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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY MAY 26 18831
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
ftMCbeain Brooklyn Tabernacl. Yeiterdiy-T&e
wrong, or ih. Working Women, and now
Tb.yara to bo Bighud-gll n.p.tt.
mectacf Labor for tbo Women,
Egoogr,yii| N. Y., May 24.—[Special.]—Dr.
Tolmago preached in the Brooklyn tabomaclo
tbia morning on the aubject, “Tho doapotiam
of the needle, or a diacourso on woman 1
wagea.” Befor^the aermon, Dr. Talmago ex
plained the eplatle ot Jamoa where It aaya
"Be not many mat ten," which ho aaid waa
reproof for thoae who are diapoaed to be boajy
in their diopoaition. The opening hymn waa:
•Mid Irenes o! contagion and creatnro complaints,
Bow sweet to my soot la communion or saints!
Tbo text waa from Ecclesiastes, ly-Ii "So
a returned and considered’ all the oppressions
that are now done nndar the snn, and behold,
the tears of such were oppreaaed and they had
no comforter; and on the side of thoir op
pressors there was power.” Following is the
sermon in foil:
Very long ago tho needle was busy. It was
considered honorable for women to toll in
olden time. Alexander the Great stood In his
palace showing garments made by his own
mother. Tho finest tapestries at Bayenx wore
made by the queen of William tho Conqnror.
Angustns, the emperor, would not woar any
garments except those that were fashioned by
tome member of bis royal family. So let tho
toiler everywhere bo respected I Tho noodle
has slain more than the sword. When tho
tewing machine was invented some thought
that invention would alleviate woman's toll
and put an end to tho despotisms of the nee
dle. But no; while tho Bowing machino has
been a great blasting to well-to-do iamilies in
many caaee, it has added to tho stab ot tho
needle the crush of the wheel, and multitudes
of women, notwithstanding the reinforcement
of the sewing machino cau only make, work
bard as they will, between two ‘and three dol
lara per week.
Tho greatest blessing that could havo hap
pened to our first parents was boing turned
cut of Eden alter they had dono wrong.
Adam and Eve m their perfect state might
have got along without work or only sunt
slight employment as a perfect garden with
no weeds in it demanded. But as soon as they
had sinned tho best thing for them was to .bo
turned out where they would havo to work.
Wo know what a withering thing it is for a
man to have nothing to do. Old Asbbsl
Green, at (ore score years, when asked why
he kept on working, said, "I do so to kcop out
ol mischief." We see that a man who has a
largo amount of money to start with has no
ehsnce. Ol tho thousand prosperous and
honorable men that you know, nine hundred
and ninety-nine had to work vigo
rously at tho beginning. But I am now to
toll you that industry is just as important tor
a woman’s safely and happiness. The most
unhappy woman in our communities to ds;
-aredhose who have no engagements to eat
them up in tho morning; who, once having
risen and breakfasted, loungo through tho
dull forenoon in slippors down at the heel
and with dishevelled hair, reading Ouida's
last novel; and who having dragged through
a wretobed forenoon and taken thoir afternoon
sleep, and having passed an hour and a ball
at their toilet, pick up their card case and go
out to make calls; and who pass thoir even
ings waiting for somebody to come in and
break up the monotony. Arabolla Stuart
never was imprisoned in so dark a dungeon as
There is no happiness In an idle woman. It
may bo with hand, it may bo with brain, it
may be with loot; but work she must, or bo
wretched forever. Tha little girls of our fam-
lies must be started with thatldea. Tho curse
of cur American society Is that our young wo-
men are taught that the first, second, third,
leurth, fifth, sixth, soventh, tenth, fiftieth,
thousandth thing m their lilo is to get soms-
body to take care of thorn. Inatoadof that the
first lesson should be how, under God, they
may take care of themaolvca. Tho simple foot
i s that a majority of them do hare to take
cere ol themselves, and that, too, after
having through tho false notions
of their parents wasted tho years
In which they ought to have learned
how successfully to maintain themselves. Wo
now and hero declare the inhumanity, cruelty
and outrago of that father and mother who
pats their daughters into womanhood haring
given them no facility for earning their live
lihood. bladamo do Steel saldi "It is not
theso writings that I am proud of, but tne fact
that I have facility in ten occupations, in any
one of which I oould make a livelihood."
You say you have a fortune to leave them.
Oh, man and woman, Ihave you not learned
that like vultures, like hawks, like eaglos,
riches have wings and fly away? Though you
should be tuccoisfiil in leaving a competency
behind you, tho trickery of speculators may
swamp It in a night; or some officials in our
churches may get up a mining company and
induce your orphans to put thoir money Into a
hole in Colorado, and ir by the most skillful
machinery, the sunken money cinnot be
brought up again, provo to thorn that it was
eternally decreed that that was the way they
were to lose it and that It went in the most
orthodox and heavenly style. Oh, the damn
able schemes that professed Cbrlstalns will
engage In, until God puts his fingers into the
collar of the hypocrite’s robo and rips it clear
down to the bottom. You have no right be-
cause you are well off to conclude that your
children are going to be as well off. A man
died leaving a large fortune. Bis sou fell dead
in a Philadelphia grogshop. His old comrades
cams in and said as they bent over bis corpse i
“What is the matter with you Bogfiey?” The
surgeon standing over him said: "lluth up!
He is dead I" "Ah I he is dead I” thoy said.
"Coma boys,1st us go and taka a drink in mem
ory ofp oor Boggsey 1"
Have you nothing better than money to
leave your children? If you have not, but
send your daughters into the world with emp
ty brain and unskilled hand/you are guilty of
assassination, homicide, regicide infanticide.
There are women toiling in our eitias for two
or three dollars per week, who wore the
daughters of merchant princes. These suffer-
inglonea now would be glad to have the crumbs
that once fell Irom their father's table. That
worn out broken shoe that she wears is tha
lineal descendant of the twelve dollar gaiters
in which her mother walked, and that torn
and faded calico had ancestry of magnificent
brocade that swept Broadway clean
without any expense to the
street commissioners. Though you
live la an elegant residence and fare sumptu
ously every day, 1st your daughters feel it is a
disgrace to them not to know how to work. I
denounce the idea prevalent In society that
though our young women may embroider
slippers and crochet and make mats for lamps
to.atacd on without disgrace, the idea of doing
anything for a livelihood is dishonorable.
It is a shame for a young woman, belonging
to a large family, to be inefficient when the
tether toils his life away for her support. It
is a shams for a daughter to be idle while her
m- thcr toils at the washtub. It teas honora
ble to sweep house, to make beds or trim hats
as it is to twist a watch chain. As far as I can
understand the line ot respectability lies be
tween that which is useful and that which is
nseless. If women do- that whleh it
of no value, their work is honorable. If they
do practical work, it is dishonorable. Tast
our young women may escape tho censure of
doing disaonorable work, 1 shall particular
ise: You may knit a tidy for the back ot an
arm-chair, but by no means make the money
wherewith to buy tho chair; you may with
delicate brush besutilya mantel ornament,
tut die rather than earn enough to buy a
marble mantel; you may leira artistic miniz
until yen can Squall Italian, but never slug
•‘Ortoaville’’ cr "Old Hundred." Do noth
ing practical, if yon would in the eyee of re
fined society preserve your rsape-taSility.
I scout these finical notions. I tell you a
woman, no more than a man, has a right to
cccnpy a place In this world unless she pays a
sect for it. In the eourse of a lifetime you
whole harvests and droves
of cattle, and every day you live
breathe forty hogsheads of good
pure air. You must, by somo kind of usoful-
ncss, pay for all this. Our raco was tho last
thing created—the birds and fishes on the
fourth day, tho cattle and lisards on the fifth
day, and man on tho sixth day. If geologists
are right, tho earth waa a million of years in
the possession of tho insects, boasts and birds
before our raco came upon it. in one sonso wo
were innovators. The cattle, tho lizards and
tho hawk had pre-emption right. The ques
tion ia not what wo are to do with the lizards
and summer insects, but what tho lizards and
summer insects are to do with us.
if wo want a placo in this world wo must
cam it. Tho partridgo makes its own nc,t
before it occupies it. The lark by its morning
song cams its breakfast before it oats it; ana
the Bible gives an intimation that the first
duty of an idler is to starve whon it says If ho
"will not work, neither shall he eat."
Idlenesa ruins the health; and very soon na
ture says: "This man has refused to pay his
rent; out with him 1" Society is to be recon
structed on tho subjeetnf woman's toll. A
vast majority of those who would havo womon
industrious, shut her uu to a few kinds of
work. Myjudgmentinthe matter is that n
woman has a right to do anything she can do
well. There should bo no department of mer
chandise, mcchaniam. art or scionco barred
against her. If Mias Hoemer has genius for
sculpture, give her a chisel. If Rosa Bonheur
has a fondness for delineating animals, let
her make "tho horso fair." If Miss Mitchell
will study astronomy, let her mount tho
starry ladder. If Lydia will bo a merchant,
let her sell purple. If Lueretia Mott will
preach tbo gospel, let her thrill with her
womanly eloquence tho Quaker meeting house.
It is said if woman is given suoh opportuni
ties she will occupy places that might be taken
by men. I say, It she have more skill and
adaptedness for any position than a man has,
1st her have it? She has as much right to her
bread, to her apparel, and to her home,as man
have. But it is said that her nature ia so deli
cate that she is unfitted for exhausting toil. I
ask, in the name of all past history, what toil
on earth Is more severe, exhausting and tre
mendous than that toil of the hoodie to which
tor ages she has been subjected? The batter
ing ram, tho sword, tho carbine,tho battlo-nx,
have made no such havoc as the needlo. I
would that these living sepulchres, in which
women havo for ages boon buried,
might bo opened and that
tome resurrection trumpet might bring
up these living corptes to tbo fresh air and
sunlight. Go with mo and I will show you a
woman who by hardest toil supports her chil
dren, her drunken husband, her old father and
mother, pays hor houso rent, always has
wholotomo food on her table, and when she
can get some neighbor on tho Sabbath to come
in and take care of her family, appears in
church with hat and cloak that are far from
indicating the toil to which sho is subjectod.
Such a woman as that has body and soul
enough to fit her tor any position. Sho could
stand beside tho majority of your salcamon and
dispose of more goods. Bhe could go into your
wheelwright shops and boat one half of
your workmen at making carriages. Wo talk
about woman as though we had resigned to
her all the light work, and oursolvcs had
shouldered tho Heavier. But tho day of judg
ment which will reveal the sufferings of the
stake and inquisition, will marshal before the
throne of God and tho hierarchs of hoavon
tho martyrs of wash tub and needle.
Kow, I say, if thoro be any preference in oo
cupaticn let woman have it. God knows her
trials are tho severest. By her acute sensi
tiveness to rnlsfortuno, by her hour ol an
guish, I demand that no ono hodge up her
pathway to a livelihood. Oh, tho meanness,
the despicability of men who begrudge a wo
man the right to work anywhere In any hon
orable calling!
I go still lurther and say that women should
have tonal compensation with mon. By what
principle ofjuatloe is it that women in many
of cur cities get only two- tbirds'as much pay as
men, and in many cues only half? Bore is
thegigantlo injustice—that lor work equally
well, tr not belter done, woman receives for
less compensation than man. Btnrt with tho
national government. Women clerks In
Washington get nine hundred dollars for
doing that for which mon receive eighteen
honored. The wheol of oppression is rolling
over the necks of thousands of ,womon
who are at this moment In dospsir about what
they are to do. Many of tho largest morosn-
tile establishments or our cities are accessory
to theso abominations, and from their largo
establishments there are scores of souls being
f itched off into death, and their oinployors
now It. Is there a God? Will there be a
judgment? I tall you if God rises up to re
dress woman’s wrongs, many of our large es
tablishments will bo swallowed up quToksr
than a South American earthquake over took
down a city. God will catch these oppressors
between the two mill stones of his wrath and
grind them to powder.
Why is ltthat a lemale principal in a school
gets only $825 for doing work for which a malo
rincipal gels $1,(150? I hear from all this land
he wall of womanhood. Man has nothing to
answor to that wail but flatteries. Ho says sho
is an angel. Bhe is not. Bhe knows she Is not.
Bhe ia ahuman being who gets hungry when
she has no food and cold when she has no fire.
Give her no more flatteries: give her justice I
There are sixty fivo thousand sewing girls In
New York and Brooklyn. Across the sunlight
comes their death groan. It is not such a cry
as comes from those who are suddenly hurled
out ot life, but a slow, grinding, horrible wast
ing away. Gather thorn before you and look
into their facet, pinched, ghastly, hunger-
struck 1 Look at their fingers, needle-picked
and blood-Uppedl See that premature stoop
in the shoulders! Hear that dry, hacking,
merciliss cough!
At a large meeting of these women, held'in
a ball In Philadelphia, grand speeches were
delivered, but a needle-woman took the stand,
threw aside her faded shawl and with her
shrivelled arm hurled a very thunderbolt of
eloquence, speaking out tha horrors ol her
own experience. Btand at the corner of a
etreet in New York at six or seven o’clock In
the morning, as the womon go to their work.
Many of them bad no breakfast except the
crumbs that were lelt over from tbs night
before or a crust they chew on their way
through the street. Here thoy cornel Tho
working girls of New York and Brooklyn!
These engaged in bead work, these in flower
making, in millinery enamelling, eigar mak
ing, book-binding, labelling, feather-picking,
jirint-coloring, paper box making,
it, most overworked
Jf least compensated, tho sawing
women. Why do they not take the city cars
on their way up? Why, cannot afford the
five cents I If, concluding to deny herself
something else, she get into the car, give her
a seat! Yon went to see how Latimer and
Ridley appeared in tbs fire; look at that
women and behold a more horrible martyr
dom, a hotter fire, a more agonising desih I
Ask that woman bow much she gets far her
work, and she win tell you six cents for
making coarse ahi.if, and finds her own
thread!
Years ago, one Bsbbstb night in the vesti
bule or this church after semes, a woman fall
In convulsions. The doctor said she needed
medicine tot to much at something to eat.
As sbs began to revive In her delirium she
said, xaspintly: "Eight cents! Eight cents!
Eight cents I I wish I could gat if done! I
am to tired! I wish I could get some sleep
but I mutt get it done. Eight cents 1
Eight centsl" We found afterwards
that she was making garments
for eight cento apiece and that she could nuke
but three oftbem in a dayl Hear it! Three
times eight are twenty-four. Hear it, men
and women who have comfortable homes!
Some of the worst villains ot our cities are the
employers of these women. They best them
down to the last penny anil try to cheat thorn
ent of that. The woman mutt deposit a dollar
cr two before she gets the garments to w<wk
on. When the work it done it it sharply in
spected, the most insignificant fltwo picked
and the wages refused and sometimes the dol
lar deposited not given back.
The Women’* Protective anion reports
esse where one of tbeee poor
tools, finding a place where she
could get more wages, resolved to
change employers and went to get her nay for
work done- The employer nays: "I hear
yon are going to leave me?" "Yot," she said,
"and I have come to get what you owe me.’
Ho made no answer. Bho said: "Are you
not going to pay mo?” "Yes,” he said, "I
will pey you,” and ho kicked her down stairs-
Ob, that Women’s Protective union, ID Clin
ton Place, Now York! Tho blessings of heaven
be on it for the merciful and divino work it is
dolDg in the defonto of toiling womanhood.
What tragedies of suffering arc presented to
them day by day. A paragraph from their
report:
"Can you make Mr. Jones pay mo?
owes me for throe weeks at two dollars
and a half a week, and half a week,
and I can’t get anything, and
my child is very tick." Tho
speaker, a young women latoly widowed burst
into a flood of tears as sho spoke. Sho was
bidden to come again the next afternoon and
report her story to the attorney at his weekly
bearing of frauds and impositions. Means
were found by which Mr. Jones was inducod
to pay tho seven dollars and a half."
Another paragraph from tho report.
"A fortnight bad posted whon the modestly
hinted a desire to know bow much her ser
vices were worth. 'Oh, my dear,’ ho replied,
'you are getting to be one of the most valuabi
hands in the-trade; you will always get th
very best price. Ten dollars a week you wi
be able to earn very easily.’ and the girl 1
fingers flew on with her work
at a marvellous rate. The
{ ucture often dollars a week bad almost
urned her head. A few night later, while
crossing the ferry, she overheard tho namoof
her employer in the conversation of girls who
stood near. Whatl John Snipes? Why, he
don’t nay. Look ot‘ *— *■’— —■— *'—
Ho’ll keen you on tri
and then ho'll let you go and get somo othor
fool. And thus Jtne Smith gained her
warning against the swindler. But the union
held him in the toils of the law until he paid
the worth of each of those days of trial."
"Hermortification maybe imagined when
told that one of the two five dollar bills which
sho bed just received for hor work,was counter
feit. But her mortification was swallow
ed up in indignation whon hor on:
dculeu having paid her the monoy and
mgly asked her to prove it.” When th .
tcctive union had placed this matter in the
courts the judge said: "You will pay Eleanor
the amount of her elalm, $5.83, ana alto the
costs of the court."
How are these evils tobeeradicatcd? Somo
sty: "Give women the ballot." Whst offset
such ballot might havo on other questions I
cm not here to discuss; but what would bo the
effect of female suffrage on women’s wages?
I do not bellevo that woman will ever get jus
tice by woman's ballot. Indeed, womon op
press women as much as men do. Do not wo
men as much as men, beat down to
the lowest figure the woman who tows
for them? Are not women as sharp
st men on washerwomen and milliners
nud mantua-makers. If a woman asks a dol
lar for her work, does not hor female employer
ash her if tho will take ninety cento? You
say "only ten cento difference," but that it
sometimes the difforcnco botwoon heaven and
hell.
Women often have less commisseration
for women than men. If a woman stent atido
from tbo path of rectitude, man may rorgivo,
woman never! Women will neve? get justice
done her from woman’s ballot. Neither will
the get it from man’s ballot. How then? God
will rite up for her. God has more resources
than we know of. Tho flaming sword that
hung at Eden’s gate whon woman was driven
out will eleavo with its terrible edgo her op
pressors.
But there is something for
women to do. Let young poople prepare to
excel in spheres of work hnd thoy
will bo able after a whllo to get
larger wages. If it be shown that a women
can in a store tell more goods in a year than a
man the will toon bo able, not only to ask, but
to demand more wages, and to demand them
successfully. Unskilled and Incompetent
labor must take what it given; skilled and
competent labor will cvontuatly make Hi own
standard. Admitting that the law of supply
and demand regulates these things, I contend
that the demand for skilled labor is very greet
and tho supply very smalt. Start with tho
Idea that work Is honorable and that you etn
do tome one thing better than anybody else.
Resolve that, God helping, yon will
take care of yourself. If you are after
a whilo called into another relation you
of self-reliance; or if you are
you are you can be happy and self supporting.
Fools are fond of talking about man as an oak
and woman the vine that climbs it; butl
have teen many a tiee fall that not only went
down itself but took all the vines with it. I
can tell you of something stronger than an
oak for an Ivy to climb on and that it the
throne of the Great Jehovah. Singlo or affi
anced, that woman is strong who leant on
God and does her best. The needle may break;
the factory band mty slip; tho wages may
fail; but over every good woman's hoad thoro
areipretd tha two greet, gentle, stupendous
wings of the Almighty.
Many ot you will go single-handed through
life and you will have to choose between two
characters. Young woman, I am sure you
will turn your back on tho nsolets, giggling,
irresponsible, nonentity which society igno
re iniously acknowledges to be a woman, and
ask God to make you an humble, active,
earnest Christian. What will become of that
womanly disciple of the world? Bhe is more
thoughtful of tho attitude the strikes upon the
carpet than how she will look In the judge
ment; more worried about her freoklesthan
her tins; more Interested In her apparel than
in her redemption. The dying actress, whose
life had been vicious,said: “The scene oloscs;
draw the curtains.” Generally the tragedy
comet first and tha farce afterward; bulla
her life it was first the farce of a useless life,
id then the tragedy ol a wretched eternity.
Compare the lfie and death of suoh a one
with that of some Christian aunt that was
once a blessing to your household. 1 do not
know that she was ever offered the hand in
marriage. Bhe lived single that untrammelled
the might be everybody's bleating. When
ever the sick were to be visited or tho poor
to be provided with bread, the went with a
blessing. Bhe could pray or sing “Rock of
Ages” lor any siek pauper who asked her. As
the got older there were days when she was a
little sharp, but for the most part auntie waa
a sunbeam—just the one
for Christmas eve. She knew: better than any
one else how to "fix things." Her every pray
er, at God heard it, waa full of everybody who
btd trouble. The brightest things in all tha
house dropped from her fingeyt. Bhe bed
peculiar notions but the grandest notion tbo
ever bad was to make you nappy. She dressed
well—auntie always dressed well, but her
highlest ^adornment wu that of
a meek and quiet spirit, which, in the
tight of God is ot great price. When the died
you all gathered lovingly about her, and as
you carried her out to rest, the Bundsy school
THE OLD WORLD-
THB BRITISH WILL EVACUATE THB
SOUDAN THIS WEEK,
Cvnntngbam and Barton, Charged With tho Explo-
•lonef the Towsr of London rotted OaUt/-
John Bright’* L«tt*r-Baron W«mm
Dfii-cur.cet Hla Government, Ktc.
London, May 18.—It Is authoritatively sta
ted to night that Russia demands Marduchak
and Zculfikar, the possession o! which points
the ameer considers vital to the integrity
tho Afghan frontier.
In tho houso of lords this evening Baron
Wcmyss vigorously denounced the govern'
mont for their policy in the Soudan. He
said that every man slain
in tho Soudan was as much slain by tbo gov.
eminent through their inconsistency and uu
certainty as if done to death by their own
bands. Tho only memorial England would
leavo in the Soudan waould bo an abandoned
railway and bleaching skoletons.
London, May 18.—The jury in the case of
Cunningham and Barton, charged with esus-
ing tho explosion st tho tower of London and
elsewhere, returned a verdict this morning,
finding both prisoners guilty, and the prison
ers were both sentenced to penal servitudo
for life.
Cunningham maintained his self-composure,
but Barton broke down and sobbed when the
verdict was rendered. When the prisoners
were asked if they had anything to say why
tho sentence of tne law should
not be passed upon thorn, Cunningham
protested that ha was innocent. Uo
said he was willing to accept penal servitude
for life, but they could not touch hii soul,
Burton simply declared that ho woo innocont,
London, May 19.—John Bright, In answer to
letter from an American friend, asking If England
would return to the policy of protection, writes as
follows: “Not uutil the states return to slavery.
England's preseut danger is In its foreign pol
Tories and liberate are equally blamable for
lunattc jk>11ct of adding millions to the military
experience of tbo nation whilst trade Is depressed
and tho i>oor aro badly housed."
Dongola, May 19.—Tho British evacuation of
the Sottdan will commence next Thursday. Mer
chants and civilians are already leaving, fearing
to remain after tho depariuro of troops. Tho
thormometer In this region averages now 114 In
the shade. El Mahdte General Abu Aug**, who
waa defeated at Kordofan. afterwards, with his
surviving soldiers, Joined tho ranks of tho army
ol the new mshdl, bis conqueror.
London, May 20.-The sentry at tho Ahnar cav
tie powder magtxlne at Chatham, who went on
duty at four o'clock this morning was found dead
at his lost two hours later. Beside him lay a
revolver and a bullet had passed through his
lungs. The sentry on post 300 yards awsy says he
heard no report of a pistol or gun. Doctors who
have examined the corpse do not boliore that the
seoiry committed suicide. From tho position la
wblcn his body and rifle wore fouud the authori
ties aro disposed to regard the case as ono of an
•.•'{nation, committed to make pomlble an at
tempt to blow up the magaxino.
London, May 2a—In the houso of commons to
day Sir Arthur Dlvctto, financial secretary In the
war office, announced that a brigade of guards,
now on their way home from Suaklm,
had been ordered to stop at Alexandria
lu care of circumstances Arising rendering
It desirable to further detain them In Egypt.
They baa not, however, been ordered to disem
bark at Alexandria. This announcement has oc
casioned much gossip In the lobby of the homo
It Is believed that the detention of the guards off
Alrxaudrla can only bo explained by connecting
It with tho delay In the settlement of the Afghan
question.
Bkiujn, Nay 20.—Fire waa discovered at mid.
night last night In Mon Bijou palace, once occu-
pled as a residence by Frederick tho Great, and
now used as a museum. Before the flames oould
be extinguished the tool and the attic of the
building wrre destroyed. Tbo works of art aud
the relics were saved. Many ol them, however,
bitterly, and the man of the worl<f said witf
fiolcmon: “Ilcr price was above rubies/* and
Jesus, as unto the maiden In Judea, com-
ded: “I say unto thee, arise."
Bsv Earn Jones and the Women.
From the Nashville Union.
We have token some pains to Inquire how this
Is, and we have heard of only oho woman In the
city but what was on Jones's side. This wu a
bright, sparkling young lady, who said s'ie was
against Mr. Jonca becauaa »ha liked the german,
the said bugging set to music was the only sport
she got, and she could not afford to give it up.
No man that tver came to this city could com
mand such a force of women as Mr. Jones could,
be were to order them out. They aj<» manifestly
with him on all the points, and especially against
their husbands belonging to the date. This la
flnence Is exerted, and in the fight bo has tea
thousand tongue*, as busy as brisk, if not as desd-
y as the small »m> In the oatte. They fight Ms
r - *•— “—* — the sidewalks, at tho
«, at noon aud at
night, and sometimes after they go to bed, la
tbefr sleep.
The hardened sinner might fight a small man
like Mr. Jones. but nobody would think of mak
ing the flight with the women ail on bis side How
the ladles may feel about the edict made and ea-
* brother Jones last night, of not allowing
r _ ar what he aaid to their husbaade fc
not known. They very properly held e prayer-
meet its while he was talk log to their husoauds.
They will probably hold curiosity meetings to-
kuc tuna tmu fi?cn. suss
are In t damaged condition
I on DON, Mty 20,—Valuable pictures by Sir
Frederick Leighton, Tsdomo, Mills!., tho Oodles
(Jobn and Thomas) and other colebratod artists
now on exhibition st the Royal academy, hare
been cut, scratched and otherwise mutilated.
Theta eutr.se. .re supposed to have been prompt
ed by hi.lice, but uo clue to tbo perpetrator has
been found.
Lor how, Mty 20.—Tho aunbost Forrciter, with a
number ol police end .oreuty marines on board,
hot arrlTSd st Portree, Island at flkyo, to.rre.Uho
murderetu crofters on the Kllmurl estate.
Lixuuto, Mty 20.—Thirty German Murillos hare
rrlnd here
..merlco. Tne
tecllnx la irrowL
Loaoox, May 21.—The Times this morning
returns to tho ilotphoro Egrpllon Incident tor
editorial discussion and mattes It the subject
upon which to bate a fisnsrsl revlow of tbo
wholo situation In Egypt st the present mo,
msnt at sffectod by the conflicting interests of
tho various European powers. It tho course
of this article It says:
'There Is too much reason to tsar that a hostile
combination attain.t British influence .ml Inter
ests In Feypt has been nrsanlzed by tbo European
powers. Thoir action In respect to tho Egyptian
convention and In forcing the khedlve by their
protest! lo reload five percentixo which had been
deducted Irom tho amount ot coupons, boa boon
clearly Intended to show lhatthey aro determined
to Insist upon every point ualnst KngUnd. This
opposition ol the Europcau powers to British
luuretuln Etjpt, thoTImia distinctly seca, must
he taken Into tho accoimt In any determination
ol tho future policy ot Rutland upon the Nils. Wo
have, however," tho writer continues, “tho .'-1
vsntoto of poucsslon, and tbla la a Met which Just
now It Is not pastas to emphasize."
Patus, Mty 21.—Tha German authorities htva
forbidden tbo proposed performances ot Madams
Bernhardt In Metz and mrutrarg la June.
Lowiwir,May2t.-Nocholtralz known to exist
In the north ol England.
Lokoojr, May 23.—'The report is reiterated
that Bismarck Initiated tho pressure which
induced the khedlve to rotund tho fivo par
cent tax on tho Egyptian coupons. Tho reason
that actuated Uto chancellor is said to have
been a desire to Induce England to aaauma a
protectorate over Egypt with the reinatsts-
msnt of Ismael Pasha as ruler. Ismael Is ac
knowledged by nearly every statesman in
Europe to be the only men entirely
capable of effectively dealing with
tha Egyptian government. In re
turn Tor Bismarck’s support of
this policy it is ssid that England is to
support Germsny’s colonisation enterprise# in
East Africa and elsewhere. It will not bo
surprising if the present special conferences
going on st Berlin botwoon Lord It ssonbery,
lord ot tbo privy seal of England, and Bis
marck, who returned from Boboonhsnson
especially to meat Lord Rosebery, have boon
arranged for the purpose ol adjusting terms of
a ni w Anglo German-Egyptian rnlTcy. The
Indian government proposes, with tbs loon of
$50,0(0,000, sanctioned by parliament, to
rapidly strengthen the railway system of
India in both n commercial and
S military asnre. There will bo expended
0,500,000 in constructing a railway wont of
the Indua. Tea million dollar. will ba laid
out in building another railway on tho oast
sida ol tbo Indus Including a ferry asrots tbo
river. Two hundred thousand will bonssd in
the building of a bridge. Ono million will bo
spent in thocon.tructlon of another road 01
the west sida of tha Indus and crossing the
Fisheen platou. One million and n hair will
be caper ded ia still another line west of tbo
Indus. Tbs Birmingham Arms manufactur
ing company arc busily engaged in making
3«,sou rifles for Abdurrahman, tbs omeor of
Afghanistan.
Loxsos, May 23.—Private letters Irotn
Posen end Bilssin describe the present expul
sion by Germany, at Russia's request, of tbs
Russian Poles Irom those provinces, as being
ntunded by lha most cruel sad heartrending
iceldetti. Msey of the poles who ere
now bring driven out bmve been settlere
in Cermen territory for many years md
bed thoroughly identified themselves with
local interests. Most of them want to Posen
and Bilsslato escape from Intolerablede«p.t-
torn st home. The decree of expulsion eflocto
about thirty thousand Polae, raoidaat in Ger
many. Eight thousand ol thorn bavs already
been arrested without warning aed conducts 1
to the German trontier by Pnrtslaa troops. Tbs
remainder 0! tho thirty thousand
ordered out of tho ompiro
consist of thoso who had obtained permits of
eottlcmcnt. Thodecreo of expulsion gives
these n short respite In order to allow tin
timo lo settle up their affairs, disnoso of thoir
property, and otherwiso propnro lor extra'll
(ion. whole villages havo already boon do
populated, and thoir refugee inhabitants
turned over to tho Russian author
ities at tho German frontier. A large number
Of tho poor Poles nro fleeing into Austria
to oicnpo an enforced return lo tho land of
their birth. The nows of all this cruelty has
cist a chill oi despair throughout Russian Po
land. It is all interpreted by tho Viennoso os
a fresh ovldonco of tho binding nature of tho
present connection botwoon Germany and
Russia, and of their united policy to entirely
suppress the Polish nationality.
BazuM, Msy 23,—Tho government have begun
vigorous opposition to the socialist movement
Their meetings hare been probibltod and papers
published by soctollstohava boon suppressed. Ono
man who had intended to preside over a socialist
meeting bss been sentenced to a month's couflno-
ment in prison. The rector ol tho university has
limed an order forbidding reunions ol students In
consequence ol the numerous duels and quarrels
which have resulted lately Irom these meetings
Bunin, May 23 -The81eh!citache Gazette Hates
that the czar haz presented General Komsrod
with ICO,WO roubles.
A NEW ItEUalOtlS MOVEMENT.
Protestant Churches allowing "Signs ot
Impatience With tho Sector Inn Spirit.”
Fiom Frank Leslie's Illustrated.
It ts tho duty of the secular proas In thess
Umu to Uko noto ot any now development in
the religious life of tho people, and eopsoially
of any movemont designed to diminish tho
oppugnnhcles of sects and bring thorn into
harmony In pursuit of tbo common objects fur
which they profess to havo been formed. It
would, therefore, bo an unpardonable delin
quency in us to overlook Uto '‘American Con-
{ ;rcia ol Churches,” which hold its tint moot-
og a few days .inoo In Hartford. It was ia
every way a notable assembly, and tho movo-
mant il heralded is likely i; b* -ttondeil with
very important reauHa.
In all the leading Protestant denominations
there hive been, for a long timo put, signs ol
‘ "■ " ' rian spirit, and of a
longing to realiso a wider unity than that
fit tliows. Eminent preachers, though
impatience wilh tho lectori
long' ' •'
iplrHH
loyal to their respective soots, havo grown
Hired of humdrum ways, and are seeking to
R rt out of old ruto into a larger and freer re
gions life. They long to find a way by which
Curls linns, separated from each othor by ecolo-
Isiaitleal fences may bo brought Into co-opera
tion along linen of practical irerk. Oat of tbia
longingajirang the movement just Inaugurated
at llattroni, and In which Episcopalians,
llaptlsis, Presbyterians, CongregtUonallili,
"Christians,'' Bwedenborgians, Unitarians
and Unirorstliststookjpsrt. Nouoctrinalbasis
of agreement is proposed; bnt, on the other
hand, a co operation ol purposo In carrying
out tho spirit ol Christ in works of praotioad
goodness and righteousness. To this end it is
m ed to hold an annual congress of renro-
■ vo nten of tho dlflcrent denominations
i not excluding Catholics, wu presume, or ovon
lows, II they should with to conic), for "a
Irco discussion ol tha groat religious,
morel and social questions of tho time."
Under suclt regulations as oxparisneo has
shown to bo necesury to good order, and
to prevent dobato from degenerating into
promiscuous wrangling, discussion will bo
Ifreo 1 but no vote will bo taken upon tho lab-
jecto discussed, and no member will ba re
sponsible for any views but those which ho
himself msy choose to oxpreu.
Tho governor of Connecticut wolcomod the
congress to tho state. Tho llav. Dr. Parkor,
In voicing tho wolcomo of tho pooplo of
Hartford, sold: Tho object of tho now movo-
menl was not to manufacture and tuendcroods,
or to msko plans for Uto construction of
ecclesiastical unity, nor to sot itselt up as no
authority, but to discuss qusaltous that ona
cern tho Cliri-iiau common wealth, to avert
ilintMrcus Mvtiirinn comp.-liLtoiis, to rcrimvo
irritation, disagreements, contentions, ignor
ances, jetlousiei and antagonisms, by tbo
cultivation ofa cosmopolitan spirit. Tho Itiv.
Hr. Anderson, »f Waterbury, in further expla
nation of tho objects of tho movomont, said:
'There has boon a quiet convergence ol tho
chnrehea towards ono another in doclrlnco' and
ChiUtl.n woric. Tho old theological lsauco havo
celled lo Interest the maos ol Cluliiuns-haro be
come almost obaolcle; and carnet men ol all
communion, havo coma to see tho nocoulty ol
uniting their Iotas against a, coin-
npn toe. Tho nroccu ol douomtl
....tionatorganization fau Indeed gono forwardtl
B llio denominational moot most ol tho churches
law been Intensified rather than ulmlnlsbod; bat
WASHINGTON NEWS.
HBWS OF THE WEEK FROM THB
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Tl»* Depletion of tli« fundi or tbo AKrioaltaral D«-
partment—Tbe Gonaua of tha Dtatrlot of 04laa«
bla Completed — Secretary Whltnoy’a
Latter In Btfard to tho "JDoIpbin. H
Wauiinoton, Maj 19.—The president this after
noon made the following Appointments:
To be collectors of customs-J. L, F. Cottrell for
tho district of Bt. Marks. FIoridA, And John J. Mc
Guire for the district of TensacolA.
Collector of Internal revenue—John T. Hill*-
man for tho fifth dtetnet of Tennessee.
Frank II. Fierce, ai New Hampshire, who was
to day appointed consul of tho United States at
Matanzas, is a nephew of President Fierce. He
and hla brother aro tbo only surviving members
of President Pierce’s family. IIo Is about forty
yean old, a lawyer by profession, and lives la
Hillsboro, N. H. He has never held public office,
but waa endorsed for tbfs place by every leading
democrat of New Hampshire and by many promi
nent and influential republicans.
. Washington, May 19.—It Is learned st tho state
department that tho presence of Minister Phelps
at the conclusion of tho trial of the Irisi-Amerf-
cans, Cunningham and Burton, in London, yes
terday, when he sat betide Justice Hawkins on
the bench, was in pursuance of special instruct
ion* received by him prior to his departure for
hngiand, looking to the protection of the legal
rights ol the prisoner*. Mr. Phelps reached London
on Friday night and waa received as minister only
teat Saturday.
Mr. 1 helps, upon being introduced - to tho
Queen to day, presented hia credentials as United
blatrs minister to the court of Ht James.
. Washington, D. C., May 19.-Admiral Jonett
informed the navy densrtment fo day that an ad
ditional forco of 800 Colombian tr had arrived at
Panama, to protect tho lathmu . m tho insur
gents.
Washington. May sa-Colon ' A. Smltoter,
of St. Louis, was to day appoint. • chief of the bo
ons another, and the transcendent value ol tho
few essentials upon which alt are agreed."
It must be confessed that tho first meeting
of tho congresa has not quite met the expecta
tions of some of tboee whoso interest was
awakened in advance. Tho tonics ehoeea fir'
discussion were in no wdj broader than thosn
which the seels by themselves are aceustrmed
to consider. But tho spirit maalleited was
excellent, and as tho movemont goes on it
will doubtless overcome tho timidity
by which its first steps
wero Bomowliat restrained. Thoro
was a fear in somo quarters that tho congress
would oiler special encouragement to religious
heresy, and therefore, it was natural, if not
necessary, to act with great caution, and not
to wonder too lisr at first from beaten paths.
We are very sure thateoursgo will erelong
bo found to diseuts tho various social questions
or the timo—such as pauperism, the relations
ol capital and labor, the mono
poly of land, the secularisation of tho state,
etc. The solution of these and all similar
problems la no doubt lo be found in tho moral
code oflho New Testament, and it la fitting,
therefore, that the churches should tako tho
lead in showing how that codo should bo
applied, and what changoa ore nocoj-
aary in our social and political ar
rangements for the security nlilco of tho rich
and the poor, to open tho way of the lat
ter to prosperity and happiness, end to bind
the human family together as one brother
hood. Grant that It is the function orrolixion
to prepare mankind for bapptnsM in another
world, docs it follow that Christians, as such,
•re absolved from the duty of making tbs
•resent life as much like Heaven as pon*ible7
•Tbia ought yo to havo done, and not to leavo
tho other undone.”
Prohibition In aeurglA.
Cidaktown, Go., May la — Editons Constitu
tion: Folk county was one of the first, If not tho
lint, to adopt total prohibition, under the local-
option law. The people of the state of Georgia
are very much agitated upon tha subject. The
Bnnday-achool association of this county which
recently net atCedartown composed of represents;
tires from different parts of the county, therefore
decided that it would be interesting and profita
ble to the cUiscns of those counties which have
not yet adopted prohibition, also to those which
have tot recently voted on the oueatlon, to give a
fair and reliable report of the tAult* In this ooun-
.. Inasmuch as your paper bss a general circuit-
Mon all over the state, the association appointed
the following committee to draw up a paper, and
•end to yon with the request that you publish It:
After whisky was voted out of the oonntv, for
twelve months or more the "Jugs" came lu pretty
thick, end drunkenness declined slowly; but they
ecmmenced dlmluhblef, nnUl now there la com
{•entirely little whisky brought here. It Is a very
rare thing to see a man under the Influence of
whisky. Wberest. before, there waa probably no
section of the stele where dissipation was carri »1
to a greater extern than here. Many of the worst
drunkards are sow strong temperance men, and
co It. us laatic advocates lor prohibition. Crisis
ba* greatly diminished, as .the records of our
eooiu will shew. Our grand Jo.tea. which were
tefora required to serve two wesks at eoris terse of
the loan, now rtqaire only one week's ernle*
Thry found five or si* ten# bills then to where
they fin-1 one now. Themorateof the pe>pte are
wokCeifnllj Improved, among the white m«n
any of whom were eoei.diag their money for
whisky white their UatUn were «qflaring.
1 he Standard of Intelligence in Bt.* Loafs.
From the fit. Louis Poet Dltpstcb.
Where there ere ten clUsens who know the
of the new cabinet there are a hundred
who know the names and standing of the pitchers
sad catchers of the national game.
— 1proximo. JosephN.
Whitney, of Maine, was to day re-instated as chief
clerk ol the bureau, who wu requested to resign
to msko room for Bmltsicr, but It sussnbscqueat-
ly decided by Secretary Manning to mako Smltzlcr
chief ol tbo bureau and to rotaiu Whitney as chief
clerk, ba bis Rcrvlcca would bo of great asslstonco
to the new head of tho bureau.
Washington, May 21.—The president to
day made the following appoinmentst
To be collector of customs, Robert M. T.
Hunter, fur the district ot Tappahanock, Va.
To bo attorney of the United States, Henry
0. Alien, for tho woilern district of Virginia.
To be marshal of tho United States, Albert
C. Gibson, for tho district of Louisiana.
R. M. T. Hunter, tho new collector ol cus
toms for tho district ol Tanpahanock has had
a rcmarkablo history. Forty years ago ho
was the speakor of the houso ol representa
tives and was subsequently elected to tho
United States senate, where he served for
fourteen years, until July, 1881, when he was
expelled on tho ground or participation in tho
rebellion. He waa secretary of steto of tho
confederacy and a member of tho confederate
senate. He was afterwards elected treasurer
of Virginia, which office he held until about
1880, slnco which timo ho has
been living in retirement on his small farm In
Kssex county. Ho is now about 76 years of
•ge. In 1800 be was candidate for the presi
dency before tho Charleston convention. Tho
office to wbioh ho is appointed pays 1250 a year
with fees and commissions, amounting in all
to lets than $1,000. Mr. Hunter was very muoh-
impoverished by the war and was appointed
to this office on nis own apnlioatlon.
Wainington, Moy 21.—Tho president to
day appointed tho following named presiden
tial postmastors:
L. A. Caldwoll, Wnrrenton, Va., vice Wm.
A. Pnltic suspended; Win. II. l'ilcnour, Har
risburg, Va.. vico James Sullivan BUBpondod;
John A. U. Vainer, Lexington, Va., C. 1*.
Dcavcr suspended: Geo. R. Head, Leosburg,
Va., vico O. T. Holmes susnendod; A. D. Bibo,
University of Va., vico R. II. Kilo suiponded j
Bruco Gibson, of Winchester, Va., vico J. II.
Pcitu Bu'pciulod; Mrs. Mary II. Long, Cha#-
lottfSVmfl, V»., rrwtf»f»’’fntr«f. Thr WttOWWg
explanation is oflbrod for tho Buipcnsions
abovo noted: Theso suspensions
were mado in tho oxorciso
of tho president's power of removal, and tho
removals worn mad** U muse tho postmasters
wore partisans of such a kind ns satisfied tho
president that thoy ought not to coctinuo in
icrvico under this administration. In addi
tion tho postmaster at Leesburg has three
time b beon found noon inspection, to havo ap
plied tho monoy of his office to his poraonal
ure so that his cosh was twice deficient, onco
in 1884 and once during tho present spring,
clthough in each instance he mado it good
after the shortngo was discovered. Ho hnd
also antedated remittances in other eases.
Washington, May 21.—Tho dopletfon of tho
funds of tho agricultural department affects
four of its principal bureaus. Tho statistical
division, tho expenditure of which avoragod
ten thousand dollars a month up to May 1st,
and tho laboratory division, which was
expending nearly halt as much, found thorn-
selves at that date with only enough money
in hand to carry on the work at tho current
rates for about two weeks more. Tbo forestry
division hid about enough money to last A
month, and the iced division lun-l ol $100,000
was entire! exhausted with tho exception ot
$38. It t understood that tho late
commissi' t gavo instructions that no
seeds sho t bo purchased excopt upon a
requisition of head ot seed division, buv these
Instructions appear to have boon Ignored by
someone. Requisitions of tho hoaa of tho
seed division called for the purchaso of $72,-
000 worth of Med, of which only $50,000 wero
purchcscd, but $20,000 worth of varieties
which were not callcid for by tho hoad ot soed
division wero also purchased, and part of there
remain on hand with no money to pay for
their distribution and nobody wanting them
If they coaid bo sent oat.
Washington, 3fay 21.—Tho consul of tho
district ol Columbia Just completed shows that the
tolsl ropulatlbn is 201,t'», mu iucreaso of over 20,-
CTO In tbo test flro yet rs. Tho Increase for the en
tire population is 14 8-lGper contend auuuex-
Meted feature in this te more rapid accession to
il.o colored people than tho white.
Wabdinoton, Mot 2J.—Secretary Whitney
bos sent tbo following letter to John Rosen
rclativo to tho trial trip ol tho Dolphin which
is to tako place next week: <( You will, X
think, recognize that tho performance of tho
I’olphln, thus lar iinposoupon mo the duty of
exercising an unusual degree of caution in
dealing with her. What would havo beon
rcaionablo pnidenco In mo somo wcoka since
would not bo so now. It la quite
possiblo that tho difficulties encoun
tered in making her go tbroogh tho
trial trip may havo been duo to accidental
and temporary causes, but you would not now
expect hor to be accepted without yoar having
sn opportunity to demonstrate beyond ail
question the high character of her work. I
understood you to assent to this proposition In
our conversation yesterday, and while I do
not understand you now to claim the farther
speed nor the horsepower contemplated, you
do not Insist that so far as your part n con
cerned, thot tho plans have bees properly
executed. I have given an order in accord
ance with our arrangements yesterday,
for a further trial to be held under similar
condition! to tbo last, on Thursday the 28th
instant. In addition to this I must aak that
•be be put to e similar run at sea, upon such &
day as y cu ma J n» D,r - I do not insist upon
her foil horse power or fifteen knots speed*
upon this latter trial. If deemed by vou too
trying upon her machinery,! speed of twelve
knots will answer. In the condition under
which I wish to place her. she should bs lead
ed to something near her lines. The expense
of this Utter trial srill be borne by tbs gov-
cremr nt in rue she U eccopted.
Washington. May 23 —Therearc abm*^* post-
oiLcts iu motes territory, aud some ol tu-.-m «*«*#
teen end «re still In charge ot Indlsu postoiMtenf.
Tbeqnestfon of the rttirfhlllty oi au Inditn to
hold such an office having arisen. Postmaster
Grncral Vi.** referred it t*» the attorney general,
wtot s* n udtrul ao oruiou that as Indian Is
not eii|il!e.
Wasnincton, May 23 -The president tbl« after- f
noon Mppoinud tx-Penamr KdwarJ O. Rm of
New Mexico to t* gore m or of tho territory of New
Mexico: I>. W. Ware, ot Miwouri, to te s-ioeriu-
undent of the Yoi.'owitone national park vice E.
c.'arruitcr removed. A number of registers and
receives of land offices In the west were a'o ap
point'd. Henry IL McCorry, to be Unit >1 fitates
attorn? y for tte western dutrlct of Tantieme a.
Judge Mcforry la a member of the law firm of
MeN'orry A Bond, ol Jartcon.and tea son of J toted
H. W. McCorry, former:/ attorney-general of Ten-
neseee.