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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA., WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1 1884. 29 DR. TALMAGE???S SERMON ON GOVERNOR PONTIUS PILATE WASHING HIS HANDS, Ter Every Kind o! Sin, Great or Small Conscience, Which is the Voice of God, is a Reproof If ore or I4ts Emphatic???The Large Crowds Who Sear Dr. Talmage Preaeb. Brooklyn, September 28.???[Special.???Im memo crowds continue to throng the Brook lyn tabernacle Sundaj after Sunday to hear Dr. Talmage preach. Among them arc many foreigners, especially Englishmen, attracted by his world-wide reputation. Indeed Dr, Talmage???s sermons are extensively published in England. The Christian Age, of London says of them: ???We believe that for original ity, power and Aplendor, these sermons will bear'comparison with the greatest pulpit pro ductions of any ago or country. But for knowledge of human life and the adaptation oi divine truth to the whole being of man intellectual, emotional, moral, practical???and for the power of applying that truth we know not his equal.??? The opening hymn at to-day services wss: ???Oh, could I speak the matchless worth, Ob, coijjdl sound the glories forth!??? The subject of tho sormon was, "Governor Pilate washing his hands,??? and the text was taken from Matthew xxvii. 24: "Ho took water and washed his hands before the multi tude, saying, ??I am innocent of the blood this just person.?????? About 8 o???clock in the morning, said Dr, Talmage, up the marble stairs of a palace and across floor of the richest mosaic, and under a ceiling dyed with all the splendors of color, and long snow-banks of white and glittering sculpture passes a pale, poor, sick young man of 83, condemned to death by one court and on his way to be condemned by another Jesus of Nazareth is his name. To meet Him on the tesselatcd pavement comes out an un ernor Pontius Pilate. Did ever two such op posites meet? Luxury and pain, selfishness and generosity, sin and holiness, arrogance and humility, midnight and mid-noon, Pilate and Christ. The bloated-lipped governor takes a cushioned seat and leans back at his case. Tho prisoner stands, His wrists man acled. In semi-circle around Him are the fiery Sanhedrists, their eyes flashing and their fists brandished, prosecuting the case for the lake of religion; for in all ages religious per- " * t of all persecutors, and secutors ore the fiercest when the devil does get pos'session of good men he makes up bv intensity for brevity of occupation. And if you have never been in an eeclesiastieal court where they had some one on trial you cannot understand the foam ing infernaliim of those old Jewish Sandedrlsts. Governor Pilate begins to cross-question tho prisoner and finds Ilim innoceht, and wants te let Him go. To add to bis caution in tho matter somo one comes up and whispers in his car. ???"What's that???? says tho governor, his hand behind his ear to catali the words al most inaudible. It is a message from Claudia Procula, his wife, who has had a dream about the prisoner's innocence and the danger of ex ecuting Him, and has just awakened from this morning dream to send news of it to the gov ernor at that very moment on the judicial bench. And what with tho protest of his wife and the voice of his own conscience and the entire failure of the Sandedrists to make out a case, he resolves to discharge the prisoner from custody. But that announcement let loose on tho gov ernor an equinoctial storm of indignation. They would get him recalled bv the ??mperor Tiberius, at Boms, and ho should no more bo 8 overnor of Judea, and how would he feel ien in disgrace and perhaps bo hanged for treason. Ho had already excited the old em peror's suspicion, which rested not until it finally did effect his banishment and auicide. 8o Governor Pilate, to comnromise the matter, proposes tho whipping or Christ instead of HI* assassination. He was tied to a pillar near the ground and on His bent and bare back came the tbongs of leather with chunks of Ifcad and bone intertwisted to augment the force and horror of the stroke, and when He waa led up from that with flushed cheek aud torn and quivering and bleeding flesh He pro sented a spectacle of suffering in which Rn bens, the painter, found the theme for his I tuo MUIUlCf, IUUUU mo u.w mnstcrpieco. But tho Sanhedrists wore still unsatisfied. They wanted not only part of his nerves lacerated, they wanted all of them lacerated. They did not want a part of His blood, they wanted all of it down to the last corpuscule. 8o after all His morciful hesitation, Pilate surrenders to the demonia cal cry of ???Crucify him!??? But Governor Pilate, seated in the presence of the people, sends a slave to fetch him something. Tho constables are impatient to lead out the crimi nal to execution, and the mob in the stroot are waiting to glaro on their victim. But a pauss is necessitated for a few moments. Yonder comes a wash basin. The clean, bright water is ponred into it, and Governor Psntms Pilate puts back the sleeves of his robs and thrusts nis soft, delicate hands into the water and rub* them together and then lifts them drip ping for the towel fastened ts the slave???s girdle, anasaid, practicallp: "I wash my hands of this wholo homicidal transaction. I will take none of the responsibility of this prisoner???s death. Yon must assume all of it.??? My friends, that is the meaning of the text when it says: ???He took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, ???1 am in nocent of the blood of this just person, see ye to it I' ??? Behold how ceremonies amount to nothing without correspondencies of heart. It is well that the hands be washed. When God made three-fourtha of the world water, He com manded cleanliness, and as the ancients did not take tho hint Ho put a whole world under water. The Jewish religion made hand washing a law. By minute direction the hands must be plunged three times up to the wrist and the palm of one band rubbed by the closed fist of the othen The Jewish Miahna gives elaborate rule on this subject. A!1 well as a *mbol. But here in my text Governor Pilate proposes to wash off a guilt which he doea not quit, and of which he makes repent ance. Pilate's wash-basin is a failure. Cere monies grand and good in themselves may mean no more than this hypocritical ablution. We may be sprinkled in childhood at baptis mal fountains, and in manhood may wade into solemn immersions and fcever reach moral purification. We may kneel without prayer and bow the head without revereuce andsiug without acceptance. All the creedj and all the liturgies and all the sacraments and all the genuflections and ell the religious convo cations amount to nothing unless the heart and the life" go into them. When the bronze slave of thfe palace carried out Pilate???s wash* basin he carried out none of Pilate's cruelty or cowardice or wickedness. Nothing against creeds, we all have them either written or implied. Nothing against ceremonies, they are infinitely important. Nothing against sacraments, they are divinely commanded. Ko objection to the rosary if there are as msny heartfelt prayers as beads counted. No objections to incense floating from censers among gothic arches if the devotion it typi fies is as the aroma ascending. No objections to Epiphany and Lent and Ash Wednesday and Aster and Whitsuntide and Palm Sun day if the forms are only symbols of real penitence, snd of holy reminiscenee and con secration. Ceremonies are only the sheath of the sword, only the shell of the kernel, only the lamp of the flame, only the body of the spirit. But the outward must be only typical of the inward. Most surely wash your hands, Lut more surely wash your heart. Behold, also, as you see Govern *r Pilate thrust his hands into this wash-basin, the S ower of eonscienee. He felt that already iere waa blood on bit hand and it needed to be removed, the blocd of an innocent pris' oner, the Mood of One whom ha might have set at liberty had ha only poeseaaed the cour age to do so. Poor Pilate! His eonseionco was after him, and he never could wash off that stain either from his right hand or his snas stain either from his right hand or his left hand, and to the day of nis death, though dipped in all the lavsri of the Roman empire, there would be eight fingers and two thumbs red at the tips. Oh, the powor of conscieuce when fully aroused 1 With what whip of scor pions, over what bed of spikes, into what iitchy midnight it chases the guilty I Are there ghosts? Yes; but not of the graveyard; ghosts of the mind not at rest with itself. ???Thus Brutus, amid his slumbering host Startled bv (???n'SJtr'E Itiilwirt chnst'* Startled by Ca'sar???s stalwart ghost. 1 Macbeth looks at his bands after he has committed midnight assassination, and says d? No, this my hand wlU i numr Jhe multitudinous seas Incarnadine, Making the gTeen???one red.??? : For every kind of sin, great or small con science, which is the voice of God, is a reproof more or less emphatic. Charles IX, who or dered the 8t. -Bartholomew massacre, was pursued by bitter memories until the last, and in his dyiag moments said to his doctor, Am brose Perry: "I know not how it is, but the last few days I feel as in a fever. My body and mind are both disturbed. Ob, I wish ??? had spared the innocent and tho imbecile. 1 Rousseau confessed in old age that a deed com mitted by him when he waa young had given him many sleepless nights. Charles II, of Spain, did not dare sleep unless he had in his room a confessor and two friars. Catiline was haunted at his evil deeds and waa atartled at the least sound. Richard III, after slaying his two nephews, would, in the night, leap out of bed and clutch his sword and strike at ap- S aritions. Cardinal Beaufort, who had taken io life of the Duke of Gloucester, sometimes would cry out: ???Away, away I Why do you look at me???? Professor Webster, of Boston, while in prison waiting for his doom on the scaffold, complained to the sheriff that other prisoners kept charging him with crimo through the walls of Tho ] prison, although it waa only the voice of his own conscience. From whom did Adsm and Eve try to hide when they had all the world to themsolves? From conscience. What made Cain???s punish ment greater than he could bear? His con science. What made Ahab cry out to the prophet, ???Hast thou found me, 0 mino ene my???? Conscience. What made Felix quake before his chained prisoner, Paul, tho littlo vv.ui o VUIIUCU iiruuuor, *UU??, WlU u.wu missionary? Conscience. What made Bel shazzar???s teeth chatter with the chill when a finger came out of tho black sleove of the midnight and wrote on tho plaster? Con science. What makes that man yonder in this audi ence who has all the marks of prosperity upon him seem so agitafod whilo I preach???now flushed, now pale, his breath uneven and the beads of perspiration coming on his brow, and all the features of his conscience written over with a strange unrest, rising into horror? I don???t know, but he knows and God knows. i don't know, but ho knows ana uou knows. Perhaps he despoiled some fair lifo with a deed that turned innocenco into a waif and the smile of hope into tho brazen laughter of despair. Or perhaps he has in his possession that whiph belongs to others, and by acutest stratagem-lie holds it according to???law bat knows that it is not his own, and realizes that ** his '* heart should this inomont stop its* beating he would hell forever. Or perhaps ho is responsible for a great mystery, tho disap pearance of somo one never heard of again The detectives were baffled and all the tracks were covered up. The swift horse of tho rail train got him away, and thero are only two bo- ings who know his guilt, God and himself. ??? at the time of the tragedy and God was present ??? ??? is present now at the retrospection and con science, conscience with sting, conscience with S incere, conscience with fail, conscience with irnaces, is upon him. What mode a farmer after his conversion to Christ go to his infidel neighbor and say: ???I have four sheep that belong to you ; they came into my field six yeais ago and your mark was * '* * * it to mine ; I want you on them but I changed _ to have those sheep and the increaso of tho flock and the interest of the monoy they were worth, and anything you ask, and if you send me to prison I will not complain.??? ???Well,??? said the infidel, ???if you hevo got them sheep you can have them$ I don???t want nothing of you if you will only go away. Sornothing must have got hold of you I don r t understand. But the newly-made Christian declining to let matters stand that way, the infidel said: ???Well,??? if you must, you can pay me for what the sheep were worth when they got into your fold and six per cent interest on the amount and go off and let me alone. What woe the matter withJthe two farmers? A convicted conscience, calling tho one to be honest and calling the other to quit his infidelity. Thomas Olivers was ono of John Wesley???s E ronchcrs. The former part of Oliver???s life ad been spent recklessly, and in making debts wherever he could borrow or buy with out payment, till he owed money in all direc tions. When converted ho started out to preach and pay his debts with some money ho bad inherited. He rode a great distance to pay a sixpence, and before no got thero he attested in???s conversions, not only by his ser mons but by paying all the money he owed, principal end interest, although to squaro his accounts with God snd his fellow man ho had to sell his horso and saddle and bridle. Work of e converted conscience I When Frank Thibaut, the rum seller, was converted he had a large amount of the best liquor on band. He put all the barrel* and jugs and kegs and decanters on wagons and drove them down and emptied them in front of the old meeting-house where he had been con verted. Now that is what I call genuine re- ig ion. What is tho meaning of the large sums of money going every year to Washington, United 8tatca treasury, called conscience money. It seems that a great many eolleetors and post-masters and attorneys end govern mental officials have retained money that did not belong to thero, and they are convertod or their conscience gives them some terrible fright and they maze restitution. The feet is thst if all the moneys stoleu from state and national treasury under some great revival of conscience were returned to the rightful ex chequers oil the steto debts and tne United States debts would be paid* by day after to morrow. A man???s conversion U not worth much unless not only his heart Is converted; but bis pocket-book converted and the ledger converted and the fire-proof safe converted and all his pigeon holes of bills and cor respondences converted, and tbc fact of his im provement is discovered by tho canary bird that sings in his parlor and the cat that licks the platter offer meals and tbc dog that comes out to greet him from the kennel in the back yard. A man half converted or a quarter con verted or a thousandth part converted is not converted at all. What will be tbc book of judgment in the last great day ? Conscience. Conscience bring- up misimproved opportunities, conscience rsfelii roarsbeling uuforgiven transgressions, con science recalling all the past. There will bo no need of a great and ponderous book with lids so heavy that two mighty angels With great strain of strength must open it. Wc shall take the leaves of the book out of our own meraory, and confidence will bo there I ntent and tremendous to echo tho welcome or ix.m. There have been great days of soldiery review in France and England and America, but the greatest day of review will be when at tbc roll of archangel???s trumpet, all tho unfor- iven sins of a man???s life come up and tako .beir places in companies and regiments end brigades and all facing the one way, and with shouldered arms that shall wait the command, and Conscience mounted on the white horse of judgment shall ride along with sharp spur and uplifted sword aad bid them ???March l??? end bid them ???Take aim!??? and bid them Fire!??? What can stand baforc that charge of _11 the batelions of a sinful aud unimprove-l past? Not one of us unless wc have had some thing better than Pilate's wash basin to cleanse our hands and cleanse our souls. A Isa, for the agitated Judean governor that night after the court had adjourned and the Sanhedrists were gone and only'the tread of the sentinel at bis door waa beard. I think he rose from bis tapestried and sleepless eoueh and went again to tba laver and throat his binds up to the wrist in the wgter and ertei: ???Got! Oat 1 Then crimson spoil How thou stickcst fait telling the story io me snd the night and God I Is there no alkali that can remove this dread Ail stain? Is there r~ chemistry to dissolve this carnage? Must livo and die with the blood of a martyr on my bands and the blood of .heavenly Innocence upon my immortal soul? One of the worst woes is that of an evil conscience and ono of the greatest blessings what Paul calls a good conscience. But are all our attemps at moral f urification like that ot Governor Pontius ilate to be a dead failure? If a man is a am ucr once must he always be an unforgiveu sin ner? Is there no laver in which we can sue cesssffilly wash? We havo all had conscience after us, but do you teU me thst all the thoughts of your heart and all tho words of our"mouth and all the actions of your life xactly perfect? Then you don???t have been exactly perfect? Then you know yourself, and I will take the mild ro sponsibility of saying you are a Pharisee, you are a hypocrite, you are a Pontius Pilate and don't know it. You' have done by your heart- lessness what a Roman governor did at the start. You have re-crucified the Son of God. But 1 think that if nine-tenths of this au dience are made up of earnest and thoughtAil people, then nine-tenths are beginning to awake under the power of aroused conscience if there is not something for the cleansing of the soul bettor than Governor Filate???s wash basin. Yes! yes! yes! Tell it one to another. Tell it in song. Tell it in sermon. TeU it to the hemispheres. David, the Psalmist cried out for it when he said: ???Wash me thorough ly from my own iniquity and cleanse me from my sin??? and again ???wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.??? Job deplored his failure when ho said: ???If I wash myself with snow water and make my hands never so clean, yet sbalt thou plunge me in the ditch and mine own clothes shall abhor me.??? What, then? Where, then? How, then! Behold the laver of the gospel filled with living fountains. Did you ever see a picture of the lavers in the ancient tabernacle and tho ancient temple? The one in the tabernacle was made out of tho women???s metallic looking glasses contributed by them, n round basin on a pedestal and it was filled with water. But when the temple was built the laver was an immense affair and was called the brazen soa. Deep wero the floods thero gathered. Besides this there were ten other lavers, five to the right of it and five to the left of it, each holding 300 gallons of pure water, and the outside of theso lavers was carved and chased with palm trees so de licately ent the leaves scemeu to quiver, and with lions so true to lifo that you could almost see tho throb of their nostrils, and cherubim with wings ready for flight. Magnificent laver of the old dispensation, feeble type of the greater lav^r of our sunlit dispensation, a laver filled from rivers ofsalvation, its pedestal the Rock of Ages, carved with figure of the lion of Judah???s tribe and palm trees of victory, and wings suggestive of the soul???s flight heaven- xvnnl tv 1 inn vn wnnhlmm) IliA anint??* (lirdti ward when we worship and the saints' flight heavenward when we die. Como all ye audi tors and wash off all your sins however aggra vated, and all your sorrows however agonis ing. Come in tho furtherest, tho deepest, the worst I "What an opportunity 1 That is a joy enough to swallow all natious. It will stand on the Alps and bsckon Italy on tho Pyrenees and call Spain on tho Ural and enchant Russia at the door of heaven and gather in tho na tions. Ftrdon for all and comfort for all who will accept them through Christ Jesus. 'Why did you not tell me how beautiful tho earth and sky are,??? said a little child, whoso oyes by skilful surgery had been opened. ???I did tell you over and over again,??? said the mother! ???but you could not understand it.??? Would to God that all of us might havo our eyes opened and ice for ourselves tho one altogether lovely. The half has not been told us. The army ef Godfrey marching towards tho ennturo of the city of Jerusalem ga\oa great shout at the first sight of tho towers so tuat tho very earth nuskea under the sound, and eagles flying in iiuhkuu uuuur wju euuuu. uuu vngiua u vim; ut the air dropped under the atmospheric per cussion. And if we could this day catch a full view of the towers and domes of this gospel temple into which you are all invitod to come and wash and bo dean, the hosannas would bo jubilant aud rebounding at the New Jeru salem scene, and the New Jcrusalera.taken end the anthems of higher worlds, flying mid air, would fold their wings and drop into our doting doxology. Against tho ineffectual and disappointing lavor of Pilate???a cowardice and sin 1 place the ???raoltou sea??? of a Savior???s pardoning mercy. WILL VICTORIA SING? Nrw Yobk,September 23.???Edward Gilmore, ono of the lessees o( Niblo's G&rdcu theater, seems to be very cortain that his offer to Mrs. llulskanip to sing at his theater would be ac cepted. ???The contract which I have already drawn up, and which only needs Mrs. Huls?? kamp???s signature to sottle,??? he said, ???is in ev ery way favorable to her. I agree to pay her $500 per week to make her appearance and sing twico at every performance. Sho will alng first in tho rose scene, and again between the acts. That Is all she will Be required to do, and, in my opinion, it is a very easy way to make money. I also furnish her wardrobe, which, it is needless for me to say, will be a magnificent one, and if ahe accepts my offer sho will mako her first bow to an audience on next Monday night. As it now stands, she will sing continuously ot the garden until thanksgiving, when 1 will take her away, and * predict a splendid success for her.??? BMK SrUBXH tiza PATHKB. Mr. Edward Connor, a friend of Mr. Morosini, was sent to seo Victoria, wffh proffers for a -i adjustment of tho whole matter. Mr. Connjr reasoned with the plain, blunt senso of a farmer. In an interview he says i ???I told her that her father, broken-hearted, intended to sail for Europe on next Wednes day; that her conduct had shattered hie health and had forced him to leave forever a country in which ho had expected to end his days. He wishes to soe his daughter before his departure, but sho would have to moot him half way.??? ??? 'He has not treated me with proper re spect,??? retorted tho young woman arrogantly. ???Tell my father I defy him. I do not care whether he is dead or alive, in Europe or America. I will not leave my husband. We don???t wont any money. Our plans are all made out for the future.??? ??? *Wcsc can get along,??? chimed in her hus band, who was silting by her side. ???I don't ask no odds of no one/ 1 then told Victoria that I win sorry to see tolling mo her in that spirit. She replied by t to cay to her father from her: ???Regard mo os tr meet again.??? dead, for ho aud I wl 1 never meet again.??? I d the pair good-night and left thorn.??? ???Then it is true, Mr. Connor that, Mr. Morosini will goto Europe???? ???Yes. His furniture ot Yonkers will bo sold privately on Monday. On Wednesday his business will be closed up and he will sail for Europe. I do not think he will ever return. 1 have an appointment with him to-morrow, when I will tell him what success I have hau in my mission. I don???t think ho will ever tnke in llulskamp. The coachman has not the sense of a common insect. It is all true about the commission that was appointed to sit in judgment on him. They found out that he was a poor excuse for a man.??? BETSY HAMILTON. Old OXiis Green and Old Mies rreehoure, the Neith- borbood Prattlers. Meet at Betsy???s Ha???s House and Tell All They Know About the Singletons-Jealously, Etc. Thor???s a big family of tho Singletons. They moved here to the mountings on account of tho ole 'oman???s bein??? sickly. They are monstrous nice, good folks; they lost a power, liko every body else, by the war, and they don???t fly quite as high as they useter, but they are proud and allcrs puts the best foot foremost and holds they-sef abovo trash, aud for that reason some folks is jealous of ???em and don???t want to see ???em prosper. They rides in a Buggy and dresses nice, and the two oldest gals, Nancy and Annetto???they call her Nettie???has been to tho big bug school away off yander somo???rs, and thoy???vo get a plenty of book lamin???, and they dress fino ond pretty when they go anywhara, and that makes .some of the gals in this settlement farly hate ???em. But thoy dress nice and clean homo too. ???Why,??? says Mol Freshouri, ???Nancy and Nettie Singleton and tho ole 'oman too, all sets up thar at homo every day same as if it was Sunday. In the weeky days mind you, when they hamt got no compauy author, and wears a collar, a white collar, Monday same as Sunday.??? They say every time old Miss Green sees ???em pass her houso in a buggy she farly fries she???s so mad, its tho buggy that makes her so mad. Her and old Miss Freshours together has talked scanlus about them Singletons to try to make agin ???em, aud fetch ???em down. Old Miss Green ???lowed over thar at quarterly neetin??? right in a gangof women folks, save she; ???The Singletons and Haskinses is folks I dont wasto my time a runnin utter; if any of ???ems sick they thinks theyself abovo sending otter me to doctor ???om, and so I lets ???em alone, they thinks they are mado outen -~tld, and that they???re bettcr???n tother folks; at???s tho reason I was glad when old man Singleton???s cotton got burnt, and bless you when them Haskinses niggers was sot free I jist ris a shout you could er hcarn to tho Cross Roads, and clapped my hands, I was so glad. ???Now,??? says I, they ore on a level with tother 1 nSr??? ??? *??? - folks,??? and right then I???d er been glad to or seed old Miss Haskins drap dead over the wash tub.??? Nancy Singleton, she happened to go to Tcnnysy to see sorao of her kinnory. and them ak-uujbj w mvo Bviuu vi ucr Kiuiiur/, uuu vuoiii old women had it a singing around that aho married whilo sho was gone and her old man quit her, and now thoy aro trying to say sho is a gwine to marry agin, aud to a feller that I know in reason sho haint nover spoke to. I I ist think they had ortcr bo tuck to tbo court louse. Tother day I was monstrous tirod; bad been a heppin??? buddy pick cotton in tho five acre feel tother side of tho truck patch, and I cropo in the back entry and went in the shed room and flung myself down on the trundlo bed and went to sleep. You mought have toted mo bardaciously off bed and all and I wouldn???t havo knowed it. Thar haint no sleep half so souud and sweet as when a body is tired from ood, honest work. If they work and tend to heir own business Uier mines is inginnerly easy, and if thoy aro well and hearty thor haint nothin to hendor ???em from drappfnoff to sleep timo thoy striko the bed. 1 slept mon strous good and it rested me, and when I rii up on side of the bed aud rubbed my oyes I hcarn talk in a gwine on. ???Fetch lotne cneers out here in tho entry,??? aays maw, ???itsooolor.??? Flurridy Tcnnysy, sho dragged tho ehoora utter her and 'lowed: ???Ifffnow in reoson wc???uns has done wore out enough khoo leather a totin??? of cheers to a bought moro???n enough to do us.??? wo'uns has had a plenty qf cheers In our time says maw. ???but they???vo all boon stolt.??? ???Them that has muss lose,??? says old Miss Green. ???And the mighty shall be fotchod low,??? says old Miss Freshours, thinkin??? she was quotin??? of scriptur.??? *???I reckin??? I am ono ef the mighty then,??? stye Flurridy asshotuek a scat on tho steps. ???What do it all mean?,??? thinks I to myself. ???As I was gwine on to say,??? says old Miss Green, ???I hearn It, 1 never made it.??? Jist then old Sister l???inkncy habblad in on hor stick and Hung down her bonnot. ???Fetch that ar shuck bottom cheer, outen tho kitchen wsin't nothin??? good or she wouldn???t be so keen to tell it. ???1 beam it,??? says she, ???and I never made it.??? ???Which one of tho gals did you say it (was Sister Greon???? says old Miss Freshours. ???was it Nancy or that or stuck up Net???? ???1 disromember, says sho, I dont know one from tother no how, for I nevor turn* my head to look at 'em when thoy are a sailin??? by in that ar top buggy; it would do ???em too much good.??? They say old Miss Singleton is a takin??? of it monstrous bard, but she is so proud sho is try- in??? to hide it, but ah I law, <tbo top knot muss come down,??? says tho scriptur,??? aud ???him that huroblcth hisso???f shall be ris.??? I dont know as 1 bid ortcr tole it,"she went on,???and I dont know as I would cr told it unly you???uns axed me tho news, and that???s tho tallc. Pass me your snuff box Sister Freshours.??? ???Thar haint a blessed dust in it Sister Green, I???ve done swob bed the last grain outen ft, and my teeth all on aige, I was jilt a fixin* to ax somo of you ???uns for a dip.??? ???I say it I??? says old Miss Pinkney ???snd I'na smack and smooth outon snuff and backer too, and bad jist startod to tho Cross Roads to swap somo aigs for some.??? Old Miss Strong tuck out her box and passed it around, old Miss Freshours tuck a big dip. and it pear- ed to loosen her tongue. She was bent on not lutin' tothers out do her. 'Its the talk,??? says she/spitting spang over '* ??... ??? , ft g Wln8 Till; ALA IS ASIA CANVASS. Ylgorfous Campaign to be Opened Imme diately. Moxtconkbv, Ala., September 22.???(Special] The democratic state executive committee met in this city to-day. with a very luU attendance. Reports received from all eight congressional districts ere of *thc moot encouraging nature. The only hard fight the democrats will have will be in the 8th, where General Joe Wheeler, the nominee, is making a lively canvas* against L. W. Day, republican. It was re- j\ery county in the stats immedi- otely. The four candidates for electorsknd two for congress. Herbert end Sadler, with a number of other distinguished gentlemen, met with the committee. Colonel Dawson, the chairman, was instructed to place in the field the best speokers. Tbc canvass opens next week all over the state. Da If as Gone to the HUtes, Mo mar At, September 23.???A Dickson, Insur-' ante agent and promoter of public companies, is miming and Its believed he has gone to the states. the steps, that Nancy Singleton is marry that ar trifling Monk Simpson. He???s tho one they call Monk kase ho favors a mooki y.??? Now I knowed well mid good that them Singletons wouldn???t notice nairy one of them Simpsons to save they lifo. ???You uns may not believe it,??? she wont on, ???but I???ll tell you what I hcarn rcckly alter harvest. The wheat was mighty sorry, it was timo my Becky Ann had her star quilt in the frames, and Jane Simmons bad that ar spell of the swamp fever and went distracted. It was the day Clerrindy Malone???s little gsl died with the mineral jetua or sumpen, and old man Winthrope was buried. Tho Loftises, they was all a moving on tother sider tho creek ' jar ferneni old Kelly's blacksmith shop tbsr in tbatpond ofold Lotus es whir Belsory Haskins come so nigh a drownin???time of that freshet. Belsory you know has done moved away off to Massyaip and they say she driv her ducks to a poor market when she tuck thst 'possum tnoutk Bob Coats???gimme another din. Sister Strong. ???Dont talk to meebout???thera Haskinses,??? says eld Miss Green, ???Pride goes before a fall, ef Belsory is po* she deeervee it, and I???m glad of it. I???m alien glad for every lick of work them sort has to strike; but laws, old Miss JIaekins right now would starve rutber???n uot have that ar red rose on her Sunday bonnet, end her Comedy would rather die as to not dress finer???n my gals. But I tells my gals all of ???em eon be tarrypina that???s a mind to, but they sbsnt.??? Miss Gooden btd sot thar and hadn't opened her month. She come in the shedroorn whar I was and lowed, ???Betsy, I kin tell you the upshot of it all. I got tired a waitin??? for old Min "Freshours to come to the pint, for I knowed ft wasn???t so, no how. The upshot of it all is this Sift it down to the bran and its??? jealousy???nothin* but jealousy. " Brrsv Hamiltoy. Shot Dead by a Tramp. Dcveoit, September 25.???J. A. McLain, liv- ZSBTBUIT, CCJMCUiVai V ??? A. MVMHI, ing six miles north of Coopersville, Ottawa county, was shot dead last night by a tramp at his own bouse. The tramp badjireviouily been ejected from the premises. The assassin U still at large, but a party is in pursuit of GEORGIA JERSEYS. Inducement * nt New Orleans???Appointment of a State Dairy Superintendent. Georgia has a great many things besides hor iron, geld, copper, lead, slate, marble, granite and precious stones; besides her varied ci crops and her great trees; besides hor many manu factures aud curious inventions, to show to tho world at tho New Orleans exposition. In tho wide Scope of that great enterprise it seein-i that every interest of a complex civilization is to be considered and tempted to display itself. The dairy department will bo one of tho great divisions of the exposition, and tho propriety of making it so is fully appreciated by those persons in the south who have token a progressive view of tho dairy as a source of profit as well as of luxury. It is not a generally known fact, but it is ono which tne statistics prove to bo true, that the dairy products of the United States aro annu ally worth MOBR TIJAY TUB COTTON CBOP, though wo havo not yet ceased to call cotton king. The grandest dairy <*" will be mode at New Orleans; view to secure tho co-operation of Georgia dairymon that Mr. Charles E. Marvin, the general superintendent of this department,has appointed Mr. Mark A. Hardin, of this city, dairy {commissioner for the state of Georgia. Mr. Hardin received his appointment yester* day and will at once enter on tho discharge of his duties. He will lay before dairymen of this state the splendid inducements offered New Orleans and is confident that an exhibit woitby of Georgia's advanced position in this industry can be obtained. Tho management of tho exposition to encourago breeders of dairy stock and manufacturers of dairy pro ducts and appliances have set apart 8IXTKK1T THOUSAND DOLLARS To be offered in premiums in this deportment. Of this sum six thousand dollars is in premiums for dairy stock and $10,000 in * iluma for dairy produets, etc. The ex- E rvjuiuius ??ur uniry jiruuucis, cic. AIIO OX- ibits are to bo nuulo for each section separ ately, so that the south, for instance, is not to be brought into competition with sections whero the dairy business is older aud con ducted on a larger scalo. The premium! will be for exhibits from foreign countries, from the eastern ond middle states, from tho southern states, ond from tho western states and territories. The prises from theso va rious divisions will be thrown into appropriate classes tq compete for tho grand sweepstako S rises. The premiums (or dairy produets are ivided for summer products, including all manufactured before September 1st; for fall products, including all manufactured between September ls^ and November 1st, and for winter products ineluding all manu factured between November 1st and January 1st. Trizea are offered for creamery butter and factory cbocse, packages of butter, dainr butter, roll and ornamental butter, and all other dairy products. Liberal premiums are also offered for essays and lectures on tho manufacture, care, packing and transporta tion of dairy products. | Also for essays on the diseases and treatment of domestic cattle. These essays aro' to bo reed before tho dairy and stock convention to be held in connection with tho exposition. All entries for dairy machinery and appli ances must be made by November 15th and rooda received by December lit. AH entries ror dairy products must bo mado by Decem ber 15th and goods received by January 5th. TUR STOCK SHOW will probably prove of special interest in Goor- S ia whsre some of tho finest hords of Jerseys i the country aro to be found. Within fitly miles of Atlanta thero could be collected somo of the rarest specimens of this beau tiful breed and it is not iraprobablo that ths liberal inducements at New Orleans will attract some of thorn to tho oontosts thero. Thero are In and near Atlanta sovoral gontlo- men who havo gone into tho Jersey businoss extensively, and thoy could collect from thoir wou id mt ke Georgians BILL ARP REJOICES BECAUSE THE SCHOOL. HOUSE IS FINISHED. H. Oort So... ao.ernor Brown with ni.b-Flown Lui...... ??nd tbo aoT.rnor Zton.tH Fifty Dolton- Tho Ironvlllo Ac.deray Now B??dy for Bonne.., Etc., Etc. Our country school houso ii finished, and wo aro proud. The teacher has been installed and the children are gathering in. That achool houso may be hiitorie in time to come, for somo ono or more of tho soholers may wako up to tho world about something, Thero is a heap to learn yet. Tbo mystericiaro not all unfolded. That school house nloy bo tbo alma mater of somo wonderful genius, and then we who havo stock in it will be proud. It la no log cabin???no sordino???but a good, large, alylish academy. Wo wero all poor itj monoy, though rich in children, and ao wo foraged around for holp and wo got it. There 1a nothing like atrategy about doing theso things. Wo strained ourselves first, and then wo foraged on the town and got a ltttio hero , foragei m and a littlo there, and it counted up.* I used rort to livo in a town and tho country foraged on me end ao I am just playing for oven. Judge Underwood used to ear that ha had stock In all the country churches and country achool. from Tugalo river to tho Tallapoosa. Well, It iiuiu lu^muiivDi hi tuu a uuu innsaiie it cm, lb ia bread cait upon tho watera, I reckon, and it will return to ua alter many days. I don???t know how many, but after many days. I don???t mind begging for a church or a school house. When we found wo eouldont mako up tho money wo sat down and wroto a letter to (lovernor Brown anil Haltered him up about his great seal in odseating tha people, and wo ??? Id it on pretty thick, but dclicato???rerv delicate???and I mentioned hla iron mines that he ia operating close by, and how ho waa building up a thriving settlement and wo looked to him for aid in the good entorpnao, aud I told him what wo lacked, and sura enough he wrote back forthwith and thanked uo for our compliment* and regretted that ho could not help ua, and laid ho bad already contributed all he could to auch things, and waa still receiving just auch letters overy day from all parta of tbo country and ho had to put them in tho waste basket unanswered or clac biro an extra clerk to answer them, and it waa his advleo fur ns to cut down tba bouse to tbo money, and hla observation was that Ihoeo people who dopended upon themselves got along the best, aud ao ho wound up his letter with an asiuranee of bis peraonal regard, ate., etc., and signed bis name. But after ho bad signed it I reckon he read over tbo cotn- 8 ]iiiLcnts again, for a man will do that, and ten he added a postscript saying t ???On ra- so wo dident mind about bis locluro and bis advico. Tb. achool houso waa wbat wo wero after. and aomo pipe, and wii the other uuy, I visited those groat and men, Hunnicbtt k BclHngrath, and c , w opened up to their generous minds" distant views of a broad philanthropy and what a luxury it was to make those investments that contribute so much to tho comfort of littlo children, and how futuro generations would riso up ana call them blessed, and so thoy surrendered it. It was a quick way of gettiug rid of mo, aud so niiD i?? gtuiuu ituvi iuu. uuu bv they gavo us tho stovo, and thoy did it graco- ftilly and clioorfully, and our people aro grata- tul and will make returns allor many (lays???. herds ah exhibit w' proud to seo at Now Orleans. Mr. Hardin in tends to bring this wholo subject fairly boforo tho people of Georgia. All who fool an iuter- est in it can address him at Atlanta, caro of D. G. Bacon, United States commissioner. THE LOUISIANA REGISTRATION. Impede tbo Nzw Oblbams, Sopterabor 23.???State regis ter of voters, Kobeft Brewster, was arrestad to day on an affidavit inode by G. V. Davis and L. A. Adams, charging him with hiudoring and preventing them from full attendance at the place of the registration of voters in tbo mrish of Orleans, and from tho fulf examina- ion and inspection of the record book of suoh registration, and from making true and cor rect lists therefrom, and from verifying the same, and from performing the acts required of them as such supervisors of election by the laws of the United States, con trary to the statutes of section 5.622 of tho United States. Mr. Brewster was taken before United States Commissioner Hunt and requir ed to givo bail in $5,000 for bis appearauco be fore tho United States court. Brewster says it was not his purpose to refuso the supervisors any privileges given them by law, but that when thev cams to his office yestsrdav and domanded the books for scrutiny, and to maka copies of all tha ragistration since 1880, he explained-to him that the books were thon being used in registering the voters, and that thero was not room enough at the desk for any othor besides the sixteen clerks employed there. Ho stated that it Chief Supervisor Norton would call at his office they could make soma arrangement satisfactory and affording the euficrvisors every facility required. They then withdrew and made affidavit as stated. Brewster further says it is now impossible to mako complote copies of the registration sinco 1880 in timo for the November election, but that tbo United States supervisors will be accorded every fa cility to make an affort. He cannot, however, allow them to imped the work of registration. Mr. Brewster has callod tho attention of Uio says for falco imprisonment and maliciously at- of hlsniticial duties. GOING HACK TO TEXAS. An Old Atlanta Hnj Arroiited for a Murder Committed Three Years Ago. Sheriff Tatbam, of Cherokee county..Texas, passed through Atlanta yesterday, carrying with him Robert Usher, who is wantsid in Cherokee county. Texas, for murder. Usher is an old Atlanta boy. Ha was born in the city about thirty-five years ago, but when yet a child, led with his psrents for the v'hristian lady, who, not long ago, looked up over her spectacles at mo and said, ???Major, what kind of a man is $Ir. Jay Gould???? I told her 1 dident know him, but 1 reckoned licwiiH n right clever hum; and aho lln-ii lob! mo sho baa written him a loiter moro than n mouth ago asking him to givo tho chnrch ton dollars lor a chandelier and a enrpot, and, M!)'s she, iih ??bo laid her knitting in he/ lnj??, ???Major, ho lrosont even auswered my Jotter. Do you reckon ho over got it. Governor Brown sent us ten dollars, and thoy suy that Mr. Gould is richer than ho is.??? Well, wo aro all right now and tho Ironvillo acqjjcmy is open to tho community. Our tem-hciH are going t<?? tench rudiment.! and good behavior ana good manners aud music, and bascbnll, too, 1 reckon. Thoy aro not yet l'K jiined to tench high reinum. That < \oliition bu-dne.H acnmfl to Eavo broke out in a new place, and is vexing our wito men mightily. Bcicnco Is a good thine, and I feel a great interest in knowing all about Adam, for 1 reckon ho is my ancestor, but it is more import how hi i diwcndauf l bo- hnvo themselves in this subloonary world. We have a big meeting going on here, aud I beard a man say, *<WelI, I'm not going. 1???vo f it no confidence In these proachers. What want to know first of all is where did Cain get his wife. That???s what bothers me.??? And so he is going about loose, and every time any body talks to him about religion hejiays: ???Wuere did Cain get bis wife.??? But 1 think tbo new doctrine of evolution sudden and oil at once, puro and beautiful and lovely, and had no monkey an cestors, and 1 reckon that is tho reason why woman is to this day bo much bolter than man. There ih no gorilla blood in her???no taint ot tho bruto or the beast to crop oat liko It docs in a man. What a pity that aho vrxn yoked on to auch a feller as Adam. What a s|d?? ndid Mock would have filled the world if Adam badent evoluted, and had been created fresh liko Eve. Aa it Is wo have got a graded stock that is a sort of a cross between nngcls and monkeys, and it keeps up a powerful com motion. But tbo troublo about the wholo busi ness is that wo can???t holp it, aud what troubles i*??? *??? in--r- than nil in that I mil one of ???em. X always knew there was some devilment iu mo, sums original sin that mado mo meaner than I wsnt to be, and now I know just where it come from. That apple eating business had Will'll /cm I'UIIU, Hill w,w. Ml- |'??i^aa??? i-??a Hiw lone star stats. When Usher reached his ma- , erity he married a Texas lady, and soon after hat event entered ths msrcsutile business in Rusk, a small town in Cherokee county. He was a good business man. and waa succeeding finely whan ho got into the difllsulty, for which bo is wanted. About three years ago Usher killed a man named Agnsw. It appears from what Sheriff Tatham says, that Agnew was a desperate man, and had a difficulty with Usher previous to the killing. On the day of the killing Agnew went to Usher???s store and asked him to walk outside and settle the old trouble. Usher de clined, end ths quarrel continued until Usher shot Agnew dead. After tbo shooting Asher went to tbs county seat of Cherokee county snd gave himself up. Subsequently he bad a preliminary trial and waa released upon bond, but before bis trial was called ho left Texas and cams to Georgia, lie located in Crawfordville and soon started a small stare, but about a week ago his whereabouts was ascertained and be was arrested. When inted, but when Sheriff Tatham freed him tbs Crawfordville prison Sunday, ho admit- I everything. Usher???s wife and two chfl- peared quite satisfieif and were confident of an easy acquittal. Even tbs sheriff declared that Usher would be acquitted. Thirly-Se vsn Horae Thieves Hanged by VIg- 1 lasts. ViasiHtA Citt, Montana, September 25.??? The bodies ot two horse thieves were discov ered suspended from a tree on Poplar river reeterday. This makes thirty-seven thieves ' ynehed by vigUaata this season. come from. That apnlo rating business had nothing to do with it, but it is in the stock??? the babboon cross???and ever and anon it crops out. AH my good desire* and noblo aspira tions, all my amiability and tenderness comes from mother Kvo, and my meanness from Adam. Tho old rascal. 1 wish she Indent have married him, and then may bo I would havo been a better man. lint still, notwithstanding and nevertheless, I would like to know, just as a matter of curi osity, what became of old Adam???s brothers snd sisters and all the rest of the old monkey stock that evoluted, for I reckon he dident just evoluta by hirnself. May bo they didfent marry angels, but just kept on in the pure monk* y breed, and that accounts for the other races???the Hottentots and Indians and such like. There is a difference, a great difference, and it bad a beginning somewhere. Science has a jiower of work to do in unraveling these questions, sad I hope she will do it, but she bssent done it yet to my satfrfaetionVMtd I???m going to wait patiently. , Asr. THE DELAWARE DEMOCRATS. They Pledge Fealty to the Party and are Confident of Nucc*m. Doves, Del., September 23.???There it a largo attendance at the democratic state convention. The platform adopted pledgee steadfast ad herence to the principles and policy which havo guided the democratic party of Delaware in its wise, reputable and economical administration ol tne government for more than a quarter of a century, declares that in the candidates for pr**i<lcnt and vice-president, dominated by tbc national democratic convention at Chicago and the platform of principle enumerated by said convention. We hereby pledge and guarantee that Rio sncecM of tbc democratic party fu tho event of their elec tion will insure reform in the administration, economy to the expenditure of public money, a ridii' tiou la taxation, prosperity to the country ??n??I bapplnem to the people ol every section. Resolutions were also adopted approving ef the ratification of the pending amendments to provide for an increased representation from New Castle county to the general assembly, and for a change In the judicial system. C* ???%- grmman Lore was renominate*! by acclama tion. After selecting presidential electors and a state committee, tne convention adjourned,