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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE.
II. D. SMITH. EDITOR.
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IVas thought to be a false
report, but lUOS found to be
true.
News brolie out among the
people of Worth county that
McGirt &
MePhaul
Were selling Goods cheaper
than any other merchants in the
county , which was investigated
and found correct.
how we ash the people of
Worth and adjoin 1 ng counties
to come and examine our line of
We Carry a Side Line of
Wash Pots,
Dinner Pots,
Stoves,
Stove Furniture,
j Plows,
Plow Gear
And All Fanil Utensils.
FURNITURE!
FURNITURE!
FURNITURE!
Crool^ery
—AND ALL—
Heavy Groceries.
CLOTUING!
We have a large lot oj
Clothing ” selected 7 jor the Fall
Trade, and we want to sell
ji them rapidly, „„„,V77., Wn e J oi,7
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theill at very low prices. We
can save you enough ot money
on one suit of Clothes to pay
]0r Coming to , lOUlan. D .
yOll
YVhon you want Hats, come to
see us. >
YVlien you want Shoes, come to
see ns.
YY’lien you want Suits, come
see ns.
YVlien you want Harness, come to
see us.
YY’lien you want Groceries, come to
see us.
YVhcu you want Stoves, come to
see us.
YVhen you want Furniture, come to
see us. salesmen,
YY’ehave good aud polite
JU-nq-ar. b.t fliat. when you come to see us,
......
^YVe'eaiTv'everything handsome in the HARD- File
WARE ' VAl “. LINE Jf from a
, .
to a Grim ° •
TOI3 A.CCO.
Everything from a pinch of Snuff to
a box of Tobacco.
Call and examine our Goods and get
prices. YY’e will take pleasure in
showing yon. of the best BICE
YYo have one
AflBUSin the country. Bring your
rough rice and let us hull it.
Have your corn ground here.
YYe will gin your cotton for yon and
then buy it or ship rt from our ware-
jIcGii & MePhaul.
THEY GET FIRST BLOOD IN OR.
GANIZING LEGISLATURE.
THE OPPOSITION FORM COMBINE.
Under Leadership of Kurtz tho Opposition
Have an Easy Time in Winning tho
| First Day’s Onslaught.
The Ohio legislature convened at
Columbus Monday at 10 o clock a. m.
Owing to the interest taken in tho
senatorial fight, both tho senate and
ho „ eg » u „ ic ,« relhro „ Brf |„ Dgbe .
fore tho hour for the session to begin,
The confidence both sides proclaimed
was reflected in the partisans of Kurtz
and Hanna ns they gathered on the
battle ground and was made pro¬
nounced when the members began to
tile into the assembly room.
It required an hour to examine the .
credentials and swear in the 109 mcm-
hers of the house, but the thirty-six
senators soon qualified.
| All were present in the senate cham¬
ber except Senator Burke, of Cleve¬
land, the republican who is opposed'to
Hanna,and Senator Voight, the fusion-
ist from Cincinnati, lmt even then the
vote stood 18 to 17 in favor of the
democrats, who elected all of the
officers.
j O. S. Cassel, democrat, was elected
j chief clerk over A. C. Caine, republi¬
can, llie latter having expected re-
election by Burke’s presence, although
Burke would not support Hanna.
As Senator Burke was absent and
could not be sworn in, Thaddeus E.
Cromwell, democrat, was elected pres¬
ident pro tern of the senate, but it is
understood that he was to give way to
Senator Burke for that place as soon
■ as the latter arrived to take his place.
Thus the management of the Hanna
senatorial fight was completely routed
in the organization of both senate and
house.
The republican anti-Hanna men w ho
refused to support the Hanna house
slate were:
John I’. Jones, of Stark county; II.
O. Mason and M. F. Bramley, of Cleve¬
land; J. E. Griffith, of Union county ;
James Manuel, of Dayton; D. O. Ru-
tan, of Carroll county; James Joyce,of
Cambridge; ,T. C. Otis, of Cincinnati,
and YVilliam A. Scott, of Fulton
county.
Combining with the democrats, the
anti-Hanna republicans controlled 5G
votes, a majority of three votes. On
every office the voto was the same,and
one after another of the nominees on
the Hanna slate w r ent down to defeat
before the anti-Hanna fusion.
Hisses and cheers from the lobby,
as tho votes were cast, caused "such
uproar at times that Secretary of State
McKinney, who presided, repeatedly
threatened to clear the hall. So in¬
tense was the feeling that violence was
feared and a force of police officers was
on hand, but their services acre not
needed.
Tho anti-IIanna managers regard the
result as a strong point gained in tho
senatorial election that they.have one
of their number in the chair to rule
on matters pertaining to the election.
In the senate, Vernon J. Burke, the
anti-Hanna senator from Cleveland,
was absent. Senator Voight, the fu¬
sion republican from Cincinnati,
though elected on the democratic
ticket, voted with the republicans on
every vote, but with Senator Burke
absent the democrats controlled the
body and captured every office. Every
vote stood 18 democrats to 17 repub¬
licans.
RAILROAD FORSAKES AMEKICUS.
The Georgia and Alabama Removes Its
Offices to Savannah.
The ( teor e ia an<1 Alabama railway
lias made 1 a clean sweep in the removal
of its offices and heads of departments
from Americas to Savannah. YVlien
the main offices were removed recently
the officials allowed the departments
rcmailI in Ame ri<ms, but Monday an
order was given for their removal also.
This takes away everything except
the shops, which remain by virtue of
$25,000 paid by tho citizens of Ameri-
CUff f„ r tlieir location. Citizens are
making a stubborn fight in the courts
over removal of the general offices
in violation of the company’s charter.
WILL TRY ESTER HAZY.
Military Governor of lOiris Orders Court
Martial for .Jan. 10.
A special from Paris stales that Gen¬
eral Saussier, the military governor of
Paris, has decided to try Major Count
Esterhazy by court martial behind
closed doors on Jan. 10.
Count Esterhazy is the French offi¬
eer on the retired list who at the time
..... , , .
he .™ th e “ uth ? r ot an •“‘onymous
note which . played a prominent part in
the court martini of Alfred Dreyfus,
j the former captain of French artillery,
sentenced to imprisonment for life
nfter h avi “« convicted of selling
,m P° rtant ( mlhta *y t )lanfi ’
WILL ACCEPT THE CUT.
Twelve Thousand New Hampshire Opera¬
tive* Will Not htrike.
i Tne Amoskeag, Stark and Armory
cottoirmanufacturing corporations put
t p e no tices of a 10 per cent cut, which
were posted abollt two wf; eks ago, into
ASHBURN. WORTH CO..CA.. FRIDAY. JANUARY I. 1898.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
. Many New Industries I'lHtabllslied Piii'ing
the l*nst Week.
Tho volume of business for 1897 was
very satisfactory to southern manufac¬
turers and dealers, being larger than
for several years, and correspondents
throughout the south report most,
favorable prospects for the new year.
The iron jurrket is firm with an in¬
creased demand, (ho contracts for tin -
ished material being unusually large
for tho season. Southern iron is
moving freely with promise of grentoi
activity when tho spring tnuTo opens.
The export trade continues good with
iu 'l U ' fttio ' M of aheav .Y iumswe.
ingi aro l)etter tUftu } (>r llv( , years;
financial distrust no longer disturbs
and the outlook for 1898 is most on-
couruging for the industrial develop¬
ment. and business prosperity of our
southern country.
Among the most important, new in-
dustries for the past week are tho fid-
lowing: Tho Belton Construction &
Surety Co., Charleston, YV. Yu., a
$10,000 distillery at Pant, Ky.; the
Kerrvillo Electric Right, Heat and
Power Co., capital, $100,000,Kerville,
Texas; a $10,000 electric light plant at
Kiugwood, \V. Va.; a $40,000 (Inuring
mill nt Florence, Ala., and others at
Bee Spring, Ivy., and Rrownville,
Tenn.; a rod mill at Ashland,Ky.; llie
St. .Too Mining Co., capital $58,400,at
Little Bock, Ark.; the Tahloneka Min-
ing Co., capital, $150,000, Burlington,
Ky., and the Richland Coal Works,
capital, $50,000, at Wheeling, YV. Va.
The Butler Cloy Co., capital, $80,000,
has been chartered at Butler, Ga.;
cement works at. Valley Station, Ky.;
the Shawnee Oil Mill & Gin Co., cap-
ital, $100,000, Shawnee, Texas; cotton
mills will he erected at Blackford,
Ark., and Griffin, Ga.; a knitting mill
at Crockett, Tex.; iv six-mill tin plant
to cost $180,000 at Wheeling, YV. Vu.,
and a $30,000 cigar factory lit Port
Tampa City, Fla.
Woodworking plants will bo estab-
lislied at Fish, Fla., Beaumont., Texas,
and Berkeley Spring,YV. Y r a.—Trades-
man (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
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MRS. DAVIS INVITED.
Wife ji ml Daughters of Confederate Chief¬
tain Will lie at Keiiuion.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is to lie the
gnest of the United Confederate Vet-
evans association during the reunion
at Atlanta, Ga., next July. She has
been invited and has accepted. Miss
Winnie Davis and Mrs. Hayes, also
the daughter of Mr. Davis, lias been
invited and she and her two children
will he present. The invitation ex-
tended these three ladies did not come
from any one camp of veterans. Every
camp in the state joined in extending
a special invitation to the widow and
the daughters of the Confederate
chieftain. A special train will he sent
to these distinguished guests, and an
escort of veterans will accompany
them to Atlanta.
The escort will be composed of vet¬
erans from the various camps of Geor¬
gia. Already there are a large num¬
ber of old soldiers who are applicants
for positions on this escort. will
Mrs. Davis and her daughters
be the central figures in all of the
receptions tendered the veterans and
at all of the meetings of tho associa¬
tion. There will he a number of re¬
ceptions gi' en in honor of Mrs. Davis,
Miss Davis and Mrs. Hayes. Just as
many attentions as can be crowded
into a few days will be shown them.
GEORGIA’S ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN
]Yf i*m. Milled^e, Wife of Former Librarian,
Succeeds MJh.h Jewett.
Airs. John Alilledge. wife of Geor¬
gia’s former state librarian, lias been
appointed assistant librarian and in¬
stalled in office.
Airs. Alilledge succeeds Aliss Sarah
Jewett, who was appointed to fill the
unexpired term of Aliss Ellen Dortch,
who resigned upon her marriage to
Gen. James Longstreet. There were
a number of applicants for the posi¬
tion, and a most active canvass was
held. Tho salary of the'position is
$800 per annum.
Airs. Alilledge’s appointment will
meet with general approbation. Cap¬
tain John Alilledge, her husband, was
librarian many years, being first ap¬
pointed by Governor Gordon, and it
was a deserved compliment on the
part of his successor, Air. Brown, in
appointing Airs. Alilledge to the place
of assistant.
NO AGREEMENT EXISTING.
KoH.la Will OUtulii Uii) Cight. To I'.'nti-r
Ad GltJna’s Towns.
The Daily Graphic (London) claims
to have authority for the assertion that
no agreement exists between Russia
and Germany with regard to China;
that Germany occupied Kino-Chan
without Russia’s cognizance, and that
the occupation annoyed the advisers
of the czar. A dispatch from Peking
sayH:
“The arrangements with Russia for
the guarantee loan are actively pro¬
ceeding, and v- hen completed the Rus¬
sians, on the plea of surpervising the
collection of the land tax, will obtain
the right to enter every pa/ t of the
empire. ”
HANGITLLY AGAIN IN (TISA.
B(*gi«ier«(| Under Assumed Name and
Creates Suspicion.
Major General Julio Sanguilly was
a passenger on hoard the Ward line
steamer Saratoga, which arrived at
Havana Monday. He says he is going
on to Tampico, Alexico, but the fact
that he is registered under an assumed
name gives rise to the belief that he
intended to land secretly during the
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ID! fill: in (111
TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE WERE
CROWDED I RON IT.
DEATH STRUGGLE WAS FEARFUL.
Horrible Catastrophe Occurs In the Town
of London, Ontario -Many Dead
Bodies Heeovorod.
Thirty persons are known to have
been killed and many injured by the
collapse of a Iloor in the city hull at
London, Vint., Monday night. The
day closed the municipal campaign
and the hall was crowded to hear the
address of the successful candidates,
At midnight twenty bodies had been
'^en . , from „ „ the wrecked , _ building , .... and ,
identified.
How many were injured will never
be known, as those who suffered but
slightly at once made for their homes
or were eared for by friends. Those
who were more seriously injured were
carried to neighboring drug stores,
whence they were taken to the hospital
or to their homes after their injuries
had been attended,
The dead were taken to the oomniit-
tee rooms of Alderman Parnell, (lie
defeated candidate for mayor, directly
across the street.
At the close of the polls a crowd
gathered in the city Hull, where it lias
been the custom for years past, for the
successful candidates to address the
electors.
The building was crowded to the
very doors, probably 2,000 people be-
ing jammed in its narrow spaeo. In
response to numerous calls R. M.
Tootho was pushed forward to the
platform on which the speakers stood,
As ho reached it, there was an omin-
mis cracking and the raised platform
on which the mayor and newly-elected
aldermen were seated seemed to pilch
forward to the Iloor.
There was a sagging of timbers and
the next moment one hundred and lit’-
ty pooplo were hurled twenty feel to
the Iloor below. A beam running
twenty feet along tho center of the
hall had given way and the crowded
jhh HS standing above that, section of
the floor was throw in a heap to the
| )()U((111 _ A large safe stood in the
^niuei' of the hall, and with a huge,
steam coil, weighing half a Ion, came
crashing down on the heads of the
v j c( j mB
Following the crash there was a
wil( | ,. ns |, fm . t!l0 q oorg , At tbo south
,j ()or| where the majority of the crowd
mitered, there wasu terrible panic,
'|'i 10H() j n front wore thrown down by
(] l0 oncoming rush, shrieking and
fi g i,ti„g for tho door and safety,
Allbough the platform on which the
speakers of the evening wore standing
was apparently the first thing to give
way, the mayor-elect and many alder¬
men escaped the death that overtook
so many others who followed them in¬
to the lower portion of tho building.
STICK OF WOOD WAS “LOADED.”
Exploited In Fireplace ami Injured Five
of a Family.
At Charlotte. *N. (!., Monday even¬
ing, while the family of Ed Rose-
borough were seated around the fire¬
place in their home on Month College
street, a stick of wood was thrown on
to replenish the fire. there terrific
Almost instantly shook the house was a like
explosion that an
earthquake. A perfect broadside of
bullets rained from the fireplace.
When the smoke cleared away and
the extent of the damage was counted
up it was found that everyone of the
family of five had been seriously
wounded.
Roscborough’s wife was shot in the
neck and thigh, a seven-year-old child
was shot, in the stomach,* an older
child was badly wounded in both
shoulders, a younger one had his hand
blown oft and was shot in the mouth,
the other child was wounded in the
eye, the bullyt destroying the sight.
A nearby wooilyard has suffered
from numerous thefts lately, and it 1 h
supposed tho log was loaded to eat eh
the thieves.
The offense of preparing an infernal
machine is a state penal offense, but it
is almost impossible to prove who
“fixed” the loaded log.
WANT MRS. NOBLES HUNG.
Twl#j£M County Citizens Are 'lin’d of Delay
and ExpeiiMe To Taxpayer*.
A party of Twiggs county, Ga., gen¬
tlemen visited Macon Monday to see
if some means could not be devised by
which Twiggs county could be rid of
the expense of Airs. Nobles and Gns
Families. T hey stated that the people
of Twiggs were tired of paying the
board of these two prisoners after they
had been found guilty by every court
in the land.
These gentlemen said that since
Twiggs had been the scene of so many
criminal trials the tax rate hud been
increased to double the former price.
They found that nothing could be done
until Mrs. Nobles was sentenced again.
COSTLY BLAZE IN WASHINGTON.
Property to tint Amount, of D«‘-
Kfro.yctl by Fire.
A big tiro in the heart of the town
of YVasliington, (la., broke out Mon¬
day morning, just before day.
The large Franklin aud King build-
ings were burned, and the stores of
A. Franklin, R. 11 YVootten aud YV.
Af. Hill, all dry goods houses, and J.
F. Jones’ ->g store were completely
destroyed. Alt total loss is about
$60 ’ 000, with $35,000 \ insurance,
NOW GREATER NEW YORK.
Eiistouoo of Three (itlea Glutted Out,
With the OUl Your.
A Now York special says: When
tho elook struck 12 Friday night
throe cities censed to be, and there was
sprung into existence tho greatest
municipality in the new world and the
greatest, in many respects, in the old,
for, except in point of population,
Now York outranks London. It con¬
tains more different kinds of people,
more religions, more varied business
interests and more sorts of newspa¬
pers than the English capital. It gets
up earlier in the morning and stays
awake later at night.
In one way or another arrangements
were completed for a thousand and
one different kinds of celebrations and
events to mark the passing away of
the old and the birth of tho now year,
which meant so much to tho homo¬
geneous community. New York
whooped things up with parades,
carnivals, mask halls, bicycle races,
prize lights, speech-making and other
affairs calculated to meet the tastes of
all.
Brooklyn held a wake and watered
the corpse of that one time cheerful
eily with tho tears of all its citizens,
'l liis was entirely proper, because it
looked as though the only figure
Brooklyn is ever likely to cut in the
new commonwealth will be a cipher.
Bong Island City did the best, it could
to keep itself in public view, and tho
Hon. Patrick Jerome Gleason defied
anybody to oust him from the mayor¬
alty. Patrick says that ho only got
four cards in the recent deal, and
wants tho legislature to stop the game.
PORTS WILL RE OPENED.
lYpylpr'fl Edict Against Tobacco Expor¬
tation To r.c Abrogated.
Advices from Havana state that
there is great rejoicing in t hat city
among the tobacco tradesmen and
business men generally over the in¬
formation which comes from head¬
quarters that, the port of Havana will
bo opened lo exportation.
The edict of YVeyler issued May 14,
189(1, will he revoked. Blanco has
already written the order for tho port
to lie opened, and it will bo promulga¬
ted nt tho proper hour, his news
comes through u strictly private source,
but tho positive statement that tho
port, will open as mentioned is made
by an offieer close to lllnneo, and there
can be no doubt as to its truth.
Nothing lias happened during tho
struggle on the island that has offered
such hope and joy to (ho people of
Havana. When Weyler closed tho
port on exportation of tobacco there
was a cloud of despair over tho com¬
mercial interests thorn. Business was
paralyzed, Rich men were made
poor, and many of the wealthiest to¬
bacco merchants gave up in despair
and left Havana, thinking the end had
surely come and that the business of
(Tuba bad been doomed for years.
Nothing caused such widespread in¬
dignation in the United States in the
whole career of Weyler as did this
edict shutting off the tobacco supply
to that country entirely and endanger¬
ing the investments of millions of dol ¬
lars which had been rnado in cigar
manufacturing enterprises in tho
states.
CALL FROM SALVADOR.
Our €ohhh1 There AhKh For u Warship.
Devolution Th rent emu!.
A special from YVasliington says
Salvador is threatened with another
revolution. To protect American in¬
terests, the navy department, upon
the request of the state department,
has telegraphed to the gunboat Mari¬
etta, which is ut Mare island, direct¬
ing her to proceed as soon as possible
to La Libertad, and remain until fur¬
ther orders.
The importance of this action will
bo appreciated when it is understood
that the Marietta was being fitted for
service in Chinese waters.
The information upon which the
state department acts came from John
Jenkins, consul at Half Salvador, who
cabled: “Tho condition of affairs in
Salvador is alarming; send warship.”
The navy department does not ex¬
pect the Marietta to leave Mare island
until early next week. The gunboat
returned only recently from Sitka,
Alaska, and her passage was marked
by two cyclones, through which she
steamed admirably, but suffered slight,
damage. coaled.
Him will also have to be
The distance to La Libertad is about
23,80b miles,and it will be covered by
the gunboat in two weeks.
WANT ACTRESS TO RETURN.
< liHJh-sfon iVopht Will T«:ii<l«i*
iVli.HK Lu.’tittt a Grand Hall.
J’romi (lout society people of (diaries-
ton have begun raising money by pop¬
ular sub; oription to have Hoyt’s “A
Stringer in New York” return to
('hal lo;-ton, to sliow Alins Crane, the
loading holy, that the city is in full
sympathy with her in the recent sensa¬
tion at the Citadel hop.
It is further proposed to give Aliss
Crane a grand ball, with leaders of
llie four hundred as chaperons, but
with tho elimination of Mrs, Lewis,
who raised the row.
Strong efforts are being made to get
Alien Crane to return for the perform¬
ance and the bull.
DISTILLERS COMBINE.
Half Million Harrdd# of WI»i#kJ«?» Will He
Tut In Fool.
Leading Kentucky distillers have
inaugurated a movement for a pool of
‘ h,l BBt 11 .
, claimed f that u<M " 0,H> P barrels of whisky ,
' vl1 V® >” lt ,,0 j L A common
! ‘^nbutor will be employed.
ihe whisky irms at Cincinnati, St.
j Bourn, _ 1’eona Chicago and other place*
interested in the enterprise.
VOL. VI. NO. 22.
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is
CAUGHT IN BURNING HU 11,DING
AND ROASTED AI.IYE.
JERSEY CITY SCENE OF TRAGEDY.
Bodies of Father, Mother and Four Chil¬
dren Horribly Disfigured Two Other
People I bully Burned.
Six members of one family were
killed by ilames and smoke in a tiro
that occurred early Sunday morning
in Jersey City. The dead are:
Adolph Reich, forty-two years old,
the father.
Emma lteieli, forty-two years old,
the mother.
Tillio Reich, twenty-two years old.
Ida Reich, fifteen years old.
Albert Reich, fourteen years old.
Gustav Reich, eight years old.
Several others were injured and it
may to that another member of the ill-
fated family will die. lie is the nine
teen year-old son and his body is cov-
ered with burns.
John Conway, chief of the Jersey
City lire department, was very badly
burned, lie fell this u<li a burning
door and was rescued with difficulty.
Adolph Reich’s homo was at ill 7
Germania avenue. He was a real es¬
tate agent and well to do.
It is believed the tiro broke out from
a boater in tho basement, and it work¬
ed its way up to the third iloor, where
tin! sleeping apartments of the family
were located.
I lenry Reich said it was Into when
the family retired, the evening having
been spent in entertaining New Year’s
callers. Fairly in the morning ho was
awakened by shouts.
Several engine companies responded
promptly to the alarm and ten minutes
later tho fire was out. Then began
the search.
The rays from the firemen’s lanterns
disclosed three charred bodies against
the wall at the foot of the stairs.
They were those of Adolph Reich,
his daughter Tillio and little Gustav.
Tho father had fallen upon the daugh¬
ter and his son was in his arms.
They were burped almost beyond
recognition.
In the basement ot the house the
searching party stumbled over the re¬
mains of Ida and Albert, two blacken¬
ed corpses with arms entwined. Por¬
tions of the limbs had been entirely
burned away and llie faces were ter¬
ribly distorted.
'The mother was found in the dining
room. She was but slightly burned.
Ib r face showed no look of pain. She
undoubtedly died from suffocation.
RUSH NELL ENTERS CONTEST.
Ho will Malm Nminliirlal Knew Aa«lii»t
IVlink llamm.
Governor liushmdl in nil interview
at Columbus, <)., Saturday afternoon,
made the first announcement of his
candidacy for the United Hiatts sens
torsbip to succeed Senator Hanna,
lie sail I:
“I am a candidate only in the sense
that I want tho members of the gen¬
eral assembly to settle it for thorn-'
selves. If I have any political right future, The
I want to rest, upon it now.
people of this state, in my opinion,
are tired of bossism. 1 am blamed
because my appointees are hero, some
of them working against Senator Han-
im. Tho city is full of federal em¬
ployees from Washington working for
him, arid nothing is said about that.
“I am tired of this attempt, to
hold me up. It seems to me that I do
not owe anything to Senator lbriia
after the way I was treated by him
and his friends in the last state eum-
paign. Hanna’s friends think
“If Senator
they can scare me by threatening to
stop tho inauguration exercises, they
urn simply mistaken in their man.”
COTTON mil ANNEX lUIRNS.
I lye House of the McAden Company Goes
I/p In Smoke.
The tlyo liouHtt of tho McAdcn milln,
one of the largest cotton mills in the
south, located at MeAdensvillo, N. C.,
twenty miles from Charlotte, was de¬
stroyed by lire last, Sunday. The loss
is placed at, $10,000. Tho origin of
the fire is unknown.
COVIN’ declines to serve.
Selected IIy lllanco iih a Member of New
Cuban Cabinet.
Honor Antonio Govin, of Atlanta,
Ga., who was selected by General
Blanco as a member of tho new Cuban
cabinet, will not accept the office.
“It would bean indignity,” he said,
warmly, “for a Cuban to accept office
under such circumstances.”
Thus the new cabinet, which was
destined to do so much for Cuba, finds
itself disrupted because tho member
from Atlanta is not in harmony with
the method of its appointment, nor
has any confidence in the result.
“The Cuban army should remain in
the field,” he continued, “until it has
accomplished all its purposes.”
GOLD IN PLENTY.
World’s Product Incrra.ed I,veiny Per
Cent The Past Year.
The director of the mint, from in¬
formation now at hand, says that there
is substantia! evidence that the world’s
product of gold for the calendar year
1897 will approximate, if not exceed,
$240,000,000, an increase of nearly 20
per cent over 1890.
The gold product ol the United
States for 1896 was $53,100,000, for
1897 it will approximate $61,500,000,
an increase of $8,400,000.
SABBATH SCHOOL.
LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JANUARY 9.
Lesson Text: “Jesus Tempted,” Matthew
lx., 1-1 L—Golden Text: Hebrews Us, 18
—Commentary on the (Fjecmon For ( lie
Day Written by llev. Dr# D, M, Stearns#
1. “Thou WftH Josuh led up of the Spirit
Into tho wilderness, to ho tempted of tho
devil.” From the beginning to the end Ho
was under tho guidance and control of tho
Holy Spirit most fully. that The Father His having be¬
test!tied to the fact lie was
loved, well phasing Hon, the Spirit now
leads Him into this great corilliet with the
devil, at the very beginning of His pubiio
work, that He may meet theadversary faeo
to face and overcome him. And now, in
that He Himself hath suffered, being
tempted, lie is able to succor them that are
tempted (lleb. ii., 18). He lmd been sub¬
ject for thirty years to all the temptations
of aii ordinary human life, but this is some¬
thing special, and, ns Dr, Weston says, has
to do with Him as Hon of “Man,” Hon of
God and the Messiah.
2. “And when Ho had fasted forty days
mul forty nights, He was afterward an
hungered.” Luke iv,, 2, says, “In those
days Undid eat nothing.’’ This Moses was passed not a
now thing on tho earth, for oneniDoui.
through it twice and Elijah Mount
lx., 9, 18; I Kings xix., H). On the
of Transfiguration wo find tho throe who
fasted forty days. There must bo some
wondrous signilloanco connected with it
which wo have not yet had revealed to us.
Ill Mark xi., 12. we read of another occa¬
sion on which He was hungry, and one of
Ills last utterances on the cross was, “I
thirst” (John xix., 28), but what an awful
thirst that must have boon!
3. “And when the tempter camo to Him
lie said, If thou bo tho Hon of Ood, com¬
mand that these stones be made bread.”
Ood had testified, “This is My Beloved
Hon,” but the devil questions tho garden it to Ills of
face, with this "if.” As in
Eden lie questions the word of Ood with
his “Yon, hath Ood said” (Gen. iii., 1), and
has ever since been doing the same thing,
so he does not licsitato to face the Hon of
God Himself with Ids devilish doubts.
Think it not strange, then, if he oft ap¬
proaches you In this way, but receive not
Ids doubts; it Is better not to listen to him.
4. “But lie answered and said, It is writ¬
ten, man shall not live by bread alone, but
by every word that proceeded! out of tho
mouth of Ood.” Not the gratification of
our desires, but the will of Ood, is the groat
thing. Just as in our words we show our
loved ones our hearts, so God In His word
has given us Ills heart for us, and Ood is
love. Hlmll wo be satisfied with His heart
and His way and thus live on His word, or
shall we insist on having ail things minis¬
ter to our comfort at all costs?
5. “Then tho devil laketh Him up into
the Holy City and settoth Him on a pinna¬
cle of the temple.” Up to Jerusalem, the
elty of the great king (chapter v., 35). Do
not stop to ask how, but simply believe and
consider the temptation and the victory and
ask the Hpirit to apply it to your own soul.
The wilderness and the hunger, and the
stones suggest tho hard and lonely and
commonplace things in daily life, but tho
Holy Olty, the temple and a pinnacle
thereof suggest holy things and tho
heights thereof not so common, but far
more dangerous ground bwnuwe more holy.
(J. “And hhI th unto Him, if Thou be the
Hon of Ood, (fast Thyself down, for it is
written, He shall give His angels charge
nonce ruing Thee Thee and lest in at their hands time Thou they
shall boar up, any
dash Thy foot against a stone.” The devil
can quote Beripture, and sometimes quite
freely and at great length, but never to
glorify Ood nor to help a soul to know
Him. He always perverts it with the pur¬
pose of working ruin. The man who thinks
that because lie Is a child of Ood and con¬
trolled by the Spirit, therefore he cannot
sin, nor even make a mistake, is on a devil. pin¬
mi ch) of the temple listening to the
He would do well to consider these words,
“If a man think himself to bo something
when lie Is nothing, ho doceiveth himself.”
‘If any man think Dial he knoweth any¬
thing, ho knoweth nothing yet ns ho ought
to know” (Gal. vl., H; [ Cor. vlil., 2).
7. “Jesus said unto him, It is written,
again, Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy
God.” Scripture never contradicts Scrip¬
ture, but explains It and instructs us how
to avert its abuse. Jesus God, quoted believing it from
tho heart to the glory of
every word, but the devil uses It only
wickedly, We maybe said to tempt God
when wo make a self-willed demand for
His help, or in any way claim Ills promises tho
for selfish ends. Our Lord lived that
Father might be glorified, and taught us
that when we are willing to live thus wo
can ask what we will and receive it.
8. “Again the devil taketh Him up into
an oxc oding high mountain, andshe^o h
Him all the kingdoms of the world, and
tho glory of them.” Tho first temptation
was to satisfy His physical need, to satisfy
Himself, on the ground that He was en¬
titled to It; tho second was to show Him¬
self and what a groat one Ho was; tho
third was to accept the world without tho
way of the cross. The prince of this world
offers It simply on condition that it be ac¬
cepted as from him and that lie bo thanked
for it.
fi. “And saltli unto Him, All these things
will I give Thee if Thou wilt fall down and
worshid me.” The time will come when
tiie antichrist, tho man of sin, tho bonst of
Bov. xlli., will accept this offer of satau
and for a brief period will do wondrously,
but, oil. how brief Ids dominion, how fear¬
ful ids fall and how awful his eternal
doom, the la Ice of lire and brimstone for¬
ever! (Rev. xix., 20). Get
10. “Then saith Jesus unto him,
time hence, satan, for It is written, Thou
shall worship the Lord thy God, and Him
only Shalt thou serve.” True worshipers
worship the -father in spirit and in truth,
for the Father sceketh such to worship
JIIm. God Is a Hpirit, and they that wor¬ and
ship Him must worship Him in spirit
in truth” (John Iv., 23,24). Tho word of
God is the only guide, Urn Holy Hpirit tho
only teacher, the Lord Josus the only way
to God the Father; so to worship in spirit
and in truth means that In all things Jesus
Is acknowledged as Lord to tho glory of
God the Father, and that all is done In ac¬
cordance with the word and in tho power
of tho Hpirit.
11. “Then tho devil leaveth Him, and be¬
hold angels came and ministered unto Him.”
Luke iv., 13, says that tho devil departed
from Him for a season. How thankful we
should be that our Lord did not conquer
satan in what we might call a miraculous
way, but in such a way as 11(5 will through
us conquer hirrr also. He has loft us His
sword, the Word of God, and we arc told
InEpb. vl„ IQ, 17, that these, tho shield ot
faith and the sword of the Hpirit, will sure¬
ly overcome the adversary. -Lesson Helper.
TESTIMONIAL AND RESOLUTIONS.
Miiiingcm of the Recent Citadel flop Will
Kemeinher MIbs Crane.
A dispatch from Charleston, S. C. fc
says: To show that they were not par¬
ties to tbo treatment of Charlotte
Crane, the managers of the Citadel
hop have decided to present the young
actress with a testimonial and resolu¬
tions to assure her that they regret tho
affair and were not to blame for it.
Mrs. Lewis, the lone chaperone, who
objected to Miss Crane’s presence, is
coming in for the brunt of the gen¬
eral condemnation.
IK HEALTH and out of it.
Pell—Never despise a friend’s ad-
vioe when you’re well.
Mell—Nor follow it when you re ill,