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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher,
TAUUUE’S SEKMON.
Ninth Discourse of the Bevies on
“The Marriage Ring.’’
The Domestic Clyde—Home Life as a Ten*
of Character, a Refuse, a rolilical
Safeguard, a School and as a Type
of Heaven on Kartli. ,
( Below we give Rev. T. DeW ict Talmage’s
ninth discourse of “The Marriage Ring”
series, delivered at Brooklyn Tabernacle.
The subject, “The Domestic Circle,” was
illustrated from the following text:
Do home to thy friends, and tell til un how
great things the Lord hath don . tor thee.-*
Mark, v. 19. «
There are a great many people longing
for some grand sphere in which to servo
God. They admire Luther at the Diet of
Worms, and only wish that they had somu
such great opportunity in which to display
their Christian prowess. They admire
Raul making Felix tremble, and they only
wish that they had some such grand occa
sion in which to preach righteousness, tem
perance and judgment to come; all they
want is only an opportunity to exhibit
their Christian heroism. Now the apostle
comes to us and he practically says: “I
will show you a place where you can ex
hibit all that is grand, and beautiful, and
glorious in Christian character, and that is
the domestic circle.”
If one is not faithful in an insignificant
sphere he will not be faithful in a resound
ing sphere. If Peter will not help the
cripple at the gate of the temple
he will never be able to preach three
thousaud souls into the kingdom at the Pen
tecost. If Paul will not take pains to in
struct in the way of salvation the jailer of
the Philipian dungeon, he will never make
Felix tremble. He who is not faithful in a
skirmish would not be faithful in an
Armageddon. The fact is we are all
placed in just the position in which we
can most grandly serve God; and we
ought not to be chiefly thoughtful about
some sphere of usefulness which we may
after awhile gain, but the all-absorbing
question with you and with me ought to
be: “Lord what wilt Thou have me now
and here to do?”
There is one word in my text around
which the most of our thoughts will this
morning revolve. That word is “home.”
Ask ten different men the meaning of that
word, and they will give you ten different
definitions. To one it means love at the
hearth; it means plenty at the table, in
dustry at the workstamjj intelligence at
item uuuKb, devotion a«. file alfsr. To him it
means a greeting at the door and a smile
at the chair. Peace hovering like wings.
Joy clapping its bands with laughter.
Life a tranquil lake. Pillowed on the rip
ples sleep the shadows.
Ask another man what home is, and he
will tell you it is want looking out of a
cheerless fire-grate, kneading hunger in
an empty bread tray, the damp air shiv
ering with curses. No Bible on the shelf.
Children, robbers and murderers in em
bryo, obscene songs their lullaby. Every
face a picture of ruin. Want in the back
ground and sin staring from the front.
No Sabbath wave rolling over that door
sill. Vestibule of the pit. Shadow of in
fernal walls. Furnace for forging ever
lasting chains. Faggots for an unending
funeral pile. Awful word! It is spelled
with curses, it reeks with ruin, it chokes
with woe, it sweats with the death agony
of despair.
The word “home” in the one case means
every thing bright. The word “home” in
the other case means every thing terrific.
I shall speak to you this morning of
home as a test of character, home as a
refuge, home as a political safeguard,
home as a school, and home as a type of
Heaven.
And, in the first place, I remark that
home is a powerful test of character. The
disposition in public may be in gay cos
tume, while in private it is in deshabille.
As play actors may appear in one way on
the stage and may appear in another way
behind the scenes, so private character
may be very different from public
character. Private character is of
ten public character turned wrong
side out. A man may receive you into his
parlor as though he were a distillation of
smiles, and yet his heart may be a swamp
of nettles. There are business men who
all day long are mild and courteous and
genial and good-natured in commercial
life, damming back their irritability and
their petulance and their discontent, but
at nightfall the dam breaks and scolding
pours forth in floods and freshets.
The reason men do not display their bad
temper in public is because they do not
want to be knocked down. There are men
who hide their petulancv und their ir
ritability for the same reason that they
do not let their notes go to pro
test—it does not pay. Or for the
same reason that they do not want
a man in their stock company to sell his
s', ick at less than the right price, lest it
depreciate the value. As sometimes the
wind rises, so after a sunshiny day there
may be a tempestuous night. There are
people who in public act the philanthro
pist,who at home act the Nero,with respect
to their slippers and their gown.
Now, that man who is affable in public
and who is irritable in private, is making
a fraudulent overissue of stock, and he is
as bad as a bank that might have $400,000
or $500,000 of bills in circulation with no
specie in its vaults. Let us learn to show
piety at home. If we have it not there,
we have it not anywhere. If we have not
genuine grace in the family circle, all our
outward and public plausibility merely
springs from a fear of the world or from
the slimy, putrid pool of our own selfish
ness. 1 tell you the home is a mighty test
of character. What you are at home you
are everywhere, whether you demonstrate
it or not.
Again, I remark that home is a refuge.
Life !• tho United State* army on the Na-
HtfSfcl ro#4 to a long march with
ever and anon a skirmish and a battle. At
eventide we pitch our tent and stack the
arms, we bang up the war cap and lay our
head on the knapsack, we sleep until the
morning bugle calls us to marching and ac
tion, How pleasant it is to rehearse the
victories and the surprises and the attacks
of the day, seated by the still camp tire of
the home circle.
Yes, life isa stormy sea. With shivered
masts and torn sails and bulk aleak, we
put'in at the harbor of home. Blessed
harbor! There we go for repairs in the
dry-dock of quiet life. The candle in the
window is to the toiling man the light
house guiding him into port. Children go
forth to meet their fathers as pilots at the
“Narrows” take the hand of ships. The
door-ss*of ’ h«wn« Is fh 1 wharf where
heavy life.is'unladen.
There is the place where we may talk of
what we have done without being
charged with seif-adulation. There is
the place where we may lounge without
being thought ungraceful. There is the
place where we may express affection
without belug thought silly.. There is the
place wherg wa may forget our annoy
ances and exasperations and troubles.
Forlorn earth pilgrim no home? Then
die. That is better. The grave is brighter
and grander and more glorious than this
world with no tent from marchings,
with no harbor from the storm, with no
place of rest from thiß scene of greed and
gouge and loss and gain. God pity the
man or the woman who has no nome.
Further, I remark that home is a politi
cal safe-guard. The safety of the State
must be built on the safety of the home.
Why can not France come to a placid re
public? Ever and anon there is a threat of
national capsize. France as a nation has
not the right kind of a Christian home.
The Christian hearth-stone is the only
corner stone for a republic. The virtues
cultured in the family circle are an abso
lute necessity for the State. If there be
not enough moral principle to make the
family adhere, there will not be enough
political principle to make the State ad
here. “No home” means the Goths and
Vandals, means the Nomads of Asia, means
the Numidians of Africa, changing from
place to place, according as thd pasture
happens to change. Confounded be all
those Babels of inquity which would over
tower and destroy the borne. The same
storm that upsets the ship in which the
family sails will.- sink the frigate of the
Constitution. Jails and penitentiaries and
armies and navies are not our best de
fense... TIU door, of the home is the best
fortress., household utensils are the best
artillery^aiul the ckiraueys pf our dwelling
bouton an the yr»i'der> monun-ents of
safety anil triumph. No home, no republic.
Furjthey, I remark that home is q school.
Old -ground must be turned up with sub
soil plows, and it must b 6 harrowed and
reharrowed, and then the crop will not be
as large as that of the new ground with
less culture. Now, youth and childhood
are new ground, and all the influences
thrown over their heart and life will come
up in after life luxuriantly. Every time
you have given a smile of approbation, all
the good cheer of your life will come up
again in the geniality of your children.
O, make your home the brightest place
on earth if you w r ould charm your chi.dren
to the high path of virtue and rectitude
and religion. Do not always turn the
blinds the wrong way. Let the light which
puts gold on the gentian and spots on the ■
pansy pour into your dwellings. Do not
expect the little feet to keep step to a dead
march. Do not cover up your walls with
such pictures as West's “Death on a Pale
Horse,” or Tintoretto’s “Ma sacre of the
Innocents.” Rather cover them, if you
have pictures, with “The Hawking Party,”
and “The Mill by the Mountain Stream,”
and “The Fox Hunt,” and ‘The Children
Amid Flowers,” and “The Harvest Scene,”
and “The Saturday Night Marketing.”
Above all, my friends, take into your
homes Christian principle. Can it be that
in ally of the comfortable homes of mv
congregation the voice of prayer is never
lifted? What! No supplication at night
for protection? What! No thanksgiving
in the morning for care? How, mv broth
er, my sister, will you answer God in the
day of judgment with reference to your
children? It is a plain question, and
therefore 1 ask it. In the tenth chapter of
Jeremiah God says he will pour out his
fury upon the families that call not upon
his name. O, parents! when you are dead
and gone and the moss is covering the in
scription of the tombstone, will your chil
dren look back and think of father and
mother at family prayer? Will they take
the old family Bible and open it and see
the mark of tears of contrition and tears of
consoling promise wept by eyes long be
fore gone out into darkness? Oh, if you
do not inculcate Christian principle in the
hearts of your children, and you do not
warn them against evil, and you do
not invite them to holiness and to
God, and they wander off into dissipation
and into infidelity, and at last make ship
wreck of thair immortal souls, on their
death-bed and in their day of judgment
they will curse you! Seated by the regis
ter or the stove, what if oil the wall
should come out the history of your chil
dren? What a history —the mortal and
immortal life of your loved ones! Every
parent is writiug the history of his child.
He is writing it, composing it into a song
or turning it into a groan.
Again 1 remark that home is a type of
Heaven. To bring us to that home Christ
left his home. Far up and far back in th
history of Heaven ft here came a period
when its most illustrious citizen was about
to absent Himself. He was not going to
sail from beach to beach: we have often
done that. He was not going to put out
from one hemisphere to another hemi
sphere; many of us have done that. But
He was fo SRil from world to world,
the spaces unexplored and the im
mensities untraveled. No world had ever
bailed Heaven, and Heaven had never
hailed any other world. I think that the
windows and balconies were thronged, and
that the peailine beach wa* crowded with
those who h«4 to W*n sftU «nt *»
TRENTON. DADE COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 12. 1886.
the katbor of light into the oceans beyond-
Out and out and out, and on and on and on,
and down and down and down he sped
until one night, with only one to greet him,
he arrived. His disembarkation so un
pretending, so quiet, that it was not
known on earth until the excitement in the
cloud gave intimation that something
grand and glorious had happened. Who
comes there? From what port did he sail?
Why was this the place of his destination*
I question the shepherds, I question the
camel drivers, I question the angels. 1
have found out. He was an exile. But the
world has had plenty of exiles. Abraham
an exile of Ur of the Chaldees; John.au
exile from Epkestts; Kosciusko an exile
from Poland; Mazzini an exile from Rome;
Emmet an xilefrom Ireland; Victor Hugo
an exile from France: Kossuth an exile
from Hungary. But this one of whom I
speak to-dav had such resounding farewell
and came into such chilling reception—for
not even a hostler went out with bis lan
tern to help him in—that he is more to be
celebrated than any other expatriated one
of earth or Heaven.
It is ninety-five million miles from here
to the sun, and all astronomers agTee in
saying that our solar system is only one of
the small wheels of the great machinery o
the universe, taming round some one great
center, the center so far distant it is be
yond all imagination and calculation; and
if, as some think, that great center in the
distance is Heaven, Christ came far from
home when he came here. Have you ever
thought of the homesickness of Christ?
Some of you know what homesickness is,
when yon have been only a few weeks ab
sent from the domestic circle. Christ was
thirty-three years away from home. Some
of you feel homesickness when you are a
hundred or a thousand miles from the do
mestic circle. Christ was more millions of
miles away from home than you could
calculate if all your life you did nothing
but calculate. You know what it is to lie
homesick even amid pleasurable surround
ings; but Christ slept in huts, aud he was
athirst, and he was ahungered, and he was
on the way from beiug born in another
man’s barn to being buried in another
man’s grave.
At our best estate we are only pilgrims
aud strangers here. “Heaven is our
home.” Death will never knock at the
door of that mansion, and in all that coun
try there is not a single grave. How glad
parents are in holiday times to gather
their children home again. But I have
noticed that there is almost always a son
or a daughter absent—absent from home,
perhaps absent from the country, per
haps absent from the world. Oh, how glad
our Fatbe.r will be when he beta
all his children home with him in Heaven!
And how delightful it will be for brothers
and sisters to meet after long separation!
Once they parted at the door of the tomb;
now they meet at the door of immortality.
Once they saw only through a glass dark
ly, now it is face to face; corruption, in
corruption: mortality, immortality. Where
are now all their sins and sorrows and
troubles? Overwhelmed in the Red Sea of
Death while they passed through dry shod.
One night lying on my lounge, when
very tired, my children all around about
me in full romp and hilarity and laughter
—on the lounge, half awake and half
asleep, I dreamed this dream: I was in a
far country. It was not Persia, although
more than oriental luxuriance crowned
the cities. It was not the
tropics, although more than trop
ical fruitfulness filled tho gardens. It
was not Italy, although more than Italian
softness filled the air. And I wandered
around looking for thorns and nettles, but
I found that none of them grew thefe, and
I saw the sun rise, and I watched to see it
set, but it sunk not. And I saw the people
in holiday uttire, and I said: “When will
they put off this and put on workmen’s
garb and again delve in tho mine or swel
ter at the forge?” but they never put off
the holiday attire. And I wandered in
the suburbs of the city to find the place
where the dead sleep, and I looked all
along the lino of the beautiful hills, the
place where the dead might most blissful
ly sleep, and I saw towers and casfles, but
not a mausoleum or a monument or
a white slab could 1 see. And
I went into the chapel of the
great town and I said: “Where do the
poor worship and where are the hard
benches on which they sit?” And the an
swer was made me: “We have no poor in
this country.” And then 1 wan lered out
to find the hovels of the destitute, and I
found mansions of amber and ivorv and
gold, but not a tear could I see, not a sigh
could I hear, and 1 was bewildered and l
sat down under the branches of a great
tree aud I said: “Where am and
whence-comes all this scene?” Aud then
out from among the leaves, and up the
flowery paths and across the bright
streams there came a beautiful group,
thronging all about me, and as I saw thru*
come I thought I knew their step, and
as they shouted 1 thought I knew their
voices; but then they were so glori
ously arrayed in apparel such as I
hud never before witnessed, that I bowed
as stranger to stranger. But when again
they clapped their hands and shouted:
“Welcome, welcome!” the mystery all
vanished, and I found that time had
gone and eternity had come, and wo
were all together again in our new home
in Heaven. And I looked around and 1
said, “Are we all here?” and the voices of
many generations responded, “All acre!”
And while tears of gladness were raining
down our cheeks, and the branches of the
Lebanon cedars were clapping llieir
ha mis, and the lowers of the great city
were chiming their welcome, we all to
gether began to leap and shout and sing,
“Home, home, home, home!”
«* • - -
—Dining the past year nearly 150
mills have been erected in the Southern
States, not including grist mills. Ar
kansas aud Mississippi have erected I
mill each, Alabama 2. South Carolina 8,
West Virginia 7, Maryland 9, North
Carolina 10, Georgia 17, Texas 18, Vir.
ginia Tennessee 24, Kentucky y) -»
a r fiwt.
OAS EXPLOSION
At the Uniondale Coal Mine, Near
Connellsville, Pa.,
By Which at Least Sh Lives Were .Suddenly
Taken, and Sets oil Lire the Mine in
Which Were Twenty-three Men.
Connellsville, Pa., March B.— Shortly
after, noon to-day a series of explosions
t y k place in the'Uniondale mine at Dun
bar. four miles from here, by which two
were killed and twelve others received
ii juries which will prove fatal in at least
fflhir eases. There were twenty-three men
in the pit. The first explosion occurred
about 12:80 this afternoon. It was a ter
rific shock and was followed by two others
irf quick succession a few minutes later.
T.fie first explosion caused the death
of the two men and injured three.
The rest ran toward the mouth of the pit,
bat before they reached it the other ex
plosions occurred. The lights were blown
out, the dust blinded the men ami the
passage-ways were blocked up and all es
cape cut off. The pit was on tire and a
horrible death awaited the imprisoned
u iners. Niue of them, who had been
working in another entry, managed to
make their way out before the mouth
of the pit was" choked up. The force
o' the shock can be imagined, ns it
caused the men in Morrell, Calvin
aud Wheeler, the adjoining mines, to drop
their tools and rush panic-stricken to the
top. The ground rolled and quaked so that
many fell down, aad three or four in the
Morrell mine were violently thrown against
tie walls aud seriously injured. Every
body rushed toward the Uniondale min/*?
in a few moments an opening was made,
and several rushed forward to enter the
mine, but were repelled by a volume of
flame.'lt took several minutes for the smoke
and tire to clear away. The crles-of pain
and the moans of the injured were piti
able. They were lying in every direc
tion, burned under masses of debris. Sev
eral of them were horribly burned. Their
suffering were terrible. Twelve of them
were found in a dying condition, two others
Were dead, mangled almost into an unrec
ognizable muss. The killed afe: John Wil
liams. trackman, aged fortv-fivo years, wife
shiil four children: Joseph Minei* aged fifty
years, wife and nine children. Injured:
?aeob Cope, aged fifteen years, burned
internally and externally, Van uot live;
Cal Martin, nineteen years, burned about
the head and internally: cannot live; Wm.
Starling, colored, burned and internally
injured, will probably die: Smally Martin,
k-g broken: Wm. Shaw, aged seventy
tears. dangerously burned; Isaac Frey,
Peter Blunt. Hiram Higbe, Wm. Ross,
Thomas Owen. Pitt Ross, Mai Hannan and
Peter Rear, .lames M. Reid, one of the
owners of the mine, attributes tho explo-
S to fire damp, which came from the
Morrell miue belonging to the Cambria
Iron Company.
—— ♦ ■ — 1
HUNTING IN A GAVE.
Kansas Sportsmen Have a 'Huge Piciiio
With a Pack of Prairie Wolves.
Lawrence, VuM., A day or
two since a fanner living in rue southern
part of this county came into the my with
the report that he had discovered a cave on
his farm that was inhabited by prairie
wolves, aud from what he could find out
th®’ amounted to about 300. He had killed
a few. but they would not come out, aud
he was afraid to enter the cave. Prepara
tions were at once made to raid the den.
A large party ai rived at the place yester
day numuiug.' and turning the dogs loose,
one or wo of them rushed into the cave,
and were at once torn to pieces. A force
ottuen then commenced operations, and in
aVmrt time hud a hole into the cave back
otmlie wolves. Two men entered and all
the dogs that could be found, and then ad
vanced ontbe rear of the mass of animals,
who had by this time assembled in the front
part of the cave. The dogs became fright
ened and beat a retreat, aud the men, after
firing a few shots. also got out. After an
all-day skirmish, the hunters decided to
make a dash and drive out their prey and
kili as many as possible. All drew back
out of sight from the front, and two men
again entered in the rear. This time they
succeeded in causing a stampede, and in a
short time the cave was empty. The “hoot
er- did some good work, and by the time
they were through about lOOwolves strewed
the ground. The others escaped, and the
party returned minus four dogs, but cov
ered'with glory. A grand hunt is proposed.
It is supposed that the animals wintered in
the cave. *
THE KENTUCKY SITUATION.
Two Weeks (liven the Legislature in Which
to Remove the Convicts.
Louisville, March B.—Four out of five
companies of soldiers who are at the
Greenwood mines in Pulaski County. Ky.,
to protect State property ami the convicts
against the threatened onslaught of the
free miners, left for honm to-day. The
Lexington company and the Gatlin ' gun
still remain, but it is thought they will be
ordered home in a few days. The free
miners have promised not to molest the
convicts, stating that they will give the
Legislature that time to pass laws remov
ing the convicts from the mines. The free
miners are orderly, but determined, as the
question is one of bread to tbem.
STARTING THE SPRING DRIVE.
Three Hundred Thousand Head of i'ciH
Cattle Heady for the Trail.
Little Rock. Ark., March B.— Reports
from the stock growing sections of Texas
show great activity in the cattle industry.
Preparations for the, spring drive are com
plete and several herds will be started up
the trail within the next ten days. Care
ful estimates show that the drive for lxSfi
will read* 300,000 head, and may, with fair
prices and increasing demand, exceed that
number. Prices for stock cut tie vary,
northwestern cattle yearlings being quoted
at 4!'.’ per head aud “twos" at *l4, while in
southwestern Texas yearlings sell at
and "twos" at $lO pur head.
Democrats Gain a U. S. Senator.
Washington, March B.—By the death of
Senator Miller the Democrats will gain n
member of the Senate, who will hold the
seat until an election by the Legislature of
California, which will begin its session
next January. The present Governor is a
Democrat. The present Legislature is Ri
publican, but is not in session, and will not
be convened. When the new Democratic
Senator takes his seat the Serlato will
stand forty-one Republicans, thirty-five
Dfiuui'i ut- This gives both MaUou* and
Kidtttfberget I” ine HapUbUOAU*.
THE GREAT GOULD STRIKE.
How Its F. fleets Are Beginning to be Seen
lu Business.
Bt. Lons. March 9.—The condition of
affairs in relation to the strike of the em
ployes upon the Gould Southwest system
is as follows: No freight of any kind is
allowed to pass over the tracks of the Mis
souri Pacific Railway, and consequently
the cal’s loaded with merchandise to
be shipped from the city can find uo
exit. Many are laden with perishable
property, and great loss will result front
their detention, unless they can be un
loaded and the cargoes stored in safe places.
The grain elevators are the worst sufferers
thus far from the blockade. There is an
abundance of grain already inspected in
the' yards, but not a bushel of it can be
gotten to the elevators. The number of
cars thus locked within sight in one yard
is about 100, and there are enough more
scattered along tho trucks within a few
miles of the elevators to swell the total to
200 cars. None of the grain can be moved
until the strike is at an end. In other
lines of business the effects of the strike
are also felt to a greater or less extent,
the wool and cotton trades being the
greatest sufferers. As regards a settle
ment of the strike, neither side is willing
to make any definite statement. The
officials of the railroads say that their
men have no grievances with them,
aud that it is impossible for them to
reinstate the d “charged foreman. Hall,
at Marshall. Texas, as they have no
authority there. The Knights of Labor
state they have no cause to call a confer
ence of the railroads at this point, as they
are striking now simply in support of the
action taken by their brethren in Texas,
and that matter must be settled with the
receivers of the Texas & Pacific. Then,
and not till then, can any of the
striking Kuights return to work.
The most important and serious de
velopment of the strike at this point, and
that which will resu t most disastrously
to the passenger traffic, is its extension to
the yard and switchmen of the Bridge and
Tunnel Company. The effect of the strike
upon the business interests of the city is
already beginning to be felt, and a coal
famine is feared, as the supply has already
begun to fail, and none can be received
over the Missouri Pacific track.
——
A WHIRLWIND’S FREAK.
The Ice and Water in a Frozen Pond Car
ried Lp the Side i f a Mountain.
Highland, Ulster County, N. Y.—
March 9. —The valley of Mount Ida, two
miles from this village, was yesterday the
scene of one of the most peculiar mani
festations of the vagaries of the wind
ever heard of in this vicinity, at least. It
was a little whirlwind, but a strange one.
The day was an exceptionally pleasant
one, the sun shining brightly.' and with
little or no wind apparent. By the side of.
the road leading to New Pali/ is an ice
field of considerable extent. Without any
warning a sharp, short and curious wind
storm arose- currents coining from two
different points of the compass, and meet
ing just above the ice-field alluded to. In
an instant there was a crashing of ice and
such an atmospheric disturbance und a
whirling in air of ice and water to create
a miniature water-spout. Several times
this spectacle was repeated. One minia
ture w aterspout following another rapidly
and constantly increasing in siz.e. Finally
the wind gathered sufficient force to raise
into the air a great mass of ice and
water, then whirling about w ith the rapid
ity of a top, the wind keeping close in its
embrace this cold mass, moved slowly
away from the pond and began to climb up
the side of Mount Ida. It was a beautiful
sight, for the bright rays of the sun set the
mass to glittering and shimmering, and it
moved slowly on, throwing out dazzling
and beautiful many colored rays along its
path. Well up in the air the mass was
swept on, some of the larger ice cakes fall
ing in its path. until something over 200
feet from its starting point the wind drop
ped its burden on Mt. Ida’s side.
THREE INDIANIANS LYNCHED.
John, Martin and Thomas Archer Hung at
Shoals at Midnight.
Indianapolis. Ind.. March 10.—A special
to the Journal from Shoals, Ind., says:
The notorious Archers, who have been con
fined in the county jail for several weeks
past, under the charge of murder, ex
piated their horrible crime at the hands of
a determined mob at 12:30 to-night. The
mob inarched quietly into town and directly
to the jail, situated in West Shoals.
When the jail was reached the keys were
demanded, which were refused, when the'
spokesman ordered them to go in. Tho
front door was battered down, and the
iron cell doors were treated likewise.
After gaining entrance aud spending a
short time with the doomed men. they
were led out in the midst of the mob and
taken to the court yard, adjoining the
jail. But few words w'ere exchanged during
the entire performance. They selected
the trees on vAteh they were to be hanged,
when the n<Mao was placed on their re
spective after exchanging a few
part concerning their crimes, as
to which no answer was received, the w ord
was given to “haul up.” and in a very few
moments the three lifeless bodies of John,
Martin and Thorfias Archer could be seen
suspended in mid air on the beautiful ma
ple trees fronting the Court-house. Tho
mob then quietly disbanded, leaving their
victims in the position in which they met
their doom. In a few minutes after the
mob had dispersed the Court-house yard
was filled with anxious parties seeking a
glimpse of their lifeless forms. The people
are wild with excitement.
Extraordinary Legal Procedure.
Windsor, 111.. March 9.—A large crowd
gathered at Windsor for the purpose of
heaving the evidence iu the preliminary
examination AV'illiam N. Price, charged
with making a criminal assault upon the
person of Miss Georgia Aldridge. February
12. Judge Thornton addressed the Court,
stating tnat as the condition of Miss Ald
ridge was such that she could not be
brought' to the court-room in safety, the
prosecution would dismiss the case.
Robbers' Bloody Work.
Pittsburgh, March 9. —A horrible double
murder and a robbery were committed yes
terday at the farmhouse of John T. Ever
hart. near Lickingville, in the northern
part of Clarion County. A boy in the fam
ily returning from school found Mrs. Ever
hart lying on the floor with her throat cut
from ear to ear, aud her mother, Mrs. Gil
faliin, in the spring-house, also with her
throat cut and life extinct. The house had
been ransacked and S3OO taken.
♦ ♦
Police as Knights cf Labor.
New York. March 9.—A special to the
JPosf from Washington says that a promi
nent Knight of Labor is responsible for the
statement that the organization is prepar
ing -o enroll in the membership the police
men In tb* large cities of tho oountrv a* a
at Mia wftge warlwri at the Nation
VOL 111 —NO. 3.
XLIXTH CONGRESS.
First Session. —-
Washington, March 3.— Senate. The
Chair laiu 1 efore that body the President’s
message on the treatment of Chinese, with
other nies-ages relating to the Indians. A
resolution was agreed to calling for a de
tail. d states ent of payments into the sinking
funds since 1877. A report by each Senator,
to be made on Monday next, of the name of
his private secretary, was called for by
a resolution, which, fclw Senate adopted. The
educational toll was discussed by Messrs.
Harrison. Edmunds. Hoar, Logan aiid Plumb.
An amendment offered by Senator Dolph
was rejected. At 4:.i(l p. m. the Senate went
into executive session, and at 5:50 p. m. ad
journed, having confirmed Collector Heddcn
ai New York and several postmasters.
House.— The President's message on the
Chinese trouble was relerred to the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs. The Committee on
Agriculture reported a bill to establish agri
cultural experiment stations in connection
with colleges established in tho several
States. The Pension Bureau in
vestigation resolution was reported
and placed on the House calendar.
Consideration was resumed of the bill author
izing the appointment of a commission to
carry on tests of iron and steel, but the morn
ing hour expired before action was taken.
Debate on the pension appropriation bill was
then continued. Butterworth,(O.),Norwood,
(Cia i, Breckinridge, (Kj .i and Brown, (Ind.),
spoke, and at 4:55 p. m. the Bouse adjourned.
Washington, March 4.—Senate.—Execu
tive communications were received aud re
ferred. A bill was passed to accept the
Grant mementoes from Mr*. Grant and W.
H. Vanderbilt. The Fitz John Porter bill
whs reported. Mr. Kiddelberger explained
his remarks of yesterday in regard to pri
vate secreta'ies. Mr. XjOgan gave notice he
would call up the bill to increase the effi
ciency of the army. The educational bill was
taken up. Speeches were made by Harrison.
Blair, Gibson, Logan. An amendment by
Logan appropriating two million dollars to
build school houses in sparsely settled local
ities was adopted. At 4:10 p. in. the Senate
adjourned to give Senators an opportunity to
attend Mrs. Hawley’s funetvi.
House—Executive communications re
commending appropriations were referred.
Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, made a minority re
port against the Eads ship railway
bill. A bill to promote agriculture
was reported. After speeches by Gros
venor, Rogers, Reagan, Cabell.
Springer. Hj an, Burrows. Henderson. War
ner, Hammond. Goff and Anderson, the pen
sion approp at ion bill was passed, Bennett,
of North Carolina, casting the only vote in
the negative. The House adjourned at
7:15 p. m.
Washington, March 5 Senate.—A num
ber of petitions were presented and referred.
A resolution was agreed fo calling upon the
Secretary of the Navy lor certain informa
tion in regard to the Dolphin and other
cruisers. The educational bill was taken up
and amended iti several particulars: Messrs.
Edmunds, I'minb. Blmr. Call. Hoar, Teller
and ( hasp took part "n the discussion and
the bill was finally passed by a vote of 36t0 11.
The bill, as it passed the Senate, provides
that for eight years after its passage there
shall be annually appropriated from the
Treasury the following sums in aid of com
mon school education fn the States and Terri
tories and District of Columbia and Alaska:
The first years7,ooo,ooo, the second year >lO.-
000,000,1 he third year $15,000,000, the fourth
year $13,000,000, the fifth year $11,000,000, the
sixth year $9,000,000, the seven! h years7,ooo,ooo
and the eighth year $5,000,000, making $77,-
000,000.
House.—The Urgency Deficiency t»ill.which
appropriates $634,452, was taken up after a
cull tor reports of a private character. After
considerable debate the bill was pa sed by a
vote of 227 to 20. The private calendar was
then reached, and tw’o small hills passed. At
4:30 a recess was taken until 7:3u p m. A*
the night session fifty pension bills were
passed, and the House adjourned at 9:10
p. m.
Washington, March 6.—Senate— Not in
session.
House.-The proceedings of the House
w ere without interest, being lor general de
bate only.
Washington, March B.— Senate. The
names of Senators’ private secretaries were
given in a letter from the Secretary of the
Senate. Petitions were presented from tho
Knights of Labor favoring internal improve
ments. Mr. Vance offered a resolu ion for
tho report of the bill repealing the civil
service law. An inquiry was directed into
the condition of the record of the war,
and the expenditure necessary to place them
in proper condition. Mr. Bowen addressed
the Senate by unanimous consent, on the
subject ol his bill to provide a new basis tor
the circulation of National banks. At 3:29
p. in. Mr. Bowen concluded, and upon the
announcement of the death of Senator Miller,
of California, the Senate adjourned.
House —Titos. K. Kudd, member elect in
place of the late Joseph Rankin, of the Fifth
Wisconsin District, was sworn in. Mr. Blanch
ard, of Louisiana,denied that he had any thing
to do with the withdrawal of Major Merrill's
nomination for promotion in the army. Un
der the call of States a large number of bills
were introduced. The inter-State commerce
bill was reported from the Committee on
Commerce. A bill was passed increasing the
limit of cost to $500,000 on the public building
at Rochester, N. Y. Resolutions of respect to
the memory of Senator Miller, of California,
were offered, aud at 4:05 p. m. the House ad
journed.
Washington, March 9.—Senate.—A bill
was passed authorizing tbe Central Missouri
railroad to construct a bridge across the
Mississippi river at Alton. 111. The urgency
deficiency bill was reported. The lowa land
grant forfeiture bill was discussed, but went
over at 2 o’clock, when the resolution from
the Judiciary Committee was taken up. Mr.
Edmunds spoke at length in criticism of the
position assumed by the Execii ive. At 4:90
p. in. the Senate went into executive session,
confirmed a few unimportant nominations,
and soon after adjourned.
House.—A reply from the Secretary of the
Navy in relation to the Norfolk Navy-yard
removals was received. It was referred to
the Committee on Naval Affairs. A bill from
the Judiciary Committee was reported, pro
viding for closing up the Alabama Claims
Court. A bill granting pensions to the
soldiers and sailors of the Mexican war
was reported nnd placed on the cal
endar. The House resumed consid
eration of the bill requiring Pacific railroads
to pay the cost of surveying their lands and
taking out patents, and passed it without op
position. A bill was passed prohibiting the
employment of contract labor by any officer,
servant or agent of the Government. The In
dian appropriation bill was taken up, aud
pending action the House adjourned.
Foreign Notes.
The boiler on the tug Bifleman exploded
in Cardiff Harbor. The vessel and crew,
consisting of six persons, were blown to
atoms. The cylinder of the engine struck
a passing Italian ship a quarter of a mile
distant aud killed the pilot.
The Duke of Seville, who was recently
imprisoned for insulting Queen Christina.
of Spain, was pardoned by the Queen on
the occasion of the marriage of Princess
Eulalia.
Tin: Spanish elections have teen fixed for
April 4. and the Cortez will meet on May
11.
The Russian Government proposes a con
ference at Berlin to fix the tfrms of Bul
garian unity.
M ails have been stopped between Kiel,
in Ho stein, aud Koreor, in Xealaud, b>
shoals of floating ice.
ilis- Marie Van Zanju is seriously ill at
St. Petersburg, Sit* t» by the