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THE WEEKLY CONST1TUTiQN i ATLANTA, HA., TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1880.
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(irerfla In Cwnaretm.
The bill for tbe registration of trade-
marks was taken from the speaker'* table
on Tneadayof last week. Mr.Hammond
skillfully guided tbe discus.ion, and at
ita clone be offered a number of amend
ments, every one oh which were adopted.
Mr. Hammond demanded the previous
question on the passage of the bill, and
the bill was passed. Mr. Smith pre
sented the petition of O. I). Scott, presi
dent, and other officers and patrons of
the South (ieorgiacollege atThomasville,
for arms and equipments for two compa
nies of students.
Mr. March, from the committee on
public buildings, reported on Wednes
day of last week a bill to provide for the
erection of a public building in Augusta.
On the following day the post-route bill
was passed by the house just as it came
from the senate. I luring the debate
upon the internal revenue bill an article
of the Washington Republican was read,
full of abuse of the ]ieople of northern
Oeorgia. Mr. Cook immediately got the
floor to reply to it. We give his remarks
in full:
ATLANTA. OA.. MAY 11. V».
~ It is now called the mean ways commlt-
tee. ,
Tiie republicans would like lo pull down
Senator Vest.
It ia about time for a package of oleo-
margerine to explode in the czar’s pxniry.
Coon society and a'friendly game of po
ker combine to ruin many promising young
A vonaolady who Ins a red headed drum
mer for a sweetheart, alludes to her flam
beaux. .
Joiia Kxi.lv would barrooaiie, perhaps,
if Conkling would release him from bis
spring contracts.
Mil Hati> now has an opportunity to
provide for J. Madison Wells. He can make
him postmaster-general.
Youa Uncle Allen G. is getting together
a remarkably lively littie l»om. Long may
the red bandanna ware!
Sxxstor Bl-rxsibi graduated at West
Point, but if he lived there low his side-
whiskers would be mutilated.
Mr. Mostoomruy Blair will soon be en
gaged in another hand-to-hand encounter
with the southern secessionists.
Christine Nilhsos seems to be in only
average luck this season. Fa‘e has sjtared
her both her voice and her husband.
By boarding them on the European plan
John Sherman's delegates to Chicago won’t
coat him more thnn cents a day.
Tkxas pleads guilty to being a western
state. Once let this be understood, and
various problems will settle themselves.
From the fact that numbers of Georgians
are returning home by way of the railroads
we judge there are flush times in Texas.
Bill Chandler has defeated Grant in
Saw Hampshire. If we are not mistaken,
Bill has been defeated in the same state.
When habeas corpus will reach Kearney,
it is about time to impure if there isn’t
some defect in our North American system
of jurisprudence.
Tint man who assassinated Whittaker’s
ears will doubtlets claim to be a gentleman
after he is caught. Under the military code
. tills is a sufficient excuse.
In the far western states seventeen vil
lains and a secretary (including treasury
employes) form a quorum in a republican
convention. There is nothing simpler than
republican politics in the west.
Tint revenue department proposes to make
a raid on the distillers of mountain dew
Georgia. One of these raids recently cost
the government six thousand dollars, but it
broke up a hen's nest in White county.
It is now suspected that Whittaker's ears
were dipped hy the editor of the New York
World, and that the extract appeared in
the tlopsom column without credit. The
tiles should l»e searched.
Downey is forty-one years old. To sue
cumb at that age to old Mrs. Phantasma
goria is a confession of cerebral weakness..
But, for our part, wo would he glad if all
original poetry could be published in the
Record. _
Isn’t it about time for Sherman to an
nounce that he is still a candidate? If he
has any delicacy in regard to troubling re
publicans with a matter in which they do
not smui to be interested, be can address a
card to a war democrat.
Tiik Pennsylvania board of pardons is the
salvation of the republican party ot that
state. If the board remains in session un
til election day a majority of the party will
be out of jail and will probably be allowed
lo vote at the next election. __
Com mission icr Raum says he proposes to
make things warm for the illicit distillers
in Georgia. We are to suppose then that
the revenue men are to be temporarily with
drawn from the political conventions? It
is these sudden changes and diversions that
will finally convulse the republic.
Conk lino says the third term business is
settled. If we are not mistaken, Conkling
made a few leniarks to a Mr. Sprague last
summer, which the latter said couldn’t be
verified. The ITtica senator should accom
pany his statements with atlidavils.
Thr New York Tribune renews its elabo
rate compilation of figures to show that
Grant cannot 1ms nominated. In July the
Tribune will be endeavoring to lead the
Grant column, and a pretty spectacle Editor
Reid and his political paragrapher will
make.
A surplus of twelve millions of dollars
was paid into the treasury hy the tax-pay
ers of the country during April, and still a
democratic ways and means committee re
fuses to reduce the war-taxation now col
lected on articles of prime necessity in the
interest of the monopolies.
could t*e dUUiled. The people of my district
therefore are not concerned to the manufacture,
but I know that the statement which has just
been read U a false accusation agaimt the people
who live In that part of the state. It r»fen *
district which defeated the regular demo
nominee in the last election, ana sent a man here
who oppured him. But there are many ffoqd peo
ple there, and though there may b*ve been and
doubtle+a hare been violations of the law in some
few hufttancea. yet it U unjust to make asweer-lug
charRe of that kind against the whole communi
ty . I will venture the assertion that there is mon
illicit distillation in one oar in the city of t:iu<4n
nati or hew York, and other large cities of thi*
country, than is cani-d on in twelve months ia
the whole state of Georgia.
Why. within the J«*t year right here, almost
under the very walls of the rapitol and in sight
of th«? treasury department, the officers have
tracked up a disihlery which has a capacity
greater than all the mountain reccases combined
state, tbe attorney-general, and the marshal of the
state, who is retognUed as an honorable man,
and who made bis report to the attorney-general,
} and DU conduct to this government waa as faith-
ul as any man in its service.) investigated this
matter, and show that this state«qent in eveir in
portent particular was absolutely untrue. It is
politli al steal If 1 mky use the w^rd. Itiaabai.
suggestion to abuse in this way and vlll/y the vir
admitted in bia (Griffin's) office that Jd^how be groefer «juench Brer BoU Free-
., .... . . . . . , . .. . He know be can; drown ’im, eahe ain’t got ro
the title* be had to a certain lot of land 4 „ r ler . to> en he git mlehtr pestered,
were forgeries, bnt said he was innocent j Bixneby ole Brer Ball Fmg. be sorter Stop his cry
tbe fact, and proposed to make the S in’en his boo-booin', en he up’n say
from whom he bought them re- “•*•*"» r*oe<«kUI me. BreeKm-. ky«
. . . x . -i / j - ai • ler dat big flat rock oat dor unde Ridge ex
fund the man, v. Instead of dc-mg tins, whMI i U , w axtl r . en alter I
fnoarever, Mr. Griffin states that Daniels I wer am. den yon kin take joa axe cn aqurh me.'
Bold the lot in question to Mr. E. F. Cal- “Mi look 10 la'r an t aqaar- dat Brer B ar be
l.onn, of Laurens countv. Moreover,
M 7 *«• ir n ■ . . , . | hi* behime legs, en sling bis axe on his shoulder,
Mr. Griffin offers Daniels one hundred I 0 ff he put ler fle big flat rock. When be git
dollars for agenuine plot and grant, and I dar be lay Brer Ball Frog down on de rock, en
bona fide chain of titles to any lot of Brer Bull Frog make like be lookin’ ’roan’ fer
land Ilf. h*c mnU in tho wri«*>/*- I his folks. Ben Brer B ar. be draw long breffen
land he has sold in the ntr^ra-e see- Den he ^lt In hlx has
tion, the genuineness to be decided by cnw lMCk m rome down on de rock-pow!”
the secretary of state. 1 “Bid he kill tbe Frog, Uncle Kent us?” asked
Mr. Griffin is of the opinion that the I d>e UtU* boy. a. the old manpanaedtoacoopop
lank* o, these forged plats and gran* Ome
are printed m or near Atlanta, the seal | w >«. n Brer B*ar raise np wid bis axe en w’en be
the state counterfeited and attached, I come down wid it. Ole Brer Bull Frog be lipt up
the different deeds to correspond exe- * n dovedownindemHl-poa’.kerhUnk-kerblunkJ
cuted, and the whole subjected to the
action of chemicals to give them the ap
pearance of age. We would state in this
connection that Colonel X. C. Barnett,
the secretary of state, can easily detect
these forgeries, and he has been called
□pon several times lately to give bis opin
ion. When necessary, he is prepared to | »■«•»’* l“»I in dem <Uj«, en tsonldn't be
issue certificates to those who may desire * !olks tnow ' d much ’*° ut de BoU
the protection of such a document I *’*
Wheneverthereisevenashadow of doubt “ Com, “ s »««■“ Caw Ttoeda sizmi...
as to the genuineness of plots and grants I sing a song of sixpence—bottle full of rye,
and titles, the doubtful instruments I Eight by seven thimble-riggers cutting up a pie,
should be forwarded to the secretary of I When tbe pie ii opened they’ll ell begin to sing
state, so that those desirous of purchasing I “ Theaavior our country*™'
may be protected, and that tbe crime, if * Ung ’
any is contemplated, may be fixed upon
the proper persons. ^ I The “Sylpb” la busy slinging ink with bis acc-ns-
L nder tne proclamation of the governor I tomc-d dash
it becomes the duty of Mr. Griffin to I To of nobility for all the Dents and
cause the immediate arrest of the agents , , .. . .. t , . . . .
... - . . - ., x b I Including all their sisters, their eousins, and their
within reach, in order that the exposure I , mll
he has made mav he followed np by the I „ ... . .
- . . , . , r , I Prince Orville at the trading post counting out
swift administration of justice. All tbe I hls money,
evidence shows tliat the swindle is I Pitnoe Frederick on a bloody Urk and toll ol
extensive one, and it is still I J***!* » nd honey,
going on. As an expert in the detection | prin ^ J , eBe tribote (rom • >nnce,)r whidiy
of forged plats and grants and titles Mr.
Griffin may make it profitable to himself,
and do a good work for the state by ran- I p u ke Cameron, in the pnblic crib (ot course he'i
mng down these swindlers and lodging I sucking eggs).
There may be farther de- I ^ LTl Coukling, chief of eunuchs, with the garter
on bis 1«
BILL ARP.
HIS TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS.
He Relates Hie Experience la Work About tbe
Fam and Hotse-Calcnlatee that He will
Hake 120,000 Pounds of Water
melons—His Livs Stock.
En Wen be riz way out In de pon’ he riza singin'
en dis yer’i de song w’at he aing:
“ 'Inglegojzng, my Joy, my joy—
Iuglegojang, my joy!
I’m right at borne, my joy, my joy—
Iuglegojang. my Joy!’ ”
Thal’a a mighty funny aoog,” aaidtbe little
boy.
Funny now, I rpeck,” aald tbe old man, “but
j has been counted in
King Simpson in tbe sample-room imbibing s
thieves,
Such as Robeson, Belknap, Shepherd, who are
laughing in tbeir aleev
If
Tiik New York Sun says it was disgrace
ful to pardon tbe Pennsylvania republican
thieves. To be sure. But not to jardon
them was to set a precedent which would
have hustled the entire party to jail in less
than thirty days. The time has come when
parties must take care of themselves, jvar-
iicularly republican (tariies.
Mr. Evarts wants the country to con
tribute $50,000 to entertain tbe king of
Siam when he comes to this country. If
Mr. Evarts will place his thumb upon his
nose and state that there is no tired and
hungry American upon whom this sum
might be better expended, we will go to
congress and vote for the appropriation.
Ot’R while republican friends do not seem
to admire the interest which Tub Constitu
tion ukes in the future welfare of the col
ored man. The trouble is that the educa
tion of the negro is fatal to the purposes of
our white republican friends, and they are
more than glad to drop him when he reaches
that point in his development where he can
no longer be made a tool of.
Wiulc other candidates in both parties
seem to repine and decline, the health of
Mr. Tibien grows healthier and healthier.
He is that robust that his least active
amusement is a romp with two English
xnaslifta. Those who know the tendency of
these engaging animals to tlinga man down
and search him for roast beef will have
some idea of the protuberance of Mr. Til
den’a brawn.
Tub war taxation on three articles
prime necessity will amount to at least $75,-
000,000 for tbe fiscal year ending the 1st oi
June; and this while there is a surplus
the treasury that permits John Sherman to
pay off the national deb: at the rate of ten
million dollars a month. In refusing to re
duce this taxation the democratic majority
in eongreas extends a cordial invitation to
the people to defeat the party at the polls.
with tbe exception of here and there, as la found
in every commonity, of a van who may been-
gased in aome unlawful purnnit, such as illicit
diatillallon. And it la an outrage to make tbe
chance.
I am Kurpriaed, I am astonished—I will not say
aay indignant, because a decent man has no
right to be indignant at anything said or done
here [lartghteraud applause]—but I do say that 1
am aclouUhed. and regret to way that ageut’.etaan
of character and standing aira member of this
house should put forth as a part of his speech the
statement that has just been read here.
[Here ihe hammer fell ]
Mr. Cook presented the petition of
citizens of Americug, in favor of free salt
Mr. Hammond presented a similar peti
tion front W. A. Pye and others; also
petition of J. I. Pope and others, for the
establishment of a post-route from Con
cord via Williamsville to Flat Shoals.
Leave of absence was granted, last Fri
day, to Mr. Hammond for ten days. Mr.
Felton presented the petition of the Sa
vannah medical college for the passage
of the bill to increase the efficiency of
tha marine hospital service. l*eave of
absence was granted to Mr. Nicholls for
two weeks. Mr. Felton presented the
petition of James C. Warner it Cb., of
Rising Fawn, and of Edward Nicholls, of
Ridge Valley/ for the passage of the
Eaton bill, providing for the appoint
ment of a tariff commission.
The Land PiralM and TbclrSwlndln.
We made editorial allusion last week
to the efforts which the Hawkinsville
Dispatch is making to break up what ap
pears to be an organized gang of land
pirates now operating in the wire-grass
counties of Georgia. The Dispatch has
the assistance of Mr. John W. Griffin, of
Kastman, who appears to be in posses
sion of facts sufficient to convict several
parties whose names will be mentioned
further on in this article. If Mr. Griffin
is really in possession of these facts, he
now has an opportunity of getting well
paid for the tronble he has taken in
exposing this nefarious system of
land piracy. In to-day’s issue of Tiik
Constitution will be found the govern
or’s proclamation offering a reward of two
hundred and fifty dollars for the appre
hension and imprisonment in any safe
jaii in this state, with evidence sufficient
to convict, of any person engaged in the
forgery of plots, grants and titles or in the
sale of such forged grants under a coun
terfeit seal of the state. This proclama
tion is issued in accordance with a reso
lution of the general assembly approved
August 11, 1X7!*, and was first published
on the 15th of April. It has now been
sent out to various weekly papers in the
state, and will also be mailed to ordina
ries of counties in the section where com
plaint is made; so that we may presently
expect to hear of several arrests, and the
final result will be to drive the swindlers
into some other branch of knavery. The
governor has acted with great promptness
in the matter, issuing his proclamation as
soon as he had official notification of the
existence of the thieves’ gang.
Mr. John W. Griffin, of Kastman, who,
with the Hawkinsville Dispatch, has
been foremost in exposing the swindle!*,
has written a lengthy chapter in which
the whole system is effectually shown up.
Mr. Griffin starts out by warn
ing the public not to pur
chase lands from parties repre
senting themselves to the agents of C. M.
Dodson, of Fairborn, Campbell county.
An investigation made by Mr. Griffin
shows that Mr. Dodson owns no wild
land in t!»e territory embraced between
the Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers from
Dublin to Hawkinsville. It is stated, nev
ertheless, that there are no less than eight
parties traveling through the wiregrass
counties, riding and walking, who claim
to be the agents of Dotlson, and they are
ready to sell, and do sell, to unsuspecting
fanners and others any lots of land in
that section provided there is no known
owner in the neighborhood. Mr. Griffin
says that these agents always have a plat
and grant, or a piece of one, with a
full chain of titles, and rarely less than
four old warrantee deeds, all purporting
to lie signed by officers who are d?ad, ex
cept the latter ones, which are sometimes
signed by ’ “C. M. Dodson, J. R.” Ac
cording to Mr.Griffin, one of these agents
has so many of these forged plats and
grants, with a certified seal of the state
attached thereto, that lie is compelled to
carry them in bags and wallets used for
carrying corn on horseback. One of these
agents, named Jonathan Pearson, who
was caught and sentenced to the peniten
tiary, but who broke jail, declared in
court that he -would come clear if Dod
son could be brought to prove his inno
cence.
Another agent, O. D. Britt,
had placed upon record
in Dodge county a full chain of titles to
lot of land number 10, in t.be 20th dis
trict of Dodge county. This lot, which
is im mediately upon the Macon and
Brunswick railroad, Britt offered to sell
for one hundred dollars, but became
frightened and left for Dooly county be
fore the sale was consummated. The
lot of land in question belonged to Mr.
I. C. Plant of Macon, and Mr. Guilin lias
s nee sold it for Mr. Plant for one thou
sand dollars. These land thieves will
sell any of the lots to which they ltave
forged plats and grants at from twenty-
five to one hundred dollars, knowing, at
the same time, that the lots could be
leased for the amount for tarpentine pur
poses.
In regard to R. II. Daniels, of Ameri
cas, who has already dented the charges
made against him in a former publication
in the Dispatch. Mr. Griffin says that
them in jail.
velopraents in Atlanta before long. *,.
so the reader* of Thk Coiwmftios wiU “ ^ ^
be placed in possession of the facts as I Count Bradley, crack-brain puzzle solver, on the
early as is consistent with the success of I wool-sack sits.
the effort to bring the whole matter to I And here’s my l*dy Agnes Jenks and Jesse Raj
light and those concerned to account. I mond’s crew,
w 1 — I Vic Woodhull, Jennie Claflin and Eliza Pinkston
The blockade of Callao, the port of I too-
Liina, and the moat important seaport on I Hcre '» simou’a Widow Oliverimd Boococ'xUlnty
the Pacific coast of South America, shows , Klte '
.. iBHywB I All brevet maids of honor—(they could not get
the extent of the disastrous defeat that | them straight)-
has overtaken the people of Pern and
Bolivia. The Chilians are now complete
masters of the entire coast, and their | Where nature’s noblemen are naught compared
armies are rapidly advancing towards I to titled trash!
Lima itself. Unless other nationg bring l “' EUt,m to dl * UUes fro “
al'oat a settlement of the war by media- I The dirt that', dyed into the wool is worse than
tion all Peru will be conquered by the I tainted blood,
energetic Chilians. Bolivia has dropped There votera-that’s a sample ot the hlack-legs’
out of the fight. She was never, how- j Mark-bird pie,
ever, in it to any great extent, her stay- I bend your pregnant hinges as their royal
ing qualities not being first-rate.
The blue book of a kingdom is a nauseous mess of
The king of Siam is not coming—at
least not, nntil his health improves. His
visit at the head of an immense retinue
was one of the obligations that General
nibs go by-
But if the taste U bitter, be quick—weed out the
germ,
Nor let the seed cf Hiram sprout upon another
SOME1H1NG ABOUT THE CENSUS.
Grant incurred in his free-lunch swing Wblcb U or Penoaal and Pnblle In-
around the world. Congress is not dis-1 tercet
posed to meet soch obligations in a From action 17 of the act to provide for
i a i.* 6 I the taking of the tenth census we make thi
princely way, and taking one considera- I following extract of interest to tbe public
tion with another it is perhaps best that 1 “XcUedule one shall contain inquiries as
the king’a health became delicate. * “
New Orleans has established a rigid whether wife, son, daughter, servant board-
, , * I er or other; as to the civil conditions of
quarantine against vessels from such in-1 each persOii enumerated, whether married,
fected ports as Havana, Vera Cruz and I widowed or single, as to the place of birtli
Kio. Memphis has laid fifteen miles of I £
new sc were, and otherwise made great I ized person, and as to the physical and
sanitary improvements. Both cities are I cental health of each person enumerated,
watchful ami fh** A r n i; nA *i i *l I whether active or disabled, ma’med, crip-
watchlul and determined,and there is no pled% bedridden, deaf, dumb, blind, insane
reason at present to believe that they I or idiotic, and whether employed or unem-
will not be able to maintain a healthy P lo > ed. “| , ^ he if . e ^P eluployed, darin S wbat
condition throughout the entire summer. | ^Schedule number three shall contain in-
„ ; ; * — I quiries respecting the kb d and amount
Bi:et Harte is about to begin a libel suit I power employed in the establishment
against a German paper which credited I productive industry, and the kind and
him with intoxication. This shows that “““‘torof machines in use, together with
Mr 1 * . ., r , 1 the maximum capacity of such establish
. r * ,art ® at ,east "ad the German I ment, where the superintendent of census
language in its native wilds; but, good gra- I shall deem such inquiry appropriate, and
cious! cannot a free-born Ainericau citizen I ihesaid superintendent may, when hesball
succumb to the beasUiness of too »„ch S “
Leer mthout becoming the target of a paper I Schedu.e number four, shall con
printed in the language in which Carl I tain inquiries relating
Schu.'Z alludes to the Indian problem? I public . indebtedness of cities,
1 I counties, incorporated villages, and towns,
Tim average revenue official goes into a ? d sch001 districts and of the ownership
. ? , , I of the public debt of the United
noith Georgia, fires oil a horse-pistol, and I States, by whom owned and
comes rushing back. Whereupon tbe col- I the respective amounts and such additional
lector telegraphs to Raimi, and Raum de- I inquiries respecting the same as well.as re
elutes war. Of all the funny frauds, this s P ccti . n « th , e W*» and = ri !' 1 li ?” 13 “ lhc
. . _ . * , I superintendent of census shall deem neces-
revenue business in Georgia is the funniest I *.ary to secure fall information respecting
and the fraudiest. | the numbers and condition of these classes.”
Section 14th says, “That each and every
It would be funny if, in a fit of ingrati- ] person more than 20 years olage belonging
tude toward the Hon. Montgomery' Blair, to . m ? family residing in any enumeration
\ir Tii,i on -iws.,1.1 , i „ .. „ .1 district, and m case of the absence of the
* r* Tilden should name John Kelly as the I heads and other members of any such fam-
cu ml in ate. Kelly would blusli Immodestly I ily, then any agent of such family, shall be,
ar.d beg Conkling to let him accept I and each of them hereby is required if
I thereto requested by tbe superintendent,
Tins is the season of the year when a man I supervisor or enumerator, to render a true
is lucky if bis most prominent relation isl account to the best of his orherjtnowl
Tbe days are getting long, bnt somehow
there went time enough to do what has to
be done. I map out so much work for the
day, and when night comes I havent 4$>ne
it. 1 ve got behind and can’t catch up.
That’s bad. Ben Franklin said a man
ought to drive his work and hot let liis
work drive him. Tbe wet weather has got
farmers all in a stew. There hasent been
but two days in two weeks that we could
plow. My com is not all planted; my gar
den is in the grass; potato slips axe waiting
for the patch; the clover is nearly ready
for the scythe. If it was only the big things
that were pressing I could soon catch up,
but there’s so many little ones to mix in it
takes about half tbe time to tend to cm.
received orders the other day from head
quarters to have all the palings white-wash
ed. Then again the flowers have all to be
taken out of tbe pit and benches fixed up
for em, and so I had to go to the saw-mill
for a few planks. The grape arbor had to
be latticed and the vines tied up, so I had
go to the creek for canes,
was gently suggested that a large water
melon natch was a great needeessity, and it
took a whole day to prepare the ground
and dig the holes and haul the fertile, as
Cobe calls it Mr. Theodore Smith,related to
Mrs. Arp, as how he pulled twenty-two
melons from one vine, and the smallest one
eigbed eighteen pounds; and so I’ve
planted 105 hills, which will make 200
vines and 4,620 melons weighing about
120,000 pounds. That's the hopeful way I
figured it all up for her, but I’ve seen
women who had more faith in her hus
band’s works than she has. Siie was work
ing a button-hole, and remarked that if I
raised fifty, she would be agreeably disap-
xiinted. In laying out worx, these sort of
obs are never counted. Then again there’ ’
many an hour lost in waiting op tbe
dren. the little chaps. Thevjjifcal ways _
ing round for something. Everything I
they want to do. They have got little gar
dens and everything I plant they must
plant 1 have to tie up their big toes most
every day and get splinters out of their
lingers and pick em up when they fall down
and be sorry a great deal and comfort em.
They’ve got to wading in the spring branch
and the matgrnal ancestor thinks a snake
has bit em every time they holler. When
they get out of sight she imagines some
baby thief has come along and stole em like
they did Cbariey R*»ss, and so I have to
drop everything and hunt em up. But they
are a world ol pleasure, and it does look
like the more I do for em the more I love
em. They tag around after me most all the
time and drive away the blues with their
hope and trust and childish phile sophy—
their innocent unconcern about the
future, about trouble and want and
suffering, about politics and-pestilence and
miracles and suicides. I reckon that a
good little child is about tbe best of all
created things, *nd don’t wonder that the
Scriptures tell us we must be likeem before
we can get to heaven. Fiu a right good
family barber, and was shingling one of
their little heads, to-day, when somebody
came running in and hollered, “the bees
are swarming, the bets are swarming, come
quick, ring a tell, they are going off.” I
had been looking out for this every day for
aweeh. Last fall I bought five stands and
came home and told my wife I ha t bought
fifty thousand bead of live stock, which
would have made a sensation, but she
didn’t believe me, as usual, aud went on
with her sewirg Well, I had the hive all
ready but »be trouble was about getting
them down from the tree, for they were
about thirty feet up and hanging down
edge of every person belor.girg to such
fanrl/ in the various particulars re
quire 1 by law; and whoever shall wilfully
fail or refuse shall be guilty of a misde
meanor. and upon conviction thereof shall
forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars. And every president,
The Florida watermelon will soon bring ] treasurer, secretary, general agent or mana-
suggestions of quarantine. | 8>«8 director of every corporation from
not his carb uncle.
Mr Hayes ought to furnish the revenue I
officers free transportation to the Chicago I
convention.
UNCLE REMUS’S FOLK LORE.
which answers to any ot the ached-
ules provided for by this acl
are herein required, who shall
if thereto requested by tbe superintendent,
supervisor or enumerator, willfully neglect
or refuse to give true and complete answers
Tbe Bear Catcbea tbe Ball Fi
'Well, Unelc Remus,” said the Utile boy, count-
tng to see if he hadu’t lost a marble somewhere, I to any inquiries authorized * by this act,
1 such officer or rgent shall forfeit and pay a
sum not less than five hundred dollars,
nor more than ten thousand
lars, to be recovered in an action
of debt in any coart of competent juris
diction in the name and to the use of the
United States, and in addition thereto shall
* on con
“Now ; ou talkin’, hoaey,” repTcd the old
m«n, his earnest face breaking up into little ed
dies of smiles; “now you talkin', sho. ’Tam'
bin proned inter no Brer B’ar fer to kotcb Brer
Rabbit. HU sorter like settin’ a mule fer ter trap I be* guilty oTi mildemeanorTVnd,‘'on
a humrain* bird. But Brer B’ar. he tuck’n got I viction thereof’, shall be imprisoned
hiase’f inter some mo’ trubble. w’ich it look like I term not exceeding one year.”
it mighty easy. Ef folks tould make der livin’ I We are requested by Dr. Gatchell, super-
longer gittin’ inter trubble,” continued the old ] visor for this census district, to state that
man. looking curiously at the little boy, “ole I no applications for enumerators’pi aces will
Miss F.vere wonKla't be bodder'n j-o' ma fer ter I >* received alter next Tuesday.
borry a cup full ersugir ere’y now cn den;
look Ilk* ter me dat I knows a nigger dat wouldn't
be ^quaffin' roua’ yer matin’ dese yer lish bas-
kit*.'
”llow did the Bear get Into more trouble,
Uncle Remus?” asked tbe little boy.
“Natchul, honey. Brer B’ar. he tuck a notion
dat ole Brer Bull Frog wuz de man wa’t fool ’im,
en he say dat he’d come up wid ’im ef
year alterwuds. Bnt ’twan’t no year, an
no monU. en mo a dat, hit wan’t skasely a week,
bimeby
THE METHODISTS.
Northern Overture* for Pence with
the Monihern Church.
Cincinnati, May 8.—At the session of the
general conference to-day the report c‘
the commission on the formal fraternit;
with the Methodist Episcopal church soul
was read by General Clinton B. Fisk. I
recognizes the church south as a legitimate
,’t | branch of the Methodist chnrch, and fixes
rules for the determination of the owner-
day Brer B’ar wuz gwine I sh’P 0 * the church proper!y which has been
home film do ukiiT un « bee tree, enlocnbe-l m dis P u,e between the two bodies,
boles, who should he see but ole Brer Bull Prog I I)r * F‘ eree ' of . Virgmia, moved
... . . “ ‘ rf: I to <• insider so much of tbe report as
., ' age er de mud-puddle I«s | i at ed to a certain church in Virginia
Jeep. Brer B srdrsp his axe. he did. en ciope I He w „ ,„n olce d b, Dr McDonald, of Rich
up, en retch out wid his psw. en scoop ole Brer I mond. The next convention will meet
Bull Frog in des dis a way.” Here the old man I Columbus, Mississippi. Dr. Landrum,
used his hand ladle-fsshlon by way of illustra-1 Georgia is to preach the opening sermon,
tiod. “He scoop ’im in, eadar he wuz. Wen | and F. H.JKerfoot, of Baltimore, will be
Brer B’ar got bis dampers
down en talk at ’im. . . .
Rowdy, Brer. Ball FroF.hcwdj! K,i how yo' tlon ..’° incorporate their report in the pro
Ismbty. I hope deyer well. Brer Bull Frog, k ize I
dis day you got some bizaess wi 1 me w’at'll las'
you a mighty long time.’
“Brer Bull Frog, he dunuer w’at ter say. He
dunner wat's npenhe don’t say nuthin’. Ole
B'ar he kevp namin'
The night session was devoted to a mass
meeting on foreign missions.
The Baptists.
Lexington, Ky., May 5.—The Southern
Baptist convention assembled thismornine
Youer de man w’ot tuck en fool tne ’bout Brer j n th « Kra} BaptUt church. About three
Rabbit fer day. You had yo* fun. Brer Ball Frog,
en now i'll git mine.’
“Den Brer Bull Frog, he gin ter git skeerd, he
did. en he up’a say:
“ *W’at I biu doin’ Brer B'ar? How I bin foolln
you r
“Den Brer B’ar laff en make like he dunno,
but he keep on talkin’.
*‘*Oh. no. Brer Boll Frog! You ain’t de man
w’at stick yo' head up out’n de water en tell me
Brer Rabbit done gone on by. Oh, no! you ain’t
de man. I boun’ you ain't. ’Bout dat time, you
wux at home wid yo' fambly whar you alien is.
I dunner whar yon wux, but I knows whar vou I mainly taken up in the consideration cf
U. Brer Bull Fro*, en hit', yon en me ler it. At- P°"? “ f . " mmutees na missions,
ter de sun goes down di« day you don't fool-no Dr. Ticbtison presented* report on Cbi
1„„. 1.™V. I Dese missions, and made an eloqnent ad-
tuo folks swine long dis road. dress in its behalf. Mr. C. Lewis, of Ken-
•Co’se, Brer Bull Fine dunner Wat Brer B’ar mcky , am l Dr. Dodson followed in able ad-
dtivin at, but he know sump’n hatter be done en I dresses.
dat mighty soon, kaxe Brer B ar 'gun to snap his I Dr. B. Manley presented a report on Afri-
jaws texgcdder en foam at de monf, and Brer Bull | can missions, ana addressed the convention
hundred delegates were present. Dr. J. _
Boyce, of Kentucky, last president, called
tbe convention to order. Dr. P. H. Mell, of
Georgia, wa* elected president, and ex Gov
ernor J. E. Brown, of Georgia, ex-Gorernor
P. H. Leslie, of Virginia, Rev. Dr. E. T
Winkler, of Alabama, and W R. Yeaman
of Mhsoori, vice-presidents. C. E.
Dobbs, D. D, of Kentucky, and Kev. O.
Gregory, of South Carolina, were choc-en
secretaries. Rev. Lansiug Burrows,
Lexington, delivered the opening address.
Lexington. May S.—The morning session
I of the Southern^ Baptist convention was
Frog holler out:
*Ob, prey. Brer B’ar! Lem me off dis time, en
I won’t never do so no mo*. Oh. pray. Brer B’ar!
do lemxne off dis time, en I’ll ibow yon de lattes’
bee-tree In de woods.*
“Ole Brer B'ar, he chomp his tootles.
at de motif. Brer Ball Frog he desap'n squall:
“ *Oh, pray. Brer B’ar! I won’t never do so i
mo'! Oh, pray. Brer B'ar lemme off dis time!'
“Bat ole Brer B'ar say he gwineter make way 1 make certain verbal changes. The confer-
wid 'im, cn den he sot en study, ole Brer B’ar euce then adjourned.
| ia their interest.
This brought up tbe question whether the
I commission had final jurisdiction over the
matter, or whether its acts were subject to
review by the conference. After a long de
bate a vote was taken, and it was decided
that tbe commission bad final jurisdiction.
The report of the commission on tbe eccle-
A. R. Vancleaf were
general grant confident.
Special dispatch to Chicago Tribune.
Ixd anapous, Ikd ,Maj 5—The News this
evening publishes the following as authen
tic:
“The brother of a South Meridian street
merchant, a traveling tnati, who has been
»n this city for the past week, says he was
in Galena a few days agr>. and business
called him into the establishment of a Mr.
Perkins. General Grant was in the store
calling on the proprietor, who was a friend
of his before tbe war. Mr. Perkins intro
duced the traveling man to the general.
KELLOGG’S HOLD ON SOME PATRIOT S
Who Sold oat Mr. Tilden, and Matt Now Walk in
Line—The General Poet Office Bill—Old
tad New Poit~OSces in Georgia—
Randall on Adjonrnm»nt.
aud a half-hour’s conversation on general
matters ensued. In the course of it the
general was asked how he considered his
chances for the nomination. He replied, in
a confident manner: *i think I shall be
nominated.’ After he had left, the drum
mer asked Mr. Perkins if, in his opinion.
Grant desired the nomination. ’Well.
I should think so,’ was the response; *1
spent last evening with' him and he
talked freely on the subject
Said tbe General: *1 tell you, I will be
nominated at Chicago, and,’ in a deter
mined tone and manner, ‘if lam nominated
1 shall be elected, too.’ ” “This,” says the
News, “is in tbe nature of an official utter
ance, certainly so much of it as refers to
Grant’s belief in his »-uccess before the con
vention, and is the first direct expression
from hitu on tbe subject that has found its
way into print.*’
RAILROAD MATTERS.
A GREAT LINE THE SOUTH NEEDS.
Memphis Ledger.
Colonel C. M. McGhee, vice president of
the Memphis and Charleston railroad, is in
• he city. Laving arrived this morning from
Knoxville, via Nashville. We are glad to
know that the affairs of his road are in ex
cellent condition; that it has done an im
mense business during the past season, and
that it continues in hands friendly to the
interests of Memphis and disposed to give
Memphis a helping hand Both Colonel
McGhee and R. T. Wilson, the president,
who resides in New York, are Tennessean:!
in a broad, hearty sense, and are very kind
ly disposed towards the great commeicidl
metropolis, which is tbe western terminus
of their lines. It was reported, not long
since, that the lines from Norfolk to Mem
phis were likely to be consolidated. This
was defeated by General Malone, when pro
posed sometime ago, but it is understood
~ Kisition will not be raised
nsolidation would give us a
fra air-line, under one ntattage-
__ nfoe,, huudjed miles long by
connecting the Mississippi river with a good
seaport on the Atlantic. This would afford
au easy outlet to Europe for ail tbe pro
ducts of the northwest that can be brought
over the Fort Smith railroad, without
building any new lines east of the Missis
sippi.
CRIME AND CASUALTY.
Galveston, May 8.—A News special from
Fort Worth says: Isharn Kapp, colored,
yesterday expiated the heinous crime of
tape upon the person of a young white lady.
About 10,000 persons witnessed the execu
tion. lie was driven, seated on his coffin,
to the place of execution, and a noose made
by the father of the victim, was placed
about his neck. Afte- a talk by Rev. Hayes,
colored, and singing, in whicu the doomed
mdn joined, Kapp stepped on the center of
the trap and addressed the concourse in
tea minutes* talk, confessing tbe crime fo.
which he was to be hung. He said he was
satisfied, and willing to die. No accident
?ei the execution.
from a swinging limb. I used to be
a regular squirrel to climb trees, but some
how I’ve lost the lick and so my twelve-year-
old boy undertook the perilous job. He
tied a net over his head aud went up like a
cat, then tied the rope to the limb and
threw the other end higher , up over an
other limb and dropped it down to us and
then we sent him up the saw and he cut off
the limb and it came down easy and slow
on tbe table and we sprinkled em with
sweetened water and brushed them off to
the mouth of the hive and just bad no
trouble at all hardly in getting them housed.
Well I did get popped on the upper rim of
my left ear, and iu a few minutes it looked
like the end of a cow’s tongue and hurt like
tbe mischief, but I made no sign, 1 am al-
am always brave about a thing like that.
When I was a boy 1 was tbe foremost man
to attack a yaller jacket's nest with the
other boys and we used to fight until. the
last armed foe expired and then retire from
the field as friendly as corquering heroes
after a bloody battle. Bees are a curious
institution, a regular science. The com
mon people don’t know much about em yet
and won’t 1> lieve it when you tell ’em.
Some of ’em admit that there is a king bee,
bnt won’t have it that he is a she and lays
all the eggs. Some folks say the bee sys
tem of government is the Creator’s type of
what human governments ought to he, that
i* a hereditary kingdom. 1 reckon that idea
would suit General Grant and Fred very
well, hut if we take it in part we must take
it all together, and that would put Mrs.
Grant in office surrounded by a few hun
dred lazy drones and leave the general and
Freddy entirely out of business. You see,
dame nature wouldn't trust a male with
that much power, but would trust a female
provided she had all the children herself,
for a woman never goes back on her 'off
spring. General Grant may get in on a
third term and run the concern into mon
archy, but I can’t see how a working bee
can go for him, considering that when we
tried him before he and his drones g >t all
the honey. I’m tired of working for them
sort of people, ain’t you? Yours.
Bill Arp.
POLITICAL MATTERS.
Tbe Anti-Third Termers.
St. Louis, May 0.—The anti-third term
national republican convention was called
to order by General Henderson, who called
to the chair Mr. E- C. Hubbard, of Ken
tucky—a delegate to the Chicago conven
tion. Mr. Iluhbard declared that the safe
ty of the republic demanded that the re
publicans should remain in charge of the
nation's affairs. Tbe chief point to which
the convention was directed was hostility
to any movement tending in the least de
gree to the establisbme.it of a monarchy.
A remark tha?‘ there were here no private
axes to grind, that there was no candidate
to be brought forward for the presidency,
elicited hearty and continued appl iuse.
The report of tbe committee on resolu
tions was adopted without debate. The
resolutions set forth aud support tbe prin
ciples of the republican party and lay es
pecial emphasis ufton the dec'arations of
the republican state conventions in New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio in 1875 and
the six opposing a third term for the pres
ent. They further declare that the nomi
nation of a third-term candidate will put
the party on the defensive by revivine the
memory of the public scandals and official
corruption. The closing resolutions are as
follows:
Resolved, That as republicans, we cannot be
here as worshippers, and we demand from a party
without a master, tne nomination of a candidate
without a stain.
R solved, 'that a national committee of 100be
appointed and instructed, in the event of the
nomination oi General Grant, to tneet in the city
of Ntw York, at the call of the chairman of tola
committee, and there to act in such a manner as
they shall then deem be.t to carry out the spirit
and purpose of these resolutions
Permanent organization waseffected. with
John Ik Henderson, of Missouri, as presi
dent, and a vice president frfira each state
represented. General Henderson on taking
the platform outlined brittiy the purjiose
and scope of the convention.
Mr. Whittridge, in behalf of the execu
tive comm mil tee of the independent re
publican party of New York, presented a
message expressing hearty sympathy and
co-operation in their opposition to the third
term.
Mr. Ward, of Philadelphia, from the na
tional republican league of that city, pre
sented one in the same tenor.
A committee of thirteen was appointed
to consider and report a platform.
Telegrams and letters from all parts of
the country expressing syntpaihjtwilh the
purposes of the convention were read.
Tbe Ohio Democratic CouvenlIon.
Committees were appointed and the list
of district delegates was completed,
when a recess was taken. On reassemblii g
G*. orge S. Converse, of Franklin, was chosen
permanent chairman. Iu addressing the
convention, Mr. Converse said none of the
candidates named by the republicans ex
pected to be legally elected, but expected
by either force, chicanery or fraud, to get
themselves into office.
The following platform was adopted aitb
cheers and without discussion:
Ltic
_ I great ability and
steadfast advocacy of oon«ituiional liberty which
marked tbe career of Allen G. Thurman, and
confiding in bis rectitude and fitness for the chief
executive of tbe republic, cordially instruct the
States and use al. honorable means to secure his
nomination.
Resolved. That In order that Ohio mar have
full influence and power in tne national demo
cratic convention. to which her position in the
union entitles her, we hereby instruct the Ohio
delegation to that convention to cart the vote of
the state as a unit.
Resolved. That we recommend the democratic
national convention to adopt the two-thirds rule
in nominating candidates.
The following were elected delegates at
large: J. H. Wade. James B. Steed mar,
John McSweeney and Durbin Ward.
Messrs. A. V. Rice, Thomas E. Powell,
Cincinnati, May 8 —John W. .Short, _
millionaire, of Cincinnati, died suddenly
yesterday at liis home, and the cause wus
announced as heart disease. To-day the fact
was developed beyond the possibility of t
doubt that he committed suicide by strych-
nine poisoning, lie was only 2U years old,
unmarried, a member of the Eptecopal
church and a man of most exemplary
character. He was one of the principal
owners of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and
Lafayette railroad, aud his other possessions
included half the St. Sauies hotel aud a
large amount of surburban property, liis
estate is supposed to be worth $1,500,000.
He was of a high strung and sensitive na
ture, and the only cause of his suicide that
can be conjectured is some trouble in con
nection with his properly. He hid met
with no serious losses, but some coiunlica-
lions had arisen in connection with Ins
estates which led to a mental strain that he
could not^ndure. He was nearly seven feet
high, hut of remarkably sleuder build,
making him a noticeab.e person on the
street.
Barnstable, May 5—Charles JI. Free
man, who killed his child at Pocasset about
a year ago, was brought before Judge Mor
ton on Wednesday and recommitted to the
Danvers insane asylum. Tbe proceeding
was merely formal, but was necessary '
order to bring him fully within the juris
diction of the court, the arraignment in
January last being at a special session the
court bad no authority to commit him
tbe asylum, and he was sent there, as
will be remembered, hy the governor.
Under that form of commitment he
might have been set at liberty
by the authorities without an order of
the court, and the proceedings this evening
were for the purpose of changing his legal
status. Not more than fifteen minutes were
occupied in disposing of the matter. Free
man was taken to the court-room immedi
ately on his arrival in town, at 7 o’clock,
and consequently the people of the village,
who were expecting an evening’s entertain
ment, were disappointed when, a half-hour
later, they had began to assemble and
ascertained that the hearing was
over. He was accompanied by his
wife from Lynn, by Mrs. Swift, his
mother-in-law, by his counsel, Messrs. Board-
man and Taber, and by Drs. Folsom
Boston, and May, of the Danvers asyIt
The two doctors were called as witnesses,
and they simply testified that there has
been no change ; in Freeman’s condition
during the time he had been at the asylum.
The sheriff was appealed to hy Freeuian’i
friends to allow him to spend the night a
the hotel, hut he was made comfortable
in quarters at the jail. He will
be taken back to Danvers to-mor
row. During bis confinement there he has
gained ten pounds, and is in excellent phys
ical health. He is generally cheerful and
hopeful, but disinclined to talk on matters
personal to himself. He, of course, mini
tains that he is not insane. He makes him
self useful in domestic work about the ward,
His depor iu*nt is perfect, and his influence
upon the Giher patients with whom be
brought in contact is good. His case is :
interesting one, and is closely watched by
Dr. May.
Little Rock. May 7 —In Muddy Fork
township. Howard county, one day last
week, Sarah biokes, a girl aged •igh'eer
stabbed and ii.stautly killed LindaStepher
aged twenty, daughter of W. 1*. Stephens,
magistrate The two families are resjiect-
ab!e aud reside on adjoining farms. They
have been neighbors and friends for many
years. Some imprudent conduct of an
elder sister of tbe murdered girl had been
tattled about by Sarah, aud retaliatory
criticisms upon her own conduct coming
to the cars of tbe latter Sarah, accompanied
by a mar. ied sister, rode up to Stephens’s
gate and engaged in an augry controversy
with the mother of the offending Ste
phens girl, during which she called Mra.
Stephens a liar. Linda, another daughter,
the offender being absent, took up the quar
rel in behalf of her mother, and went to tin
gate. A few hot words then parsed hetweei
the two girls, and Linda climbed over th
low fence which separated them. As she
did so Miss Stokes drew from her riding
skirt a long knife, and jumping from her
horse dealt Miss Stephens a heavy blow in
themcE. The point of the knifeenteriug
just above the collar bone and pasting down
ward severed the carotid artery, jugular
vein and windpipe,producing instant death
Miss Stokes then remounted her horse
and alartt-d home. As she passed the field"
where Mr. Stephens waa plowing she called
to him and told him she had killed his
daughter Stephens attempted to arrest
her, but her father, who was at work in an
adjacent field, prevented Stephens from
touching her. Being informed of what had
happened. Stokes told Stephens to take her
into custody if he desired. Meantime the
girl rode home. An inquest was held
the hotly of the dead girl, resfllting in
a verdict of death at the hands
of Sarah Stokes. Tie murderess
made no attempt to escape aud is no
dergoing preliminary examination. The
defense claim that Miss Stephens had a
large stone in her hand when she got over
the fence, and that Miss Stokes only acted
in self-defense. It is cla ; med by the prore
cution that she went around to Stephens’s
house for the express purpose of killing the
sister of the deceased, with whom she was
at enmity. Fortunately for her she hap
pened to be absent on tne morning of the
killing.
An Indian Attack.
Galveston. May 0 —A special to the
News front Me-cila, New Mexico, says that
Cooney’s mining camp, itt the Mougolen
mountains, was attacked on Thursday
evening hy Indians, supposed to be Victo
ria’s hand. One man was killed and one
wounded. The attack was made about sun
down, and tbe nten being
sistance could be made. The attack was
renewed on Friday morning, and the fight
ing was continued until night, thirty white
men being engaged against forty or fifty
Indiana. Four whites were killed and two
wounded. The Indian lo^s is not known.
They disappeared, and it is not known
what direction they went Upon tbe
ceipt of the news in Silver City two curnpa-
ixty-five t
t search.
Washington. May 8.—The house was en
gaged nearly all of the week discussing the
post office appropriation bill. The proposi
tion to give $350,000 to increase the fast
mail service was stoutly opposed, and at
time it was very doubtful whether the
proposition would be successful. General
Cook used the time allotted to him to
speak (five minutes) in giving
The Constitution a hearing,
sent a copy of The Constitution containing
an editorial on the subject of increased
mail facilities, to the clerk’s desk, and lind
him to read it. Mr. Page, of California, en
dorsed the editorial also. The increase ask
ed for was allowed. . {C "
Mr, Richardson, of 8fc Marys Georgia, is
here asking for an appropriation to cl
out the bar at that point. He represents
that unless something is done the harbor
will be useless, as one end of Cumberland
island is gradually washing away, and tbe
sand filling the channel.
The following post-offices in Georgia
were discontinued by order of the post-
office department, to-wit: Green Grove,
Camden county; Pendarris, Wayne coun
ty; Sprtngroad, Thomas county.
The following post-offices were estab-
liihed: Opossum, Madison ounty; Beding,
Washington county; Ontecrow, Wilkinson
county; Sink, Bulloch county
The indications are that Kellogg will not
be unseated. It is whispered that several
democrats will vote to let him retain Uta
seat; and in this connection the old state
ment that Tilden was sold
out by some senators
ing revived. If there was a bargain by
which Kellogg was to retain liis sear, and
the democrats get control a* Louisiana and
Florida, It will he pretty apt to emue up.
for if Kellogg is turned out he upll tell ali
he knows, and if the democrats keep him
in, those democrats who vole that way, will
be kept explaining.
The ways and means committee will
report a bill reducing the duty on
paper. The only fear is that
the opoonent of the measure will so load
the hill with other articles that it will not
pass. A number of the committee favoring
taking the duty off of paper and salt, are
trying to g**t a separate bill for the e
articles passed ami not putting them
in the general hill to he re|K>rttd by
the committee. The duty on steel rails
will be reported at $20 per ton
Tbe senate committee on claims have de
cided to report favorable on the claim of
Mr. Gustin, from Macon. His claim is dif
ferent from others before the committee,
it owing for goods taken by the
federal troops after the surrender, and un
der an agreement to pay tor them. Several
of the republican senators who are so
posed on all occasions, to reimburse ..
body that hails from the south, will vote
for Mr. Gustin’s bill.
Master Charlie Venable, of Atlanta, ap
pointed by Hon. N. J. Hammond, to be a
cadet at the naval academy, is here enrouie
to Annapolis.
Colonel R. L. Mott, of Columbus, ir in
tbe c'dy.
C. R. Plumb audL. R. Brumby, are reg
istered from Atlanta
II. II. Smith, wife and child from
Rome, are at the National.
Miss Speer, sifter of Emory Speer,
Malaria Dmtrojed.
G. A. J. Gadbois, of Brockville, Canada,
certifies that he was prostrated by a mala
rial disease contracted in Texas, and was
quickly and completely cured by the use
of Warner’s Safe Pills and Safe Bitters.
He adds: “I shall never travel in that cli
mate without your Safe Pills and Bitters
a part of my outfit”
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IN THE CAPITAL
CONSIDERED ASA PART OP RELIGION
Mr. Tahntge’* Last Sermon ia Brooklyn Taberna
cle, Wherein He Discourses upon tbe Virtue
of a Little Common Sense as Applied
to our Daily Relligion-
Tbe children ot this w- rid are in their genera
tion wiser than the children of light.”—St. Luke,
xvL 8. .
That is another way of saying that Christ
ians are nut so skillful in the manipulation
~ spiritual affairs as worldtngs are skillful
the management of temporalities. I see
all around me people who are alert, earnest,
concentrated and skillful in monetary mat
ters. who, in the affaire of the soul, are lag
gards, inane, inert. The great want of the
world is more common sense jn matters of
religion. If one-half of the skill and force
fulness employed in financial affairs were
again in the city visiting her brother. She
made many friends ott her visit here during
the winter, who were glad to welcome her
return.
^ Washington. May 6.—Postmaster General
Key’s name will nnr. be sent to the senate
or confirmation as United States judge it
Tennessee until just before the adjourn
ment. It is the president’s desire to keep
him as long as possible. As to who hi-*
successor will be nothing s known except
that it will almost ceruiinly be a southern
man. Mr. Key is the only southern ntan
in the cabinet, aud it is not the president’s
desire to exclude that section altogether.
But there will he some difficulty in seleci-
inga man who will in all respects fill tbe
bill. Several names have been mentioned
to the president, and among them Judge
H. V. Johnson and Joshua Hill, of Georgia.
Mr. Johnson was the candidate for vice-
president on the ticket with Mr. Douglass,
and is a very conservative man. Joshua
Hill was a Union man through the war, and
now conies very near i>eiiig a republican.
The name of General Lougstreet has also
been suggested. Ex-Senator Alcorn
Mississippi, is thought to fill tbe hill
many respects. But if a southern man
appointed Lougstreet stands probably the
best chance, lie is a man of fine education
and appearance, and has been a republican
since me war. If a northern man is ap
pointed. Postmaster Janus, of New York,
undoubtedly stands the best chai.ce. But
no one will be selected until Mr. Key
confirmed.
Speaker Randall informed your corre®-
pondent thi* afternoon that he was still
pi-rfectly satisfied of the ability of congress
toadj .urti about the 1st of June, and that
the adjournment will lake place. While
this is the opinion of the speaker it is not
that of several other leading men of his
partv in the house, who seem to have made
iq» their minds that it will be impossible
adjourn at the period named. A number
of republican members of the housa were
conferring on the subject this afternooa,
and they all expressed iheir determination
to do everything pos-ible to facilitate the
adjournment. They agreed also that if the
two houses would buckle right down to
their work everything of importance could
he pu thrv ugh in four we. ks.
COMMON SENSE
employed in dissenfftnaifSg tbe truths ot
Christ and trying to make the world better,
within ten years the last Juggernaut would
foil, the last thron^of oppression upset, the
last iniquity tumble, and the anthem that
was chanted over Bethlehem on Christmas
night would be echoed and re echoed from
all nations, and kindred and people. “Glory
to God in the highest, and on earth, peace,
good-will to men.” Some years ago, on a
train going toward the southwest, as the
porter of the sleeping-car was making up
the berths at the evening-tide, 1 saw a man
kneel down to pray. Worldly people in t he
car looked on as mnch as to say, “What
does this mean?’ I suppose the most of
the people in the car thought that man was
either insane or that he was a fanatic; hut
he disturbed nooue when he knelt, and
he disturbed no one when he arose. In after
conversation with him 1 found out that he
was a member of a church in this city; that
he was a seafaring man, and that he was on
his way to New Orhans to take command
of a ve?sel. 1 thought then, as I think now,
that ten such men. men with soch courage
for God as that man had, ten such men
would bring the whole city toOurist.
thousand such men Would bring th s whole
land toGcd.ten thousand such men inashort
time would bring the whole earth into the
kingdom oi Jesus. That he was successful
in worldly affairs I found out. That he
skillful iu spiritual affairs you are well per
suaded. If men had the coutage, the pluck,
the alertness, the acumen, the industry, the
common set.se in matters of the soul that
they have in matters of the world, this
would he a very different kiud ot earth '
which to live.
In the first plae\ my friend®, we want
more common sense in the huinling and
conduct of churches. The ideajuf adaptive
ness is always paramount m any other kind
of structure. If bankers meet together, and
they resolve upon putting up a building, it
b especially adapted to banking purposes;
a manufacturing company put up a building
i* is to be adapted to manufac uri tig purposes.
But adaptiveness is not always the question
in tbe rearing of churches. In many of our
churches we want more light, more room,
more ventiiation, more comfort. Vast sums
of money ate expended on ecclesiastical
structures, and men sit down in them, and
i ask a tuan how he likes the church,
says, “I like it- very well, but l
hear.” As though *a shawl factory were
good for everything but making shawls.
The voice ot the preacher dashes against
the pillars. Meu sit down under the
shudows of the Gothic arches, and shiver,
and feel they must be getting religion, or
something else, they feel so uncomfortable.
Oh!.my friends, we want more cotutn
sense in the rearing of churches.. There
cause for lack of light when the heavens
are full of it. no excuse for lack of fresh air
when the world swims itt it. It ought
be an expression not only of our spiritual
happiness, but of our physical comfort,
when we Kiy: “How amiable are thy taber
nacles, O Lord, God of Hosts. A day in
thy courts is better than a thousand.”
Again I remark: We want more common
sense tu the obtaining of religious hojw..
All men understand that in order to
ceed in worldly directions they must
centrate. ^ They think on that one subject
until their utitid takes fire with the velocity
of their own thoughts. All their acumen,
all their strategy, ait their wisdom, ul I their
common sense they put in that one direc
lion, aud they succeed. But how seldom it
is true in the matter of seeking af er God.
While no man ex pec's to accomplish any
thing for this world without coucetitiaiion
aud enthusiasm, how many there are
expecting after a while to get into the
kingdom of God without the use of
any such means. A miller in Cali-
forria. many years ago, picked up a sparkle
of gold from the beu of a stream which
turned his mill. He held up tbut soarkle
of gold until it bewitched natious. Tens of
thousands of people left their homes. They
took their blankets, and their pickaxes, and
their pistois, and went to the wilds of Cali
fornia. Cities sprang up suddenly on the
Pacific coast. Merchants put aside their
elegaut apparel and puton the miners garb.
All the laud waa full of the talk about gold.
Gold in the eyes, gold in tbe ears, gold in
the wake of shi|«. gold in the streets—gold,
gold, gold. Word comes to us that the moun
tain of God’s love is full of gold, that
men have been digging there aud have
brought up gold, anu amethyst, aud car
buncle, aud jas{»er, and sardonyx, and
chrysopras.-<us, and all the precious stones
out of which the walls of heaven are build-
ed. Word comes of a man who, digging in
that mine for one hour, lias brought up
treasures worth more than all the stars that
keep vigil over our sick and dying world.
Is it a bogus company that is formed?
Is it undevelo|»ed territory? Oh! no; the
story is true. There are hundreds aud
thousands of .people in the house this
morning who would be u itling to rise and
testify that they have discovered that gold,
and have it in their (tossession. Notwith
standing all this, what is the circumstance?
One would suppose that the announcement
would send people in great excitement up
and down our streets, that at mid
night men would knock at your door
asking how they may get those treas
ures. Instead of that, many of us put
back, and walk up
man should my: “l don’t like that lantern;
I don’t like the handle of it; there are ten
or fifteen thingsabout it I don’t like; if you
can’t Aive me a better lantern than that I
won’t have any?” Now, God says this Bi
ble is to be a lamp to our feet and a lantern
to our path, to guide us through the mid
night of this world to the gates of the ce
lestial c ty. We stop and say we do not
like this anout it, and we do Dot like that,
and we do not like the. oth
er thing. Ob! how much wiser fce
would be if by its holy light we found our
way to our everlasting home! Then, we do
not read the Bible as we read other books.
We read it, perhaps, four or five minutes,
jurt before we retire at night We are
weary and sleepy, so somnolent we hardly
know which end of the book is up. We
drop our eye, perhaps, on the story of Sam
son and the foxes, or upon some genealog
ical table, important in its place, but stir
ring no more religious emotion than the *
announcement that so and so begat this
and begat that, instead of opening the
book-and saying, “Now, 1 must read
SPECULATIONS ABOUT A STAR.
Dr. Harrison Continue* Hi* Bell*
Ion* Astronomical l>ihcour*c.
Washington Post, 2d.
Dr. Harrison, in his lecture last night,
“l'he Star of Bethlehem,” rertated his sum
ntary predictions concerning the birth ol
our Saviour made the Sunday night before,
giving authorities for the statements Le
made. These had it two fold aspect, that
of the religious and moral phase and
that of the purely physical. lie briefly
dtscour.-cd of the second advent,
stating that some had predicted
s« corn! coming of the Saviour in 1881, o,..
ei* in 1881 The prediction of the pyra
mid.**. according to some persons, held that
in 1881 some great calamity would befall
the Christian world, quoting Professor
Smith’s explanations. Between 1881 aud
1885 there will, according to other, happen
some great and terrible storm, after which
will begin a new era for the church. He
then referred to the physical predictions,
and said that he was no a<*rrolog--r. and
hmee did not believe in the influence of the
stars upon human beings. But there were
believers in that theory. He believed in
a higher influence—the influence of the
creator of the stars. Discarding, however,
the doctrines of the astrologists, there were
others who believed in the physical in
fluences of the planets, especially in the
conjunction of certain planets, notablv,
Saturn and Jupiter. The unusual nhy.sical
disturbances occurring in 1875 wereascrilwd
by some to the transit of Venus, occurring
at that time, aud the^e persons predict
similar disturbances upon the recurrence
of this phenomenon. Others, again, r
lieved that iu the coming conjunction „
Saturn and Jupiter there will bephysica
phenomena corresponding-'wlth lne mag
nitude of the planets and the infrtquency
of their conjunctions, which, on
the authority of Sir John Heschell, occur
three times in about 21,761 dajs. He allu
ded to Henuhell’s opinion that the Comet
of Charles V. might cjtue in 1838, and there
were some persons, he could not t»*]l wheth
er they were entitled tore-pectfol consider
ation, who still maintained tnat this fa
tuous comet would soon reappear. He
also recapitulated Kepp.’er’s ideas about
determining the actual birth of our Sav
ior from the triple conjunction of Jupite**,
Saturn and Mars. The not infrequent
flashing out of stars where none hsd been
seen before or the sudden brightening of
others that previously. Lad been of low mag
nitude was also spoken of.
Now, as lo the r«currence of this star, it
might come. He did not predict it. for he
was no prophet. There was an «arne-t
longing iu the church for some supreme
manifestation of the presence ami power of
the Master of the church. There was a pro
found coovictio-i that the church was not
making the most of its powers. There was
a power, ati inriuence iu the Bible, which
only nquired some great rallying cry, the
presence of the king in the camp,
to he fused into a living force, which
would overthrow the corruption, t
immorality of the world. There was a
growing conviction, an increasing sen i-
mer.t, that Jesus meant something living,
real, vital when he said. * Thy kingdom
come.” We do not know how much faith
to put into tbe speculation of men; we do
not know how much to believe of what is
going around ns, hut this much we do know,
that with tbe Master’s own time, tbe sum
mons to go will come. What if these pre
dictions about the personal coming of the
Savior be true? Will His coming find us
prepared to meet it? If the day were cer
tainly known it ought not to find us in any
other attitude'but that of doiug our daily
duty.
Can Neither Get CfT Nor Be Thrown
Off.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Mr Tilden 1« an idea, an Issue, a quantum in
American politics which cannot be ignored. He
cannot be »uppmaed. He could not suppress
our hands benind
ai d down in front of the tiiiue of eternal
riches, and say: “Well, if I ant to be saved
I will he saved, and it I ant to be damned I
will be damned, and there is nothing to do
about it.” Why, my brother, do vou not
do that way in busii ess matters? Why
do you not to-morrow go to your store, and
sit down and fold your arm.*, and say: “If
these goods are to be sold they will be sold,
and if they are not to be sold th* y won’t
he sold; there is nothing forme to do about
it?” No; you dispatch your agents, you
print your advertisements, you adorn your
show-window**, you push those goods, you
use the instrumentality. Oli! that men were
as wise in tbe matter of the soul as they
are wise in the matter of dollars and cents.
This doctrine of God’s sovereignty, how it is
misquoted and spoken of as though it were
an iion chain which bound us baud and foot
for lime and for eternity, when, so far from
that, in every fibre of your 1k> ly, in every
faculty of your mind, in every passion of
your soul y ou are a free man, and it will no
more to morrow ba a teat tor of choice
whether you s^all go to New York by South
Ferry or Fulton Ferry, it will he no more a
matter of choice with you to-morrow
whether you shall go to Boston or Philadel
phia, or stay at home, than it is this morn
ing a matter of free choice whether vou will
accept Christ or reject Hint, in all the
army of banners there is not one conscript.
Men are not to be dragooned into heaven.
Among all the tens of thousands of the
Lord's soldiery there is cot one man but
will tell you, “I chose Christ; I wanted
Him; f desired to be in his service. I
not a conscript; I ant a volunteer.” „.
that nten Lad the same common sense in
the matters of religion that they have in
tiie matters of the world—the same concen
tration, the same push, the same enthusi
asm. In the one case, a secular enthmi-
asru; iu the other, a consecrated enihuii-
asin.
Again I remark: We want more com
mon sense in the building upand enla g ; ng
of our Christian characters. There are
nun here who have forty years been run
ning the Christian race, and they have not
run a quarter of a mile! No busiress tuan
would be willing to have his investments
unaccumulative. If you invest a dollar
you expee.t that d* i.ar to come home bring
ing another dollar on its back. What
would you think of a man who should in
vest ten thousand dollars in a monetary in
stitution, then go off for five y«ar*», make
no inquiry in regard to the investment,
then come hack, step up to the cashier
of the institution, and sav, “Have
yon kept those ten thousand dollars
safely that I lodged with your’ hut
aski g no questions about interest or about
dividend? Why, you say, “That is not
common sense ” Neither is it, but that is
the way we act in matters of the soul. We
make a far more important investment
than ten thousand dollars. We invest our
soul. Is ^accumulative? Are we growing
ingpme? Are we getting better? Are we
getting worse? God declares many divi
dends. hut we do not collect them; we do
notask about them ; we do not want them.
Oh! that in this matter of accumulation we
were as wise in the matters of the soul as
we are in ihe matters of the world. How-
little common seiwe in.the reading of the
Scrip-.ures We g*»t any other book, and
we open it, and we say: “Now,
what does this book mean to
teach tu« ? It is a Inz^k on astronomy; it
will teach tueastronomy, fr ii a book on
political economv ; it wi.l teach rue political
economy.” Taking up this book, do we
ask ourselves what it means to teach? It
means to do just one thing: get the world
converted, and get us all to heaven. That
is what it proposes to do. But instead of
that, we go into the Bible as botanists to
pick flowers, or we go as pugilists to get
something to fight other Christians with, or
we go as logicians trying to shaipcn our
mental faculties for a better argument,
and we do not like this about tbe Bible, and
we do not like that, and we do not
like the other thing. What would you
think of a man lost on the mountains?
Night has come down, he cannot find fair
way home, aud he sees a light in a moun
tain cabin; he goes to it, he knocks at the
door, the mountaineer comes out and finds
the traveler, and says: “Well, here I have a
book-and saying, .
for ray immortal life. ^ Heaven and
hell are involved in this book.” How
little common sense we use in the
matter of prayer. We say, “oh! Lord, give
me this,” and “oh! Lord, give me that,”
aud “oh! Lotd, give tue something else,”
and we do not expect to get it, or, getting
it, we do not know we have it. We have
no anxiety about it. We do not watch and
wait for its coming. As a me/chant you
telegraph or you write to some other city
fora bill ot goods. You say: “Send me by
such express, or hy snch a steamer, or hy
such a rail-train.” The day arrives.
You send your wagon to the
depot, or to the wharf. The goods
do not come. You immediately tele
graph, ••What i9 the matter with those
goods? We haven’t received them? Send
them right away. We want them now, or
we don’t want them at all.” And you keep
writing, and you keep telegraphirg, and
keep sending your wagon to the depot, or to
the express office, or to the wharf, until you
gft the go**ds. In matters of religion we
are not so wise as that. We ask certain
things to be sent fre tn heaven. We have
not anv sj»ecial anxiety as to whether they
come or not. We may get them, and may
not get them. Instead of, at 7 o’cltck
in the morning, saying: “Have I
got that blessing? ’ at 12 o’clock, noonday,
a>king. “Have I got that blessing?” at 7
oVlock in the eveniug, saying “Have I re
ceived that blessing?” and not get.i ig it,
pleading, plea ling, begging, beggmg, ask
ing. asking, until you get it. Now, my
brother, is not that common sense? 1 f we
ask a thing from God, who has sworn tty
His eternal throne that He will do that
which we ask, is it not common sense that
wc should watch and wait until we get it?
But I remark again, we want more com
mon sense in doing good. Oh! how many
people there are who want to do good, aud
they are dead failures. Why is it? They
do not exercise the same tact, the same in
genuity, tbe same strategem. the same com
mon sense in the work of Chrht that they
do iu wordly things. Otherwise they would
succeed in this direction as well as they suc
ceed m the other. There are many nten
Who have ati arrogant way with them, al
though they may not feel arrogant in their
soul. Or they ltave a patronizing way.
They talk ton man of the world iu a ma. -
mr which seems to say, “Don’t you wish
you were as good as I am? Why, l
have to look clear down be
fore I can see you, you
are so far beneath me.” That mnnner al
ways disgusts, always drives men away
front the kingdom of Jesus Christ instead of
bringing them in. When I was a lad I was
one day in a village store. There was a
Hrge g'oup of young men there full of rol-
icking and fun, and a Christian man came
in, a very good Christian tnan, and without
any introduction of the subject, and while
they were in great hilarity, raid to one of
them, “George, what is Ihe first step of wis
dom T’ George looked u p and said, “Every
man to mind his own business.” Well, it
wim a very rough answer, but it was
provoked. Religion had been hurled
in there as though it were
a bombshell. We must be natural iu ths
presentation of religion to the world. l>j
you suppose that Mary in her conversations
with Christ, lost her simplicity? or that
Paul, thundering front Mars hill, took the
pulpit tone? Why is it people cannot talk
as naturally in prayer meeting and on re
ligious subjects as they do in worldly cir
cles? For no one ever succeeds in any kind
of Christian work unless he works natural
ly. We want to imitate the Lord Jesus
Christ, who plucked a |>oeni from the
grass of the field, and a sermon front a ra
ven’s wing. We all want to imitate Hint
who talked with farmers about the matt
that went for.h to sow, and tafoed with the
fishermen about the drawn net that brought
in fish of all sorts, and talktd with the vine
dresser about the idler in the vineyard, and
talked with those nearly uffiavcal about
the marriage supper, and talked with the
man cramped in money matters aliout
the two dt otors, and talked wi It the woman
about the yeast that leavened the whole
lump, and talked with the shenh rd ab >ut
the lost sheep. Oh! we might gather even
the stars of the sky and twist them like for-
get-memots in the garland! of J-sus. We
must bring everything to Hitu— Lhe.we.dih
of language, the tenderness of sentiments,
the delicacy of morning dew, the saffron of
floating cloud, the tangled surf of the toss
ing sea, the bursting thunder-guns of the
storm’s bombardment. Yes, every star
must point down to Him, every heli*otroi»c
must breathe His praise, every drop in tiie
summer shower must Hash His glory, all
the tree branches of the forest must thrum
their music in the grand march which shall
celebrate a world redeemed.
Now, all this being so, what is the cent
ra-»n-seme thing for you and for me to do
this morning? What we do l think will de-
fiend upon i hree facta—three * r« a- ftet*. The
first fact, that sin has ruined a*. It has
blasted body, mind, and soul. We want no
Bible to prove that we are shiners. Any man
who is uol willirg to acknowledge himself
an imperfect and a sinful being i- simply a
foul, and not to be argued with. We all feel
that sin has disorganized our entire nature.
That is one fact. Another fact is that Christ
came to reconstruct, to restore, to re
vise, to correct, to redeem. That is a
second fact. The third fact is that the
only time we are sure Christ will pardon
us is the present. Now, what is the com
mon-sense thing for us this morning
to do, in view of these three facts? You
will all agree with tne-~to quit sin, take
Christ, and take him now. Suppose some
business tuan, in whose skill you had per
fect confidence, should tell you that to-
nto-row( Monday) morning, between 11 atul
12 o’clock, you could, by a certain finan
cial transaction, make five thousand dol
lars; that on Tuesday perhaps you might
make it, and ou Wednesday there would
not be so much, and Thursday less, Friday
less, and so on less and less. When would
you attend to the matter? Why, your
common sense would dic*ate, “immediate
ly I will attend to that matter,
between 11 and 12 o’clock to-mor
row (Monday) morning, for then I can sure
ly accomplish It. but on Tuesday I may not,
ami on Wednesday there is less prospect.
himself. If he -houkl publish a letter to-morrow u t H’ cu j “ ere * nav . e , a
podtively interdicting the use of hls name.it lantern, you can take it and it will guide
would not clarify or simplify the situaUou. you on the way home; ’ and suppose that
and less and less. I will attend to u to
morrow.” Now, let us bring our common
sense in this matter of religion. Here are
the hopes of the Gospel. We may get them
now. To-morrow we may get them, atul
we may not Next day we may and we
may uot. The prospect is less, aud less, and
less, and less. The only sure tints now—
now. I would not talk to you iu this way if
1 did not know that Christ waa able to save
all the people, and He could just as tadiy
save all the people in the tabernacle
as though there were only one j>er-
son here. I would not go into a hospital
and tear off the bandages from the wounds,
if 1 had no balm to apply. I would not
have the face to tell u man he is a sinner,
unless I had at the same time the authority
for saying he may he saved. Suppose in
Venice tjitre is a Raphael, a faded picture,
great in its time, bearing some marks of it*
greatness. History describes that picture.
It is nearly faded away. You say, “Oh!
w-hat a piiy that sq wonderful a picture by
Riphaei should be nearly defaced.” A fur
a while a man comes up, veiy unskillful itt
art, and lie pr* |*o:es to retouch it. You
say, “stand off! I would rather have it just
as it is, you wid only make it
worse.” After awhile, there conies an ai-
tist who was the equal of Raphael. He
says, “I will retouch that picture and bring
out all its original power.” You have full
confidence iu his ability. He touches it
here and there. Featureafter feature come*
forth, and when he is done with the pictuio
it is complete in all its t rigiu&l j»ow*-r. Now,
God impresses liis image on our race, but
that image has been defaced, for hundreds
and for thousand* of years gettiug fainter
and fainter. Here corues up a divine
Raphael. I shall call him a divine
Raphael. He says, “I can restore that
picture.” He has all power in heaven
and on earth. He is the equal of the oce
who made tbe picture, the equal of the one
who drew the image of God in our soul.
He touches this sin and it is gone, that
transgression and it is gone, and all the de
facement disappears, and “where sin
abounded grace doth much more abound.”
Will you have the defacement, or will you
have the restoration? 1 am well p« retiaded
that if I cou'd by a touch ol InavenU
pathos in two minutes put before you what
oas been done to save your s* n. there*
would be an emotional tide uverwheltiiini*
‘•Mamma,” said a little child to hex-
mother. when she was being put to btd at
night, “mamma, what itiakis your hand so
scarred and twisted, and unlike other peo
ple’s hand??” “Well,” said ths tuniber»
“my child, when you were younger than
you are nowr, years a,ro, one nigh*, after I
had put you to bed, l heerd a cry. a shriek
up-stairs. I came up, and found the
bed was on the, and you were on fire,
a « J llo!d of >' ou * *nd I tore
off tne hunting garments, and while
I Wis tearing them olf and trying to
get you away l burned my hand, and it has
been t.carreJ and twirtev! ever since, and
hardly looks any mo.elikea hand; but I
got that, my child, in trying to save you.”
O! man. O! woman. I wish to-day I could
show you the burned hand of Christ—
burned in plucking you out of the fire;
burned in snatching you away from the
flame. Aye, also the burned foot, and the
burned hrow, and the burned heart—
burned for you. By His stripes ye are
healed.