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TALM.AGrE’S SERMON.
The L^&bons Presented By the Re
currence of Easter-Tide.
Th« Brig:htpp*g of Fartlily Flowers as Pre-
the Glories of the Last Great
Resurrection—The Duties of
Immortality.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered his
■Easter-Tide sermon at the Brooklyn Taber
nacle from the following text:
Now Is Christ risen frouj the dead, and be
come the first fruits of them that slept.— [l
Cor., xv ,40.
He spoke as follows: v - -
On this glorious Easter morning, amid
the music and the Rowers, I give yon
Christian salutation. This morning Rus
sian meeting Russian on the streets of
St. Petersburg hails him with the saluta
tion:
“Christ is risen!”
And is answered by his friend in saluta
tion.
“He is risen indeed. ’’
In some parts of England and Ireland
to this very day there is the superstition
that on Easter morning the sun dances in
the Heavens; and well may we forgive
such a superstition which illustrates the
fact that the natural world seems to sym
pathise with the spiritual.
EASTER VOICES.
Hail Easter morning. Flowers: Flowers!
All of them a voice, all of them a tongue,
all of them full of speech to-day. I bend
over one of the lilies and hear them say:
Consider the. lilies of the ffeld, how they
erow they toil not. neither do they spin, yet
f-olomon in all his glory was not arrayed as
one of these.
I bend over a rose and it seems to whis
per; #
I am the rose of Sharon.
And then I stand and listen. From all
sides there comes the chorus of flowers,
saving: ■•• > .
If God so clothe the rme-j of the field
which to-day Is. and is east Into
the oven, shall he not more c , othe yoil>
Ob ye of little faith?
Flowers! Flowed Braid them into the
bride’s hair. /lowers! Flowers! Btrew
♦ he-in over graves of the dav, sweet
prophecy resurrection. Flowers!
Flower® ! Twist them into a garland for
ruy Lor 4 on Raster morning. “Glory
be to the Father and to the Son and to the
Hr /V Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is
'jow and ever shall be.”
Why, if a rainbow! this morning had
'fallen and struck the galleries and struck
the platform, the scene could not have
been more radiant. Oh! how bright and
how beantifn! the flowers, and bow miicH
tney mane me think of Christ and his re
ligion, that brightens every thing it
tenches, brightens cur life, brightens our
character, brightens society, brightens the
church, brightens every thing. You who
RQ with gloomy countenance pretending
you are better than I am because of your
lugubriousness, you can not cheat me.
°u old hypocrite! I know you. Pretty
case you are for a man'tliat professes to,be
more than conqueror. It is not religion
that makes you gloomv; it is the lack of
it. There is just as much religion in a
wedding as in a burial, just as much reli
gion in a smile as in a tear. Those gloomy
Christians we sometimes see are the people
to 'whom I like to lend money, for I never
them again! The women came to the
Saviour’s tomb, and they dropped spices all
around the tomb, and those spices were the
*eed that began to grow, and from them
came all the flowers of this Easter morn.
The two angels robed in white took hold
of the stone at the Saviour’s tomb and they
burled it with such force down the hill
♦ hat it. crushed in the door of the world’s
sepulcher, and the stark and the dead
must come forth.
T care not how labyrinthine the mauso
leum, or how costly the sarcophagus, or
however beautifully parterred the family
grounds, we want them all broken up by
the Lord of the resurrection. They, must
come out. Father and mother—they must
wine out. Husband and wife—they must
■come out. Brother and sister—they must
come out. Our darling children—they
must come out. The eyes that we close
with such trembling fingers must open
again in the radiance of that morn. The
arms we folded in dust must join ours in
an embrace of reunion. The voice that
was hushed in our dwelling must be re
turned. O, how long some of you seem to
be waiting—waiting for the resurrection,
waiting ! And for these broken hearts to
day I make a soft, cool bandage out of
Easter flowers..
Six years ago, the night before Raster, I
received an Easter card on which there
was a representation of that exquisite
flower, the trumpet creeper, and under it
the words:
The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall
rise.
There was especial reason why at that
lime I should have that card sent me, and
I present the same consolation to-day to
ail in this house; and who has escaped?
My friends, this morning I find in the
risen Christ a prophecy of our own resur
rection, my text setting forth the idea that
as Christ has risen so his people will rise.
He the first sheaf of the resurrection har
vest; he “the first fruits of them that
slept.” Before I get through this morn
ing, I will walk through all the cemeteries
of the dead, through all the country grave
yards where your loved ones are buried,
and I will pluck off these flowers and I
will drop a sweet promise of the Oospel—a
rose of hope, a lily of joy on every tomb—
the child’s tomb, the husband’s tomb, the
wife’s tomb, the father’s grave, the moth
er's grave; and while we celebrate the
resurrection of Christ we will at the same
ti.ue celebrate the resurrection of all the
6* od.
t’hrist the first fruits of them that slept.
If I should come to you this morning
snd ask you for the names of the great
conquerors of the world, you would say
A*exander, Csesar, Philip, Napoleon I.
Ab, my friends, yon have forgotten to
mention the name of a greater conqueror
than all these—a cruel, a ghastly conquer
or. He rode on a black horse across Wa
terloo, Atlanta and Chalons, the bloody
hoofs crushing the hearts of nations. It is
the conqueror death. He carries a black
flag, and he takes no prisoners. He digs a
trench across the hemispheres and Alls it
with the carcasses of nations. Fifty times
would the world have been depopulated
had not God kept making new genera
tions. Fifty limes the world would have
swung lifeless through the air —llo man on
the mountain, no man on the sea, an
abandoned ship plowing through immens
ity.
Again and again has he done this work
with all generations. He is a monarch as
well as a conqueror; his palace a sepul
cher, his fountains the falling tears of a
world. Blessed be God, in the light of this
Easter morning I see the prophecy that
his scepter shall be broken and his palace
shall be demolished ’ The hour is coming
when all who are in their graves shall
come forth. Christ risen, we shall rise.
J esus—
The first fruits of them that slept.
Now, around this doctrine of the resur
rection there are a great many mysteries.
Von come to me this morning and say:
“If the bodies of the dead are to be
raised, how is this and how is that?”
And you ask me a thousand questions I
am incompetent to answer; but there are
a great many things you believe that you
gre not able to explain. You would be a
very foolish man to say: “I won’t believe
any thing I can’t understand.” Why,
putting down one kind of flower seed,
comes there up this flower of this color?
Why, putting down another flower
seedy comes there up a flower of this color?
—one flower white, another flower yellow,
another flower crimson. Why the differ
ence when the seeds look to be very much
alike—are very much alike? Explain
these things. Explain that wart on the
finger. Explain the difference—why the
oak leaf is different from the leaf of the
hickory. Tell me how the Lord Almighty
can turn the chariot of his omnipotence on
a rose leaf. You ask me questions about
the resurrection I can not answer. I will
ask you a thousand questions about every
day life you can not answer.
I find my strength in this passage:
AII who are in their graves shall come
forth.
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I do not pretend to make the explana
tion. Yon go on and say:
“Suppose a returned missionary dies in
Brooklyn: when he was in China his foot
was amputated; he lived years after in
England: he is buried to-day in Green
wood; in the resurrection will the foot
come from England and will the different
parts of the body be reconstructed in the
resurrection. How is that possible’'”
You nor that the human body changes
every seven years, and by seventy years
of age a man has had ten bodies; in the
resurrection which will come up? You
say:
“A man will die and his body
into the dust, and that dust be taken up
into the life of the vegetable; an ani
mal may eat the vegetable, men eat
the animal; in the resurrection tiiat body,
distributed in so many directions, how
shall it be gathered up?”
Have you any more questions of this
style to ask? Come in and ask them. I
do not pretend to answer them. I fall
back upon the announcement of God’s
word:
All who are In their graves shall come
forth.
You have noticed, I suppose, in read
ing the story of the resurrection, that
almost every account of the Bible gives
the idea that the characteristic of that
day will be a great sound. I do not
know that it will be very loud, but I
know that it will be very penetrating. In
the mausoleum where silence has reigned
a thousand years that voice must pene
trate. In the coral cave of the dead that
voice must penetrate. Millions of spirits
will come through the gates of eternity,
and they will come to the tombs of the
earth and they will cry:
“Give us back our bodies: we gave
them to you in corruption, surrender them
now in incorruption.”
Hundreds of spirits hovering about the
crag® of Gettysburg, for there the bodies
are buried. A hundred thousand spirits
coming to Greenwood, for there the
bodies are buried, waiting for the reunion
of body and soul.
All along the sea route from New York
to Liverpool, at every few miles, where a
steamer went down, departed spirits com
ing back, hovering, over the wave. There
is where the City of Boston perished.
Found at last. There is where the Presi
dent perished. Steamer found at last.
There is where the Centrul America went,
down. Spirits hovering, hundreds of
spirits hovering, waiting for the reunion
of body and soul. Out on the prairie a
spirit alights. There is where a traveler
died in the snow. Crash goes Westminster
Abbey, and the poets and orators come
forth. Wonderful mingling of good and
bad. Wilberforce, the good: Queen Eliz
abeth, the bad. Crash go the pyramids of
Egypt, and the monarchs come forth.
All who are In their graves shall come forth.
“But,” you say, “if this doctrine of the
resurrection is true as prefigured by the
Easter morning, Christ, ‘the first, fruits of
them that slept,’ Christ rising, a promise,
and a prophecy of therising of all His peo
ple, can you tell us something about the
resurrected body?”
loan. There are mysteries about that,
but I shall tell vo : three or four things in
regard to the resurrected body that are
beyond guessing and beyond mistake.
In the first place I remark in regard to
your resurrected body, it will be a glorious
body. The body we have now is a mere
skeleton of what it would have been if sin
had not marred and defaced it.
Take the most exquisite statue that
was ever made by an artist and
chip it here and chip it there with a
chisel, and batter and bruise it h®re and
there and then stand it out in the storms
of a hundred years, and the beautv would
be gons. Well, the human body ha- been
chipped and battered and bruised and
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY, APRIL 30. 1886.
damaged with the storms of a thousand
years—the physical defects of other gen
erations coming down from generation to
generation, we inheriting the infelicities
of past generations; but in the morning of
the resurrection the body will be adorned
and beautified according to the original
model, and there ig no such difference be
tween a gymnast and an emaciated wretch
in a lazaretto as there will be a difference
between our bodies as they are now and
our resurrected forms.
There you will see the perfect eye after
the waters of death have washed out the
stains of tears and study. There you will
see the perfect hand after the knots of toil
have been untied from the knuckles. There
you will see the form erect and elastic
after the burdens have gone off the shoul
der—the very life of God in the body.
In this world the most impressive thing,
the most expressive thing, is the human
face; but that face is veiled with the griefs
of a thousand years. In the resurrection
morn that veil will be taken away from
the face, and the noonday sun is dull and
dim and stupid compared with the out
flaming glories of the countenances of the
saved. When those faces of the righteous,
those resurrected faces, turn toward the
gate, or look up toward the throne on the
bpsom of everlasting day! O, glorious
resurrected body.
I go farther, and say in regard to that
body which you are to get in the resurrec
tion. it will be a powerful body. We walk
now eight or ten miles and we are fa
tigued. We lift a few hundred pounds
and we are exhausted; unarmed we meet
a wild beast, and we must run, or fly, or
climb, or dodge, because we are incompe
tent to meet it; we toil eight or ten hours
vigorously and then we are weary; but in
the resurrection we are to have a body
that never gets tired. _ Is it not a glorious
thought?
Plenty of occupation in Heaven, I sup
pose, and Broadway, New York, in the
busiest season of the year at noonday is
not so busy as Heaven is at all time.
Grand projects of mercy for other
worlds. Victories to be celebrated.
The downfall of despotism on earth
to be announced. Great songs to be
learned and sung. Great expeditions on
which God shall send forth his chil
dren. Plenty to do but no fatigue. If
you are seated under the tree of life it will
not be to rest but to talk over with some
old comrade, old times battles where
you fought shoulder to shoulder. Jacob
and the angel wrestled together. Jacob
was not thrown because the angel fav
ored him. But once get your ressur
rected body and the angel could not
wrestle you down. It is impossible to down
the giants of God on high—strong, supple,
unexhausted, mighty, immortal. Oh, is it
not a glorious thought?
Sometimes in this world we feel we
would like to have such a body as that.
There is so much work to be done for
Christ; there are so many tears to be
wiped away; there are so many burdens
to lift; there is so much to be achieved for
Christ, we sometimes wish that from the
first of January to the last of December
we could toil on without stopping to sleep
or take any recreation or to rest, or even
to take food, that we could toil right on
without stopping a moment at our work of
commending Christ and Heaven to all the
people. But we all get tired.
It is a characteristic of the human body
in this condition. We must get tired.
Is it not a glorious thought that
after awhile, in the service of God.
we are going to have a body that
will never get weary? O, glorious resur
rection day! Gladly will I fling aside this
poor body of sin and fling it into the tomb
if at thy bidding I shall have a body that
never wearies. That was a splendid res
urrection hymn that was sung at my fath
er’s burial:
bo Jesus slept; Hod's dying son
Passed through the grave and blessed
the bed:
Rest here, blest saint, till from his throne
The morning breaks to pierce the shade.
O blessed resurrection ! speak out, sweet
flowers, beautiful flowers! While you tell
of a risen Christ, tell of the righteous who
shall rise. May God fill you this morning
with anticipation!
I heard of a father and son who, among
others, were shipwrecked at sea. The
father and the son climbed into the
rigging. The father held on. but the
son after awhile lost his hold in the
rigging and was dashed down. The
father supposed he had gone hopelessly
under the wave. The next day the father
was brought ashore from the rigging in an
exhausted state and laid on a lied in a
fisherman’s hut, and after many hours had
passed he came to consciousness and saw
lying beside him on the same bed his boy.
O, my friends, what a glorious thing it
will be to wake up at last to find our loved
ones beside us! Coming up from the same
plot in the same graveyard, coming up in
the same morning light—the father and
son alive forever, nevermore to weep, nev
ermore to part, nevermore to die.
May the God of peace that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that
great Shepherd of the sheep, through the
blood of the everlasting covenant
make you perfect in every
good work, to do His will; and let
this brilliant scene of the morning trans
port our thoughts to the grander as
semblage before the throne. This august
assemblage is nothing compared with it—
the one-hundred-and-forty and four thou
sand and the “great multitude that no
man can number,” someofour best friends
among them. we. after awhile, to join the
multitude. Blessed anticipation !
Blest are the saints beloved of nod,
Wnshe ! are their robe- In Jesus' blood;
Brighter thuu ange.s. lo' they shine,
Tnelr wonders spimiid and sublime
My soul anticipates ihe day,
tvouldstretch e wings and soar away;
To aid the song, the palm to bear,
and bow. the chief of sinners, there.
—The special mail delivery system is
voted to be a great annoyance by postal
clerks, who have to keep a sharp watoh
for h few Its.t -i t bearing its stamp while
sorting thousands pf two-centers.*— A T
Y. Sun
MIDNIGHT BATTLE
Between a Deputy Marshal and a
Band of Moonshiners.
The Plucky Officer is Killed, but Not Un
til He Had Made four Assailants
Bite the Dust.
Chattanooga, April 26. —A special to tne
Times from Manchester, Coffee Couuty,
I’enn., gives details of a bloody tragedy
enacted there •tly after midnight this
morning: in which United States Deputy
Marshal Webb Purdon, of Manchester,
and a moonshiner named Clark were
killed a»d three other moonshiners fatally
wounded. About ten days ago Purdon
accompanied Deputy Marshal Hughes on
a raid among the illicit distilleries of
Grundy Comity, Tenn., and captured and
destroyed several stills. Between 12 and
1 o’clock this mofning ftftjjPfcnoonshiners
rode into Manchester derbruTTned to have
Purdon’s life. Seven broke into his bouse
and the balance surrounded it. Purdon
met them as they entered with a revolver
and a terrible battle ensued. Two moon
shiners fell to the floor mortally wounded,
and the gang retreated, but they had suc
ceeded so fatally wounding Purdon. Disa
bled as be was. he seized a double-barreled
shot-got and fired into the retreating gang
and two more fell mortally wounded.
Purdon then fell dead beside the body of
one of his victims. The gang carried off
three ot their wounded companions. A
large posse is now in pursuit or them.
HIS LIFE FOR A DOG.
A Distressing Affair on the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad.
Chati ANOOGA, Tenn., April 26.— Major
Holliday, a prominent citizen of Spring
City, was run over and killed by the Can
non Ball Express train on the Cincinnati
Southern railroad last evening while at
tempting to save the life of a valuable
dog. Major Holliday started across a bridge
above Spring City. He had scarcely reached
it when the approaching train was heard.
His dog was midway the long trestle. It
meant instant death to attempt to rescue
the animal, yet Major Hollidav rushed for
ward to remove the dog to a place of safe
ty, and before he could return the train
struck him, killing hint instantly. The doc
was also killed.
Excited Settlers.
PrERKB, Dak . April 26.—Yesterday Agent
McCbesmy bad notice served on all the
merchant.', and dealers in Fort Pierre that
they input remove their stocks of goods
from the Reservation and cease to do busi
ness on that side of the river. This order
of removal was on the authority of the Sec
retary of the Interior. The "notice 'was
served b* the Indian police. It, is held that
they have a right to remain, for the reason
that ivt Pierre is the eastern terminus of
the OoWrmght highway, but as to trow far
that would give them rights they are not
informed. The outcome will be watched
with interest. To enforce this order would
entail a loss of over *500,000 and ruin hun
dreds of settlers. The settlers held a meet
ing yesterday and decided not to move,
unless at the point of the bayonet. The ex
citement is intense.
Greece Gives It Up.
Paris, April 26.-—lt is officially announced
this morning that the Greek Government
has yielded to the councils of France and
will in£antly order a disarmament of her
forces.
London, April 26.—A later dispatch from
Athens confirms the announcement,, that
Greece has decided to disarm, and adds
that the greatest consternation prevails in
that city sudden and unexpected
change of fiwt by the Government. The
Chainin' of Deputies has been hurriedly
convofcd. The warships representing Eng
land, maly, Austria and Germany have
withdiMwn from their anchorage in the
Pirseus:
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Prohibition Beaten in Virginia.
Richmond, Va., April 26.— Prohibition
met with an overwhelming defeat here to
day, the election resulting in a ma jority of
5,681 in favor of licensing the sale of liquors
The vote in Manchester was anti- Prohibi
tion—majority 626. The vote in both this
city and in Manchester was nearly as large
as in the Presidential election. Under the
law it can not be reuewed for two years.
The colored vote was almost unanimously
anti-Prohibition. The anti-Prohibitionists
carried Lynchburg by 1,188 majority.
Still on the Warpath.
San Francisco, 'Cal., April 26.— Tlie
Call’s Guaymas. Mexico, special of this
morning says: “Geronimo’s band attack
ed ranches near Imtlris,completely destroy
ing ail the buildings at Casita, a small wav
station n<>ar Jmuris, on the Sonora rail
road, killing fifteen persons, all Mexicans.
A company of soldiers was sent a fter them.
Two soldiers were killed. The Indians
were moving in the direction of Nicori. in
the Sierra Ma Ire mountains. A reign of
terror prevails throughout the district.”
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Railroad Shops Taken by Forcp.
Kansas Citv. Mo., April 26 —An Atchi
son (Kas.) special says: Strikers this
afternoon took forcible possession of the
Missouri Pacific yards there, driving out
all men who had gone to work since the
strike began six weeks ago. The strikers
organized in the yards anil marched to the
shop®, w lien the workers went out with but
little protest, bloodshed being thus avoid
ed. I lie fires in the shops were drawn and
guards appointed to prevent any of the
new men returning to work.
Strike of a Church Choir.
Sharon, Pa., April 26. — A terrible com
motion was created here yesterday by the
action of the choir of St. John's Episcopal
Church boycotting the rector, Rev. H. G.
Wood. During Easter services in t'ue
morning they refused to sing the behedic
tion. claiming tbev preferred to sing the
Jubilate. Their rehearsal in front of Shar
on’s nost fashionable assemblage of High
Ciiurob people prostrated the rector, and
he sank unconscious to the floor. He was
conveyed to his home, and is now in a pre
carious condition.
The Fatal p t nalty of Politeness.
Jersey Citt, N. J.. April 36 —James
Forrester, while riding on a street-car last
evening, offered his seat to a lady, but be
fore she could take the seat an Italian seat
ed himself in it. Forrester expostulated
without avail and finally took tne man by
the collar to put him out. when the Italian
drew a knife a foot long and plunged it
into Forrester’s back, inflicting a fatal
wound. The Italian was arrested.
‘horrible death.
rital Mistake of a Hoy in Tying a Rope
Around His Waist.
Nokomis, 111., April 25. —On his return
from town last evening Mr. Jacob Swarey,
living three miles east of here, missed some
colts which he had left in the stable, and
upon searching for them found them in a
pasture, and attached to one of them by a
halter was the dead body of August Middle
eamn, a bov about thirteen years old, who
had been left at home. It is supposed the
lad had attempted to lead the colt to water
and carelessly tied the rope around his
waist in a slip-noose, when the animal, un
accustomed to being handled, pulled him
down and dragged him until exhausted,
as, although it appeared frightened, it did
not run w hen approached. The boy's body
was badly mangled and nearly cut in two
by the rope, the knot of which was drawn
to only about a four-inch noose.
FILLED A LIGHTED LAMP.
Three Women Undertake It and Have Died
from Their Injuries.
Chicago, April 25. —Yesterday afternoon
Mrs. Hterling, who is landlady of the Ster
ling House, on Adams street, -was in the
kitchen with her daughter Emma and Miss
Whalen, a servant. One of them took a
lighted lamp, and holding an oil can
in one hand commenced to fill it. Sudden
ly the oil was ignited, and the can ex
ploded with a loud report. The burning
fluid was scattered over Mrs. Sterling and
her daughter, and their clothes were soon
a mass of flames. Miss Whalen, the domes
tic, was not burned, but inhaled the gas and
smoke. The Are department was summon
ed, and fireman aided in the efforts to
extinguish the flames and save the lives of
Mrs. Sterling and her daughter, but their
aid came too late. After several hours’ in
tense suffering, all three of the women
died.
TORNADO IN TEXAS.
Buildings Destroyed and People Injured,
a Baby Fatally.
Killeen, TEx.,April2s. A tornado swept
past Killeen this evening, about one mile
from town. It struck the house
of Jacob Useiton, demolishing the build
ing and injuring the entire family, the baby
fatally. The Norman brothers’ residence
was ulso destroyed. Tbe family w ere saved,
having just taken refuge in a storm-house.
The storm came from the northwest, and
did considerable damage in tbe town of
Killeen. Hail stones as large as hens’ eggs
fell, destroying vegetation and fruit trees
and breaking many window panes.
Goes Msd by Proxy.
New York. April 25. —A curious case bas
been developed at Matteawan, N. J. About
six weeks ago Nellie Smith, of that village,
was bitten by a dog. Dr. A. J. Jackson
treated her. with apparent success. The girl
has a sixteen-year-old Mkther Thomas, who
took her case very much at heart. The
stories about hydrophobia which bad been
ga%ejkuu.a o eat drAIAJf .H I’
On last Thursday night ne was taken sud
denly ill. He became extremely violent, re
quiring two and often three men to hold
him, and barked like a dog. No one
knew whether he was bitten by a dog or
not. Dr. Jackson says that he hardly
knows what to think about the case. If he
knew that the boy had been bitten by a
dog he should certainly consider it a case
of hydrophobia. As it is it may be nervous
hysteria brought on by worry about his
sister Nellie. The liitle girl is doing well
under her treatment.
Roast Beef.
Dattox, 0.. April 25. The cattle pens of
the Dayton Sugar Refining Company’, five
hundred in number, w’ere burned to the
ground late last night. The tire originated
in the dspartment where hay was kept, and
evidently was the work of an incendiary.
There were one hundred and twenty-six
head of cattle in the pens, ail of which
were burned to a crisp. The pens were all
filled on Wednesday last, when the entire
lot of cattle was sold to JCharles Zachritt.
He took away all but the cattle that were
burned, wdll be a loss to the com
pany.
Died on a Train.
Lexington, Im>., April 25 —A lady
named Harrison suddenly died on passen
ger train No. 4, on the Ohio and Mississippi
railroad, near Mitchell, Ind., a few minutes
after two o’clock this morning. The lady
w as on her way from some point in Mexico
to Charleston, W. Va.. and was accompa
nied by a brother and sister. She was in
the last stage of consumption, and it is
supposed the journey was too great for her
physical condition,' and she expired as
stated. The remains were takeii to Louis
ville, where they were prepared for burial.
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Killed By Lightn ng.
Crestline, 0., April 25.—Frederick
Blazer, ofjthis place, was instantly killed by
lightning this aftwnoon. He was working
on the track Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne
and two and a half miles
east of this place. About three o’clock a
storm came up, when Blazer took shelter
under a tree near by, which was struck by
lightning. He leaves a wife. The storm
lasted about thirty minutes, and was ac
companied by heavytbunder and lightning
end large hailstones.
Peculiar Accidental Hanging.
Baltimore, April 25.—Henry Fryer, aged
sixty-eight years, who for many years has
been one of the gate-keepers of Druid Hill
Park, was foupd dead last night hanging
head down from a tree not more than ten
feet from the gate. He had been training
a wild rose vine to run up the tree, and had
no doubt lost his balance, and in tailing
caught his foot in a crotch of the limb on
which he was standing. The body was ac
cidentally discovered while it' was yet
warm.
Plasterers to Try *,he Eight-Hour System.
Bt. Louis, Mo., April 25.— The master
plasterers of this city have agreed to put
the eight-hour system into effect on May 1,
and to pay their men three dollars and sev
enty-five cents per day. The old rate was
four dollars and fiftv cents for ten hours.
The new rate is really an advance of fif
teen cents per day. The journeymen are
expected to accept the plan, and no trouble
is apprehended.
Hydrophobia.
Red Bank, N. J., April 25.—Five weeks
ago a little boy named Smith was bitten
by a dog at Matawah. He said nothing
about the matter until to-dav. He was
taken i!l on Thursday and symptoms of hy
drophobia rapidly developed. He has suf
fered terribly from paroxysms, and to-day
the doctors administered‘cocaine to quiet
him. It is believed that he will die before
morning.
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GRAHAM LYNCHED.
The Springfield (Mo.) Wife-Murderer Meet.
Death at the lhutls of a Mob.
Springfield, Mo., April 27.—At 1:30
o’clock this morning a mob of 400 armed
men surrounded the county jail and began
parleying with the sheriff for the surren
der of Geo. F. Graham, the wife-murderer.
The sheriff would not comply with their
demands, but they soon battered in the
doors and secured the prisoner. At 3
o’clock the mob started out of town, on
Boonville street, with Graham. It was
thought they would take him to the Emma
Wolloy farm and hang him, and then
throw his body into tbe well where hia
wife’s body whr found. But the leaders
artfully gave their pursuers the slip by
starting in that direction, but changing
their course, and while yet within the city
limits, hanged Graham to a tree just one
hour after the attack on the jail. Mrs.
Donnell, the Sheriff’s wife, said: “They
were cool and collected. When they un
locked Graham’s cell he said: ‘Yoii can
hang me, but you can’t scare me.’ They
tied his hands behind him and marched
him through the hall with a rope be
hind his neck. He was as white as a
sheet, but otherwise never flinched.”
Graham’s cell mate said it was the quiet
est piece of business he ever saw. Graham
made no entreaties for mercy, but wdht to
his death coolly and died apparently with
out any struggle. Tbe mob dispersed in all
directions after the lynching. It is stated
that Graham declared just before he was
strung up that neither Cora Lee or Mrs.
Graham had any thing to do with the
crime.
Sarcoxie, Mo., April 27.—The two
thieves who stole a team of horses from the
widow Halsey last week were caught and
hanged by vigilantes in Carroll County,
Arkansas.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Found to Have Been Born In Cnlvl, a Town
ot Corsica, Not in Genoa.
Paris, April 27. —Abbe Casanova, a Cor
sican archaeologist.has discovered archives
which show that Christopher Columbus
was born in the toivn of Calvi, in Cor
sica, and emigrated to Genoa.
President Grevy. having examined the
evidence, and being satisfied of its authen
ticity. has authorized the authorities of
Calvi to celebrate by official holiday the
four hundredth anniversary of the dis
covery of America. The inhabitants of
Calvi will hold a fete on May 23. when a
commemorative inscription will be placed
on the house in which Columbus was born.
- Mexican Rebellion.
El P\so, April 27.—A large-sized rebel
lion against the Mexican Government bas
broken out at Cnsihueria, an important
mining town in the State of Chihauhua,
a considerable distance west of the Mexi
can Central railroad. The Federal Gov
ernment annulled the local election for
Jefe politics, and sent a man of their ow n
to act as such The people, under the
leadership of Don Teodoro Casavantes,
rose en masse, killed i.{ie Federal appointee
aftd iH Jii Pftdro Vrigoyen, rrt»«
had been legally elected. A large force of
Mexican troops is on its way to quell the
rebellion, and considerable excitement
exists in Chihuahua.
An Unwise Mother Loses Har Infant.
Erie, Pa., April 27.— Mrs. Ephraim Law
sou locked her children in the parlor of
the house to k«-ep them out of mischief
while she went a shopping. During her ab
sence a fire started, and before it was dis
covered the house was entirely enveloped
in flames. The screams of the children
above the roaring flames located them, and
the firemen rescued the two oldest, John
and Maggie. The children were too badly
burned to tell where the three-months-old
baby was, and it perished in the flames.
Three of the firemen were severely burned
in the rescue, but not seriously.
Snow in Dakota.
Salem, Dak., April 27. — A heavy rain fell
here all Sunday, and yesterday morning
changed to snow. A blizzard prevailed all
day. There is now on the ground from two
to three inches of snow, and it continues to
fall, with no hopes of an early abatement.
The snow has drifted a little in some places,
but not enough to impede travel in any
manner. No farm teams are in town,
hence business is at a standstill. No seri
ous damage to crops is anticipated.
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A Banner Prohibition County.
Mattoon, 111., April 27. —Cumberland
County is one of the banner temperance
counties in the State. There is not a saloon
within its borders, and drugstores are not
even licensed to sell liquor for medicinal
Eurpo es. The Prohibitionists have never
ad a party organization In the county,
the present, condition being the result of
local option. The county has always been
overwhelm ingly Democratic.
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Coast Crops Unusually Promising.
Portland, Ore.. April 27.—The spring
has been favorable for seeding operations
all over the Northwest coast, so that now
the work may be said to be done, and con
ditions were never more propitious for a
bountiful harvest. It is believed from the
present indications that this year’s crop of
wheat will exceed that of last year by 50,-
000 tons, and the barley product for sur
plus will exceed 25,000 tons.
Death of the Insane New jersey Mother.
Red Bank, N. J., April 27.—Mrs. James
Smith, who attacked her four children
with an axe on Friday, whilesuffering from
mental aberration, died this morning from
the effects of poison taken soon after her
attack upon hei little ones. The three
children are do:ng Letter than could be ex-'
peeted.
Train Ribbing Near Cairo, 111.
Cairo, 111., April 27.—Three men got on
the Illinois Central railroad passenger
train, while lying at the incline, bound
south, last night, and robbed two or three
passengers, fine passenger was supposed
to have been shot by them. Two of them
were ariested and identified by one cf the
parties robbed.
Wreckage from the Oegon.
Stapleton S. 1., April 27.—The wrecking
steamer Rescue arrived here this evening
with a full cargo of dry-goods and other
freight from the wrecked steamer Oregon
If tne sea remains >:almit is probable that
much more of the cargo will be saved.
Still st Their Murderous Work,
Guatmas. Mkx.. April 27.—A telegram
announces the i eapreai ance of the Apaches
under Geronimo. near Calabasas, A. T.
Ten persons ere reported killed near i 4
latter place, and over thirty persons "i.l
killed on ranches near Casita,