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'1HE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; ^ ATLANTA. GA- TUESDAY DECEMBER 21
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TALMAGE’S SERMON,
PREACHED YESTERDAY IK BROOK
LYN TABERNACLE.
The Her. T. Dewiu TOloufa Merehaa a TlolBly
Cat mi on the Sub]cot of “The Oftnatwa Jaw
Iw-Tti Story of
What It Totehi
Bboohiyn. December
1?bt. T. DeWiit Talnragc,
. the Brookljn tabernacle tl
subject: “The Christian Jl
programme ef music this
lists of the church, am
Hinging wis Inspiriting.
Legins: got;
11 1? IS* »orM! ‘he lard Is come,
• Let eerth receive her hut*."
Dr. Til mage’s text was St Matthew, chap
ter ii, verse-0: "tVhen they had heard the
king, they departed; and, to,' the atar, which
theysawinthe east went before them, till it
e»mc and stood ever where the young child
.Was." The preacher said:
At thfs season all Christendom celebrates the
fclrth of Christ. Step down out of yoor comfort
able surroundings Into the chill December
night of Bethlehem. Two plain people are
Botellcdio a village here after a walk of eighty
miles, t<x> long a trudge for one in poor health.
Ko lords of state awaiting in antechamber, as
When utiip: kings are born. No mossengors
mounted at the .doorway ready to horald tho
advent from city to dty. No mcdlcd! skill In
attendance. No satin lined cradlo to receive
. the infantile guest. But a monarch bom In
the hovtdry called the honso.pf Chlmham, tho
night with diamonded finger pointing dotru to
the place, thedooriof Heaven.-St wldo open to
lookout; from orchestral batons of light, drip-
ping the oratorios of tho Messiah; on lowest
doorstep of heaven the minstrels discoursing of
glory and good will.
Soon after the white boarded astrologUts
kneel, and Atom leathern ponch chink tho
shekels, and from open sacks exhale tho frank
incense gad-rustle out tho bandies of myrrh.
3110 loosened star, tho escaped doxolugy of
celestials; the chill December night admit with
Slay morn; our world a loot «t:(r, and another
Mar rushing down the sky that-night to beckon
tho wanderer home again, shall yet make all
nations keep Christmas. >Of.
Are there no new lessens frtgB the story not
yet hackneyed by oft, repcatatt 0 Ch, yci! Now
in the first plscc, it was a sidersl appearance
that led the way. Bo, tho stanwhich they saw
In the east went before thenfl,: Why not a
Black cloud in the shape of a Mnd or a finger
pointing down to the sacred‘birthplace? A
Cloud means trouble, nnd tho world had had
trouble enough. Why not a shaft of lightning
^uiveringend flashing and stalking down to
Butltwasastar, and that means .joy, that
means hope, that means good cheer, that means
ascendency. A star! That means croitlve
power, for did not tho morning stars slog to
gether when the portfolio of the world! was
opened? A star! That means defense, for did
Mot the stars fight in their courso against
Biscra, and for the Lord’s peoplo? A star!
That means brilliant continuance, for are not
the righteous to shine as tho stars forever and
over? -A star! That means tho opening of
eternal joy. Tho dty star in tho heart. Tho
morning starofthaBcdocmer. [■
The untfsunl appearaneo that night may have
keen a strange conjunction of worlds. As the
transit of Venus was foretold many years ago
By astronomers, and astronomers can tell
What. will bo the conjnnctinn
of worlds. a. thousand year* from now,
So the)- cad calculate backwards, sad even in-
fldelrutronotaen have been compelled to tes
tily that about the yoar one there was a very
Unusual appearaneo in tho heavens. Tho Chi
li ere record, nt course entirely Independent of
tho trill'd or (loir, gives e* n matter of history
that ahoutthoycar One there WSJ a straugo
surd nnaccotratttdo app&uttnco in the heavens.
But it may have boon a meteor such as you and
1 hare Men flash In tho horizon. Only a few
years ago I saw In the western sky a star shoot
nud fall with such brilliancy and precision that
if I Jiad been on a hill ns’hjghaa that of Beth
lehem, cn whfchtheihephcrds stood, I could
Bare marked within a short distance the place
of alighting. The university of Iowa and tho
British museum "havo specimens of metcorio
atones picked up in tho fields, fragments
flung ciT from other worlds, leaving a fiery
trail on the thy. j)o that it is not to mo at all
Improbable, the stellar or meteoric appearance
cn that night of which we speak. I only can
to know that It was bright, that it was silvery,
that it Hashed, and swayed, and swung, and
Balled with joy celestial,' as though Christ, in
Baste to Save our world, had rushed down with
out his coronet, and the angels of Ood had
Burled it after him. Not a black cloud of
threat, tut a bright star Of hope Is our glorious
Christianity. One glimpse of that stellar ap
pearance kindled op-the soul of the sick and
the dying college student until the words
flashed from hie palo fingers,' end the star
seemed to l-our ita light front’hi* white Ups as
Kirke White wrote (hue immortal words:
TOgl
Csoitaraloncnfall the train
Clin fx aiotfnncc'nwouoeri
“ * ‘ * nrk! to God t
rlotfttf.
ru*Drctks
Ann rudely blew the win*!
Thu towed my founderinc bark;
When ruddeuly a star arose,
B was the Strit of Betlrleheur.’! i
Notice also In this scene, that other worlds
teemed to bdnor our Lord and Matter. Urigbt
atar of tho night, wheal on to thine orbit!
"No," Mild the star, “I must come nearer, and I
tain bond, ami I mutt watch and tee what you
fl, ", lih my Jesus." Another world that night
J, • d our world to worthy > That star nude
a‘i S' of obeisance. I sometimes hear people
t* of Christ's dominion as though it were to
B< oitivly tho few thousand miles of the
V' dstlicumferenee:hotI believe the millions
•r ilic MDlonsnnd the qnidrilllons of worlds
talc inhabited—If nA by such creatures as We
tare. Still inch creatures as Ood designed to
taluke, and thstall these woridsaraa psrt of-
Christ’s dominion. Imao Newton, and Kepler,
•nd Mciirhel only went on Columbus voyage
to find these continent, of onr king's domain.
I think all worlds were loyal but this. The
■net organ of the unlveree, its pedals and its
pipes and Its keys, sre all one great harmony,
taave one injured pedjl. save one broken stop—
the rov hnmana of the human race, the dls-
loyal wcrld. ...
isow.vei* know that however.grand the in-
htnnrcnt #ar he, if there be (« key oat of
older, -it spoils the harmony?-* And Christ
most mend this key. Me mdtf'reitore this
Braitii aop. Ton know wttlLfirhatbleeding
Band, rand with what picreedaUe, and with
trhatffidlied toot, He did the ^fk. Bat too
World -ball bcaCtoscsl. and elljrerlds arlll be
yctxeccriUht. Isle of wight; tSrgcr in com*
parfron with the British empire than our id-
and dr a world as compared with Christs
Vast det-ttatn If not. why that‘celestial os-
eert? If net. why that sentinel with btaziog
Badge above the caravansary? If not, why
si..; midnight watchman In the balcony of
Beaver* ’ AWTODomT ’snrrendrtjd that night
to Christ.'. Tills planet tor Chit*,. The s . ar
wreteaf for Christ. Worlds ablaze and worlds
Imrfif tct-b»ll worlds ftrChriifc '
Intc is • r *t microscope cannot §ee the one x.ic
©f that domain. Farthc.it reaching telescope
cannot find tho other ride of thatdomiin. But
] *111 tel! yon bow tlio nnivenc is bounded.
It Is lMtrailed oa the north and riralh an 1 cast
■nd ti l l.y Ood, and that Ood Is Christ, sad
ghat first is God, and that God is ours. O,
floes it cot enlarge our Ideas of a Saviour's do
minion when I teU yon that all the world, are
only ttarks struck from His anrtl; that all the
•world, ar* -uly fleecy flacks folloiring the one
Shepherd: that all the Hawk of light fn irn-
inenrity are OM great archipelago belonging to
*Ttot tffie setae also impresari ms with the
fhrt that tbta wire men of the rest earns to
SrisT okey were not fools; they were not
imbecllt*. The record.distinctly says that the
wise men fame to Christ. We say they Wore
the megi, or they Were the alchemists, or they
were the astrologists, and we say It with depre
ciating accentuation. Why, they were the moat
splendid and magnificent men of the cen
tury. Theylwere the natumllsta and the
scientists. They knew all that was known,
k on must remember that astrology wet the
mother of astronomy, and that alchemy was
the mother of chemistry, tnd because children
are brlgbterthan the mother you do not despise
the mother.
It was the lifelobg basinets of there astrolo
gers to study the stare. Twenty-two hundred
and fifty years before Christ wss bom the wise
men knew the procession of tho equinoxes, and
they bad calculated the orbit and the return of
the cornels Professor Smith declares that he
thinks they knew the distance of the earth
from the sun. We find to the Book of Job
that the men of the olden time did not suppose
the world was flat, ax some have said, but that
he knew, and the men of his time kuew. the
world was globular. The pyramids were .built
for astrological and astronomical study.
Then, the alchemists spent their lives in the
study of metals, end gnsee, and llqulda,-*nd
solids, and in filling the world's library-wlto
tbelr wonderful discoveries. Theywere vastly
wlso men who came to the east. They under
stood cintudmcnt as oar most scientific men
cannot understand It. After the world has
gone on studying hundreds of yean, It may
ctmo up to too point where the ancients began
to forget. I bellero the lost arts are as mighty
as the living art*.
They were wise men that came from tho
cast, and tradition says tho three wisest men—
Caspar, a young man; Balthazar, a man in mid
life; end Melchior, an octogenarian. The
three wisest men or all tho oeutary. They
came to tho manger. So It has always been—
the wheat men come to Christ, tho bralnleet
men come to the manger. Who was tho great
est metaphysician this country has ever pro
duced? Jonathan Edwards, tho Chris,
tian. Who was tho greatest astrono
mer of the world? Herechel, the
Christian. Who was the greatest poet ever
prodneed? John Milton, tho Christian. Who
wss the wisest writer on law? Blackstone,
tho Christian. Why is It that ovary colUgo
and university in tho land hnsa chapel? They
must havo a place for the grin men to worship.
Come now, let ns understand to ounces nud
by inches this whole matter. In post mortem
examination tho bretu of distinguished men
has been examined, and 1 will find the hugest,
the heaviest, the mightiest brain ever produc
ed in America, and I wlllask what that brain
thought of Christ. There it is, the brain
weighing slaty-three ounces, the largeat brain
ever produced in America. Now, let me find
wliat that hraln thought of Christ. In tho
dying moment, that nun said: “laird, I be
lieve; help Thou mine unbelief. Whatever
clso I do, Almighty God, receive me to Thyself
for Christ's sake. This night I shall be In lifo,
•nd joy, and blessedness?’ So Daniel Webster
came to the manger. The wise men of the east
followed by the rriso men of the weet.
Know also In this sceno that it mis a winter
month that God chore for Ills Son's nativity.
Had it been tbo mouth of May—that Is the sea-
son of blossoms. Had it been In the month of
Jane—that Is tbo month of roses. Had It been
In tho month of July—that Is the season of
great harvests. Had it been to the month of
September—that is the season o ripe orchards.
Had it been to the month of October—that is
the season of upholstered forests. But he was
horn in the month of December, when there are
no flowers blooming out of doom, and when all
tho harvests that have not becu gathered np
have perished, and when there are no fruits
ripening on the hill, and when the leaves are
drifted over the bare earth,. It was in closing
December that He wae born, to show this is a
Christ for peoplo In sharp blast,'for peoplo under
clouded sky, for people with frosted hopes, for
people with thermometer below sere, forneopto
snowed under. A Deoerabcr Christ! That la
tbe.rcsson He la so often fooud among the des
titute. Yon con find Him on any night com
ing oil the moors.'■ Yen can see Him aur night
coming through tho dark htncsof tnh city.
You can see Him putting His hand trader the
fainting head to the pxoper’s eabln. He re
members how the wind Whistled around tho
caravansary to Bethlohcm that Decembor
night, and He is to sympathy with nil thoso
who to their poverty near the shutters clatter
on a cold night.
It wss this December Christ that Washing,
ton and
when
December
pilgrim 1 .
flower wbarfed at* "Plymouth Book, and
tho years that went by the graves
digged were more in number than the
housci built. Oh, I tell you, we
want a December Christ, not s Christ for fislr
weather, bnt a Christ for dark days clouded
with sickness, and chilling with disappoint-'
me nt. and suffocating with bereavement, and
terrlc with wide mien graves! Not a Spring
time Christ, hot a Hammer Christ, not an Au
tumn Christ, but a Winter Christ!
oh, this suffering and atruggllng world neods
to be hushed and soothed and racked and tol-
tabled In the arms of sympathetic Omni potenee!
No mother ever with more tenderness pat lier
feet on tho roekor of m sick child, than Christ
cemea down to us, to this invalid world, and
Ho rocks It Into placidity and qnletness as hs
•ays: “My peace 1 give unto yon; not as the
world glvcth, rive 1 unto yon.’’ Ob, you bro
ken-hearted, on, yon persecuted and tried
souls, oh, you harden beaten, this day I de
clare unto yon a December Christ!
Notice alto a fact which no one teems to no
tice, that thia Christ was born among the sheep
end the rattle end the bones end tbo camels,
in order that He might be an alleviating In
fluence to the whole animal creation. It means
mercy for overdriven, underfed, poorly shatter-
id, galled end maltreated animal creation.
Hath tho Christ who compared Himself to a
dove no care for the cruelties of tho pigeon
shooting? Hath the Christ who compared
llimself to s lamb no cure for the sheep that
arc tied and contorted, end with neck over tho
•harp edge of the butcher's cart; or the cattle
Inin to hot weather from Omaha to New York
with no water—fifteen band red miles of agony?
Hath tbo Christ whose tax ares paid by a fish,
the coin taken from its mouth, no rare for
the teasing fins in tho fish market?
Beth the Christ wbostning with His ewahaad
the nerves of the dog and the rat, no Indigna
tion for tho horrors of vivisection? Hath the
Christ who said “Go lo the ant,” no watchfut-
nrn for the transfixed insects? Hath the Christ
who sold “Behold the fowl* of tho air,” Him
self never beheld the outrages heaped upon the
hints creation, that eannot articulate its grief?
This Christ came not only to lift the human
race ont of Itt trouble, bnt to lift out of pang
•nil hardship the animal creation.
In tho glorione millennial lime the child shall
trad the lion end play with the cockatrice only
because brnte and reptile shall bare fin more
wrongs to avenge. To alleviate the condition,
of tbo brnte creation Christ was bora to the
rattle pen. The flratbleat ef the Lamb of God
was heard amid the tired flocks of the Bethle
hem shepherds. The white horse of eternal
vtetory stabled to a hem.
But notice also to this aecouat the three
Christmas presents that me brought tp tho
msnncr. Gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Gold to Christ Thst moan* all tbs sflnenee
of tbo world surrendered to Him. For.luk of
money no more asylums limping on thfir any
like the cripples whom they helped, feeling
their slow way like the blind people whom
they sheltered. Millions of dolltn fof Christ
where there are now thousands for Christ
Railroads esreed by Christian stockholders,
Bud governed by Christian directors, end ear
ly log passengers end freight at Christian pri
ces. George Peabody's and Abbott Laurence's
er:d James Lenoxes no rarity. Bank of Log-
lend, bourse of France, Culled States treasury,
ell tbe moneyed institutions of the world, for
Chrht. Tbe gold for Christ.
Gold oot merely mid the sray for Joseph
Bird Mary and the divine fugitive into Egypt,
but It waa typical of the tact that Christ's way
shell be joid all around tbe world. The gold
for fh list, the ailver for Christ, the jewels for
Christ. The bright round, beiutlftll jewel of a
like a eolftaire on the bosomof
Christ.
Bnt 1 notice that these sriee men also ahojk
oot from their, racks the myrrh. The ektlle
came and they aonffed at it. They did oat rat
It became it sne Utter. The peagsu* gem
reels of Atyariata called myrrh oreeght to the
wss inis neccmocT unnsi tost washing-
,nd bis army worshipped at Valley Forge,
t without buinketa they lay down to the
inker snow. It ires tnu Christ that the
feet of Christ That I
bittoness. Bitter
betrayal, hitter persecution, bitter dayr of suf
fering, Utter nights of sreo. Myrrh. That is
what they put Into Ills cup when Items dytot.
Myrrh. That Is what they put under Hi* head
to the wilderness. Myrrh. That Is whet they
strewed his path with all tho way from tho cat
tle pen to Bethlehem to the tnansoleum at Jo-
repo's country scat. Myrrh. *'Yet,’’says the
Palmist, “all thy garmsnta smell ef myrrh."
That is what the wise men wrapped lu the
swaddling clothes of tho babe. That Is what
the Marys tvristed to the shroud of a crucified
Christ. The myrrh. Oh, tho height, tho depth,
the length, the breadth of a Savior's sorrows!
Myrrh! Well might the wise men shake out
the myrrh.
Bnt I notice, also, from another nek they
shake out the frankincense. Clear up to the
rafters of the barn tho air is filled with the
perfume, end the hostlera and the camel
driven fn the further part of tho building In-
. bale it and It floats out in the sir until passers-
* by wonder who to that rough place cenld have
bv accident dropped a box of alabaster.
Frankincense. That is what they burned in
the censer in the ancient temple. Frankin
cense. That means worship. Frankincense.
That to to fill all the homes, and
all tho churches, and all the capitals,
anil all tho natlous, from cellar of stnlactltod
envo dear up to tho silvory rafters of the
starlit dome. Frankincense. Thst to what we
shako out from onr hearts to-day, so that tho
nostrils of Christ ouce crimsoned with tho
hemorrhage of tho cross, shall be flooded with
the pcrflimo of a vrorld'sadoration. Frankin
cense. Frankincense In song, aud sermon, and
handshaking and decoration, l'relse Him,
mountains and hills, valleys and sees, end
skies, and eerth aud heaven—cyclone with
your trumpets, northern lights with your
flaming ensign, morning with your castles of
cloud, nud cveniug with your killowiug clouds
of sunset!
Do you know how they used to hold the
censer to the olden time? Here to a metal pan
and the handle by which It wai held. In the
inside of this pen were put living coals
thetopofthcmapcrfontcdcoYor. Inasr
bo* the frankincense was brought to the .
plo. This fhmktoecuso was taken out and
sprinkled over the living coals, end then the
perforated cover was put on, and when they
were all ready for wonhip, theq tho cover was
lifted from this censor ana from all the other
tensors, and the perfumed smoko aroso until it
hung amid all the folds aud dropped amid all
the alture, and then mac In great columns of
ptaiso outside or above the temple, rising clear
upwind to the throne Df God.
Ho we have two centers today of Christmas
frankincense. On that we put our thanks for
the mercies of the past year, the mcrcios of all
our past Uvea, individual mercies, fiunity mer
ries, social mercies, national mercies, and our
heaits bunting with gratitude sent aloft tho
lucerne of praise toward the throne of Christ.
Bring on more Incense, and higher aud ltlglior
let the column of prslso ascend. Let mom
wreathe all these plllara, and hover amid all
these arches, and then soar to Uio throne.
But there is tho other censer, of heavenly
tbsnksghlngand wonhip. Let them bring si
their frankincenso—the cherubim bring theirs
nnd tho seraphim theirs, and the one hundred
and forty and four thousand theirs, and all the
cteniilles theirs—and let them smoko with
perftnue on this heavenly censer nntll tho
cloud canopies the throne of God. Then I take
these two console—tho censer of earthly frank-
inronsonud tbe censor of hoeronly frankin
cense— and I swing them before tbo throne,
and then I clash them together Into one great
Alleluia nnto Him to whom tho wise men of
the cast brought tho gold, and tho myrrh, sad
~ -nick thoy
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CHANGE OF COLOR,
A Strange Freak of Nature—A Negro Lily
White.
Howm, Mich., December 23,—Mrs. Jacob
Eldrldge, Howell - ! ittsags (teak of ukturo.'-**-
old colored woman who has bean gradually
turning white for several years, died nare yes
terday. Sho hat been 111 for eevenl months,
bnt It to not thought that the peculiarly strango
change to color which sho underwent nad any
thing to do with her illness. Tho greater part
of her body to now a healthy lily white. Her
husband, who tree a pioneer of this country,
dlcdTueedty morning. Mrs. Etdrtdges’a grand
father was e Gutoaman and her ancestors are
full-blooded negroes as for es to known. Tbe
natural color or Mrs. Eldrldge ins quite dark,
even for her race, and there was nothing pecu
liarly noticeable abont it nntll she sne quite
advanced In yean. Quite a number of years
■be noticed a spot of white about tbo sin
silver dollar upon her right leg. In tho
course of a few months others appeared upon
various parts of her body, rather mom promi
nent upon her limbs than body. In time these
grew together nntll most of her body became
In the last few years tho change hie appear
ed to follow the principal nerves, and In time
crept up the spinal com end ever her forehead.
About the time tho change reached the fate
pat t or her hair, streaks of white began to ap
pear upon etch elds of her chin and maetlngat
her mouth. One peculiarity to that wherever
the change came It was complete. There to no
fading of white off into black through various
shade* of grey, as would be expected. Instead
of this the white and black are distinctly di
vided. The color of tbe changed portion toot
a clear, healthy lily whiteness, and one would
hardly believe, to look at the arm of Mrs. Bl-
drldge. that It was not tho arm of a white tody.
During all the change Mrs. Eldrldge Buffered
no Inconvenience whatever from it, and never
felt any kind of sensation either of Itching,
nervousness or pain that cottld bo attributed to
that cause. It has seamed to gradually go on
without affecting her fooling* or health to any
manner whatever.
Coming to this county to 1152, the partleu.
Ian of this strange rase are within kuowledgo
of all citizens who know fully of its genuine
ness.
When icgeevfoired Dr.Colotuut said.
“1 ins first called to see her about the fltst
of April. I cannot see that there to any skin
disease. In the skin of the negro there to a
pigmentary deposit, and to this caw I think It
not the alxorption of this deposit es for ao the
skin Is concerned. I never heard of a similar
esse.”
How to lave Money. " 1
Wherever yon live, you should write to Hai
ku dt Co., Portland. Melee, end learn about
work that yon can do while living at yoer own
home at a profit of at least from *5 to $25 and
npwaidsdaily. Home have made over $50 to a
day. AUtenew. Either wz. All age*. Hol
ton A Co, will start yon. Capital not needed.
All pcrtioitois free. Bom1 along your ad lrers
at once end ell of the above will he proved to
yon. Nothing like it ever known to working-
men,
“Tnr: water color portrait of the young ml*,
trees of the white house thst Artist Joseph Keppler
painted," bus the New York Sun, "has made a
great hit la England. Eretybody over there awau
enxlnui to nnd out osactly bow Fndtrnt Cteve-
tond s handaosw wife took* and orders bare pour
ed In for fresh cartloads of the focilmtlMor she
pies,Ion Mi of portraiture." The Hun, ter the way,
dees not mean net Mr. Keppler palmed the white
bouse.
Dyspeptta to It* worst terms will yield t
the use of Carter's Little Nerve Pills sided by
Carter’s Little Liver PiU*. They not only re
lieve prusnt distress bat strengthen the
stomach and digestive apparatoa.
The Eighth Wonder of the World.
I would llke-to ask ot thinking. leoafMe people,
ts-'ttt a wonder that someay thousand* of people,
tub rule snd Cm tie, will sad do, djriy sum#**
nest trouble and Inconvenience, to B»y nothin* or
the pain and very kertoui consequences, caaaed by
(hit moot worrying and loathererae diaesre, piles
or hemorrhoids, when they hue offered them at
their deers Plato, simple, euro end pennaneat cure.
By CAllinf on him they will le*rn bow easily,
ijr m^l Aurety All old or recent rimmlnseft**
Jthoct tbe old (ttlnftil And cruel
Attire, carbolic Aoid, i ‘
l p«iofU operettane.
CONGRESS.
WHAT IS DEINO SAID AND DONE AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Tk* JseasrtM Arte taiwom* Arste tu Presided For
—An Bltert to Belog Hade to Hi pill till Inter
nal taevtaae Lows-Tho Vaults ol tbe
Treasury an Palt-Otker Ket a
Tbe Senate.
The senate pssaed the house kill for tbe re
lief of the survivors of tho esplorltig steamer
Jeannette and the wldesre and children of
those who perished In the retreat from the
wreck of that vessel in the aretio sees.
Also the senate bill toconitruct e rood to tho
National cemetery at Corinth, Ml**., and a
number of others ef only local Interest.
Mr. Morgan offered a resolution calliag on
the president for correspondence with tho gov
ernment of Nlaraugtt* relating to the Nicanu-
guan ship canal, or to the treaty on that sab
Ject, which was pending to the senate on the
4th of March, lBuB. Adopted.
Mr. Cullom railed up’ tho eottforenco report
on the interstate commerco bill. He
•aid that he did so fot tho
purpose of giving the senator from low* (Mr.
sYilson) an opportunity of making some re
marks upon the bill, after which, to accordance
with suggestions of many senators on both
•Ides as to tho Impracticability of action on It
before the holidays, he would let t he hill go
over until after the holidays. Ho announced,
however, that when tho sonata resumed its
session he would again rail up the conference
report and Insist upon its consideration «frem
day to day nntll dlspuoed of.
Mr. Wilson, of Iosva, thereupon proceeded to
•ddrese the senate in favor of the adoption .of
the report.
At the conclusion of Mr. Wilson's remarks,
Mr. Camden inquired foam Mr. Cullom as to
bis Intentions In regard to the management of
the hill. He said that he regarded It oa a wise
and conservative measure; that tho country de
manded the passage of some such bill, and that
it sru the duty or congress to act upon It. A
largo portion of the time of the session after
the holidays would be taken up by the appro-
priaton bills, end unless the bin sru acted up
on promptly and in the early part of the ses
sion It wss llsldo not to be acted upon at oU,
and would fklt for srantof tlmo.
The bill then srent over, and the bill to es
tablish agricultural experiment stations, lu
connection with agricultural college* was taken
np as unfinished business, and It sru arranged
that It should retain ita place on the calendar,
WasihntiTONv December 22.—In the sonata
Mr. Edmunds, from the committee on foreign
rotations, reported « Mil to provldo for the ex
ecution of article 2 of tbe treaty with China of
Iho 15th of November, 1880, on the subject of
the opium trafflr,and gave notice that ho would
ask for 11* consideration as soon as possible af
ter tbe holidays.
Mr. Hoar offered a rerolntlon directing tho
committee on commerce to report on tbe river
and harbor hill, u to each publle work for
which an appropriation la made tkoroln tbe
Ikcta which render such appropriation advisa
ble and of national Importance and the condi
tion of srork, If begun. Adopted,
The resolution introduced by Mr. Dawes on
tho second dty of tho session initructlng tho
committee on finance to inquire and report
what specific reductions can be made to the
customs duties end Internal taxes that will re
duce receipts to the necessary and economical
expenses of tho government without Impairing
the property of home Industries or tho com
pensation of homt labor, wss taken tip and
adopted; and then at 12:35 the sonata adjourned
till Tuesday, the 4th of January.
The House,
By Mr. Johnston of North Carolina—A reso
lution Instructing the committee on ways snd
means to report a bill repealing tho Internal
revenue lairs.
. - By-Mr. Wilkins of Ohio—To reduce tho
amount of depositor United Htate bonds to bo
required of hstldnsl'bxnks, and to restore tn
the channels of trade tho oxesestvo accumula
tive of lawful money In the treasury.
Mr. Forney, ef Alabama, on behalf of
the
}Ctn _
■1 net Usual IP
OCU LAI UUWU «IFI tuIWI SKI
people/ Yetattata see there yewestt.
committee on militia, moved to suspend the
rules and pess the senate bill amending the
statutes, making an annual appropriation to
provtda arms and equipments for tho militia,
with an amendment propoaod by tho house
committee nuking an annual appropriation of
$400,000. Agreed to—yeas 108, naya4D.
On motion of Mr. Bragg, of Wtaootuln, an
amendment was adoptadprovldlng that when
iffleer traveling on daty, travels on any
jed which United States troops are on.
titled to be transported free of charge, he shall
be allowed only four cento per mile as subtle-
tcnco fund.
Tha committee soon roes snd reported the
bill to the hottse.
Other amendments had been adopted In com.
mittee, but the shove to tho only eno lu which
the house concurred.
The hill thin i-stsed.
A communication from tho secretary of the
treasury wss today laid before the house, lu
which he leys that the capacity of tbo vaults
slrrady constructed for the stomp of silver
dollars is now practically exhausted. There
Is therefore, be rays; a necessity that provision
be mode for tho storage of sliver dollars at the
earliest practlrablo day. Estimates ar* trans
muted of the coot of a atomio vault of ono hun
dred million dollar* canaelty within the court
yard of tbo treasury building. For a double
steel-lined vault, estimates arc $I*iO,G7:s and for
* simple vault without steel lining, they are
Asiintorots, December 22.—In the house
the speaker announced tbo appointment of
Messre. Forney, McAdoo and Ilopklns, as con
feree* on tha bill Increasing the annual appro
priation for tho mllttta.
Tho kuaso then, to tho morning honr, re
sumed consideration of the Oklahoma bill.
Mr. Barnea, of Georgia, concluded his argu
ment to opposition to tue bill by an urgent su
pra} in behtlf of the good folio toward* tho
Indians and of tho maintenance or national
honor by the government.
Mr. Springer, of Illinois, in advocating tho
bill, stated that he was not surprised at th*
gentleman from Georgia appealing for good
Ailh towards the Indians, and especially to-
wards th* Cherokee*. If any gentleman should
appeal for good faith toward* the Cherokee*,
it should be a gentleman from tha state of
Georgia. Th* Cherokees Lid formerly re
sided to that state, and the ancestors of th*
gentleman's eetastitaents. after having broken
faith srith them, had driven them from the
Mate at tbe point of bayonet.
Mr. Barnes—It Is unfair in the gentleman to
make an attack on my state. What U* has reld
is not tree: and eves if it sreretrue It would
show that I havo Improved upon my ancestry
end he hudegenersted from his. [Laughter
Mr/Sprioger expressed his gratification at
hearing that tbe gentlemen had Improroi
upon hit ancestry—otherwise he nerer would
bare known It. Proceeding to argue In foror
of Iho bill, Mr. Hprlnger declared that the
greet obstacle to the peamgo of Ur* measure
,tobstacle to tbepaamge of U>* measure
the lease of a Cherokee strip tea cattle
company. That company leased It for $100,-
000 and sub-leased It for $500,000, leaving a
margin of $100,000 with which to corrupt th*
Indians and to send a powerful lobby to Wash-
lagtea. Tbe question to bo settlod now urns
whether this land should bo held for while
people or for th* special benefit of targe cattle
urndirsU*.
At the conclusion of Mr. Springer'* remarks
tbe ammltto* rose snd the matter went ever,
and tbe hauae, at 330, adjourned until Jan-
uaryfitb. ______
The Tariff Question.
WsaHiKcrToN, December 22.—There is art-
port In circulation to tn* effect that the ranee*
committee at republican senators acting seder
lb* laslruction of the caucus will mest a simi
tar committee representing tha repabUosaa ef
the house tome time during the holiday is rare
to consider the coarse of procedure with re
gard to the tariff.
Washington flojslp,
WASHtrtcTON, December 20.—Th* seast* t
test Is almost WASHtwoio*, Dcceatber 30.—The sens
m honr Iron ?day cool!rued the nomination* of Kittle
—a’reurewn * lck '* ** P** t, ** > l*r at WssBoa, Mire
*dlsr tf
WiUieLengtob* postmaster at Vsldoeto.
gafletf
The court of claims today gate i
for $10,310 la Avar of the Frank
.South Carolina state troops In their salt against
the unified Mates for the uoo of their building
at Charleston by United Suites troops during
the war.
Thesceretary of the treasury has appoints!
Ehcnezer Henderson, of Indian*, to bo deputy
commissioner of luternsl revenue, vice H. C.
Rogers, resigned. The ebaugo will take effect
on January 1.
The annual report of Secretary McCook, of
tbe United Htates senate, shows thst the sala
ries and mileage of senator* for the last fiscal
yrnr amounted to $384,037, and the salaries, of
officers end employee to $531,200. Over $15,000
was expanded for newspapers and stationery,
$50,000 for miscellaneous items, and $21.0)0 for
•pedal and select committees. 'SSSU
Mr. Hewitt, Of New York, was busy today
shaking bands srith many friends is congress.
He wax bidding forowoll to the usoctaUons of
the pest fifteen yews, and finally closing
tho term of hie congressional service. Next
Saturday he will lie inaugurated in the ttu-
•ought office of mayor of New York rtty,
and when be goes ont of that office he will re
tire from pubUo lifo forever. Few men have
been so prominent or so highly respected to
eur natlounl cougress. His foutie have been
those occaslonedby a fretful dlspoeitlon, which
springs from no utaper source Hum chronic
Insomnia, from which he hat suffered for years.
Hie virtues have been those of a high intellect,
largo knowledge and spotless honeaty.
Washington*. December 23.—[Special.]—Alt
the train* leaving Washington today htva
been crowded with esngreannen and govern
ment employes going homo to epend the holi
day*. All tue Georgia delegation have gone
home except Mr. Clementa and Mr. B trne*,
who will remain la Washington and New
York until congress reassemble*. The ox-
prom sad money-order offices today presented
* lively and Interesting scene. Tho ten thou
sand government employes to Washington
were paid their December salaries ycetomay,
and mest of them were today engaged to send
ing Christina* presents to distant loved out*.
Hundreds of them were standing la files at the
express office from sunriseto midnight. At tho
postoffice an extra force was employed to ac
commodate the unprecedented rash for money
otdera At midnight tho beautiful street* of
Wwhlngton are etlu thronged with Christmas
purchaser*. Nearly all the stores nre
open, horns are blowing and ororytblng troare
a gala look.
WASUtNa-roN, December 21.—Tho p.sridont
today nominated James C. Matthews, of Now
York, to be recorder of deed* for tbo District
of Columbia. Matthews is Uio Albany colored
msn, who ha* once been rejected by the senate,
but who is now th* incumbent of the office by
appointment during the recem of cougrecs.
In secret session, tboMatthews nomination was
referred to tho committee on th* District of
Columbia. It Is mid to havo boon accosapealed
by a messago from the president, giving his
reasons for sending to s socoud tlmo tho tumo
of a man whoso nomination the senate had
once rejected. It Is reported that the rnouage
after retching the fact of the Aral nomination
and rejection, states that a. largo
number of persona to tho district
bad conceived prejudice against Matthews,
which Act doubtlns Influenced the sctlou of
the senate; that Matthew* had now been to
office loveral months end had proved his rapoo-
Ity by rescuing ihs records of office from loss
•nd Illegibly, and that bis management of the
office had iflhrt of removing much of the oppo-
iltlon which formerly existed. For there rea
sons snd professing an earnest desire to co-onor-
ntc In tcenrlng for the colored men ajtul
recognition, he ventures In the utmost good
faith to tend to the nomination again, disclaim
ing, however, any Intention of questioning the
previous action of the senate In the premtaes.
Tlie Military Academy mil,
Washington, Decembor 20.—The military
academy appropriation bill waa completed to.lay
by Iho home military committee. It appropriates
15*3,107. Tho climates were $133,?5S, aud appro-.
prtaUona fot tho current year were te&W?.
Tire Tenuejtoee Condemned, »
Washington,. Dcccm'-c 21.—Tho nival
heard cf liwpccUon irh’.-v inrvdytd
the- VnlteO Wa«» atrauuMp ..Tanue-
see lias reported lo llie navy department
tlutt tho vc-sel rannot be repaired within the
statutory limit of 50 per cout, anil will hare to he
condemned. ThoTennesteo will nrobablrl-omed
as a receiving rblp to puce of the lluinesota.
In Georgian Yalaa
Tho sweetest rose* grow. Keep your breath
fragrant as.the perfomed gilcs of this enchant
tog land, and your teeth fitlr and lustrou* 0*
iho pearls of the Oriont by using SOZODONT,
that most charming aud wondorful dontlfrtoe
which no tad’ye tollot altonld be without.
Vitiated Blood !
Sciofulous, Inherited aud Con
tagious Humors Cured
by Cuticura.
encouraged to jit
Reference; Frank
SCROFULOUS ULCKRS.
. James F. lUcliardson. Custom Ilotuv., Nctr Or
leans, on oath, faya: ,5 In 1870 scrorajmu ulcere
»>roke out on my body until I was a m»m of rorme-
’ Rrenrthlnir known to tho medical faculty
U J. D; Ca.lWft)RD.
onr of thr Worst
ur Cuttpura ft-medt»»for
■naif wai cured by the u«j
ra Resolvent, Cuticura and t
take* tho ••cake" hero a
TAYLOR 6i TAYLOR, 3 ,
Frankfort, !
SCROFULOUS, LNUKIUTKP
And Contagkma Hnmora. wUhtom«I hair and erup
tion* of the rkln are poalllYoly currd- by Cuticura
and Cuticura Foap externally, uud Cutloura R«-
Klvenl Internally, when all other medicines fell.
^CuticwiTmiJSc* are aolderhryWhere.
Cuticura, the mat rtln cure, teMBtgCn
PTMFI.RB. niackheada, ftktn Rlttnfeh* add Baby
a AiU Rumor*, use Cdtleura Heap,
gfcjtow MY BACKACHES!
Backache, Kidney Palm And Weak
ness, Porencfl*. Lamencitf, Strain* and
Fain rouoYOil In ono ono minute by
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NOVEMBER, 1S80, .
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