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I THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY JANUARY 5 188 6.
PROHIBITION POINTS.
TABERNACLE SERMON.
DELIVERED BY DR. T. D’WITT TAL-
MAGE YESTERPAY.
•'Suttfect of Sermon, "Lons Lf fo"-To Shortly Besiq a
Series of Discourse* on th# “MirrUxe Rln*”-
,.. "The'Choloa of Husband and Wife"—
"Duties of Husband." Xtc., Etc.
Brooklyn, N. Y., January 3.—[Special.]—
At tlic Brooklyn talreiyiacle this morning the
Hev.T. De Witt Tuliuage, D. D., gavo notice
that he would shortly begin a aeries of Sab*
Lath morning discourses on the "Marriage
Bing,’* treating from a religions standpoint
Ihe&Uowing topics; "The Choice .of Hus-
1>and aJr.d Wife,” ‘‘Clandestine Marriages ami
J&arndw,” "Duties of Ilusbands to Wives ”
“l^tics .of Wives to Husbands,” "The Wrong
"Wayh t)f Women,” "Costume and Morals,”
“Competent Housewifery,” "Sensible Young
Womanhood,” “Women who will Pass Life
Biggie, 1 ” "Influence of Sisters over Brothers,*’
( “The Modern Novel and Woman,” "Boarding
Borises and Hotel Life,” and the "Treatment
efifon-Servant and Mnid-Scrvant.”
t - < .Dr- Talmage's sermon today, was on Long
Iiife» and the text was taken from Exodus xx.,
v ‘That thy days may Ire long upon the land
irhfeh the Lord thy God giveth thee. Follow-
' * Jhg Is the sermon in full:
January 3d, 1886! The. old almanacs. ni\d
; r ' iliri old memorandums Hung aside. Evaa.ftTilug
to remiud us of the fact tjyit. another volume
in the Jbistory of timo "has begun, and every
thoughtful man and woman at such time dls«
costas the length ^or tbo shortness of human
- 'fifo, Faithful discharge of duty is in my text
set forth as having much to do with tho length
Of our earthly stay. Through tho mistako of
■ its friends religion has been chiefly associated
With sick IkhIs and graveyards. This whble
Subject to many people is odorous with chlorine
and carbolic acid. There aro people who can-
not pro nounco tho word"religion”without hear
ing in it tho clippiug chisel of the tombstone
cutter. It is high time that this thing were
cbabgcd and that religion instead of bolug
represented as a hearse to carry out tho dead,
Should be represented as a chariot in which
the Hviugftiro to triumph. Bcligion, so far from
Subtracting fropi one’s vitality is a glorious ad-
.. diUon, It is sanative, curativo, hygienic. It
is geed for the eyes, good for the cars, good for
the spleen, good for the digestion, good for tho
the nert es. good for tlio muscles. When Da-
: tifl in the Psalms prays that religion may be
• dominant lie does not speak of it as a mild
sickness or an emaciation, or an attack of mor-
and spiritual cramp; ho siicaksof it as "tho
- paving health of all nations,” whilo God pro-
. Bounces long life to the pious, sayihgr "With
long life will I satisfy, thee.”
The fact is that men and women die too
Boon, it is high timo that religion joined the
liand of medical science in attempting to im
prove human longevity. Adam lived 030
years. Mothusalch lived 069 years. As late
in the history of the world os Vespasian, there
Were at one time in his cmplro forty-fivo peo
ple 135 years old. So far down as tlio sixteenth
century, l’ctcr Z&ttnn died at 185 years of ago.
I do not say that religion will ever take tho
nee back to antediluvian longevity, bnt I do
Bay tbo length of human Ufo will bo greatly
improved. It is said in Isaiah, lxv:20: “Tho
’ child shall die a hundred years old.” Now, if
. according to the Scriptures, the child is to bo a
Bundled years old, may not tho men and
women reach to three hundred and four Iran-
‘ ilrcd and flve hundred? Tho fact b we aro
. mere dwarfs and skeletons compared with somo
of the generations that aro to come.
Tako tho African raco. They havobeen un
der bondage for centuries. Give them a chttnco
and they develop a Frederick- Douglass or a
s Tousaiut l’Ouvorturc. And if the white race
{ shall be brought qut from under (he serfdom of
.'.Im M.l ..I ..linll 1.n nO Wlihl aliflll I,1ia
I wUnt shall.bo tho body?, What shall l>o tho
(W0T Bcligion has only just touched our
World. Give it frill power for. a few. centuries,
and who can tell what will he tho strength of
man and tho beauty of woman, and tho long
life of all?
My design la to show you that practical roll-
S ion is the friend of long life, and I prove it
rst from tho fact that it makes tho caro of our
physical health a positive Christian duty.
Whether wo shall keep early or late hours,
Whether wo shall take food digestiblo or indi
gestible, whether there shall bo thorough or
incomplete mastication, aro onostlons very of
ten deterred to tho realms or w himsicality; but
tlio Christ ion man lifts this wholo problem of
licidth into the accouutablo and the divine,
lie say*: "God has given mo this body and ho
Las called it tho temple of tho Holy Ghost, and
to defneo its altars, or mnr its walls,or crnmblo
It* pillars, is a God-defying sacrilege.” Ho
Bees God’s cftligrapby in every page,anatomical
and physiological, llosays: "God has given
n wnmlAvAil IhkIv for nnliln niinMnd.”
me a wonderiril body for noble puposca.’
That aim with thirty-two curious bones, wield
ed by forty-six curious muscles, aud all under
the brain telegraphy: threo hundred aud fifty
gut: Hi mu »uivu uuuutvu
pounds of blood rushing through Uio heart
. — *%.- ».—. J n * *- *— 1
every hour, tho heart In twenty-four hours
beating ono hundred times during
the twenty-four hours overcoming
resistant o amounting to 221,000,
OCO pounds weight; duriug the samo time tho
lungs taking in fifty-seven hogsheads of air,
and til this mechanbm not more mighty thau
delicate, and easily disturbed and demolished.
Tlio Ch l i&tian man says to himself: "If I hurt
my nerves, if I hurt my bruin, if I hart any
of my physical faculties, l’iiuult God aud- call
for due retribution.” Why did God tell the
Lcvitcs not to offer to him in sacrifice animals
Imperfect or diseased? He meaut to tell us iu
nil tho ages, that wo aro to offer to
God cur very best physical condition; and a
man who. through irregular or gluttonous eat
ing, ruins his health, is not ofieriug to God
Buch a sacrifice. Why did Paul writo for his
Cloak at Troos? Why should such a great man
ns Paul be anxious about a thing so insignifi
cant as an overcoat? It was because lie knew
that with pneumonia and rheumntism ho
would not be worth half os much to God and
the church as with respiration easy and foot
Gee.
An intelligent Christian man wonld consider
Stan aUnrdity to kneel down at night and
pray and ask God’s protection, while at the
f»mi» time ho.kept tho windows of his bed
room tight shut against fresh air. He would
Inst as scon think of going out on the bridge
between New York aud Brooklyn, leaping off
and tl.cn praying to God to keep him
from getting hurt. Just as long as
you defer this whole subject of
physical health to the realm of
whimsicality, orto the pastry-cook, or to tho
lmtctu r, or to the baker, or to the apothecary,
or to the clothier, you aro not acting like a
Christian. Tho care of all your physical
forces—nervous, muscular, hone, brain, cellu
lar tissue—for all you must be brought to
judgment. Smoking your nervous system lu-
tofidgets, burning out the coating of yonr
Stomach with wine logwooded and strychuincd;
walkiLg with thin eboes to make your feet
look delicate; pinched at the waist until you
pic nigii cut in two. and neither part worth
anything; groaning about tick headache and
palpitations of the heart, which you think
tonic firm (rod, when they come from your
own foil y! What right has any man or any
woman to deface the temple of the Holy
Ghost?
What is the ear? Why, it fa tho whispering
callerv of the human soul. What is the eye ?
’ Itisthe observatory God constructed, its tele
scope sweeping the heavens* What is the
Land? An instrument so wonderful
that when the Karl of Bridgewater
bequeathed in bis will forty thousand dollars
for treatises to be written on the wisdom,
. power *nd goodness of God, Sir Cliarles Bell,
the gnat English anatomist and surgeon,
-found his greatest illustration in the construe-
:tV» of the human hand, devoting his whole
* book to that subject. So wonderful are these
.bodies that God names his own attributes after
'the different porta. Ufa omniscience—if is
GodV< Tc»* Hut omnipresence—i» is God's ear.*
* His cmnipoUnco—it li Gods arm. The np*
1 Loktery of the midnight heavens—it is the
work of God’* fingers. His life-|ji vi ng^po frer
shoulder. A body so divinely honored and so
divinely constructed, let us be careful
not to abuse it. When it becomes a Chris
tian duty to take care of our health is
not the whole tendency towards
long life V If I toss my,, w^LcU jabout reck
lessly and drop It on tue pavement aud wind
it up any time of day or night I happen to
think of it, and often .let it run down, arid
—it is the breath of the Atotil _
jnlnicn—the government shall he upon hfa
never abuse it, aud wind it up at just the sai __
hour every night, and,put it iu a place where
it will not suffer from the violent changes pf
atmosphere, which watch will last the longct?
Common souse answers. Now, the human,
body is God’s watch. You see the hands of
tho watch, you see the firce of the watch; but
the beating of the heart is the ticking of the
watch. Oh, he careful and do not let it run
down!
Again, .1 remark that practical religion is a
friend ot long life iu the (het that it is a pro
test against ful the dissipations which injure
and destroy the health. Bad men and women
live a very short life. Tlieir sins kill them.
I know hundreds oi good old men but I
do not know a half dozen badold men. Whyi?
They do not get old. Lord Byroh
died at Misrolongbi at -thirty-six years
of age, himself his own Muzcppo, bis un
bridled passions the horse that dashed.wlfh
him Into the desert. Edgar A. Poo died at
Baltimore at thirty-eight years of age. The
black raven that alighted outlifl bust above hb
chamber door was deliriumtfemeus: .
"Onlynfls and nothing more.” ;
Ntfjkjtcon Bonaparte lived only just beyond
mid-life, then died at St. Helena, and one of
his doctors said that his discaso was induced
by excessive mulling. Tho hero of Austcr-
litz, tho man who by ono 6tcn of his foot in
the center of Europe shook tlic earth, killed
by a snuff box! Ob, liow many peoplo wo havo
known who have not livedont half their days
because of their dissipations and indulgences!
New practical religion is a protest against nil
dissipations of any kiud. "But,” you say,
"professors of religion havo fallen; professors
of religion havo got drunk, professors of re
ligion have misappropriated trust funds, pro
fessors of religion have absconded.” Yes, but
they threw away their religion beforo they did
their morality. If a man on a Whito Star line
steamer bound for Liverpool, in mid-Atlantic
jumps overboard and is drowned, is that any
thing against the White Star lino’s capacity to
take the man across tlio ocean? And if a man
jumps over tho gunwale of Ids religion and
goes down never to rise, is that nny reason for
yonr believing that religion has no capacity to
take the man clear through? In the one case;
if lie bad kept to the steamer his body would
have been saved; iu tlio other case, if ho had
kept to liis religion hb morals wonld havo
been saved. There are aged people in this
house todny who would have been dead twenty-
fivo years ago hut for tho defenses and tho
cquipoiso of reUgion. You havo no more,
natural resistance than hundreds of pcoplo who'
lio in the cemeteries today, slain by their own
vices. The doctors mado their coso ns
kind and pleasant as they could,
and it was milled congestion of
tlio brain or something else, but tbo snakes
and tlio blue flies that seemed to crawl over
tho pillow in the sight of the dclirons patient,;
showed what was the matter with him. Ydu,
tbo aged Christian man, walked nlong’hy that
unhappy ono Until you camo to tlio golden
pillow of a Christian life. You went to tho
right; lie went to the left. That is all tlic
difference between you. • Oh, if this religion
is a protest against all forms of dissipation,
then it is an illustrious friend of long life!
Again religion is a friend of long life in the
fuct that it takes tho worry out of our
temporalities. It is not work that kills men,
it is worry. When a man becomes a genuine
Christian ho makes over to God not only his
affections, bnt kb family, lib business, his rep
utation, ills body, hb mind, |his soul—every
thing. Industrious ho wili bo but nqvcr wor
rying. because God is -managing his affairs,
liow can he worry about business when, iu
answer to hb prayers. Gpd tolls him when to
buy and when to scu, aud if ho gain, that i is
best, and if ho Joto that is best. m,
’*'Su‘ppiMto y’oiY had a supernatarowicigliftor
who camo in and .arid:. "Sir, l want you 1 to
call on me in every exigency. I :.m your fist
friend; I could fall luck on twenty million dol
lars ; I can fence, a panic ton years; I hold tho
controlling stock in thirty of the bi^t monetary
Institutions of New York: whenoVcr you aro
in any trouble call on me and Twill help you;
you cap have my money, and you can have my
influence; there is my h*aul ; in pledge for It.”
How much would you worry-about business?
Why ycu Would say: "1*11 do the best I can,
and tnon I’ll depend upon my friend's goner-
osity for the rest.” Now, inoro thau that is
promised to every Christian business man.
God says to him! *T own Now Yorkund
London and St. Peter?'onrg, and. Pekin and
Australia and Cali.’oinia aro mine;
I can ferseo r< panic a mil
lion years; I havo nil tho resources of
the universe, and 1 am your fast friend; when
you get in buslnc88treui>lc,orany other trouble,
call on me and I will hear ana I will holp;hero
is my band in plcdgo of omnipotent deliver
ance.” How much should that man worry?
Not much. What lion will dare to put his paw
on that Daniel? If you could tako a thermom
eter and thrust it Into Slmdroch’s fumaco, it
would never go up over seventy-five degrees.
Is there not mt In this? is there not on eter
nal vacation in this?
"Oh,” you say, "hero is a man who asked
God for a blessing upon a certain enterprise,
and he lost *5.000 in it. Explain that.” I
will. Yonder is a factory, and ono wheel is
going north aud tkeother wheel is going south,
ind one wheel plays laterally and the other
[days vertically. 1 go to the n
manufacturer and
1 ray: "O, manufacturer, your machinery la a
contradiction. Why do you not make all tho
wheels go one way?” "Well,” lie says,"! mado
them to go in opposite directions on pur
pose., and they produce the right result. You
go down stairs and examine tho carpets we are
tuvning out in this establishment, aud you
will see.” I go down ou the other floor and
1 see the carpets, and I am obliged to confess
that, though the wheels in that factory go In
opposite directions, they turn out a beautiful
result; and while I mu standing there looking
at the exquisite fabric, an old Scripture pass-
ill. iuu i*'|uwiii; ikmiivi uu uiu ouiiinuiu
age comes into my mind: “All things work
together for good to them who love God.” Is
there not rest in that? Is there not tonic iu
that? Is there not longevity in that?
Suppose a man is all the time worried about
his reputation? One man rays he lies, another
rays he Is stupid, another rays he is dishonest,
and half • dozen printing establishments at
tack him; and he is in a great state of excite
ment and worry and fume, and cannot sleep;
but religion comes to him and says: "Man, Goa
is on your side; He will take care of your
reputation. If God be for you who can bo
against you?” How much should that man
wony about his reputation? Not much. If
that broker, who a few years ago in Wall
street, after he had lost money, sat down and
wrote a farewell letter to his wife beforo he
blew his brains out. if instead of taking out of
his pocket a pistol, he had taken out a well-
read New Testament, there would have been
one less suicide. O, nervous and feverish peo
ple of the world, try this Almighty sedative;
you will live tWcnty-five years Iouger under
its soothing power. It is not chloral that you
wont, or more time that you want. It is tho
Gospel of Jesns Christ.
Again, practical religion is* friend of long
life, in the fact that it removes si! corroding
care about a future existence. Every man
wants to know what fstobeeome of him. If
you get on Ireard a raii train, you want to
know at what depot it is
going to stop; if you get on hoard a ship, you
want to know into what harbor it Is going to
ran; and if you should tell me you have no in
terest in what is to be your future destiny, I
would, in as polite a way as I know bow, tell
you 1 did not believe you. Before I had this
matter settled with reference to ray future ex
istence, the question almost worried me into
ruined health. The anxieties men have upon
this subject, if put together, would make a
martyrdom.' This is a state of awful nnhealthi-
ness. Thefo are people who fret themselves to
death for fear of dying. I want this morning
to take the strain off yonr nerves' arid the de
pression eff your aool, and I make tiro or three
experiments. ••
•txperihxntthe.first: When you-.go oat of
the world it does not make any difference
whet lies you bav£ been good of baa, dr whether*
you believed 'truth' or error, you. wiH go-
straight to glory. "Iroporsiblc,” you say, "my
common sense as well as my religion, teaches
that the bad aud tho gcol cannot live together
forever. You give me no comfort in that ex
periment.”
Experiment the second: When yon leave
this world you will go into an intermediate
state, where you can get converted aud pre
pared for heaven. "Impossible,” you say; "os
tho tree falletli so it must lie, ami I cannot
postpone to an intermediate state that reform
ation which onght to have been effected in
this state.”
Experiment tho third : There is no futnre
world; when * man die* that Is the last of
him. Do not worry about what you are to do
in another state of being: you will not do any
thing. "Impossible,” you ray; "there Is some
thing that tells me that death is not theappon-
dirf but the preface; there is something that
tells mo tliat ou this side of tho grave I only
get started, and that I shall go ou forever. My
power to think says ‘Forever;* my affections
say, ‘Forever ;* my capacity to enjoy or suffer
says 'Forever.*”
Well, yon defeat mo in my threo experi
ments. I have only oue more to make, aud if
yon defeat me in that I am exhausted. A
Mighty One on a knoll back of JenisafeguxiA
day, the skies filled wi^ibrked lightnings
rml the earjh filled wifh'Volcanic disturbances,
tnrned HiS'pale aud agonized face towards.the
'-heavens, and raid: “I tako tho sins and sor
rows of the ages into my-own heart. I am
the expiation. Witness, earth and heaven and
hell. I am tho expiation.” And thp hammer
sfntch Him, and tho spears punctured Him,
and heaven thundered: "Tho wages of sin is
death;” “Tho soul that sinnetb it shall die;”
"I will by no means clear tho gniiiy.” Then
there was silence for half an hour, and the
lighuiings were drawn back into tho scabbard
of tho sky, and the earth ceased to quiver,
and all the colors ofi the sky began to shift
themselves into a raiubow woven out of tho
Tullius tears of Jesus, and there was red as of
tho blood shedding, uiul there was bluo us of
l ho bruising, and there was green os of tho
heavenly foliage, and there was orango ns of
thcduydAwn; oml along the lino of tho bluo
I enw tho words: "I was bruised for their ini
quities;” and along tlio line of thef rod I saw tho
words: “The blood of Jesus Christ clcansoth from
all sin;” and along lino of thogreeu I saw tho
words: , *Tho leaves of tho treo of life for tho
hcalingofthc nntions;”and along the lino of tlio
orange I saw tho words: "The day spring from
on high hath visited us.” And then I saw tho
btoiru was over, and tho raiubow roso .higher
and higher until it seemed retreating to anoth
er heaven, and planting ono column of its col
ors on one sido the eternal hill, and planting
the other column of its colors on tho other sido
of the^ctcrnal hill, it roso: upward and upward,
and behold there was u raiubow round j about
the throne.
Accept that sacrifice and quit worrying.
Take the tonic, tho inspiration, tho lougovity
of this tuth. Bcligion is sunshine; that is
healthy. Bcligion is fresh air aud pure wutor
they arc healthy. Bcligion is warmth; that
is healthy. Ask all tlio doctors arid they will
tell you that a quiet conscicuco and ploasarit
anticipations nre hygienic. I offer you per
fect peace now mid hereafter. What do yon
Vnnt in tho future world? Tell
mo and you shall havo it. Orchards? Thoro
are tho trees with twelvo manner of fruits,
yielding fruit every month. Water? Sccuory?
There is tlio river of life from under tho throne
of God. clenr as crystal, and ths sea of glass
mingled with fire. Do you want music?
There is tho Oratorio of tho Croatiou, led on
by Adam; and tho Oratorio of tho Bed 86a, *
led on by Moses; and the Oratorio of tho Mes- •
iiip.ii, fed ou by St. Faul, whilo tho archangel
with swinging baton controls tho ono hundred •
*jnd forty-four thousand who raako up tho or
chestra. Do you want reunion? There aro
your dead children waiting to kiss yotti wait
ing to embrace you, waiting to twist garlaqds
in yonr hair.' You havo been accustomed to’
open tho door ou this sido tho sopulcliro; this
morning I opcu tho door on the other sido tho.
sepulchre. 'You havo boon accustomed to*
walk in tho wet grass on tlio top of tho gravaili
sido of tho graver‘mofi
I show you tho uuder
bottom has fallen out and tbeiong'fbpM^i
which the pall-bearors let down yotir dego,»
them clear through Into hoaten. Glory ho;t1
God fot this robust, healthy religion J It ml 1
have a tendency to moke you livelong in tlrirf
world, and in tlio world to como you will havri
eternal longevity. v
A WICKED DECEPTION.
Memphis, Teuu., December 31.—Memphis
is startled by tho announcement of tho msr<
rlago of Charles N. Grosvenor, of tho firm of
Overton & Grosvenor, and Miss Olivia P. Hill,
daughter of tho leading cotton man of Mem
phis, and recently president of the cotton ex
change. Grosvenor and Miss Hill have been
in love with each other for four or fivo year*.
Her parents, however, objected to tho match,
and she refused to marry him. About threo
months ago ho pressed his suit, aud
was ferbiddeu the houso. Several
weeks ago a young sooioty hello
of Louisville, Ky„ camo to Memphis to visit
Grosvcnor’fl sister and sho and Grosvenor
formed an attachment for each othor which re
sulted In a matrimonial eugagemeut. The
marriage was set for December 30th, iu Louis
ville, Kt. Several Memphis ladles had left '*
Louisville to attend the wedging,'lihd prosoi
nfe &0 l..rtM—'..it, , it llin l.t*
^resents,
valued at $2,000, had beriri* scut to the bride
.from this place**
Last Sunday Bliss Hill telephoned Grosvenor
to come and sec her. He refused, arid said
he could not sco her until he came back from
Louisville with his bride. Monday ho receiv
ed two letters from her, and ho was weak
enough to call upon her. Sho thon confessed
that she had loved him all the time, in spite
ofthe objection of her relatives, ana said she
was desperate. "If you marry that woman,”
sho said, "I don’t kuow what I will do; I
may commit suicide; life will not bo worth
living.” liast night they met at tho houso of
Jumcs C. Bell, a mutual acquaintance. Gros
venor and his friends bogged her to give him
threo days in which to explain tho case to tho
Louisville lady. "Now or never,” said tho do-
tcimined young lady.
Grosvenor was by this time in a state border
ing on insanity, lio had not expected any
thing of this kind, and though engaged to the
other, still loved Mbs Hill. His warmest
friends pleaded with him for tho postponement,
and also pleaded with Miss Hill, but her re
sponse was: "I have compromised myself so
far, aud 1 can go no further. It is now or
never.” Two ministers refhscd to perform
tbo ceremony, but flnnPy Mr. Lamar, who
knew nothing of tlio facts, unitod them in
matrimony. It is hardly necessary to say
that Memphis is iudlguant. Grosveuor r s
warmest friends condemn his action, at tho same
Universal sympathy _ ...
serted girl, who created a most favorable Im
pression here, and there is somo talk of burn
ing Grosvenor in cfllgy. Tho Louisville
Indy has no father or brother, and, it Is said,
lias spent all her money on a trousseau. Gros
venor is associated iu business with ono of
tho most estimable, honorable aud wealthy
citizens of Memphis, John Overton and Miss
Hill’s father is perhaps worth half a million,
Aftci tho marriago Grosvenor and wife left
tho city for Nashville, their plans for- tho fu
ture being entirely iiuknown. A handsome
New Year’s reception lias been nunouucc<l at
Mr. Hill’s, hut it is uncertain now as to
whether it will take place or not. It is under
stood that tlio immediate relatives of tho par
ties aro simply hoartbrokon.
THE NEWS IE I.OUIHVff.LB
Louisville, December 31.—Tlio announce
ment here of tlio marriage at Momphis
of Charles 31. Grosvenor and Bliss Oliva
Hill has created a profound sensation in so
ciety in Louisville. Thoro iaovery reason why
it should. Grosvenor was to havo boon wedded
Thursday to a well-known society favorite of
this city. Tho wedding was announced a
week ago, and. tho young lady had prepared
her trousecau aud mado all other ar
rangements for tho wedding. Sho
met Grosvenor while visiting at Nashville in
the autumn of last year. Ho is a club man of
3(cmphis, and juis been a social lion thoro for
fivo years. Tbo Louisvlllo girl, to whom ho
was formally presented on a notable social
occasion at Nashville, was a debutante of lost
season, and a warm fnvorito in tho npi>or cir
cles of I«ouisvjllo society. Blio is noted for
A GENERAL UPRISING.
Troubles Increasing Along tho Mexloan
Frontier*
St. Louis, 3Io., December 31.—A Laredo,
Texas, correspondent of the Globe-Democrat,
says: "A sergeant of tho Unitod States army,
stationed at Ringgold barracks, somo sixty
miles down tho Bio Grando from this placo,
arrived hero Wednesday night and reports
that a general uprising is takiug
place in all tho small American tcivus
along tho river between hero and Brownr.villo.
Major Kellogg, commanding United Htates
troops at tho akovo mentioned past *.» now in
routo with a body of troops to lfema, a small
city on the American aide, whc*jovct300mcii,
mostly from Mexico, are In arms, and express
their intention of taking tho city atMicr.
They havo an abundance of ammunition aud
arc of a desperado and border rufllan class.
3IsJor Kellogg proposes to disperso them or
force them to leave tho American
territory, in order to prevent a breach
of neutrality laws between tho
two republics. Tho movement originated
among n few dissatisfied politicians who wore
defeated at tho recent city elections in Mexico.
3!oxican troop* are now being sent from 3Ion-
tcrav and Sattillo to reinforce those already
statfoued in tho cities of state Tamaulipas,
where the next outbreak is daily expected.
DeUcate, Refined and Useful*
finch are the striking qualities of tho genuine
Murray A Lanman'i Florida Water as a holiday
present. Nothing more acceptable to all tastes than
" fragrant preparation In wh <ih both
A Lenman'
present. Noth'
this CXqUlMte. uuRian* pre|«(«iuii 111 Ifu ill will
the handkerchief perfume and tho toilet water are
delightfully embodied. Its universal reputation
delightfully embodied. Its universal repul
makes all commentaries upon its merits unneces
sary. fcurh a present at lids season of tho year U the
happy combination of good souse with good taste.
For rale by all draggtata, perfumers aud faucy good*
Always ready to take a
Deaf aud dumb people.
hand In conversation—
"Habit is second nature.” Contract tho
habit to 'ilways keep Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup.
A Bong of New Year's Kve*
With flashing of foam on a wrinkled sea,
And wisps of white In a clouded slckr
* — ‘d«
With shiver of snow on a bare-llmb’d tree.
With winds that ukurry and Idrds that tSy,
With bells that toll by tiros, by throes,
Across the mead and down the lea*,
The old year lays him down to die.
With skulls that crumble and femes that bleach
On the ragged rocks of a mountain high;
With waves that thunder and 'unite the Ix-aeb,
With men that struggle and pan* and drown,
The old year lays hun down to die.
With women that weep and men that curse,
With girls that rob ami youths Hint nigh;
With waving plume* of the hungry hears**,
With moans from Upn that are hard sud/lry;
With hollow words iua minster nave.
The old year h
Oh. day and nlglW! Oh, morn and noon!
Oh. blood-red son! Oh. p*U14 moon!
Oh. mocking life? On, cruel life!
fihsll all things nmv that draw-life’s breath
(io reeling onward still to death?
Hhall all yean lay them down aud die?
Ith a rl pie of gold ou a sunlit sea.
With gutter of silver In clouds on I
With sparkle of snow on tho strong brown tree,
..... -*- *-—*-* (ha* --
‘high:
brown
With winds that sing aud birds that tty;
li sweet things that live and die:
g thin
.Willi hope ur.il love n
Wlthefl strong things that strength can try
ilh hope and love iu»d undreamed graces,
With w bUper* low and warm embrace'.
The new year comes aero** the sky.
Oh. deathless love, eternal youth!
Ob, glad triumph an human cry!; ..
Now God be prahed lot tbUone troth.
Though alielae be a gilded lie; * v
When oM things fade and aid hopes fail.
And the old ream,'deed. He stark and pale
The new yean crane aero* the sky.;
-New YotkT.mes.
iptivutod, and ipaid immediate r court. Ilois
a handsome fellow, and n finished man of tho
world. Tho young Indy accepted his atten
tions, and wireu sho camo homo was engaged
to marry him. Ho visited hor hero afterward,
and obtained hor mother’s consent. It was an
nounced early last week that tho.wodding
would take placo here on Thursday of this
week at tho rcsUlcuco of tho bride’s mother.
The relatives and several immcdlato friends
were invited, and nil arrangements for n wed
ding tour had been made. Grosvonor camo to
see his bridc-clcct on tho day beforo Christmas,
and gave her u handsome diamond neck-
laco for a Christmas remembrance. Ho
left for Memphis on tho evening of Christmas,
aud was cxpoctcd to return to Louisvlllo Wed
nesday night. In the moan time, however, it
seems that lie * had seen Miss Hill, in whoso
train of swains ho luid previously l>ccu a de
voted attendant. Ho forgot tho llttlo woman
who was waiting for him in Lonisvillo, and
quietly married tho other, who is tlio daughter
— Nanolcon Hill, tho richest —
ftlcmphffl. Whether or not lio has
made nny explanation to tho family hero
or not is unknown, bnt ho will ho re
quired to make cxplauatioii in nny event and
may lie called to account In nnothor way* His
perfidy has amazed the wholo town, and with
in two hours twenty Louisvlllo gentlemen
have voted hi in n despicable cur. The young
lady’s friends do trot feel that sbo has lost
much in losing such a fellow as Grosvenor.
They congratulated her ou the other hand that
sho has escaped one so perfidious aud con*
temptible. The fellow neod hope for no re
cognition if ho should evor come to Louisvlllo
again.
NOITIIKBN IKON TAKES THE DAY.
k Iron I There 1* population and wealth hi l
fo thcKrtith. An advance ofonly one dollar a ton
ha* lighted the routhom furnaces and given Chat
tanooga and Birmingham a atari that electrifies tho
mofl comcrvatlvc inhabitants. Wlint would ail
advance of five dollars do7
gout hem Iron has steadily gained ground in both
New Kugiand and the west. The Cincinnati Com
mercial recently apoke of tho growth of tho bust-
nefs In pig iron produced In Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia, and In the course of Iu article the fact
was referred to that In the Johnston building In
Cincinnati there arc five office* representing six
soul hem companies, whose output is two hundred
thousand tons a year. The Boston Journal of Com
merce recently Irore witness to tlio growing popu-
laiily of southern Iron iu the New England mark
ets. And tblafuothold lias been gained, it should
be remembered, while freight rate* have been high
and the price of iron has been almost unprecedent
edly low. If southern Irotimakers can profitably
sell Iron iu NVw England at $IC a ton, wluit will
the harvest be when Iron Is worth fMl
The three Iron ►talcs of the south, Virginia, Ala
bama and TcnuestfC, produced one hundred and
seventy-eight thoomud Ions of pig Iron iu H80;in
iwi they produced four hundred and eighty-onc
thousand, seven hundred and forty-four tons.
These figures arc ptylrlal and trustworthy. Tbo In*
-create of in roc hundred and three thousand, seven
hundred and thirty-eight Ions, which occurred In
yearaofricpfi-trion aud falling prices, was nlno
thousand five hundred ton* more than tho net In-
create In the United fitatc*. The Increase In tho
hreo stales met the heavy decrease In the other
hirty-thrcc states, anti left a small balance on tho
right side.
The result of there dull year: should convlnecthe
mori skeptical that the teat oflron production will,
toot* ho In the wroth. Good ores arc brought from
the Lake fiuperlor region, but they arc no match*
either In quality or quantity for Ibc Inexhaustible
deposit? of specular and brown hematite ore* In
Tennesvce. Georgia and Alal»araa.‘ or even for tire
magnetic ore* of Kentucky and Missouri.. A!mod
adjoining there fed? of ore aro vast deposits of coal
and limestone: and lh« great solid fact stands out
tbpt iron can la. made at Birmingham or Chatta-
ttcoga it si n ton, whereas even natural gas cannot
reduce the ci*t of a tcnTft.lron at Mtfebcrfr to figures
approachfng-S'J aud the frieght from routheyn fam
ous io Philadelphia or Boston. THU Is the secret
of the steady arid strong Increase In the production
of Irofjln the south. _ ’
There L? i*thh:g su/cr In the world of trad* fbau
that the Iron buslncs? in the routb is to go on until
the control of the iron trade of the country b io
cated here. This means that tho central south a
east la to become a new south—a south of largo
towns, large railroad facilities, large factories, and
larger ideas all around.
But the new south will have other large Inter
ests. In making Irou she will uot cea-c to piako
cotton. She will make all tho more. Cotton may
not be* king In all respect*; hay Is said to lie; but
cotton Is still the leading nrtlclo of export. Tho
cotton exports for the post fiiscal year amounted to
$214,000,000, while the exj»orts of breads!nils footed
up $100,000,000, and of provision?,' $107,000,000. 011
is fourth In rank, $nd tobacco a poor firth, ttottoh
will hold Its place nt Jhe head of the list f>U'ex
ports ^ “ • *
In 1781 the souUh'Cftirortcd ten bales tho old
south exported in the year before tiro civil war
3'12$M»7 bales; tho new south exported In 1883 more
than four and a half million hales,, .since 1876 the
soqth has built 11,000 miles of railroad.' Tho pro
duction of coin has Increased from334,000,000 bush
els In 1879 to 498,000,000 bushels In 18ST>: of cats from
42,000,000 bushels to 70,000,000. Ill 1880 the value of
the crops hi the south was $549,830,000; In 1885 tlfefr
value had risen to I9G9,077,000—a gain of. over
w4uty-onc per cent. As a uct result tho assessed
values In the south have risen from $2,lS!,2O0,5O.i]in
1880 to $3,070,fd4,435 In 1885. No part of tho country
can show a corresponding gain hi the fiv*e years
natned.
The south is gaining alike in agriculture ami in
manufactures. In 18M) we had 713,080 spindles and
15,222 looms; we uow havo 1,400,097 spindles aul
27,001 ’ looms, j instead-of 180 cotton * mills ,we
hafOttffl. In 1880 we had 40 cotton seed oil mills;
we now havo 146, having a capital of $10,792,450.; In
880 we mined 6,018,571 tons of coal; last year the
output of southern mlno» was lO.sn.ord tons. And
In every part of the south small Industries aro
springing up. All branches of ronnufuctiirei taken
together have risen in assessed values from $:»Ui,-
924,741 ill 1KS0 to $143,656,000 ill 1885.
Tlio presentation of the prohibition banner
to the First Ward club, (colored,) rihich wai
to take place at a meeting of tho prohibition
ists of Atlanta Friday night in thabaeement of
tbo court houae fell through, owing to a failure
to get tho club together.
The attendance was small, and with the ex
ception of a couple of dozen white men, tho
audience was composed of colored people.
Bey. Virgil Norcrose, who was to havo de
livered the presentation speech, presided)
Bev. E. C. Carter, chairman-tn the first Ward
club, who wmuwesent,- stated that ho had been
get bis elub together, as many of tlio
. member* had gone to the soveral colored uni
versities about tbo city, where entertainments
of various kinds were being given.
After somo discussion it was decided to havo
tho presentation Thursday night next, iu tho
basement of the conrthouso. Bishop Tamer
was present occupying a feont seat to the right
of thostand, and wag called upon for a speech.
Ho responded briefly, and after making a
strong prohibition talk, branched off into a
political vein and advocated tho formation of
a third party. Ho said that there was no Issue
nowdIviding the republican and democratiorpar-
ties. The colored man was the rock upon which
the two parties had made an issue for a Ions
number of years, and that this hail been wiped
out. He congratulated tho peoplo of Atlanta
and Fulton county upon the glorious victory
that thoy had won at tlio ballot box. He
thought that tho good results would encourage
'tho advocates of prohibition in other states;
mid that Atlanta’s victory would
lead, to tlio organization of n third
party. Ho was hoart and soul in favor
movement of, that character. It was the
Is there not boundless encouragement in thoro
figure*? No other lection of the country can match
our percentages of growth, either
In agricultural products or lti
manufacture*. And lest some may rcfurotosc-
Kiaph*. wo beg leave to riato that our author
ity for all of them is Mr. Wm, K. Bwltaler, chief,of
tlic bureau of statistic*.
THE INDIANS.
Tucson, Arizona, December 30.—The procla
mation issued by Governor Xu lick oil tho 2«lr<l
instant, warning the people of ArizoiuYto de
sist from attempting retaliatory' measures
against tho Indians op Han Carlos reservation;
for depredations committed by the hostilo In
dians, has created surprise and indignation
among the peoplo of the territory generally.
The entire press of Arizona, irrespective of
party, unite in condemning tlio act ns unwar
ranted by tlio facts, uuil entirely uncalled tor.'
Meetings hnvc been appointed to give expres
sions to the feeling* oi the, citizous iu regard
to tho rnnttcr.
Tucson, Arizona, December 31.—A special
to tho Star from Diincffh says: Tho rangers,
who have been in pursuit of hostile Indian?,
have just returned. They report that while in
pursuit of tho hostile?, tho Indlati scouts re
fused to follow tho truil nml defied tho olllcora
in command to compel them tooboy Ills ordors.
Tho chase had to lie abandoned, aud the troops
returned to this place without accomplishing
anything. Telegrams have been sent to Grin-
oml Crook asking for instructions. The scouts
arc anuod, and the olllocrs aro afraid to disarm
them.'. Soldiers and IudIans nre now encamp
ed hero seimrntely.
Washington, December31.—Governor Zott-
liek,of Arizona,has telegraphed to tho soctotary
of tho interior, culling attention toari errone-'
ous impression that tho purpose for which
troops has boon recently ordered from Han
Francisco to Arizona is merely to protect the
Indians from threatened attacks by Uio law*'
lc*s white element. Governor Zoullck say*
lii* appeal to the governor for troop* wri* fer
the protection of the lives and property iof*
citizen* from tbo attacks of murderous and 1
thieving renegade Apaehcs.
"Nopcoplb on earth,” ho adds, "havo ox«
than the Arizonians have shown under this
tcrriblo afflict ion of tho past eight months.”
Ho remark* that hi* proclamation last week,
warning all evil disposed persons that tho pow
er* of the federal and territorial governments
would be evoked to proscrye the rights of nil
person* within the borders of Arizona, was di
rected against tho iiifinminatory publications
in tho uewMpnirero, aud Nay*:
"It has hud its ett’oet, for the entire pres* In
the territory in now arrayed upou the sido of
law and order.”
Adjutant General Drum said today that ho
thought it would bo unnecessary to organize
tho proposed laxly of frontlorsmeu to hunt In
dian*. He also is of the opluion that General I
Crook Will have accomplished, tho task of sub-
fecting the hostile* liefero tlio frontior troops
can Ire organized. General (took has a largo
force of men, and has been supplied with.
everything ho desired to cany on tho cam
paign, and General Drum thought he would
soon be Huccessful iu cltlior subjecting or ex
terminating tho hostilo Apache*.
Nkw Oolkans, January 1.—An Indian ter
ritory special says that the Chorokoe Indians
aro greatly excited over tho measures intro
duced into congress looking to the opening of
tho Indian country to whito settlement, and
the allotment of lands in severalty smong the
Indians. Public sentiment is oppoeod to
congressional intervention generally, although
there are many Uherokces wholrelleve It best to
the inevitable. Before adjournment
kec council adopted resolutions expressive of
public opinion on the subject. There resolu
tions declare that tho Cherokee* hold posses
sion of thejr lends by foe simple title, ami can
not Ire deprived of the samo except by tho
voluntary conse nt of the law making author
ity. They: further declare that all that por
tion of the Cherokee laud* lying west of the
<J8th meridian, and which havo not been con
veyed by patents from the Cherokee*, ore still
tho property of the nation. Thu United
fttutc* hoe not now and never has had any
right to appraise, tako or purchase any unoc
cupied portion* of theso lands,
save with the consent of the Uhorokeo people.
The final resolution says the Cherokee nation
does not authorize the sale of any of its lands
for the purpose of white settlement or for any
other purpose. The pending congressional
measures also effect the Creeks and the Semi
nole*. It is claimed, however, that the hitter
tribe* nre willing to sell a portion of their
land* for whito settlement, and allow thn
country to bo opened up, hut the hostility of.
the Cherokee s is likely to unite all three tribes
in active opposition.
SHERIDAN'S PLAN
WASfitJfTON, January 3.—In response to a
request for additional information explanatory
of the recommendation* of h<* lost annual re
port in regard to the Indian question, Lieu
tenant-General Sheridan has written n state
ment, sayirg that in that report ho recom
mended that each Indian family be given (and
located upon) the 350 acre* now provided for
them by law' In rsse of actual settlement; tliat
the government then condemn the remainder
of each reservation, and buy it in at $1225 per
acre, and with the proceeds purchase govern
ment bonds, to bo held in trust by the interior
department, giving to tlic Indians each year
the Intcrcet on Hit bonds for their support.
The general give* a summary, showing tho
working* of the method proposed, in the cases
of the vurious reservations and the trlbce
located thereon, and concludes a* follows;
The Indian rifrrratlon* of the United state- con
tain about ’210,000 square mile*; their population U
about 260c*tf. Twenty-*lx thmuend square mite*
would locale each family upon half a section of
tend* tin;* b »v lug a Mirplu* of about ITO.rin >qu»rc
mite*, which, according to the pta'i I neve pro-
jceed, would produce annually-$i,K).0». Tub
•mount exceed* breboul $S60,im the entire *urii
litem aa llulc and experience may *j*ge*t.
Turner’s remark
John E. Bryant followed.
Ho referred t& tho
great fight that bod Ireou mado in Fulton
county iu tbo interest of prohibition, and con
gratulated the good peoplo of the county upou
the result. It was not the republican party or
the democratic party that hnd won the fight*
but it was the luw-lovlng, law-abiding peoplo
who had won the fight. It was tcmncranco
rind morality that had led the prohibition
l uu tiers to victory. Tho same-psoplo
would make tho fight again if it
become necessary. He opposed tho formula
tion of u third party ns lie thought the expe
riment would Ire damaging to tho interests of
prohibition. He said that if such a movement
was Mnitcdjthcro would be a general backiug
down of the (reoplo who bad fought for prohi
bition. Tho republican* wouldgo back to their
own party, ami tho democrats would retire to
the folds of tho democratic party. He said
t hit largo fortunes could be mado by buying
Home colored men nt the value that thevset
upon themselves . and' selling
them at tho prho the public
estimated them to be w’orth. Men of thU
character as a general thing would bo tho
lenders of tho now party, lie intended to
make no reflection upon Bishop Tumor, as he
knew him to be a ranu of marked ability and
fine judgment. When ho had concluded and
w iv* about to take bis seat Bishop Turner ask
ed him to retain the floor one moment, as ho
desired to ask him soveral question*. .Colonel
Biyunt complied with the request, nnd Bishop
Turner sain:
"Is it not a fact that tho negro lias been tho
issue between the two parties for a long nura-
trer of years? and do you not know that tho
democrats have at last accepted tlio negro,
through President Clovelind, who announced
it in ills metfago? also that the republican par-
* and won great
ty sprang from a third party
sucre,a, holding tho reins of the government
fur twenty-lire years? I would like yon to an-"
swer these questions all at once.”
When the bishop had concluded, Colonel
Bryent said ho made it n rule’ when lie went to
hear a Methodist minister prooeii, to listen to
him: when lie went to hear a democrat speak
Iiiuij n HUH no milt w near u uvniuviitk
ho listened to him anil took no oxcepUnns nt
wlint bo said. Mo had eomo to tho meeting to
henr prohibition discussed, nnd wonld not
enter a discussion with his friend' the .bishop
upon political matters. [Laughter.]
kite Situation In Dougherty County,
opluion on tho anti-prohibition inunction bill-,
published in yesterday’s dogsTITirrioir, took
orensioo to ask him his opinion of the present
judge, who baa been a close reader
proceedings had iu thia interesting contest now
going on in Atlanta, and Is besides nu ardent
prohibitionist, replied In snltslauco as follows:
“Iu my opinion tho legislature wont too far
In their endeavor to slop all tmfllo in liquors.
As initial legislation on tho sultjoct, tho bill
should havo been leveled only at tho retailers.
Their suppression^ and with it nfno-tonths
of the evils growing out of tho liquor
have been
traffic would have been a task of easy
accomplishment. As it Is, by classifying tho
wholesale dealers with tho retailors, ana ap
plying tho same prohibitory restrictions to
both, tho prohibitionists have arrayed too
formidable and powerful a combination against
them to lie quietly and easily suppressed. The
• ect of tho hut legislature in question, unites,
in ciTcct, two large classes against prohibition
who, in fact, boa very tittle iu common beforo
—at least in Georgia—alnco very few of tlio
flrst-clnss barkeepers in the cltiei ever bought
their stocks but at A,st hind from tho northern
and western distillers. There is not a decent
barkeeper in Albany who will admit that hit
stock of liquors comes to him after being
handled by a Georgia botuo, and in
proof of hii amertlon, Is ready to show bit bills
of sale at any moment. In view of this foot,
and of tho development, that will bo brought
out by tho lltlgition now pending in Atlanta,
my prediction is. that the next log! datura wilt
reatow tho traffic In anient spirits by the
wholesale. A groat mistake made by the whis
ky men in .Atlanta wu in aplwallug to the
united Htate. court to ei\Join the ordinary of
Kulton from declaring the result of tho eloe-
tlon. This wms an effort on their part to atlfla
the voice of tho peoplo through tho ballot box.
They should have delayed aettou until
a rase was mado under tho law that
wonld have hurt oomohody—
a caso of wrong and injury.
Courts of equity, both state and federal, cannot
deni with abstractions, but only Iu live cases.
Since Judge Clark's decision holds that he has
uo jnrisdictlonoftheanhjcet'matten, and did
not therefore decide ou any constitutional
point, no writ of error would lie from oar su
preme conrt, affirming his decision to ths su
preme court of the United Htates.
The Whisky Question in Worth.
Albany, December 2H.—[Special.]—Editor
Hanlon of the ‘•Medlcm,” having published n
floating rumor that the citlicns of 8umner, iu
Worth county, hod all, with ono exception,
signed the petition toehold another election in
that county on the whiskey questiou, brings
out the editor of the “Free Trader,” published
in Sumner, who soys tbst upon personal In
quiry he boa not been able to And a man who
hnd ever seen or aignod a petition, aud fur
thermore that the .citizens of Sumner ere now
nearer to bar-rooms and dram shops than
they caro to be, and that many would movo
away If whisky is ever allowed to be sold there
The L..t Day.
I-gxiNfiTOW, Go., January 1.—[Special]—
(leo. W. Brooks and J. M. Pan), saloon men
here, had a big trade Thursday, tliat being the
last day of the year, and closing tnclr saloons.
] .roll Hot ion going into effect today. Many c
the best citizens got their little-brown Jugs
full, for the hut time.
No Id ceil »• In Gainesville.
Gainesville, December 31.—[Special.]—
The new council held in informal meeting hut
night at the residence of Mayor-Elect Walker,
and it was definitely decided that no license
to sell whisky wonld be tuned pext year.
A Ctoee Vote on Prohibition.
Eastman, On., December 3l.-r-[f
Dodge county gtvra elxty-elglit raejodtr
which »1U
. ingetbe final remit. - ..
Sxconi. Kxro«T.—The report from one of Ibe
other pre cineu leaves pfotubttleo
Tho Itr.att re
Eastman. Gs., jamc
tree I vote of
eightyolx.