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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24 1885. TWELVE PAGES.
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TALMAGE’S SERMON.
DISCOURSE PREACHED YESTER
DAY IN BROOKLYN.
On the Bubjtot, "The War on the Sabbath"-v:
Wisdom of Ce>aatlon from Labor Oao Dar Out
Boron-& Comparison Between a Now
England Sabbat a and Ona of Paris.
Brooklyn, N. Y., February 22.—[Special.]
Dr, Talmsge preached in the Brooklyn tab
ernacle to*day on the aubject “The War on the
Sabbath/ 1 The opening hymn was:
Arm of the Lord! Awake! Awake!
Put on {by strength, the nationa shake!
The tefl was taken from Exodus xxxl.13
“Verily noj^ Sabbaths ye shall keep." Fol
lowing is I)r. Talmogo’a sermon in full. He
said: *d.*
The wisdom of cessation from hard labor one
day out of the seven is almost universally ac<
knowledged. The world has found out that
it can do less work in seven days than in six
and that the fifty-two days of tho year devoted
to rest are an addition rather than a subtrac
tion. Experiments hare been made in all de
partments. Tho great Castlereagh though she
could work his brain 305 days in the year, but
after a while broke down and committed sui
cide; and Wilberforce said of
him: “Poor Castlereagh. This ii
the result of the non*observence o
the Sabbath/* A celebrated merchant de
dared: “I would have been a maniac long ago
I but for the Sabbath/ 1 The nerves, the bram,
the muscles, the bones, the entire physical
| intellectual and moral nature cry out for Sab
batic rest. What is true of man is lor tho
moot part true of the brute.
Travelers have found out they come to thoir
placo of destination sooner
when they let their horses
rest by tho way on the Sabbath. What is the
matter with thoso forlorn creatures
harnessed to somo of our city cars?
why do they stumble and stagger and fall? It
is for the lick of the Sabbath rest. In other
days when tho herdsmen drovo thoir sheop
and cattlo from tho far west down to tho aoa-
board it was found out by experiment that
those herdsmen and drovers who halted over
the seventh day got down sooner to tho sea-
coast than thoso who passed on without the
observance of the holy Sabbath. Tho fishermen
ofT the coast of Newfoundland declare that
more men during tho year catch tho most
fish who stop during tho Lord’s day. When
I asked tho Rocky mountain locomotive
engineer why ho changed loco
motives when it seemed to bo a
straight route, he said: “We have to let the
locomotive stop and cool oil’, or the machinery
would soon dreak down/’ Men who made
large quantities of salt were told that if they
allowed their kettles to cool over Sunday, they
would submit thcmiolvos to a
great deal of damage. The experiment was
made, some observing tho Sabbath and somo
not observing tho Sabbath. Those who allow
ed the fires to go down and tho kettles to cool
onco a week, were compelled to spend only a
small sum for repairs, white in tho casos whoro
no 8abbath was observed many dollars wero
demanded for repairs.
In other words intelligent man and dumb
beast and dead machinery cry out for tho
Lord's day. A prominent manufacturer told
me that ho could seo a difference between the
goods which wont out of his establishment on
Saturday from tho goods that went out on
Monday. Ho said: “They aro
very diilercnt indeed. Those that
were made in the former part of
tho week, because of tho rest that had been
previously given, wero better tbnn those that
wero nmdo in tho latter part ot the week,
when the men wero tired out/’ Tho Sabbath
comes and it bathes the soreness from the
limbs, quiets the agitated brain, and puts out
the fires of anxiety that have boon burning nil
the week. Our bodies aro soven-day clocks,
and unless on the sevonth day they aro wound
up, they run down into tho grave. The Sab
bath was intended as a savings-bank;
into ft wo are to gather tho resources
upon which wc are to draw ail tho week. That
man who breaks the Sabbath robs his own
nerve, bis own muscle, his own br&in, his own
bones. Ho dips up tho wino of his own life
and throws it away. He who breaks the
Lord’s day gives a mortgage to disease and
death upon his entire physical estate, and at
the most unexpected moment that mortgage
will be foreclosed and tho soul cjocted troin
the premises. Every gland and poro and coll
and finger-nail demands the sev
enth day for repose. Tho respiration
of the lungs, the throb of the pulse in the
wrist, tbo motion of the bone in tho socket de
clare, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it
holy." There are thousands of inon who havo
had, their lives dashed out against the golden
gates of the Sabbath. A prominent London
merchant testifies that thirty years ago he
went to London. Hosays: “I nave during
that time watched minutely, and I have no
ticed that the men who went to business on tho
Lord’s day, or opened their countinghouses,
have, without a ainglo exception, como to
failure.’’ A prominent Christian merchant in
Boston says: “I find it don't pay to work on
Sunday. When I was a boy I noticed out on
Long wharf there were merchants who loaded
their veiaela on the Sabbath day, keeping
their men busy from morning till night, and
it is my observation that they themiolves
came to nothing—these merchants—and thoir
children came to nothing. It doesn’t pay,’*
he lays, “to work on the Sabbath.”
While the attempt to kill the Sabbath by
the stroke of ax and flail and tho
yardstick his beautifully failed, it
is proposed in our day to
drown tbo Sabbath by opening all the grog
shops. An organized movement is on fort to
get the New York legislature to repeal the
present law which prohibits the sate of intox
icating liquor on the Sabbath. It is- said that
this law is not executed. ~Ten thousand mon
in the city of Brooklyn, in’ behalf of law and
crder,are about to ice that the law is executed.
The Sabbath has been sacrificed to tho rum
traffic. To many of our people the best day
of the week is the worst. Bakers must keep
their shops closed on the Sabbath. It is
dangerous to have loavea of bread going out on
Sunday. The shoe-store is closed; severe
penalty will attack the man who tells
toots on the Sabbath. But down
with the window shutters of tho
grog shops. Our laws sbaH confer particular
honors upon the rum traffickers. All other
traders must stand aiide for these. Let our
cititens who have disgraced themselves by
trading in clothing and hosiery and hardware
and lumber and coal, take off their hats to the
rum seller, elected to particular honor. It is
unsafe for any other class of men to be allowed
license for Sunday work. But swing out your
signs, 0, ye traffickers in the peace of families
and in the souls of immortal men! Let the
corks fly and the beer foam and the rum go
tearing down the half consumed throat of the
inebriate. God doe* not see, does he? Judg
ment will never come, will it?
They would bury the Sabbath very decently
under the wratn of the target company
and to the music of all
Strtkotcb’s brazen instruments. There
while the attempt to kill the Sabbath by
the stroke of ax and Mail and the yardstick
has beautifully failed, it is proposed in our
day to drown the Sabbath by opeuing all tho
grog shops. An organized movement is on
foot to get the New York legislature to repeal
the present law which forbids tho sale of in
toxicating liquor on the Sabbath. There are
to-day iu the different cities ten thousand
hands and ten thousand jwns busy in attempt
ing to cut out the heart of our Christian
Sabbath and leave it a mere skeleton of
what it once was. Tho effort is organised
and tremendous, and unless the friends of
Christ and the lovers of good order shall rouse
up right speedily, their sermons and their
E rotests will be uttered after the castle is
iken. There art eitias in the land where the
Sabbath has almost perished, and every Sab
bath night those cities are in foil blase of the
atric and operatic entertainment; and it is be
coming a practical question whether we who
received a pure Sabbath from the hands of oar
fathers shall have piety and pluck enough to
give to our children the same blessed inheri
tance. The eternal God helping us, wo will.
I protest against this invasion of tho holy
Sabbath, in the first place, becauio it is a War
on divine enactment. God says, in Isaiah: “If
tbou turn away thy foot from doing thy pleas
ure on my holy day, thou iholt walk upon tho
high places.” What did he mean by “doin«
thy pleasure?” He referred to secular anu
worldly amusements. A man told mo he was
never so much frightened as in the midst of an
earthquake, when the beasts of tho field bel
lowed in fetrand even hthe barnyard fowls
screamed in terror. Well, it was when the
earth was shaking and the sky was all full of
fire that God made the great announcement.
“Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.”
Go along through the streets where the thea
tres are open on a Sabbath night; go upon the
steps; enter the boxes of those places of enter
tainment and tell me if that is keeping tho
Bobbath holy. “Oh,” says somo one, “God
won’t bo displeased with a grand sacred con
cert.” A gentleman who was present at a“grand
sacred concert” said that during the exercises
there were comic and sentimental songs, in
terspersed with coarse jokes; and there wero
dances and a farce and tight rope walking and
a trapeze performance. I suppose it was a holy
dsnee and a consecrated tight rope. I am not
certain, however, about that, but this I know,
it wns a “grand sacred concert.”
We hear a great deal of talk about “tho
rights of the people” to have just such amuse
ments on Sunday as they want to have. I
wonder if the Lord has any rights. You rule
your family, the governor rules the state, tho
president rules the wholo land; I wonder if
the Lord has a right to rule tho nations and
mako the enactment: “Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy,” and if thero is any ap
peal to a higher court from that decision, and
If the men who are warring against that en
actment are not guilty of high treason against
the maker of heaven and earth. They have in
our cities put God on trial. It has boon tho
theaters and opera houses of tlio land plain
tiffs, versus tho Lord Almighty, defendant,
and tho suit has been begun and who shall
come out ahead you know. Whether it bo pop
ular or unpopular I now announce it as my
opinion that tho people hove no rights snvo
thoso which the Great Jehovah gives them.
He has nover given tho right to man to break
His holy Sabbath and as long as Uis throne
stands llo will never givo that right.
The prophet asks a question which I can
easily answer: “Will a man rob God?” Yes.
They robbed Him last Snnday night at the
theaters and the opera houses and I chargo
upon them tho infamous and high-handed
larceny. I believe with the sailor. Tho crow
had been discharged from thevcisol because
they would not work while they wero in port
on Che Lord’s day. The captain weut out to
;et sailers. He found one man, and be said to
lira: “Will you serve mo on tho Sabbath?”
‘No.” “Why not?” “Well,” replied tbo
old sailor, “a man who would rob God Al
mighty of His Sabbath would rob mo of my
wages if he got a chance.” Oh, it is das
tardly mean when we break the Sabbath.
Suppose you had seven oranges and you gave
to your child six of them, putting the other
orange in your pocket for yourself, and you
should find that the child had not been satis
fied with the six oranges end had como and
stolen your seventh. That is precisely what
men do when they break tho Sabbath. Sup
pose you were poor and you camo to a dry
goods merchant and asked for some cloth for
garments, and he should say: “I’ll givo you
six yards,” and white ho was off from tho
counter binding up the six yards you should
go behind tho counter and steal ono additional
yard. That is what every man does whon ho
breaks the Lord’s Sabbath. God gives us six
days cut of seven, reserving ono for Himself,
and you will not let Ilim havo it. It is moan
beyond all computation.
I am opposed to this desecration of the Sab
bath by secular entertainments, because it is a
war on the statutes of our stato. Tho law
says:
“It shall not be lawful to oxhibiton tho first
doy of tho week, commonly called Sunday, to
the public, in any building, gtrden, grounds,
concert room or other room or placo within the
.city and county of New York any interlude,
tragedy, comedy, opera, ballet, play, farco,
negro minstrelsy, negro or other dancing, or
any other entertaiumont of tho stage, or any
part or parts therein, or any equestrian, circus
or dramatic performances or any performance
of jugglers, acrobats or rono-dancing.”
Was there ever a plninor enactment than
that? Wt.o made the law? You, who at tho
ballot box decided who should go to Albany
and sit in the legislature. They made tho law
for you and your families, and now I say that
any man who attempts to override that law
insults you and me and every man who has
tho right of suffrage in the stato of Now
York.
Still further: I protest against this invasion
of the Sabbath, because it is a foreign war.
Now, if you heard at this moment the boom
ing of a gun in the harbor, or a shell from somo
foreign frigato should drop iuto our streets,
how long would you keep your seats in tho
tabernacle? You would want to face the foe.
and every gun that could be managed would
bo brought into use, and every ship that could
bo brought out of tho navy yard would swing
from her anchorage and tho question would be
decided. You do not want a foreign war,
and yet I have to tell you
that this invasion of God's holy
day is a foreign war. As among our own na
tive-born population there aro two classes, the
good and the bad, so it it with the pcopio who
como from other shores—thero aro the law
abiding and the lawless. The former aro wol•
como here. The more of them tho better wo
like it. In this particular church there are
representatives ot all lands. I believo God
iutended our national heart to throb with the
blood of all peoplot But let not the lawless
come from other shores expecting to break
down our Sabbath and institute in the place
of it a foreign Sabbath.
How do you feel, ye who havo been brought
up amidst the hills of New England, about
giving up the American Sabbath? Ye who
spent your childhood under the shadow of the
Adiromlacks or the Catskills; ye who wore
Lorn on the banks of tbo Tennessee or the Sa
vannah, how do you feel about giving up tho
American Sabbath? You say. “We
shall not give it up. Wo mean te defend it as
long os there is any strength left in our arm
or tny blood in our heart!” Do not bring
our Spanish Sabbath here; do not bring your
French Sabbath here: do not bring your Gor
man Sabbath here. It shall be for us and our
children forever a pure, consecrated, Christian
American Sabbath.
I will make a comparison between the Sab
bath as some of you nave known it and the
Sabbath of Paris. I speak from observation.
One Sabbath morning I was aroused in Paris
by a great sound in tne street. I said: “What
is this?” “Oh,” they said, “this is Sunday.”
An unusual rattle of vehicles of all aorta; the
voices seemed more boisterous than on other
days. It seemed as if all the vehicles of Paris
had turned out for tho holiday. The Champs
Elysees one great mob of pleasure seeking
people. Balloons flying, parrots chattering,
trot bells roiling, peddlers hawking their
knickknacks through the streets, hand organs
and every kind of racket, musical and un
musical. When the evening came down all
the theaters were in full blaro of music and
full blaze of light. The wine stores and saloons
were thronged with an unusual number of
customers. At even-tide I stood and watched
the excursionists coming home; fagged out
men, women and children, a gulf stream of
fatigue, irritability and wretchedness; for I
should think it would take three or four days
to get over that m’serable way of Stindaying.
It teemed more like an American fourth of
July tb8U a Christian Sabbath.
Now, in contrast. I present one of the Sab
baths in one ot our best American cities. Holy
silence coming down with the day dawn.
Businets n>f>n more deliberately looking into
the faces of their children, and talking te them
about their present and future welfare. Mon
sit longer at the table in the morning Decease
the stores are no: to be opened and the me
chanical tools are not to be taken up. There
are congratulation and good cheer ail through
the house. Houses of God vocal with thanks
givings for mercies receive#!, with prayers for
comfort, with charities for the poor. Rest for
the body. Rett for the soul. The nerves qui
rted, the temples cooled, the mind cleared,
the soul strengthened and oar entire popula
tion turned out on Monday morning ten years
younger, better prepared for the duties of this
life, better prepared for the life that is to
come. Which do you like best, tho American
Ssbbath or tho Parisian Sabbath? Do you
know in what boat the Sabbath camo across
the seas and landed on our Shores? It was iu
the Mavflowor. Do you know in what boat
the Sabbath will lcavo us it ever goes? It will
bo in the ark that Moats over a deluge of na
tionni iniquity.
Still further: I protest against this invasion
of the Lord’s day, because it wrongs a vast
multitude of employes of their rest. Tho bar
tenders in case of the grog shop niid in case ot
tho theater scene-shifters, tho jballet-daucora,
the call-boys, the innumerable attendants and
supernumeraries. They are paid small sala
ries at the best. You see them on tho stage in
tinsel and tassel or you see tne
in gauze whirling in to
tortures and you mistake them for fairies or
queens; but after twelve o’clock at night you
may see them trudging through tho streets in
faded dress, shivering and tired, seeking thoir
homes in the garrets and cellars ot tho city.
Now, you propose to take from thousands of
these empfpyos throughout this country, uot
only all opportunity of moral culturo, but all
opportunities of physical rest. Let the crush
ing juggernaut stop one day in seven I
1 oppose this invasion or the Christian Sab
bath because it is a war on tho spiritual wel
fare of the people. You havo a soul. Yes.
Which of the saloons or theaters on tho Sab
bath day will givo that soul auy culturo? If
you gentlemen ofthercstaurantssnd tho opera
have six days in tho week in which to cxer-
Is it unreasons
at least for our immortal soul? Or to pti
in another shape, do you not really think that
our imperishable soul is worth at least ono
seventh as much as our perishable body?
You must not forget that ninety-nino ouo-
hundredths of all Uie Christian effort of this
country ore put forth on the Lord’s day, that
is the day in which tho asylums and tho hos
pitals and tho prisons are visited by Christian
men. That is tho day when tho youth ,ot our
country get their chief religious information,
That is the day when tho most of the cfaacr lifts
are collected. That is tho day when uuder
tho blast of 50,000 American pulpits, tho sin
of the land Is assaulted and men aro summon
ed to repent. When you make war upon any
f >art of God’s day you mako war upon tho a»y
urns gaud the penitentiaries and tho hos-
pitalsand tho reform associations and tho
homes of the destitute and tho church of tho
living god which is tho pillar and tho ground
of tho truth.
>ic ,
i a war upon our political institu
tions. When tho Sabuath goes down tho repub
lic goes down. Men who aro not willing to
obey God’s law inregard to Sabbath observa
tion are not fit to govern themselves. Sabbath
breaking mcansjlissoluteness, and dissolute
ness is incompalablo with self government,
What is tho matter with republicanism in
Italy and Spain? No Sabbath. Franco nev
er will havo a permanent republic until aho
quits her royetering Sabbaths. Let tho bad
work go on and you havo tho “commune” and
you bavo “the revolution” and you have tho
sun of national prosperity going dowu in dark
ness and blood. From that reign of terror
may the god of Lexington and Gettysburg do-
liver us.
Still further: I am opposed to this invasion
of the Subbath, because it is unfair and it is
partial. Why has it been during tho past few
weeks that somo of tho theatres have uoen al
lowed to bo open and othors not? Why not
havo ail open? Go furtbor and seo how un
fair it is. Whilo operas and theatres in dif
ferent cities aro allowed to bo open'on tho Sab
bath day, dry goods establishments must be
closed, and plumbing establishments, and.
tho butchers, and the bakors, and tlio shoe
makers, and tho hardworo stores. Tell mo
by what law of justicoyou comnol mo to shut
tne door of my storo while you keep open tho
door of your theatro? May it ploaso your
honors, Judges of tho supremo court, when
ou givo to the opera aud theatro tho right to
o open on tho Sabbath da
give at tho same timo tho rigl
cial establishments to bo open, and to all
mechanical establish men U to bo opon. What
is right in tho ono caso is right In all tho casos.
Hut como now and bo honest, you men who
manogo theatres and operas, and confess that
you do not caro anything at all about tho
moral woltnro of tho people, but you ouly
wont inoro dollars. Indeed, tho leader of ono
of tho operas says in tho public, prints that
unless ho can havo tlio theatro opon on tho
Loid’sdayho cannot aMord to koop it run
ning. We aro told by tho operatic and theat
rical leaders that thoy must get money on
Ssbbath ntghts in order to puy tho deficits of
tho other nights of the wcok. Now in answer
to that I say that if men cannot manago our
theatres without breaking tho Lord’s day,thoy
had better oil go into bankruptcy together.
We will never surrender the Christian Sab
bath for the purposo of helping these violators
pay their expenses. Whilo there may ho a
difference of opinion among some pooplo about
the propriety of having theatricals during tho
week, I think oil lovers of good order must
unito in ono solid, unanimous resistance to this
infernal attempt to maaaaero the Christian
Ssbbath.
I congratulate our city that so far wo havo
almost entirely escaped the invasion and my
confidence is in our mayor and our judges
and our polico officers that the laws of the
stato of New York will be executed. Abovo
nil, my confidence is in tho good hand of God,
that has been over the city since its founda
tion. But I call this day upon all thoso who
befriend Christian principles and thoso who
love our political freedom to stand in solid
phlsynx in thiiiThermopilaaof American his
tory ; for I believo os certainly as I stood hero
that the tr umph or overthrow of American
institutions depends upon this Sabbath con
test. Bring your voices, your pens, your
printing presses, and your pulpits into the
Lord’s artillery corns tor the defense of our
holy day. Decree before high heaven that
this war on your roligious rights and the cr«.
dies of your children shall bring ignominious
defeat to the enemies of Qod and the public
weal. For thoso who die in the contest bat
tling for the right we shall chisel the epitaph:
“These are they who come out of the great
tribulation and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb.” But
for that one who shill prove in this moral
crises recreant to God and the church there
shall he no honorable epitaph, lie shall not
be worthy even of a burial placo in all this
free land; but perhaps some steam tug at
midnight, moy carry out his poor remans
and drop them in the sea, where the lawless
winds which keep no Sunday will gallop
over the grave of him who lived and died s
traitor to God, the church and tho free insti
tutions of America. Long live tho Christian
Sabbath f Perish lorover all attempts to over
throw it.
STATE LEGISLATURES.
The Senatorial Balloting In Illinois nod Ore
gon—Vo Kiccllon In Either HUste.
FrsisoriRLD, 111., February 72.-Tho legislative
muddle Is still unsettled. Several bzlloU were
taken duriog the week without result. Logan’s
highest vote was 101 and Morrison’s highest vote
trss !>7— JC2 nect+mrr to elect. There la one re-
publican who will never vote for Lstgin and sev
eral democrats who will never vote tor Morrison.
Kithtr party ran prevent an election, by ref minx
to vote and thus breaking the quorum. It seems
Pobtiand, Oregon., February 22.—A eurlou* and
unprseedented result has been retched in the
senatorial fight here. Home time ago both bouses
agreed to adjourn at midnight Friday, the eetdon
tl«n ending by law. The republics** were in the
majority iu b'.lh houses. They couM not a free
on arcus to rial candidate, however, being apt it
to ttrrcn iiineb and # 'orto-tt. It required 41 vats*
to elect, and Hirw-h only got 39. Toe hour of *d-
fournmci.t arrived, without anvaenttor having
tom chosen The republicans then p-w-ed a re
lotion retrirdir-g the resolution of adjournment
and declared the legislature still fa session. The
democrats standing by the tow of adjourn
ment, left their ml*. The republic™* organic*!
the ItgWlstur* over and went to balloting The?
were still unable to agree, and finally adjournal
tine die. So no successor to Mater Jua been elect
ed.
PIQUANT PARAGRAPHS.
INTERESTING ITEMS ON CURRDNT
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
A Vsnlao on the Streets of Philadelphia-! Ken
tucky Family-Emigration of Cubans-Btviva!
In Wells Bottom—"Must wo go Too"
Rising to a Question of Privilege.
A short time ago tho Kennedy family moved
into a new houie In Bcllefontc, Pa. Living or
staying with Mr. Kennedy, or “Canada,” as the
name is generally pronouuccd.was a young widow
woman, whoso name was Mrs. Spangler. Sbo as
sisted Mrs. Kennedy, who Isa dressmaker, to sew,
and also in the work of tbo household. The other
members of the family are the husband, our good-
natured friend “Davy;” the eldest son, George;
the second son, Joe, and tho little boy, Walter.
Borne weeks ago a series of very peculiar demon
strations began in tho Kennedy resi
dence, many of which wero wit
nessed,uot only by the family, but by the
neighbors. We believe tho first thing that was
noticed was that certain spools of thread jumpod
offthe sewing machine or mantel- picco without
any pcrceptlblo human agency. Next a dog’s head
which worked loose in a neck socket leaped clear
out, struck tlio celling with forco
and fell f to tho Moor. Then
the heater gave n lurch, and the poker,
which was lying on top of ft, flew across the room
with great violence and shuck against the wall
with such force that it might have killed littlo
Walter, who had Jnst left that part of the room.
On another occasion the dining table jumpod sev
eral feet from its position into the middle of tho
room, a barrel up stair* rolled across tho apart
ment, and when Mrs. Kefincdy went up to aee
what wna the matter the discontented barrel was
found sitting on end ou the bed. Ono cveuing
tho young widow, Mrs. Spangler and a girl, the
daughter of Mr. John Fellenbaum, wero doing
something, paring apples or potatoes, or some
thing of the sort, when a ball of firo shot right at
them, scaring them pretty nearly out of their
scuses. "Oh, Lord!” exclaimed tho girl, "what’s
that?” But the bill of lire vanished without do
ing any harm. Naturally this stirred up the wo
men. In fact Mr. Kennedy was also in n stato of
mind.
Oi.n St. Valcntiuo probably slipped on the pave
ment tbo other day and got his coat tail wot.
Aw article In the last Science Monthly states that
cancer is rtcndily increasing in England and tlio
rate of increase ia augmenting. Thin, during tho
ten year*, 1880-’59, the increase In the number of
deaths from this diseaso was 2,0U0, showing an av
erage increase of about 200: from 1800 to I860 tho
number of deaths was 80,019, and the averago an
nual iuneaso 218; aud from 1870 to 1879,111,501
deaths occurred, with an annual Increase of 820.
Dr. Charles Moore attempted to show, in a book
1 ublishcd in 1805, that cancer thrives with good
living, and that its increase wns an accompaniment
of the improved economical condition and vitality
of tbc British people. It abounds where tho condi
lions aro ordinarily most favorable to health, aud
more among the rich than among tho poor. Accord
ing to a French observer, about 10 per cent of tbo
wealthy classes and 7 per cent of tlio ;>oorer classes
are a filleted with,cancer. Tho disease, according
to Dr. Crisp, also prevails among animals, more
frequently among Mcsh-ratcrs than among horb-cat-
err, ami among domesticated than among wild
animals.
Renator Evabts, at a reception tendered him
by prominent men, said, In tho courso of a sen
tence as long as a circus procession, “let tlic^o ho
open and a frank consolidation of public men.”
An “open consolidation” Is good. This, wo be
lieve, is one of tho characteristics of the sponge.
In this enlightened ago a workman who refused
to work In a haunted house would bo laughed at.
Even men who bad a faint belief in ghosts would
be ashamed to avow it aud would suffer ttnny an- i
noyanccs before giving up their oY
brsvo men cannot stand an uncanny
mystery long. Within tho past week
men who havo been at work
In a Long Island City distillery havo quit,
declaring that they will nover return. Thoy say
that they havo been nibbed against, clawed and
spit upon by an unearthly thing, which appeared
to them in tho form of a cat ns largo as a donkey.
Under tho circumstances tho men cannot bo
blamed for leaving tho distillery. No man likes
to be interrupted in the midst of a particular Job
by a cat as big as a donkey, and whon tho thing
gets to clawing and spitting it bocomcs unendur
able.
On Paturday morning a raving maniac ruthod up
and down Chestnut street, Iu Philadelphia, creat
ing consternation among tho pedestrians of that
busy thoroughfare. "I am on fire,” he shouted,
i am a brand snatched trom a burning, soothing
hell. Don't you know mo? I am O'Donovan
Nazzlni Dolgofskl, a Pollsh-Itallau Irishman. My
lather was a sunbeam and my motbor a snowflake,
and 1 glinted from an emerald In tho North sea.
I ora the electric light of eternity and death shad
ows my gleams. In an hour I will be in London
■ml 8t. Petersburg, and you'll see. Here, you seo
this (taking a bean out ot his vest pocket)? This
is Vesuvius. I feed on lava, and when I oxplodo
the earth shell mn in melted brimstone. My
fing< re are daggers tipped with poison, my mouth
is a cannon and my tongue a bomb. The fuse Is
lighted and the circuit established. In two min
utes there will be war. Mrs. Dudley has one end
of tho string, the Mnhdl auother and Itossa an-
other.” _
The Cubans, despairing ot better times, aro em
igrating In largo numbers to Mexico. Even the
better classes aro going. The ruler* of Cuba seo
with mingled pain and pleasure this transfer of
capital and enterprise from tho island to the main
land. During the post eight years Mexico has
prorpered and made rapid advancement.
the other hand, Cuba Is
ruined. A correspondent writes: “The commerce,
tbo wealth, tbo great prosperity and credit thst
its merchants and planters enjoyed from 1832 to
1870, all have terminated. During the year 1S8I
more than 1,700 business houses havo fallen Into
bankruptcy, More than live thousand vacant
houses are to-day counted in Havana. Cuba has
never before witnessed the frightful misery that
to day everywhere prevails. From this misery re
sults nn alarm IDg Increase of crime, of prostitu
tion,without example in the history of this people,
of a hopeless discouragement that threatens
soda! annihilation.
Tlix good people of Wells Bottom, Ohio, are lute
state of mind over a remarkable revival which has
ustbecn brought to a premature close. It seems
that last Friday evening Faster Dodge announced
to bis congregation that one Dongel had been con
verted. As everybody knew Dongel to bean un
godly man and a notorious infidel, the excitement
wss Interne. Bister Mills, when she beard the glad
tldirgr. executed a piroutte on the back of a bench
and screamed at the top of ber voice. Theorgaa-
i&t i truck upon appropriate tune, and the people
wept and shouted for joy. Iu tneir excitement
the revivalists wrecked the Interior of the church,
tearing the pulpit aud Bible to pieces,
burling Pastor Dodge | through a
window. The new convert. Dongel, was lifted
up by ihe women and carried down tho aisle. The
ad revel luted until daylight. Saturday Dongel
carried all his money to the preacher and gave it
to him. lie became a raving maniac, and at the
meeting that night beaddressed the paitor as Ju
de* h* a riot, anti ordered blm to leave tbc pulpit,
at the came time striking him with a club and
fra< luring bis skull. He then clubbed the breth
ren aodr to ter* promlwnioualy, injuring one women
fatsliy. Tte fight became general and several p<rr-
were frightfully beaten. The latest report is
that Parlor Dodge bos lost his reason.
Trig editor of the Birmingham Chronicle dcs-
pordtruly asks, “Must we go too?” He com-
plains that the outside world regard the s lath
er ner a* being unable to keep np In the struggle
for wealth. Hince the material development of
Alabamp began In earnest, a few year* ago, tho
great body of ber mineral lands has passed o il of
the hands of the original owner, and alien* have
made fortunes out of them. Few of the owner*
of fifteen year* ago, say* the Chronicle, even hold
stock in the great enterprises built up around
them and on their lands. The northern men do
not hesitate to say, that the southerner cannot
make money in competition with them and that
tho southern farm lauds will never pay and Ala«
bnraa lands will not feed her people until they
pais out of southern bauds. This synopsis
of our Alabama coutempary’i doubts
and fears will be received with
amused surprise. The writer’s aurvoy is llm
itedby his environment. In all new places like
Birmingham, strangers rush in during tho boom
ing period and buy all the land thst can bo hod.
They make improvements, live and die In their
new homes, and their descendants continue the
goodwoik. Koine ot tho now comers will marry
Alabama girls; their sons will do likewise, aud
their daughters will wed Alabamians, and tlio
“aliens” will be succeeded by genuinosons of the
soil, full of local pride and patriotism. There need
be no clashing, no unpleasantness even Intlie
early stages of the experiment. Atlanta has pass
ed through tbo ssmo ordeal, but
■ho still remains tho “cracker city/’ The oldest
inhabitants have always held their own, and they
have found In the new comers valuable friends
and co-workers. Tke southerner who la "up and
doing,” truo to himself aud ready to utilize op-,
portunltles is generally equal to any emergency.
He is able to take care of himself in war and In
peace, and ho will continue to own Just as much
of this country aa he cau profitably tue. To own
ft all might be magnificent, but it would be folly,
nil the same. Every big thing la not business, you
know. _
In Albany, tlio other day, a negro preacher, after
meeting lTcsldcut-elect Cleveland, declared: “I
■hall telegraph my brother In Georgia that tho
country Is safe, for Cleveland has shaken my
hand!”
At Statesville, North Carolina, tbo other day,
Thomas JU Shields was convicted of manslaughter
and sentenced for five years. Shields, It will bo
recollected, killed Joseph G. Sltton In 1883 (or^the
■eduction of his sister. There Is a strong proba
bility that Shields will not ho compelled to wear
the stripes. Hie case appeals powerfully to public
sympathy. The Charlotte Observer speaks out In
tlio following bold words: “Tho felon's garb on
Thomas L. Shields will Im a disgrace to North
Carolina's legislatures, and North Carolina Juris
prudence, aud wo bespeak In advance the clem
ency of his excellency, Governor Seales, in tho
matter of a pardon for Mr. Shields, who now suff
ers the pains aud penalties, for tho abseuooof just
laws for tbo protection of female virtue.” Under
the laws of North Carolina Shields could obtain no
redress for tho destruction of Ills sister. Ho had
to let tho wrong-doer go unpunished or Inflict tho
punishment himself. After considering the mat
ter well he hilled Sltton.
A Wirt End mocking bird arranged hlmsolfon
the sunny side of a China tree yesterday and sang
for a quarter of an hour. Tho song was not loud,
but It Is to bo hoped that lt.waa a sign of pleasant
weather.
JOKKMi WitlTR and his wife will hcreafte flud it
unhealthy to reside iu Wallingford, Vermont. For
some timo past they havo treatod thoir ward, Ida
Terry, a thirteen-year old girl, In a shocking man
ner. Homctimca they compelled tho girl to stand
on a red-hot stove. Sho was fasteiicd to the wail
by stick log pins through her ears. Another modo
of puulshmcnt was to driven ncodlo through her
tongue, fastening her to tho window stll. On ouo
occasion sho wns hold under tho pump until sho
fainted. Tho child’s body was covered with black
and bluo spots made by pinching her, and her
back was a net-work of ridges, whtro tho whip had
been applied. Mrs. White was fined S3 and her
husband 010 for their cruelly. White also received
a beating and the order to leave town. Thochurch
vo v pci led the two monsters, and they will have a
^arA rood to travel In future where thoy aro
known.
south, at Its best partaking only of the earthly 8!r
Lvuncelot type, has been shamed almost out of
existence by the ridicule of New York papers, and
if the girls of New York, now that a new and
higher chivalry is offered, are the cause of its re
jection, New York is properly punished.”
“Gatu” charges an audience 073 for lecturing.
This seems to be reasonsble,unless the audience is
too small.
In the Old South church in Boston, quite a sen
sation was created by Ber. Dr. Duryea, a Unitarian
preacher, the other night The doctor sold that
he had it tervlewed a dynamiter and learned that
thero la an organization extending over the wholo,
country, tho principal branches being in Philadel
phia, New York and Cblccgo, which la intent upon
the destruction of the Institution of soulless mo
nopolies in this country. He predicted that tho
warfare being carried on now In European coun
tries will soon bo waged in America, warned the
rich of their dtfbger, and exhorted them to be
more liberal to tbe destitute and downtrodden
that their destruction may be averted for as long
os possible. His address was so inflammatory that,
delivered to a rich congregation, It caused alarm
and cxcitcmcnte
In Newtown, L. I , a prominent colored man
went to tbe white Presbyterian church last Sun
day and attempted to take his seat In tbo main
body ot tho church. Au usher Informed him that
the gallery wss tho place for him. The colored
visitor left in high dudgeon, and Newtown Is
vtirred up. Itaccmsthat all tho report* of raco
dUagreements como from tbe north. If tbo peo
ple of that section do not look out they will get
into a war of races before they know it.
SHORT NEWS NOTES.
EiQt'iHAUX dogs will draw a iledge a dis
tant o ot sixty miles a day.
Statistic* show that both ia Europe and
America scarlet fever fsmoro destructive of llfo
hsu cholera.
A San Franciscan comes to tho front with a
schcrao for buildfng a floating railway bed across
Behrings straight.
Tub scientist with nothing else te do has
figured out that a grasshopper hal proportionately
120 times the kicking power of a man. *
Tuk Bible mentions 020 places in Palestine
west of Jordan, and 430 bavo been ldcntiflod, 132
by tho staff of tho Palestine exploration fund.
£ Tns yearly consumption of meats in tho
United Ktstes per capita Js 120 pounds; Jn Eng
land, 104pounds; France, 74 pouuds; Gorranuy,|0'J
pounds.
Tun Italian legislature baa bofore it a bill
which proposes to grant divorce* to thorn who
have been separated for moro than five yoare.
This la already tho law In Scotland and Sweden.
Accosdino to bis best friends, Mr. Evarts
expects to bo the republican nomlueo for presi
dent in IMS. no thinks New York will then bo
tho pivotal state, and he. tho pivotal mtnof the
state.
The old carpet on the floor of ono of tbe room*
In tbo (nn Francisco mint was taken up tho other
day and “reduced”—that Is, they burned It and
■isaycd tho ashes, which :yleldcd 02,309 In gold
Tm: grass in Willamette vallay, Oregon, ac
cording to papers from that region, la as green as
In May, while only a few weeks ago tho same
ground was covered with avow to a depth of two
In several states thero seems to ho a tendency
away trom prohibition and toward sharper re
striction. In Vermont tho keeper of a kitchen
groggery con be sent to prison for lifo, but Maluo
In about ready to admit that prohibition does not
prohibit. Tbo local option law works very well
In Massachusetts, and It 1m now proposed to re-
movo Rcreenfl from bar room windows. In many
states high lfccn«o ia winning favor. The south'
orn states oa a body favor local option,
BThr managers of tbo Women's Bilk Culturo asso
ciation of tho United States has concluded to
abandon their work In the spring, unless Commis
sioner Lorlug come* to their relief. It is difficult
to find a market for cocoons, and the avoclatlon la
unablo on acrouut of tho lack of capital to roel
Milk econom lcally. Aa tho government decline* to
furnish the money to support the Industry daring
Its experimental stages, tbe sJlk grower*havo litUo
prospect of being ablo to do anything.
Gatii says that “fortune site on Grover Clove-
land's doorsteps half ber time." Evidently for
tune knows a goed man wbon she see* him.
Brnator Burrir, of Hardin county, row to a
question of prlvllcgo In tbe Tennessee legislature,
the other day, and delivered aromarkablo anti-
tobacco speech. Thethonorablo gentleman begged
bis brother senators to take an oath as deop as
hell, as high as heaven, and aa long aa tho eternal
years to abandon the tobacco habit. He claimed
that tbo tobacco worm, tbo mountain goat and
man wero tho only creatures thst used tbe wood.
He said thst in forty years sn average cbewer con
sumed a plug of tobacco two and three-quarters
miles in length, costing In annual settlement* at
■lx per cent per annum, 03,851. Ha draw a vivid
picture of tbo mental and physical effects of to
bacco, and protested against fta use on moral,
unitary and economical grounds.
It seem that tho Bara Hots cutthroats, who have
terrified southweat Florida, for several mouths
past, have not all been captured. At fireldan-
town, which la In the region opetated by tho out
laws, a Mr. Campbell recently made the remark
that if tbo Bara Kota murderer* were turned loose
by the courts, be would be one of a party to assist
In killing them. In a short timo Campbell
wss notified to leave the county within
four hours, or be would be killed for his expres
sion of opinion. Ho did not leave, and that night
a bail of dynamite waa thrown into his boose.
The ball exploded, blowing the house to pieces and
killing Campbell. Other parttsa have been notified
to leave tbecounty or ■ufrerailmllar late. Among
those notified la Mr. B. O. Up hour, formerly a pub
lisher in Philadelphia, but now a large property
owner and citizen of Manatee.
Tub tramps are having It all their own way In
NtwJentey. When the people go to church or
away from home to spend a few hours, they carry
carpet bags containing their valuables. In one
little village the tramp* recently stole tbe pet
dude of the place, and held him for
ransom. Bimllar tidings come
from other sections of tho country.
Nxw York Is enjoying a new sensation. Tbe
society of the “White Cross” fast Instituted In
that city, is tbo theme of general ridicule. The
member* of the order of the “White Cross” are
supposed to be young men who takes vow to
treat all women aa their sisters, respecting, rev
erencing and protecting them, aud keeping them
selves puro in order to carry out their mission.
And yet, according to tbe Brooklyn Eagle, “the
idlers aud lounger* of the town have chosen the
White Cross for ridicule. Everywhere one goes he
been the cot neat comments and Illarions. Boys
ere peddling white crosses wbfch, while outwardly
symbolical of goodness, are a cover for an atroc
ity.” This fa bod enough, but tbe Eagle goes so
as to state that the best girls of
New York are Inclined to “guy at
rather than auataln the soefety.” Referring to
this last statement the fit. Louts Republic n rays:
If it is true that ‘tbe best girls’ of New York jibe
at tbe knights of tbe White Croes, the cnmde
will die fab* ing bom- Tbe order numbers many
memberr fa England. It fa a pity tnat it caunotfbe
acclimated in New York, for if ever a city needed
eblvafry ft is New York. The chivalry of the
feet.
Op the seventy-six United States senators,
at least thirty two aro profowora ot religion, In*
eluding ono Jew, one Roman Catholic, and two
Unitarians. Of these sixteen, or Just half, are
Presbyterians.
Tbs Dorsey ranch yielded $300,000 lest year
as profits. Dorsoy owns ono-half of the ranch and
Boi|IngereoU onc-slxtfi. Both aro now rich, and
Ingersoll Is polng around tho world, tho trip to
consume five yenrr.
Tin deepest gold nunn in the world, Mays
tho Alta Californian, IswW Eureka, In California,
which Is down 2,290 fleet, or M0 feet below tho
levi 1 of tbe s**a. Tho drepret silver mlnn is tho
Mexican, on tlio Comstock, which is down 3,800
feet.
It is proposed to iuforra tho termors of Ver
mont each morning what tho weather probabili
ties for tbo next seventeen hours are by a system
of whistle* Mown from stationary steam whistles
fllstrlbuUd In tho rural districts uf tho state.
One blast, for instance, will signify fair weather;
two blasts, foul weather, and au oo. Tbo system
is alrcsdy iu operation in the town of Randolph,
Tnm is the timo when the farmer
Bits by his chimney’s blase,
And talks with tho wife of bte bosom,
Of the
While the love-atruukMin of
bits In another room,
' And talks to tho farmer’s daughter
Of the splendid days tu come.—The Judge.
A Rojikkt, Vt., My, aged eighteen was bit
ten in the thumb last summer by a pet kitten,
Tbo bite wss painful for some time, but finally
healed and remained so until a few days since,
a ben It togan to be painful, and has now thrown
io lady into brain fover, aud her llfo la seriously
deepairtd of. Physicians say that tho poison from
the oat bite gathered into a pus sao and grew fast
to a nerve, causing a nervous overthrow and do-
range ment of the brain
Tmkkb ara 103 colored mon in Washington
who aro worth over $25,000 each, fifty-two worth
110,000 each, and nearly 1,000 who paytaxe<on
18,000 each. Oiorge W. Williams, ex member of
the Ohio siscmblyand author of a history of tho
colored rare, la worth fto.uoo. Frederick Douglas
ha«|:xo,ioo and now Hvm In and owns a houso
opposite Washington formerly owned by a man
who »o haled the blacks that ho refused to sell any
thing to oneof them. John K Cooke, tax collector
of the District of Columbia, himself pays taxes on
“cd Mutes mini*-
__ JWQQh.Of Missis
sippi. who presided so ably at the Chicago conven
tion last summer, is very wealthy. Ho tsoongreas
• * 01000,000 when bo
, ...Vt 1100,000, beside*
a four-story drugstore In New York.
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THE LIQUOH QUESTION.
Adverse Report on the Motion' to Appoint
n Congressional Inquiry Committee.
WismxoTo*, February 17.—The joint reso
lution providing for an alcoholic liquor traffic
commimon, which was to-day reported bark
* * r the house committee having tbe
terge, is accompanied by a report
in which the committee saya:
The power to regulate the retail liquor treAo
has, In m (he foundation of the union, been re
garded a» the exeluiivo right of the states rather
ban of tbe general government. Attempt* havo
n»u made by some of tbe states to entirely pro
hibit tbe manufacture or isleof spirituousormalt
■ ~ * r **“* * and tho
Tn cobbettion with tbc liquor 'traffic
rather than impracticable efforts at absolute pro
hibition. To tbe teveral statae of the union.proper
ly t»lon*« tbe right to enact socu local police reg
ulation aa will throw every proper restriction
around the liquor traffic compatible with the per-
eonalar.d proptrtv rights of tbe citizen, but uni
form poll. .- regulation* enacted by congress, prac-
tirally suited to the different wants and require-
a mt* ot tke people of all the vartoimtate*. would
t difficult to frame and more difficult to enact.
a matter ot grave doubt whether eoogreaa
Hus of titia bill, your committee hoi to that it