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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher.
TALMAGE’fc! SERMON.
Twelfth Discourse of the Series on
“The Marriage Ring."
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The Value o. Good Mother* iu a Com*
■nnnlty—The Story oi Hannah and the
Child Samuel By Way of Illustra
tion—The Price of a Soul-
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage’s twelfth ser
mon gn “The Marriage Ring” takes up the
subject of “Motherhood,” the text being
the words:
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Moreover Ills mother made him a little
coat, and brought it to him from year to
.year, when she came up with her husband
to After tlie yearly sacrifice.—l. Samuel, 11., 19
The stories of Deborah and Abigail are
very apt to discourage a woman’s soul.
She say* within herself: “It is impossible
tlla't I ever can achieve any such grandeur
of character, and I don’t mean to try," as
though a child should refuse to play the
eight, notes because he can not execute a
“William Tell.” This Hannah of the text'
dlffe/s from the persons I just now named.
Slfe* was an ordinary woman, with ordi
nary intellectual capacity, placed in the
ordinary circumstances, and yet, by ex
traordinary piety, standing out before all
*tl(je” ages to come, the model Christian
mother.
Hannah was the wife of Elkannah, who
was a person very much like herself —un-
romantic and plain, never having fought a
battle or been the subject of a marvelous
escape. Neither of them would have been
called a genius. Just what you and I
might be, that was Elkannah and Han
nah.
The brightest time in all the history of
that family was the birth of Samuel. Ai»
though no star ran along the Heavens
pointing down to his birthplace, I think
the angels of God stooped at the coming of
so wonderful a prophet.
As Samuel had been given in answer to
prayer, Elkannah and all Ins family, save
Hannah, started up to Sliiloh to offer sac
rifices of thanksgiving. The cradle where
the child slept was altar enough for Han
nah’s grateful heart, but when the boy was
old enough she took him to Shiloh and
took three bullocks, and an epkah of flour,
and a bottle of wine, and made offering of
sacrifice unto the Lord, and there, accord
ing to a previous vow, she left him; for
there he was to stay all the days of his
life, and minister in the Temple.
Years rolled on, and every year Hannah
made with her own hands a garment for
Samuel, and took it over to him. The lad
would have got along well without that 1
garment, for I suppose he was well clad by
the ministry of the Temple; but Hannah
could not be contented unless she was all
the time doing something for her darling
boy. “Moreover, his mother made him a
little coat, and brought it to him from
year to year, when she came np with her
husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.”
1. Hannah stands before you, then, in
the first place, as au industrious mother.
There was no need for her to work. El
kannah, her husband, was far from poor.
He belonged to a distinguished family, for
the Bible tells us that he was the son of
Jeroboam, the son of Elibu, the son of
John, the son of Zuph. “Who were they?”
you say. I do not know, but they were
distinguished people, no doubt, or their
names would not have been mentioned.
Hannah might have seated herself with
her family, and with folded arms and di
sheveled hair, read novels from year to
year, if there had been any to read;
but when I see her making that garment,
and taking it over to Samuel, I know she
is industrious from principle as well as
from pleasure. God would not have a
mother become a drudge or a slave; he
would have her employ all the helps pos
sible in this day in the rearing of her chil
dren. But Hannah ought never to be
ashamed to be found making a coat for
Samuel.
Most mothers need no counsel in this di
rection. The wrinkles on their brow, the
pallor on their cheek, the thiinble-inark
on their linger attest that they are faith
ful in their maternal duties. The blocrn,
and the brightness, and the vivacity of
girlhood have given place for the grander
dignity, and usefulness, and industry of
motherhood. But there is a heathenish
idea getting abroad in some of the fami
lies of Americans; there are mothers
who banish themselves from 'the
home circle. For three-fourths
of their maternal duties they
prove themselves incompetent. They
are ignorant of what their children wear,
and what their children eat, and what
their children read. They intrust to ir
responsible persons these young immor
tals, and allow them to be under .influences
which may cripple their bodies, t>Y taint
their purity, or spoil their mahn'ers, or de
stroy their souls. . .>
From the awkward cut of Samuel’s coat
you know his mother Hannah difl notmake
it. Out from under flaming chandeliers,
tand uff from imported carpets, and down
*the granite stairs, there has come a great
crowd of children in this day, untrained,
saucy, incompetent for all practical duties
of life, ready to be caught in the first whirl
of crime and sensuality. Indolent and
unfaithful mothers will make indolent and
unfaithful children. You can'•not expect
neatness and order in any house where the
•laughters see nothing bat. . slatternliness
and upside-downativeness in th'eir parents.
Let Hannah be idle, and most certainly
Samuel will grow up idle.
IVho are the industrious men in all our
occupations and professions’’ Who are
they managing the merchandise of the
world, building the walls, tinning the
roofs, weaving the carpets, making the
laws, governing the nations, making the
earth to quake and heave and roar and
rattle with the tread of gigantic enter
prises? Who are they? For the most part
they descended from industrious mothers,
who, in the old homestead, used to spin
their own yarn, and weave their own
carpets, and plait their own doormats, and
flag their own chairs and do their own
work. The stalwart men and the in
fluential women of this (lay, ninety-nine
out of a hundred of them, came from an
illustrious ancestry of hard knuckles and
homespuu.
And who are these people in society,
light as froth, blown every whither of
temptation and fashion—the peddlers of
filthy stories, the dancing-jacks of political
parties, the scum of society, the tavern
lounging, the store-infesting, the men
of low wink and filthy chuckle, and
brass breastpins, and rotten associa
tions? For the most part they
came from jggtbers idle* and disgusting—
the scandal-monger of society, going from
house to house, attending to everybody’s
business but their own, believing in witches,
and ghosts, and horseshoes to keep the
devil out of the churn, and by a godless
life setting their children on the verge of
hell. The mothers of Samuel Johnson,
and of Alfred the Great, and of Isa'ac New
ton, and of St. Augustine, and of Richard
Cecil, and of President Edwards for the
most part, were industrious, hard-working
mothers.
Now, while I congratulate all Christian
mothers upon the wealth and the modern
science which may afford them all kinds of
help, let me say that every mother ought
to be observant of her children’s walk,
her children’s behavior, he children’s food,
her children’s books, her children’s com
panionships. However much help Hannah
may have, I think she ought every year,
at least, make one garment for Samuel.
The Lord have mercy on a man who is so
unfortunate as to have a lazy mother.
2. Again. Hannah stands before you as
an intelligent mother. From the way in
which she talked in this chapter, and from
the way she managed this boy, you know
she was intelligent. There are no persons
in a community who need to be so wise
and well informed as mothers.
Oh ! this work of culture in children for
this wosld and the next. This child is
timid, and it must be roused up and
pushed out into activity. This child is
forward, and he must be held back and
tamed down into modesty and politeness.
Rewards for one: punishment for another.
That Which will make George will ruin
John. The rod is necessary in one case,
while a frown of displeasure is more than
enough in another. Whipping and a dnrk
closet do not exhaust all the rounds of do
mestic discipline. There have been chil
dren who have grown up and gone to
glory without ever having had their ears
boxed.
(Jh ! how much care and intelligence are
necessary in the rearing of children! But
in this day, when there are so many books
'-■«n t,he subject, no parent is excusable in
being ignorant of the best mode of bring
ing up a child. If parents knew more of
electics there would not be so many dys
pectic stomachs and weak nerves and in
competent livers among children. If par
ents knew more of physiology there would
not be so many curved spines, and cramped
chests, and inflamed throats, and diseased
lungs as there are among children. If
parents knew more of art, and were in
sympathy with all that is beautiful, there
would not be so many children coming out
in the world with boorish proclivities. If
parents knew more of Christ, and prac
ticed more of his religion, there would not
be so many little feet already starting on
the wrong road, and all around us voices
of riot and blasphemy would not come up
with such ecstasy of infernal triumph.
- The eaglets in the eyrie have no advan
tage over the eaglets of a thousand years
ago; the kids have no superior way of
climbing up the rocks than the old goats
taught hundreds of years ago; the whelps
•know no more now than did the whelps of
ages age—they are taught no more by the
lions of the desert; but it is a shame that
in this day, when there are so many op
portunities of improving ourselves in the
best manner of cultivating children, that
so often there is no more advancement in
this respect than there has been among
the kids and the eaglets and the whelps.
3. Again Hannah stands before you as a
Chrjgtian mother. From her prayers and
fr<\u the way she consecrated her hoy to
God, 1 know that she was goon. A mother
mav have the finest culture, the most bril
liant surroundings; but she is not fit for her
duties unless she be a Christian mother.
There may be well-read libraries in the
house; and exquisite music in the parlor;
and the canvas of the best artists adorn
ing the walls; and the wardrobe be
crowded with tasteful apparel: and the
■ children be wonderful for their attain
ments, and make the house ring with
laughter and innocent mirth, but there is
something woeful-looking in that house,
if it be not also the residence of a Chris
tian mother.
l bless God that there are not many
prayerless mothers—not many of them.
The weight of responsibility is so great
that they feel the need of a Divine
hand to help, and a Divine voice to com
fort. and a Divine heart to sympathize.
Thousands of mothers have been led into
the kingdom of God by the hands of their
little children. There were hundreds of
mothers who would not have been Chris
tians had it not been for the prattle of
their little ones. Standing some day in
the nursery they bethought themselves,
“This child God was given me to raise
for eternity. What is my influence upon
it? Not lseing a Christian myself, how
can I ever expect him to become a Chris
tian? Lord, help me!”
Are there anxious mothers who know
nothing of the infinite help of religion?
Then I commend them to Hannah, the
pious mother of Sannel. Do not think it
is absolutely impossible that your children
come up iniquitous. Out of just such fair
brows, and bright eyes, and soft bands,
and innocent hearts, crime gets its victims
—extirpating purity from the heart, and
rubbing out the smoothness from the brow,
and quenching the luster of the eye, and
shriveling up, and poisoning, and putrify
ing, and scathing, and scalding, and blast
ing. and burning with shame and woe.
Every child is a bundle of tremendous
possibilities; and whether that child shall
cone forth to life, its heart attuned to the
TRENTON. DADE COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. APRIL 2. !88(i.
eternal harmonies, and after a life
of usefulness on earth go to a life
of joy in Heaven, or whether across it
shall jar eternal discords, and after a life
of wrong-doing on earth it shall go to a
home of impenetrable darkness and an
abyss of immeasurable plunge, is being
decided by nursery song and Sabbath les
son, and evening prayer, and walk, and
ride, and look, and frown and sicUa, Ob'
how many children in giory, crowding all
the battlements, and lifting a million
voiced hosanna,brought to God through
Christian parentage!
One hundred and twenty clergymen
were together, and they were tilling their
experience and their ancestry ; and of the
120 clergymen, how many of them, do you
suppose, assigned as the means of their
conversion the influence of a Christian
mother! One hundred out of the 120!
Phillip Doddridge was brought to God by
the Scripture lesson on the Dutch tiles of
a chimney fire-place. The mother thinks
she is only rocking a child, but at the same
time she may be rocking the fate of na
tions, rocking the glories of Heaven. The
same maternal power that may lift tha
child up may press a child down.
A daughter came to a wordly mother
and said she was anxious about her sii*9,
and she had been praying ail night, file
mother said: “Oh, stop praying? I don’t
believe in praying. Get over all these re
ligious notions and I will give you a dress
that will cost SSOO, and 1 you may wear it
next week to that party.” The daughter
took the dress, and she moved in the gav
circles, and the gayest of the gay, that
night; and, sure enough, all religious im
pressions were gone, and she stopped
praying. A few months after she came to
die, and in her closing moments said:
“Mother, I wish you would bring me'that
dress that costssoo.” The mother thought
it a very strange request, lint she brought
it to please the dying child. “Now,” said
the daughter, “mother, bang that dress on
the foot of my bed,” and the dress was
hung there, on the foot of the bed. Then
the dying girl got up on one elbow and
looked at her mother, and then pointed to
the dress and said: “Mother, that dress is
the price of my soul!” Oh, what a mo
mentous thing it is to be afnother?
4. Again, and lastly, Hannah stands
before you the rewarded mother. For all
the coats she made for Samuel, for all the
prayers she offered for hint, for the dis
cipline exerted over him, she got abund
ance compensation in the piety and the
usefulness and the popularity of her son
Samuel, and that is true in all ages. Every
mother get* full pay for all the prayers
and tears in behalf of her children. That
man useful in commercial life; that man
prominent in a profession; that master
mechanic —why, every step he takes in life
has au echo of gladness in the old heart
that long ago taught him to be a Christian,
and heroic and earnest.
The story of what you have done, or
what you have written, or the influence
you have exerted, has gone back to the old
homestead —for there is some one always
ready to carry good tidings, and that story
makes the needle in the old mother’s
tremulous hand fly quicker, and the fla.j
in the father’s hand comes down upon the
barn floor with a more vigorous thump.
Parents love to hear good news from then
children. Do you send them good news
always?
Look out for the young man who speaks
of his father as “the Governor,” “the
’Squire” or the “old chap.” Look out for
the young woman who calls her maternal
ancestor the “old woman.” “The eye
that mocketh at his father, and refuseth to
obey his mother, the ravens of the. valley
shall pick it out, aud the young eagles
shall eat it.”
Gpd grant that all these parents may
have the great satisfaction of seeing their
children grow up Christians. But oh ! the
pang of that mother who, after a life of
street-gadding and gossip-retailing, hang
ing on the children the fripperies and fol
lies of this world, sees those children
tossed out on the sea of life like f<pam on
the wave, or nonentities in a world where
only bravery aud stalwart character cau
stand the shock! But blessed be the
mother who looks upon her children as
sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty.
Oh! the satisfaction of Hannah in seeing
Samuel serving at the altar; of Mother
Eunice in seeing her Timothy learned iu
the Scriptures. That is the mother’s recom
pense, to see children coming up useful in
the world, reclaiming the lost, healing the
>dck, pitying the ignorant, earnest and
Useful in every sphere. That throws a new
light back on the old family Bible when
ever she reads it, and that will be oint
ment to the the aching limbs of decrep
itude, and light up the closing hours of
life’s day with the glories of an autumnal
sunset.
There she sits, the old Christian mother,
ripe for heaven. Her eyesight is almost
gone, but the splendors of the Celestial
City kindles up her vision. The gray
light of Heaven’s morn has struck through
the gray locks which she folded back
over the wrinkled temples. She stoops
very much now under the burden of
care she used to carry for her children.
She sits at home, too old to find her way
to the house of God; but while she sits
there, all the past comes back, and the
children that forty years ago tripped
around her arm-chair with their griefs,
and joys and sorrows—those children are
gone now. Some caught up into a better
realm, where they shall never die, and
others out in the broad world, testing tbw
excellency of a Christian mother’s disc;
pline. Her last days are full of peace,
and calmer and sweeter will her spirit be
come, until the gates of life shall lift and
let in the worn out pilgrim into eternal
springtide and youth, where the limbs
never ache and the eyes never grow dim,
and the staff of the exhausted and decrepit
pilgrim shall become the palm of the im
mortal athlete.
-■ ■ —— l '«*-> --
Mr. Gladstone’s announcement in the
House of Commons that his statement, to
be made April 8 would take the form of an
introduction to a bill for the future govern
ment of Ireland, created a sensation,
RATLRCAD STRIKE ENDED.
Goulil and Powderly Have a Conferen-e
The Men Will go to Work at Once —
The Knights of Labor llcc
• ognized.
New Yoke, March 28. —Conferences be
tween Jay Gould and T. Y, Powderly to
day and this evening have resulted in or
ders from each of them to the parties to
tlje Southwestern strike, ordering imme
diate resumption of work and traffic pend
ing arbitration, to which Mr. Gould con
seuts. This mox-ning at 11 o’clock Mr.
Powderly and W. B. McDowell called on
Jay Gould at the latter’s residence. There
they met Messrs. Gould, Hopkins and
George Gould. There was a general dis
cussion of the situation in the Southwest
on both sides, and a better understand
ing was arrived at than bad been had by
either party hitherto. After talking until
1 o’clock p. m., the conference was ad
journed until evening. At < o'clock to
night they met again. At 8:30 p. m. Mr.
Powderly had leave to keen an engage
ment with Congressman John O'Neil, of
St. Louis, Chairman of the House Commit
tee on Labor, who came from Washington
to fender assistance, if possible, in settling
the strike. Mi-. MeDoweil, however, re
mained with Mr. Gould and his party, and
Mr. Gould finally handed to McDowell the
following communication:
T. V. Powderly, G. M. W.— Dear Sir: Re
plying to your letter of the 27th instant 1
write to say that 1 will, to-morrow morning,
send the following telegraphic instructions
to Mr. Hoxie, General Manager ol the Mis
souri Pacific railroad at St. Louis:
In resuming the movement of trains on
the Missouri Pacific and in the employing of
laborers in the several departments of this
company give preference to our late em
ployes, whether they are Knights of Labor
or not, except that you will not employ any
person who has injured the company's prop
erty during the late strike. Nor will we dis
charge any person who has taken sendee
with the company during said strike. We
see no objection to arbitrating any differ
ences between the employes and the com
pany, past or future.
Hoping the above w.ll bo satisfactory, 1 re
main, yours truly,
Jay Gould, President.
The Executive Board of the Knights of
Labor have sent out the following tele
gram :
Martin Irons, Chairman Executive Board,
St. Louis: President Jay Gould has consented
to oui- proposition for arbitration, and so tele
graphs Vice-President Hoxie. Order the men
to resume work at once. By order Executive
Board. T. V. Powderly, G. M. W.
The Executive Board also sent out the
following- telegram:
To the Knights of Labor now on stvike in
the Southwest: President Jay Gould has con
sented to our proposition for arbitration, and
so telegraphs Vice-President Hoxie. Pursuant
to telegraphic instructions sent to the Chair
man Executive Board D. A. 101, you are di
rected to resume work at once. Per order
Executive Board.
T. V. Powderly, G. M. W.
O'NEILL’S ARBITRATION BILL.
A Measure Intended for the Amicable Set
tlement of Labor Dispute*.
Washington, March 28.— 1 n the House
to-morrow Mr. O'Neill’s long promised bill
on the arbitration question will be intro
duced. He asserts that the bill is rational,
operative and constitutional. It is entitled
“a bill creating boards for arbitration for
the speedy of cenreoversies and
differences beijreen conilWiP carriers en
gaged in interstate and territoifcl com
merce or business and employes.” The
premable recites that by Section 8, of
Article 1, of the Constitution of the United
States. Congress is invested with full
frfwer and authority to provide for the
general welfare of the people of the
United States; to regulate commerce
among the several States; to constitute
tribunals inferior to tbe Supreme Court of
the United States, and to make all laws
be necessary aud proper for
carrying into execution the foregoing
powers. It provides for the formation
Within the law of a tribunal consisting of
(|e qn each side of the controversy, the
tjo to select a third. If they do not select
afprovided within three days the United
States Court of the jurisdiction in which
the trouble exists shall do so. The tribunal
shall have the standing of a United States
Commission with all its powers, and shall
be paid in like manner.
. Alms-house Burned.
Peoria, 111., March 28.— There was great
excitement in this city this morning when
a mounted messenger came riding furious
ly with the information that the Peoria
Alms-house, six miles distant, was in flames.
A new wing had been added to the building
last year. Iu this were forty-five insane
people. Engines were immediately dis
patched to the spot, but did not arrive in
time to save tbe main building, a large
two-story brick, erected seventeen years
ago, at a cost of *4O,(XXI. Of this nothing
but the walls remain standing. Fortu
nately the wind blew away from the In
sane Hospital and by hard work it was
saved. One hundred' and fifty inmate* oc
cupied the burned structure, who Will be
temporarily lodged in the new wing.
Twelve Hundred Arrests.
Pnii.ADEU’UiA. March 28.—At a late hour
last night the police made a raid on sa
loons and concert halls. It was at first
estimated that six hundred people were ar
rested, hut when the different squads of
officers reported to-day it was found that
between one thousand and twelve hundred
persons had been taken into custody. All
of the girls, with the exception of three,
after being held to keep the peace, were re
leased upon payment of costs amounting
to $1.65 each. The three girls not released
were given six months in the House of Cor
rection. it having been learned that tliey
were of the worst type of street-walkers.
The proprietors were- held under bail on the
charges of keeping disorderly houses, sell
ing liquors to minors, and harboring
minors.
Young But Plucky.
Lafayette, I\r> , March 28.—John Mc-
Cutoheon, the fifteen-year-old son of the
sheriff, was yesterday left temporally in
charge of the jail, when one of the prison
ers, Doug Kramer, secreted himself and
threw McCutcheon against the wall. In
stead of sitting down to cry about it,
Johnny seized a revolver and gave chase.
Down the street, across lots and down
alleys they went. Kramer running as fast
as he could and McCutcheon shooting and
celling “stop thief.” After a long chase
Kramer was captured by John A. Rice and
returned to jail. Young McCutcheon is
Vue lion of the hour.
County Treasurer Bound Over.
I sot as a Ports, March 28. Hol
lingsworth, of Knox County, lnd., has been
bound over to the grand jury to answer the
charge of embezzling about $50,000 of
county fuuds.
NOT ENDED.
Gould Say 9 That Powderly Jump
ed to a Conclusion.
Fruitless Conference Between Gould and
the Executive Board.
New York, March 29. —The spirit of exul
tation which filled the hearts of the Execu
tive Board of the Knights of Labor this
morning soon changed to grave anxiety.
When Wm. O. McDowell called at Gould’s
office at 9:30 o’clock this morning he
was not so favorably impressed with his
reception as he was with the reception
accorded him at Mr. Gould’s house Sun
day. Mr. Gould gave McDowell to under
stand that there had been a misconception
of his telegram to Mr. Hoxie, which was
sent Sunday night. Mr. MeDoweil at
once returned to the Astor House and Con
ferred with the General Executive Board,
and two of the members at once returned
with McDowell to Mr. Gould's office. The
conference then was short, and an adjourn
ment was had until 3 o’clock this after
noon. the hope being entertained that at
that hour Mr. Powderly might be well
enough to attend. At 3;20 o'clock, how
ever, Messrs. Turner and McDowell en
tered Jay Gould's office without Mr. Pow
derly. About 4 o’clock the conference
ended. Subsequent inquiry at Mr. Gould’s
office was answered by* the following
statement, of which Mi\ Gould was the
author: Mr. Powderly has evidently mis
understood the meaning of the telegram
that was sent on Sunday night to Mr.
Hoxie. “Our position ’ is that this
strike has been in a condition for arbi
tration all the time. We have had
an agreement with the workmen for some
time that all differences were to have been
submitted for arbitration before any strike
should be resorted to. Manager Hoxie has
this matter in hand. He has full control,
and the matter must be settled with him.
We are just where we were before Sunday’s
conference.” Gould and Powderly will
have another conference to-morrow.
St. Louis, March 29.— The strikers have
received no specific instructions as yet in
regard to resuming work, but they say
that it will be impossible for them to re
turn before Wednesday morning. While
the executive board was in session to-night
a telegram was received from Powderly
saying that complications as to the methods
of arbitration had arisen and that another
conference would be held to-morrow. The
board adjourned without ordering the men
to work, ami they will not be until further
instructions are received from New York.
.
ESCAPED A FRIGHTFUL FATE.
A Woman Rises From Her Coffin After
Being Apparently Dead for Hours.
Allendale, NAJ.. March 29.—Martha Da
vene, a maiden lady, has been an invalid
for several years. On Friday night her rel
atives were called to her bedside to bid her
farewell, as she was evidently dying.
Shortly after ten o’clock she closed her
eyes and ceased to breathe. A looking-glass
was held overdier mouth, but no indication
of respiration appeared upon it. She was
accordingly prepared for burial. Under
taker Mitchell noticed that although the
dead woman's form was rigid, with the ex
ception of her extremities, her body re
mained warm. Without notifying the
friends he placed her in a coffin with
out putting her on ice. For
twenty hours she lay in the box and
was viewed by several neighbors and
mourned by her friends. Her relatives
even opened and read her will, thinking
that she might make some request regard
ing her funeral. Shortly after 6 o’clock
last evening, while the family were at sup
per, Mr. Cook heard a noise in the parlor
where his aunt’s renlain.s were lying. He
was horrorstricken to find her sitting up
with her heud and shoulders partly out of
the glass covering over the coffin. She had
been in a trance. After getting out of the
box sbe walked and appeared perfectly
well. She relates many curious things that
she saw while in the trance.
Export Whisky.
Washington, March 29.—Attorney Gen
eral Garland has given an opinion favora
ble to granting warehouse privileges to re
imported domestic goods. This opinion is
held to apply to whisky exportations, and
under it much of the ten million gallons of
spirits withdrawn last year from bond for
exportation will probably now be brought
back and warehoused for a year with
out being compelled to pav the in
ternal revenue tax on lauding. But
it is left with the Collector of
Customs at New York to decide whether
importations of whisky had been preceded
by an exportation in good faitb. On the
question of granting an abatement of over
due taxes where w-hisky has been burned
in warehouses, Attorney-General Garland
gives it as bm opinion that where taxes
have not bc^J collected on goods in bond at
the exuirfjWmi of the bonded period the
HecrclW-y of the Treasury has the right, in
case they are destroyed, to grunt an abate
ment.
Alaskan Fever Attacks Michiganders.
Ishpeming, Mich., March 29. —Governor
Swineford's glowing accounts of Alaska's
enjoyable climate and great wealth of
minerals have caused an Alaskan fever in
parts of the upper peninsula. The Govern
or took with him, when he went, several
Michigan men, who have all secured prom
ising gold ounrtz claims, and estimate their
future wealth at many millions each. Cap
tain P. D. Tracy, a mining man of large
experience, Endelman, a jeweler, and Mar
low H. Crocker, a prominent lawyer of Ish
peming. left the city last week for Alaska.
Secretary Bayard’s Trials.
Washington, March 29.—Secretary Bay
ard, since the lstof January, has four times
been called to attend funeral ceremonies in
the little Swedish Church at Wilmington,
Del. Last week he was there, accompanied
by his daughter, to attend the funeral of his
relative, Dr. Kane, a brother of the Arctic
explorer. But a few weeks ago he was
there, to be present at the funeral of an
aunt, and the previous occasions which took
him there are fresh in the memory of the
public. The Secretary is much sympathized
with in his troubles.
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Strikes in Belgium.
Brcssei.ls. March 29. —The miners at
Antoing, three miles southeast of Tournai,
6ti‘uck to day and went rioting. They
formed in a body and marched towards
Tournai for the purpose of looting the
place. Troops sallied out from that place
to meet them, and a conflict followed, in
vhich many persons were injured. The
strikes are spreading in the coal mining
district of Sorinage and the authorities
there fear trouble. The miners in that dis
trict receive but $3 a week.
VOL IIL-NO. ().
HEARTRENDING SCENE.
A Kentucky Minister While in the Pnlpit
Receives the Tidings t*f the Lynch
ing of His Son.
Lopisvjlle, Kv., March 30.—A pitiable
sight was seen bv a large congregation in a
church near Smyrna jxtst-oftice, in this
county, when the Rev. Downey Blair, of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was
engaged in preaching his Sunday sermon.
A few days ago the telegpraph bore a dis
patch front some point in Kansas to the
newspapers over the country con
taining an account of the slaughter
of his family by John Biair, and
the subsequent hanging of Blair by the
infuriated citizens. The particulars'were
briefly told at the time, but Mr. Blair lives
in a secluded quarter and had never heard
of the occurrence. It appears that he had
a son John in Kansas whom he supposed
was living quietly with his family and
prospering fine.y. While engaged on his
sermon Sunday a messenger boy arrived at
the church, anrl rushing up to the pulpit at
tracted the minister’s attention by waving
a sealed envelop at him. The minister
stopped short in his discourse, read the
message, and then fell to the floor as if he
had shot- Tite wildest excitement
prevailed in the congregation. Members
carried the minister to fresh air, and when
he was revived it was learned that the mis
sive contained news that the John Blair
mentioned in the dispatches from Kansas*
was the Rev. Mr. Blair's son.
SLICK PRISONERS.
Convicts Caught Counterfeiting Within
the Very Prison Walls.
Leavenworth, Kas., March 30.— There
was considerable excitement in the neigh
borhood of the Kansas State Penitentiary
last evening, when it was discovered that a
number of counterfeiters’ molds had been
iu use for some time by a couple of
convicts, the latter having successfully
made a number of bogus coins. A
quantity of the latter, representing, per
haps, $6, was found in the cell
of one of the convicts. The molds were ac
cidentally discovered in the drying room
of the laundry, where the two convict®
were employed. When examined they said
that they had been assisted by some of the
guards, who procured materials for them
ani got rid Of the spurious coins. They
named two of the guards, who have been
suspended from duty, pending an investi
gation, but it is generally thought the
guards are innocent. The counterfeiting
hail gone on for several weeks.
A LONG TALK.
Au Ohio Man Claims)* Wonderful Improve
ment In the Telephone.
Youngstown, 0., March 30.—A test was
made yesterday of a r.er,v.. long distance
telephone transmitter, the invention of
Dr. Rose, of Palmyra, O. A telegraph
wire was used running t 6 Freeport, 111.,
with a return loop on other polls, making
the distance 878 miles. One transmitter
was placed in the office of the Rose Electric
Company and the other in the laboratory,
two blocks away. The faintest whisper
was heard distinctly over the long line.
It is entirely unlike the Blake' transmitter
in action and principle, ami Dr. Rose
claims that with his device conversation
can be clearly carried on by persons 2,000
miles apart. The test was made in the
presence of prominent capitalists who have
organized a 'company here to manufacture
it. Next Sunday it will be given a severe
test over a wire running to New York, then
.to Chicago and back here.
Fruit Prospects.
Sr. Lons, March 30.—The llural World
will publish to-morrow 150 reports in reply
to circulars sent out to the principal fruit
shipping points in Illinois, Missouri, Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama,
Texas and Georgia, from which it is clear
that Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky will
have no peaches. Tennessee may have
half a crop, Arkansas' about the
same, whilst Mississippi and Northern
Texas report very slight in jury. Alabama
and Louisiana will have the usual peach
and small fruit supply, while Arkansas and
Tennessee will not have one-half a crop of
strawberries, owing to the drouth of last
summer. Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky
will have an average of small fruits. The
season is reported backward at ail points.
The vegetable supply and general pros
pects are equal to those of any former year
in the territory heard from. Late spring
fro-ts may further reduce the peach supply
in the South. April frosts generally in
flict less injury.
Fatal Flames.
Bronson, Mich., March 3Q,—A lire this
morning destroyed a tine block of stores
built last summer. One of the terrible
features of the fire is the death of Mrs.
Timothy Hurley and her daughter Mav,
aged fifteen years, who were burned. Mr.
Hurley and three children, a boy aged six
teen, another ten, and a baby about two and
a half years old are terribly burned.
Charles Straehly, a baker employed by Mr.
Hurley, is badly cut about the face and
head. The fire company did effective work,
saving the business portion of the village.
Four stores were burned. Loss, SI6,(XX).
The bodies of Mrs. Hurley and her daugh
ter were recovered, but burned beyond
recognition. Sheriff Whittaker had one of
his legs cut very badly by the falling of a
heavy plate glass.
Salvation Army Barracks Blown Up.
Detroit, Mich., March 80.—About ten
o’clock last night a terrific report startled
■the people of Charlotte, Mich., and investi
gation showed that an attempt had been
made to blow up the Salvation
Army barracks with dynamite. The
floor of the building was com
pletely demolished. Large pieces of tim
ber were forced through the sides of the
building, benches and chairs were broken
in slivers, and the glass in the adjoining
buildings was shattered. The meeting bail
closed about fifteen minutes before the ex
plosion, consequently no lives were lost.
This morning a note’was found in the bar
racks stating that similar depredations
would follow.
Death of a War Hero.
Portsmouth, N. H.. March 30.—Thos. 3.
Gay, a sail-maker, died here yesterday
aged fifty years. As naval ensign during
the war, he wiys one of the volunteers who,
in a steam launch, ascended the Cape Fear
river to Plymouth, N. C., twenty miles
within the Confederate lines, and in the
face of a hot tire blew up the ironclad Al
bemarle. Gay was captured and confined
in Libby Prison until the end of the war.
His share of the Albemarle prize money
was $23,600.