REV. Dll. TAI.MAGE.
l’HK NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject: « C An Angelic Rescue.”
Text: “Behold the fire and tho wood,
but where is the lamb?”—Genesis xxii., 7.
Here are Abraham and Isaac, the one n
kind, old. gracious, Affectionate father, the
other a brave, obed ient, religious son. From
his bronzed appearance you can tell that
this son has been much iu the fields, and
from his shaggy dress yon know that he
has been watching tho herds. Tho mount
ain air has painted his cheek rubicund. He
is twenty or twenty-five or, as some sup
pose, less thirty-tlireo boy, years of age, neverthe
a considering the length of life tc
which people lived in those times and the
fast that a son never is anything but a boy
to a father. I remember that my father
used to come into tho house when the chil
dren were home on some festal occasion
aud say, “Where are the boys?” although
“the boys” were twenty-five and thirty aud
thirty-five years of age. Ro this Isaac is
only a boy to Abraham, and this father’s
heart is in him. It is Isaac hero and Isaac
there. If there is any festivity around the
father's tent, Isaac must enjoy it. It is
Isaac's walk, and Isaac’s apparel, and
manner.-, aud Isaac's prospects, and Isaac’s
prosperity. The father’s heartstrings are
all wrapped around that boy and wrapped
again, until nine-tenths of the old man’s
life is in Isaac. I can just imagine how
lovibgfy-and proudly he looked at his only
son.
Well, the dear old man had borne a great
deal of trouble, and it lmd ieft its mark
story upon him. written In hieroglyphics from of wrinkle the
was forehead to chin.
But now his trouble seems all gone, and we
are glad that he is very soon to rest forever.
If tho old man shall get decrepit, Isaac is
strong enough to wait on him. If the father
get dim of eyesight, Isaac will lead him by
the hand. If the father become destitute
Isaac will earn him bread. How glad wo
are that the ship that has been in such a
stormy sea is coming at last into the harbor.
Are you not rejoiced that glorious old Abra
ham is through with his troubles? No, no!
A thunderbolt! From that clear eastern
sky there drops into that father’s tent a
voice with an announcement enough to tarn
black hair white and to stun the patriarch into
instant annihilation. God said, “Abraham!”
The old man answered, “Here I am,” God
said to him: “Take thy son, thy only son
Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into
the land of Moriah and offer him there as a
burnt offering.” In other words, slay him;
cut his body into fragments; put the frag
ments on wood; set fire to the wood and let
Isaac's body be consumed to ashes.
“Cannibalism! Murder!” says some one.
“Not so.” said Abraham’. I hear him solilo
quize. "Here is the boy on whom I have de
pended! Oh, how I loved him! He was
given in answer to prayer, and now must I
surrender him? O Isaac, my son! Isaac, how
shall I part with you? But then it is always
safer to do as God asks me to. I have been
iu dark places before, and God got me out.
I will implicitly do as God has told me,
although it is very dark. I can’t see my
way, hut I know God makes no mistakes,
and to Him I commit myself and my darling
son.”
Early in the morning there is a stir arouud
Abraham’s tent. A beast of burden is fed
and saddled. Abraham makes no disclosure
of the awful secret. At the break of day he
says: “Come, come, Isaac, get up! We are
going I off on a two or three days’ journey.”
hear the ax hewing and splitting amid the
wood until the sticks aro made the right
length and the right thickness, and then
they aro fastened on the beast of burden.
They pass on. There are four of them—
Abraham, the father; Isaac, the son, and
two Isaac servants. Going along the road I see
looking up into his father’s face and
saying: “Father, what is the matter? Are
yon uot welt? Has anything happened? Are
you tired? Lean on my arm.” Then, turn
ing around to the servants, the son says,
“Ah. father is getting old. and he has had
trouble enough in other days to kill Mm!”
The third morning ba3 come, and it is the
day of the tragedy. The two servants are
left with the beast of burden, while Abra
ham and his son Isaac, as was the custom of
good people in those times, went up on tbe
hill to sacrifice to the Lord. The wood is
taken off the beast’s back and put on Isaac's
back. Abraham has in one hand a pan of
coals or a lamp and in the other a sharp,
keen knife. Here are all the appliances for
sacrifice, you say. No, there is one thing
wanting. There is no victim—no pigeon or
heifer cr lamb. Isaac, not knowing that he
is to be the victim, looks up into his father’s
face and asks a question bone. which “My must have cut
the old man to the father!” The
father said, “My son. Isaac, here I am.” Tho
son said, “Behold the fire aud the wood, but
where is the lamb?” The father’s lip quiv
ered. and his heart fainted, and his knees
knocked together, and his entire body, mind
and soul shiver in sickening anguish as he
struggles to gaia equipoise, tor he does not
want to break down. Aud then he looks
into his son’s face with a thousand rushing
tendernesses and says, “My son. God will
provide Himself a lamb.”
The twain are now at the foot of the "hill,
the place which is to be famous for a most
transcendent occurrence. build They gather some
stones out of the field aud an altar of
throe or four feet high. Then they take this
wood off Isaac’s back and sprinkle it over
tho stones, so as to help and invite the flame.
The altar is done—it is all done. Isaac has
helped to build it. With his father he has
discussed whether the top of the table is
even and Whether the wood is properly pre
pared. Then there is a pause. The son
looks around to see if there is not some liv
ing animal that can be caught and butchered
for tho offoriug. Abraham tries to choke
down his fatherly feelings and suppress bis
grief in order that he may break to his son
the terrific news that lie is to be the victim.
Ah, Isaac never looked more beautiful
than ou that day to his father. As the old
mau ran his emaciate I fingers through his
sou’s hair he said to himself: “How shall I
give him up? What will his mother say
when I come hack without my boy? I
thought he would have been tho comfort ol
my declining days. 1 thought he would
have been the hope of ages to come. Beau
tiful and loving, and yet lo die under my
own hand. O God, Is there not some other
sacrifice that will do? Take my life and
spare his! Pour out my blood and save
Isaac for hts mother and the world!” But
this was an inward struggle. The father
controls his feelings and looks into his son’s
face and says, “Isaac, must I tell you all?”
His sou said: “Yes, lather; I thought you
had something on your mind. Tell it.” The
father said, “My sou, Isaac, thou art the
lamb!” “Oh,” yon say, “why didn’t that
young man, if he was twenty or thirty years
of age. smite into the dust hts infirm father:
He could have done if.” Ah, Isaac knew by
this time that the scene was typical of a
Messiah who was to come, and so he made
no struggle. They fell on each other’s neck
anil wailed out the parting. Awful anil
matchless scene of the wilderness! Tht
rocks « -ho back the breaking of their hearts.
The cry, “Mv sou, my sou!” The answer,
“Mv father, my father!”
Do not comparo this, as some people have,
to Agamemnon willing to offor up
daughter, Iphlgenia, to please the gods.
There is nothing comparable to this wonder
nil obedience to tho truo God. You know
that victims for sacrifice wero always bound,
so that they might not struggle a way. Raw
lings, the martyr, when he was dying for
Christ’s sake, said to the blacksmith who
held the manacles, “Fasten those chains
tight now, for my flesh may struggle might
ily.” So Isaac’s arms were fastened, his
feet are tied. The old man, rallying all his
strength, lifls him on to a pile of wood.
Fastening a thong on one sideoftho altar,
he makes it span the body of Isaac, and fas
tens the thong at theotlierside of the altar,
There and another is the thong, lamp flickering and another in the thong. wind
ready to'be put under the brushwood of the
altar. There is the knife, sharp and keen.
Abraham—struggling with his mortal feel
ings on ihe one side and tho commands of
God on the other—takes that knife, rubs
tho flat of it on the palm of his hand, cries
to God for help, comes up to the side of
the altar, puts a parting kiss on tho hr aw of
hts boy, takes a message from him for
mother and home, and then lifting tho glit
tering weapon for the plunge of the death
stroke—his muscles knitting for the work—
the hand begins to descend. It falls! Not
on God, the heart of Isaac, the stroke, but on making the arm the oi
who arrests
wilderness quake with the cry. “Abraham.
Abraham, lay not thy hand upon the lad,
nor do him any harm!”
What is this sound back in the woods? It
is a crackling as of tree branches, a bleating
and a struggle. Go. Abraham, and see what
it is. Oh, it was a ram that, going through
the woods, has in its the crooked horns fastened
and entangled brushwood and could
not get loose, and Abraham seizes it gladly
and quickly unloosens Isaac from the altar,
puts the ram on his place, sets the lamp uu
dor the brushwood of the altar, and as the
dense smoke of tho sacrifice begins to rise
the blood rolls down tho sides of the ultai
and drops hissing into tho lire, aud I hear
the words, “Behold the Lamb of God who
tho sins of the
Well, what are you going to get out ol
this? There is an aged minister of the gos
pel. He says: “I should get out of it that
when God tells you to do a thing, whether it
seems reasonable to you or not, go ahead
and do it. Here Abraham couldn’t have
been mistaken. God didn’t speak so indistinct
ly that it was not certain whether he called
Sarah or Abimelech or somebody else, but
with divine articulation, divine intonation,
divine emphasis, he said, ‘Abraham!* Abra
ham rushed blindly ahead to do his duty,
knowing that things would come out rigbt.
Likewise do so yourselves. There is a mys
tery of your life. There is some burden you
have to carry. You don’t know why God
has put it on you. There is some persecu
tion, some trial, and yon don’t know whj
God allows it. Thero is a work for you tc
do. and you have not enough grace, you
think, to ilo it. Do as Abraham did. Ad
vance and do your whole duty. Be willing
to give up Isaac, and perhaps you will not
have to give up anything. ‘Jehovah-jireh’
—the Lord will provide.” A capital lesson
this old minister gives us.
Out yonder in this house is an aged
woman, tbe through light of heaven in her face. Shs
is half way the door. She has hei
hand on the pearl of the gate. Mother, what
would you get out of this subject? “Oh,”
she says, “I would learn that it is in the last
pinch that God comes to the relief. You see.
the altar was ready, and Isaac was fastened
on it, and the knife was lifted, and just at
the last moment God broke in and stopped
proceedings. So it has been in my life ot
seventy years. Why. sir, there was a time
when the flour was all out of the house, and
I set the table at noon and had nothing to
put on it, but five minutes of 1 o’clock a loaf
of bread came. The Lord will provide. My
son was very sick, and I said:‘Dear Lord,
you don’t mean to take him away from
me. do you? Please, Lord, don’t take
him away. Why, and there are neighbors
who have three four sons. This is my
only son. This is my Isaac. Lord, you
won’t take him away from me. wilt You?’
But I saw he was getting worse and worse
alt the time, and I turned round and prayed,
until after awhile I felt submissive, and I
eouTd say, ‘Thy will, O Lord, be done!’ The
doctors gave him up, and we all gave him
up. And. as was the custom in those times,
we had made the grave clothes, and we were
whispering about the last exercises, when I
looked and I saw some perspiration on his
brow, showing that the fever had broken,
and he spoke to us so naturally that I knew
he was going to get well. He did get well,
and my sou Isaac, whom I thought was go
ing to be slain and consumed of disease, was
loosened from that: altar. And, bless your
souls, that’s been so for seventy years, and
if my voice were not so weak, and if I could
see better, I could preach to you younger
people a sermon, for though Ican’tsee much
I can see this—whenever you get into a
tough place and your heart is breaking, if
you will look a little farther into the woods,
you will see, caught in the branches, a sub
stitute and a deliverance. ‘My son. God will
provide Himself a lamb.
Thank you. mother, for that short sermon.
I could preach back to you for a minute oi
two and say. never do you fear! I wish I had
half as good a hope of heaven us you have.
Do not fear, mother. Whatever I happens, no
hatm long will ever happen to you. I was going aged
up a flight of stairs and saw an
woman, very decrepit and with a cane,
creeping on up. She made but very little
progress, and I felt very exuberant, and I
saidto her, “Why, mother, that is no way to
go upstairs.” and I carried and her I threw and my arms her around down
her up put
on the landing at the top of the stairs. She
said: “Thank you, thank you. •! am very
thankful." O mother, when you get through
this life’s work and you want to go upstairs
and rest in the good plaoe that God has pro
vided for you, you will not have to climb up,
you will not have to crawl stretched up painfully. The
two arms that were on the cross
will be flung around you, and yon will be
hoisted with a glorious lift beyoud all weari
ness and all struggle. May the God of Abra
ham and Isaac be with you until you see the
Lamb on the
Now, that aged minister has made a sug
gestion. and this aged woman has made a
suggestion. 1 will make a suggestion: Isaac
going up the hill makes me think of the
great sacrifice. Isaac, the only son of Abra
ham. Jesus, the only son of God. On those
two “onlys” I build a tearful emphasis. O
Isaac! O Jesus! But this last sacrifice was
a more tremendous one. When the knife
was lifted over “Stop'” Calvary there was no voice it.
that cried and no hand arrested
Sharp, keen and tremendous it cut down
through nerve and artery until the biood
sprayed the faces of the executioners, and
the midday sun dropped a veil of cloud over
its face because it could not endure the
spectacle. O Isaac of Mount Moriah! O
Jesus of Mount Calvary! Better could God
have thrown away into annihilation a thou
sand worlds than to have sacrifled His only
Son. It was not one of the ten sons; it was
His only Son. would If He had perished. not given “God up Him,
vou and I have sc
loved the world that Ho gave His only—” 1
stop there, not because I have forgotten the
quotation, but because I want to think.
"God so loved tho world that He gave Hi:
only begotton Son that whosoever believott
iu Iiim should not perish, but have everlast
ing life.” Great sacrifice. God, break Isaac my heart at only th<
thought of that the
typical of Jesus the only.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
You see Isaac going up the hill and carry
Ing the wood. O Abraham, why not taka
(he load off the boy? If ho is going to dio so
soon. why not make his last hours easy?
Abraham knew that in carrying that wood
ui> Mount Moriah Isaac was to be a symbol
of Christ carrying his own cross tip Calvary.
biition cedar. 1 suppose it may have weighed
100 or 200 or 300 pounds. That was the light
est part of the burden. All the sins and sor
rows of the world wore wound around that
cross. The heft of one, tho heft of two
worlds— earth and hell were on His shoul
ders. O Isaac, carrying the wood offturiflee
up Monnt Moriah. O .Tesus, carrvung the
wood of sacrifice up Mount Calvary, the
agonies of earth and hell wrapped around
that cross! I shall never see tho heavy load
on Isaacs back that I shall not think of the
crushing load on Christ s back. For whom
that load? For you. Fo^ you. For me.
Forme. Would that all the tears that we
have ever wept over our sorrows had been
saved until this morning, and that we might
now pour thorn out on the lacerated back
and feet and heart of the Son of God.
You say: “If this young mau was twenty
Why'was'itnot^saac'bincHiig^ Btead Abraham Abraham^ 8 in
of binding Isaac? The mus
cle in Isaac's arm was stronger than the
muscle in Abraham’s withered arm. No
young man twenty-five years of age would
submit to have his father fasten him to a
pile of wood with intention of burning.”
Isaac was ft willing sacrifice, and so a
of Christ who willingly came to save the
world. If ail the armies of heaven had re
solved to force Christ out from the gate,
they could not hava done it. Christ was
equal with God. If all the battalions of
glory had armed themselves and resolved to
put Christ forth and make Him come out
and save this world, they could not have
succeeded in it. With one stroke He would
have toppled over angelic and urchangelic
dominion.
But there was one thing that the omni
potent Christ could not stan 1. Our sorrows
mastered Him. He could uot bear to see ihe
woi-Ul die without an offer of pardon and
help, keep and if back, all heaven had armed itself to
Him if the gates of life had been
boiled and double barred, Christ would have
flung the everlasting doors from their
hinges, and hindering would have sprung forth, scat
tering the hosts of heaven like
chaff before the whirlwind, as He cried:
“Lo! I come to suffer. Lo! I come to die.”
Christ—a willing sacrifice. Willing to take
Bethlehem humilation, and Sanhedrin out
rage, and whipping post rnaltreament, and
Goljsotha butchery. Willing Willing die. to be W,m» bound,
WiHing ro St o
save.
How does this affect you? Bo not your
very best impulses bound out toward this
sain struck Christ? Get down at His feet,
3 ve people. Put your lips against the wound
;n His right foot and help kiss away tho
oang. Wipe the foam from His dying lip.
Get under the cross until you feel the hap
:ism of His mshingtears. Take Him into
your heart with warmest love and undying
mthusiasm. By your resistances you have
abused Him loug enough. Christ is willing
ro sav. Are willln- to b. saved?
It seems to me as if this moment were .
throbbing with the invitations of an ail com
passionate God.
I have been told that tho cathedral of St.
Mark stands in a quarter in the center of the
eitv of Venice, and that when the clock
strikes 12 at noon all the birds from the city
and the regions round about the city fly to
the square and settle down. It came in this
wise: A large hearted woman, passing one
noonday across the square, saw some birds
shivering in the cold, and she scalteredsome
SKSSXa—£
of bread among them, and so on from year
to year until the day of her death. In her
will she bequeathed a certain amount of
money to keep up the same practice, and
now, at the flr3t stroke of the bell at noon
the birds begin to come there, and whoa the
clock has struck 12 the square is covered
with them. How beautifully suggestive!
Christ comes out to feed thy soul to-day.
Tho more hungry you feel yourselves gospel to be
the better it is. It is nooo. and tho
clock strikes 12. Come in flocks! Come
as doves to the window! All the air is filled
with the liquid chine: Come! Como!
Come! ____
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
General Longstreet has written a book
Ss ,h °
Ex-Senalor Edmunds, ot Vermont, has
made Philadelphia his home.
General Nelson A. Miles was once a clerk
in a crockery store in Boston.
Collectors pay one dollar and a half for
President Cleveland’s autograph.
Princo Bismarck derives an annual income
of $175,000 from various industries in which
he is interested.
They say that the. Duke of Marlborough is
very democratic in his ideas despite his lm
posing array of titles.
Budyard Kipling is said to have been jilt
ed by six London girls before he woofd and
won his American wife.
It is said that Susan B. Anthony will spend
Hie remaining years of her life in literary
work, in Rochester, N. Y.
H. W. J. Ham. the Georgia newspaper
man. has gone to lecturing and they say that
he makes $10,000 a year out of it.
They say that the King of the Belgians has
lost pretty well all his own private fortune
in the Congo Freo State business.
Governor Culberson, o£ Texas, is only
thirty-two years old. Ho is the youngest
man that ever held the office in that State.
Ex-Congressraan Stewart, of Texas, who
died recently, was admitted to practice in
the Supreme Court at the age of eighteen
years.
Mr. Charles Day Rose, the new America's
Cup challenger, is the son of a Canadian
baronet. His mother was. before her mar
riage, Miss Temple, of Rutland, Vt.
Rev. Elijah Kellogg, whoso “Spartaeus to
the Gladiators” has thrilled the blood of
generations of school boys, is still eighty-five, preaching
and farming, at the age of at
Harpswell, Mo.
Chattanooga has presented General H. V.
Boynton, to whose untiring exertions tho
Chickamauga National Park is mostly due,
with a handsome service of silver, compris
ing 225 pieces.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is talt. spare, ascetic
and business like. His intimate friends call
him Cornelius. William K. Vanderbilt, his
brother, is younger, jollier and happier. His
intimate friends call him Willie.
Theodore Roosevelt has made a collection
of all the cartoons about himself that he
could get hold of, and has pasted He them on ho
the walls of a room at his home. says
gets a lot of fan out of showing his “cartoon
room” to his friends.
The citizens or Isiip, Long Island, turned
out iD great numbers to welcome Captain
Hank Huff, tho skipper of victorious De
fender, home. " There was a big parade,bon- and
fires wero lighted nlong tho streets
bombs were fired in his honor.
IN BEHALF OF CUBA.
Sugestions of the Committee Appolnt
a a * **°" _
The following . address has been sent
ont by the committee appointed at
■»-■»-«»**was., cmo.*. ox
press sympathy with the Cubans in
their struggle for independence,
. .Appeal 1 ‘ to the People of the Uni ted
a states . . in „ Behalf , ,, of , Culm.—-Ihe . rn .
coin
mittee appointed by the Chicago mass
meetings on September 20tb. which
' vc ' re held i „i i to . express ... . .. sympathy .___ ., with .,,
tbe Cnbuns, earnestly appeal to their
fellow citizens throughout the union
p 0 ca n nimilar meetings ” not lat?r
than October .list, . and , wherever , ^
practicable to be held on that
,i ,/■ ay i n order that the movement may
aenve tne u Deuent u oi f suen . i simultaneous K j mn H anfln „ H
action as adding to its impressiveness.
As in Chicago, so doubtless iu other
cities ^eniUy a few citizeD8 ’ with
the co-operation of the mayor, can
readily inaugurate tho movement, and
elsewhere, as hero, the promptitude
and enthusiasm of thp response on the
part of the people will prove to be a
gratifying manifestation of the uni
ver8ft i sympathy for tbe Cubans now
braving . death A . u to . achieve „ t their jntle- .
pendence.
“May we take tbe liberty of sng
« Chtlu . ^ t to J 011 that luat .y°“ vou ca can u on on vour yout
mayor and confer , with turn as to the
desirability of inaugurating a similar
move ment? A number of cities have
already done this, and it would seem
desirable to have all thus take part,
L e fc us not say ‘It is no affair of ours,’
f these men are engaging e in the same
struggle , the ., founders , oi this .
as were
republic.”
GOV. CLARK IS WILLING
That Corbett and Fitz Fight Any
where in Arkansas.
It looks now as if the Corbett-Fitz
simmons fight will be pnBed off at hot
££***,*-£ unable fight
»re to prevent the it »
pretty certain hat Governor Clark
will let the pugilists punch each other
to their heart’s content.
In y epeaiungoi ki f tbe tneoriairro affair to a a news- news
paper reporter, Governor Clark said:
“You can sav for me that I would
not conV ene the legislature ? in special
session to , .lop . it li • they . 1 , ... »«r. to fight
in the statehouse yard.
His manner was so deliberate and
emphatic 1 that there could be no posei
ble . doubt , , , of , the , ^nmestnens earnestness nf ot tho the
governor. Governor Clark was m a
most amiable frame of mind and talk
. i Pn n/>prnine ® tlio latest r>hao« ^
o the situation.
“X do not really know anything
ak)OU t he began, “but I have heard
» great many r„m„r. about scheme, to
hold tho contest in Arkansas. It
locks, though, as if they mean to
bring it off at Hot Springs sure
enough. The fact that Mayor Waters
and City Attorney Martin, of Hot
Springs, arein Dallas negotiating with
the managers of the affair indicates
beyond a doubt that Hot Springs wants
it, and they will very likely get it.”
GEN. EVANS SPEAKS.
lie Talks of the South’s Record to
Old Comrades.
General Clement A. Evans, of At
] an ta, was the orator of the anuual
SSfttXS division^ 1 of B the
association of the Army of Northern
Virginia. He spoke in the hall of the
bouse of delegates before an audience
that packed the room and galleries.
]\i aDy D f bis hearers were men who
fought ° from Mannassas to Appomat
tox. a General , Evans tlipmw theme -was was “The ine
Contributions of the South to the
Greatness of the American Union,”
and his treatment of the subject was a
masterly effort. He was tendered a
great ovation as he was escorted to the
chair of the speaker of the house.
In the audience were the Richmond
Howitzers and the Henrico Light
Dragoons. Prominent among the
veterans were: Generals Hunton, Mun
ford and Rolling, Colonel E. M. Hen
ry, Colonel William A. Smoot and
Rev. Dr. J. William Jones.
USED A COWHIDE.
Lawyer Brown, of Atlanta, Whips
Two Newsboys.
The publication in last week’s issue
of the Kansas City Suu, a paper devo
ted to scandals, of an alleged libellous
article reflecting upon Mr. Julius L.
Brown, of Atlanta, caused that gentle
man to administer a cowhiding to two
news venders who, it is said, had sold
the papers in question on the streets.
“Roxie” Callaway and Joe Bowera
were the victims of Mr. Brown’s wrath
and indignation, Both were thor
oughly chastised and show marks of
the whip. Roxie Callaway baB em
ployed the firm of Glenn – Rountree
to represent him, and that firm will
institute a suit for $10,000 damages in
his behalf against Mr. Brown. Roxie
also declares his intention of prose
cuting Mr. Brown for assault with in
tent to murder.
_
Futurity Winner Sold.
Requitnl, this year’s futurity win
ner, was bought by W. H. Thompson
at Saturday’s sale of race horses at
Gravesend for $26,000. Orlando Jones
paid $10,000 for the two-year-old Haz
let and $12,500 for a yearling colt by
Iroquois Carlotta.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
1 he Industrial Condition as Reported
for the fast Week.
Tho reports ns to industrial condi
tions all over tho south for the week
ending Oct. 7, show that the condi
tion of the southern iron markets has
been strengthened by favorable re
ports from tests made of southern low
grade basio iron iu making steel. Ad
ding another grade of pig iron to the
grades already in the market, will in
crease business at the furnaces and
sustain the iron manufacturers in their
efforts to enlarge the business. Coal
mining is active and the demand is
fully equal to present supplies with no
sign of falling off in production or
prices. Lumber operators are doing
a good business. Railroad orders are
coming in quite freeiy, and the expert
demand grows larger from week to
week.
General business is active and prices
are lirm. Reports as to tho condition
of the cotton crop give no encourage-*
rnent, and the reports an to its amount
add nothing to previous reports. Ex
isting high prices for cotton are partly
owing to speculation and are in fact
caused by the certaiutyof a short crop.
Cotton planters arein no haste to mar
ket their crops. There is a goueral
belief that the market will not depre
ciate materially during tho season,
Merchants report that there is less
outstanding indebtedness among the
planters than li i ver been known.
Among important new industries in
corporated or established during the
week in the southern states are the
Tygert River Manufacturing Company,
of Woodruff, S. 0., capital $200,000, to
build a cotton and woolen mill; a rope
and twine mill at Bennettsville, S. C.;
Big Stone fmp Iron Co., eharter
ed at Lou sville, Ky., capital $150,000,
and the ' 1 ’ e ^ as briquette and Coal Com
capUal° 0 f §100,000° The PioiieTr To
a N^C.^the Lone^Starlce
Goldsboro,
c ^ capital $50 ’ 000 { at Austin ’
J Company, oxas » and with th , f thesame ? .... mston-Salem capital c Granite r' to open
* H Winston, Ya. There
reported the organization *\.
Cotton at ,) Vac ^ Condenser r T „ / xaB * °* Company, . the Improv capital ® d , 1
x, ’ ’ ft( . SMtcrit tGold Mir,is
^ aipa | 1 e ers nirg, r a., m • i
-’ ’
' ,J c > ap al ‘
Ihereisalsoreportedtheestablnh- . , . , . . .. ,
jng » of a fonndry nnd mnC |,ine shop at
kkerby, v p C., ot agru mtural imple- ,
ment works at Little lvock, Ark,, and,
.Dallas, ^ exas. of fertilizer works at
Charles o n, 8. C., and of flouring
mills at Winter Garden, Fla., and
Faith, N. C. Glass works are to be
built at Fairmont, W. Ya., an ice fac
tory at Rock Hill, S. C., and a brown
stone quarry is to be opened at Greens
boro, N. C. Cigarette machine works
are to be established at Richmond,
Va., a tobacco granulating machine
factory at Roanoke, Va.. and wood
working plants at Little Rock Ark.,
Moss Point, Miss., Black Mountain,
N. C., Georgetown, S. C., Berkley
and Houston, Va. Car works with a
capital of $500,000 are reported as in
contemplation at Macon, Gn.
Water works are to be built at Dub
Bn, Ga., Greenup and Paducah, Kv.
The enlargements for the week in
its capital, and the San Antouio sower
pipe -works, of San Antonio, Texas,
whose capital is increased to $200,000.
—Tradesman {Chattanooga, Tenn.)
TAMMANY HALL TICKET.
Platform Calls for Better Sunday
Excise Laws.
The New York democratic county
convention met Wednesday night at
Tammany hall and nominated the fol
lowing ticket: 1
Justices of the supreme court,
Charles H. Truax, Fredrick Smith and
Charles F. McLean.
For Judges of the court of general
sessions, Joseph E. Newbergand Gen
eral Martin T. McMahon.
For justices of the city court, Rob
ert A. Y r anWiok, John P. Sckuman
and Edward F. Dawyer.
For county clerk, Henry D. Purroy,
For register, William Sohmer.
William Sulrze was temporary ebair
man and made a brief speech in which
he advocated a liberal platform, llft
platform -without race, without creed,
without bigotry, without either.” puritauisw
and without Rooseveltism
BOONE IS BROKE
And tlie Macon Races are Declared
Off.
Ninety days racing meet of Dew
Southern Racing Association at Macon,
Ga., has come to entirely an abrnp
end. There will be no more races a
the park and purses for Monday n ul
Tuesday’s races, amounting to o'er
$2,000, will remain unpaid. Manage!
Boone, sole projector, proprietor » nt
survivor of the New Southern Racin„
Association, has flunked.
It has transpired, as many thong
it would, that Manager Boone h ft8n
the money, has never had, and no
likely to have. Consequently Manage
Boone is unable to continue the •
days’ race meet which was to do sue
wonders for Macon and depopulat«
northern tracks instauter.
