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REV. DR. TALMAGE. FHE NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Subject; “Reformation of Habits.” Text: “When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.” With an insight into human nature such as no other man ever reached, Solomon, in my text, sketches the mental operations of one who, having stepped aside from the path of rectitude, desires to return. With a wish for something better he says: “When shall I awake? When shall I come out of seized this horrid nightmare of iniquity?” habit, aud But upon by uneradicated forced down hill by his passions, he cries out “I will seek it yet again. I will try it once more.” Cur libraries are adorned with an elegant l.terature pointing out all the dangers and perils of life—complete maps of the voyage, showing all tho rocks, the quicksands, the shoals. But supposea man has already made shipwreck; suppose ho is already off the track: suppose lie has already gone astray, how Is he to get back? That is a field com¬ paratively untouched. I propose to address myself this evening to such. There are those in this audience who, with every passion of their agonized soul, are ready to hear this discussion. They eomparo themselves with what they were teD years ago, and cry out from tho bondage iu which they aro incar¬ cerated. Habit Is a task master. As long as we obey it It does not chastise us; but let us re¬ sist, and we find we are to be lashed with scorpion whips and bound with ship cable, and thrown into the track of bone-breaking Juggernauts. DuriDg the war of 1812 there was a ship set on fire just above Niagara Falls, and then, cut loose from Its moorings, it came on down through the night, and tossed over the falls. It was said to have been a scene brilliant beyond all descrip¬ tion. Well there are thousands of men on fire rapids, of evil habit, coming down through the and through tho awful night of temptation toward the eternal plunge. Oh, how hard it Is to arrest them! God only can arrest them. Suppose a man, after five, or ten, or twenty years of evil doing resolves to do right. Why. all the forces of darkness aro allied against him. He cannot sleep nights. He gets down on his knees in the midnight, and cries. “God help me!” Ho bites his lip; he grinds his teeth; he clenches his fist in a determination to keep his purpose. He dare not look at the bottles in the windows of a wine store. It is one long, bitter, exhaus¬ tive, hand-to-hand fight with an inflamed, tantalizing and merciless habit. When ho thinks he is entirely free the old inclinations pounce upon him iikoa pack of hounds, with their muzzles tearing away at the flunks ot one poor reindeer. In Paris there is a sculp¬ tured representation of Bacchus, the god of rove ry. He is riding on a panther at full leap. Oh, how suggestive! Lot every one who is speeding on bad ways understand ho is not riding a docile and well broken steed, but he is riding a monster, wild and blood¬ thirsty, going at a death leap. How many there are who resolve on a bet¬ ter life, and say, "When shall I awake?” but, seized on by their old habits, cry, “I will try it once more. 1 will seek it yet again.” Years ago there wore some Princeton stu¬ dents who were skating, anil the ice was very thin, and some one warned the com¬ pany back from the air hole, and finally warned them entirely to leave the place. But one young man, with bravado, after all the rest had stopped, cried out. “One round more!” He swept around and went down, nixl was brought out a corpse. My friends, there are thousands and tens of thousands of men losing their souls in that way. It is the “one round tyaufs more,” - u If a To ivturn from evil prac¬ tices, society repulses him. Desiring to re¬ form he says, “Now I will shake off my old associates and I will find Christian com¬ panionship." door And ho appears at the churoh some Sabbath dny nnd the usher greets jflm with a look oa much as to say, “Why, you hore! You are the last man 1 over ex¬ pected to see at by church! Come, take this seat right down the door," instead of say¬ ing, "Good morning! I am glad yon are here. Como, I will give you ' a first-rate seat right up by tho pulpit." Well, the prodigal, not yet discouraged, outers a prayer meeting, nnd some Christian man, with more zeal than common sense, soys, “Glad to see you; the dying thief was saved and I suppose there is mercy for you.” The young man, disgusted, chilled, throws himself on his dignity, re¬ solved he will never enter the house of God again. Perhaps not quite sidles fully discouraged about reformation, he up by some highly re¬ spectable tne street, man and he immediately used to know, tho going respectable down man has an errand down some othor street Well, the prodigal, of wishing Christian to return, takes some member ft association by tho hand, or tries to. The Christian young man looks at him, looks at the faded apparel nnd the marks of dissipation; instead of offers giv¬ ing him a warm grip of the hand, ho him the tip ends of the tong lingers of tho left hand, which is equal to strikiug a man in the face. Ob! how few Christian people understand how much force and gospel there is in a good honest handshaking. Sometimes, when you have felt the need of encouragement, and some Christian man has taken felt you heartily by the hand, have yi*z not thrilling through every fibre of your body, mind and soul au encouragement that was just what you needed? You do not know anything at all about this unless you know when a man tries to return from evil courses he We runs agatnst repulsions innumerable. suy of some man, he lives a blook or two from the church, or half a mile from the church. There aro people in our crowded cities who Uvea thousand miles from church. Ya«t deserts of indifference bet wee m them and the house of God. The fact is, we must keep our respectability, though thousands and tens of thousands perish. Christ sat with publicans aud sinners. But if thore comes to the houseof God a mau with marks of dissipation upon him, the people almost throw up their hands iu horror, as much as to say. “Isn't it shocking!’’ How these dainty, fastidious Christians in all our churches are goiug to get into heaven I don’t kuow, unless they have an especial train of cars, cushioned and upholstered, each one a car to himself. They cannot go with publi¬ cans aud sinners. Oh’ ye who curl your lip of scorn at the . faileu, I tell your plainly, if you had been surrounded by the same influences, instead Of sitting to-day amid the cultured, and the refiued aud the Christian, you would have been a crouching wretch, covered with lilih and abomination. It is not because you are any better, but because the merev of God has protected you. Who are you that, brought up in Christian circle, aud watched by Chris¬ tian parentage, you should befcohard oa the fal leu? First of all, my brother, throw yourself on God. Go to Him frankly and earnestly and tell Him these habits vou have, and ask Him it there is any help in all the resources of omnipotent love to give it to you. Do not go with a long rigmarole people eall prayer, made up ot “obs" aud “ahs-” and “forever aud ever, ameas!" Go to God and cry for Jielp, help! help! h*Jp! aod if you CAUUot for just look and live. I remember in the late war, I was al Antietam, and I went into the hospitals af¬ ter the battle and said to a man: “Where are you hurt?” He made no answer, but held up his arm, swollen and splintered. is, I saw where be was hurt. • The simple fact when a man has a wounded soul, all he has to do is to hoi l it up before a sympathetic Lord and get it healed. It does not take any long prayer. Just hold up the wound. Oh, it is no small thing when a man is nertous and weak and exhausted, coming from his evi! ways, to feel that God puts two omnip¬ otent arms around him and says: “Young man. I will stand by you. The mountains uiay depart, and the hills be removed, but I will never fail you." gospel this. Rlesswt be God 'nr ouch a as “Cut the slices thin," said the wife to the husband, “or there will not be enough to go all around for the children: cut the slices thin.” Blessed be God there is a full loaf for every one that wants it. Bread enough and to spare. No thin slices at the Lord’s table. I remember when the Master Street Hospital in Philadelphia was opened “There during the war, a telegram came saying, will be three hundred wounded men to-night; be ready to take care of them;” and from my church there went in some twenty or thirty men and women to look after these poor wounded follows. As they came, some from one part of the land, some from an¬ other, no one asked whether this man was from Oregon, or from Massachusetts, or from Minnesota, or from New York. There was a wounded soldier, and the only question was how to take off the rags the most gently, and put on the bandage, ana administer the sordini. And when a soul comes to God, He does not ask where you came from, all or what your ancestry was. Healing for your wounds, l’ardon for all your guilt. Com¬ fort for all your troubles. Then, also, I counsel you if you want to get back to quit alt your bad associations. One unholy intimacy will fill your soul with moral distemper. In all the ages of the church there has not been an instance where n man kept one evil associate and was re¬ formed. When a man deliberately chooses bad as¬ sociation because he likes it, that man has started on the road down. Ob, I do not care what you call it, that association will des¬ poil your soul. After you aro they destroyed, body, mind will and they soul, do what for will family? do They for you? what your will not give one cent to support your chil¬ dren after you aro dead. Tlmy will not weep one tear at your burial. They will chuckle over your damnation. I had a rare friend at the West. He was full of welcome when I went there to live. He had splendid personal appearance, There is not a grander looking person in this bouse to-day than he was; and to this grand per¬ sonal appearance he added all geniality and all kindness of soul—tender as a child, a beautiful and loving nature, and I loved him as a brother: but I saw evil people com¬ ing up around him, evil men coming up from bad places of amusement, and they seized hold ot his social and genial nature, and they began to drag him down, and he wont furthor and further. I used to say to him. “Now, why don’t you stop these bad habits and become a Chris¬ tian?” for I talked with him just as I would talk with a brother, aud he understood me, and i understood him. l said, “Why don’t you give up these things and become a Chris¬ tian?” “Oh.” he said to me one day, lean¬ ing over his counter—just after I had asaod him for a hundred dollars to help educate a young man for the ministry, and ho had given me the money before 1 had the story half told—"if it will do the young man any good, here is a hundred dollars.” Right after that conversation I said, “Now, you ttre a splendid fellow; why don’t you give up your bad habits and bo a Christian?” “Oh,” he said, ns the tears raa down his cheeks, “I can’t. I should like to be a Chris¬ tian. You sec, I have got tho30 habits on me so. sir, I can’t got rid of them. I have been going wrong longer than you would think f °H^t!?nSjaSSomoffis'of ho would his homo and embrace repentance, go to his little girl of eight years convulsively to his heart, and he would cover her with adorn¬ ments and strew toys and pictures ad about her, and then from her beautiful presence— the-beautful presence of his little child—he would go to the intoxicatiug cup, .and to the house of shame, as a fool to the correction stock,?; lug and there these bad man kept pus h him on, a ship, full-winged, crashing into the breakers. I was called to his deathbed. I hastened, and when I got into the room I was sur¬ prised to flud him in full everyday dress, ly¬ ing ou the top of the couch. I put out my hand and he grooted me very cordially. He said; “Now, Mr. Tatmage, sit down right there." I sat down and he said: “Last night, just where you sit now. I saw my mother, though she has been dead twenty years—yes, sir; just where you sit now I sho sat. I couldn’t have been mistaken. was as wide awake as I am now. She sat just whore you sit. Wife. I wish you would take these string's off tliat they are woaving around me; I wish you would this take them off; they annoy me very muon in conversa¬ tion.” I saw he was in delirium. His wife said: “There is nothing there, my dear; there is nothing there.” Then he resumed the conversation, and said: “Yes, my mother sat just ha where you sit now, I knew her. Sho t the same spectacles, and the same cap aud the same apron, aud the same dress. It must have been her, just as sho looked twenty years ago—sho has been dea l now twenty >ears. And sitting there she said to me, ‘Roswell. 1 wish you would do better;’ and I got up out of bed. and I knelt beside her and saia. •Mother, I wish I could—I wish I could do better; I would liko to do better. Won’t you help me? You used to help me. Why can’t you help me now. mother?’ ” But soon I said. “Now we wili pray.” I knelt to pray. He did not realize anything I said, I sup¬ pose. Then I got up and said "Good-by! good-by!" That night he went to God. Arrangements lor the obsequies were be¬ ing made, and they sai l, “Oh. it won’t do to bring him to the elmroh; ho has been so dis¬ solute.” 1 said, "Bring him, bring him; he stood by me wuen he was alive, and I’ll stand by him when he is dead. Brfug him intotbe church.” The Sabbath came. As I stood in the pulpit and saw his body comiug up the aisle, I felt as if I could weep tears of blood. 1 stood there that day and I said, hl’Uis man had his v rtues, aud a good many ofthom; he had his faults, aud a good many of them; but let that man lu this assembly who is without sin cast the first stone oa this coffin lid.” Oa the one side of the pulpit sat the beau¬ tiful child, as radiaut and sweet faced as any child that sat at your table this moraiug. She kuew not the sorrows of an orphan child; she was net old enough to realize them. Sometimes when I think ofthat awful scene, her face haunts me like a beautiful face through a horrid dr am. Oa the other side of the pulpit sat the man who had de¬ stroyed him. They had put the wormwood and the gall into that orphan's cup. They pushed him off the precipice. I stood there and told them that there was a God aud a judgment aud a hell for tho>e who destroyed their fellows. Did they weep? Oh. no, not one tear. Did thev sigh repeutingly? Notone sigh. Did they say, “What a pity that we destroyed him?” Oh, no. They sat and gazed at thtPcoffin as vultures at the carcass of a lamb whose heart they had ripped out. That night,though ray friend lay in Oak wood Cemetery. I heard afterward that these men went right on with their iniquities, destroy¬ ing themselves and destroying others. Gather up all the energies of body, mind and soul, and appealing to God for success, declare this day everlasting war against all drinking habits, all gaming practices, all houses of sin. Half-and-half work will amount to nothing. It must be a Waterloo. 8hrink back now, and you are lost! Push on, and you are saved! A Spartan General fell at the very moment of victory, but he dipped his finger in his blood and wrote on ■ rock, near which he was dying, “Sparta has conquered.” Though your struggle to get rid of sin may seem to be almost a death struggle, you man dip your finger in vour own blood and write on the Rock of Ages “Yietorv through our Lord Jesus Christ!” Oh, what glorious news it would be for 3 ome of these young men to send home to •their parents in the country! They go to the postoffice every day or to see if there . are any letters from you. How anxious they are to hear! Nothing would please them half so much as the news you might send home to-morrow that you had given your heart to God. I know how it is in the country. The night comes on. The cattle stand under the rack through which burst the trusses of hay. The horses, just having frisked up through the meadow at the night¬ fall, stand knee deep in the bright straw that invites them to lie down and rest. The porch of the hovel is full of fowl, In the old farm house at night no candle is • lighted, for the flames clap hands about the great ^backlog, and shake the shadow ot the group up aud down the wall. Father and mother sit there for half an hour, say¬ ingnothing. I wonder what they are think¬ ing of! After a while the father breaks the silence aud says: “Well. I wonder where iur boy is in town to-night?’’ And the mother answers: “In no bad place. I war¬ rant you,- wo always could trust him when ho was home, and since he has been away there have been so many prayers offered for him we can trust him still.” Then at 8 o’clock—for they retire early in the country —at 8 o’clock they kneel down and com¬ mend you to that God who watches in coun¬ try and in town, on the land and on the sea. Some one said to a Grecian General: “What was the proudest moment of your life?” Ho thought a moment, and said: “The proudest moment of my life was when I sent word home to my parents that I had gained the victory.” And the proudest and most brilliant moment in your life will be the moment when you can send word to your parents in the country that you nave Conquered your evil habits by the grace of God, and become eternal victor. Oh! despise not paternal anxiety. The time will come when you nave neither father nor mother, and you will go around the place where they use 1 to watch you, aud find them gone from the house, aud gone from the field, aud gone from the neighbor¬ hood. Cry as louil for forgiveness as you may over the mound in the churchyard they will not answer. Dead! Dead! And then you will take out the white lock of hair that was cut from your mother’s brow just before they buried her, and you will take the cane with which your father used to walk, and you will think and think, and wish that you had done just as then wanted you to and would give the world if you had nevei thrust a pang through their dear old hearts God pity the young man who has brought disgrace on his father's name! God pity the young man who has brokeu his mother’s heart! Better if ho had never been born better if. in the first hour of his life, instead of being laid against the warm bosom of ma¬ ternal tenderness, ho had been coffined aud sepulchred! There is no balm powerful enough to heal the heart of one who has brought parents to a sorrowful grave, and who wanders about through the dismal cem¬ etery. rending the hair aud wringing the hands, and crying: “Mother! mother!” Oh. that to-day, by all the memories of the past, and by all the hopa.s of the future, you would yield your heart to God! May your father’s God and your mother's God be your God forever! THE NATIONAL CAME. Friend is turning out a winning pitcher foi Chicago after all. Rogers and Crooks have strengthened the Louisville team wonderfully. Baltimore is the only club in the League that carries a salariod mascot. Ehret, of the Cincinnatis, at present lea is the Ditchers of the National League. The cry, “Wait till next year!” is begin¬ ning to bo sounded all along the lines. The New Yorks gave in exchange for Book ley Outfielder Harry Davis and a cash con¬ sideration. It looks now as if there might be more Western clubs in the first division than Ext¬ ern at tho wind up. Hoy. of Cincinnati, is in the leal with twenty-one sacrifice hits, and stands a good show of beating Jennings’s record last year of twenty-eight. The Cincinnatis are alone in the League in not having sustained a shut out this season. They have administered the dose to a majority of their competitors, however. Young, of Cleveland, made the pitchers’ record of the seasou in the game with Phila¬ delphia. by allowing only one hit in the contest. Delehanty was the man who got the hit. The New Yorks have secured four new players. Thev are Warner, Outfielder the Louisville Ulrica, catcher; Pitcher Raidy and of a minor league, and Backley, the Pitts¬ burg first baseman. Wilson, of tho Cleveland team, was re¬ leased by the Boston management as ineffi¬ cient. but all the same he won thirteen of the first sixteen games he has pitched in for Cleveland this season. Terry, the Chicago pitcher, has faith in the firing process for a lame arm. Da cites the case of Rudderham. the pitcher of the Provi¬ dence team, the muscles of whose pitching arm were fired by a Providence surgeon. Captain Anson, of Chicago, uses a heavy hickory bat. the only one of the kind in the League. It cannot be broken except under a rock crusher and nobody will steal it be¬ cause not another man in the League can swing it. President Robinson, of the Cleveland Club, advocates low admission to games—twenty live and fifty cents—and claims that the regular attendance with such prices would at least equal the crowds now attraced by Saturday games. It is said old John G. Clarkson, who. with Kelly, formed the great *20,0 0 battery that Chicago sold to Boston, has conceived the idea of re-entering the baseball Held as a pitcher. Since he quit the came he has lia l a prosperous cigar business in Bay City, Mich. The Cincinnati's won nineteen of twenty oue games wifh Eastern clubs. Of the York. seven clubs. Boston, Philadelphia. New Washington. Brooklyn. Baltimore and C eve land, Baltimore Their alone won considered a game from dan¬ them. lead was then gerously near to a winning one. Jennings, of Baltimore, is th« best batting intlelder in the League and is also ranked as the best shortstop. He stands third among the shortstops iu fielding, bnt oovers mon ground than any of them. He is the best base-runnii.g shortstop in the League. J li¬ nings is one of the really great ball players Of the times. WASHINGTON NEWS. GOSSIP OF THE CAPITAL IN PITHY PARAGRAPHS. Doings of the Chiefs and Heads of the Various Departments. Treasury balances Monday were as follows: Coin, §114,073,029; curren¬ cy, $80,799,029. Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle have left Washington to visit President and Mrs. Cleveland at Buzzards’ Bay, Mass. It is suggested that the president and Mr. Carlisle may desire to confer on . political matters and that Secretary Olney, who is summering in the imme¬ diate vicinity, will be called into con¬ ference. The battleship Massachusetts has been transferred to Admiral Bunce’s squadron at Hampton Roads, to take part in the evolution at sea, her orders to go to Newport for torpedoes and submit to examination by the inspec¬ tion board having been revoked for the time being to give her men a chance to participate in the squadron movements and to enable Admiral Bunce to exer¬ cise his fleet in connection with two lines of battleships. Admiral Banee will leave Hampton Roads after a shorter stay than he expected, as his squadron will rendezvous at New York to greet Li Hung Chang. An Order from Carlisle. Heretofore persons carried on the pay rolls of the treasury as laborers have done duty as clerks while some carried as clerks have done duty in capacities not included in the classi¬ fied service. To correct these irregularities Sec¬ retary Carlisle has instructed the offi¬ cials of the treasury not to permit em¬ ployees uqder their control and direc¬ tion, who under the law are not in the classified service, to perform the duties of officers or places which are in the classified service, and not to permit employees who are in the classified ser¬ vice to perform the duties of officers or places which are not in the classified service. A violation of these instruc¬ tions, he adds, will result in the abol¬ ishment of offices not in the classified service. Weather Bureau Report. The United States bureau issues the following bulletin: “Intensely hot and unusually dry weather has pre¬ vailed throughout a portion of the southwest, including western Tennes¬ see, northern Louisiana,northern Tex¬ as, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory during the past 10 or 12 days, the temperature being in a num¬ ber of instances, higher than any pre¬ viously recorded by the weather bu¬ reau at this season of the year. “Maximum temperatures of 100 de¬ grees and over have occurred daily in Arkansas and Oklahoma during the period mentioned and throughout most of the region the temperatures have ranged continuously above 95 degrees. At Little Rock and the City of Oklahoma maximum temperatures of 104 degrees occurred on August 1, which were, respectively, 5 and 7 de¬ grees higher than any previous record at those stations during the first ten days of August. During the past twelve days the maximum tempera¬ ture at Little Rock is 100 degrees in seven days, 102 degrees on four days and 104 degrees on one day.” Heavy July Shortage. The comparative statement of the government receipts and expenditures issued by the treasury department Tuesday, shows the total receipts from nil sources during July to have been $29,029,209, and the expenditures$42, 088,468, leaving a deficiency for the month and the fiscal year thus far of $13,059,249. - The internal revenue receipts during the month were $14,302,532, an in¬ crease of $1,404,117 over the first month of the last fiscal year. On the other hand the customs receipts which were $12,527,330, show a failing off of $1,919,654, compared with July of last year. The miscellaneous receipts which were $2,569,348, show an in¬ crease of $475,038 over the month for the last fiscal year. All bnt two items of the expendi¬ tures and interest charges show a de¬ cided increase over July, 1895, the heaviest being under the head of civil and miscellaneous expenditures, which were $12,343,931, as against $10,470,- 562 of the corresponding month a year ago. Part of the comparatively large deficiency is also accounted for by the increase of expenditures on account of the navy from $12,380,466 in July, 1895, to $13,756,250 last month. There is a slight increase of about a million each for pensions and Indians over last year. Revising Bryan’s Speech. The democratic congress committee is again mailing broadcast copies of Candidate Bryan’s convention speech, which even he admits is the lever that lifted him into the place which he now occupies as the democratic stand¬ ard bearer. The first edition of the speech did not meet with Mr. Bryan’s approval, and ht his request Senator Fanlkner withdrew it “for revision.” The second edition is now ready for mailing. The most important change made in the process of revision is that marks ffold has bM0 fa «J <3 to meet the ln ^ of plagiarism. The* ftr 10 ^ has c « been 2 ren»»<, K ' ect ire i «" ■*» • i the matter was cder W been changed, The Paramount i ^ ions . of the S3ne ,, The di speech -.-wcr-* as r ne ,j, The e e real “°? business new conditions; tnen must bank currency; against . nal ments; the paramount the minorit ‘ ? a of “ DeW success; dec ^ation Carlisle of define IT f ( indep e trade CONDIXIOXs, Bradstreet’s Review of r Busi the .. Past Week, ne Bradstreets’s review of trad tions forthepast week e c In nearly all lines savs: toXzzLir trade is unci ™**; an chants unfavorable in all directions influenceJtoH buy for needs only. While continu early for fall trade it J i to assume la portions distribution of clothing what, shoes at although Chicago less has improved fo At active than year ago. several centers ban] have preferred not to load as free! heretofore. Merchants, not wis! to be refused, have accordingly tailed their requests for accomm tioD. Mercantile collections are slov some instances more difficult to Renewed scrutiny „ of credits has an effect in restricting the same, and steel industries remain escessi dull. Makers of pig are piling at Large lots could be obtained at cessions. have agreed Cotton to curtail yarn manufactinj during productions / per lack cent of demand August, and owind western packing hd employes have been laid off. Ther no improvement in wool, and s Philadelphia mills have shut down,I Portland advices are that no coni erable movement of Oregon wool • take place until after election, d ton goods remain unchanged, not*: cottJ standing the higher price for The relative activity among makers' boots and shoes is because of orders hand, rather than new business. Sto values in the New York market h« broken on liquidation and bear! buyij pressure, with an utter lack of support. Besides the uncertainty! the political outlook and the slacknt of trade, there have been several a pressed factors, including the bred down of a local speculative inflation Chicago, the appearance of pressure the money market and talk of dama to railroad earnings. Business failures throughout tl United States this week number 269, decrease compared with one weekag when the total was 291. The fallu off is principally in the middle ai New England states. As compared wi one year ago, this week’s total sho’ an increase of sixty, and with two yea ago, an increase of seventy-two. the first week of August, 1893, durin the panic, the total number of failuri was 474. Comparatively favorable reports cot cerning general trade are more si merous than in preceding week Pittsburg jobbers report a slight U crease in the volume of trade, btu Baltimore there is j marked improve ment, with jobbers receiving orflei freely. condition of the Taj The favorable help cotton crop continues to ] 0 at Galveston. Notwithstanding q favorable reports as to cotton in iana. expected payments ot * - bounties next the week, Louisiana and favors sugar jj cro| ports as to New Ur tend to stimulate trade at leans. Both Savannah and Au - report a fair volume °f business, improvement in some lines, collections are slow. TAX RIOTS IX SPAIN. Charged X' Incitioi Americans Revolt. Open hmJ - Advices oi Thursday to the effect b.■ „ •re the taxe growing out of - b0B the people have of ^ “fcurI al xbe © ‘I the province disturbances ' ‘ re d We^l the) 6erious the outsku 0 f dav night in city of armed men, armed w th the about shouting * Do *“ ”and with the £° ver tr BUl Down ‘‘ f authorities* - 3ter e re tying the ^ ^ at:** them. They at fts „ ct t jj e octroi on the officials who - yjgjon* ci the tax collected upon ft ^ all kinds entering the cityi '**' tempted to shoot them. GORI> 0>1 g&avF ox ' flowers Honor 4 Li Hung Cha»g >*ou<l* n ‘ Killed in the Li Hung Chauff. the who is now g ;r* man visited »*• It raa Britain, and ia at London, P \ c the tomb of Geu . *- , l _ Gordon, who >**s *" $ Khartoum, m the dists at January 26.
