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THE CONSTITUTION.
NOW IS THK TIME
???to si'nscni
The Weekly Constitutor!
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YOLUME XYI.
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 29,1884.???TWELVE PAGES.
PRICE STYE CENTS.
APOSTOLIC GOOD-BYE.
???THE TIME OF MY DEPARTURE IS
AT HAND.???
???0, Radiant One. How I Would Lika to See Thee,
Thou of the Manger but Without Zte Hu
miliations, Thou of the Cross but
Without Its Pangs,** Etc., Zte.
Dr. Tnlmogc preached the following sermon.
Subject, ???Apostolic Good-bye.??? Text, II Tim
othy iv. 8: ???I am now ready to be ottered,
and the time of my departure is at baud.???
The way out of this world is so blocked up
???with coffin and hearse and undertaker???s spade
and screwdriver that the Christian con hardly
think as he ought of the most cheerful passage
in all his history. We hang black instead of
whito over the place where the good man gets
his last victory. Wo stand weeping over a
hbap of chains which tho freed soul has shaken
off, and we say: ???Poor man! what a pity it
was he had to come to this!??? Come to what?
By the time the people have assembled at the
obsequies that man has been throe days so
hapny that all the joy of earth accumulated
would be wretchedness beside it, aud he
might better weep over you because you have
to stay than you weep over him because he bos
to go. It is a fortunate thing that a good man
does not have to wait to see his own obsequies,
they would be so dfccordaiit with his owu ex
perienco. If the Israelites should go back tc
Egypt and mourn over the brick kilns they
once left, they would not be any moro silly
than that Christian who should forsake Heav
en and come down and mourn because he had
to leave this world. Our ideas of the Christian
death are morbid and sickly. We look down
upon it as a dark hole in which a man stum
blcs when his breath gives out. This whole
subject is odorous with varnish and disinfec
tadts instead of being sweet with mignonette.
Paul in my text takes that great ciod of a
word ???death??? and throws it away and speaks
of his departure???a beautiful, bright, sugges
tivo word, descriptive of every Christinn???s
lease.
Now, departure implies a starting place and
n place of destination. When Paui left this
world what was the starting point? It was
scene of great physical distress. It was the
Tuliianum, the lower dungeon of the Mamer
tine prison. The top duugeon was bad enough,
it Laving no means of ingress or egress but
through an opening in the top. Through that
the prisoner waa lowered and througn that
came all the food and light and air received.
It was a terrible place, that upper dungeon:
but the Tullianutn was the lower dungeou and
that was still more wretched, the only light
and the only air coming through the roof, and
that roof the floor of the upper dungeon. That
was Paul's last earthly residence. It was a
dungeon just six feet and a half high. It was
a doleful place. It had tho chill of long
turics of dampness. It was filthy, with tho
long incarcerations of miserable wretchedness.
It was there that Paul spent his last days on
earth, and it is there that I see him, in the
fearful dungeon, shivering blue with the cold,
waiting for that old overcoat which he had
cent for up to Troas, and which they had not
yet sent down, notwithstanding he had writ
ien for it.
If some skillful surgeon should go into that
dungeon where Paul is incarcerated, we might
find out what are tho prospects of Paul???s Jiv
ing through the rough, imprisonmeut. In tho
fir-** i??l.i(V??? In; is nil old nun,only two years.-hurt
of 70. At that vory time when ho most needs
the warmth and the sunlight and the fresh air
ho: j'.ut eul V041) the sun. Whnfcpr* the*.*
sen s on his ankles? Vr???iiy, were gotten
when ho was fast, his feet In the stocks. Every
time he turned the flesh on his ankles started.
What are those scars on his back? You know
thirty-nino strokes???195 bruises on tho
(count them) made by tho Jews with rods of
chnwood. each one of the 195 strokes bringing
the blood. Look at Paul???s face, and look at
his arms. Where did he get those bruises? I
think it was when ho was stri
Amidst the shivered timbers of
1 see a gash in Paul???s side. Where did ho get
that? I think ho got that in the tussle with
highwaymen, for he bad been in peril of rob
bery. and ho had money of his own. He was a
mo-???ha lie as well as an apostle,and I think the
toms he made were as good as his sermons.
There is a wanness about Paul???s looks.
What makes that? 1 think a part of that camo
from the fact that ho was for twenty-four hours
on a plank in tho Mediterranean sea, suffering
terrible, before he was rescued; for he sayi
positively: ???I was a night and a day in tin
deep.??? 0, worn out, emaciated
old man, surely you must bo
melancholy, no constitution could oudure this
and be cheerful. But I press my way through
the prison until I come up to where he is aud
by tne faint light that streams through the
???opening I see on his face a supernatural joy
and I bow before him and I say: ???Aged man
how can you keep cheerful amidst all this
eloom???? His voice startles tho darkness of
the peace as he cries out: ???I am now ready
to bo offered and the time of my departure is
at hand.??? Hark! what is that shuffling of
feet in the upper dungeon? Why, Paul has an
invitation to a banquet and bo is going to
???dine with the king. Those shuffling feet aro
the feet of the executioners. They come and
they cry down through the holo of the dun
geon: ???Hurry up, old man, come now; get
yourself ready.??? Why, Paul was ready. Ho
had nothing to pack up. He had no bavgage
to take. lie had been ready a good while. 1
tee him rising up and straightening out his
stiffened limbs and pushing uack his white
hair from his creviced forehead and sec him
looking up through the hole in the roof of the
???dungeon into the face of his executioner and
hear him say: ???I am now ready to be offered
and the time of my departure is at hand.???
Then they lift him out of the dungeon and
they start with him to the place of exe* ution
Theyiay: ???Hurry aloag, old man, or you
will feel the weight of our spear. Hurry
Along.??? ???How far is it,??? says Paul, ???we
have to travel???? ??????Three miles.??? Three
miles is a good way for an old man to travel
after he has been whipped and crippled with
maltreatment. But tney soon get to the
?? lace of execution, Agnes Salvice, and he is
jtened to the pillar of martyrdom. It does
not take any strength to tie him fast. He
makes no resistance. 0 ( Paul, why not now.
strike for your life? You have a great many
friends here. With that withered hand just
launch the thunderbolt of the people upon
those infamous soldiers. No; Paul was not
going to interfere with his own coronation,
lie was too glad to go. I see him looking np
in the faee of bis executioner and as the grim
official draws the sword, Paul calmly says:
???1 am now ready to be offered and the time of
my departure is at hand.??? But I put my
hand over my eyes. I want not to see that
last struggle. One sharp keen stroke and
Paul does go to the banquet and Paul does
dine with the king.
What a transition it was; from the malaria
of Rome to the finest climate in all the uni
verse, the zone of eternal beauty and health.
His ashes were put in the catacombs of Rome,
but in one moment the air of Heaven bathed
from his soul the last ache. From shipwreck,
from dungeon, from the biting pain of the
elmwood rods, from the sharp sword of the
beadsman he roes into the most brilliant as
semblage of Heaven, a king among kings,
multitudes of the sainthood rushing out and
stretching forth bands of welcome; for I do
really think that as on the right hand of God
is Christ, so on the right hand of Christ is
Paul, the second great in Heaven.
He changed kinp likewise. Before the
hour of dew and np to the last moment be
wss under Nero, the thick-necked, the cruel-
eyed, the filthy lipped, the sculptured features
-of the man bringing down to da to this very
day the horrible possibilities of his nature,
seated as he was amidst pictured marbles of
Egypt, under a roof adorned with mother of
pearl, in a dining room which by machinery
was kept whirliug day and nignt with most
bewitching magnificence; his horses standing
in stalls of solid gold, and the grounds around
his palace lighted at night bv its victims, who
who had been bedaubed with tar and pitch
and then set on fire to illumine the darkness.
That was Paul???s king. But the next moment
he goes into tho realm of Him whose reign is
lovo and whose courts atfe paved with love
and whoso throne is set on pillars of love and
whose sceptre is adorned with jewels of love
and whose palace is lighted with lovo and
whoso lifetime is an eternity of live. When
Paul was leaving so much on this side of tho
pillar of martyrdom to gain so much on the
other side, do you wonder at the cheerful
valedictory of the text: ???The time of my de
pnrture is a!, hand????
Now why cannot all old people have the
same holy glee os that uged man nod? Charles
I, whon he was combing his head, found t
gray hair, aud he sent it to the queen us t
great joke; hut old ago is really no joke at all
For the last forty years you have been dread
ingthat which ought to have been an exhila
ration. You say you most fear tho struggle at
the moment the soul and body part. But
millions have endured that moment, and why
may no> we as well? They got through with
it and so can we. Besides this, all medical
men agree in saying that there is probably no
strugglo at all in tho last moment???not so
muen pain as the prick of a pin, the scorning
signs of distress being altogether involuntary.
But you say: ???It is the uncertainty of the
future.??? Now, child of God, do not play tho
infidel. After God has filled tho Bible till it
can hold no moro with stories of tho good
things ahead, better not talk about uncer
tainties.
But you say: ???I cannot bear to think of
parting from friends here.??? If you are old
J ou have more friends In heaven than here.
ust take tho census. Take some large sheet
of paper and begin to record tho numes of
thoso who have emigrated to tho other shore;
tho companions of your school days, your
early business associates, tho friends of mid
life aud thoso who moro recently went away.
Can it be that they have been gone so long
you do not care any more about tncin, and you
do not want thoir society? Ob, no. Thero have
been days when you have felt that you could
not endure it another moment away from thoir
blessed companionship. They have gone.
You say you would not like to bring them
back to this world of trouble, evon if you had
the power. It would not do to trust you.
God would not givo you resurrection power.
Beforo one day hail passed you would bo rat
tling at tho gates or the cemetery, crying ???
the departed, ???Come back to tho cradlo wh<
you slept! Come back to the hall whore you
used to piny! Come back to tho table wliero
to sit!??? And there would be a great
burglary in heaven. No, no. God will
trust you with resurrection power; but Ho com
promises the matter and says: ???You cannot
bring.them where you are, but you con go
whore they are.??? They ore more lovely now
thon ever. Were thoy beautiful here, they
are more beautiful there.
Besides that, it is moro healthy thero for
you than hero, aged man; better climate there
than these hot summers and cold winters and
late springs; hotter hearing'; bettef eyesight;
more tonic in tho air; more perfumo iu tho
bloom; moro sweetness in the song. Do you
not feel, aged man, sometimes os though you
would like to get your arm and foot free? Do
you not feel us though you would like to throw
the centre of that glittering company???? It is
Jesus, the champion of all worlds, tho favorite
of ail ages. Do you know whnt is the first
questinu the soul will ask when it comes
through the gato of heaven? I think the first
Question will bo: ???Where is* Jesus, the Savior
that pardoned my sin, that carried my sorrows,
that fought my battles, that won my victory????
0, radiant One, how I would like to seo Thee,
Thou of the manger but without its humilia
tions, Thou of the Cross but without its pangs,
Thou of tho grave but without its darkness!
Tho Bible iutimates that we will talk with
Jesus in heaven just as n brother talks with a
brother. Now, what will you ask him first?
I do uot know. I can think what I would ask
1???aul first if I saw him in heaven. I think I
would like to hear him describe the storm that
camo upon tho ship when there .were 275 souls
upon the vcsiel, Paul being the only man on
board cool enough to describe the storm.
There is a fascination about a ship and tho
sea that I never shall get over, and I think I
would like to hear him talk about that first.
But when I meet my Lord Jesus Christ of
what shall I first delight to hear Him speak?
Now I think what it is. I shall first want to
hear the tragedy of His lost hours; and then
Luke???s account of the crucifixion, and Mark???s
account of the crucifixion, and John???s account
of the crucifixion will be nothing, while from
tho living lips of Christ the story shall be told
of the gloom that fell and the devils that
arose, and the fact that upon his endurance
depended the rescue of a race; and there was
darkness iu the sky and there was darkness in
tho soul, and the pain became more sharp and
tho burdens becamo more heavy until the mob
began to swim away from the dying vision of
Christ, and tho cursing of tho mob came to
His ear more faintly, and His hands were fas
tened to the horizontal piece of the cross and
His head fell forward in a swoon as He uttered
the last moan aud cried: ???It is finished!???
All heaven will stop to listen until the story
is done, and every harp will bo put down and
every lip closed and ail eyes fixed upon the
divino narrator until tho story is done, and
thon at the top of tho baton tho eternal or
chestra will rouse up, finger on string of harp
und lips to tho mouth of trumpet, thero shall
roll forth the oratorio of the Messiah. ???Wor
thy is the lamb that was slaiu to receive bless
ing aud riches and honor and glory and power,
world without end I???
ORR- TAKES THE CAKE.
SO ENDED THE STATE WALKING
MATCH LAST FRIDAY.
A Day of Rare Sport Ends in ??? Vlotory for Orr,
Alleged Professional, Who Moved Llko a
Deer - Ford Wins the Second Money and
Sheridan Takes the Third Prize.
awa.v ???EOflHrolei-_aitd canes wul
wouMyou notiiitetoft
_ CcMbSh"
??? feci the spring and das
ticity and mirth of an eternal boyhood?
When the point at which you start from this
world is old ago and tho point to which you
go is eternal.juvenescencc, aged nun, clap
your hands at the anticipation, and say iu
perfect rapturo of soul: ???The timer of ray de
parture is at hand.???
I remark again, all those ought to feci this
. oy of tho text who have a holy curiosity to
mow what is beyond this earthly terminus.
And who has not any curiosity about it? 1'aul,
1 suppose, had the most satisfactory view of
heaven, and he says: ???It doth not yet appoar
what wo shall be.??? It is liko looking through
a broken telescope/ ???Now wo seo through a
gloss darkly.??? Can you tell me anything
about that heavenly place? You ask me a
thousand questions about it that I cannot an
swer. I ask you n thousand questions about
it that you cannot ansswer. And do you won
der that Paul was so glad when martyrdom
gave him a chanco to go over and make dis
coveries in that blessed cotintry?
I hope sorao day, by the grace of God, to go
myself; bui
ed man, 11
man, no prospered man, I think, wanta to go
now. But the time will come, I think, when
I shall go over. I want to aee what thoy do
there, and 1 want to see how they do it. I do
not want to be looking through the gates ajar
forever. I want them to awing wide open
There are ten thousand things I want ex
plained???about you, about myself, about the
government of this world, afx>ut God, about
everything. We start in a plain path of what
wo know and iu a minute come up against a
high wall of what.we do not know. I wonder
how it looks ovor there. Somebody tells me
it is liko a paved city???paved with gold; and
uuother man tells me it is like a fountain, and
it is like a tree, and it is like a triumphal pro-
cesssion; and the next man 1 meet tells me it
is all figurative. I really want to know after
the body is resurrected what they wear and
what they cat; and I have an immeasurable
curiosity to know what it is and how it is and
where it is. Columbns risked bis life to find
this continent, and shall we shudder to go out
on a voyage of discovery which shall reveal a
vaster and more brilliaut country? John
Franklin risked his life to find a passage be
tween icebergs, and shall we dread to find
a passage to eternal summer? Men in Switz
erland travel up the heights of the Matterhorn
with alpenstock and guides and rockets and
ropes, and getting half way up stumbe aud
fall down in a terrible massacre. They just
wanted to say they had been on the tops of
those high peaks. And shall we fear to go out
for the ascent of the eternal hills which start
thousand miles beyond where stop the high
est peaks of the Alps, and when in that as
cent there is no peril? A man doomed to die
stepped on the scaffold and said in joy: ???Now,
in ten minutes 4 will know the great secret.???
One minute after the vital functions cease the
little child that dies knovfa more than Johna
than Edwards, or fit. Paul himself before he
died. Friends, the exit from this world, or
death, if you please to call it. to the Christian,
' glorious explanation. It is demonstration.
is illumination. It is sunburst. It is the
opening of all the windows. It is shutting up
the catechism of doubt and unrolling of all
the scrolls of positive and accurate informa
tion. Insteadof standing at the foot of the
ladder and looking up, it is standing at the top
of the ladder and looking down. It it the last
mystery taken out ol botany and geology and
astronomy and theology. Oh, will it not be
grand to nave all questions answered? The
perpetually recurring interrogation point
changed for the mark of exclamation.
All riddles solved. Who will fear to
go out on that discovery when
all the questions are to be decided which we
have been discussing all our lives? Who shall
country if it be no better.than through
holy curiosity, crying: ???The time of my de
parture is at hand???? ???
I remark again, we ought to have the joy of
the text, because, leaving this world we move
into the best society of the universe. You see
a great crowd of people in some street, and
you say: ???Who Is passing there? What gen
eral, what prince it going up there???? Well. I
see a great throng in heaven. I say* ???Who
is the focus of all that admiration? Who is
When thore was between Paul, and that
magnificent personage only the thinness of
tho sharp edge of the sword of the executioner,
do you wonder that he wanted to go? 0, my
Lord Jesus, let one- wave of that glory roll
over us. Hark! I hear tho weddiug bolls oi
heaven ringing. Tho inarriago of the Lamb
has come, and tho bride hath made herscll
ready.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE.
The Statement of the Commissioner Rela
tive to the Year???s Huslness.
Washington, July 25.???The commissioner of
internal revenue furnishes to-day n statement
relative to the transactions of tho
bureau for the fiscal year ending Juno 30
1884, and a comparison with thoso of tho pre
ceding fiscal year. From these it appears that
the aggregate receipts for the fiscal year were
$121,520,920, a net increase, as compered with
the preceding year, of $22,903,305. These sums
are mado up as follows:
Receipts from spirits of fruit, grain and
other materials including also special taxes.
$70,905,385, an increaso of $25,300.10.
oriteii'. '9 ???'
Fermented liquors, $18,08-1,954, an increase
of $1,184,338.
Taxes undor laws now rcpcoled, $248,150, a
decrease of $10,025,744.
Penalties, $289,144, a decrease of $14,059.
There were withdrawn for consumption du
ring the year, 1,137,050 gallons of spirits dis
tilled from fruit, and a decrease of116.222 gal-
Compared with tho preceding fiscal
year; 78,479,845 gallons of spirits
distilled from grain, molasses and other
materials, an increase of 2,971,000 gallons,
345,501,915 cigars, an increase of 227,730,-
025; 908,213,040 cigarettes, increase of 208,-
101,987; 5,002.045 pounds of snuff, an increase
of 3,182,730; 108,593,419 pounds of tobacco, an
increase of 3,510,233, ana 18,098,019 barrels o!
fermented liquor, an increase of ,240,727. The
following statement shows the aggregate re
ceipts from internal rovenue by states and
territories during tho fiscal year ended Juno
30th, 1884:
Alabama $ 85,398 Missouri $ 0,473,800
Tho great state walking match ended nt ten
'clock last Friday nigfit, with Orr, of At
lanta, first man, Ford, of Macon, second and
8heridan, of Atlanta, third.
A few minutes beforo ten a.m., tho walkers
were taken from tho tents and marched up tho
track to tho judges??? stand.
A bright red string ran across the track
above tho heads of tho gayly attired pedes
trians. To it was suspended three small satin
bogs. Tho one on tho outside was of fiery red
and contained three hundred dollars in gold.
Next to it was a sock of light grey, containing
one hundred and fifty dollars in gold. Tho
insldo sack, of deep blue, contained ono hun
dred dollars in gold. Temptingly they hung
above the walkers.
An instant almost beforo the pedestrians
started Mr. Turner, speaking for tho Koine
walkers, stated that Rome would not start if
Orr, one of the Atlanta walkers, was permitted
to go. They claimed that Orr was a profes
sional and not a resident of tho state. Tho
management held that as Orr was the first
man entered, and ns the race had never been
advertised as nn amateur match, and ns tho
Rome pedestrians had been notified that Orr
was in, they had no right to complain. The
judges helcl that Orr should walk and there
upon tho Rome walkers withdrew. This left
tho following men on the track: Sheridan
Mize, Orr, Seel, Birmingham, Murphy. Wil
son aud Prater from Atlanta; Ford, Jacobus,
Farmer, Harris aud Haskins, of Macon, and
Fain of Gainesville.
Mr. Steve Ryan then read tho rules of the
match, and as the word ???go??? was said tho po
destrin ns dashed oil'.
Seel, the wonderful Dutchman, swung
ahoad and went whiszing around tho track on
a full run amid shouts or applause. Ho scored
the first lap ahead of his competitors, mid
was dosely pressed by Ford; the other walk
ers scoring laps in tho following order:
Prater, Orr, Murphy, Jacobus, Sheridan
Wilson, Fain, Harris, Hoskins, Birmingham
Farmer; Mize. ,
The pedestrians went to business at once,
most of them running constantly, and all of
them running more or less. On the fifth Ian
Ford went ahead of Seel and was in tho lend,
but soon after Orr passed him and took the
Arizona 2,714
Arkansas .91,009
California 8,331,766
I'AV.W
9,664
212,327
178,502
378,741
2,631
23,.720,4*1
???MM 2,757,416
Kansas 167,.Til
Kentucky 18,6H3,l?j
Louisiana* 660,184
iMaine. 56,609
Maryland 3,146,49!
Massachusetts. 2,380,000
Michigan 1,419,3*)
Minnesota 013,982
Mississippi 60,449
Colorado
Connecticut...
Dakota. ....
Delaware..... *
Florida ......
Georgia
Idaho *
Illinois ......
Indiana
Iowa **
Montana
Nobraska*ZWH
Nevada... 3,827
N'wIIompsh???re 89,196
New Jersey 8,477,222
New Mexico.... 09,1391
New York 18,760,881
N. Carolina. 1,760,966
Ohio*....,... 18,620,254
Oregon *128,275
Pennsylvania.. 7,888,700
Rhode island...
8. Carolina
Tennessee .....*,
Texas......*
UUb
Vermont
130,468
03.896
1,219,995
1202
THE POSTAL RECEIPTS,
The second returns received at the postoffice
department from 159 letter carrier postoffices.'
which produced nearly one half or the postal
revenue, show that the gross receipts for the
quarter ended June 30, 1884, were $6,169,052,
or $350,316 5 7-10 per cent less than the re
ceipts from the same offices during the cor
responding quarter of the proceeding year.
Upon this basis tho receipts from all the
postofficea during the quarter would aggregate
about $11,000,000, and the receipts for the year
would be about $2,000,000 less than the re
ceipts for tho previous fiscal year. Sixteen
offices show increased receipts. The 'diminu
tion is attributed to the reduction of the letter
rate from three to two cents, and the result of
the year???s business, which is better than ex
pected, is highly gratifying to the financial
officer of the postoffice department.
NONE LEFT TO TELL THE TALE.
A Terrible Roller Explosion In the Leliigli
Valley.
Allbxtowx, Pa., July 25.???The rear part of
the boiler of an engine drawing a freight
train on the Lehigh Valley /ailroad.
near Whitehaven, to-day blew up and
killed four persops who were riding on the
engine. The victims are J. II. Ilassel, engi
neer; Brakeman Ilassel, son of the engineer;
Fireman Keubenster, and E. Smith, telegraph
operator. Smith was the night telegraph op
erator at Mescopec and was riding on the en
gine to bis hotel at Whitehaven, when the
explosion occurred. The bodies of the engi
neer and fireman were found torn to pieces in
the woods 100 yards from the wreck. The re
mains of Smith were found under the tank of
the engine horibly mangled. The explosion
occurred in a lonely place and nobody was
left to notify the trains going in either direc
tion. Shortly after the accident a long train
ot coal ran into the exploded engine. The
locomotive of the coal tram was badly wrecked
and covered with* broken cars. Twenty cars
were scattered in different directions and
broken into kindling wood. Michael Green
igineerof the coal train, was seriously and
perhaps fatally injured. The rest of the crew
escaped by leaping from the train.
A Tennessee Candidate,
Cxattaxoooa, July 25.???[Special.]???At the
congressional convention at Cleveland, this
morning, John R. Neal was nominated for
congress from this, the third congressional
district.
had the most singular gaitsfiownon tho track.
With apprently no exertion whatever ho
passed around tho track, his face wearing a
listless expression and his head turned half to
ono side os his eyes were bont upon tho furthest
corner of the rink as though ho
was earnestly looking for some
thing thoro. Ho was dressed in tho simplest
suit of whito tights, with a black trunk that
fitted him closely. He was decidedly the
most interesting man on the track to an ob
server. None of tho other walkers had such
striking characteristics as Orr. Seel, tho Fly
ing Dutchman, was perhaps tho most athletic
looking man on the track, was the objeet of
glances and tho rocipiont of much ap-
Ford, with his ???crow-hop,??? and
with his old Indian stride, attracted
Attention. .Birmingham struck a six
hour dog trot, and bring nn
the ?? report got
ho win nn imported* pro
fess iovfui who had been entered by tho sport
ing men. It was expected that he would
throw off at tho first of tho race and go to tho
front toward the close. It was reported that
this would he done in order that tho initiated
might buy him cheaply???as third or fourth
choice or in the field. Iu consequence of this
report, which, liko all reports, flew fast, Bir
mingham was pretty freely bought.
Orr pressed on and cosily kept
In the lead, scoring four
miles in * tho first half hour,
was closely pressed by Ford, who scored four
miles a second or so behind him.
There was no material change for the next
fow minutes, but soon after it was noticed that
a small, wiry-looking fellow like unto a pocket
edition of Prater, was passing to the front. Ho
was Fain, the Gainesville champion, and he at
once became a favorite. Just as tho first hour
closed ho scored his eighth mile and stood at
tho head of the list.
Tnx ELEVEN O???CLOCK SCORE.
At 11 o???clock tho score stood:
Sheridan -_7*8
Ford 7-12
Mize.........
JflOOMtS... -
Orr ??? 7-13
KmI M
Birmingham
Farmer
Fain
Murphy 6-10
Wilson.. 6-8
Harris 7-2
Prater. 7-8
Haskins 6-13
For tne next hour the attention of the crowd
was directed mainly to the now wonder, Fain,
who ran very easily but evidently not wit hou
exertion. Ills resemblance to Prater, tho
mountain wonder anti the fact that they had
spent their boyhood in pretty much the
same way put many people in doubt as to
what he could or might do. This state of af
fairs existed until
THK TWELVE O???CLOCK SCORE.
wss announced and h? was still in the lead.
That score was as follows:
Sheridan l3-9!Farmcr 13-4
ford * 14-8 Fain 14-11
Mize 12-6 Murphy IMS
Jacobus.....* 9-1 Wilson 11-13
Orr...*** 14-8 Harris*. 12-1
Heel**.* * 13-3 Prater. 14-4
Birralexbam li-4j Haskins 12-11
Fain???s friends seeing how be developed put
their money ou him quite freely. Jacobus,
after completing the score reported above, left
the track and did not return. Fain kept the
lead and for the next three hours the race was
???s follows:
OXK O???CLOCK SCORE.
Sheridan 18-51 Farmer..
Ford 17-3 Fain
THK Five O CLOCK WORE.
^Atflre o'clock the score stood:
Farmer
82-7
Fain * 30-18
Murphy *avo
Wilson**. 30-0
Harris 86-1
I'mter JM-Il
I Ia.sk lus 31-4
I Sheridan 88-0
Ford 34-12
Mize 8ft-3
Jacobus 9 \
Orr. 87-ft
Seel * .jw-o
Birmingham 30-2
THK SIX O'CLOCK SCORE,
At six o'clock the score stood:
Sheridan 43-2 (Farmer av3
Ford 38-2 Fain *. 30-13
Mlie. 40-2 Murphjr** ;o-o
Jacobus *....iM Wilson....* jrm)
Orr. .43-2 Harris .39-13
Seel........??? 40 9 Prater*.** **....*39-1:1
Birmingham 2U-6 (Haskins.* 39-2
As this last score was recorded it was seen
that Orr and Sheridan were on the same lap.
Each had made 43 miles and three laps. The
interest thou became very great in these two
walkers.
THE 8RVKX O???CLOCK SCORE,
however, showed Orr just a bit in the lead,
was as follows:
FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
BARNUM RE-ELECTED CHAIRMAN
OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
Transact fox Preliminary Business, the Body
Adjourns, to Meet Clevelaod in Albany, on
Monday-Ex-Oovernor St. John Nomi
nated far the Presidency.
Sheridan *A8 13
Ford*.* * -41-2
Mize 44-10 Murphy.
Jncoubs 9- 1 Wilson
Orr * 49-1 Harris
Seel...** ,4.5-1 Prater
Birmingham .31-1 Haskins
THE RIQIIT O???CLOCK SCORE.
At eight o???clock tho score stood
68-10
Mlzo
Jacobus
Orr c
Heel..* ...
Birmingham*
64-2
Fain *ao>ia
Mtyphy..??? M-t
Harris !.*Ji3-5
Prater 63-12
Haskins..... .60-12
Farmer *.43-33
Fain 30-1
Murphy * 49-6
Wilson . - *
Harris ..
Prater,*..
??? Haskins 46-13
As the olectrlc lights Hashed ovor tho crowd
the walkers bracedup and redoubled their ef
forts. Orr was still in the lead, and
THE NINE O???CLOCK SCORE
stood os follows:
Hherldan .68*10 Farmer. **48-11
Ford 58-4 ** ???
Mlzo 51-7
Jacobus * 0-1
Orr * 50-5
Heel **62-13
Birmingham jil-i
??? THE LAST HOUR.
Tho last hour was'truly exciting, as is tho
case with all good walking matches.
The people stood on thohenchet otidchoered
and tho walkers were pressed to their utmost.
Seri hail been spurting around in abcautiftil
suit of blue tights ana was tho recipient of
much applause. Soon after nine he went in
his tent considerably used up and did not
again get on the track. Font had lost one
hour aud a half from cramp colic,
but he was pressing Sheridan
for the second place. Prater was
doing his best to get at least the third prize,
but he had little hope. Sheridan was doing
his lcvelest. Tho others were doing their
loveloNt, hut what for they alone knew, ns
with them nil hopo was gone. During tho
hour sumo of them dropped out and left tho
track to the fast mon. All tho Macon men
weroon except Jacobus. When it grow so
close between Ford and Sheridan for second
place another chance for betting was afforded
nml taken advantage of.
TnR LAST riPTERX MINUTES,
The last fifteen minutes was walked through
tho most intense excitement. Tho interest
was contered on Sheridan and Ford. Orr wna
settlod on as the certain winner. Tho scores
of tho two men were watched closely. At on$
period of the last half hour Sheridan had
puliod up ou Ford???s gallant 16nd, but his
trainer, George Case, gavo him a little
Macon grenao on a sponge, and ho dashed
off with n determination To win or Almost dio
in the attempt. Orr was handed tho American
colors and was crowned with o laurel wreath,
nd with these ho daubed around tho track
iko a deer, amid the shouts of tho four tin
and voices.
ntly ten tho buglo sounded and
declarod at an end. Tho crowd
rushed to the judges??? stand, and carried thoir
favorite on their shoulders to receive the luoro
of their luck,
Vol Dunning stepped forward and with
stoutorian voice mini
result:
announced tho following
Seel **53-5
Farmer. 52-1
Mlxe 61-7
Birmingham 31-1
Fain 30-10
Wilson * ao-oo
Jacobus 9-1
JJ-ll
Jacobus 9-1
Orr ???16-1
Seel 171*8
Birmingham **16- J
Morphy **
Wilson
Harris
Prater ...**
Haskins....
164
16-4
18-6
20-7
18-2
. s, r,
. 26-10 ....
.. 9-1 Wilson JEM
I Harris 26-10
27-9 Prater 2M
> Haskins.
TWO O'CLOCK SCORE.
23-2;Farmer 20-13
19-lOiFain 24*11
Mize 22-6 Murphy 290
Jacobus 9-1 Wilson 20-11
Orr * * 21*2 Harris 22-61
Seel *22*11 Prater ??6,
1 Birmingham * 20-5|HaskIns 22-4
Til EKE O???CLOCK SCORE.
Sheridan. 28-2 Farmer**.* * 23-12
Ford*....*.. ~' "
Mize
Jacobus.....*??? - -
Orr W-l
Heel 27-9
Birmingham *..*... 2HE|.
Fain had by the end of the fifth hour begun
to flicker, ana soon after left the track.
The audience took things quietly, only ap-
dauding occasional spurts, but nevertheless
iilly interested in the match. During the
sixth hour Orr went considerably ahead.
Fain, bis lively young opponent, had left the
track and donned his mountain garb. Bir
mingham was on hfs last legs; Jacobus had
long since left the sawdust and several others
already showed that they were walking a
hopeless match. Orr, Prater, Reel and Sheri
dan were making lively time and much doubt
existed as to who would come in first. Judges
of pedestrians could easily see that Orr bad tne
ability to win the race if be chose to do it but
they would not put up money on him.
the rocao'clock score.
At four o'clock the score stood:
Sheridan ???Farmer.
.....290
.... 804
9-1
Birmingham..........*28-3
rptr:::
Hherldan 62-13
Prater A8-9
Harris 67-8
Murphy **..64-12
Hoskins 64-11
dred.
The prizes were paid os soon as the results
were aunouuced, and thus emled the great
match.
Piper, Aycock, Whitmore, White and Ebllng
were the Rome Walkers who camo down
Thoy wanted even to race tho professionals
but their backers would uot allow it.
Macon sent up a good delegation and they
were loud in their praise of the treatment
their men received. Dennis KJating sat on
a back seat with smiles back to his cars at
Ford???s success,
Mayor Jack King, Colonel J. H. Shanklin,
Mr. Ben I. Hughes, Mr. W. M. Towers, Mr,
Linton A. Dean, Dr. Kntol, Colonel E. J.
MacOruder, Mr. R. J. Ragan, Mr. J. A.
Smith and Mr. Ponder, city editor of the
Courier, were among tho Romans who came
down.
Tho special wire nut in tho building by
Manager Stevens, of tfie Western Union, was
one of the big features of the match. Tho in
strument was in ebargo of Mr. Choa. G. Da
vidson, who was kent busy all day sending
specials. Manager Stevens deserves uiucr
credit for this enterprise.
Protection Proin Violence Asked For.
Cixcixxati. July 25.???A petition was pre
sented to the mayor to-day by tho proprietors
of the stove foundriee, and by the cigar manu
facturers. praying for protection for non-union
men iu tneir employ. They stated that their
men were assaulted and beaten day after day,
and receive no protection from the police. If
they cannot be protected they will remove
their factories to other cities.
Train Wrecking In Mississippi.
NrwOrlraxr, July 25.???A special to the
Timee-Democrat from Vicksburg says the
construction train on the Vickaburg, Shreve
port and Texts Pacifie railroad, fell through
the bridge over Alligator bayou to-day, kill
ing Engineer Vanderberg and the fireman.
The accment was caused by the rail having
been torn up by unknown persons* for tho
purpose of wrecking the train.
A Itnvlsher Hanged.
G'aukrox, July 25.???This morning a negro
was found suspended to a tree close to the
bridge across Little riyer. An investigation
showed that the negro wss the same who re
cently robbed the residence of Rev. Mr. Light-
foot, and attempted to outrage Mrs. Lightroot.
He was captured this morning about 2 o???clock
by a reconnoitering party and hung. He con
fessed the crime and gave his name as William
Smith, from Dallas.
Congressional .Nominee*.
Sedalia, Mo.. July 25.???The democratic
convention of tne sixth district last night
nominated John I. Heard for congress on the
389th ballot.
Louisville, July 25.???J. E. Halsell was nom
inated for congree by the democrats of the
third district yesterday.
Ilulleta nml Knives.
Civcixxavi, 0??? July 25.???In a general fight
at a colored picnic at Oakley grove, five per-
???onos were mere or less seriously injuretf by
bullets or knives.
Two Murderers Hanged.
NswOelkaxs, July 25.???Victor Eloi, for
wife murder, and Kendrick Holland, colored,
for killing bis mistress, were hanged here to
day.
Naar York. July 34.???The democratic na
tion*!'committee met at the Fifth avenue ho
tel tn-dny. and was called to order
by Senator Gorman, of Maryland r
in tho absence of chairman
Bn rnu a. 8cnaior Gormen was at once elected!
teniiK>n??ry chairman, and F. O. PYlnco waa
made temporary secretary.
H. 0. Thompson-,??? of New York, made a mo
tion whi ih was seconded by W. W. Arm
strong, of Ohio* that William Barntim be>
elected permanont cbnirmanofthe committee.
This was dbne by acclamation and unani
mously. F. O. Princo was re-elected secretary*
The roll of states was then colled.
Alabama was represented by H.
C. Temple; Florida, Samuel
Pasco; Georgia, Patrisk Walsh;
3Iississippi, G. A. Johnson; North Carolina*
M. W. Ransom ; South Carolina, F. W. Daw
son; Virginia, John S. Barbour.
F. W. Dawson, of South Caroiinn, introduced 1
the following:
Resolved, That * committee of seven, of which
the permanent and temporary chah-mnn of the
committee shall be members, bcnppolntcd to con
sider n plan for the organization of tho committee
for tho work of the canvass, and report at the
next mMtlng ( of the national committee.
I ???.After discussion upon tho necessity of a
thorough and systematic organization, tho res
olution was adoptod, and tne following com
mittee was oppointod: Messrs Barn urn, Gor
man, Dawson, Smalley, Kelley, Miller and
Vilas. ???
Smith M. Week, proxy for Mr. linrnum,
stated that Mr. Barnum thought that upon
the adjournment to-day of the enmmitteco it
would be well to adjourn to meet at Albany on
Monday.
A resolution was adopted that whon tho
committee adjourned it would bo to moot again
at 10 o???clock Tuesday morning at the Dclavan
house, Albany. *
Uurbcrt O. Thompson introduced a resolu
tion that a committee of throe bo appointed to
scigetaud report upon tno headquarters in
this city for the campaign.
Tho resoultion was adopted and
Messrs. Thompson McHenry and Rose wore
appointed as that committee.
Mr. Baker, of West Virginia, addressed tho
comniitteo by roquest, on tho condition of nf-
fairs in that state. lie gave it as his opinion
that whatever differenoncet may oxlat on
local matters, tho party would bo unitod iu
Novomber.
Tho committco on organization for tho can
vass and tho congressional committee will
hold a meeting to consider the plan for tho na
tional campaign.
Mr. Thompson announced that thero would
ho a meeting of tho coramitteo on lieadquar-
ter-< immediately after the adjournment. Tim
national comniitteo adjourned nt 1:30 p. in.
to incot at Albany.
the n an or oeoaxiutiox.
Tho committee v?? seven appointed nt tho
tncoting of tho democratic national comniitteo
to consider tho plan for organizing tho na
tional committee for campaign work, mot this
liter tin* imtiniinl emumit-
had adjourned. All members
their proxies were present.
General discussion took place, and u confor-
nco with tho congressional committee was
United Htftic* .Senator John K. Ken-
nn, of West Virginia, was tho only mem
ber of tho loiter committco who was ab
sent or not represented by proxy*
It was decided that the national committee
and that tho cjagrcssional committee
look after tho elections in tiio congressional
districts. It was estimated that thero
78 congressional districts that
nro confessedly closo, and to these tho con
gressional committco should givo their par
ticular attention. Representatives Stephens
of Now York, Murphy of Iowa, and Rosoorans
of California, wero appointed a standing corn-
initlco ol tho congressional body to work
with tho national committee. Tho headquar
ters of tho congressional committco will bo in
Washington. Tho sub-committco of three,
consisting of Thompson, of Now York; Mc
Henry, or Kontucky; ami Ross, of Now Jersey,
hnvo not yet reported upon tho plnco for
permanont headquarters for tho national
committees. Thoy will roport at Albany oa
Tuesday next^
THE GRBBLYPARTY.
The Programme for tlio Future???The Land*
Ing nt Portsmouth.
Warhixotox, July 24^-According to the
programme agreed upon by tho secretary of
war and the acting secretary of tho navy, tho
vessels of the Grculy relief expedition, with
the survivors and tno dead of the Grccly party,
will fail from St* Johns on the -???'*11?? and 26th
inst, and procrod direct to Portsmouth, N. H.,
wlii ri* lli'-y u ill bo officially n-o-m-d by tho
secretary of tho navy, tho officers o! the north
Atlantic squadron, now at that port, and tho
state and local authorities. Lieutenant Grccly
ami the other survivors will disembark at
'ortfinoiith. and the vessels will proceed
New York with the bodies of tho dead,
which will be landed at Governors island and
idaccd iu charge of Major General Hancock.
The Utter will transfer them tothe care of
relativMand friends upon appllf ttoa. Tho
vessels art expected to arrive at New York
about the 1st of August. Should any of the
bodies bo unclaimed, which will probably
?? rove to be the case with some of tho foreign
am, they will be buried with appropriate '
ceremonies at the National cemotery in New
York. The officers of tho relief expedition
will probably report in Washington early next
month.
The chief signal officer has addressed a cir
cular letter to the relatives of the dead mem
bers of the Greely party, advising them that
the bodies will be landed at the military sta
tion, on Governors island, New York, about
Auguat 1st. The United States will bear tho
expense of the transjmrUtion of the bodies to
such places as the relatives in each case may
select for interment, as well as the cost of bur
ial, but the expenses for the journey of rela
tives can???t be paid by the government.
A FIGHT WITH INDIANS.
Sv. Loins. July 24.???The Republican???s Du
rango special says CapUin Perrines, com
manding a detachment of cavalry in pursuit
of the Indians that made an outbreak on tho
cattle camp a short time ago, found tho Indians
intrenched in their stronghold one hundred
miles west of the Blue mountains, on tho 15th
Inst. After a sharp fight he was compelled
to retire with the loss of one scout
named Warrnington, and James Higgins, a
cowboy, killed. There were two hundred In
dians well armed, and so well protected in the
bluffs that ft wss found impossible to dislodge
them. CapUin Perrines will await orders
from headquarters before miking any further
attacks. It Is only throwing lives of his men
away ata disadvantage to renew the fight with
the Indians.
Shot Dead by His Prisoner.
Daro, Tex., July 25.???Jas. O. Bonner, de
puty sheriff of Iiano county, while having iu
custody C. Davis, accused of horse stealing,
was surprised by the latter, who *uddenly
seized Bonner's pistol, shot him dead and es-
<-r*i.??-l. TId* ritu-:ns are in hot pursuit of
Davis.
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