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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher. 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. * 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: ♦ . —- 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.” ■ —♦- » ■ 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. - , . . 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. VOL m.-NO. 10. 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. « « «- - 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. • ♦ ♦ 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,