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THE CONSTITUTION:
GEORGIA CIDER WORKS,
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FRUITS, NUTS & CONFECTIONERIES.
ATLANTA, GA.
VOLUME XVI.
TUESDAY MORNING-* APRIL 8, 1884.???TWELVE PAGES.
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The leading topic* of tbla week'* lame an:
Tbavxl and Adtsntubs???"Life in China,"
Wihop Hunting the Tiger,???-'An Interesting
Mexican City."
Ths Sensation of the Wesk-
A STEAMBOAT BURNED.
Abound thn Camp Fiss-???The Anomaly of Joe
Jobatloa't Career,??? "Hooker on the Southern
Soldiei,??? "On Qnard at AndersonTlIle." "Com
mercial Fighting,???
Oun Dixie Huaroarxn-Uncle Bemuj, ???Brer Wolf
in Trouhlet??? Bill Arp, "OldTimea:" Belay
Hamilton, ???Betay'a School Days."
TALMAGE???S SERMON:
"HIGH LICENSE.???
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FIRE???S FEAST
The Steamer Everingham Goes
Down Aflame.
MANY LIVES LOST INSTANTLY
Fearful Work ot Stray Sparks
in the Cotton Aboard.
SCENES ON THE BURNING BOAT.
Most Fri
ic/ietfn
m
Tir'L
ul Casualty of the
ear Columbus.
Yesterday morning at 4 a.m. tbe steamer
Everingham, plying between Coiambus and
Appalachicola, waa burned and aunk. Tbe
fire started among the cotton in tbe bold.
Several lives were lost, and Biany ol the
paasengora and crew wbo escaped death ware
fatally or severely wounded. Tbe steamer
was a total loat. The survivors ol the wreck
were carried to Eufaula, where they are being
^ cared lor.
The particulars ot the disaster, the list o I
tbe killed and wounded, and other details ol
interest, ns wired by Th* Constitution???s oor.
respondents, are printed herewith.
Special to The Couilltutlou.
Eufaula, Ala., April 3.???The steamer Rebsoca
Everingham waa burned on the Chattahoochee
river at Fttagerald???a plantation, a tew miles above
Florence, this morning, at about 4 o'clock, and
many Uvea were lost. Captain George B. Whltc-
sldo, muter: George L. Lapham and C, B, Win
gate, pUota; Hiram Goodlett, chid engineer:
Charlee Neleon, clerk: were the offleort About 1
o'clock, a. m??? the eoglneer on watch rang an
alarm signal to the pilot, who called to the oilcan
on watch and aiked It he meat go to tbe ehote,
when he waa at once ordered
to do io. The 'pilot ilgnaled
the engineer to work for the shore, but
got no response. He then headed the boat tor the
Georgia side, and tha momentum abo hid carried
her almost to the banks The pilot on watch
ordered his young son, Frank Lapham, a youth
sixteen yean old, to Jump overboard with a lint
and swim ashore and make the boat fast to a
tree. Wi.b unsurpassed heroism this boy sprang
into ths river, struck lot the ihore anil reached
It safely and tied the boat up. In tho mean
time, the Are alarm waa rang by Pilot Georgs
Lapham, and tbe paiaengen aroused from their
sleep to And the host In dames. AU was con
fusion and disorder, but the oBcen cl the boat
were btrolc In the performance
their duly, and suffered: great peril
and nsarly all of thorn i
wounded or burnt. The dunes wrapped the boat
In their dery embrace, and aaemed to lick ltnp.
Those known to be loat are as follows :
W. L. KENNEDY, Spring Hill, Alabama.
DEPUTY SHERIFF OF BARBOUR COUNTY.
Miss AVANT, Cuthbert, Ga.
MISS SIMPSON, Port Gaines, Ga.
J. B. YATES, Bainbrldge, Ga.
TWO WHITE MEN, whoa* names are now on*
known, supposed to be lost.
JULIA ADAMS, colored chambermaid.
DOLPH THOMAS, colored Bremen.
BANDALL SINGES.
A AZ STEVENS, colored deck band,
BOB GRIFFIN, colored stevedore.
A COLORED WOMAN AND CHILD, names un
known.
Captain G. B. Whiteside waueverely burned on
lace, head and hands. E. D. Wllliasaj, Lao rang*,
Ga., severely and thought to be fatally boraad. J.
T. Carey, assistant engineer, painfully burned.
As tar as la known this comprises th* list of dead
and woundcd.bnt greet anxiety la fell for the safety
of Mr. J. C. Hightower and Mrs. Thompson, of this
dty, wbo ware both ebosid the steamer, and who
hers not yet been seen by any penoa who knows
them. There srere 397 balea of eottou aboard Jhe
steamer, 314 of which were taken on at Eufaula.
It It said cabins and all the upper part of the boat
waa consumed lu five minutes, Sho waa made fast
to the abore by two hawsero, which were dually
burnt. She remained tfqd to the beak
about <9 minutes, when her moortugl
burned, and the wreck .floated out Into the atream,
drifted about 140 yards, careened, and sunk. The
dre broke out among the cotton Just aft amldahlp.
It la not known how It originated. When the boat
neared the ehote a ledy sprang overboard end
lodged In a tree top, from which she n.b.*qu??uUy
fell and waa reaened by Pilot Lapham. This brave
offloer saved the Uvea of two other ladies and as-
listed Captain George Whiteside ashore. The saved
passengers and crew reeelved erery possible atten
tion from Mr. D. B. Fltagerald and family, and
those that were able to ba removed were sent to
this city In wagous and other vehicles,
and most of them will take
to their destination from here to night by tall. Tbe
National hotel,whero they are quartered, preaentsa
painfully Interesting spectacle. AU that benevo
lence and publlo spirit cm suggest Is being done
tor tho nnfortunateffiraw and passengers. ThoKv-
erlnghsm wsa a comparatively new steamer, the
largest and dnest on the river. She was operated by
her Joint owners. Captain B. J. Whiteside and other.
Sho belonged to what is known aa the Central line.
Nothing was aavod and It la yet Impomtble to learn
the full extent ol the lass ot life sod property. The
passengers and those of the crow who were not on
watch escaped In their night clothes.
Reports from the wreck regarding tbe lass ot J
C, Hightower are very conflicting, yet there la bn
lltUe hope that he has escaped the dreadful dame.
One ol the deck hands aaya Mr. H. waa teen upon
the shore badly homed, and t> now la Ftorenoe,
where he la receiving medical attention. But this
if contradicted by several ot tbs crow and offloer a '
route ot whom say that he went to the stateroom
occupied by W. L. Kennedy and that he has not been
since, which Is probably the trne story. To
night Mr. H. Brown andUr.B.Jtmea go to Florence
to ascertain which report Is correct. Mr. Hightower
leavea a devoted wife and several beautiful
children ter mourn their irreparable lost
Ho hsd recently J aided the order ot the
Ancient Legion ot Honor, and has therein
*9,000 Insurance on tits life. He wu a sterling gen
tleman, and great lorn Is sustained by this comma
nlty. He was manager here ot tho Stager sewing
machine company. Mr. Kennedy lscertslnly tost.
He wu a useful cltlaen and an odlcieut oQlccr. He
waa never aeen after going to Ms stateroom. Yatca
It saved, as has since been ascertained. Upon
getting ashore he took a private conveyance to
Columbus. Bally Uardle wu roved by the pilot on
duly, Lapham Williams, who waa so ciftlcaUy and
dangerously burned, wts lying at the point ot
death when last heard from. His death la hourly
expected. Bis wife, accompanied by Dr. Ridley,
of LaGrange, will reach hero to-nlgbt and leave at
once for Florence, to be at hla bcdalde when be
breathe! hla tut.
11 p. m.???Farther news from the Evorlaghsm dis
aster la exceedingly difficult to obtain. Tho boat
wu last 39 miles above here and there It no com
munication with the locality exoept by a tedious
Journey through tho country. Later news confirm-
log the horrors ot the disaster says the deep sleep
that precedes the morning waking wu upon the
passengers, and odloers and the crew off duty,
and noli* but tho watch were la uuy degee pro*
pared for the terrible burning. When the deep
tonro ol tbe dre boll broke upon tbo cars ol tbe
slumbering passer vers and crew tbey awoko to be
dued by the t/,ie* that surrounded them.
<gl ftamysendVtiyuf the conflagration .gave
no time for thought or dollborato action, women
In their while night robec were rushing to and
fro seeking escape from the biasing dames of the
burning boat, and looking for some manner of
avoiding a watery g'ravo, bnt thero wu very Httlo
outcry or returning. One ot tbe unfortunate pu-
???eaferf. Hr. E. D. William* wu found standing In
the wafer breut deep, wbeuca be wu reaened by
Captain Lapbam. Htsfaoessu burned torrlbly,
tho skin banging In strip*, leaving the quivering
flesh exposed, hla eyesight wu totally destroyed
and hi* mind was wandering when he wu drat
taken cutot the inter. Afters little while ho ap
peared to regain bis mental faculties and Inquired
ol those near him. If they
(bought be was much hurt, Kind
beattednesa could not rcluse him a reassuring
reply, but he stated be thought be would die, and
scut a message of tender affection to hla wife. He
wu a Mason, and standing with bls desb burned eff
In tbo chilling waters, wltb hla mind wandering, be
wu still able to give (be balling sign of distress* It
brought a friend ready and quick to risk life and
limb In bis tescue.
There la aaid to have been no Insurance on the
steamer and none of put of the cargo. Eighty-
???even bales ol the cotton was the property ol Mr.
Robert Ledslnger, of Columbus, end wu shipped
by blm from Fort Galnce and Howatd'a landing,
and wu not Insured. Ho wu aboard the steamer,
but got off with but alight bruises. Tbe 3l( balea
???hipped tiom here were tbe property of Hull A Co.,
cotton dealers here. Tbey were Insured.
11:16 p. m ??? Mr. Thompson Is (bought to be sale.
Nothing lurtber can ba obtained to-nlgbt. Specu-
lailon la rile u to the cause ot Aha Bro but it can
not to known positively how tbo cotton caught.
Mr. E. H. Cuon, ol Waablngton, Georgia, one ol
tbe puienseia, wu tbe lut to leave tho cabin and
be tblnka three or lour bodies ware burned'In
their stale reema. He escaped with alight burns.
He stales that the officers behaved bravely and did
all tbat wu possible lobe done to succor the pu-
aengers end crew and relievo those who were In
jured. Fifteen or twenty came down in bgtteaus
and tha others In wagons.
ANOTHXS ACCOUNT,
Columnus, Ga., April 3.???Newa reached (he city
at three o'clock this afternooa tbat tbe steamer
Rebecca Everingham kad burned at D, 11 Flu-
gorald'a landing, forty-dve miles down tbo river
A Constitution representative called at the office
ol Captain G. B. WMlealde, general agent ???( tbe
Ctntrel llceel boats and learned the parricularsol
the rod cgfaralty. Tbe dre wu discovered by en
gineer Carey, about four o'clock this
morning who at once gave the alarm A
gent'eman on board the boot says when the alarm
wu glseu be ruibcd from bis stateroom and found
the boat enveloped in Semes. All wu confusion,
men and women lushed to tbe desk, some Jump-
lag overboard, preferring a watery grave to death
by dre. Tbe officer* did all in tbelr power lo save
tbo Uvea oftbe passengers, but the cotton burned
so rapidly that little could be done. Elgbt lives
were lash Tbey were Mrs. Jobn Owen, tbe
mother of Mr. J. A. Cede, of this
city, Miss Vice Blmpsos, of Fort Gaines.
Six negroes wtre also buried. Tbey wen:
Julia Anderson, chambemeld; Richard Coleman
pantryman; Dolph Thomas, O. Z Btephese, Ran
dolph Blngerand Bob Griffin, deck ban dr. Tbe
wounded ore Captain Tom Whiteside, face pain-
folly bnrnt: E D. Williams, of Troop county, per-
hap* fatally burned: J. J, Redock, of Illinois,
burned on feet and hands, and ankle sprained;
Mlm Dorn Patterson, iijered from Jumping from
the bent; Captain George WMlealde, slightly burned
on tbe lace; Aoristant-Engineer Carry, slightly
burned. Tbe following la a complete list of tbe
puwngers on board: Colonel W, 8. Shepherd and
W. Lcdringer. of this dty: L. L. Macon, T. C.
Gibson, A. W. McIntosh and srlle, D. C. Blackwell
and wlfe.E. B. Canon, W. J, Tiller, T. T. Rad leeks
Mlm Fannie Hardee, Mias Dorn Patterson,' Miss
Learn Spikes, E. D. WIMims, T. C, Haters
Nine on deck. Tho beat wu In command
ol tho following office it: George H. Whlleride,
captain; Tom wblteaide,ti???iat mate; Charllo Kelson,
clerk; Summercamp, second clerk, George Lapbam
and Charles Wingate, pilots; Hiram Goodllltle
and Isaac Carey, etudaeers. There were twenty-
two deckhands on board, all of whom were ne
groes. For a time thisslternon the wildest excite
ment prevailed. Cotflloting:cxa|gerated reports
coaid bo heard from all aides. The Bnt report wvs
that every one on board wu lost. Many regarded It
u an April feol and perilled In not bclleviDg tbat
???urtblog had happened to tho Kreringhmn, but
the presence of Captain WMteslde blmrolf, with
Ma head bandaged, soon dispelled all doubt*.
Thero wu no means of communicating with any
point by telegraph from where (be calamity oc
curred, so Captain WMlealde, Colonel Shepherd
and Mr, Ledifogcr scoured conveyances
and drovo through the country to Fort Mltchell.ihe
nearest railroad nation twelve miles from thc.elty,
where they look a freight train and reached this
city five minutes before 3 o'clock, Just 12 hours
after the fatal alarm of flro wu given. Every
thing on hoard of the boat wu loat, Including
the papers and books of tho company. No par
ticulars of boat's cargo or tbe homes ol the patron-
gets can be obtained on tbat account. In addition
to a mlscellansona freight, the boat contained 307
bales of cotton: 234 bales belonged to H. Hnll &
Co., ol KnfauU, and wu fully Insured In the He*
Insurance company of Liverpool, 47 balea be
longed to Mr. Anthony Hutchins, ol Howard's
landing, and wu Insured; 21 bales went consign
cd to Messrs Hatcher It Brown, and were rein
Mired. The Everingham wu built In Ibis city by
tho Centre! Uneof boats some three year* ago, Sbo
wu veined at S3.000, uninsured. One year ago,
on tbe Uth ol this month, the Wyly wu wrecked
at Fort Gainer,and a number of previous lives,wrro
lost. Eight more souls went down to eternity
wltb tbo burning of tbo Everlngbsm, which was
the lut boot tbo.Con trsl Hue had on tha river.
How tho Are originated la not known, but It la
supposed tho cotton caught from a dying ipark.
Eufaula, April 4,???Farther intelligence
from tbe Everingham disaster places the
number ot Uvea loot at eleven, with one fa
tally injured. Mr. K D. Williams Is lo a
dying condition. He wu alive this morning
at 8 o???clock, bat it wu not thought he would
survive the day. W. L. Kennedy wu not
lost. He escaped with a bnrnt hand and foot
and Is now at his son's on Dr. Qlllls's place,
in Stewart county. J. B. Yates wu not lost.
He got uhare with his valise. The following
is a revised list ot the lost: Mira Avont,
Cuthbert, white, burned todeath; Miss Simp
son, Fort Gaines, white, burned to death:
Mr. J. 0. Hightower, Eufaula, white, burned
to death; Mr. E D. Williams, LaGrange.
white, fatally bnrncd; Julia Adams, colored
chambermaid, burned; Dolph Tbom-
u. colored fireman, burned; Ran
dall Singer, colorod deckhand, burned;
Aex Stevens, rotated deckhand, burned;
Bob Oriffln, colored stevedore, burned; Rich
ard Coleman, colored waiter, burned; a col
ored woman and child, names unknown,
burned. It wu Fenny Hardy, and not Sarah,
who wu u passenger and was saved. Mrs,
Williams, the wile ot Mr. E. B. Williams
accompanied by Dr. Ridley, oi LaGrange,
arrived here lut night and went immediately
to tbe bedside of her suffering husband. He
wu conscious when she reached him and
recognized her. Hia eyes were totally de
stroyed and his Bufferings are Intense. Mr.
Hightower occupied the state room with Mr.
Kennedy, and when the alarm wu sounded
both got up and began to dress. Mr. Konnedy
got on a part of his clothes and left the room
half clod. When he stepped out, Mr. High -
tffiwer clostd the atm, - probably
keep the smoke out, and
that wu the lut eocn ot
him. The colored chambermaid had gotten
out of the cabin, bnt returned to awaken the
two ladies, Misses Avant and Simpson, and
was never seen again. None ot ths bodiesof
the lut hare been recovered. The hnll of
the boat la sunk lo fifteen feet ot water It
is related that Mr. 0. B. Wingate, one of the
pilots, wu missed from tmoog the crew alter
they wore uhore. He wu asked lor and
some one said he wu in his state room,
whereupon a colored man ot tbe crew darted
aboard the flaming boat and brought Mr.
Wingateout. This brave and grateful man
wu saved by Mr. Wingate from drowning
lut April when tha steamer Wylly wu
wrecked. The crew, as passenger*, are lavish
in praise ot tbe kindness and interest mani
fested by the citlsens residing near tbe place
ot tbedlaastcrand spatially mentioned Mr,
D. B. Fitagerald, Mr. Williford, Mr.
Gillie, and Dr. Battle, Everybody rallied to
the scene and worked manfully to relieve
the distressed???furnishing blankets, clothes
and every other comfort in their power. A
storekeeper near tbe place, whose name your
correspondent bu been unable u yet to
learn, wu very active and generous???carry
ing everything he could tbink would be
needed from bii store, and offering wb
he bad to the shivetlog and scorched people.
The flames from the boat were hurled by Abo
strong wind blowing at tbe time far up Ibe
bank Into the trees and tiring tbs woods, it it
said, a hundred yards from the river. A deck
bund, who swam uhore around tbe stern ot
the but, says be wu almost burned np by
the lire in the woods.
A SOOTHES IN ATLANTA.
Mr. J, C. Hightower wu a brother of D. N.
Hightower, proprietorof the Hightower hotel,
of Atlanta.
anotrso noaaoB.
Halifax, N. 8., April 4,???The atearner
Daniel Hteintnann, from Antwerp for this
port, is reported sank off Hsmbrs, about
twenty miles from this port. She struck
daring lut night, and only nine men art so
tar reported to have reached laud oat of 140
on board. Intelligence received here thus
far is very meager. It is uid that the captain
and flvs of tbe crew were the only peraons
roved. The eteamer hod ninety paroengera,
almost entirely German emigrants, and a
crew ot thirty-four.
Tugs, which left hereforthe scene oi wreok,
returned without having been able to reach
tbe neighborhood of the atoamer owing to
the rough lea. Another attempt will be
made in the morning :to reach the wreck if
the weather moderates.
??? .TALMAGE???S SERMON.
HIGH LICENSE THE MONOPOLY OF
ABOMINATION,
Ti* High Ltosnas Movement Dtnouuo C as Anti-
American and Anll-ccrMl*u-A sotltarlos
Rsvlsw ol to* If eteoCs of Sam* ef *0*
, Qeast-r*mpera*oe Utformers,
Kpecial to the Constitution.
Boooklyn, April G.??? Dr. Talmage preached
in the Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day on thq
subject: "High License, tbe Monopoly of
Abomination.??? Hia text was taken from
-ri'gpirw xxvit: "It is not lawful for to put
tbetn info the treuury because it is the price
cf blood." Following is the (all report oi the
sermon.
For fifteen dollars Jndu Iscariot had sold
Christ, Under thrust of conscience or regret
if if he had not made a more lucrative thing
out of it, Judu pitches the rattling abokels
on the pavement of the temple. What shall
be done with the conscience money? Borne
imipose It be put into the treasury. Others
*>' it bu always been against the law to urn
???\r religious or govermentsl purposes blood-
. oney or revenues gotten in the saleof hu
ll ra life. So they decided to use the money
to purchase graves for paupers. Picking oat
m rough piece oi ground where tbo broken
aud re (use ware of a pottery had been cut,
they set that apart aa tbe first Potter's field.
' It is not lawful to put them into tbe treas
ury because it is the prio^af blood.???
We are at a point in reformatory move
meats in this oountry where in one shape or
another it is proposed to control or arrest tbo
lb,nor business by making its merchants pay
a high price, say five hundred or a thousand
declare for a license. This, it is said, will ex
tirpate the tens of thousands of low drunk-
eriee.sud make it possilrieonly here and there
for a rum selling establishment to exist. The
.100. or a thousand dollars paid into the
government treuury will help support tho
po^fhotises into which widows and orphans
aroffirned by the inebriation oi husbands and
father*. Don???t you tee? This high tax will
also bi-lp the expenses of prisons Into which
tbe men are thrown for crlnrea committed
wl-lledrunk. Don???t you see?- Thatwillsup-
nn -t the courts of Oyer aud Yernrinor, whose
judges and attorneys and constables and
thennoamonnt of money paid css give a tern. This vice is making rapid progress
man the right to carry on tbe business. The through the state, and much of tint increase
$500or $1,000 are a bribe to ihe government la directly traceable to high license.??? Iowa
THE DESTROYING ELEMENT,
rental* D**lmU*e *reia* rarou Is IkeCesallaa
tr???riis.
Kaleioii, April , 4.???For three days and
nights tbe most destructive fire ever known
in that section bos been devuting tbe south
ern border states, extending into six or seven
counties. Vast forests of long leaf, pins bare
been attacked. Tbey formed the chief source
of the timber supply. Tbe high winds fan
ned tbs flames into fury, and hundreds of
thousands of trees were burned,
and some of tbe largest tnrpentina orchards
in tbs state are ruined, many
farm houses have been destroyed. A number
of towns Darrowly escaped destruction. At
Manly, on Ibe Raleigh and Augusta railway,
a number of booses tiers burned. Large
stores oi lumbar And railroad sills on tbe
line of the road were also destroyed, and a
dozen turpentine distilleries rained. Tbe
country, in great stretches, is but a black
wilderness. Tne ex eat is not yet known.
Many families art homeless. The firs has
swept hero and there some fifty miles in one
direction end thirty in another. A few place*,
it is reported, escaped. The Area were ceased
by horning brash. Tbe fires extended fsr into
Bomb Caroline. Ob tbe lioe oi the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta railroad trains have
been running through miles of fire. Two
dwellings ura eight or ten barns were burned
in that district, bo far aa known no lives bare
beenloet
juries and court house! and police stations
find theireblof employment In the trial, con
demnation and puirialiment oi those who of
fend tin- law while in state of insobrlety.i
Don't you esc?
How any man or woman in the United
States In Isvor oi thsgreat temperance refor-l
niallon can be so hallucinated as not to see
tliatthis movomentis the surrender of the
whole reformation for which good people
have been struggling for the lost oily years,Is
to ms an aniaaemsnt that eclipses everything.
Mr subject Is, high license, the monopoly oil
abomination.??? Do you not realise as by
uMhematlatl demonstration that the whole
rolult of this movement by which low catab-
Hoi. mar-ts are to be shut up and splendid es
tab iah-.nent* are to be supported Is going to
nm selling and rum drinking ???
N.ue-leMns of these wit-uic
Brooklyn and Now York are so disgusting
that mnn hsving regard lo their reputation
would not be seen entering one end the clerk
of a store wonld lose his place II seen coming
out of one. But, now shut up these smsll es
tablishments and down on your great
thoroughfares you have bulldedyourspleudld
palaces ol inebriation, masterpieces or palnt-l
lug on the walls, cut glare on silver plstterl
upholstery like a Turkish harem, uniformed^
servants to help you out of the carriage anil
uniformed servants lo help you In, and nnl-J
formed servants to take your list and caiiol
and parlors with lounges on which you can
recllne.when you are taken mysteriously til
siter too much champagne or cognac or old
OtarJ. All the phantasmagoria and bewitch-
mentofart thrown around this Herod of
massacre, this' Moloch oi[consumed worshlp-J
B -rs, this juggernaut of crushed millions!
antes seven circles of inferno lilted Into great
farch I tec tore crowned by great arches and
finished with great morofcl iniquity glorl 11 edl
The eurse of the ages enthroned In sumptuo-
sltleil Ah, His not the rookeries oi alcohol
ism that <lo tho wnrto work. They are only
the last stopping place* on Ihe road to death.
Where did that bloated, ulcerous, wheeling,
nauseating wretch that a taggers out of some
hole down by the navy yard, get bis habit
atarted? At glittering restaurant, at har-J
room of first otare hots! where it was fashion!
able to go. Do you wantto stop tho mean
Unitor establishments which are only the
nub all orer the body politic and gather all
the poiton and puss and inattention of the
body politic Into a few great carbuncles that
mean death? I say let us have the rash
rather than tbs carbuncles. , ri
This high license movement Is, whether ini
tended or not, a stab at lbs best families of
America. It Isa warori the drawing rooms
oi merchants. It is an assault on the bright
est nurseries and tbe dearest boms circles. It
would psy with honor and pillar with splen
dor and guard with monopolistic advantage
a business which his made the ground sound
hollow at every step beneath England and
Scotland and Ireland and America with cata
combs of slaughtered drunkards. Tell it, ye
philanthropists, to all whom you meet in
your rounds of usefulness. Tell it; ys men
oi the newspaper press by pen and type ??n4
telegram. Tell !>, tbat tbte day in the pres
ence of Almighty God. my maker and my
judge, I stamp on this high license movement
us the monopoly of abomination.
Amoog othar charges against it I have to
say that it ft anti-American, anti-common I
???snae, antl-dsmonstrated facta,anti Christian.
It was written by our revolutionary fathers, I
firat by pen and then by sword; first in black
ink and then in red, tbat all raea are equal
in the sight of the law. Impartiality is the
word written on tbe declarationof independ
ence, constitution ol the United Buttes and
over the doors of stats end national capitals.
How, then, dare you give to the nun who
can rates $500 or $l,OOOths privilege ol selling
sweetened dynamite while von deny lo hto
neighbor the privilege because he cannot
raise more than fifty dollars or can raise
nothing? Have ths small dealers In tbs fes
tive liquid no rights? I plead for Justice to
I the lens of tbou*sndsof men who are en
gaged in a small and prndent and economical
I way in rolling extract of logwood and strych-
Inins. I say it i* unequal and unjust to allow
the man who has money enough to kindle a
great roaring conflagration oi temptation to
go ahead while you deny throe other poor
go ahead while you ueny tnose onier i??jur
fellows of the traffic ibe privilege of even
" [bring a lncifer match. I demand equal
this for rum sellers This high license plan
the propertyquslidcitloa la most offensive
..ape. Why don???t yon carry out ths idea
and shut np all the bakeries except those
which can pay $1,000? Why not sbnt np all
the hatchers' shops except those which esn
jesy an extravagant lex? Why_ not clo??e ell
ry goods atore* except throe that can
e big urn for the privilege? Well,
you say, tbat is verjr differest. How is it
to let a few do that which the very attitude
ot Ihe government declares a wickedness.
So also is Itanticoinmon sense. Someone
says, "it is impassibls to execute a prohibi
tory law, and a* w* cannot eject the evil, let
ns put upon it this one brake." The fact
that you cannot execute faity n law is no
reason why yon should not have a law.
Which one of your laws is fully executed?
We have a law attains! Sabbath-breaking, yet
millions offend it every Sunday. We nave
n law against blasphemy, but sometimes Ihe
sir Is lurid with imprecation. We have
law against theft, bnt all yoar jails ore fall of
burglars and highwaymen. Thera is n law
against murder, but we have three murderers
nowln Raymond street jail and scores of
them in the United eta tea prisons. Sines
we have not been able to stop these evils of
theft and anon and blasphemy and murder,
why not compromise the matter, and for I
high license give certain men all the priri-
lege of stealing and swearing and massacre.
Get ready your excise commissioners???five or
ten thousand dollars for tbe business of theft.
Let us put au end to these
small scoundrels who hare genius
enough only to steal house-mats or postage-
stamps, or chocolate drops and confine the
business to those who, having paid$10,000 for
? :anteel robbery can abscond with $90,000
rom a Newark bank, or by watering the
???took of a railroad omnpany steal $300,000 at
one dip. I would put a very high lioenaeon
It, say 310,000, for they could soon make it
up. We are fearfully opposed to sneak
thieves, and wharf-nils, and tup penny
scoundrels, but all hall to milllon-dollar ras
cals. Ho also let us by high license put down
blasphemy, for yoar present laws against it
are not snccesifnl. Let us shut up the great
masses Ot the foul-mouthed, and by a high
license of $10 000 let a few men do all toe
t-Retiring in the community. Let us select,
say a hundred, oi Che most impulsive raerj
oi your cities, men ot the highest tempers
anrt hottest tongue nnd the most spiteful
against God and decency, and add to the
number tho speaker oi the New Jersey legis-
bt-tiro whose addresses were so Interlarded
with oaths a few days ago that tbs printers,
who never swear themselves, had to put
blanks into svery sentence to indicate where
the oaths came in. Let theseespeclally dele
gated men for a high license of $10,000 per
year be allowed to do all the proiauity, and
nave full sweep white we put down end
sweep out oi community with besom of de
struction those who swear on a small scale,
and all those who have never got beyond
"By George," "My stars,??? or "Darn It.??? 8o
also let murder ha hindered. Present law
does not avail. Murders on Long island!
Murders In Illinois. Murders in Pennsylvania.
Murders nil over. The vast majority oi the
perpetrators escape. The defense proves an
alibi or says that the deed was done under
emotional Insanity. The court-room la
crowded with sympathisers and when acquit
ted be ta followed down tbe street by a crowd
who meditate sending him to congress. The
only way you will have put an ond to mur
der in this country is by a high llcenss to a
few men to manage the whole buslu'en. This
common herd oi nssaulni who do their work
with car-honks and dull knives uad Paris
green, maet be put down nnd lot a few ex
perts who can do tho thing without pain nnd
by ohloroform or flash of bull-dog revolver,
gently putting tho victim out of his earthly
misfortunes???let them have all tbe business.
Pt course that license ought to be ns high
$20,000 because tbe perquisites of gold wati-lies
aao tuorony vt'<
and tnonny vt'e* STIS 1 plethoric pOyket^et"
would soon pay the high license and leave a train comes down with temperance societies
handsome sum for net profit.
You soe pt a glance, nil Irony aside, that!(
rum selling is right wo all ought to have the
privilege of eojoying it, and It it be wrong
$5,000,000 paid down in hard cash os a yearly
license ought to purchase immunity. Is It
common sense that one business should have
ths right to despoil all other busloasq if it
pay a special (ax? A great northern manu
facturing company recently eatabllahed them
selves in Georgia. When asked why they lo
cated there, tbelr answer was 'Because this
township voted to have no liquor sold.??? That
honest manufacturer discovered what we all
know, that the runt sailing business hurts
every other business. If tits millions oi dol
lars that go every year for rum ware expend
ed In healthful directions, there would rome
a boom ol commercial and agricultural and
manufacturing prosperity 150 tier cent greater
than this country ever saw. The money that
goes for drink spd has nonsuit except ill
health aud pauperism and crime would go
for clothing, for books, for education, for
homesteads, for horses and carriages, for
farms, for life insurance, for the 10,000 com
fort! and adornments and luxuries oi life.
You wbo get $2 a day for wages, would get $4
You wbo get a salary ol $1,000 a year, would
got $3,000. You who receive $10,000 a year,
would receive $20 000. The rum sailer this
moment has bis clutch on ths throat oi every
man in America. Yon have to pay
for his damnable work by your honest sweat
slid by ths deprivation of your households of
many advantages. When will tbe working
classes rise up against this incubus
and decree to keep at home the dri-
velln aud pothouse politicians e( Albany and
Harrisburg legislature who vote down prohi
bition anti rote up high license, 1 wish ths
Lord in His meray would give our rulers In
these Atlantic states one hourol the swkrthy
and magnificent courage oi thelowa legislature
which hail tbe morel force to pass an out and
out prohibitory law, and whose governor bod
Ihe grace lo sign It. Lead on, O western
state, in thegloriou* work of our country's
emancipation I Among tbe test to come will
be our beloved stale of New York, but come
She will. After a few more thousands o' onr
best homes shall have been'destroyed by this
rum traffic and a few more hundreds of
iboutands of our best Intellects and basrls
???hall have been sacrificed, and our distilleries
have for a few mors years insulted tbe heav
ens with their uprolllng stench, rite tide will
turn and all good men and women will to
gether rise and laying hold upon Almighty
strength bnrl down into Ihe perdition from
which it smoked np, this swelling and putre
fying curse of nations.
I'eopts in this region talk as though high
license bad never been tried. It has been
tried again and again, and always has been a
fist failure- It pas triad in Utetouri under
what waa calleu tho Downing law. A promi
nent paper of 8L Loafs. Missouri, says: "Hrs
have now in litte city some 1,500 high license
laloons, and if there is one man in St. Lonla
who is able to see the good results of high
license which its friends promised us, we
want to interview him. If there is any good
io high license, if it reduces tbs evils of drink
to a minimum, we are ready to publish it.
\V?? know that many good, honest temperance
men favored ths passage of ths Djwnlng law.
Will they point out to ns any good it has ac
complished or is likely ever lo accomplish, or
confess tbat they bars been disappointed?''
It was tried in Nebraska under what was
called tbe Slocumb law, at a $1000 licenre.
A prominent cltlaen, requested to give bis
opinion in regard to it, says: "Yon ask, 'Has
high license diminished drunkenness?' Not
in the slightest degree. Drunkenness it
steadily on tbe Increase. This vice, as all
other aloes which government fosters, grows
coatintully. High licence, as fsr a* dimin
ishing drunkenness is concerned, does noth
ing of the kind. Mark this well. 1 wonld
repeat la thunder tones if I could, it does
w. did not expect i
he will be lo tbe Wtv on Mondsr nlaot
hla war to the Kr-???-i'l lodged Alabama, w coo-
c'u-li-1 we wnull orraox: for a me>-ilug Monday
nlchi, that tbe people el Atlanta mtgai have au
.. .. ... opMituntty to hear him." .. ...
different? Well von ear ths bus'nsta of | nothing of tbe kind. Oambling, consequent Mr. Demaree will r. main in the auto ??>.- ul
228* hmd ??r SUV'&Irio oron high license, bro forof^r hoamaL /ifS^SS !&???sraffi??uro^n $?&
damage, while the rolling of whisky does a I Ths ratoon keeper inuat have, in many euro, IU
great deal of harm. There, you have surren- sgsmbling annex In order to make bis bust-, Dt . Kendall will preach at Trt.iltr to uUM on
riered tbe qnssiion. If it does great damage, 1 nea pay a profit nndsr.tbe high license syt- temperance.
tried it at a $1,000 license. One nf the dally
papers of Des Moines rays. "Dea Moines lias
tried a $1,000 licenses only to find that it lias
increased tbe namberof Its saloons, ond tbe
daily exteess of drunkenness.??? In other
places high license has been tried strain end
again, sad always with the same restilf, and
yet there an those who wonlii Imve the farce
enacted here. The Washington Sentinel, ono
of the chief organs of the liquor traffic, borate
into derisive laughter at the high license
attempt in Nebraska, and says; "The prohi
bitionists in Nebraska, finding tbat ths high
license of $1,000 has not decreased the sale of
liquor, ore now endeavoring to Increase its
rote by raising the license to $7550 per an-
num.' We are melting an ekbrt here to
resuscitate an old-and dead failure that died
Ite first death in Missouri, and died
Its second death in Nebraska. The
mightest blow to the cause ol
temperance In the oily is that some reformers
have helped along tb.s delusion of high 11-
eense. It Is a white flag of truce sent out
from alcoholism to prohibition to get ths bat
tle te pause until tbe army oi demijohns and
decanters can get better organ lied. Oetoffof
the field with that fibg of truce or I will fire
on Ul Between these two armies there can
be no lawful trace: On the one side are God
and sobriety, and the best interests of the
world. On tbe other 1s tne sworn enemy of
all righteontness, anil either this armr matt
go down or theohurch of God and freegovern-
???ent perish.
Ob, this black, destroying archangel of all
diabolism, one wing reaching to the Phciflo
and the other to the Atlantic, its iron beak
and filthy claws clutching tbs tom and bleed
ing heart-strings of the naf ion that cries out:
"How long, O Lord, how long???? Better try
to compromise with the panther* In tbelr
Jungles, with tbe cyclone in its flight, with
the Egyptian plague os it blotches an empire,
than with Apullyon for whom this evil ie
recruiting officer, quartermaster and com-
mauder in-ehier. My friends, let us fight it
out on tho old Hue and we will get the viotory
os sure as right Is right, and wrong Is wrong,
and truth is troth, and falsehood is falsehood,
ami God te God. Are you so deaf that you
cannot hear in the distance the rumbling of
tbe ehariot of viotory ? Over 300,000 voter* in
Ohio- at the last election for prohibition.
Kansas on the right aldo, Iowa on the right
side, Alabama and Georgia almost ready to
tall Into line. Fifteen ot the legislatures of *
the United States disenssing the temperance
question. The liquor trade so panic struck
that it te trying to get congress to alter the
constitution so tbat prohibitory laws shall be
declared unconstitutional. Two hundred and
forty-six towns of Massachusetts out of two
hundred and fifty-eix declared against licensel
Not a sign board in all tbe state of Maine
Offering rum for sale, so that tbe crime te there
put dawn betide other crimes. One branch
oi tlte legislature of our monopoly-cursed
New York, a few weeks two, only Urn* votes
off from puiing a law giving to tbe peoplo a
a choice of prohibition. List Thursday a
week, the congress ot the United Stales, de
molishing tho bonded whisky bill byavoloof
180 to 831, although the liquor traffic hsd voted
$700,000 to buy spectacles through which our
rulers might ece the subject in tho right light.
I give feir warning In the. |,->iit i.-iiamn of
America, tha leaders of our beautiful repub
lican parly nnd tho glorious democracy, that
the temperance men will very anon bold the
balance of power in America, and they will
determine who .-1ml 1 he mayor*, and govern-
ir*, sod oongressmen.end president*. Better
,. rtt* ah* t-ack before tro morning exyrex; -
and sons of temperance, and good templars,
anil the long train loaded with reformers and
UhrtellaD jihilnnthropM.i, nnd all the best In
terests of tho world. Clear the track i Tho
cow-catchor will ha pflad up with rinashcd
decanters and tho Btavcsof beer barrels, and
the epliulers ol hlgh-lic-mee platform*, and
tho broken rails of those who ast o.t tho
fences, and tho demolished hopes, schemes,
machinations and bribes of all wbiskeydom!
Tho time will Rome when tbe evil will bo
SO reduced that there will he only ten wine
flasks It-lt, anil tbey will he set up at tho other
end of the alley for ten-pio*. And oue re
former will take just one bmali round ball of
irohlbUlon and roll It till down shall go
lie last vesltges of the sin with the ten strike.
But wlillo the prospect looked at from tho
side ot worldly reform is so bright, looked at
from the Christian *ido It Is absolutely curtain.
God will rlso uj> and put a bund lo this wick
edness. Have you any doubt about bis being
???trosger than tha devil? Blucher came up
heforo nlgbt-fall and saved tbe day for Wei- '
llngton. At four o'clock in the afternoon it
looked very badly for the English, Generals
I'onsonby and Picton fatten, sabres broken,
flags surrendered, Scotch Grays annihilated,
only forly-two men left oi the German bat
talion, English lines falling backl Napoleon
laughed in triumph and said: "This little
Englishman needs a lesson. Ws hare ninety
chance* out of aibundred In our favor. Mag
nificent! magnificent!??? Messengers are sent
to Paris with ths news of ths Frepch victory.
But Blucber came up, and before night tbe
conqueror oi Auiterlits was ths victim of
Waterloo. Tha man whose name mads Eu
rope tremble, and filled even America with
apprehensions, 1s found muddy and hatters,
and crazed wltb defeat, feeling in the night
for tbestirrops of a horse, tint bo may mount
and resume ins contest. Now the ram traffic
te imperial and a conqueror, and many good
people say tbat tbe night te coming, ths night
oi ths national overthrow, bnt before tan-
down ths conqueror of earth and heaven will
rids in on Ihe white horse, and the rum traf
fic, which has had its Austorlilx of triumph
???boll have its Waterloo of defeat; and tbe
crowa fallen from the brow of Alcoholism,
tbe filthy and staggering breaker of human
hearts, erased with hla disasters, shall (eel in
vain for a stirrup by which to remount
THE TKMPBRANCM WAVE.
Talk WHO Mr. J. O. Tkrawer aa Ta* Wark Naw
II.ICS !???**??? la tha Flair.
Yesterday Mr. J. O. Tbrawar, ibe well-known
and earnest temperenoa worker,said to a Constitu
tion man:
Never In the history oi the temperance cau*o
were the temperance leaders ?? actively at work aa
the present Ume. In many portions of the at tto
Good Tcmplare lodges ore springing up m U by
magic. Tbe office ra ol the grand lod<e of the
have secured ths service* of
the lion. ?????? B. Demaree, ol Kentucky. They havo
put him to active work and lhay have never Bsfore
iad such a successful organiser, tn no caw alnco
ie has been In the state has he (ailed to organize a
lodge where be has bad an appoint
ment properly made. In twelve days
no has planted ten new lodges,
wltb a membership ranging from thlriy-alx to one
hundred members to tha beige. Tin people where
' ta apeak very highly ol him,"
does this special activity mean?" waa
asked of Mr. Thrower.
"We ere simply responding to the demand
of tbe people. They want temperance amt wa try
to (Ire It lo them Oar order Is an education of
the principles of temoeranco. and In counties
where woraieg lodge* existed, when tbo fight haa
older.???