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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24 18Lv -SI A TEEN PAGES.
TALMAGE???S SERMON,
A muni lima nwM by iu Rmnod
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Oil ??f BM ruaa,??? Bin. Bie.
Esooslt*, N. Y., November 22???[Speelal.l
Dr. Telmage preached thie morning in th*
Brooklyn tabernacle, on the subjoct, "tfleiei
off. the Siege.?????? Before the aermon he ex-
pounded the 21th chapter of Acta, concerning
raul???e appeal unto Our. The opeclo;
hymn waai
"Oar God, our help Inagei pul,
Onr hope for yean to come."
The text wae from Job, xxvil:2S: "Men
ahall clap their handa at him and ehall hlae
him out of hie piece.??? Following ia ???the aer-
men in fall:
Thie alluaion acema to be dramatie. The
Bible more than once makce ouch alluaion.
raulaaya: ???We ere made a theater (or epee*
tacle) to angele and to men.??? The theater ia
ao old that no one can fix the date ol Ita birth.
Archilecuo, Simonidee and Solon,
who wrote for it dithyramblca,
lived about aix or aeven hundred yearn before
Cbrial. It ia evident from the text that aome
of the habita oi the theatre go,re were known
in Job???a time, becauae in the text he deacriboa
an actor hfued off the alage. The imperaeaa -
tor comae on the boerda, and either through
lack of etudy ol the part he ietaheor inapt-
neae or other incapacity, the andlenca ere of
fended, and expreae their diaapprobatlon and
. jOnguL ???
male terrific aibilation" until he diaappeaYa
behind the cnrlain. "Men ahail clap their
handa at him and ehall hiaa him ont of hie
place."
Ur text anggaat that each one of na ia put
on the atage of thie world to take aome part.
McCullough, the actor recently burled, waa
no more certainly appointed on any occaaion
to appear aa Spartacua, or Edwin I-'orrert aa
King Lear, or Charlotte Cuahman aa Meg
Merriliee, or John Kemble u Macbeth, or
Coohe at Riohard III., or Kean aa Othello,
than yon aid I are expected to take coma
eaprcial and particular part ia the great
drama of human and immortal lifle. Through
what bardahlp and coffering and dlacipliaa
three artiata went year alter year that
they might be perfected in their parti, you
have often read. But we, put on theetige oi
thia life to repreoent charity and faith and
humility and helpfulneaa???what little proper*
atlon we have made, although we have three
gallerlta of apeetatora, earth and heaven and
nail. Have we not been more
atlentiva to the part taken by
cthora than to the part taken by
ourtelvee, and while we needed to be looking
at home end concentering on onr own duty,
we have been crilicialng the other performer,
and laying "that waa too high??? or "too low"
or"toofreole"or"ton extravagant" or "too
lama" or "loo damonatrative," while wo were
making ounelvee a deed failure and prepar
ing to be ignomlnioualy hliacd oS the stage?
Each one la aaalgned a place, no aupornumer-
erira hanging around the drama oi life to take
thia erthei or the other part,aa he may be
called upon. No one can take onr places. We
can take ao other place. Aye, It ia not the
impcracnatlon of another, wo ouraelvoa are
the real merchant of Venice or the real ahy ???
lock, the real filial Cordelia or the real cruel
Regan, the real Portia or the real Lady
M acbcth. The 1 raged ian oi the piayhouae, at
the cloeeol the third acene oltho filth act,
lehiacffilltheattireofGonialoo or Edward
Mortimer or Henry V., and roeigne the char
acter in which for three houra he appeared.
But we never put off our character and no
change of apparel can make ua any one elae
than that which we eternally are.
Many make a failure of their part in the
drama of life through dleetpatlon. They have
enough intellectual equipment and good ad-
dreae and geniality unbounded. But they
have a wine cloaet that contain, all the foroee
for their nodal and buaintaa and moral over
throw. So far back ao OSD, King Edgar, of
England, made a law that the drink cup
ahould have pine fastened at a certain print
in the side, eo that the indnlgent might be re
minded to atop before he got to the bottom.
But than ate ao pine projecting from the oidae
of the medera wine cap or bier mug, and the
firat point at which mlllione atop is at the
gravelly bottom of their own grave.
Dr. Bax, of France, hie recently discovered
something whioh all drinker, ought to know.
He has found out that aloobol In every ehtpe,
whether of wine or brandy or beer, contain
panalUc life, called baclllni potumaiin. By
towerfal microeoope, these living thing! are
discovered, and when you take atrong drink
you take them Into the alomacb, and then Into
y onr blood, and getting into the crinolines-
nalaol life, they go info every Uaineofyonr
body and your entire orgauiam ia taken pre-
scislon of by these noxious infinitMimals.
When in delirium tremens, a man ??? sees every
form of reptilian lift, It ft only these parasites
ol the brain in exaggerated also. Ii is not a
hallucination that too victim is Buffering from.
He only aces in the room
what ia aotually crawling and
rioting in bla own brain. Every time you
take atrong drink yon swallow thaae maggots,
and ovary lime the imbiber of alcohol in any
shape feele vertigo or rheumatism or nausea,
it is only the jubilee of those maggots. Efforts
are being mode lor the discovery of aome ger
micide that can kill the parasites of alcohol
ism, but the only thing that will ever extir
pate them is abstinence from alcohol aud tee
total abstinence, to whioh I would before Ood
swear all three young men and old.
America is a fruitful country and wo raise
large crops of wheat and corn and oats,but the
largest crop we rails in thia country is the
crop of drunkards. With tickle made out of the
sharp edges of the broken glass of bottle and
demijohn they are cut down, and there are
whole awathes of them,whole wlnrowi ol them,
and it takas all the hoapilalaknd pinltantiarlea
and graveyard, and eemateriae to hold this
lorveatofhell. Bums of you are going down
under this evil and the never-dying worm ol
alcoholism has wound around you one of lie
coils, end by next New Year???s day it will have
another coil around you, and U will after a
while put a coil around your tongue and
a coil around your brain and a colt around
j cur lung ana a coil around your foot and a
coil around your heart and aome day thie
never-dying worm will with one spring
tighten all the coils at ones, and In the last
twistof that awful convolution yon will cry
cut, "Ob, my God!" and he gone. The great-
tsicf dramatists, in the tragedy of the Tern-
etage fits-
rnJ queenly and prineely naturae efoggering
forward against the footllghta of eoaaplonity,
and then ataggering back into failure, till
the weald ia impatient lor their disappear
ance, end human and diabolic voioaa jwa in-
hissing them efl the atage.
Many also n failure in the drama, of
life through indolence. They ere always
making calculation hew lUUe they sen de for
the compiasHon they get There jura more
Iszy ministers, doctors, mar cheats, artists and
farmers than have aver been counted upon.
Community la tall of laggardo and shirkers.
I cub tell ft from the way Utoy crawl along
the street, from their terdiaeee in meeting en
gagements, from the lethargies that eaem to
hang Urn foot when they lilt It, to Urn
hand whan they put It np, to the words when
tfc $Sro^fonngmen in oatora. Id th* morning
the cne goat tohio post tbo lust minute or one
minute behind. Tie other ie tea minutes hs-
fose the time end has hie hat and seat hung
np, and ie at hie peel waiting far date. The
cue is ever and ana in the afteraboa looking
at hie watch to see If tt is not most time to
made to he eve hews* right, *r to pnt np
some goods that had been lolt out oi plnce.
The one is very punctilious nbout doteg work
not exactlv belonging to him. The other is
gitil to help tbo other clerks in their work.
The first will be a prolonged nothing, end he
will be poorer at elxty than nt twenty. The
other will be a merchant prince.
Indolence ia the cense ot more feiluree iu all
occupations than you have ever suspected.
People are too lexy to do what they can do,
end want to undertake that which they can
not do. In the drama of life they don't want
to be a common eoldler carrying a hilberd
???cross tbo stage, or a falconer or a mere at
tendant, and eo lounge about the tccscs till
they ehall be cslled to be n Macready or a
Junius Brulut Booth. They esy, "give me
tbo nsrt ol Timon of Athoae rather, than that
of Flavius his steward." "Lit ms be Cymbe-
line the king,rather than Tisano the eervant.???
Alter awhile they, by some accident ol pros
parity or elrcumetaneee, get In the place foi
which they have no qualification. And very
soon, If the man be a merchant, he ie goieg
around asking his creditors to compromise lor
ten cents on the dollar. Or, If e clergyman,
be is making tiradea against the ingratitude ot
churchte. Or, if an attorney, by unskillful
management he loeoe a cue in which widows
end orphans arc robbed of their portion. Or,
if a physician, hs by malpractice gives his pi-
tient rapid transit from this world to the next,
as the clumsy surgeon of Charles II, king of
Navsrrv, having sawed up the feeble limbs of
tbs king in a sheet soaked of inllemmsble
materiel, and having no kuiio to
cut the thread, took a caudle
to barn off the thread, and the bandagec took
fire and consumed the king. Our incompetent
friend would have made, splendid boreedo
trr, but be wanted to ba nrotossor of anstom'
in a university. Ha could have arid cnourL
confectionery to have supported hie family,
but ho wanted to have a augur refinery like
the Usvemeysrs. He could have mended
???bcee, but he wanted to mend the confutation
ol the Fnited Sides. Toward the and of life
thrie people are out of patience, out of money,
out ot friends, out of everything. They go to
the poorbouso or kerp out of it oy running iu
debt to til tfae grocery end dry goods stores
that will trust them. Feopie begin to won
der when the curtain will drop on the scene,
After e while. leaving nothing but their com
pliments to pay their doctor, undertaker end
Gabriel Grubb, the grave digger, they diasp
peer. Exeunt! Hueed off the stage!
Oihere fail In the drams of Isle through
demonstrated selOebceie. They make all the
riven empty into the tea, all tha roads of
rmolnmeni end at their door, aud thay gather
all tha plumes ot honor for their brow. They
help no one, encourage no one, rescue no ono.
???How big a pile of money eau I gel????
much of the svcrld etn Isbsorbf ,r sre tl
questions. They feel about the common peo
ple si the Turks felt toward tha Asapl or oom-
mon soldiers, considsring them of no use ex
cept to fill up the ditehee with their dead bodies
while the other troops walked over thorn to
take Ihe forI. After awhile this prices oi
worldly sueceii la sick. The only Interest
Kristy has iu his Illness Is the effect that hla
ptasibla decease may hava on tha
markets. Alter awhil* ha die*. Great
paper capitals announce how he started with
nothing and endad with avorythlsg. Although
for sake of appearance some people pot hand
kerchiefs to tbo eye, there is not ono gouuloo
tear shed between Central park and the
Battery, or between Brooklyn height*
and Brooklyn bill. Tha hairs alt up all night
white ho lira In state, discussing what the old
fellow bee probably dons with his money. It
takes all the livery stables within two miles
to furnish Ihnsral equippsgs, and ail the
mourning eloree ere kept buy in celling weeds
??l grief. The stonecutters send in proposals
for s monument. The minister at the oboe-
quiet reede of the resurrection, which makee
the bearers tear that lithe uucrupulou linau-
cirr dace come up in the general riling, he
will try to get a corner on tombitonee aud
graveyard fitness. All good men are glad that
???be moral nulcauce has been removed. The
Well street speculators an glad because there
ie more room lor themseivee. The helre are
f led because they get po sates ton of the long-
???laved inheritance. Dropping ovary fsather
ol Bll bis plume*, every certificate of oil his
???lock, every bond of all bia investments,every
dollar of all his fortune, ha departs, and all
tbs rolling of dead march in Saul, and all
the pageantry of bis interment,
and all tha ciqulsitcnssi
oi sarcophagus, and all the extravagances of-
???pltaphology cannot hid* the fact that my
tsxt hu como again to tremendous fulfill
ment: "Men ihsll olap their hands at him
and shill bias him out of the pises."
You iso tbo clapping comes belors the hiss.
The world chests before it damns. So. it Is
??????Id, the deadly asp tickles before it slings
Going up, la he? Hurrah I Blend back and
let bia galloping horses duh by. a whirlwind
of plated barn eve and tinkling headgear and
arched neck. Drink deep of hla Madeira and
ergnne. Bout ol how well you know him.
Ail bate off as he paleoe. Beak for days and
yesra in tha sunlight of his prosperity. Going
down, is hs? pretend to bo nearsighted so
Unt you cannot eta him u be walks put.
W iien men ask you II you know him, half and
hssitale as though you were trying to call up
a dim memory, and say s "Wall, y a-o s, yei,
1 believe I once did know him,
but have not seen him for
a long white." Croce a
different lerry from the one when you uted
to meet him, lest be uk for financial help.
When you started life he spills a good word
for you at the bank. Talk down his credit
now lhat his fortunes ore collapsing. Ho put
bis nsmcou two ol your notes: tell him lhat
you hava changed your mind about such
things and that you aevor endorse Altera
while hla matters come to a dead halt and an
assignment or euspeulon or ehexiU a Bala
takse place. You lay: "H# ought to have
stopped aooncr. Just as IoxpsctM. lie made
too big a aplaah iu tha world. Glad tha bal
loon tea bunt.??? Ua-hal Applaua bs went
up, sibilant derision when he came down.
"Men shall clap their hands at him aud hise
him out of bis place.??? Bo, high up amid tbo
crags the eagle flutters dust into Iho
eyes of the roebuck, and then
with eyes blinded it gou tumbling over tbo
precipice, the great antlers cratUng os the
Now compare aome of than gologeoulol
life with tbo departuro ol men and women
who In the drama of life look the part that
Gcd assigned them, and then wont away hon
ored of men and applaudtd oi tha Lord Al-
???llfiftboul fifty years ago that in a compar
atively small apartment of the city a newly
married pair act np a home. The lintgueel
that waa Invited In that resldenca was tbo
Lord Jesus Christ, aud tha Bible given Ihe
bride on too day of hareeoousate waa the
guide oi that household. Days of sunshlaa
were followed by days of shadow. D.dyou
ever know a home that for fifty yetrehadnj
vicissitude? The young woman who left her
father???s house lor her young husband's
hem* storied out with a parental hauedfotion
and good advice she will never
forget. Her mother said to her the day be
fore the marriage,- ???Now, my child, you aro
coles away from ui. Of course aa long ee
your father and I live you will feel that you
can coma to ut at any lima. Bat your home
will be slitwtere. From long exporlenoa I
find it in beet to serve God. It in very bright
with you now, my child, nod you may think
you can get along without religion, nut tho
days will coma whan you will want Ood, end
my advice it establish a family alter, and. If
need be, conduct the wonhlp jourstlL??? Tho
counsel woo token and that young wife eon-
serratod every room ia th# house to God.
Years parsed on end there was in that
borne hilarities, but they war* good and
hm???thfal, and aorrows, but thay won ram-
???orted. Marriages ?????? bright aa ofangabtoa-
toms could make them sad burials ia which
all beetle wen riven, thay have a family
lotto Iho cemetery, but all tha ptoro Is Ufa-
When tho bead of the hourehohl warunfhrtu.
Bate in bottoms eh?? towed until be* flagen
wreanumbsa^steta^etto tip*. And
what efoto calmlstlau of
what ingenuity iu refitting tho gumoute of
the cider children for the younger, aid ou???y
God kept account of that uotlior's siJanraci
and headaches and heartaches, and the Irem
ulous prayers by tha tide of the tick child's
cradle ami by the couch ol thie oco fully
grown. Tho neighbors often notiosd bow
tired she looked, and old acquaieteucei
hardly knew her ia (he street i but without
complaint the waited and toiled and endure 1
and acompliihsd all these years.
The children arc out in tbo world, an h m-r
to themselves and their parents. Alter a
while the mother's lust sickness comes. Call-
dren aud giuodchildren, summoned Iron
a???ur, come softly into the room one by one, for
???bits too weak to see more than ono at u
time. Bbe rune her dying fiogora lovingly
through their hair and tells them not to cry,
and that she ia going now, but they will all
meet again in a litlte while, in a bolter world,
and then kieeca them goodby, nnd "God bless
and keep you, my dear child I??? Tho day of
the obsequies comes, and the ofilclalicg cler
gymen telle the rinrjr of wifely and motherly
endurance, and many hearts on earth end iu
heaven echo the ???eutlmcnt, toil as she is car
ried off the stsgo of this mortal life there arc
criis of "faithful unto death, she both done
wbut she could," white over powering all tha
voices cf easlb and haavei, ia tha plaudit of
tho God who notched her Irom first to lost,
saying,"Well done, good and faithful torrent:
thou host been faithful ovar a few things, 1
will mat c tbes ruler ovar many things- Eutar
thou into the joy of thy Lord."
But wbtt became of iho Istharol that house
hold? Ho alerted out aa a young mtn In bus
ixsaa aud bad small income, ana having got a
little ahead sickness in tbs family swept it all
away. He went through all the bueiuote
panice of forty years, toot many losses aud
suffertd many betrayals, but kept right on
(rusting in God, whether business wet good
or poor, eetting bit children a good example,
giving them tho brat of counsel; and never a
prayer did hi offer in all thoea yean but they
were mentioned in it. Ha ia old now and re
elisee it cannot be long before hi
must quit til them scenes t but
he is going to leave his children
an inheritance ot prayer and Chrielian
principles which ell the dalalcaliona
of csrtu can never touch, aud aa he goto out
of the world, tho oburch ol God bleeoee him
and tha poor ring hie doorboll to a to if hs ia
any better, and hie grave ia surrounded by a
multitude who wont on loot aud itood than
before th* proceeeion ol etrriege* came up, aa
seme say there will be ao one to taka hu plate,
???id othere lay, ???Wlio will pity mo now 1"
and otbere remark, "lie ehall ba bald Iu aval"
testing moembratc*." And as th* drama ot
his liie closes ali tha vociferations aud bravos
and encores that ever shook tho amphithea
tres and tbo Drury Lance and IhaCovaut Gar
dena and tha Hsymarkete and the Coliseums
ot casthly spectacle, were tasoe and finable
com pared wish the long, loud lb uadere ol ap
proval that shall break from the cloud of wit
nesses in Ibu piled up galtery of tho heavens.
Choose vs between thollte that ehall cloea by
bring hissed oft the etage, and tha life that
shall close amid tha acclamations supernal
and arebangolio.
0, man and women on tha stage ol life
many of you in the first act ol tha drama am
others in the second and soma ol you in tho
third aud a fow in tho fourth and hero aud
tksraonaintholitb, but all ol you batweau
entrance and exit, 1 quote to you at tha pero
ration of thie eermou, tha moat suggestive
ptiesge that Bbskspeare ever wrote, authough
yi u never htsrd it resiled. The author has
often been claimed at infidel end athelitle, eo
the quotation ehall ba not only religiously
helpful to ourtelvee, but grandly vindicatory
of the great dramatist. 1 quote from hit last
will and testament:
"In tbo nemo of God. anas. I, William
Bhskipeare, oi Stratford upon Avon, In tho
county cf Warwick, gentleman, ia perfect
health aud memory, (God bo praieed), do
make thie, my laet will end testament, iu
manner end form following: Pint, I com
mend my soul into tbo hands of God, my ere-
Bbort Talk# with Onr Headers, Which It
Will Fay Bvenhodr to Bead.
follow the bequests and tbs signature, "By
me, William Sbaksneara.??? "Witnesses to the
nublbhing bersnf.F. Oollyte, JtNo8haw,J"tin
Robinson, Hamnct Sadler, Robert Whitt-
WILKE* BOOM AGAIN.
gDiTOSsCoxivrrPTiox: I sco In a secret num
ber ol Tux CoxenvcTioit a sketch headed "John
Wilkes Booth; a htartllng Publication to be
Made,??? whtre It le slated aorao Birmingham man
It loin* to psove that Booth (a atilt alive. Now
Mr. Editor, plcage allow mo a short apace In poor
paper for the purpose ol shoeing the ftlltcyol
such an assumption. I was at Fold's theater the
night oi the tseei elution, end taw the whole
trsuMCUon. Bootb.ee toon as he shot Mr. Lin
coln , leaped from the box where Me, Lincoln was
seeled down upon the tuge, and foil upon hit
leers and hands Helmmedlatclyaroee, waving
aloft a fretful looking dagger, drying "die semper
tyrannla/'andlmseodlatelrdlaeppoued Isom pub
lie view behind the curtains. You remember this
lilrmlngbsm man claims that he only went out ol
Washington a short dbtenet, accompanied by an
Irishman, whom be clelme that Booth hired lor
fl.CCO to personate him, and be, Booth, disguised
li sn Irishmen, returned to Washlaglou. He
further emits that Booth's Itg was not broken.
will now proceed to refute tbs above
statement. John Wilkes Booth broke his lag white
jumping Itsm the rear platform ol the building
upon tfie curbstone below, it was with Mm ope ol
these rare feats ol eglltty by whioh he lost hla
equilibrium and fell when a jump was Intended.
Thera wu at hand an acoompltos ol his, David E.
Hanold, who aaalatod him upon hla bom, and
they both, under whip end apnr. tied, and wen
but a lew miaukt pasalag beyond the city limits;
end they never called a halt until Flscsdawsy was
reached. ??? until rural village shoot fifteen miles
below WaaMngton. And here they only halted
about five minutes???Just long enough to procure
a litlte whisky, and proceeded directly to the ree
ldencc ol Dr. B. A. Mudd, who raided fifteen
milta below Fiscadewty or thirty miles below
SteiblnitoD, sad rote dieuaco wae traveled by
them in something 1cm than six hours. Now
thsrowereqnlttan array ol wltneema Horn Pis-
csdtwey at the conspiracy trials who teitlfled as I
have above. Booth wee well knows by them all,
and Dr. B. A. Mudd, one oi tbo alleged conspire,
tors, made this conlsssloo to lbs court warns os
was on trial 1 hesid him myself as I was In tha
courtroom tray day lor a petlod ol thirty days,
as I was at that tlms Uklux notes for the uoaitl-
ttitlr.u of Iho Union, a paper thro p.bll-bed at
Waibtagter, and . I heard e ar/ irLI
aceit that ol Samuel Aracll Nadd.
said: "Booth celled ???
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ended out ell Ibe specimen copies: please send
me more. I very body le pirated with the papas. I
???'"byrest mail. I etnas* keeps
Jism A. omit. Black Hawk, Mias.
CoxerntiTiox.: Inclosed you will find money
eider for ?? and a lilt ol fra new subscribers for
Tux WexEiv Coiistitutioh. 1 am from thiold
red hills of {Georgia, and I fora mr nail vs State
and lour valuable p??r*er coniine erery week lallka
??? letter Irom home. I have been a subscriber to
Thx ConamwioK on* year and could uotttt
>l kVerrMwUufitbaa subscribed lor
S.Vor?? , ??i. lLWlll,,n,,io,, " ,,oM ' n t,,,,
Mas. T. J. AXDimots, Bcadtvllte, Texes.: We
td a killing ircat tele morn toe and pints ot let;
illou sathend and to oat ol ft told, con crop*
rente now.
Jons W. Caararmi, Mnmrcspl, da., November
18.: FniMiu ConiiTunoif: Weretclvtdour ma
chine In due Ume, and after two weeks trial we
are perfectly satisfied. I asked aa ex .machine
Hint tome Ume too what he thought ol your
chine? end ho arid that It wu a humbug, but
UevlDg lhat Tn* Cogsntcnoii meant what IS
mid, Iiun the risk and bars won. Tne machine
le a beauty, runs tiskt, don'; make much tom.aqd
dote any kind ol wot k,
W, B. Oturv. Coleman station, November 15.???
We have received our rawing machine sad my
wile It well plfteod with lb A (tne perfect mile-
taction, f he thinks it te u good as a no machine
that the agent bars been trying to sett bar.
W. H. Pvnow. Buck In ad, Ot. t
thf, Impitr'ni myptoics-lonat wiriest,telling
???Bo mat hs hid a broken lig, the te nit ot hn
bolts ftl lcsdown elm him. 1 tec -rdioglv took
jhtm In end resit hla teg. This was ??lx hiuriano-
laqucnt to the ???asastlnallon.??? Too* are as
nesriy a-1 can remember Ihe words vet bstlass
???token by Ur. Mudd. Bets ibwy rtmalnel uutll
biioCsynifht about nine o'clock, men Booth
liiVft 'STBSSB, Sc??. hu
Ihitemac liver to the Vltiinlan tide at a place
celled Ailewe Fresh, and altev proceeding ??? lew
mites called another halt et Garrwct*i barn, aa
bewassufleriag laMMely with hit leg base We
bevstboadant proof aa to the killfegol Booth.
Pint. It writhe rsmembersd that David X Bar-
sold na still with him, aad cams ont and tor-
IrtPdtrtdtoColimelLilsyvite C. Dakar, who wu
comtuander ot tbs squadron of cavalry leak cap-
turadhasTOld and slued Booth. Heleoel Bakes
had Icsretd tha wkeiteh*uteol Booth tbsoogh Ihe
I ten risen, who pul them over. Ilerrold'e own
cop let a Ion puts II bevel; d any reaio cable doubt at
ram-eth'a death, and Booth???s last voids wore:
1 mother Idlid trr a., comity," aid David
brrold'a lut words wire when upon tha scat-
WIT "O. that l had died with Booth U the bean."
Pocth Is csrUibly dead. I setlt say la coodoatoa
that I am bow engaged myself writing a n etort-al
sketch of Use wamrtaruoo of Mr.Linednand
eubsi qaeat Right of Booth. Incidents la tha trial
of rscb altered ssraria to bs P**ktefew4 te asm-
phtet tern which te bow shout isafy for publtca-
non and 1 will lsrt hare explain tauter M
inrcoshlktrntcrprtaee ol war I wastekcn*d
ntrand ranted to Wubtnxton end on trams
r InfongaiWo.
Level Land, AbbtvU^ *
a II. Ytuswaon, Marcus, Jackson county, (la.
Btasratfr .m asrSny-K
money. -My wife le well pirated with lie werk.
huicess to you. Think you will get ottess la*
lew days.
Our Afeatfs Prises.
In order to (how our appreciation of onr
???gents w* offer thsra th* follotring cash
prist*;
1st. For lbs laikest number ol subscribers sent
in by ono e*tnl between now and January 1st,
USCm.???.......... sao.oo la Bald,
2d. For the second lartest number ol tuheorlli
en rent In byone agent between now end January
Ut, ISM Old00 in Gold.
3d. For Ihe third largmt number o! subeeriben
rent In by one egent between now aad January
1st., 1886..,. ...BIS.o# la Gold.
4th. For tha fourth largest number ol subactlb-
resrent In byotusgaal bet wean now aad January
let, IN*....??? BIO 00 IB Gold.
Mb. FOr ihe filth larirai list ol tahralbtrt taut
In by one agent between now and January Ui,
1888...??? - One Reiving Machine.
tth. Far ibe elslh largest Hat sent la by
out agent between now aud January Ut,
ISM.... The Con a Illation Library,
7th. to 12th. For Iho next fist largmt lute not
In by one agent between now end January Ut,
ee. ...a Wntwrbnry Walds Each.
Tbit competition la opao to ail our agont*.
W* will beep account of evar euhecrihar
rent In bj every agent and will award Ihe
prise* on January 1st to those who have
rent lbs largest lists. Ooly mousy sent alter
October 1st. will b* credited on tbo prisa
11*1*..
Agent* will do w??ll to kHp in that* hand
books tbs list of names sent In so that titer*
can b* no rnlstak*.
Go to work at cnoo now for Dure prisa*.
Thry are offend freely by Tss Convircvto*
in'appreciationof it* agent*. It will bo assy
for any active man or woman to get on* of
these prists.
Name* need not bo rent tn *11 ot ones, nor
for from ono offlos. All namre rent by aay
oo* agent, from ray point, between now and
January 1st., 1880, wlU bo credited to hi* Hat
THE MCHO.V WILL,
grs are, Ua., Movsmbsr iu ???(Sped ahl-Ths trial
ol the Dickson will can was rassmed thU stems
111. Counsel for Ihe caveat on continued to otter
evidence to show the undue lnDutaotsof JolU
and Amende, especlsllyol the former, oo David
Dickson.
TtsUmony was introduced to show that Amanda
use not David's but alto was Ms deceased brother
Grab's child, and lhat bad Imllaga existed be
tween these twobrottenoa aeooutotter;lhat
Grcew had once threatened David's Ilfs as the re
late of ter, sad bfcense David bed titrated Item,
(ttenegrece) above bla aad Orren???a matter. Tl*
last was reacted.
Then cast testimony to prove that David Dick-
sen could not propagate bU ram aad
to show his neglect ot hu wile dating her lilt,
(specially duitai bag last llinem, aad that JulU'a
attterity as borne wu superior to Mrs. Dtckaoal.
Them other testimony came tad the atvasnsi
cloud# p
(rears. Os, November JO -ISpcelaU-Tte pro-
pound' re ol the Diekeea wit) caw coattaned this
moraine with the rebuttal, lalrodDoing reach
weighty Ustlaaoay to lefate the truth of the
grooade ralud on by the ether tide.
Judge Pottle opened ihe argument, dimming
the facts to the jury scaidlcg to some legal prla-
ctplm to which ho ceiled tho ateeellea al the
CtUlte
Cohmel Hammond followed. eRdrsmle* hlmeail
priaeipoUy totheUw ef the om*. repeeully to
teat of uidae Infl ueac*.
(utTA, Oe.. [November 2l.-|??pecUI )-Tbe
luty la Ihe Dlfkaea will ease insulted the
WU ISSS SreTttffVSS
SV TC? S7T Z JTcInSd m ??
???niUCC CCOIlo
TOPICS OF THE WEEK.
A wan named Honeycutt Ii attracting attention
???t Little Bock, Atk., with hie now tie ship. His
mode! rcptceente the ship which will bang sus
pended below the balloon snd contain the motive
power snd the passengers. The wings are In air
and attached Ingenlouily to tha side and revolve
rapidly. Tbs little ship was impended ineirand
???t once moved off gracefully and floated round
and round tha room. The wings an constructed
a UUle similar to those on the wheel ot a wind,
ism end operate on the air no the prlndplo of a
screw propellsr Iu the water, thus basic* pro-
pcllln* power which will drive lha ship forward.
Tbc Ingenious system ol machinery la such
tbst by tbs strole ot ths lever, as In a
live, lbs wings may be reverse], taking
th* ship beck ward; turning In another direction
will kelp the ship to sue, aad In another causlox
It to descend, or yet iu another direction
Unship to dsecilboa circle, torn abrupUv found
or rise on an tudlns plena, fitorma, te stye, may
be avoided by Kelng them before encountering
Item, and Iteuavoldfag them by dodging to tha
right, to the left, rislnf abovo them or dying
???head ol Uum. Tbeprofeuoe made his theory oi
serial cavitation look not oariy poaelbU but abso
lutely feasible. He la now endeavoring to obtain
iid by orttoliioi ii
a trial machine with a balloon ralSctent to carry a
lour horse powersleam engine and two men, or
(tom N* to 1,SCO pone de weight
Tm men ol Dakota having advsrtiesd for wins,
a great many eastern husbands have begun to ood
?????????pond with them. Tboss eastern husbands are
cunning old things,
Ha. Gaixsroui, a very wealthy young man ol
Cincinnati,found agay youag lady who wae wllUng
to accamnany him on aa cxcamfou to Europe. Ho
weal abroad with ter, and In Rcotkand the two
wen rstbtered at the hotels as man and wits.
Under Urn Scotch law this otmsUtutsd a legal
marriage. Gslnslord shortly afterwards died sud
denly, snd ths lesUvs partner ol hie travels will
now succeed to hie ml ale.
Tn* meet peculiar inlctde ol the day le reported
Irom Texts. Upton Bell, s respectable young
while Istmcr living user fibsrmau, met with a
misfortune In tbs shape of the death of on* of hie
mules. A tender attachment bid existed between
ths former and bis mule, and ths lorn of tha blast
was a calamity not lo beendnrad. Sail brooded
over his lorn until bis grist overpowered him.
finally hs ended Ms misery by shooting hlmmlf
thtongh tho brad.
OCT of 1A0MAM* people la Itexfoo ???*,???? own all
the land. Useoma lapemlbla to break np tte
largo Malta Into smaU plantations and fanes.
This state of eflatm wUt hold Mexico bask tor
many years to coma.
Ttls BuSsIo Oourlsr speaks up for Ihst numbte
but useful bird, tte ten. Th* famous Fourier
ones had a pUu by which tbs wu induced tj lay
???nougb sgts to pay tte debt ol Gnat Britain, aad
though a Ism ambitious task la usually required
oi hsr, she should not be overlooked by tte emi
nent economists who bars ths interests of Ameri
can Industry aomneh at heart lhat they prater
that our woiktagasan should teldls rather than
tbstthey should compsto with European toilets.
Mr. Dlmton, oi Quincy. lib, tea sounded sa
tlsim note In bebsll ol tte American ten. Hs
announces that 8500.000 worth of tut wars
impelled during tho last two yean, and ho balls
tor ths Imposition of s duty on foreign eggs. Tte
ChlcegoTtmcseecoudethemotion in tbs follow
ing words: "A hen convention should immedi
ately te railed to lak
protect the hen* ol ths United States
scslnst tha ignorant
Europe. The hast te ordinarily a bad
econom 1st, laying lota ot eggs when they an ckrap
snd doing vtty little In the egg lino when they
ar* dear, but It is hoped that thsra Is no ban In
this conn try to Intellect nally oblast au to beta-
sensible to the danger threatened tte American
six Industry by cheap foreign j??n later.
Coxst-L OxttKXAt. Sum:, writing from Btrilu,
nidtr dated Aigurt 22, ssyst "It rosy hod In
terest to planters tat tte United Attics to know
test cotton growing Is making eonstdarahte pro
gress In Russia. This la especially true In tbs
regions known as the Hsukasut, In tte govern,
ment of Irwin. Ths Industry bsgsa talar hack
as 1850. In 1W1 ijoo tons war* produced, fly*
yean later 5.M0 tons, and In lkH tha crop yielded
IS,OCO tons, worth about
sa. Lately - they ha:
duced th* bestd American
which on aecoutol Us supttlot character dads
chassis. Though Bnmian planters
have, . BOtwtlhstaadisg tte advantages
of toll, thus fits not succeeded In psodue-
lag tn article fully equal to that ol Amtrtea."
CtesutOrearal Bates adds In conclusion: "No
doubt I lists:thsCoottoo-growing U Ihcramtag In
IheHsukaius. when large tracts ol so-raUsdlrre
land si* Mill within tte reach of planless."
Tus sksyptst swindler In New York la a man
named Zlagasl. He See rsoeatly attracted the at
tic Uon ol tho ???uthorlUtt end ao Ifort will h*
mute to break him up. Xlngari ynteuds to te a
gypsy, but really te a tela. Women ou*y at*
admitted, for tte reason that hie aim te to hit) a
feminine folate. He adde that ot ooumo tho
winputBOcredtaretahla aaeertlon, but never-
thelttiltteafcaolutely trar, were the to were the
amulet, ate would act perceptibly grow older 0
years. Ihs is apt to ealch at m altering a
prospect, especially If tte te a litlte put th*
youthful period alitady, aid ate inqulrarar-
acslly on ths subject. She learaa Ust tte
uuutectnrs ol Ihs charm would oost tte pro-
lessor much Urns and skill, and that lo tec tho
expense woold bs 110 to *80. Hs gsugretlis pries
according to hit guns at ter gulllMUty and puna.
II ate gives tte redsr, ah* Is required go pay hall
down, and tte real Is a wtek or re, when a waft,
rarvedjrtoue to delivered to her,to Ire kept suspend
id on her breast. Tbeclsvtcaom of tkaacbetae lire
la tte eiownire elite warns* to dnd out Unt ate
has beta footed, for yran most etepee before ter
lidgment oonvlncet her vanity that the ravagre ol
time era nog ttald In ter raw. Ills thought lhat
Zlagari b?? made a fortune.
Tai republican leadens an already preparing to
pul Blaine In tte field again. He WlU leap into
the arena a redder and a wiser man.
A Nxw Yosx reglacM teaabtg reheat oa hand
A polar current al Ire water yrefiee tte gull
teavre tte leopteot that region ireratag and ahlv-
erlag threagfe tha wimlat aad eptiag mrelte. Tte
cailpccrproposes, al acottof MftMftMft lo dam
this polar river In Us strait of Bella I ate. Tte
???trait at eaopaial Is only tea mltee wide, aad the
dam It therefore parSKUy ieulbto. Tate project,
It Is thought, woold rates tte temperature ol
tte Mart flora New fhudkad lo Cepe
Hi tuns. The poufbillUresre magaiAoeot. TM
inhahltinu ol Oape Ood would enjoy tteellsnsu
ol Florida, hut tte dsBaosJou of Ihe gull stream
from mold channel would cause tte Britons to
fly to Ikste Indian smptN te mvs ttetr Urea. Hr.
Goodrtegs, tte lagsnisw prajrewv af this atex-
priw, should at care proceed to orgulst a big
???lore company and gp to work. An tmpoltemt
public wlU not Uook delay.
Cablnx, a gwtdowbowre recently asreatsd 1*
Brooklyn ter bigamy, was fob ad go have six wives
In different paste of tte eaantiy. As the follow la
only Iwtnty-three. It will te soon that It doea not
require very long for him to woo and win a girl.
The career ol this conquiitog hero will now be
Interrupted by a term ol prison life.
TUlsmeol John A Morrell, tte netoriof*
lead pirate, la still retd la tea eouth to lilghteo
tad cklMitn. Very fow era aware that tte wktew
of tee temoss rabbit chief to sUU living. Theotd
lady itsldte In Henderaoa county, Tens., sad it
kfghfysstwresdhf Bar Mfgh here. Allhswyh ovas'
elgbty.sk* s^oysvlitam hsalth. te* DetMag
cyss.udbsitssmmytesUnnWBliv*. Attcrlh*
Cmthcitet outlaw hatband ete married a good
raises, woo diedstvirel yremaga ten reloere
to atrwrraay qusetlras about MurvtU, but It ia
well hnown tbatibo regerdehim nsmu who
was bessly slendered and croeily ptneeuled. OM
people who remember Mnrreli ety that he had a
btaevolsnt tare and a mild eye. Can It bo petal-
ble Mat te wse net the bloody vlUUn te hrehre*
pictured.
A itrtrr murder trial Iu Franc* hM caused ???
great MnsaUon. A man named BeaudMn wu
ehot and hlUed white aakep In bed by tte side ol
his wlfo. Madame Bcendela declared that eta
beard no reportand did ???-???t"t 1- Tng
Bngeul wu arrested let the crime. Hoconfared
hltgnili but claimed that Msdtmc Beaudoin hir
ed him to do ibe deed. 8be admitted him through
a window and then went to bed again. The l*-
sstsln rested his gun serosa tho woman's legs
In order to taho good sin tt
hsr husband. Tte blood-stained
ted waa brought into tho courtroom, sndltte
priaentri were compelled to assorts tha Identical
positions they occupied at tha moment ol tte
murder. Ths Jury found Brsgeul guilty, and ac
quitted MadmwBreudoiu.
"DerxAT,??? ttys the Phlisdelpbla Times; "Is the
political shower that purifies tte party atmos
phere." A tig shower every lour yean will purity
the republican party In about tea daeadsa. Thai*
Is Dotting tte matter wltt this ???
t'xixs BrebT Rraisoia, the man with tt* Iroo
Jaw, tea soma patent rotas that ho wants tho tens*
olrepreseuttUresto adopt when It meets. Ill*
Uncle Billy's heart's desire to have Mr. Bindsll
ruled out: hut in a a attar ol this kind Uncle Billy
Isn'to! store Importance than a wsx don.
Tap man Irem Tessa Is sUU terra rising New
York. The latest lnetenceUMr.P. A. Pine, ot Dal-
hw,Trail. Whitest tte8b James hotel his mind
became disturbed, ecd besot slier hla aunt with*
wteksd laoktPt hullc. He wu dimmed snd aral
toahoepIteL Mr. Plnslsmld tobea centlemta
ol wealth, repreemtlng a syndicate ol Texts rapt*
THE DAIV1BL BOYS.
A TbsUiiag Burp Told by Iho Arkansas
<1 at lows.
ATBtkft Ot, November 22.-l*peelaLI-The fol
lowing letter wag written to Ihe governor ot Ar
kansas by an* ol toe Daniel boys, now Using la
Jsctsou countyt
To Hla Excellency, the Oil venter ??1 Arkantah???
DsarSUr: Thlato you may seam unique, strange
??? sd.torcoelve an addreas from a mtn wb* te
labeled in your Mate anont'aw. Bat, dear el a
yen possess potency lulaverof rlghtrnle, truth,
Intetlltyaud Justices therefore thtoappcaltedlract
to your Judgment, not tbo silly, Idle arautlsnal
de com In* np Irom a well organlltd liorda ol
rabbets ou Irons creek, In Montgomery county.
About April mu, 1SU, alter a protracted eerire
ol injuries, both by ???caudal and threats ol <lo<
???trrctlou, I was Irresistibly drawn Into a dunralty
wltt om WlOlaae Potter, nMnstjmkem leages-
tilted nos tte slightest mallco. He from tlms to
Uma endeavored to enlist mate a band to keep
Me public tends oa Isom creak unsettled: I re
ft: red. He then said I must leave or dl*. Hr.
Blcehrr wae ehot at by Mr.Pottor. VYawtntto
bare a talk, net to quarrel. Ha endeavored to
tua tirnrms, snd, tn eell-dtlraat, we ware com
pelled to dclrnd our person. He waa kilted. A.
hand ol lutrlguara assaulted ua abuaed out Itml-
Uts, abuaed tus
rrgerdtag
ay wllo and
In ahanre. (hot my dog, tbablood ???patteringoa
my wHe's clothes, abused my wile until she died
by her own bauds or Ihe handa of a toe, tuned
my wife end seven children out ol teure and
horn* and teg given ao reutvateutiu return.
While I wu trying, dear sir, lohivo stair trial
before a proper body, those fore to virtue In ten
copied my Irirade, would not permit us to give up
to asy Official gave InYeU county, cutoff bon
Hot gprtei*court, hung Dr, Fitted snd Mr. Coker,
my triads, end Intimidated aU who aided, how
ever, Oa July to, IMS, we wert pursued by'
on* Bully, a detective, with
btoecbr-unr-i. ????a men wboreeinen more bant ess
mmder, tuntil snd ruin, ratter than to bring
mm lo tew, nltna and righteous decision. We
mot Uum Ilka men; out Winchester rUtetodcu
sir, spoke loud aud awfub loon, bloodhounds,
dsMcUvN.au ware*o??s: twoaus> tept Iks fltld.
1; suits!suet how many foil than; ws trends-
lending our persons against bloodhounds aad
men who would have inflicted death the vary
moment of surrender. Had tnoffleer boa Hot
Ipringe been alter us, ws had ssughl hla, gone to
trial, corns dear, and we would today have been
happy. But YtH county wealed death, notaouri,
because Me way wu open to ssltte up ths good
lands on Iron creek.
My ckaisster, ay dNr sir, Is open before you.
Inquired Robert Toombs, o I Georgia, go la tte
Bra HUl family. Joseph It. Brawn, go to Athens,
Oa, inquire, find atom, prebe deepandpemera-
tenet. I appeal to yon lor my land, tor ay eWIo
dnn I labored assiduously, I hoped to Use and te
hutted there. My tailing fields, blooming
orchards, comtoitabls bouses, oost a* much toil.
Is it legal and just for Mr. Furganoa to daostrs
ay wife, sslss my tends, ayscU cost out foe
outlaw snd men to ssfra ay osrslngt?
Ism open to trio! before any fair court, laite
no apology. I??ey this, dear ri??-I regret tho une
pleasant result-1 would not culUratead-'-are
suck isshnsu aad ssntw-ay desire is so oust
laws, lira I* peace, practice virtue, tad bo In com
pany wltt Jus tics, marry snd honor. Bet th*
gist taw otnstnre, I* mil prerarvatton. I am a
gsnllsmsD, sb, and appeal to you as such.
I sa no awn sntaS, no coward, sa tome wlU
UttHy wb* aw at **ci on a (totals stao log.
1 ran never repeat of defending ay home, ay
character jaad ay.aarattsr. 1 would hldo ay
mouth In the duel before 1 wouM suffer ay wU*
snd cniidren atltnakd, ay nslfbbwra hung,
myself tun by htoodhoumta, wltt m who
??? iStemei M'yMSt momrara wrau!
Da wish.
Betas* the Flood.
From tt* Lumpkin, aa, Independent.
A fragment of petrified stone in* found near
Dry Fork, last week, whioh bean avers evi
dence el being a portion ol tt* remain* of
some antediluvian who dou bites* pari shed In
SAM JONES??? PAPER!
"The 8outhem Evangelist.???
a.
Antl-LIquor Tight is Atlanta,
Temperance Sermon bj Her. Sam Jones,
W hlslory ^
The Birmingham Tent XeetiBg,
whoUbiiWSEV./AMJO
Also an scenrate ead eorreeS
POETEAIT OP SAX JONES.
and a lull "8AM JONES INQUIRY COLUMN.???
kPfwawsttssr*
For * a Cant Stamp,
ot to ??? names for grates BmamjbjT. IiwITt
mtUT ??? ALL FOR O CENTff,
,8 ^^^reate JimEVANGL^kUb