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PULrrr utterances
Rev. John Hall, D.D., on " The True
Worship of God.".
SilrMU from » Recent Sermon Preached
ta Fifth Arenac Presbyterian Church,
Hew York—True Worship'i* .«• tn
Spirit and tn Troth.?' .
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The hour coracth and now Is when the true
worshipers shall worship the father in spirit
and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to
worship Mini.—John tv. 25. •-
It is to the last clause that yojir-attention
le now called: “For the Father seeketh
such to worship Him." *
In this particular passage, part of which
makes the text, Jesus Christ is speaking
with the woman of Samaria. He knew
very weH the character and standing of
the woman, as she was made soon to recog
niee. It is well worth considering—the
way in which he approached this woman.
It was not with sensational stories, it was
not with pathetic appeals. It was with the
calm, simple statement of the weightiest
things that belong to the kingdom of
Christ. Indeed, if you look at the two
chapters, the fourth and the third, you will
see that there is a remarkable similarity
between the way in which our Lord dis
courses to Nicodeinus, a-ruler of the Jews,
aud this poor Samaritan woman. I say it
is an instructive study. The Gospel of
Jesus Christ is for all, high and low, rich
and poor, educated and ignorant, Jew and
Samaritan. In many instances mistakes are
made in the way of supposed simplifying
and popularizing of the Gospel. It may be
slated without fear, in it* integrity to all.
It lifts up the ignorant and unlearned as it
comes in contact with their minds, and it
humbles and brings down the learned as
they sit at the feet of the Great Teacher.
There is a sense, of course, in which we
are, as ministers, to accommodate our
teaching to the intelligence of the people, a
sense in which we are to become all things
to ail men; but men sometimes carry that
concession a little too far, and would learn
a with advantage from, the method pursued
by our Blessed Lord, • *
In the second place, I want to remark to
you that, in speaking to you of worship, I
would not wish to convey the idea that
your religion is to consist in aiiy exclusive
way in your church OAnnVWoiis, your Sab
bath keeping, your worship and service,
and your benevolence. If yon are truly
religious, you are religions always and
everywhere, and these forms of service are
only special and approp iato ways in which
the religious life kindled within you by
the Spirit of God openly expresses itself.
If we are religious, wo are religious
through and through, and we are religious
every where and in every relation ond duty
and type of our Jives. In the Lord we
live and move and have ottr being, and if
we be His we are His “ all the time,” and
in all conditions and circumstances; and I
do not want you to take up the notion foi
a moment or to carry-' it away with you.
that your religion is to be a thing of th<
Sabbath, and the worship, and the service,
and the benevolonce. It is to be charac
teristic of you as long as you are here anc'.
however you may lie placed, until you
come into the kingdom of your Fs*’
above, where there will be no temptation
to anything but complete consecration to
Him.
I. In the first place, let me call your at-
tention in expounding this truth, to the
nature of worship. The very word itself
may help to give us a suggestion as to its
meaning. It is contracted, as some of you
know, from the longer word worth-ship,
and the idea iuthe old Saxon substantive
was that the word “worth-ship ” could be
applied to persons in acknowledgement- of
the good qualities or worth that they were
acknowledged'tO possess, and so our Sax
on forefathers came to say “Your Worth
ship,” just ns (moderns say “Your Lord
ship,” meauing, “You are in the state
of a person that has solid worth,” as
“Your Lordship” means, “You are a
Lord, and entitled’to be so esteemed and
honored.” Then the noun came to be in
the .verbal form, and to worship was tc
recognize the,worth’of the person to whom
the worship is addressed. To worship God
is to recognize in appropriate ways the
worth that is in .Him.
Woi ship, then,da the recognition of the
qualities and characteristics that belong
to Deity; His love, His power, His good
ness, His truth. His mercy, His holiness,
Hie grace. When fere worship we recog
nize appropriately these infinite perfec
tions. I have sometimes heard critics of
Christians describe their impressions of
that form of prayer that is called extem
pore, and raise this question: “What is
the use of men telling God what He
is andj what qualities He hast” What it
the use? They allude, of course, to that
p rtion of. prayer that is known as adora
t m. It would not be worth while to an
t 7«r the criticism, if the answer did not
throw light, upon the topic we have be
f re ns. These things may be said in rela
tion to it: :
t. There never have been Christian pray
( i composed anywhere that have not
1 is element of adoration in them, and that
d ) not tell to God the qualities and char
p -eristics that belong to Him, notwith
t, inding that Ho knows them. If men are
t. > tell nothing to God but that He does not
know, then their lips will be sealed forever,
both in prayer and praise.
2. If this criticism has any foundation,
it lies against the inspired saints, in a very
remarkable anti striking way. "The
heaven Is. Thy throne and the earth is Thy
footstool. What house shall we build
Thee, and where is the place of Thy rest!”
"Thy hand hath made all things.” “Lord,
Thou hast been our dwelliug-place in all
generations. Before the mountains were
brought forth, or even Thou hadst formed
the earth and the world, from everlasting
to everlasting Thou art God.” "Thou art
glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, do
ing wonderful.”
Ido not need to repeat text after text
tn this strain. What are all these, except
inspired snists te&bag to God £» proper-
ties that He has revealed in Himself, tell
ing Him the things that He knows, telling
them over and over again, speaking, be
fore Him, as well as they can, the worth
that they believe to be in Him! Are we to
criticise these saints? That would be to
criticise the Spirit that inspired them, to
tind fault with the Deity,
8. It is impossible, in the nature of the
case, that there should be communion with
the Father, fellowship with God, without
this element entering into it. We speak of
communion, for example, or' fellowship,
between a husband and wife.' one of the
most sacred forms of fellowship. Is that
fellowship living only whet the one tells
the other things that the other does not
know? And the same thing applies to
every communicati ju that is mads be
tween two iuteiiigent beings, more par
ticularly wherever a favor is sought
from the one by the other. So that
when adoration enters into our petitions
and prayers and we tell God what He has
revealed Himself as being, we aie worship
ing in the truest, most literal and real
sense of the word, recognising the worth
in Him, the infinite perfections that He has
revealed t and being creatures, as we are,
we can not have fellowship with Him
without engaging in this holy exercise.
il. In the second place, wo notice thi
object of worship. That is the Supreme
One, the Creator of all and the Father o 1
all. He is the Maker of all things; He is
invisible, eternal and incomprehensible
He dwells iu light, inaccessible and full oi
'glory. He has revealed himself, however
in Jesus the Son, who is the brightness oi
His glory and the veky image of His per
son, who is the same in substance will
Him, His equal in power and in glory, and
who is therefore worshiped with th<
Father. Aud the things of Christ ar«
taken and revealed to men by the Divini
Spirit, the Holy Ghost, who teaches oui
spirits, who chauges the trend of our bein{
and turns it Godward, who enlightens tb«
intellect, who touches the affections, wh<
renews the soul, who makes us new creat
ures. Father, Son and Holy Ghost: and
here the Girins ends, and here worshiping
ends. It goes no farther.
111. Take then, in the next place, tb<
rule at worship. If God is the object tc
be worshiped, then He has to prescribe the
way, and He has dond that from the be
ginning. We make no positive statement
about it, for we hare only inferences, but
I do not believe that men invented the sac
rificial system. I think God taught it tc
men. And there is a good deal that h
plausible, I think one might say probable,
in the suggestion that has been made again
and again on high authority, that when
man was clothed with garments made of
the skins of berets, they were the sins of
sacrifipw wugnt men to üb*-,
and, il' s't prefiguring that clothing in the
righteousness of the Great Sacrifice, which
is ths central truth iu the Evangelical sys
tem. It is certain that the Hebrews did
not invent or make up the Mosaic econo
my. God revealed it, and with great dis
tinctness, for which there is very good and
sufficient reason. • • •
And what ore the elements iu worship!
This is a very important and practical view
of the case, on which I beg you to dwell c
moment. Every grace that is in the Chris
tian character is intended for an element
in work, and every grace in the Christian
character has its place, and its use, and its
exercise, and its development, in worship.
Is faith one of these? “He that cometh tc
God must believe that He is, and that He
is a rewarder of all them that diligently
seek Him.” Is love one of these? Then
love expresses itself in worship, in more
than one way. When love is reminded of
the goodness and grace that God hai
shown to us, then it Is gratitude: when
love is reminded of the qualities that ar«
in Jehovah then it is holy admiration
And we should come before him in lovj.
and ths love grows stronger the mors in
tercourse we have with Him in worship.
And the same is true of all other graces,
fake hope: “Fulfill this Word unto Thy
servant, upon which Thou hast caused me
to hope.” That is ths very genius, the
very key-note of prayer. Take penitence:
“If we say that we have no sin we deceive
ourselves and the truth is uot in ns; but it
we confess our sius, God is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.” Take docility,
teachableness: “Oh send forth Thy ligbl
and Thy truth; let them lead me anc
guide me.” Aud so all through; every
grace iu the human character has exercise
in worship, and is strengthened and devel
oped by the process of worship. This you
and I need to keep in mind.
So there is a very good reason foi
praise as a part of our worship. When
we know what God is, why should wt
net magnify aud exalt His name in
pi alms and hymns and spiritual songs?
And at music is a natural way of giving
sxpression to human feeling, why should
not we sinj thess praises unto God? And
so with preaching. If these graces are tc
be exercised and developed, then th«
ground upon which thay rest is to be con
tinually unfolded; men are to be shown
the reasons for faith, for penitence, for
love, for hope, and for the exercise of every
grace that God would have in the human
soul. And so preaching has its place in
the worship. And as Jesus is the way
through which the soul comes to God and
Gkid gives the blessings to the soul, Jeeu*
must necessarily be the great topic of the
preacher. Prayer must, in the nature oi
the case, be an important part of the wor
ship. It is the cry of the dependent; it i#
the expression of need; it is the overrun
ning of the child’s heart toward the Fath
er; it is the express on of our constant
necessity, our clinging dependence upon
Him in whom we live and from whom
every perfect gift comr's. And so that
prayer must be as a idless, as varied, as
versatile, so to speak as are our human
conditions and the types and phases ol
Christian character.
There are certain characteristics of true
worship on which we ought to d well for a
moment In the first place it will be reg
ular. Whatever is not regularly is apt to
be dose in a second rate way. What you
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA, THURSDAY. MARCH 20. 1885.
do now and then, as you happen to feel in
the mood, occasionally, you will be apt to
do in a casual and unsatifactory manner.
Try the principle in your office; try it in
your business. Let the element of regu
larity drop out, and how soon the business
w ill begin to show the consequences.
Worship must be regular, in the closet and
in the family, and in its public form on the
Lord’s Day; Try to be regular in the wor
ship that you give to God Almighty. And
that would imply, as well as regular
times, regular places In which God is to be
worshiped. There is a sense, of course,
in which all the world is His, and He is
everywhere present; but there is also a
sense in which He has been pleased to be
specially, graciously present with His peo
ple, and they have felt that; and when the
Patriarch set up his altar, God gave him
such utterances there that he could say:
“This is the house of God; and this is the
gate of HeaveD." When the Tabernacle
was to be built, God gave promises of His
gracious pi esence there. When it was in
the heart of David to build a temple he was
not allowed to do it, because there was
blood on his bands. When the Temple
built by Solomon was destroyed, the high
est honor that could be given to a heathen
was that Cyrus was permitted to take a
part toward the rebuilding of it. And so
it has been always true: “God loveth the
Gates of Zion more than all the dwellings
of Jacob.” He does not love our dwellings,
but He connects His honor in a special way
with the gates of Zion.
Worship, in this sense, is to be regular,
and it is to be reverent, because God is to
be revered, to whom it is paid. When
we begin the services usually we
invoke the presence of God Almighty, and
if we do it in faith we believe that He is
with us. Then from the beginning of the
service to the close of it everything ought
to be reverent; and that applies to me as
a preacher as well as to you in the pews.
It is not a very difficult thing for the aver
age man to repeat or to invent something
humorous, ludicrous, laughable, and so tc
give a certain meretricious interest to the
things that he says to the people. Bui
then; is it reverent? And upon the people
obligations rest in the same way. Every
thing, from beginning to end, is to be rev
erent. That is not the only thing. We
are precluded in the pulpit, from what is
unjust, uncharitable, unkind, untrue, as
well as from what is irreverent The same
is true of all the people; the spirit is hon
esty, uprightness, of straightforwardness,
of being true to the faith of things, that
spirit is to be in ail the services, from the
beginning to the end, if there would be
real worship to God Almighty.
There are other characteristic* upon
which it would be proper to dwell if there
were time, but I pass these by, that I may
''•llvninr attention! in COUClUblou, |
pOiUb dfißnfcfrtbeb copeelellj •»“ 1"- .
“The Father seeketh such to worship him.”
Are there any of you who, though now and
then attending God’s services, are con
scious to yourselves that you do not wor
ship the Father ns He desires that you
should? He seeks spiritual, true worship
ers. Why do you uot try to meet Him in
that which He seeks? You may tell ni
that to you it may not seem interesting; it
appears dull and monotonous and tiresome
and tedious. Perhaps that may be because
you do not seek to put yourself, your heart,
in it, for if the service is to be what God
would have it to be, then that part of it
which is ours muse be with all our strength
and with all our life. We must put our
selves into it, or it must needs be dull and
monotonous. I take an illustration that 1
have seen in another connection. Suppose
some one, not acquainted with the object,
has a cocoanut put in his hand and is as
sured that it is nutritious and good for
food, and accoidingly he sets himself to
gnaw at the shell of it until he is tired and
disgusted, and then flings it away in in
dignation. There is nothing there that is
nutritious and fit for food. What is the
thing he needs? He needs tfc be told that
the shell is only for the protection of the
nutritious part; that it is the kernel that is
to be eaten, and that he has not taken 14*
proper way to get at the kernel. Perhaps
something of this is true in your case. You
have been knawing at the shell. If you
had with your whole heart gone into the
kernel—these graces, for example, o
which we were speaking, that make up the
worship—that would be a very different
matter to you.
Is it not the best thing to teach men to
discriminate between the shell and the
kernel, to bring them to appreciate the es
sence of worship fellowsnip with the
Father and with the Bon; and when they
have come to do so there will be nothing
tedious, nothing tiresome in the loving,
helpful intercourse of the poor, weak, bnl
hopeful human spirit with the Father oi
Lights, upon whose strength itleaus and in
whose endless love it has learned to re
joice. “The Father seeketh such to wor
ship him.” Will you not meet Him in
His service and learn to worship Him in
this way? All of us are intent upon train
ing aud education, and you send ycur sous
to distant and expensive institutions, that
they may be educated and their characters
developed; your daughters to costly places
that they may have education and refine
ment ard polish. You want them to be in
the best kind of associations, that they
may be lifted up. My brethren, where is
there association that can purify, and dig
nify, and elevate and refine like the asso
ciation that is here, where on one whole
dav in seven—not to speak of the closet
and the family—wo can be in the closest
fellowship with the Father of our spirits,
the holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty,
raised up together and made to sit togeth
er in Heavenly places in Chr st Jesus?
Th s is the way to advancement, to real
progress, to piety, to dignity. This is the
way to be ma ie ui jcu or t.ie iuhoriwauco
of the sAiots m light. May God bless
His L ufh_to us an l gi .emihe true spirit
of worsh<p foe il- i u.ui< t to, Amen.
—Tn Thomas County. G.v, a mad
stone was recently found, for which an
offer <>f *7OO has been refused. It, it
ctrg-shaped and abom the size of a wal
nut.
DESPERATE ENCOUNTER
•
The British Troops Surprised by Arabs
Near Suakim.
The Hollow Square Broken by the Arabs,
and the English and Indian Regi
ments Temporarily Thrown
Into Confusion.
Suakim, March 22.—As a detachment of
English and Indian infantry were making
a zereba near this place they were sudden
ly surprised by a rush of Arabs who massed
and conoeafdd in defiles, west of Hasheen.
The Engl ih formed into a hollow square as
quickly i:s possible, but the camels, mules
and horses were driven back in confusion
on the troops, causing a stam
pede, and amid clouds of dust the
Arabs penetrated the south and north sides
of the square. The Arabs glided and crept
in all directions aniong the animals. Had
dendowas swarmed from the bush like
magic and attacked the zereba fiercely on
all sides. Soudanese coolies were mis
taken for enemies aud many were killed
by their friends. The Berkshire
Regiment and the marines stood
firm and cool and fired volley after volley
into the ranks of the enenly; The naval
brigade, inside of the zereba, also opened a
hot fire- The Indian troops held their own
gallantly as soon as they were able to close
the square again. Eventually, unable to
stand the rattling fife* the enemy disap
peared as they came. General McNeil
drew in all his forces and stood to arms.
The Huzzars brought in the wounded,
though menaced by the Arab camel force,
which watched their movements vigilantly.
The desert, was dotted in every direc
tion with runaway animals. The eneffiy’s
loss must be heavy. The camp at Suakim
is prepared for renewal of the attack, but
is unmolested. At present no official state
ment can be made as to British losses-
Nearly all the casaulties are due to spear
thrusts received in hand -to - hand
engagements. The Arabs got be
tween the transport train and the
zereba, and speared the men of the trans
port corps and killed the anitnals. They
fought savagely, refusing to give o t take
quarter. Genera) McNeil, who com
manded the zereba, reports vaguely that
there were several thousand rebels in the
fight, and over a thousand killed or
wounded. McNeil is blamed for nbt taking
precautions against a surprise.
A Hotel Fire.
C/nCAOO, March 22. —The fire which de
stroyed the LaughamHotel,last nlght.prov
ed much more dreadiui iu iuoo v*
rjf v sic '•-injuries entailed than was supposed
tllim a-_. , »!.!„ mnminr. It Is noW
known that at least five persons were killed
and four injured. Just before the south
wall of the hotel fell upon the Faxion
Building,a (lumber of persons besides those
of the fire insurance pairoi Were inside the
latter building assisting to save gofids,-
and no immediate danger was apprehend
ed. There are no means of knowing just
how many of these volunteer helpers were
in the structure at the time, but excava
tions have proceeded to an extent which
justifies the hope that all the dead have
been found. So far as known, those at
work in the Faxion Building when it was
crushed by the falling hotel waUp were the
following: Captain Edwara Shepard (
James Boyd, Knute Thime, Patricfi*MuJb
lius, John Walsh and Frederick Jones, all
of the fire insurance patrol, William Beam,
piauo-tuner, aud John Hennessy, eler k,
both employed in the building. Mullins
aud Thime, being near the rear of the
building, were forced out through one of
the windows by the rush of air, as the
building fell, and were not dangerously
hurt. Captain'wjhepard and Boyd were
pinned fclowu by tbe fallen timbers, and
were reamed alive about midnight. Both
are serimisly hurt, but it is believed they
will reefer. Walsh and Jones were taken
Out about 1 o’clock this morning, both
crushed to death. Bream was alive when
found, and was taken to the County Hospital
where he died atJio’clock this morning. The
body of Hennessy was recovered at 6o’clock
to-night. Soon alter the wall fell the
wreck took fire, and the firemen turned
several streams on the blazing mass to save
their comrades from being roasted to
death, though at imminent risk of drowning
them. The water was ice-cold,and drenched
the poor, imprisoned fellows, chilling them
to the marrow. Mrs. C. V. Belkuap, who
was killed by jumping from an upper
story window was the widow of Colonel
Belknap, who died several years ago at
New Orleans. She has many friends in
Cincinnati.
Situation in Afghanistan.
Calcutta, March 22.—There are fifty
thousand men in India ready for service at
any moment. The military authorities are
confident of their ability to repulse an at
tack on Herat without assistance from
England, but they consider England might
send enough troops to end forever Russian
menace. It is reported orders were re
ceived from England on Saturday to con
centrate from twenty to thirty thousand
men at Quetta and Allahabad. Or
ders were issued Saturday to mobilize
two army corps, aggregating twenty
five thousand men, with two strong divis
ions as reserve. It is intended to send
26,000 men to Pishin while the weather is
cool. General Roberts will have command,
and the Duke of Connaught and General
McPherson will act as divisional generates,
There is great enthusiasm among the sikhs.
and recruits are coming forward by hun
dreds. It is believed England will send
fifteen thousand men as a permanent in
crease to the Indian garrison.
Drowned.
KEorrx, la.. March 22.—George Wilson
and George Dirkinson, of Hamilton, 111.,
while out duck hunting, were drowned in
the river, near this city, by the upsetting
of th**ir canoe, which collided with a cake
of ice.
A LITTLc wM*r.
What Mrs. Wilson Found on her Door-etep.
New Albany, Ind., March 21.—Yester
day morning a baby sensation was un
earthed on Vincennes street. Thursday
night last, about 9 o’clock, Mrs. Alee H.
Wilson, residing on Vincennes street, neat
Spring, heard a vigorous rap on her door.
She was engaged at the time in playing a
game of cards with her friend, and did
not respond to the call until a second
rap was made. When she went to
the door she could see no one, but her
friend thought he heard the wheels of a
carriage rattle along the street. She was
about to step out, when a bundle lying
upon the step caught her eye. Taking it
up, a slight cry revealed the presence of a
waif. Opening the package, she discover
ed a bright, blue-eyed boy and a large
supply of the most elegant clothing for the
little stranger. Upon a slip of paper pinned
to the dress was written, in a large,
legible hand: “Take this baby and
care for it as if it was your own,
and raise it up a true Demo
crat. He is two weeks old to-day, March
19, 1885.” The last clause was written in
pencil by a woman. Upon a little shirt,
written in pencil, was the following, in a
female hand: “Keep this baby and take
care of it as your own. We will send it
things all along but ask no questions, as
you will never find out where they
come . from.” In the bundle there
were dresses of the finest ma
terial, some of them being hand
somely embroidered. There were wrap
pers, bibs, underclothing of every charac
ter, a zephyr cap and a cloak of blue cash
mere, elegantly embroidered in silk. The
entire outfit was enough to clothe twins a
year. Mrs. Wilson is very proud of the
find, and says she would not take SSOO cash
for the baby. She does not know where it
came from. Mrs. Wilson has called the
boy Frank S. Wilson, and proposed to
adopt him at the next term of court.
slaughter of an innocent.
Terrible Deed a Maniac Mother—A
Child's Head Nearly Severed From Its
Body.
Pacific, Mo., March 20.—News was re
ceived here this evening of a terrible homi
cide occurring about six miles northeast of
here, at a little village called Dutch Hol
low, in St. Louis County, in which the life
of an Innocent little girl was sacrificed.
The perpetrator of this d«ed is
Mrs. Krueger, a woman about thirty
five years of age, who, with her
husband and family of four children, live
” * ‘ *-* of the village al
ready mentioned. They are in fair circum
stances, and their about, f rom all appear .
tuicco, ’ —w home, i'"*”* —j
afternoon, while two little naupmin«u< a.
family, aged respectively four and six years,
were engaged in the yard at play,lthe
mother called them and coolly informed
tbem that she had been told to kill them; that
it was a painful duty, but she was com
pelled to make the sacrifice. She grasped
them tightly and led them to a stable,
where lay two freshly-whetted butcher
knives. The little ones screamed and
begged and piteously implored their mother
to spare their lives, but all to no avail.
Letting loose of the arm of the elder girl,
she picked up one of the glittering knives,
held back the head of the little victim, and,
With one swipe, nearly severed its head.
The older girl, having been relieved from
the iron grasp of her murderous mother,
hastened to the father, who was
engaged repairing the fence around
the farm, and informed him of what had
transpired. He hastened home in great
consternation, only to find the ghastly form
of his little offspring lying dead on the
floor, and a pool of blood encircling its re
mains. His wife was in a wild mood, and
her eyes wandered about in ?wild confus
ion. The crime is undoubtedly due to
mental aberration. The neighbors say she
has shown symptoms of insanity hereto
fore, but that her case was not considered
serious.
Indian Uprising in Manitoba.
Winnipeg, Man., March 22. —Advices
from Prince Albert and Carlton to-day show
that the rising among the Saskatchewan
half-breeds is somewhat serious. They have
been joined by a large number of Indians,
have taken possession of Government stores
at Carlton,made prisoners of the officials,and
threaten the fort there. Over one hundred
mounted police have started from Swift
Current for the scene of trouble. Another
detachment will leave for the same point
in a day or two. A squad stationed at
Winnipeg will start out to-morrow morn
ing. The line has been cut west
of Humboldt, and dispatches have to be
brought to that poiDt by messengers.
A Lunatic’s Razor.
Fayetteville, W. Va., March 22. A es
terday Wesley Rodgers, turnkey at the
jail, w» probably fatally cut by John
Kiunev, a lunatic confined there. He was
supposed to be harmless, and was allowed
the liberty of the corridor. He was sup
posed not to have any weapons, but in
some manner procured a razo*-, and as
Rodgers was fixing the fire sprang on his
back and slashed him horribly aliout the
face and throat, severing the small arteries.
Hg also endeavored to cut a little son of
Sheriff McVey, but the boy’s screams
brought assistance just in time. Rodgers
bled so profusely, and is in such a weak
condition, that it is doubtful if he recovers.
Bled to Death.
Independence, Mo., March 21.—Charles
Lutterell, a fine young man living eight,
miles east of this city, came to his death
to-day through a very sad accident. To
gether with a neighboring farmer, John
Clark, a man of sixty y earp of "K e - was
felling a tree, when Clark’s ax slipped*
striking young Lutterell in the calf of the
leg, and he bled to death before any aid
could be summoned. Deceased was a son
of Willis Lutterell, late of the Blue Spring*
milling firm,
• VQL II.—NO. 4.
AN EXPLODED BOILER.
Charleston, W. Va., for the Third
Time in Two Months, Visited bv a
Destructive Fire.
Sad Havoc Flayed With Several Building*.
Causing Loss of Life.
Charleston, W. Va., March 23.— Three
times within two this town has
been visited by fires, involving immense
loss of property and twice causing loss
of huffian life. About eight o’clock this
morning an explosion, immediately follow
ed by a second, was heard in the building
occupied by Ruffner Bros., wholesale gro
cers. In a moment the building was a to
tal wreck. It was heated by steam, and 1
the explosion was caused by
the bursting of a boiler in the
basement. George Welchers, the janitor,
who had just turned water into the boiler,
and was by the furnace, was
killed instantly, and so deeply buried un
der the debris that his body has not been
recovered. His little daughter, who had
brought his breakfast, was just leaving
the building wtien the explosion occurred,
and was thrown some distance, but not in
jured severely. Mr. Joel Ruffner, assist
ant book-keeper, who was at his
desk, immediately over the furnace, was
hurled some distance in the air, and fell
with the debris upon him. He was taken
out a few moments before the flames burst
through, and was found to have sustained
painful injuries about the head and face,
having his jaw brot-en and a nail driven
into his scalp. Unless injured internally
he wil recover. Mr. M. P. Ruffner, junior
member of the firm, was iu his office in the
forward end of the building, and
was hurled through the wall by
the force of the explosion, but was
not injured. Noether persons were in the
building. This building adjoined the Hall
House, the principal hotel of the city, and
it was soon evident that it must also go, as
the flames from the ruins, which had taken
fire, were rapidly enveloping the entire
eEd of the hotel. Most of the furniture was
taken out, though badly daintged. Several
guests, who were at breakfast and whose
rooms were in the end which first
caught, had no time to save their
property. The ticket-office •of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, Adams Ex
press office and the insurance office of Al
tlerson & Littlepage were in the hotel, and
lost a portion of their contents. The walls
of the wholesale dry-goods storeof Arnold,
Abney & Co. were so badly injured as to
make it probably necessary to rebuild.
The loss is about $200,000; insurance, $60,000.
A Sick Mot het-’s Terrible Discovery.
urw*r«~- + wo o’clock Mrs. B. Cheeks,
who is an invaiiu, ...j —j wj- i;ttl«
eighteen-months-old girl, Nellie. Mrs.
Cheeks is confined to her bed, and was left
alone for a while with the child, when it
toddled out of doors and away from
the house. Nearly an hour
elapsed, and she finally became so
uneasy, that she threw some clothing
loosely about her and dragged herself out
of doors' to find the little one. To her hor
ror she saw Nellie lying prone on the
ground, her head and half her body under
water. She screamed, and a passer-by
came and took the little ond from a pool of
water, about a foot in depth, into which
she had fallen facedown and had strangled
to death".
Mr. (’lark’s Death.
Washington, March 23. —E. D. Clark, oi
Vicksburg Miss., the newly appointed As
sistant Secretary of the Interior, who has
been suffering from an attack of pneumonia
about ten days, and was considered out of
danger, last evening had a sudden relapse
about midnight, and died at an early hour
this morning. The remains will be sent
to-night to Holly Springs. Miss., in charge
of his wife and Senator Walthall.
Throe Missions Filled.
Washington, March 23—The President
to-day sent to the Senate an important
batch’ of diplomatic appointments as fol
lows: Edward J. Phelps, of Vermont, to
Great Britain. Robert M. McLane. of
Maryland, to Fiance. George H. Pendle
ton, of Ohio, to Germany. Henry R. Jack
sou, of Georgia, to Mexico.
Killed in a Runaway.
Moawequa, 111., March 23— Augustus
Elinor, who was recently married, was
almost instantly killed in a runaway to
day. The scalp was lifted from his head.
UNITED STATES SENATE.
Special Session.
Washington, March 19. —Gray, as Senator,
was sworn in to succeed Bayard. A resolu
tion to appoint a committee of five to pro
ceed to Alaska to make investigation was
presented. In executive session Senator
Sherman offered a resolution providing tor
the appointment of two Senators to wait
unon the president and inform him that, un
less he had some further communication to
make, the Senate was ready to adjourn with
out delay. ■ .
Washington. March an.-A resolution for
the appointment of an Alaskan Committee
wa« laid 1 efore the Senate, and Mr. Mander
son moved its reference to the Committee on
Territories A debate arose, during which
Mr Van Wyek attacked the South AmencM
—«
3 °wTshingto!». March 21.-A resolution was
offered
specialcomunuit otn e d Monday
o? to the number ofTrade
dollar® put in circulation in the United . fates
n.ie dollar" and what has been the prao
tfee of thh and other governments as to the
| TmoVon to ' was *"laid'cver”
! was transacted,
"5
w senate went into executive
•iourned.