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About Bulloch times. (Statesboro, Ga.) 1893-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1893)
REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬ DAY SERMON. Subject: “Pompeii and Its Lessons.’’ Text : “ Thou hast made of a defeased city a ruin .”—Isaiah xxv., 2. A flash on the night sky greeted us as we left the rail train at Naples, Italy. What was the strange illumination? It was that wrath of many centuries—Vesuvius. Giant son of Italy. an earthquake. Intoxicated mountain ol Father of many consternations. A burning volcano, burning so long, and yet to keep ou uutil, perhaps, it may he the very torch that will kindle the last conflagration and set all the world 011 fire. It eclipses in violence of behavior Cotopaxi and .Etna and Stromboli and Krakatoa. Awful mystery. Funeral pyre of dead cities. Everlasting paroxysm of mountains. It seems like a chimney of hell. It roars with fiery remin¬ iscence of what it has done and with threats of worse things that it may yet do. I would not live in one of the villages at its base for a present of all Italy. On a day in December, 1631, it throw up ashes that floated away hundreds and hun¬ dreds of miles and dropped in Constantino¬ ple, and in the Adriatic sea, and on the Apennines, as well as trampling out at its own foot the lives of 18,000 people. Geo¬ logists have tried to fathom its mysteries.but the heat consumed the iron instruments and drove back the scorched and blistered ex plorers from the einderv and crumbling brink. It seems like the asylum of maniac elements At one time far back its top had been a fortress, where Spartacus fought and was surrounded and would have been destroyed had it not been for the grapevines which clothed the mountainside from top to base, and laying hold of them he climbed hand under hand to safety in the valley. But for centuries it has kept its furnace burning as we saw it that night on our arrival in Novem ber of 1889 Of course the next day we started to see some of the work wrought by that frenzied mountain. “All out for Pompeii!” was the cry of the conductor. And now we stand by the corpse of that dead city. As we entered the gate and passed between the walls I took off ray hat, as one naturally doer, in the pres enee of some imposing obsequies. That city had been at one time a capital of beauty and pomp. The home of grand architecture, ex quisite painting, enchanting sculpture, unre strained carousal and rapt assemblage. A high wall twenty feet thick, three-fourths o£ it still visible, encircle;! the city. Of those walls, at a distance of only 100 yards from each other, towers rose for armed men who watched the city. The streets ran at right and from waU ,0 „ll, on.y o»e street In the days of the city's prosperity its towers glittered in the sun; eight strong gates leashore. for ingress and egress; Gate of the Gate of Herculaneum. Gate of Vexnvinsheirm nprhans the fuoit most ™ imnortant Yonder imnosin? stood the elevatfon Temole of wfth ho sted six at at an an imposing eteianon, and am witn its its: six eorlntluan columns of immense girth, iv hich stood like carved icebergs shimmering in the There stands the Temple of the Twelve Gods. Yonder see the Temple of Hercules and the Temple of Mercury, with altars of marble and bas-relief, wonderful enough to astound all succeeding ages of art and the Temple of .Esculapius, brilliant with sculpture and gorgeous with painting. Yonder are the theatres, Partly cut into surrounding hiils and glorified with plo tured walls, and entered under arches of im posing masonry, and with rooms, for eapti vated and applaudatory audiences seated or standing m vast semi-circle Yonder are the cogtly and immense public baths of the city, with more than the modern ingenuities of Carlsbad. Notice the warmth of those an cient tepidariums, with hovering radiance of roof, and the vapor of those ealdarimns. with decorated alcoves, and the cold dash ot their fngidanums with floors of mosaic and ceilings of ail skilfully intermingled hues, and walls upholstered with all the colors of the setting sun, and sofas on which to recline for slumber after the plunge. Yonder are the barracks of the celebrated gladiators. Y_onder is the summer l lom e °f Sallust, the Homan historian and Senator, the architecture as elaborate as his charac ter was corrupt. 4here is the residence of the poet Pansa, with a compressed Louvre and Luxembourg within his walls. There is thehomeof Lucretius, with vases and antiqui ties enough to turn the head of a virtuoso, Yonder see the Forum, at the highest place in the city. It is entered by two triumphal arches. It is bounded on three sides by dorie columns. Yonder, the suburbs of the city, . the m is home of Arrius Diomed, the mayor of the suburbs, terraced residence of billionaire dom, gardens, fountaineff, statued, colon naded, the cellar of that villa filled with hot ties of rarest wine, a few drops ot which were found 1800 years afterward. Along the streets of the city are men of might and women of beauty formed into bronze that many centuries had no power to bedim. Bat tie scenes on vyalls ... in colors . which u- u all 11 *■ time cannot efface. Great city of I ompeii. >So Seneca and Tacitus and Cicero pronounced it. ... . , Stand , with me on its .. walls „ this evening of August 23, A. D. 79. See the throngs pass ing up and down in Tynan purple and gir dies of arabesque, and necks eachamea with precious stones, proud carrying official in imposmg a-clmk toga meeting the slave tray? with goblets and a-smoke with delicacies from paddock and sea, and moralist musing over the degradation of the tunes passes the jprofligate doing his best to make them worse. Hark to the clatter and rataplan of the basalt, hoofs on the streets paved with blocks of See the verdured and flowered grounds slop ing into the most beautiful bay of all the earth—the bay of Naples. chariots, carrying Listen to the rumbling mirth and convivial occupants to halls of masquerade and carousal. Hear the loud dash of fountains amid the sculptured farreach- water nymphs. Notice the weird, solemn city the in" hum and din and roar of a at close of a summer day. Let Pompeii sleep well to-night, for it is the last night of peace fnl slumber before she falls into tho deep slumber of many long centuries. The morn ing of the 24th of August. A. D. 79. has ar rived, and the days roll on. and it is 1 o’clock in the afternoon. “Look!” I say to you, standing on this wall, as the sister of Pliny said to him, the Homan essayist and naval commander, on the day of which I speak, which as I she pointed him in the direction in point you. peculiar cloud the sky a There is a on : spotted cloud, now white, now black. It is Vesuvius in awful and unparalleled eruption. Now the smoke and fire and steam of that black monster throat rise and spread, as, by mv gesture. I now describe it. It rises, a great column of fiery, darkness, higher and higher and then spreads out like the branches of a tree, with midnights wider, enter wrapped in its foliage, wider and Now the sun go -s out. and showers of numice stone an 1 water from furnaces more than seven times heated, uni ashes in aval nnehe after avalanche, blinding and scalding and suffocating, descend north, south, east and west, burying deeper and deeper iu mammotil sepulcher, such as never before or since was opened, Stahls®, ankle UaceulupMur. deep, girdle and Pompeii, Ashes deep, chin deep, ashes over/iea 1. Out ol the houses and temples anl thea¬ tres and into the streets mi l down to the beach fled many of the frantic, bat others, :l not suffocated of the usees, were sodded tc death by the haute l deluge. And then ea ne heavier destruction in rocks after ro ms. crushing in homes and t s.nplas an i theatres. No wonder the sea receded iro n the beach a though in terror, until mu ih of the shipping thej was wrecked, and no wonder that when lifted Piinv the elder from the sailcloth or which he was resting, under the agitations o what he had sign, he suddenly exn<r >d. For three the antomhm.nt proceeded. Then the clouds lifted, and tho cursing that Apollyou of mountains subsided. For 1700 years that city o' Pompeii lay buried and without anything to show its olaem of doom. But after 1709 years of obliteration a workman's spade, digging a well, strikes some antiqniti; s which lead to the exhuma¬ tion of tho city. Now walk with me through some of the streets and into some of the houses and amid the ruins of basilica and temple an l amphitheatre. From the moment the. guide met us at the gate on entering Pompeii that day in No¬ vember. 18S9. until he left us at the gate on our departure, the emotion I felt was inde¬ scribable for elevation and solemnity and sorrow and awe. Gome and see tho petri¬ fied bodies of the dead found in the city, and now iu the museums of Italy. About 450 of those embalmed by that eruption have been recovered. Mother and child, noble and serf, merchant and beggar, are presentable and , natural , after , 1700 years of burial. That woman was found clutching her adornments when the storm of ashes and fire began, and for 1700 >’ ears she continued to clutch them, There at the soldiers barracks are sixty four skeletons of brave men, who faithfully stooti ” uard flt their P ost when the tempest of orders began, and after 1700 years were stm found standing guard. There is the f orm of gentle womanhood impressed upon the hardened ashes. Pass along, and here we tl^ deep ruts m the basaltic paw- 1 ots U ent ? ^2™ the first ^ century t , he wle r There, S! S of t}ie over a t . r \e ' o. . doorways and in the porticoes, are works of art immortalizing the debauchery of a city, which, notwithstanding all its splendors,was a vestibule of perdition. T gUt Wlt i- . ,, r°! 8 2 rS ran °° Stators, i who were prizefighters of those ano!e ' d times, and it was sword parrjing s ^ y ord > 0 u f ntd the ’ T sharp th °T edge, a 8 £! the fu L mauled a ?, d a and ° a Ras ^ ed 4 eombatant reeled over d ® ad » carried out amid the huzzas of enraptured *PS<*ators. We staid among those suggestive s ?f nes ‘ l7t er the h 5> u r ^ at are usaall { aHowed there . and staid f unti there was not a footfa1110 ® wn 2?° L ? ^ardwithin ttus street all that and city down except that silent street ; we wandered. Into that win do f iess and llome w ® and . And can it be that all up and down these solemn sohtudes, hearts more than 1800 years agoachedaud shif t he Ra V f childish glee, , and overtasked workmen car ried their burdens, and drunkards staggered? ou that j mosaic floor did « lo wiug Youth clasu p aI1( s j n marr iage vow, and cross that threshold did pallbearers carry the beloved ( j ea q_ an q g ay groups once mount those now s k e i e t oris 0 f staircases? While I walked and contemplated the city seem0( j suddenly to be thronged with all the population £ £ that had ever inhabited it, and I e rd its i aU g hter and groan and unelean negs an( j infernal boast as it was on the 23d of Auguf3t) 79. And Vesuvius, from the mild light with which, it flushed the sky that sum mer evening as I stood in disentombed Pom p g e jj j seemed suddenly again to heave and an e and rock wlth the lava and darkness ;ind d esolation and woe with which more than eigbtem centuries ago it submerged p 0 mpeii, as with the liturgy of fire and storm fhe mountain proclaimed at tho burial, “Ashes to ashe« dust to dust ” My frie nds, I cannot tell’what practical SU gg eg fi 0n comes to your mind from this wa j k through uncovered Pompeii, but the flrst thought that absorbs me is that, while ar (. ;md culture are important, they cannot savo the morals or the life ot a great town. jf uc h of the painting and sculpture of Pom peii was so exquisite that, while some is kept 0Q ^.| le wa ij g w qere it was flrst penciled, to be admired by those who go there, whole wagon loads and whole rooms full of it have been transferred to the Museo Borbonico at Na p; es< to be admired by the centuries. Those Pompeiian artists mixed sueh dura bflit of color g that, though their paintings 1700 W ere buried in ashes and scoriae for years, and since they were uncovered many them have remained there exposed to the ra i us and w inds and. winters and summers jg 0 yearSj the color is as fresh and vivid and true as though yesterday it had passed from the easel. Which of our modern paintings the cou j d s t and a ll that? And yet many of specimens of Pompeiian art show that the city was sunk to such a depth of abomination that there was nothing deeper. Sculptured and petrified and embalmed abomination. There was a state of public morals under worse t ball belongs to any city now standing the sun. Yet how many think that all that is neces gary is to cultivate the mind and advance the knowledge and improve the arts. Have you i m p r essiori that eloquence will do the elevating work? Why, Pompeii had Cicero ba jf 0 j every year for its citizen. Have you the idea that literature is all that is neees t0 keep a city right? Why. Sallust, with a pen that was the boast of Roman litera ture, had a mansion in that doomed city. Do think that sculpture and art are quite su fft c i e nt for the production of good morals? Then correct your delusion by examining tke s t a tues in the Temple of Mercury at Pom p e jj ( or the winged figures of its Parthenon, and the cplonnades and arches of this house of Diomed. By all means have schools and Dusseldorf and Dore exhibitions and galleries where the genius of all the centuries oan bank it self up in snowy sculpture, and all bric-a brae, and all pure art, but nothing save the religion of Jesus Christ can make a city moral. In proportion as churches and Bi¬ bles and Christian printing presses and re¬ vivals of religion abound is a city pure and clean. What has Buddhism or Confucianism or Mohammedanism done in all the hun dreds of years of their progress for the ele vation of society? Absolutely nothing, Peking and Madras and Cairo are just w hat they were ages ago, except as Christi anity has modified their condition. What is the difference between our Brooklyn and their Pompeii? No difference, except that which Christianity has wrought. Favor all good art, but take best care of your churches, and your Sabbath schools, and your Bibles, and your family altars, uncovered Yea, see in our walk through Pompeii what sin will do for a city. ’Ve ought to be slow to assign the judgment of God. Cities are sometimes afflicted just as good people are afflicted, and the earthquake, and the cyclone, and the epidemic are with no sign in many cases that God is angry a city, but the distress is sent for some good and kind purpose, whether wo understand it or not. The law that applies to individ uals may apply to Christian cities as well, “All things work together for good to those that love God.” But the greatest calamity of history came upon Pompeii not to improve its future^con- ilition. for it was completely It obliterates bad that and will never be rebuilt. was so it need ad to bo buried 1700 years before even its ruins were lit to be uncovered. So Sodom and Gomorrah were tilled with such turpi* tilde that they were not only turned under, but have for thousands or years r>ean kept under. 1’he two greatest cemeteries are the eau'.jtarv in which the sunken shins are bur ied all the way between Fire Island and F.istu it Light ho-i? >. an 1 fie oth >r cemetery is the cemetery of deal cities. I get down on my knees an l read tm epitapheology of a long line of them. Hera lies Babylon, once called “the hammer o. the whole earth.” Dead an t buried under piles of bitumen and broken pottery an l vitrafted brick. An l 1 hoar a wolf howl and a reptile hiss as I am reading this epitaph (Isaiah xiii, 21), “The wild beast of tne desert shall be there, and their house shall bo full of doleful creatures.” The next tomb 1 kneel before in this cem¬ etery of cities is Nineveh. Her winged lions are down, and the slabs of alabaster have crumbled, and the sculpture that represented the her battles is as completely fought scattered them. as Per¬ dust of the heroes who haps I put my knee into the dust of her Bar danapalus as I stoop to read her epitaph desola¬ (Zephaniah ii., 14.) “Now is Nineveh tion and drv like a wilderness, and flocks lie down in the midst of her ; all the beasts of the Nations, both the cormorant and the bit tern, lodge in the upper lintels of It.” Aud while I read it I hear an owl hoot and a hyena laugh. I has The next entombed city pass a monu¬ ment of fifty prostrate columns of gray and red granite, and it is Tyre. The next se pulcner Of a great capital is covered with scattered columns and defaced sphinxes and the sands of the desert, and it is Thebes. As I pass on I find the resting place of Mycenae, a eitv of which Homer sang, and Corinth, which rejected Paul and depended upon her fortress. Acrocorinthus. which now lies dis¬ mantled on the hill, and I move on in this cemetery of cities, and I find the tombs of Sardis and Smyrna and Persepolis and Memphis and Baalbek and Carthage, and here are the cities of the plain and Hercu¬ laneum and Stabia and Pompeii. Some of them have mighty sarcophagus and hiero¬ glyphic entablature, but they are dead and buried never to rise. But the cemetery of dead cities is not yet Ailed, and if the present cities of the world forget God and with their indecencies shock the heavens let them know that the God who on the 24th of August. 79, dropped on a city of Italy a superincumbrance that staid there seventeen centuries is still alive and hates sin now as much as He did then and has at His command all the armament of destruc¬ tion with which He whelmed their iniquitous predecessors. It was only a few summers ago that Brook¬ lyn and New York felt an earthquake throb that sent the people affrighted into tho streets andthat suggested that there are forces of nature now suppressed child or held in check, which easier than a in a nursery knocks down a row of block bouses could prostrate a city or engulf a continent deeper than Pompeii was engulfed. Our hope is in the mercy of the Lord continued to our American cities. It amasses me that this city, which has tho quietest Sabbaths on the continent and the best order and the highest tone ot morals of any city that I know of. is now having brought into as near neighborhood as Coney Island carnivals of pugilisga as debasing as any of the gladiatorial interests of Pompeii. What a precious crew that Coney Island Ath¬ letic Club is, under whose auspices these orgies are enacted! What a degradation to the adjective “athletic,” which ordinarily suggests health and muscle developed for useful purpose? Instead oti calling^ it. an Ruffian athletic club Club they For might Smasbflf* bfcjv^gjtyie “the it Human “The Visage.” that] Coney Island, Vile men are turning places which is one ot the finest watering on all the Atlantic coast, into a place for the offscouring of the earth to | congregate, the low horse jockeys and gamblers, and the pugilists and the pickpocket^, and the bloats regurgitated from the depths of the worst wards of these cities. They invite delegates from universal loaferdom to come to their carnival of knuckles. But I do not believe that the pugilism contracted for and adver¬ tised for next December will take place in our neighborhood. itself going Evil sometimes defeats by one step too far. You may drive the hoop ot a barrel down so hard that it breaks. I will not believe that the international prize fight will take place on Long Island or in the State of New York until I see the rowdy rabble roiling drunk off the are at FlatWush avenue and with faces bange and cut and bleeding from the imbruting scene. Against this in fraction of the laws of the State of New York I lift solemn protest. The curse of Almighty God will rest upon any community that con sents to such an outrage. Does any one thirk it cannot be stopped, and,that the con stabulary would be overborne? Then let Governor Flower send down there a regiment of State militia, and they will clean out the nuisance in one hour. Warned by the doom of other cities that have perished for their ruffianism, or their cruelty, or their idolatry, or their dissolute ness, let all our American cities lead the right way. Our only dependence is on God and Christrian influences. Politics will do noth smallpox to heal leprosy or a carcass to re lieve the air of malodor. For what politics of wiildol refer you to the eight weeks stultification enacted at Washington by our American senate. American politics will become a reforms tory power on the same daythat pandemoni urn becomes a church. But there are, lam glad to say, benign and salutary and cities gra cious influences organized in all our which will yet take them for God and right eousness. Let us ply the gospel machinery to its utmost speed and power. City evan • gelization is the thought. Accustomed as are religious pessimists to dwell upon statis ties of evil and dolorous facts, good we want some one with sanctified heart and digestion to put in long line the statistics of natures transformed, and profligacies balked, and souls ransomed, and cities redeemed. Give us pictures of churches, of schools, of reformatory associations, of asylums of mercy. Break in upon the “Misereres” of complaint and despondency with “Te Deums” and “Jubilates of moral and re ligious victory.” Show that the day is com- will ing when a great tidaj wave of salvation roil over all our cities. Show how resurrected. Pompeii buried will become Pompeii Demonstrate the fact that tnere are millions of good men and women who will give themselves no rest day nor night until cities that are now of the type of the buried cities JlSVSluf doKIro'S”Gcf Ull heaven. I hai the advancing morn. that I make the same proclamation to-day his Gideon made to the shivering cowards of army. “Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from Mount Gilead.” Close up the ranks. Lift the gos pel standard. Forward into this Armaged ™ ilflns to? S3S Ml our cities for God! America for God! The world for God! The most of us here gathered, though born in the country, will die m town. Shali our last walk be through streets where sobriety and good order dominate, or grogshops stench the air? Shall our last look be upon city halls where justice of rolgns, ballot or demagogues plot for the stuffing boxes? Shall we sit for the lust time in some church where God is worshiped with the contrite heart, or where cold formalism goes through unmeaning genuflexions? Godsiv * the cities! Righteousness is (ife ; iniquity terrace!, is death. Remember pictures boast ju'*. Got lefyiug templed, sculptured, fui, and entombed Pompeii! TWENTY-SIX CASES OF FEVER Reported in llrnnswirk in One Day — The Highest Number Yet Recorded. Twenty-six eases of yellow fever were reported by tho Brunswick health hoard Friday, and one death, that of Mrs. lv. Talker son, of Jekyl island, Eight patient, a,-re discharged a» U " l.ccftpitnlation—Cases n .. i under ... treat men 102; discharged. <*; d.ed 15, total, 171; ratio of mortality S.3 per ccnt The increase in cases sustains the assertion repeatedly given out that hardly the half has been told in regard to the number of cases in the city. There are at least twenty-five to fifty cases yet undiagnosed that should Vie classed ns yellow fever and when the committee appointed finish their la¬ bors it will be proven a fact. ABSOLUTE POWER. » «“ «{** “ l 1 V canned , an investigation . .. of t ,, the matter _ ,, „ 11,e investigation proves that. Surgeon immediate sectiou is absolute. So completely has congress, by an act passed February 15, 1893, vest ed him with authority that he can, if necessary, stop the church from holding service, force the entire population out of the infected district, stop the courts and the sale of merchandise or goods of any character. A word from him will call the government to his support in enforcing these laws. Being a man of good but firm judgement, he has not used his power in Jesnp or Brunswick and has allowed the local authorities in both places to retain control of their municipalities. This action is due, not not to lack of authority, but because he saw no necessity of taking absolute control. The Jesup and Brunswick authorities work in com¬ plete harmony with him to accomplish any good results that might be obtain ed. THIRTY-THREE NEW CASES SATURDAY. Thirty-three new cases of yellow fever and one death were reported Saturday. Five patients were dis* charged. Tho patient who died was Eugene Dart, on St. Simon’s island, The weather is varible. The outlook is gloomy. Cases are piling up and the yellow fever is rapidly on the in crease. From house to house and street to street it jumps, throwing entire fain ilies into sick beds gradually, but surely. As each man is stricken anoth¬ er family is added to the relief associa¬ tion’s list of sufferers. The scarcity of supplies has compelled the association to feed only women and children. SUNDAY’S RECORD. Thirty-two new cases of yellow fever were reported Sunday and seven were discharged. BEGINNING OF DIRECT TRADE Cc j ebrate( j j„ Grautl Style at Tort Royal) S« L. Monday was a grand day in the kis tory of p„,f 1 ort p„rol Loyal, nnd and was u hailed - bv 7 the citizens and by business men or Biat section of the country, as the be of a new era j n southern de » ” Recently *uu,nWiin.mTnV>n the William J ohn veiopment. , „ son & Co. Steamship Company, of Liverpool L has put on a line of trans Atlantic steamers B mpr q between between Port rort Roval xvoy ai and Liverpool and organized the 1 ort Royal £ Shipping Company. p«.?there*»thered.tr..rtB«^Mo ^ j nv jtation of the latter com n . day about 200 representative Georgians an( j Carolinians to celebrate the inau guration , • ot , direct trade trade between between Port l ort Royal and Europe. Two Ships lay at the wharves, the Lochmore, just load | w j t h 7 * 000 bales of cotton for Liver pool, and the , May fit id, which -..ill wil. carry 8,000 bales. After inspecting the ships and tak mg » ™ ie abound „ T minfl Port Fort Roval Hoy at narDor harbor the party enjoyed a barbecue made at which by a number of speeches w T Governor ere Till prominent I gentlemen. ” to preside 1 but . did 1-1 not 4. get 1. man was back in time from Chicago, where he w r ent from the St. Louis convention. n I he following tpWram telegram was was received receiveu from him : I cannot be with you to-day. but I renew the pledge of the moral and political support of the state of South Carolina fo (he enfratschise incur ot Port Iioysl. B. 11 Tillman. Telegrams were also read from Lieutenant Governor Gary, ex- Cou gressman Elliott Trn • and on j President J. t W. W Thomas, of the Nashville, Chattanoo „ a an( j St. Louis railroad, expressing cordial endorsement of the move meat. “ Soldiers . Indicted. , A Knrvxvi!le '* Tenn sneeial of Sat urday The grand of , Ander- . , Bays: Jury son county has returned indictments ?« ai “ l 0f ft* 8tate mi “‘ ia ““ for the lynching of Drummond for the alleged killing those of one indicted of their number, The names of are not made public. Adjutant General Fite will deliver them io the sheriff of An derson county. OUR LATEST DISPATCHES. Tlic BsspeuiEfs ol a Day Chromelefl in Erie! aj Concise Parairaplis Ami Containing the Gist of tho News From All Parts of the World. A Washington dispatch of Monday The First National Lank, of Birmingham, Ala., which suspended p aymen t August 2d, 1893, has been permitted to re-open business. M WllK , Mon(loy Judge'McOomas g overruled the demur Theat#r ease, and ™„ hl ,Ainsworth mi , , hl . .strict attorney. Hush Brothers, manufacturers of bar and hank fixtures and billard tables, at Cincinnati, nNHtgnod Monday to George Story. Their liabilities are* estimated at $31,000; assets, $40,000. An effort will be made to continue business to finish the work under con¬ tract. The works of the Birdsall Company sherift Monday morning on an execu ow. The judgment n» Henry H. Cook, o! New *■>* «** *»>»»«*» tho concern. A London cablegram eays: The Unionist campaign was inaugurated Monday with an immense demonstra¬ tion at Huddersfield. The principal speaker was Lord Randolph Churchill. His speech was characterized by con¬ siderable hate and vindictiveness. Gladstone being unmercifully scored and the house of lords applauded and justified for rejecting the home rule bill. Twenty-nine new cases of yellow fe ver were annonneed at Brunswick Monday, and lour patients discharged. There are several cases on St. Simons. A number of cases in the city are very serious. There are rumors also of several cases of smallpox, but nothing official. Recapitulation—Under treat¬ 16. ment, 187; discharged, 83; dead, Total, 286—5.6 per cent. The weather is fair and warm. Four hundred miners, who have been out on a strike for two months in the Coal Greek and Brieeville districts, re turned to work Monday morning, as a compromise with the companies,which was a ten per cent reduction in the dollar, and one dollar off on house rent. The reason given by the miners for accepting the compromise was that tlieir wives and children were starving and that they must feed them, The supreme court of the United States met in October term Monday morning. All the justices were pres¬ ent. Chief Justice Miller announced the death of Associate Justice Blatch foro, and stated that all orders of the day would stand over until Tuesday. After receiving a number of appli¬ cants for admission to practice, the court adjourned and repaired in a body to the white house to pay its respects to the president. A Jackson, Miss., special of Monday says: Governor Stone has received information from Hon. H. M. Street, speaker of the house of representa¬ tives, and one of the most prominent insurance men in the state, confirm¬ ing what the governor has already said contradicting the burning of gins by white caps. Colonel Street states that he does not know of a single gin house in the state that has been burn¬ ed by white caps or supposed to have been burned by white caps. The firm of Rauda & Kane, New York, dealing in Mason’s building ma¬ terials, made an assignment Monday to Matthew Baird for the benefit of its creditors. The firm does the lar¬ gest business in its line of any ifa the United States and the liabilities will reach somewhere between four and five hundred thousand dollars. It i8 expected that the assets will equal the liabilities, but that cannot yet be as¬ certained. Preferences to the amount of $67,299 are made. The trial of the sixteen soldiers charged with the lynching of Richard Drummond at Brieeville last August, was commenced at Knoxville Monday through habeas eorpns proceedings before Judge Sneed, of the Knox county criminal court. A number of witnesses on both sides were examined, when the defense offered to rest its case, but the prosecution objected on the ground that three important wit¬ nesses were absent. I be state was given two days to produce them and the court adjourned until Thursday. A big strike in the woolen mills at ^ oinevville R I Ute,l a suburb of Provi ’ Vomtaj waB inang people mor,- out inu. Probably 6,000 growing are nf -vork and the strike is rapidly. Before it stops, unless all signs tali, every woolen maunfactur establishment iu the state will , u nd there is talk of the cotton worker? joining them. There has been discontent ever since a no . • WHS . >()ST< , ( j Jt > the mills last week f ‘A 1U wa^es, and several ut t i ie operators were held Rnd KI , (;eclies 0 f u nature to precipi tftte H strike were made by labor agi¬ tators.
