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Newspaper Page TextTHE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY NOTICE. ~ JV~A.11 aominauloktlona Intended for thli paper most be accompanied with the full name of the writer, not neoemarlly for pobU- satlon, but as a guarantee of good faith. We are la no way responsible for the vlewi or opinions of correspondents A. J. JKU\t(4\N, Proprietor. VOLUME VI. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1885. $1.50 per Annua THE MERCURY. Entered m s#eond-clA*s matter At tht I deravlll# Postofllce, April 27, IBIfc BandemLUe, Washington County, tta* rnausHKD ar A.. J. JERNIGAN. PaorataToa ahd Pcblishkb. NUMBER 15. Bubsorlptlon. ,.$l.w pte Tear municipal. tradi Mantr Mayor. Wu. Gai.i.ahbb. Aldermen. Wm. Rawlings, A. M. Mayo. W. H. Lawson, B. T. Wai,e>kr, Morris Happ. Clerk and Treasurer. O. W. II. IVaiTAKRB. Marshall. J. E. Weddon. town op' ti;nniu,k. !1 99 A 1! 11 1 cTtWaK'D s !. ’mu A NEW TIIKAT.MBNT Eor OonsnmpUon, AHthma, BronchIHs, Dyt | pepsis, Ostirrli, Headache, Debility, Hhcn- malism, Netiralgi., and all Clirorlo shd Nervous Dlnonlers. A. CARD ' J&.'.&'tSS^'* r ' r * i ”" — - <>\V't.J \.’ DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT. THU Is ANT MOMENT* AT Ills IIICOHII)!*:. Tin* llntvr NnldliT illtTls IIIm Fnlp Wltli Crtlitim*PN mitt l» iimt i«»n. Intcndant. John 0, Harman. Aldermen. J. F. Mrrkibon. J. I) I’ll A N KJ.IN, J. M. Brown. J. R. 1’lllTCUARD. Clerk. S. H. B, Massey. Marshall, J. C. Hamilton. A. C. WRIGHT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 105 Bay St., Savannah, Ca. Anti Will praotieo in nil tho Courts. U. I. IMftMH. JIMMKit ANDKHRO.Y, Lntv of Macon. HARRIS & ANBEKSON, A (lorn e.VN A( I HANDl'.HMVlI.l.E, (IA. Will practice in tin* Mi«lil!«• Circuit, nnd in tli. until-4 hiii intituling WiiHliingtoii. special attention given to Coiunietcial Law. (Jnti2J-ly E. S. LANGiVIAUE, Sttoi^cy kt L(hw 8ANDKKSVILLE, GA; > . I. * ’'.’HAD, | • l.utliurnu ObiMirter," Philndelphta. I'MM.AJ.KIJ’HIA, I’a., J.jhoI, 1883. ’ In r*gnnl .^sTiW::*'.' V ;; ’«ll Atari II. I). KVANR, J1L LVAWS & EVAftS. At torne.VH At, I.aw, BANDEIISVII.I.E, OA. F. H SAFFOLD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SAWDEdSVILLE, GA. V.Ti prncGre in all the Court* of the Middle * ! 1 ” ‘ " * in ili'' counties tmnoumling ■ i n. Special attention j ven to coiu- iiit i. I law. c. C BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Banderavllle, Ga. Win practice In the state nnd United Rtfttes Couro. office tu Court* bouse. r K. III.#08. o. H. Rl)(IKM HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, SANDERS VILLE, GA., Wjll practice In J n countips of Washington, JeneiMin, Johnson, Emanuel am! Wilkinson. [Hid in i| IM u s. t.’ourui for theHoulheru Dle- trlct <>f Oeotgla. Will net -in a. f.nUi tu buying, Milling or renting Renl KMtnte. Dftlcw on Want aid oof Public Hquart, Oct n-tf H. N. flOLLIFIELD, Physician and Surgeon, Kanderrvllle, €Hl Ur. it B. Hollifield, fitlltlil ill HUiOl, !l 'Viiii« renoutly graduated nt the Unlver- ' • i 0 i v I:eimI and returned home, now (:, i>• his proh">8ioiu>l HervleeA to the oltlreiif 11 'hii.IpisvIIIh and vicinity. Office with iM D N HoilirtcH, unxt door to|Mra. Bayne'n '*>' iii tiery store. iI»1h cumllvo _„ ,vjvuiai .si m •■|<N in t toil mi in |, l, h, ('ntarrli, AfOima, "te., and a wi.it. iai, K „ ,,( K un DHH. IHTAKKKY A PALKN, I IOII mid 1111 Girard Hi., Philadelphia. Pa. MUSIC, MUSIC GO TO— JERNIGAN IjIllUy Bows, Strings, Rosin Boxes, Etc. BUY YOUR SPECTACLE*, SPECTACLES, FROM J E R Ml G A K , (Vans genuine without onr Trade ftferlL On hand uud for sal* SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES. ETC. Watches, Clocks And JEWELRY B^SSSH^S; **w*«e™k i,av. i SERMON BY TMAAGB KKrAlRKD BY JEHNIGAIT, o. w a. w air Aker, D E r J TIST, SandorsTllle, Oa. THUMB CASH. Office nt his R* nrilS'l. 1880. DU. J. H. MAY, SANDERSVILLE, GA. pherB hiR Hervices to the citizens of flanden- v 'He and adjacent country. All calls, day or ''■kIh, will be promptly responded to. Office ?/ residence on Mrs. Pittman's lot, cornor diiniB and Church streets. jaul5-1884tf. J. S. WOOD & BR0„ General Commission Merchants, SAVANNAH. GrA. No commission or other expenses charged > consignments of Wool, Highest market price guaranteed at time o' nep2 , 84-ly Bale. Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, F0 ? KINDS OF MACHINES, for sal#, 1 will also order part# of Machines that get broken, for which new pieces are wanted. a. j. jehnio a rsr. Muxirnu IVntor (’un lors. Guaymim, snvs n letter from Mexico, is built of brick and adobe, the bricks bein'; very large mid (bin, something like the Homan brick in shape. They are very soft, and although there is no frost to alloct them, there is something in tho weather which causes them to erumblo away almost like so much adobe, Tito city lias no wells, and, ns yet, no water works, with tho exception of tho pipes of tho railway company, from w hich the houses of its otlicers, beside its shops and tanks, are supplied. The water carriers are a curious local specta cle. The public wells are at the upper eml of the town, and node Viupti Indi ans may he seen 1 hero all the day, null ing up tho water in buckets, standing on a staging beneath which donkeys are coming and going with enormous sacks of raw hide, riveted and water tight, hanging down almost to the ground on either side. When the donkoys arrive, the bags are llabby and light. The naked Yaqui above pours down the water in a glistening stream, and tho skins swell up until they hang heavy and distended, like a full paunch. Tho donkeys then depart down the Btreet into the town on a slow, deliber ate walk, tho largo water-hags swing ing slowly as they go. Scantily clad boys, happy looking, and brown ns berries, sit astride tho hind-quarters and kick their bare heels incessantly against the donkey’s Hanks. There is a bullock's horn in the bottom of each bag, and when the horn is pushed up it lets the water out into a bucket, also of raw hide. Water is sold for ono real (twelvo and a half cents) a bag, or by the bucketful for a cent or so. Alto gether these water-carriers are about as oriental in aspect ns anything on this continent, and tho lover of tho pictur esque might regret the establishment of the waterworks which, with many other new things aro to be introduced under the awakening of the land by railway. How Bronze Statues tire Last. A New York artist thus describes the process of casting or molding bronze statues: The statue is a seated female, half draped. Site has hare feet and raised arms. The drapery is full of nar row deep folds designated to show and emphasize the movement of the figure. The statue is cast in plaster as soon ns the model in clay is finished, and is handed over to a bronze founder—“art founder” lie will probably style bitnself. The lirst thing he will do will be to cut oil the arms, because it is so much easier to mold them separately. Then he will probably cut elf the body at tho lino of the drapery; then he will likely cut oil tho plinth. All these pieces he will mold and cast separately. They have to be then cleaned up with ehiicls, punches and (lies to remove the lines left on them by tho seams of the mold, ihe, latter having been made of many pieces lilted to each other in tile same way us piece molds are made in plaster. There is considerable likeness between babies and wheat. They bo! It are cra dled, raised, threshed, sold, generally ground up, often badly mixed, and even tually planted.—Pudi On the ”tat the condition of General Grant it Mount McGregor took a sudden turn for till! worse. The general expressed himself as feeling that lie could endure his condition of weakness but a short time longer, and then leqitested the physician to nduiinister a hypodermic injection of morphine. l)r. Douglas was not much inclined to grant * his request he< aUHO he believed that sloop and rest produced by artificial means would too rapidly drain tho vitality of the patient. Beside this, a let herein t«n- "•u y was developing in Hie case wini'h also tartuoiK'od the doctor ogaiusi giving morphine, | and moro thun this, Dr. Dougins prufrred that his patient iliould take food rather than opiate:!, and requested tile general to eat Tho sick man, however da- ; ciiaod, and insisted upon tho admin I i-tratioti of morphine. At length, to I satisfy the sick man, Dr. Douglas adminis- [ tried n portion of morphine which Gnnunil Grant bolieved to contain thnw minims f the drug. As a fact that quantity was not I administered, hut a slight portion diluted in | the usual three drops of liquid was in patted I into tho General s arm. Then tho sick man j grew mere quiet and seemed to sleep, and then It was that the physician left the cotta -e and reported his patient exceedingly weak. ! The quietude, however, was net protracted! Tho sleop which followed ihe giving of morphine as slated, was followed by hie- cotighing. Attompts were mode as tho af- t'Taooil was waning to give the general I rood. Ho joined In tho endeavor, but the I liiantlty retained was small. When the current of a goblet full of Ihe liquid was passing the general’s throat its own v dglit distended the throat and the food pa.eeal down, hut when tho last I lew mouthfuls wore being drained from tlm ' glass the welghtand fu!:..as of the liquid was not suillclorit to distend the parts and tle-y j •au.so the muscular power of tlie fatal. _ title up I hot and fierce, will, tho threat,of anotherdav of terrific temperature. At U o’clock the general managed to swal low a cup of milk, which ho retained He! seemed a Shade better alter it. Ho spoke at ■ times, ill a low litiskv whisper, ns 1 c hud spoken during Iho night, and once in the forenoon lie tried to write a note, but g..t further than tho dale. Ho was sustained with hypordermic injections of lirandv, and these temporarily brighten'd him. ( > n a strait dose of weak brandy mid water was oHero'l to him, but ho pushed it n^ide llo could not swmIIow. nnco in the night, prior to 8 oVlo k. he hnd i cnllutl for t\ li^ht to write by. Is whs m >t ! more than 10 In iho evrn*n ’ r t| ||, ,, y brought tho cnudlo. ns inTdid imho •> . v tnoniitig hours. Tho uonornl wrote n- «ry hall n pii^u ;m*l hnuilnl It to Colon’H u nit 1 “I havo attended to that, father,” sai l tho ! colonel. It ro for rod to some direction* which tho general had already piv<»u his u. “I never (drill forget that picture,” said Pv. Newman, who was present at tho l me. '•rile general, bonding over his writing, rlm'i flume of tho enndlo lighting up his tcaluros which in the past few days have assumed a Chiseled, right look T have not seen in thorn ! Lot tiro. Ills eves wore unnaturally largo, j end. ns ho lifted them tip, had a hunted, pm- ] ful look, distressing to sco Wt lie was * unto at ease in ndn I. lie did not frot and elinn is on soino former oe as ion* I think it \ evyr l likely that the (net that hi* I* is finished had mm li to do with his ipiieter mood." Notwithstanding his great weakness, i ten oral (Jrant’s min i to-day was for tla> i * t j part as clear as ever. Mo even nt ti id s noticed trifles. Al noon tho dock strmkll. ! “That clock does not striks’ right," wrote tli<> ■puierul tot’olonel I r <1. *• You ought to have it repairtsl.’’ Hliortly after *J o'clock thlsnftornoon, when i ho had been sitting for sumo timo with his I eves closed, he mi Idenlv op -nod them and said huskily, but distinctly: “I do not wisli anybody to bo distressed on my account ’ Solicitude for tho feelings of those nlxjut j him has lieen ono of tho eharactaristics of his long illnoHH. t'olonol l-'rod, Mrs. (Jrant, Mrs. Hartoi is, and Ulvsses, Jr., sineo ho eamo with his wife this afternoon, hovered about tho patient in the parlor continually. Jesse was j so distressed that ho could not romnin in tho • room but a low moments at a time. The ; general wore his skull cap, tho kerchief about his throat and tho dark-rod dressing gown, ild bedroom bad been entirely aban- d n».| J r : eids, l>r. Sbrndyand Ulysses, Jr., ar rived at 'clock / a Hpoelal train. Thev went al once *o the pottage and to the sick room, w hero t he dor loin mndon careful exam ination of the patient. At *4 o'clock all three * n111• • up to the hotel, and weroat once sur- t* unded by reporters. M»s Sarnia and shrudy («il v conflnnel.ill that Ur.Douglas hadhert- t fore sai.l. Thu general w is terribly weak, nnd wa> growing rapidly weaker every ino iieiu. i .r pul>e was fluttering, t hrmdy, Q'ld very rapid. It might be bouting 120 to the ipinute, and perhaps more, it was im- posdble to count it. None of the doctors was willing to make any prediction how long tho general might live, but il was evident they had grave doubts that ho would survive tWe 'J he • houi ily, beginning at <5 o’clock, went to ti e hotel i"!* dinner by t"’os. Drs. Shrndy, Douglas and Sunds haa another consultation «hon ly bolore 0 o'clock nnd found tteneral Urant s'.ill weaker, with Ins pulse at 120. Moon after this, while Dr. Shrady was at dinner, ho was summoned to another consultation, which found tho general still deplorably weak and obviously linking. An alarming feature of tbo gen eral's condition was tho continued recur rence of attacks of hiccoughing. These at tacks came ut frequent Intervals to-dny and ronimued to-night. They were weakening in them ’1\> and woro a striking evidence Tho a ph>> of losed because tho muscular power of tho i In oat . was insufficient to keep an open pas- I . igo. ’1 ho result was a season of choking and oughlng, with the injection of a portion of tho liquid at tho close of each attompt to ad minister tood. The condition of the patient may bo appre ciated when it Is known that within js-rlmps fifteen minutes after an attompt to adminis ter nourishment to him the general would suddenly look up with a momentary oxpres- | Don of bewilderment and inquire of his at- I t. ndant: “When are you going to give mo that food?" A half hour might elapso uud again the sick man would glance up as though having forgotten something i ho would have romemberod and ejaculate tho question: “When are you going to give me the food you spoke of {" uud 1 when told that he had just received food, but that more would bo given if desired, the gen eral would again fall into ft*half-unconscious doze and mutter: “Never mind. Never mind." Tho afternoon was sultry and almost breathless, with tho thormomoter registering eighty-live degrees. Thoro was no reviv ing elements in the atmosphere and tho sun went down after a day of sti lling discomfort, even to persons in good health. The general remained in his rocsn and was not dressed during tho day. Ho did not move except to rise when tho pillows kept constantly beneath him to prevent bod- j sores were beaten up and aired. Several times ho walked feebly to the cot in tho sick- 1 room while his resting-place was being thus aired and freshened. Mo the afternoon woro i on and at H o'clock Dr. Douglas cainototho| hotel to dinner. Tho Grant family woro thou dining. Dr. Nowman came up tho mountain on tho ! train arriving at «:lo i*. m. He joined tho general’s family at their table, and thoro Dr. Douglas reported tho general’s condition. Ho said tho patient was in a critical condition nnd ho would hazard no prediction of the fu ture, not even of the night. Dinner con cluded, Dr. Newman and Dr. Douglas re turned to the cottage. A light bronze had i sprung up with Die going down of the sun, and hojsj was expressed that the cooling air of the evening might rev • the patient. Colonel Fred Grant had been at tho cottage hut a littlo while after his return from din- mi. w in a lie was said to have expressed the belie*; ihul his .ubuv would not survive tho ICis Kyiliif Hour*. Dispatches from Mount idc<dvgor on tho I 22d wore to the following effect: Not u ray of hope scorns to have brighlcnud the t-icut household since the general's last and terri ble collapse of vitality set in. All last night and until the sun of to day kad nearly got above the distant F.astern mountuiiLs, members of tho family sat wearily by tho chair in which, with closed eyes and pinched, haggard fbaturos, the general sat, his breath coming and going convulsively, and his hands clin lied at intervals with the in tense pain wl.ich shot through his throat. 5iis. (bunt did not leave Ins sido until 3 o’clock in the morning. Then she went out on tho verundu, clad in a loose gown, threw herself wearily into a chair, and sat resting her head upon her bund. She went back after Dr. Douglass had dressed the general’s throat. it was nearly 4 o’clock then. (.’ nerai Grant had made a painiul effort to t;.!; • a little nouri.-liinenl, and had partially suc- <‘*‘«l'd. '• ‘- n he ’y asked IW a and the nurse Henry brought n candle. Sitting propped up in his chair, across the arms of which u writing board rested, the general feebly traced in pen cil n note which he handed to Dr. Donpl s who in turn handed it to Colonel Fred Grunt! It related to some family matters. W hen Ih.a task was done General Grant fell back again in bis old position, bis head banging forward and Ins cbm drooping upon Ids I,mist. Mis. Grant retired goon alter for a brief rest. Sha Lad sat fanning her dying husband nearly tho entire night, pressing her hands »o hn forehead nt times, nnd speaking a fow words to him. It was nearly <» o’clock when Colonel Fred went to bed. Dr. Douglas was with ihe general then, and had already telegraphed to Now York asking Ur. Sands to como up at once. It grew cooler toward morning. A fresh breeze sang cheerfully in the hemlocks about the cottage, and tho thermometer on tho ve randa marked only s, >mtv-two degrees. Tho hd k man seemed not tho least rein hod uy the coolness. Beversl times he begged t ha doctor to inject into his veins tho usual dose of morphia to ulleviute his paiu; but tho doc- ians said that Genoral Grant was sinking llcv.viiied ieath*ss. “ v\ uii'd you lik * t > lie down, father?” asked Colonel Fred GrauL 'i he general nodded, and tried to rise from Ins ( hair umiHMsted. He was not strong enough, and he sank back into the chair. The colonel nnd the nurse hel|>ed him to rise, and th('n supported him to the bed in the parlor, w here ho was carefully lowered to a reclin ing position, and lay partly on his face. Dr. Douglas rolled the chair back, and one of the physicians afterward remarked that the gen eral had lelt his chair for the last time, 'i he beliel was that General Grant hnd at length lain down to die. The I n mil v gathered nt the sido of the sick man, and again Dr. Newman, /it about the nuiih hour ns hist night, and at Mrs. Grant’s iequest. knelt beside the general and prayed, while the/!< •*'r • ’mo lv-un wlcit niwl. An hour pns-ed, nnd ueutti seemed u littlo less rapidly gaining on tho man it had pur sued just nine mont hs to-day. It is just nine months ago today that General Grant walked into Dr. Douglas' office in New York to > ”ek his professional aid for the cancer. 1’(.'tween in and II o’clock l*. M. Dr. Shrady accosted tho general nnd lie answered in a husky voice and promptly. St imulants wore being used but sparingly, and there was «x- pi'iTscd by modi al authority a belief tnat the ( losing crisis might occur either at 1 or 4 o’clock in tin* morning. At midnight bottles of hot water were placed at the general’s feet to induce warmth, and mustard nhisteis were applied over tho stomach and breast to preserve tho flagging circulation. Dr. Maims was resting at the hotel, and Drs. Douglas nnd Shrady were at the cottage with the patient nnd his family. At 1 o'clock the general remained in the same condition. Dulse and respiration were unchanged, and there was a feeling that bo might, tele over the midnight season of weak- no.-s, and until 4 a. m. Hypodermic injeo- tion- "f brandy were used. All ttie inombors of Die Grant family were up, nwuiting the ( m the morning of the i£4d, General Grant passed away in presence of his family. As a New York paper puts if, “he has loft his sor rowing relatives to mourn the loss of a dear father and friend, and tho country to do honor to the memory of a hero. “His respites from pain were taken advan tage of by him to complete his memoirs and to set, his house in order. He never seemed to give any sign of failing of intellect or expiring vigor, nnd, as Dr. Doug las said, he was dying for days with out giving any of tho ordinary evidences or symptoms of his own undoubted conscious ness of the fact. After a long and stormy life and an illness of the most trying kind the great soldier is at rest at last." General Grant leaves a widow, three sons -—Colonel Frederick Grant, Uly.-vsos M. Grant, Jr., and Jesse R. Grant—and one daughter, Nellie, tho wife of Algernon Mar- toris, of England. General farimt’H Itiiriul Place. In a conference in New York between the various committees and Col. Fred Grant, it was decided to lay the dead Genoral in the new Riverside Park. A strong protest comes from Washington against tho burial place, claiming that the General’s remains should rest at the soldier’s home. Jlis burial, after laying in state at the capital, at Albany, N. Y. t and C’ty Hall, New York, will be placed in a tomb at Riverside Park, attended with military and civic honors August 8th. PERSONAL MENTION. John Bach McMastkr, tho historian anil professoral Princeton college, is but thirty- three years old. Gknkral Lew Wallace, late United States minister to Turkey, has two novels ready for tho press. Bartholdi, the French sculptor, designer of the great statue of Liberty, is to visit the United Mtates in Meptember. United States Minister Phelps is said to bo the, best bird shot and tho most accom plished driver of a four in hand in v’ermout. Prince Albert Victor, of Wales, the prospective king of England, is,it is privately said, a very awkward and bashful young mail. Prince Henry of Battonberg lias become by his marriage with the Princess Beatrice bot h uncle and brother-in-law to tho Princess Victoria of Hesse. The emperor of Japan can trace his descent for 2.500 years, during all ol which time his family have been on Dim throne, iiis name in Japanese is “Metsuhito." Count Tolstol, the celebrated Russian novelist, has for some time past set aside his literary labors and applied himself to learn ing a trade—thut of a shoemaker. - Johnn Fiiugmnn, i 1- wile nnd throo-year- ; old non have died in Baltimore from trichi nosis, nnd a daughter is lying in a dangerous condition. The pork N\ax eaten on the 10th of May. David Scruggs, colored, who wns rr>. based on a itrit of habeas Corpus recently from tho Jail where be was routined on n charge of bnitaily aHxaultihg his little (laugh- ! ter, was vi ited by a l irge crowd of negroes ut bis bouse near Ibdlield, Arkansas. After Koine parleying they fell upon Scruggs and cut him ho hoiriblv with knives ami lazon* tl.atho has sineo died. —A most disastrous cloudburst struck a point a few mill s north of (Yilorado S; iiii^h, Colorado. It did serious dsma-c. ami it ih believed that many persons lost tin lr lives, being swept hWuv by tin rushing waters. —Tho bodvofM ss Garohne HtcveUs. who was drowned a few days ago at Port i n.*, whs found on the ( ttnndn -id" of the rl\. , it having b»e n * arrit <1 over the Horseshot* b ulls. Maud S tro'tcd a mile nt the Olonvlllo track of (Meveland, Ohto, in 2 11. Th l t< n« tion was to give her a warm mile, an l be was H’ lit to Die (list quarter poV* In (b.’HJ j. She was going ho sim othly that Pliir gave her D o i t in. Min she went the second quarter in OJiP-a and the last lmlf in i :04. V collision between nu engine nnd a fn ’; I train on the CliicHgo, Milwaukei and st. Paul railway nt MilwHukeu, injured live uainmen, ono of them fatally. —The English Government has determlneu to keep the English forces in Ihe Noudau ut Dnngola, possibly for a freHh campaign against the Mahdi. —A terrible storm of wind and rain swept over Paris. Cellars woro Hooded amt niauv buildings were damaged. A section of ono of the stri-eta sank into tho sower, ami twen‘y persons woro plunged into tho water. nt them were in an exhausted nnd dying con dition when rosouod. A boat contamiug •wolvo persona capsized on tho Heine, ami everal of them were drowned. In the De partment of Vosges seven houses and two bridges waru destroyed by the Hood. News from tho village of Mnntagndo, In the Province of Horla, Hpain. states that in eight days there havo been 210 deaths fioin cholera and 300 remain ill, out of a population if 800 persons. - It is longer doubted that tho Mnhdi is dead. A apelclal agent of tho late insurgent, who has often been sent cl) confidential mis- sions to tlm Egyptian Government, lias ar rived at Cairo, ami has fully confirmed the ie- poit tliat El Mahdi died of disease on Juno 22. The agent a-ivs, however, that the Mar- fare will be carried on ns vigorous v ns ever, and will reach Upper Egypt by tho end of this --There l as been a b n lh’o storm nt Torro (.’ajetiint, in Italy. 'i'bii te:*n peisons w. ra killed and twentv-two injured by lightning - Thirty persons who were Injured by the fall in Cologne, or two houses have beet* < tnietcd from the ruins. The bodies of bum . of the kilted have been recovered. ErmiT marriod men wcn» drowned at Yar mouth, Eiu: Inn i, by tho upsetting of tlm life bout m w.ii* li thev, with seven others, w. »*o goinj. to tin. tm -(■ r .... | j„ ,|, * r v or expiring vigor, nnd, as Dr. Doug Ins Haul, lie was dying for days with out giving any of tho ordinary evidences or symptoms of Ids own undoubted conscious ness of flu fact. Alter a long and stormy life and an illness of the most tr\ mg kind the great Ho’iPer is nt rest at In .t.” Goncral Grant leaves a wi-low, throe sons —Colonel l r (lcrick (Jrant, l’lv scs Grant, Jr., od .leva* R. (Jmni -nnd one daughter, Nellie, Dm w ife of Algernon Mar* tor Is, of Eiiglaml. The branch artist Schoenvcrke has com mittal suicide. He was u member of tlm legion of honor. larue force of Arab rebels attacked Knasala, but were ropulsed with it loss of b,0o0 in killcwl nnd wanmded. The garrison at Knssala, follow ing up their victory, cap tilled the rebel camp, with 2,000 oxen mid sheep and 100 riltoH. In nil Spain on the 2M there were '. , ,:!:57 cases of cholera, and Oil deaths from the dis- “Acting the Fool.* Text,t.Samuel xxii.U: “And heyhanged his elmvlor before them and feigned himself mad in their hands nnd serabblod upon tlm doors of the gate and lot his spittle fail down upon his beard." There is one scone in tho lifo of David that you may not have pondered. Yod haves *on iiini with a harp playing tho devil out of Maul; with a sling smashing tiio skull of Gollah; with a sword hacking to pieces tho Philistines; with a sceptre ruling a vast realm; with a s ilm gathering all nations into durology; ml in my t xt you have David playing t he . ..il. Do has been anuiuted king yet bo Is in vile an l passing incognito among the Gatb- ites. They begin to suspect who llo is and •>y . “1 wondor if this is not the Warrior Cmg DaVidI It looks liko him. is not this Du* man about whom they used to make poetry aiul about whom they composed a dance, so that I h")mnidens of the land.roofing now (»n one iootaiidnowon Die other, used fusing: ‘Haul hn* slain his thousands but David has >lain ids tens of thousands.’ Yes. It is very much like David. It must be David. It Is David." David to escape their hamli pretended to bo demented. He said within hiiuself: "Iflaet crazily then of course these people will not in jure me. No one would be so much of a cow ard as to assault u mad man.’’ Mo one day wiiile these Gat bites are watching David with increased suspicion, they see him stand ing by the door uud running his hands mean- iiiglossly up and down the panels—scrabbling gatlfef tlifl materlnl for the loiters of that won! Which dascribos your eternal home? Mffnll 11 bo Iron chain or mnarahthine garland? Tho air that stirs iho bri)wdnt6d lo ks of youf dying pillow,will it conic AtY a garden or n doserr? Oh, quit tho puzzling questions nnd try these momen tous questions. Quit f hw small questions and try tlioB o great questions. Instead of dis cussing whether tho serpent Iti Eden was flgurativo or literal, whether tho M«*liter- ranenn llsh did or did not swallow tho recre ant prophet, whether this nnd that nnd tho tftlfof thing Is right or wrong, como and dis cuss oho qftcstjuri, "How shall I get rid of my sins and win KdttfHtir That is tho question for you. Yea, there htivtf bewi men who havo actually lost their soil?* I^'huso they thought there was a discrepancy hrtweeit Mosee tt+r\ Professor Silliman—because they could not uiY(.**T**taml how there could bo light liofore the sun f6be*rt|ie light appearing in verse 3, of Genesis,nnd ttftfwm not appear ing until verso 10—and boeatHft' tMy do not know how the moon could stand still without upsetting the universe and because they hnd decided upon the theory of natural selection. lYfirtf Is that innn doing In Bowling Green, New York? U’ulb lie Is going in for a ticket for a transatlantic voytign. He Is quarreling et lire to ’ vain .1 portod number of El Mahdi, the Fa Iso Prophet, i to have died of smallpox. Eight incendinri s house s in Klin. Rn-si from Moccom , mkI pmj roubles wns dcstroyi d. -The Batignolles quarter (»f Paris, was visited by a -/vere lire. 'J’hc enullagration oc curred in a du , ri(?t occupied by carpet ware- I ion scs, carpi iU»t shops and other workshopH r.f various kinds, and «aa not extinguished until buildings covering live blocks Imd been dustrovi 1. While an excursion steamer was loading with passengers lit a pier at (Tiatham, Eng., the pier collap-* d, tlrowing into the water NO persons, tho majority of whom wero wonu-u and children. Many persons mho resuind half drowned and lmcoiiscious, and w**ro taken to a neighboring hoppitul, and many lost their lives. NEWSY GLEANINGS, Bkvkn negro train bands wero killed by tho ditching of a train at Suwanee, Ga. I A box oxproMed from Black River Falls, Wis., to Chicago excited tho suspicions of j tho express inessenger, nnd was opened nt Elroy, Wis. Inside was a man, heavily armed and with a bottle of chloroform nn t stout cords. Ho had evidently intended to rob the express car nt some convenient point, i 'The President ha# referred charges made against tho recently appointed Postmaster Jones, of Indianapolis, Ind., to tho civil ser vice commission, nnd Commissioner Thomnn and Chief Examiner Lymon have gone to Indianapolis to investigate the matter, it is ' charged that Postmaster Jones violatod t Id* •ivil service rules in discharging employes. The total values of the imports of mer chandise during tho twelvo months ended Juno .TO, 1885, were $577,470,860, and during the previous twelve months, $007,007,008, a decrease of $00,220,843. The values of tho i exports of merchandise for tho twelve months i ended Juno 30, 1885, wero $741,893,083, and for tho twcivo months ended Juno 30, 1884, were $740,513,000, an im r**aso of $1,380,074. Troops stationed at Marngossa, Hpain, where Asiatic cholora is raging with terrible virulence, have boon supplied with guitars to keep up their spirits. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Lancasters aro about the freest batters in tin* Eastern league. • The St. Louis U.*aguo club loads in one respect— being shut, out. Twenty-five thousand people witnessed a game at Toronto, Can., recoil*ly. The New York team leads the league in batting and holding, with ( hicago close briiind. Bennett's catching for the Detroits this year is said to bo something r markable—iho iin- st in tho league. There are actually some Chicago papers which consider Now York a stnuigor club than Chicago, and say so too “rigbl out m meetin’," as it were. It now looks ns if there would bo few moro, if uny, disbandment# to chronicle boioro the end of tho season. The Southern league is solid; the Eastern league bids fair to last tho season out, and the Southern and Eastern New England leagues aro ull in good condi tion. In tho Southern base-bull league thoro are 125 players, managers and umpires, engaged at aggregate salaries of perhaps $15,000 a month or $100 each. Of the clubs it is l>o- lievecl that Atlanta, Nashvillo, Macon, Au gusta and Memphis are playing profitable seasons in the order named, uud the other clubs losing. Henry’s talk, of usual, was confined entirely to base ball. Nellie had not usually shown much interest in the subject, but last evenir^ she evinced " r, bn•*.**<.: . “ Y.’!jO*i| player do you like best?” she asked. Henry replied: “Tho pitcher, by all means; don’t you?" “No, Henry,” said Nellie, with a sug gestive yawn, “1 prefer the short stop." Tho answer came so sudden that before Henry recovered his presence of mind lie was out in i tho street, with his hat crowded down ov. r his throbbing temples, und walking at tlu • rate of fifty laps an hour. i tiie door as though ho would climb up, Ills mouth wide u|>cii, drooling liko nn infant. I suppose the boys of the streets threw missiles at him; but the sober people of tho town said! “Tills is not fair. Do you not see that he hnl lost liL reason? Do not touch this madman. H inds oil’I llnndsolVI” Ho David es apod; but what an exhibition he made of himself iMjforo alia ;(*(1 There was a majesty in Ring licar's madness alter itegan and Goneril. Ins daughter, had persuaded hint to banish their •ister Cordelia, nnd all the friends of the drama have been thrilled with that sjbjcLic* ular. The era/mess of Meg Merrllies was ! weird and imposing and tin* most telling pas- sage in Walter Scott’s Guy MannciTilg. There was a fascination about tho insanity of Alex ander Crudon, who mad" the host concord- | nnOH of the Bible that the world ever Haw- made it between the madhouses. Home timo ago white I was visiting the insane attyluiuoa : Blackwell’s Island, a demented woman came up to me und said in most tragic stylo: “ God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perforin; lie plants his footstopa in tho Hoa, And rides upon the storm." But there was nothing grand, nothing weird, nothing majestic, nothing sublime j about this simulation on tho part of David, j Instead of trusting in the Lord as ho had on i other occasions, he gathers lieforo him a vast i audience of all generations that were to come, and standing on that conspicuous stage of history in the prosoncu of nil tho ugos, he im personates tli-* slav.*nng idiot! “And ho changed his behavior boioro thorn and feigned himself mnd in their hands, and scrabbled at the door ot Die gate, and let his spittle fall upon his board.” Taking the behavior of David as a sugges tion, I wisli to tell you how many of the wiso and tho brave and tho regal sometimes play i the fool. And in the Hrst pin* o I remark j that those men as badly play the fool as this mail of the text, who in any crisis of life, take their case out of tho hand of God. David, la I (his mho, acted as though there were no God i to lift him out of tho pr*Mlicuinont. What a contrast between his behavior when this brave little man stood up in front of the giant., ton foot in height, and looking into his face, said: “Thou comost. to me witii a sword and with a spo ir, and with a shield; but I cmno to Dioo in the name of the Lord of Hosts tho God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast dolled. This day will the Lord do- | liver tnee into my hand, nnd i will smite thee and Like thine head from thee, and I will give the carcass of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air and to tho wild beasts of tho earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel." Be tween that time and this time, when In* de based himself and bedraggled his manhood and affected insanity in order that he might escape from tin* grip of the Gathites. In tho ono case lie played the hero, in the other case lie played tho tool. Mo does every man, who, in the great crisis of life, takes his case outof the hand of God. The life of the most insig nificant man is loo vast for any human man agement. Once, while returning from tho v\ ost, I very easily got on the locomotive while pas mg over the plains, nnd talked with the englnoer, but coming on toward the Alle ghany mountains, I thought 1 would like to sit on the locomotive ns it came down from the mountains amidst that most wonderful scenery on this continent I asked the engi neer if l might ride, but he courteously denied me, for there the grade is so steep and so winding and so perilous that I l«o must not have any ono on tho locomotive ; who may divert his attention when oye and hand and foot and brain must lie concen- I trated ready for tho most sudden emergency. Well, my friends, 1 iI«» is so steep and so per ilous ami so exposed to sudden surpris s that I wilf Uiko a particular case, And ask whoft you think about that case. Ho bus been all his lifo amid Bibles and churches jo that ho* knows his duty. Christ luw offered to do aU for that man that a Divino Savior can offer to do for a dying soul. Heaven has bee'll of fered him, yea, been pushed upon him, .via yet he has not accepted it. and now he IB uo* Ilboratoly allowing his chances of life tojw away from him. What do you say of that ono? “Hallucinated." says ono, “Monomam- cal.” says another, “Playing the fool,” says another. Oh, how many thoro aro taking just that position? There is such a thing ns pyromanin, on insan ity which disposes ono to destroy buildings by lire; but who would havo thought that there *M n pyromanin of tbo Immortal nature, anil tliat any ono could bo bo struck through with thnt insanity, ns to hare a daslro and dtnmttion to consume the sornl! Awnke, .mnnl Awake, woman I from the phuntasin," real or affected. Tnkn ! 'heist, Kwn|ie for eternity. Just see what has lx»n done for you. I.ift the thorny t np from the (wow ot .Ii-sus and Sts' the price that WHS! paid for your lilwrution. book nt tbo side and see where the tq>enr went in fuel moved roi-nd nnd round, amid broken arteries, tho bUx’d rushing forth In awful sacrifice for your sins.- with Oh w?ap those ^em.d mulila.ed fect,,f the ! ffidtamp^ry^; r,J, Steamship company nnd lie Is quarreling wrop ever thhj lacernrion of Christ Oh fo» flhnut th, 1 , manner of the clerk who Lands him » t< '"?m,Z^'in 'throw ill down at, tho foot of a crucified and tlin ticket Hoit long ban lio been flooding thoro? Tltrco weeks, llommbilc, pcrlmpB twenty steamers havo gone oi/t pott nnd I hoar tho uliriuk of tho steam tug fh«t rotild tako him to tho last vossol that could bo/tf Irtm to IiIh engagement in London. otunin us all — , . . risen Jesus. Wo must ropont Wo must bo- liova Wo must bo saved. 1 cannot consent to lose my own soul; I cannot consent to ,o i have others loro their souls. Como with mw biill he stands nirlnsiu this summertime wo go down to . l| w beach and balho ill the waters, so now in Bowling Greon discussing tbo ticket. What j jut tw jola hands nnd wade down into tha do yotl my in regard to that man? You say summery sea of God's forgiveness. Roll over he is a forth Well, in that very way are UB| tides of everlasting love! Roll over ust ninny men acting In regard to the niattew of j Doar I*ord,wo knock now at tho door of mercy. tin* soul. They aro caviling about the atone-1 „ 0 t as tho demon? ml knock,not knowing wbak mont, tho ns I spots on tho ticket, nlioiit tho thoy want, but knocking nt tho door of iner- " tU oy becauso wo want to como in, while others run their meaningless hands up and down the panels and scrabble nt tho gate In tha nroiience of God and men and angels nnd fr*r of the minister who band# them tho ticket- about whether it liai a divino or human signature, add, meanwhile all their opportunities lor heavennrciwdling outof the harbor, and I hear tho last tap of the boll an nouncing thoir lust chance for heaven. Go aboard! Do not waste any moro timo in big** gliug and carping, and crit.icislng and won dering, and in the nresonco of an astounded heaven playing tho tool. I go further and say to you that tuom men play t he fool Who inulortAKd to pay out eter nity for time. Ho\V little earn do wo ?m>su>w upon tho railroad depot, where wo stop twenty minutes to dine. Wo dash in and we dash but again. We do not oxatnlne tbo architecture of tho building nor tho face of the caterer. Wo supply our hunger, wo pay our money, and wo put on our hat and toko our place ill the train. What is tliat depot as compared with tho place for which wo aro bound? Now, my friends, thin world is ouly u slopping place on tho way to a momentous destination; and yot, how many of us sit down as though wo had consummated our journey, as though we had come to tho final depot, when our stopping hero is as compared with our stopping thoro ns is twenty minutes to twelvo hours; yea, the one-hundredth part of a second compared with ten thousand mil lion years! Would Spain Hell US Cuba for a bushel of wheat? Would England soli us India for a ton of coal? Would Venice sell us all her pictures for an American schoolboy’# sketch! Ah, tliat would l>« a better Imrgain for Eng land, Hpain and V enice than that man makes who gives Ids eternity for time. Yet how many there are who aro sajring f “Give me the world's dollars nnd you may have tho eternal rewards. Glvo mo tho world’s np- platiso and you may have the garlands of God. Givo me twenty or lofty or sixty presence or uou ami n devil#, playiug the fool. none but tho Lord Almighty can guid engineer it, and our disasters come from the fact that we want to go up awl help tho Lord to manage tho train. Keep off the engine! Be willing to let God pull you where ho wants to pull you. You have no right for nn in stant t*> uiTeiidt r your sanity and manhood as David surrendered his. But your trust in God and lie will take you through and over the mountains. I very much suspect, that all the successful enterprises that w.*r.s over carried on and all the successful lives that have ever Doom live I, have been fully sur rendered to God. When the girl Victoria was awakened in the night and told that the throne of Great Britain wns hers, she said to the prolate informing her: “I ask your prayers,” and then und there they knelt down and prayod. Do you wondor,that though since ilia timo all tho thrones in Europe have fallen or been fearfully shaken, hop’s ►Linds is firm as tho day hIioascended it, and in ever., country under tho sun, wherever an Englisman hears tliat nnrne pronounced, li" to L like waving his hat and crying: ••••'oil save tho queen." That man, tlmt woman, who put that trust in (rod, will go through in triumph, while those who at tempt to -.rather under their own siqxTvision tho join de and elaborate ail’airs of their life, are miserably playing the fool. Herbert,t * ..if ii ;hink'T.plifiosophizedalwuit himself, philos’ijdii;e i about this world, phil osophized about everything, and then in his dying moment asked that only one word mi ;ht be cut upon Ins tombstone, and tlmt word “ Infeijcissimus”—most happy—d- | seriptivo of'the state of the lives und of the deaths of those who tako thoir case out of tho i hand of God. The only appropriate inscription for their banqueting ball and ( ejr equipage and their grave and Iho wall of their eternal prison house—“Infelicis- Hiinus.” in drooling, moral idiocy, they aro scrabbling at the door "f their happiness which never opens, miserably playing tho fool. Again, I remark Diat all those persons play tin* fool, as certainly as did this man of iho text, who allow tho technicalities of religion to stop their salvation. David was wise | about a groat many tilings, but bis cuttings up in tho text for a little while eclipsed his character. And [ know wiso men and great men, coinpot*a i* for all other stations, who are acting a illy and foolish pure in regard to the technicalities <>f religion. They ask us some questions which wo cannot auswer cat- 1 egorically, and so they burst into a loud guf- 1 faw. its though it is of nny more interest to us than it ought lo be lo them. About tho atonement, about God’s decrees, about man’s destiny, they ask a great many questions thoy cannot answer, and so they deride us, as though wo could not ask them a thousand questions that they cannot answer about thoir eyes, about their ears, about thoir finger nails, about everything. A fool : can ask a qu -t.ion that a wise man cannot answer. < >h, you caviling men? < Mi, you profound men! Uli, you learned men, please admit something. You have a soul? Yes. Will it live for ever? Yea Where? : You say that Jesus Christ is not a divino Savior. Who is he? Where will you go after you leave your law books and your medical prescriptions and your club room and your newspaper office—where will you go lo? Your body will be six feet under ground. Where will your soul bo? The black coat will bo off, the shroud on. Those spectacles will b * removed from vour vision, for the sod will press your eyelids. Have you any idoa that an oarthly almanac .describes the years of ' your lifetime? Of what stuff sbull I Ills .fiarrlatfs of «|nccn Victoria’s Yoimirmt llnnglilcr. A London dispatch gh*w the following par ticulars of tho marriage of tho Princess Beatrice, tho youngest daughter of Queeti Vic toria, to Frineo Henry of Butteuberg: Tho I*loof Wight was brilliant to-day with banners, Hags, llownrs and wroiKhs, and the gay dresses and glittering decorations of visitors nnd guests at the wedding pf Prin cess BcAhncc. The roar of cannon, tlin inusia of bands, nnd tho cheering of the populace* made tho duy soom like some great imi ionAl holiday, Tho bridal procession started from Osborne palace for tho church nt n quarter past 1 o’clock. Five band# of music: posted at different points on tho route,played at intervals. The arrival of tho queen with tho bride wo# heralded with cheers uud a royal salute. Tho pipers playod the march “Highland Laddie," and the Mpitlmad's nnd tho Molont’s gems thundered a grand salute. The queeu en tered the church on tho bride’s left. The Plinco of Wales was on Dio right of tho hrido. Tlie bridesmaid# followed. Princess Beatrice bowed to the guc-ison either side as situ ad vanced up tho aisle. Tho scene as tho qtioen p dressed in black, with lace, and wearing a miniature diamond crown, entered the church* was very impressive. Tho brido looked very pretty. Mho was dressed in ivory satin, with liouiton lace. Her hair was artistically ar ranged, and its oho t was made more charm- years of worldly successes and 1 don’t care j n g by a wreath of orange blossoms. Prince what become** of the future. I am going into l lefiry stood tlmt world uninsured, i take tho responsi bility. Don’t bother me nlH)Ut your religion. Here I havo tho two worlds before nio—this ono and tho next I have chosen tlda Go away from me God and tiugels and all thought# of tho future!" Men aro actually making that choice, while there aro others who havo done fur differently. Whon thoy tried to briho with money Mnrtiu Luther some ono said* ‘There’s no uso trying to do that—that Dutch beast cafe# nothing for gold." Whon they triod by giving him a cardinal’# hat to bril*o Bavonarola, ne stood up in his pulpit nud cried out, “1 will havo no red hut wave that of martyrdom colored with my own blood." These men chose Christ amid groat persecutions; but how many thoro aro in this day, whon Christianity seems to be popular, who an* ashamed of Christ and not willing to take tho hardships—tho seeming hardships—of his religion. And alas for them I For long after the crash of tho world’# demolition thoy shall find that in all these years thoy woro turning thoir hacks uj>on the palaces of heaven, scrabbling on the door of this world’s treasure house the saliva of a terrible lunacy on their lips—horribly and overwhelmingly playing tho fool. Once more 1 say to you that them men piny tho fool who, whilo thoy admit the righteousness of rulig- ion, set it down for future attendance. Do you know how many time# the word “now” occurs in tho Bible? Over 200 times. One of the shortest words in tho Bible and yot ono of the grandest in meaning and rami fications. When does tho Bibio say is tho beat time to repent? Now. Whon does tho Bible say that God will forgive? Now. When does God say is the only safe time to attend to tho matter of the soul? Now. But that word “now" melts away ns easily os a snow Henry stood at the south si lo of tho altur. und awaited tho hrido. After Wagner’s bridal march bod boon played tho Archbishop of Canterbury road •bo service, tho bride and bridegroom ro- spoilding in cloar tones which were heard throughout tlie building. Tho queen gavo the brido away. At tno close of the sorvioa Mendelssohn's anthem was sung. Tho queen. Prince Henry and the relatives on b »th aide# kissed tho hrido. As tho bridal part y left tho church Mendelssohn’s wedding march won played. A special Ijondon dispatch says that tho marriage of Princes# Brut riuo wus opposed by her eldest sister, wife of tho crown prince of Germany, and that Iho latt *r was not present at the wedding, nor wm an invitation sent to any member of the roigniug Gorman family.2 F00TLIGHT FLASHES. The quoon of Italy writoo theatrical critiques for an Italian paper. John MoCullouoh, the actor, has been declared a lunatic by a commission. The “Enchantress,” a pretty opera, seldom done, will bo revived by Alfa Norman. An early work of Beethoven, recently roa- cued from oblivion, is to bo performed at a Bonn festival next week. Another American soprano has made a hit in London. Her name i* Modora Henson. Tho lady is a well known resident of Chicago. The Curtain theatre in London, which is tnuntioued as far hacif as 1577, is said to hava been the first theatre to adopt a stage cur tain. It is reliably stated that Lnttu, the actress. flake in theevomng ram. Where is the “now" | Is worth close to $1,000,(J0U, the rusult of good of the dead of last year? tin* “now" of the Investment# of money derived from the dead of yesterday? Timo picked it up in it# j fttugo. beak and Hew away with it. Hwninmcrdain nnd ot her naturalists tell us there are insects which within the space of ono minute are born, fulfil thoir mission, colebrate their nup tials and die; but this wonderful “now" is more shortlived than they. It isa flash, a stroke, a glance. Its cradle is its grave. If men catch it at uil it is with uuick clutch. Millions of men havo lost their soul immor tal becauso they did not understand the mo mentum and the |R>ndcrosily of that one word. All tho strategic powers of boll aro exerted in trying to subtract from tho energy nnd emphasis of that word. Thoy say it is only a word of throe letters, whilo there is a bettor word of eight letters. “To-morrow;” Thoy say: “throw away that small word and take this other grand one;” and so men say: “Give us ‘to-morrow’and tako away from us ‘now,’" and between these two words is tho appiau way of death, and a great multitude throng that road, jostling und elbowing each other, hastening on swifter and swifter to die. For how much would you walk the edge of th<* roof of your house? For how much would you come out on the m<*st dangerous peak of the Matterhorn and wave your cup? You say: “No money could induce me to do it. 4 ’ And yet you stand with one foot on a crumbling moment nnd tho other foot lifted, not know ing where you will put it down, while the distance betwoen you and tho bottom of the depth beneath you no plummet can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no wing of lightning cleave. And yet tlie Bible tolls us that unless a man has a new heart he cun not get into heaven, and many are not seeking for that now heart, in Mexico sometimes the ground suddenly opens and a man stunding near Dio gap can see down an appalling distance. But oh, if now at your icet there should oi on tho chasms of the lost world, how you would fling yourself back nud cry: “God save me—now! now! now!" 1 groat you, my-brother, in the very gate o? eternity. Some of its mny live u longer and some a shorter time; but at tho longest 'life is so short that 1 feel w • all stand on tho doorsill of the great future. The s»«jM st.*p— ull Lite angels ol God cannot tin,!.* the <onse- qucuuos. Will your exit from this life be a rising or a falling? The righteous go u;>. The Savior helps them. Ministering spirits meet them. The doors of Paradise ojnm to receive them. Up! up. Oh, whnt a gran 1 thing it is to die with a strong faith in God like that which Stonewall Jackson had when in his ex piring moments ho said: “l^itus (.Toss over the river and lie down under tie* shade. ’’ But to leave this world unprepared is falling— falling from God, falling from hope, falling from peace, falling from heaven—swiftly full ing, wildly falling, forever falling. Mo it was with one who had been eminent tor his intel ligence hut who had omitted all preparation for tho future world and had come down to his last hour. He said to hia wife seated by his bedside: “Oh, don’t talk to me uhout pain : it is Die mind, woman; it is the mind, of all the years of my life. I never lived ono minute for heaven. It is awfully dark here,” he whispered; “it is awfully dark. I seek to stand ou tho slippery edge of a great gulf. I am falling !*' And with a shriek as when a man tumbles over a precipice, ho expired. Wise for this world, about all the matter# of his immortal soul he was his life-long J. Montoomery Bears, the young mil lionaire of Boston, is a fine amateur violinist nud plays in the choir of ML Mark’schurc.h at Bouihhoro, Mass. Johann Mtrauhs has completed hi# new opera, “Tho Gypsy Baron," and is now ar ranging for its simultaneous pryductioa in Vienna and Berlin. The company slated to como lo this coun try with Rnsma Yokes is part y amateur. Eustace and Claude Fonsouhy andBir CUwlfll Young ure the non professionals. M. BardoU, tho leading French dramatist, who is soon to sail for tho United Mtates, ex pects to remain in this country several months, but if lie likes tho uew world he may extend uis visit. Nilsson is about to make her first profes sional tour in her native Mw« den since she be came a great singer. Mho was born in a woodchopper’s hut, in tho forests of Wexio, forty-two years ago. Madge Wickham, an American violinist, bos given a series of concerts at Baden-Baden. The German papers predict for her a great! future. Miss Wickham is a Now Yorker and a relative of ex-Mayor William Wickham. Nilsson recently astonished a Paris au dience by appearing in silks of the Swedish national colors—blue and yellow—while on her nock, from shoulder to shoulder, blazed Swedish, Spanish, Australian and Russian orders sot in diamonds.” The theatrical seuson in London has been disastrous to all except three managers. From melodrama to furce, hardly anything has pleased tho public. One of Sims’ pieces, usually popular with tho masses, has bank rupted the house in which it was finely pro duced: tragedy with Mary Anderson lia# drawn very moderately, in spite of her fame, und Mrs. Langtry was so entirely neglected that her manager is said to have lost $20,000 on the omauroujuiit. How Peppers Grow. While at Penang, writes a correspond ent of on exchange, my gharra driver took me to see a Chinese pepper planta tion. Pepper is a very profitable crop. The vine begins to bear in three or four years alter the cuttings have been plant ed, and yields two crops annually for about thirteen years. It is an East Indian plant, rather pretty, but of r milling and untidy growth, a climber, with smooth, soft stems, ten or twelve feet long, and tough, broadly ovate leaves, t is supported much as hops are. When the berries ou a spike begin to turn red they are gathered, as thoy loose pun gency ii they aro allowed to ripen. They are placed on mats, and. are either trod den with the foot or rubbed by the hands to separate them from tlie spike, after which they are cleaned by winnowing. Black pepper consists of such berries wrinkled and blacked by tho process of drying, and white popper of similar ber ries freed from tho skin und tho fleshy part of the fruit by being soaked in water and then rubbed.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, August 04, 1885, Image 1