is superior to all other Jace, so beautiful, so multiform, so expen sive—400 francs a pound. All the world seeks it. Do you know how it is made? The apimiing is done in a dark room, the oi^ly light admitted through a small aperture, and that light falling directly on the pat tern. And the finest specimen* of Christian character I have ever seen or ever expect to see are those to be found in lives all of whose windows have been darkened by bereave ment and misfortune save one. but under that one window of prayer the interlacing of divine workmanship went on until it was fit to deck a throne, a celestial embroidery which angels admried and God approved, But it is another Jerusalem toward which we now need to open our windows. The exiled evangelist of Ephesus saw it one day as the the surf of the Icarian Sea foamed and splashed over the boulders at his feet, and bis vision reminded me of a wedding day when the bride by sister and maid was hav ing garlands twisted for her hair and jewel* strung for her neck just before she puts her betrothed hand into the hand of her affianced. “I, John, saw the holy city. New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven husban a." prepared Toward as a that bride bridal adorned Jerusalem for her are We our would windows opened? think of do well to more heaven, It is not a mere annex of earth. It is not a desolate outpost. As Jerusalem was the cap ital of Judea, and Babylon the capital of the Babylonian monarchy, and London is the capital of Great Britain, and Washington is the capital of our own Republic, the New Jerusalem is the capital of the universe. The King lives there, and the royal family of the redeemed have their palaces there, and there is a congress of many Nations and parliament of all the world. Yea, as Daniel had kindred in Jerusalem of whom he often thought, though he left home when a very young man, pernaps father and mother and brothers and sisters still living, and was homesick to see them, and they belonged to the high circles of royalty, his Daniel himself having royal Jerusa- blood in veins, so we have in the New lem a great many kindred, and we are some times homesick to see them, and they are all princes and princesses, in them the blood imperial, and we do well to keep our windows open toward their eternal resia ence. It is a joy for U9 to believe that while we are interested In them they are interested in us. Much thought of heaven makes one heavenly. The airs that blow through that open window are charged with life, and sweep up to us aromas from gardens that never wither under skies that never cloud, in a spring-tide that never terminates. Com pared with it all other heavens are dead lail nr T3 Homers , heaven was an elysium which he describes as a plain at the end of the earth or beneath, with no snow nor rainfall, and the sun never goes down, and Baadoman thus, the justest of men, rules. Hesiod's heaven is wnat he calls the islands of the blessed, in the midst of the ocean, three times flowers, a year blooming with most exquisite and the air is tinted with purple, SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. while camesan*! masie and horseraces an cupjr ttse time. Th" Scan tiaavianr’s heaven was the hall of Walhalla, where the god Odin gave unending wine suppers to earthly her. s and heroines. The Mohammedan's ^ £*–£ .*h«rj*»rthan a swcrd, an ! then they are let lo* •.-** into a riot of everlastinc sensuality. The American aborieine* look forward to a heaven of illimitable hunting ground. partridge and deer and wild duck more than plentiful, and the houndsneveroff the scent, and the guns never missing lire. But the geographer has follow**! the earth round and loon l no Homer’s eljrslum. Yoya tions sms have and found traversed no the Hesiod deep s in lslanAa allJlrec- ot the bless-1. The Mohammedan's. eeles tial debauchery and the In lian’s eternal hunting ground for vast multitudes hare nocharm. But here rolls in the Bible heaven. No more sea—that is. no wide sep aration. No more night—that is. no insom nia. So more tears—that is. no men- heart break. No more pain-that is. dismissal of ancet and bitter draft and miasma and ban of neuralgia* and catalepsies and All colors in the wall except gloomy bla -k. All the music in the major key bccauseee ebratiye and jubilant. and River crystalline, cate crystalline crystalline because everything is clear i without doubt. White robes, and that sinlssne^a. Vials full of odors, and that means pure regalement of the senses. Rninbow. and that means the storm is over. Marriage supper, and that means gladdest '^tivitv. Twelve mannerof fruits, and that luscious and unending variety. Harp, trumpet, grand march, anthem, men and halleluiah in the same crches Choral meeting solo, an l overture meeting antiphon, andstrophejoining dithv ramb, aa they roll into the ocean of doxolo gie*. And you and I have all that, and have forever through Christ ifwc will let Him the blood of one wounded hand rub our sin, and with the other wounded swing open the shining portals Day and night keep your window open to war 1 that Jerusalem. Sing about it. Pray it. Think about it. Talk about it. Rbout it Do not be inconsolable your friends who have gone into it. not worry if something in your heart in that you are not far off from its Do not think that when a Chris dies he stop*, for he goes on. An ingenious man ha* taken theheavenlir as ment.onei in Revelation and has that there wilt be in heaven 101 * sixteen feet square for each ascending ouI. though this world should lose 100,000. yearly. But all the rooms of heaven will ours, for the> are .amilj rooms, and as room in your house is too good for your so all the rooms of all the p-alaees the heavenly Jerusalem will be free to ; s children, anl even th* th rone room w.!l not be denied, and you may ran up the steps <}f the throne, and put your hand oa the Side of th-throne, and art down beside th-King according to the protnis**, “To him that ov-rcoir.-th wul I grant to sit with Mo M5j.re^«r^.^sss in battle, and the Christian-, werwde were 5?;^ vmz this «• mmnnder was staying. \\ hen *h saw Ji-r son and his army in dts graceful 7rA \^' h V le or tae ionres» ■“j*"* ‘JRj *^ t o te r *» “You*can ^t*-phen ra».iei his for .es an i VI 1 ? battle anugaine. ti ■'**>' . tatt" in with sin and death “V and , : h- , 1 nothing bu: shame andjxi^ntemot, ^ . 1 :t w ^ tra a ,^ lie let0 G u wn Sff ho lst ' 25 SS intern . , king'°m or our Dor i. towara toward which - you . dc wel110 vour wind,jWS °^ D - PROMINENT PEOPLE. Ex-President H arrison goes hunting deer at midnight, Lord Salisbury, the new British Premier, weighs about 280 pounds. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, “the father of the Senate,” is now eighty-five years of age. King Christian, Denmark’s aged ruler, smokes cigarettes, as do all the other crowned males of Europe. Thomas B. Reed has just bought a thirty pound bievcle. and is learning to ride at his summer cottage at Grand Beach, Me. The Rev. Mas Kazoo Tai, a Japanese Epis copal clergyman, noted for his scholarship, will soon visit this country to study Ameri can civilization. Andrew Carnegie has subscribed the last 5400 to the testimonial to Dr. 8. F. Smith, the author of ••America,” making the de sired total of t'2000. The first mulatto to receive the honor ot knighthood was 8ir Conrad Reeves, the Chief Justice of Barbados. He is of slave descent on his mother’s side. The Prince of Wales speaks English with a slight German accent, while the Duke of York speaks it with a slight Danish accent, inherited from his mother. Ex-Senator Conger, of Michigan, who was prominent and rich fifteen years ago. is liv ing in Washington, at tbe age of seventy four, in destitute circumstaDoes. Bishop Grant, of the African M. E. Church, has just returned from England, where he has been most warmly received, having been invited to preach in Wesley’s old ehapel in London. The Emperor of Germany is reported to have told an American friend, with whom he is very intimate, that he was anxious to visit America before he got so old that travel would be a bore. Henry M. Stanley's method of parliamen tary speaking is bluff, earnest and slightly declamatory. He has no sense of humor, but fortifies himself well with facts and sta tistics before he speaks. President Cleveland is not only a skilful fisherman, but he is well up on piscatorial statistics and literature. No book appears dealing with the sport of fishing that the President does not obtain a copy. Ex-Senator William M. Evarts, of New York, in bis retirement at Windsor, YL, is said to take a keen and lively interest in public affairs. He reads and writes with dif ficulty, but enjoys good health and spirits. De Kotzebue, the newly appointed Minis ter of the Czar to this country, is said to be the kind of Russian noblemen that one reads about—ermrmously wealthy, powerfully x>n neoted, wideJy accomplished, thorough diplomat, a brilliant so cietv man and a Dr. Marion A. Cheek, who belo^ has just died in >Si was one of tbe l>€St mias ion , Jries who w ,, nt to that eountrv. He was a fine physician, and was known as the White Magician, ^ on account of his medical pki „ H „ waB me dieal attendant of the .. . famiiv and wss 0 ff ere A several hieh cfe cf n cial positions, which he uniformly c tj ned Somk men do as mnch begrudge , good they , want , one others a name as themselves. MINERS ENTOMBED. --- TH1RTY-FIYR MEN ARE BUIUKD *1 I\’F ’ A ri dvivr ■wiS’w _ All are Thought to be De<Kl"~ Little Hope of , _ Rescue. __ Saturday afternoon fixe was diacov ered , , Gy timber __„__ men at . the thirty-eev- ... . . enth levee of the Osceola copper mine ai Honghton, Mich. The timbermen toDC . “ j ,l. jaft , . ' brought to the surface in the big bucket gave the alarm. Thirtv-sir miners were at work at the time'and up to a late nour DOt one person had been rescued, a pump bov, and he died 8 hortlv after reaching" the open air * lr - Smoke poured ... in dense volumns from the moutb of every shaft in the L ftnd * through ,*r these 91 U open- F“ , impossible. I he fire gamed lugs wa» rapidly. Gathered abotsk the shafts of the Osceola ^eoia were were the me wivpp wives, mother* mothers and and children of the unfortunate men, aax iously waiting further news from their loved l ? xe * ones 0 “* 8 ’ The teene 8 e«ne was was very very pa- na tactic. Every effort is being put forth to rescue the unfortunate men, but hope r is not high. ° A Later Accoant. Another and later dispatch ... from a the scene of the disaster is lo the effect that it now po8 j t i ve l T known that *k; thirty-five rt _ doomed doomed men’are men are entomb*.! entombed in the Osceola mine, with no poewbil y ee feringtheir bodies until the a* fire is ^tinoniahed extingu»fied, which which mar may imt not b. be for months. It is the opinion of some D f the oldest employes of the mine that th « t ij e wor u 0 f «n ineendi ary. All of the doomed miners might have escaped hid thev heeded warning, as contain Laptain Edwards £.awaras, ‘who who was was the tne first nrst to detect the fire, dispatched messen ® crers to everv slope where the miners were known known to to be t>e working. working Captain White descended with Anton Ecygk, who said ne left his father in a j ower ] eve ] t but Ecysk lost his head, and finding him unmanageable, Cap ,. in *m, . b .nd U „«. him t0 hi. i.... p US hed toward the south workings of safety, the only of .«>• the party »■ one in ^o. 4 shaft to escape. He reported that tram men had ofFered to carry one of the drill bovs H to the surface', but «»w «• - t ghten r d ,»• «• fuseil to move and was left. Twenty of the thirtv-five are mar ried men and most of them have large families. . ' GREEX WAS ACQUITTED. -- Result of a Remarkable .Murder Trial Ht Ma »Jison, n ba. William Green, on trial at Madison, Ga., for the murder of Tom Estes, was acquitted by the jury on short order, The case was an unusually remarkable one and a rehearsal of the material in cidents are interesting. On May 12, 1395 by previous agreement, Miss Cora Estes, the fifteen year old daugh ter of John Tom Estes, a prosperous farmer of Morgan county, who resided ., near the line of Newton, met William O. Green at the little chnrch at which the people of the neighborhood assem bled for holding Sunday school. Af ter a consultation the yonng conple got into a buggy and drove away. Sam Estes, a brother of the yonng la dy, in company with a friend, follow ed, rode quickly to the Estes home and informed the father that the girl had started off with Green to be married. Hastily getting into the bnggy with his sod, the two Esteses rode in hot pursuit of the fleeing conple. Estes and his son overtook the girl and Green at the residence of Rev. J. M. Harwell, near Newbem, Newton county, but on the Morgan side of the line, where they had gone to be mar ried. The elder Estes sprang from his buggy, walked up to his daughter and, as witnesses have testified in tbe court, said, “Come od, Cora, and go home with me me.” Green thereupon drew bis revolver and shot the old man dead in his tracks And, turning, fired at tbe younger Estes, who fled for refuge to Mr. Harwell’s house. The girl and her lover went on in their flight, and in less than forty minutes were married by Justice James N. Mann, who, of course, knew noth ing of the tragedy. Green fled to Baldwin county,where he remained until a few weeks ago, when, in attempting to pass through Macon on his way to Texas, he was captured and carried to Madison and lodged in the county jail. His case was set for this term of court and last Fri day morning Judge John C. Hart called the case for trial. On Monday the trial ended with the above stated result. YVas a “Fake” Bomb. The bomb found upon the mau ar rested at Paris Thursday in the bank of Messrs. Rothchild, in the F.ne la Fitte, was opened by experts Friday. It was found to contain a mixture of chloride of potash and ordinary gun powder, which, the experts declare, would not have exploded, even had it come in contact with a lighted fuse. There were no projectiles in the bomb. TELEGRAPHiC TICKS. ~ ., _ 1 resident lieo. C. . rxithy. of the Western ami Atlantic and West Point railroads was re-elected at tLe annual *ueeting of directors la A.®ntgo*nery. George Augusta Bala the famous iowmaliet journalist, iueM*i««iV is critically m ill at h« t.« home K ^ lu London. Wednesilar vveunee.lay tli« the rnirninhul tmonConi »<min.nr «mnpany ■ fttnokin, ^ a -» began working 3,000 men sixty hoars per»week. Reports * received rtceiveu in in New -sew Orleans neans in- m dieate that cotton worms are destroy ing the crop in adjoining f»«,ilvUm,J eta tee. A \ Chattannrora L uattanooga family name*! Bcan . Ian ate toadstools, believing them to be mushrooms and are critically ill rp, lhe annoQn cement come* from . Montgomery v that Secretary JL Herbert w ;ii d te fu. the united j ^ • St te ® 6enate - Home Secretary Ridley has an- 1H»Bneed the British , parliament .r that . in " ,8 office had ro power to order an in ^ oir T in Mrs - May J brickie- oase. - Middletown, O., people axe satisfied .... that Dr. H. H. Holmes- was once su perintendent of public • schools at that place olace and an d was was known Known aaG aa L. W w. Hatch Hatch. Two Oklahoma farmers. Oiler and William KnaDD ’ fought * with hatchets and ..1 pitchforks i ( , about , a load , , of , har. , Both men were badly wounded and will die. o bamuel i o Gompers, fx-pxesident ., . or . the American Federation of Trades, was accorded an ovation bv the Trades L Congress o* at r« Cardiff, r Ai-k tr.u Wales, ThethirteenthOhiosenatorialcon . Marwawille and in oorsed (.roveinor NIon.i3iey for . presi dent and Joseph B. Foraker for United states senator The organization of the Ohio demo* eratic state executive committee has. l.„„ been completed. i It t* was decided i to open the campaign on September -otb, in the evening. Ex-Govemor Campbell will be the principal V i speaker, I The eighth annual convention of the republican l league of the state of New New A lork ork met met in m Region session at at Bingham- D.ngnam ton, N. Y., Wednesday. It is esti mated that five thousand delegates and visitors are ia attendance. NORTH CAROLINA NULLS. ' * ssr" ’ a ”' The North Carolina state agricnl tural department has issued valuable special bulletins giving a list of manu lina. That portion of it which is of greatest interest is in regard to cotton mills. This shows that eleven mills are now in course of r construction, ______ that tine stock in eight more has been subscribed and that 169 axe nowin operation, spinning or weaving. Be sides these, there are twelve knitting mills, one silk mill, one towel mill, fottr bag mills and manufactory of sash coril and cording. There are thirteen woolen mills in operation.. The total of all is 192. Alamance county leads, having twenty-two cotton mills. Gaston has twenty-one, Randolph fifteen and NIecklenbnrg thirteen, There are mills in forty-one of the ninety-six counties. There are reported 19^000 looms and 756,900 spindles. the Henry G. Hester, secretary of New Orleans eolton exchange, has sent Governor Carr the following tel egram : and the people “I congratulate you remarkable of North Carolina on her progress in cotton manufactures. She is now practically equal to South Car olina, the largest cotton consumer in tbe South. By the actual census of mills North Carolina has consumed of this year’s crop 227,000 bales, an in crease of 55,000 over last year. She has new spindles which may be brought into play in 1895-96 which, with fair trade conditions, should increase her total to at least 250,000. In 1890 North Car olina consumed 114,000 bales. So your state has practically doubled her cotton manufactures within the past five years/]_ GRAND ARMY NOTIFIED Of the Invitation to Attend the At lanta Exposition. The following has been issued from the national headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic: the “The commander-in-chief of Grand Army of the Republio comrades is in re ceipt of an invitation to the of the organization to be present at tbe Cotton States and International exposition at Atlanta on Blue and Gray Day, September 21st. This invitation comes too late to be promulgated commander-in- from headquarters, but the chief is anxious that the comrades should know that they are invited to be present to mingle with those who wore the gray from 1861 to 1865, aud he trusts that a large number of veter ans will be present. “C. C. Jones, “Adjutant General.” Nihilists Arrested. Advices have been received fro– Moscow and St. Petersburg statiri that 900 persons, known or suspecte to be nihilists, have been arrested ' the police of those cities and la' amite quantities seized of bombs, in their firearms lodgings and ‘ £ haunts. I *
