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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. (indistinct paint