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.
