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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2 1884.
THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.
A RUNNING COMMENTARY
MEN AND MATTERS.
The Banking Facilities of Atlanta-A Betumtothe
Jersey Cow-Incidents Told by Wet Hammond
???Emory Speer's Praotlco-An Xnoldent
Told in the Firt Methodist Church
Touching our lack of sufficient banking capi
tal, an Atlanta banker said to mo: ???II
the Atlanta National and tho Gate City had
each a half million capital ure should still
have one half less than we actually need and both
of those hanks would pay better than they now do
But whnt Atlanta chiefly needs Is a sayings bonk
organized after tho plan of the Now England sav
ings hanks.???
???Are they verysnecessful????
"Yet. In Worcester, Mass., which claims 70,000
inhabitants, the savings banks have 918,000,000 de
posits. In Lowell, Mass., the deposits of tho sav
ings hanks ore 94,000,000 larger than tho combined
capital and deposits of the seven national banks of
Lowell. You perceive what an enormous capital
they provide for building up New England. It has
filled Massachusetts with factories and railroads,
and made it tho greatest state on tho continent. 1
???Could wo hope to aggregate such a capital in
Atlanta????
"Unquestionably, if the savings banks were
properly organized. Even at Jama???s bank, which
was not a savings bank, there was 9350,000 that
might properly be called savings deposits. At
lanta is pre-eminently a manufacturing city, and
teems with busy working people. At present they
liavo literally no where to deposit their money.
Consequently they waste It or spend With a
good savings bank they would rapidly get in tho
habit of saving, and I bclievo a half million dol-
larsmlght besocured within a yearjuid double that
tho second year,???
???What arc tho main features of the New England
savings banks????
"They are organised without stock or capital,
toeing purely co-opcrativo. A eharter Is obtained,
directors elected, president, cashier and clerks ap
pointed, a small room rented and the bank opened.
The deposits draw 4 per cent Interest and are loan
ed at 7 or 8 per cent. Out of the differences, the
rent, salary of cashier or clerks and other ex
penses art paid, and at the end of every five years
the surplus Is divided as a dividend among tho de
positors. The state law for these banks is very
strict. No moaey can be borrowed on less than
'five names, or for moro than one-half tho value of
any property. A board of examiners meets
monthly and passes on all loans. Much of tho
money is loaned to depositors for building houses,
as In onr building and loan associations,
and such as cannot bo loaned
safely Invested in bonds. If tho Atlanta
men I could name would servo as officers, a savings
bank could bo openod hero in a week aad make a
success from the start. A savings bonk law Is being
prepared, and will bo offered to the next loglsla
ture.???
Dr. JTardon says tho first Jerseys, then known as
Alderney*, ever brought to Georgia, came through
Mr. James Ormond of this city. In about 1859 Mr.
Ormond bought in Now Jersey a Jersey cow with a
bull calf by her side, paying for tho pair $330. Tho
Devons were then in high favor hero and Mr. Or
mond???s importation was coldly received.
.A Florida politician says: <???Your young Goor-
glan, Charley Dougherty, Is tho coming man of our
state. Thcro has been bitter rivalry between 8t
Clair Abrams and Dougherty, but Dougherty has
gono to the front???Repeatedly speaker of the
homo, he has just taken the nomination for con*
gress. St. Clair Abrams, though perhaps tho brain
ier man of the two, has a habit of making enemies
who knife him whonever occasion offers."
This young Dougherty is the youngest son of the
late William Dougherty, end was raised iu Ath
ens. A swarthy, handsome fellow, ho was distin
guished at school and collcgo rather for rough and
tumble good humor, and a certain bind persist
ence, than for ntudious habits. Without his fath
er???s woiulroua and lofty eloquence ho had a forci
ble way of patting things. IIo drifted to Florida
when quite young to take charge of flsfino planta
tion, which ho did not manage closely. I met him
onco cruising through tho Florida waters in a
largo schooner which he owned, and on which ho
spent most of his time, ready, on provocation, to
set sail for Liverpool or Guiana. IIo touched at
???Jacksonville for supplies, and enticing me on
board steered for Volusia bay, gazing from his bat
tered old schooner with contempt on Astor???spret-
tyyaebt, and kindling my admiration with sug
gestions of the Ideal buccanoer. A dear fellow is
Dougherty, frank, wholesome and golden-hearted.
I might easily fill this pago with
memories of his honest and careless
boyhood, that is rounding Into a steadfast and Il
lustrious life. There is one story that I must fix in
passing. Pending the presidential election of 1870
Dougherty, so the story come to me, come up on
a crowd of fellows engaged in what appears to have
been at tbattlmoan ordinary diversion of the
Florida youth, viz.: the; ???ducking??? of tho Hon.
TVm. Watkins Hicks, then a noted republican poli
tician. The boys had ???soused??? him two or threo
times when Dougherty interfered or stopped them.
The unfortunate man hastened to express his great
Itnde. "Ob,??? said Dougherty, ???no thanks are
needed. I interfered merely because I was afraid
it might hurt us In the coming election. After the
election is over I???m going to duck you myself.???
Emory Speer has a very lucrative practico here,
outside of bis district attorneyship. Ills Income
from both for the year ending with August was a
trifle ovsr 915,COO. He has made Atlanta his homo
and has invested several thousand dollars In such
enterprises as Peters??? park, the Exposition mills,
and the.new compress company. He looks happy
and contented and declares that he is out of politics
finally. This declaration may be taken with a
grain of salt.
Colonel Nat Hammond said the other day: ???Tho
most apposite help ever given one speaker by
another was given to me by Judge Lawson BUck
during tho convention of '68. I was opposing
granting tho legislature certain powers, and ex
travagantly exclaimed, ???Supposo tho very day
this came up the legislature should be drunkf
An opponent asked, ???Can the gentleman
conceive of auch a thing happening???? As quick
as thought Judge Black aroae and stated that
such a thing not only can happen, but actually did
ha pi cn, and that he was in the legislature when it
occurred. He then explained that before the war,
win n the Tmevant claim was before the bouse,
the lobbyists tor the claim bad given a big wine
supper, at which the whole bouse
wss present. They bad imbibed very
freely and were all drunk. General Toombs
apposed the claim. At the night ses
sion the vote was taken and tho
house roared ???Yes.??? General Toombs, almost
alone, voted ???No.??? He was shrewd enough, how
ever, to call ???division.??? ???Those in favor of the
motion will rise,??? called the speaker. A fall
half minute was given. Not a man on the af
firmative wss able to rise to the division. General
Toombs did arise when the negative was called
and defeated thedaim by one to nothing.???
Colonel Jlamraond went en to say: ???Judge
Black Isa notable character. In the convention of
???C6 we proposed a resolution praying for the re
lease of Jefferson Davis who was then In prison.
Black insisted on adding to the resolution the
name of some obscure Walker county
man, who was also In a northern prison. We ex
plained that it would make us ridiculous
to couple Blsek???s humble constituent with our
ex-prcsidenL But Black was inexorable, contend
ing that his friend was as anxious to to get out as
Mr. Davis was, and as much entitled to the sym
pathy of the convention. We finally had to pass a
separate resolution for Black???s friand, and he then
voted for the Davis resolution and it wen
through.???
Torching the rumored Wg purchases in the floor
git gold region,the facta gppear to U that two Eng
lish companies have takes options on About 8utt> ???
K0 and ftCO.COQ worth of mining properties. They
have put up about 930,000 Iu cash to socuro the
options, which begin to expire next month. Gen
eral Imboden Is largely Interested in the matter
???nd Mr. Frank Hall quotes him as being confident
that the options will ho perfected. If they are, the
companies will invest heavily and promptly
developing the properties.
Mr. Lumsden, of Nacoocheo valley, whose dis
covery of a rich pocket containing several thous
and dollars In nuggets, in his garden a few years
since, made such excitement, lately sent a large
quantity of honey to market with tho statement,
???Honey is better than gold, and I can make more
money tending bee hives than mining.???
- Mr. W. Johnston, of Palmetto, has abont 4,000
bearing grape vines that he says nearly paid tho
expenses of his farm this year. Ho sold his grapes
in New Orleans, getting from twelve to twenty
cents a pound. He has 1,500 vines that will begin
bearing next year, and will set out 8,000 vines this
yesr. He says the old red hills produce sweeter
and better grapes than the rich valleys, in a few
yean mlddls Georgia will have vineyards set on
every hill, and wine-making will bo a deflnito iu
d us try with her people.
A poor woman, who Is dying, said to her friends
who sat by her bedside the other day: ???I want you
to pray that I may have strength to meet death
wlthont the agony that overcomes me now when I
think of it. I know it must come soon. I know
It Is God???s will, and. I onght to submit without
fear. But I shudder to think of the awful moment
when my soul must leave my body. Pray that God
may be with me and uphold me!???
A number of Atlantlans, among them Mr. B.
B. Crew, Mr. D. G. Wylie and Mrs. Fanny Kimball
have bought lots at Monteaglc, and will have cot
tages there for next summer. It is a most delight
ful place and is rapidly becoming famous as tho
southern Chautauqua. *
I met Hon. Dick Morgan, of Texas, but former
ly of Savannah, tho other day. Ho was on his
way to Sewanneo,where ho proposed establishing
summer colony of Texans, that ho represented.
They wanted a cheap plateau on which they could
build a hundred or so of cottages for summer
idenccs. There Is no placd to compare to the
Tallolah region of north Georgia for such a settle
ment. When the marvelous beauties of that sec
tion are known to capital there will bo a sensa
tion. *
At tho First Mcthbdlst church, last Sunday, Mr.
J. A. Barclay made a notable statement. Ho said
he was called on a short timo slnco by
Miss Sue Halloway, a most excellent lady liv
ing in a neighborhood near Brooklyn, in this city,
to start a Sunday school. 8ho recited tho terriblo
condition of the children there, and tho utter lack
of religious training. Mr. Barclay looked the field
over, and his heart was moved. He determined
to start the school, but found, to his amazement,
that no one would rent him a room when thoy
found ho wanted it for a Sunday school. He ap
plied to several landlords and agreed ou terms.
When he told them he wanted it for a Sunday
school they declined to let him have it.
Ho gavo up in despair. On his way
uptown he halted for rest at tho stato road
depot. Mr. Davo Wylie asked him the causo
o! his dejection. Upon being told Mr. Wyllo said
???I???ll fix it for you. I'll let you havo one of our
passenger cars. You can hold Sunday-school In
that.??? Tho next Sunday a car was palled out of
tho depot and halted on tho track near tho district
Mr. Barclay wished to serve. Tho doors
opened, tho windows raised and Sunday-school
opened. By personal drumming In tho alloys
seven youngsters came In ???to try it for ono
Sunday.??? The next Sunday thcro wero fourteen
and last Sunday thcro were 58; making a success of
perhaps the first Sunday-school on wheels, In his
tory. Mr. Barclay said: ???If you could sco the rag
god, destitute mothers, who come with tears in
their eyes and thank us for tho work wo aro doing
for their children, wo would not long lack a
house.??? Ho said further. ~ A barkeeper who has a
saloon In that section, and who watched our work,
said to me: ???I will pay tho rent of any room you
can get, for I see the good you aro doing.???
Talking to a sturdy farmer, who brought to a
customer a lot of delicious fruit and. butter,
asked why he did not regularly supply tho city?
Ho replico: ???For tho lack of a market houso.
Tliero aro hundreds of well-to-do farmers In Ful
ton who raiso tho best of fruit, vegetables and
poultry, and who would gladly sell them for a
trifle. They do not care td peddle them from
houro to bouse, but if thcro was a central market,
would have their well-filled wagons at the market
every morning by daylight, bringing everything
from spring lamb to berries.???
Dr. Scott Todd???s uniquo Marietta street resi
dence marks, I think, a new era in the architec
ture of our homes.
Tho summer wonderera hare pretty well re
turned, and their tanned faces show smartly on
the streets. Tho mountain hss had tho best of it
this summer, the cool weather mazing surf bath
ing uncomfortable. Atlanta ttseli has boen de
lightful, though September promises to bo sultry.
Next to Mr. Richard Feters, Mr. Tom Branch, of
Augusta, has done more, perhaps, to advanoe fine
stock raising in Georgia than uir other man. His
farm near Augusta, ???Beulah,??? is admirably
stocked. The finest strains of Jerseys make up a
head that la in the beat sense, a good ono. Berk
shire bogs, Angora goats, collie dogs and sheep
are bred carefully and Intelligently. It la hard to
conceive how a man of wealth and culture can do
more for bis state than by brcodlng fine stock and
Improving the flocks and herds of his people,
'lieaulah??? is ono farm, the name of which is its
trade mark, and those who buy from it may feel
sure that they are getting the beat. It would be
well for Georgia, if there wero one auch farm in
every county of the state.
Books or special phases of southern life have tho
call In the northern market juat now. In addition
to Mr. Harris???s "Mingo,??? Colonel Johnston's ???Old
Mark Langston??? and Geo. Alfred Townsend's
???Entailed Hat,??? a new writer baa Jnat Issued two
books that deal with the mountain folks of East
Tennessee. The first is called ???In the Tennessee
Mountains,??? and fbe name of the author is given
as Charles Egbert Craddock. This, I happen to
know, is an assumed name. The author???s real
samel* N.M.Mnrfee, and he lives in Sk Louis.
His last book, ???Where the Battle was Fought,??? Is
winning golden praise. If things keep on in this
promising way, we shall have a literature before
we know It.
America Leads the World.
It is only a few years, comparatively, since the
manufacture of watches by machinery has been
universally adopted. America first demonstrated
the feasibility of such work being done by ma
chinery, and now both Bwitxeriand and England
have adopted the American system. At first it
was thought that the machine could never sup
plant the band made article, even In the most
common goods; but machine made watches havo
worked their way into popular favor???a result
brought about by an actual demonstration of
their wonderful time-keeping qualities.
American watches are now sold by preference,
in every civilised country on the globe, an l In
our own country very few foreign made watches
**1 good timekeeper is now sold at such a rea
sonable price, and the demands of the age an
such ss to necessitate the possession of a time
keeper by every business man, consequently tho
sale of watches represents an enormous traffic.
Watchmaking In the south was neve rat temp ted
until Meter*. J. P. Stevens Sc Co. had the pluck
a few yean ego to demonstrate that so a them in
genuity can produce as fine a time-keeper as the
most famous factories in this country. The suc
cess oi the Atlanta watch factory Is well known to
many living here: but this institution fa even
better known abroad than at home. Notwlth-
standfeg the fact that a great many of these time
pieces are sold in the city; probablytor every one
that is sold here twenty are told in other sections.
Messrs. J. P. Stevens A Co. shipped out twenty-one
watches on Friday, and fifteen watches yesterday;
And All??nt??U bMomla, her
w.tth Uctory Uun oj otter Indmtry In onr
IS
???SPICES.???
DR. TALMAGE???S SERMON ON KINO
SOLOMON.
All the Splendor of Solomon's Palsee and r.etinuo
Were Scllpssd by His Intellectual Fower-Uo
Was the First Orest Naturalist That
the World Brer Bsw, Eta.
Scrmoh by tho Rev. T. DeWitt Talmoge. D.
D. Subject, ???Spices.??? Text II Chronicles
ix. 9: ???Of apices great abundance; neither
was there any auch spice as tho queen of
Sheba gave King Solomon.???
What is that building out yonder glittering
in the sun? Have you not heard? It ia tho
houso of the Arcs! of Lebanon. King Solo
mon has just taken to ithia bride, the princess
of Egypt. You see the pillars of the portico
???nd a great tower adorned with gold shields,
a thousand of thorn hung on tho outside of
tho tower, 500 of tho shields of gold manu
factured at Solomon???s order, 500 wero captured
by David, his father, in battlo. See how they
blase in the noonday sun. Solomon goes up
the ivory stairs of his throne between twelve
liona in statuary, and aits down on tho back
of the golden bull, the head of tho bronxe
beast turned towards tho peoplo. Tho family
and the attendants of tho king aro so many
that the clterera of tho palaco havo to provido
everyday ono hundrod cheep and thirteen
oxen, besides the birds and tho venison,
hear the stamping and pawing of 4,000 fino
horses in tho royal atabloa. Thoro wero im
portant officials who had charge of tho work
of gathering tho straw and tho barley for
these horses. King Solomon was an early
riser, tradition says, and used to tako a rido
out at daybreak, and when in his white ap
parel behind the swiftest horses of all tho
realm, and followed by mounted arches in
purple, as the calva cado dashed through the
streets of Jerusalem I supposo it was some
thing worth getting up at livo o???clock in tho
morning to look at. Solomon was not like a
great many kings of tho present day???crownod
imbecility. All the splendor of his palaco
and retinue wero eclipsed by his intellectual
power. Why, ho seemed to know everything.
IIo was the first great naturalist that tho
world ever saw. Peacocks from India struted
the basaltic walk and apes chattered in tho
trees and deer stalked tho parks and aenuari-
urns with foreign fish and aviaries with for
eign birds, ana tradition says that theso birds
were so well tamed that Solomon might walk
clear tvrots tho city under the shadow of
their wings as they hovered and flitted about
him. More than this, he hod a great reputa
tion for tho conundrums and riddles that ho
mado and guessed. He and King Hiram, his
neighbor, used to sit by the hour and ask rid
dles, each ono paying in monoy if he could
not answer or guess the riddlo. Tho Solomonic
navy visised all the world, and tho sailors, of
courso, talked about the wealth of their king
and about tho riddles and enigmas that ho
mado and solved; and the news spread until
Queen Balkis, away off south, heard of it and
sent messengers with a few riddles that sho
would like to have Solomon solve, and a few
pussies that she would like to havo him find
out. Sho sent, among other things to King
Solomon, a diamond with a holo so small that
a needle could not penetrate it, asking him to
thread that diamond. And Bolomon took a
worm and put it at the opening in tho diamond,
and tho worm crawled through leaving the
thread in tho diamond.
Tho queen also sent a goblot to Solomon
asking nim to fill it with water that did not
pour from tho sky, and that did not rush out
from the earth: aud immediately Solomon put
n slave on tho back of a swift horso and gal
loped him around and around until tho horso
was well nigh exhausted, aud from tho per
spiration of the horse tho goblet was filled.
Siie also sent to King Solomon 500 girls in
boys??? dresses, and 500 boys in girls??? drosses,
wondering if he would be acute enough to find
out tho deception. Immediately Solomon,
when he saw them wash thoir faces, know
from the way they applied tho water that it
was all a cheat. Queen Balkis was so pleased
with the acuteness of Solomon that sno said
???I???ll just go and see him for myself.??? Yon
der it comes???tho colvocode???horses and
dromedaries, chariota and eharoteers. jingling
harness and clattering hoofs and biasing
shield*and flying ensigns and clapping cyra-
bnlls. Tho place is saturated with tho par-
fume. Sho brines cinnamon and saffrona,
and calamus and frankiacense, and all man
ner of sweet spices. As the rotinue sweeps
through the gale tho armed guard inhalo tho
aroma. Haiti cry the charioteers, as the
wheels grind the gravel in front or tho pil
lared poriico of tbo king. Queen Balkis
alights in an atmosphere bewitched with per
fume. As the dromedaries aro driven up to
tho king???s storehouses and tho bundles of
camphor are unloaded and tbo sacks of cinna
mon and tho boxes of spices aro oponed, tho
purveyors of the palace discover what my
text announces: ???Of spices great abundance;
neither was there any such spice as tho quoon
of Sheba gave to King Solomon.???
Well, all tho theologians agreo in making
riotnon a typo ol Christ, and in making tho
queen of Shena a type of every truth-seeker
and I shall take the responsibility of saying
that all the spikenard and cassia and frank
incense which the queen of Sheba brought to
King Solomon is mightily suggestivo of tho
sweet spices of our holy religion. Christian
ity is not a collection of sharp technicalities
and angular facts. Our religion is compared
to frankincense, but nover to nightshade. It
is a bundle of myrrh. It is a dash of holy
light. It is a collection of spices. Would to
Gcd wo were as wise in taking spices to our
divine king as Queen Balkis wss wue in taking
the spices to the earthly Bolomon. The fact
is that the duties and cares of this life coming
to us from timo to time are stupid, often, and
inane and intolerable. Here tie men who
hare been battering, climbing, pounding,
women go around humming psal
key and culturing melancholy, n
psalms in a minor
w ly, and their wor
ship has in it more sighs than raptures. We
do not doubt their piety. Oh, no I But they
aro sitting at a feast whero tho cook has for
gotten to season tho foot!. Everything is fiat
in their experience and their conversation.
Emancipated from sin and death and hell, and
on their way to a magnificent heaven thoy
act as though they wero trudging on toward
on everlasting Botany bay. Religion does not
seem to agree with thorn. It seems to catch
in the windpipe and becomo a strangulation
instead of an exhiliration. All the Infidel
books that have been written from Voltaire
down to Herbert Spencer havo not done so
much damage to our Christianity as lugrubi-
ous Christians. Who wants a religion woven
out of the shadows of night? Why go growl
ing on your way to celestial righteousness.
Como out of that eavo and sit in tho warm
light of the sun of righteousness. Away with
your odes to raelancholv and Hervoy???s ???Medi
tations Amoug tho TomW???
I have to say also that wo need to put moro
???pice and enlightenment in our religious teach
ing: whether it bo in tho prayer-meotiug or
in the Sabbath-school or in the church. Wo
ministers need more fresh air in our lungs and
our hearts and our head. Do you wonder
that the world is so far from being converted
when you find so litilo vivacity in the pulpit
and in the pow? Wo want, like tho Lord, to
plant in our sermous and exhortations more
lilies of the field. Wo want few rhetorical
elaborations and fewer sesquipedalian words,
and when we talk about shadows wo do not
want to say adumbration, and whon wo moan
quccrncis we do not want to talk about idlosyn-
erncies;orif a stitch in tho back wo do not
want to talk about lumbago. But in tho plain
vernacular Of tho great masses preach that
gospel which proposes to make all men hap
py* honest, victorious and freo. In othor
words, wo want moro cinnamon and loss gris
tle. Let this bo so in all tho different depart
ments of work to which tho Lord calls us.
Let us be*plain. Let us bo caracst. Lot us bo
common-sensical. Whon wo talk to tho peo
ple In a vernacular they can understand???
they will be glad to como and recelvo tho
truth wo present. Would to God that Queen
Balkis would drive her spico-lsden dromeda
ries into all our sermons and prayer-meeting
exhortations.
More than that, wo want more life and spico
in our Christian work. The poor do not want
so much to be groaned over as sung to. With
tho bread and medicines and tho garmonta
you give them let thcro bo sn accompaniment
of smiles and brisk onoouragement. Do not
stand sad talk to them about the wretchedness
of their abode and the hunger of their looks
and the hardness of their lot. Ah, they know
it better than you can tell them. Show them
the bright side of tho thing, if there bo any
bright side. Tell them good times will come.
Tell them that for tho children of God thero is
immortal rescue. Wake them up out of their
stolidity by an inspiring laugh, and while you
send a practical help like tho queen of Sheba,
also send in the spioes. There aro two ways
of meeting the poor. One is to como Into
their house with a nose elevated in disgust, as
much as to say, ???I don???t seohowyou live horo
in this neighborhood. It actually makes mo
slfck. Thero ia that buudlo???toko it, you poor,
miserable wretch, and make tho most or it.???
Another way is to go into tho abode of tho
poor in a manner which seems to say t ???Tho
blessed Lord sent me. Ho wss poor Himself.
It is not moro for tho good I am going to try
to do you than it is for tho good you
can do mo.??? Coming in that spirit,
gift will bo os aromatio as tlio
spikenard on tho feet of Christ, and all tho
hovels on that alloy will bo fragrant with tho
spico.
Wo need more spice and cnlivomont in our
church music. Churches sit discussing whether
they shall havo choirs or precentors or organs
or bsss viols or cornets, I say. tako that which
will bring out tbo most inspiring music. If
we had half as much zeal and spirit In our
cburchcsna wo have in tho songs of our Sab
bath schools it would not bo long boforo tho
Wbolo earth wonld quako with tho coming
God. Why, nine-tenths of tho peoplo in
church do not sing, or thoy sing so feebly that
tho peoplo at their elbows do not know thoy aro
sinking. Peoplo mouthe and inumblo th
praises of God*; but there is not more than on
out of a hundred who makes afoyful noiso tin
to the rock of our Salvation. Sometimes when
the congregation forgets itself, and is all ab
sorbed in the goodness of God, or tho glories of
Hraven. I get an intimation of what ohuroh
music will bo a hundred years from now,
when the coming generation shall wsko up to
of cedar, carried no such pungency ofperfumo
os exhales from tho Lord???s Gsrdon. It is
peace. It is sweetness. It is comfort. It is
infinite satisfaction, this gospel I comment to
you. Somo one could not understand why or
old German Christian scholar used to be al-
wavs so calm, and happy and hopeful when
he bad so many trials and sicknesses and ail
ment. A man secreted himself in the house.
He said: ???I mean to watch this old scholar
and Christian;??? and ho saw tho old Christian
mon go to his room and sit down on tho chair
beside the stand and open the Biblo and bogin
to read. Ho read on and on, chapter
after chapter and hour after hour, until his
faco was nil aglow with tho tidings from
Heaven, and when tho clock struck twelve ho
aroco and shut bis Biblo and said: ???Bleessod
Lord, wo aro on tho same old terras yot.
Good-night. Good-night.??? O you siu-pnrch-
cd and you trouble-pounded, horo is comfort,
hero is satisfaction. Will you como and get itT
I cannot tell you what the Lord offers you
hereafter so well as I can tell you now: ???It
doth not yet appear what wo shall be.???
Have you read of tho Taj Mahal in India, in
some respects the most majestic building on
earth? 20,000 men woro twenty yonrs in
building it. It cost about $10,000,000. Tho
walls aro of marble inlaid with cornollan
from Bagdad and turquoise from Thibet and
jasper from Punjab and amethyst from Persia
and all manner of precious stones. A traveler
says that it seems to him, like tho shining of
the enchanted castle of burnished silver. Tho
walls are 245 feet high, and from tho top of
these springs a dome thirty more feet high,
that dome containing the most wonderful echo
the world has ever known; so that ever and
anon travelers standing below with flutes and
drums and harps aro testing that echo, and tho
sounds from below strike up and then como
down os it wero the voices of angels all around
about the building. There ia around it n
garden of tamarind and banyan and palm and
all the floral glories of the ransacked oarth.
But that is only tho tomb of a dead Empress,
and it is tame, compared with the grandeurs
which God has bnilued for your living and im
mortal spirit. O, homo of tho blessod I Foun
dations of gold I Arches of victory I Cap
stones of praise I And a domo in which thcro
are echoing and reechoing the hallellujahs of
of the age. And around about that mansion is
a garden, the garden of God, end all tho
springing fountains are tho bottled tears of
the church in the wilderness, and all tho crim
son of Uie flowers is tho deep hue that was
caught up from tho carnage of earthly mar
tyrdoms, and tho frogcanco is the prayers of
oil tho saints and the aroma puts into utter'
forgetfulness the csisia and tho spikenard and
tlio frankincense and the world renowned
spices which the Queen Balkis of Abyssinia
hung nt tho feet of King Solomon.
Through obduracy on our part, and through
tho rejection of that Christ wire makes heaven
possible, I wonder If any of us will miss that
spectacle, lfosr. I fear. The queen of the
south will rise up in judgment against this
generation, and condemn itliecause sho came
from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear
the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a greater
than Solomon is here 1 May God grant that
through your own practical experience you
may find that religious ways aro ways of
pleasantness and that all her paths aro paths
of peace, that It is perfume now, and perfume
forever. ???And thero was an abundance of
spico; neither was thero any such spico as tho
queen of Sheba gavo to King Solomon.
THE 88TH GEORGIA.
ears. One gres: long drudgery
)een. Their face anxious, their feelings be
numbed, their days monotonous,
necessary to brighten up that man???s life, to
sweeten that acid disposition and to put sparkle
into tbo man's spirits? The spicery of our
holy religion. Why if between the loeeee of
life there dashed the gleam of an eternal gain;
if between the betrayals of life there came
the gleam of the undying friendship of Christ;
If.in dull times in business we found minister
ing spirits flying to and fro in our office and
???tore and shop, every day life instead of being
a stupid monotone.would be a glorious inspi
ration, penduluming. between calm satisfac
tion and high rapture. IIow any woman
keeps bouse without the religion of Christ to
belp her is a mystery to me. To have to spend
the greeter part of one???s lite as many women
do in planning for the meals and stitching
garments that will soon be rent again, and de
ploring breakages, and supervising tardy sub
ordinate a, and driving off dust that soon again
will settle, aud doing the tamo thing day in
and dsyout, and year in and year out, until
the bpir silvers and the back stoops, and the
???pectaeles crawl to the eyes and the grave
breaks open under the thin sole of tire shoe???
ob, it is a long monotony I
But when Christ comes to the drawing
room, and comes to the kitchen, and comes to
the nursery, and comes to the dwelling then
bow ebeery becomes all womanly dnties. She
is never alone now. Martha gets thnfagh
fretting and joins Mary at the feet of Jesus.
Now she sings Christian tunes all day long-
mending, washing, baking, scouring, scrub
bing. 0, woman, having in your pantry a
nett of boxes containing all kinds of condi
ments. wby have you not tried in yonr heart
and life toe spicery of our holy religion ?
"Martha, Martha, thou art careffai and
troubled about many things, but one thing is
netdfal and M*ry hath chosen that good part
which shall not be taken away from her/' I
must confess that a good deal of the religion
of this day is utterly insipid. There is noth
ing piquant or elevating about it. Men an-1
its duty. I promiso a high spiritual blessing
td any one who will sing in church, and who
will sin., so heartily that tho peoplo all around
cannot help but sing. It is not a matter of
preference. It is a matter of religious duty,
German chorals in Gorman cathedrals surpass
ut, and yet, Germany has recoivod nothing at
tho bonds ot God compared with Americk.
Soft music, long drawn-out music is appropri
ate for the drawing room, appropriate for tho
concert; but St. John gives an idea of the so
norous and resonant congregational singing
appropriate for churches when, in listening to
the temple service in Heaven, IIo sayst ???I
heard a voice os tho voico of a groat multitude
and as tho voico of many waters, and as tho
voice of mighty thuhderlngst Halleluiah for
the Lord God omnipotent reginoth l I heliovo
through Christ???s grace we can sing 5,000 souls
into the Kingdom of Christ. An argumont
they can laugh, at, a sermon they insy talk
down, but a 5,000 voiced utterance of praiso of
God is irresistible. Would that Queen Balkis
would drive all her spice-laden dromedaries
Into our church music I
Now I want to impress tho fact, that reli
gion is sweetnoss and perfumes aud spikenard
and saffron and cinnamon and cassia and
frankincense and sweet spioes together.
???Ob,??? you say, ???I,have not looked at it as
such. 1 thought it was a nuisance; it hod for
cpulsion; I held my breath as though
o a mnlodor; I have been appalled at its
ce; I have said, Hi I had auy religion at
ail, I want to have Just ss little of Has possible
to got through with*??? * Oh, what a mistake
you have made, my brother. Tho religion of
Christ is a present and everlasting redolenoo.
It counteracts all trouble. Just put it on tbo
stand by the tide of the pillow of siekneM. It
catches in the curtains and perfumes tho
stifling sir. It sweetens the cup ot bitter medi
cine and throws a glow on tho gloom
of the temple stung with pain.
It lifted Samuel Rutherford into a
revery of spiritual delight while be was in
physical agonies. It helped Riobard Baxter
until in the midst of such a complication of
diseases, as perbapf, no other man ever suffer
ed, he wrote ???Tho Saints. Everlasting Rest.???
And it poured light upon John Bunysn???s dun
geon???the light re the shining gate of the di
vine city. And it is good for rheumatism and
for neuralgia and fer low spirits and for con
sumption ; it is the Cstholican for all disorders.
Yes, itwill heal all sorrows. Alas for the
loneliness and the heart-break, and the load
which is never lifted from the soul. Borne go
???lout feeling like Mseanlay when ho wrote:
???If I bad another month of such days as I
have been spending. I would be impatient to
get down into my Tittle narrow crib in tho
S round like a weary factory child.??? And
icre have been times when you wished you
could get out of this life. I see all around
about me widowhood and orphanage
???nd childlessness; sadness, disappointment,
and perplexity.
A widowed mother with her little ehild
went west, hoping to get better wages there,
and she was taken sick and died. The over
seer of the poor got her body and put it in a
box and put it In a wagon and started down
tbe street towards the cemetery at full trot.
The little child???the only child???ran after it
through the streets bareheaded, crying:
???Bring me back my mother I Bring me back
my mother.??? And it was said that as the
people looked on and saw her crying after
that which lay in tbe box in tbe wagon???all
???he loved on earth???it is said the whole village
wss bathed in tears. And that it what a great
many of us are doing, chasing tbe dead. Dear
Lord, is there no appeasement for all this sor
row that I see about me? Yee, the thought of
resurrection and reunion far beyond this
scene of tears. Across tbe couches of your
sick and across tbe graves ot your dead I fling
this shower of sweet spices. Queen Balkis
driving up to the pillared portico of the house
A Reunion Ordered for the 10th of Septem
ber In Delinlb County.
DXCATtm, August 27.-[Bpcclal.]-At a mooting
of tho survivors of tlio 38th Georgia rogimont hold
iu tho courthouso In this place a tew weeks ago,
John W, McCurdy was called to preside, and J. ft.
Russell requested to act ss secretary. U was, on
motion, resolved that tho regiment have a re
union at Decatur on Wednesday, tho 10th of Sep*
tember, 188-1. On motion tho following coinmtttco
wss appointed by tho chair to draw up a pro
gramme for tho exercises, to-wft: W. A. Wright, I.
N. No??b,Wm. Wright, John Baxter, F. L. Hart*
pins, D. A. Chestnut, A. M. Holcomb. Mr K. M.
, Word being present, was requested to assist tlio
committee, and consented to do so. Tlio commit*
t?? <'??? 1< P"ll un- l-<li-|itr.l MS follows; A I >|I. ??i II11 >1 :
Lieutcant John W.McCurdy.of company D ns mar
shal of the day and presiding officer of tho reunion
iom inIdy,mid K< v. J. M. Iiriltulii,??ifr??>in|.,ii)y I),its
chaplain. Requesting senior officer* present on
day of reunion to take clisrgo of their respective
commands. Inlvtlng Colonel A. ft. Wright, of
Rome, and Generals John Ii. Gordon and Clement
A. hvaiis to In- jin m-iiI mid iiddn???i l In* mf-llin;.
That members of tho command, and nil ncraous
attending aro Invited to bring lunch baskets aud
participate in a basket dinner, aud Uio citizens
of Decatur aro invited to co-operate.
That /amities of all members, and
relatives of deceased comrades, and all old sol
diers and their families, living in county, belong
ing to other commands, are cordially Invltod to
attend. That tbo invitation com in I the make it
their duty to negotiate for special railroad rates.
That tbe following programino bo observed:
1. A formation of tho commands at tho dopot,
Decatur. Ga., at9 o???clock.
2. Calling to order and announcements by the
chairman.
8. Prayer by chaplain.
4. Address of welcome by E. Sf, Won!, and reply
by P. B. McCurdy.
6. f-ong??????Dixie"???led by band.
O. Address a by < i vncrala Gordon and Kvtnt.and
Colonel A. ft. Wright and others.
9. Personal reminiscences, exhibition of rallos,
WHO STOLE THEM?
The Congressional Investigation Into tho Abstrac
tion of 8Uto Fupera-Examination of Witnesses
???Mr. Treecot's Frequent Call for Papers
-Conolaslre Evidence of Jl/tacallty
The Comrinmov???s readers will recall the great
scandal that Mr. Blaine, rui secretary of state,
brought on the country in March, 1882, in connec
tion with the Chili-Peruvlan guano transactions.
It wss openly charged that Mr. Blaine, through
bis agent, had Abstracted certain letters from tho
department of state, and a congressional Investi
gation was ordered to inquire into tho matter.
Only ono thing was settled, and that was that tho
letters could uot bo found, and ns they were very
much needed to explain Shipherd???s charges
against Blaine, it requires but littlo additional
testimony to establish the guilt of the parties Who
engaged in this business. Wo publish from tho
Washington National Republican of March nth.
1882, the most ardent supporter of republican mis
rule, the following report of tho proceedings of
the committee:
Tho committee on foreign . affairs, who aro
charged by a resolution adopted by tho houso with
tho investigation of tho Chili-Peruvlan corre
spondence, with tho view of fixing tho responsi
bility for tho abstraction of certain state* papers*
from the flies of tho state department, and also to
determine whether any diplomatic representative*
of the United States havo Involved themselves in
certain schemes, tho success of which depended
upon tho intervention of tho United State*, con
sists of cloven members??? Itenrcsontatlvo Williams
of Wisconsin, chairman, and JteprewntatlvcsOrth,
Knsrou, Rico of Mntaachiifictta, Dnnnell. Lord,
Walker, Blount, Wilson, Dcustcr and Belmont.
The commltteo having adopted ??? a resolution to
conduct the Investigation iu public sessions, re
sumed tho examination of witnesses at two o'clock
p. m. Friday. Francis O. St. Clair, chief of tho
consular bureau of tho statu department, was
THE FIRST WITHERS SAVOIUf.
Ifc was questioned by tho chairman In regard
to tho rrception and disposition of letters and Cor
respondence coming through tho mails. Witness
has charge of all letters from consuls, and all let
ters addressed to consuls, aud would rocognlso tlio
right of the chief clerk or secretary to withdraw
any papers from biscuit - '
Previous to June, )8N1,
question Avitncusaid: "Homctimo after
amis made chief Of the bureau, probably about tho
10th of vAiiblist, ncall Avns made for certain letter*
of tlie Snlpbero correspondence. 1 made a search
fora certain letter, which had been Indexed In my
hamlwri ing.
I COULD NOT FIND IT,
and inked Walker Illnino If tlio secretary had it.
no raid he did know, but would sco if it whs nt his
house. After this I did not hear moro about It.???
Qucs lotted by Mr. Hire, Avilneas stated Unit ho wan
under tho impression that cither Mr. Trcscoto
b found that they Avcnil
J to
bnt did not knoir who might havo had them ill tho
meantime.
Witness conUnucd In reply: ???In August tho
dItcovery was mado that several of these letter*
wero inlxsltig. I said I would try to find tlioono
1 had indexed, but 1 would not bo rcs;>oualbIofr*
MU. VttXSCOT FREQUENTLY CALLED FOB FAFXRS,
and avo used to let him havo thftm without nn or
der from tho secretary. I understood ho (Troscot)
Avns In tho employ of tho department ns couuscl.???
Clair) could
reply to
raid: ???No (
taken from Uio denarii _
vcritlgntlng tbo Chili-Peruvlan matter
pmsion is that ho ( ailed for them,
oiln r tlmii ki.nwn tu Ik-in th*-nnploy <-f tlie de
partment aro allowed in tho ind" ???" * *
Upon n
Aritucx*
nl my 1
Avould. without hasltntlou, dellv
???ngcr of the department a letter on
hich might bo ordered.??? Jn reply to Mr. Bel
GOINO TO CHINA.
Departure of a Missionary Party on tlie Sev
enth of Octobor.
On tho 7th of next Octobor ono ol tho larg
est missionary parties that ever wont to China
will sail from San Francisco. Tho Indies and
gentleman composing it will go under tho
auspices oi the mission board or tho Metho
dist Episcopal church south.
Thcro will bo in tho party Mrs. Young J.
Allen and threo children, itev. Wm. B. Bon-
m il.ii i * wilt: n ml lour * hi Mr- u,nud Mm Laura
A. 11 ay good. All theso will go from Georgia.
Accompanying them will bo Rev. Mr. Durkcs,
of South Carol Tim; Misses Mildred Phillip*,
Lou Phillips, and Miss Baldwin, of Missouri;
Miss Jennie Atkinson, of Alabama, and Miss
Dora Hamilton, of Texas.
Mrs. Allen has been a resident of China
sinco 1859, and is now returning after a visit
to her old homo and her friends in Georgia.
II - r hu-l-iii.-l, lb v. Young .J. All- n, Icm b ??? n
one of tho most successful missionaries who
over went to China. He is now a doctor of
divinity and tbe superintendent of tho
missions of the M. K. church south
in Cbinf. The salary to be paid Rev. Win. B.
Bonncll will be $1,260 per annum, and that of
Miss Haygood and the ladies who go wfth her
will be $760 each. The ladies will at onoe
take charge of a school for the education of
girls in Shanghai, and intend to organise a
girls??? high school there. All those who have
volunteered their services in this cause are
women of culture and have been useful at
home, but the loss of Miss Ifavgood fe Atlanta
society, to our girls??? high school, and to the
cause of religion and morality here will be
keenly felt. Rev. Mr. Donnell has been a
successful educator and carries tho brightest
qusligeationi for the missionary work.
Tho missionaries are making their prepara
tions to go to China regardless ol the war
which is now fn progress between Frauce and
China. Dr. Young J. Allen, who is in close
communication with the Chinese government,
hss written that be will cable thsm by Octo
ber 1st, if there ia any reason why
it will not be safe for them
to go and they will delay their departure be
yond October 7. They will go to their work
of humanity and self-sacrifice followed br tho
best wishes of a great host of friends and Hie
prayers of n greet church. Seldom has such
a bend of men and women gone forth to an
swer tbe rail of their chorea and their con
sciences, and their work fn China will bo
anxiously watched.
Tlie Grand Jury of Rockdale.
Comrxns, Ga., August 20.???(SpeclaL???The grand
Jury In IbeJr partial presentment recommended
that A. M. Helens be reappointed Justice ot the
peace for the 47Ltb district, and ft. 1L (konoaftor
the 47.',th district. Also that Colonel Womack be
reflected to the position which he now hold*,
tbetci selidtorof the Ftlat-circuit, i im*t<; will
).e an a<l jouri.e-1 Urea of court held the fifth Mon'
day ia September.
I r ???_ held any official
I???>.-11??? ti m tin- -I- i-iulim nt. Hi- npjiHirnl to act
In a confldontlnl relation avRIi liiu m-m-inry. I
J-ri ??? mm -I tin-I. II. tm wi re toiiml at that timo???In
AiikiiM-and It In my imitrcsaloii they will bo
found now nt Mr. Trcscot???shouse In this city. I
do not beiievo
TIIITY HAVE HERN AlWTHAfTKD
from tho department to bo suppressed or destroyed.
It is not an unusnl thing for papers to bo lost for
months, and subsequently to be found in tho de
partment; in other Avords, they are misplaced for
tho time being.??? Witness stated that at ono
timo somo papers relating to tho fishery question
could not ho found for somo time, and Mr. Troa-
cot subsequently found them with other paper*
at his house. His (81. Clair???s) BiqouS for thinking
tho lnlM-liig papers may ho In Mr.Tm-oofHpo**
Kssion, or at nin house, in (Imt from tho nutiiruof
Mr. Tresrot???a rclatlotiN to tlie department In thl*
( hill I'triiv hm matter ho would naturally exam*
Ine these papers.
T. John Newton, employed In tbo index bureau
. ???i ??? *Wbta???
took charge of the Indexing when Mr. *Ht. Clair
was promoted. June 21. IK^J. Remembered Index
ing li turn of May 21, May 21 and JUOOH. They
AvereltnnrkeU ???Private: return to ??? Hhlphenl.???
Mr Trescot never called on wit ness for any paper*.
Witiio* never raw tlio letters after Indexing than.
The hot know ledge ho hud of them they went to
the chief cleric, flu did not know they wero raid
ing until they were called tor by congress; thought
they in fa fit havo been taken out at tho timo Mr.
Hurlbut nan receiving-hfa inxtriiotion*. Wilnsn*
nover saw Hhlphcrd ntilio department; never
heard of lifa having been there. This doted tho
publio kmiIoii for the day.
RRriiFJENTATlVK HELM ONI CAI-LKD ATTENTION
to the gravity of tho subject under Investigation,
reading from tho statutes at lurgoof. tho United
States section M03, which fa as follows: ???Every
perron who destroys, or nt tempi* to destroy, or
With intent to Meal or dettroy, take* nod nirrlen
away any record, papfVpf proceeding of a oourtof
jnslfce tiled or deposited with any clerk or officer
of such court, or any paper or document or rucon!
filed or d* pm*|ted In any publio Office, or with any
Judicial or pu Id I e officer, shall, without rc(er??*??cu
to the value of tho record, paper or document, or
proreediiig to taken, pay a flue of not more thsu
|2,CU0 or sutler irnpri-oiiine.???it nt bard labor uot
more than three years, or both.???
A PIOHTINO FARMEn.
id AniillillAtaa
Who W'nlkn on tin- Ktn
Jn J???riso I-igliter.
PniLADKLrniA, August 25.???[Special. ]???
His) ???Tbe Syracuse Wonder??? Stoddart, who
has just been knocked out by Jack Burke for
|6tu, wss annihilated atone blow by an un
known and uncouth Jersey farmer, who was
tcrnpli d to rut on tbo gloves by tho stand-
Ing offer of ISO to any man in tiro
audience st Clark's club theatre who Avould stand
up before fitodnrt for four round-*, mnrqui-! of
tjuccnsbcry rule*. This farmer???s name w.w Kll-
iiolh men ore six footer* and mnwdvely built.
Htcdart began by scndlnu' hi* left Into the victual
ing department ol the farmer, which somewhat
astonished Mm. Before KIHUra recovered huM-
srt repeated the dose, whereupon
Kllllon >t go his right which met
Btoddsrt full in the mouth. Up went hi* heel*
and down went his bend, an>l ne landed on the
opposite side of tho stage. 1 his set the atraltpco
wild. Htiaidnrt picked himself together, an-l after
a littlo finessing to recover his wind again, hit
Klliiou again In the some pirn e, tho latter rvtaliat*
with hit left on the fsoc, sending
Sari bock to bis own corner. There
dow so much excitement among the
audience, and such riotous cheers that tbeamva.
of the police was momentarily expected. After
the usual reccM between round* the men respond
ed to the cell of time, whereupon Kjllkm drove kis
right Into theepitUetwecuHtoddardt???* eye- with
such terrible effect that tho Byracme wonder
dropped in hi* track*, lifeless and limp.
Dying of Hydrophobia.
Athens, Ga., August 91-18pcela!.]???Thom**
Baxter, tire old man with hydrophobia at High
Bhosls, was better to-day, and the physicians *ay
tbe application of the mail stone drew mint of tho
poiron from the wound and it is probable that ho
rosy recover. When in a spasm
It take* fire men to hold him down,
besides befog tied with roue*. He seized
Mr. Andrew Price???s shirt sleeve in his teeth end
tried to rend J he garment. The fosm drip* frran
.ouib sud t??: snarls like a dog. When-ns
n ia on him he talks rationally about hfa
condition.
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