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PREACHING AND TEACHING.
The Style of Religious Disoourse
Must be Changed
If th* Ministry Iln* Any Hope of Saving
the World—Sermon by Rev. T. Ua Witt
T*lm»ge, D. D.
The Hamptons, July 24.— Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage’s subject this morning was:
“Preaching, Teaching and Exhortation,”
aDd his text: Romans, twelfth chapter,
seventh and eighth verses: “Or ministry,
let us wait on our ministering ;*or he that
teachetb,on teaching; or he that exhorteth,
on exhortation.”
Before the world is converted the style
of religious discourse will have to be con
verted. You might as well go into the
modern Sedan or Gettysburg with bows
and arrows instead of rifles and bomb
shells and parks of artillery as to expect
to conquer this world for God by the old
styles of exhortation and sermonologv.
Jonathan Edwards preached the sermons
most adapted to the age in which he lived,
but if those sermons were preached now
they would divide an audience into two
classes, those sound asleep and those
wanting to go home.
But there is a religious discourse of the
future; who will preach it I have no idea;
in what part of the earth it will be born I
have no idea; in which denomination of
Christians it will be delivered I can not
guess. That discourse, or exhortation,
may be born in the country meeting-house
on the banks of the St. Lawrence, or the
Oregon, or the Ohio, or the Tombigbee, or
the Alabama. The person who shall de
liver it may this moment be in a cradle
under the shadows of the Sierra Nevadas,
or in a New England farm-house, or amid
the rice fields of Southern savannas. Or
this moment there may be some young man
in some of our theological seminaries in the
junior or middle or senior class shaping
that weapon of power. Or there may be
coming some new baptism of the Holy
Ghost on the churches, so that some
of us who now stand in the watch-towers
•f Zion, waking to a realization of our
present inefficiency, may preach it our
selves. That coming discourse may not
be fifteen years off. And let us pray God
that its arrival may be hastened, while I
announce to you what I think will be the
chief characteristics of that discourse or
exhortation when it does arrive, and I
want to make the remarks of the morning
appropriate and suggestive to all classes
of Christian workers. First of all I re
mark that that future religious discourse
will be full of a living Christ in contradis
tinction to didatic technicalities. A dis
oourse may be full of Christ, though
scarcely mentioning His name, and a ser
mon may be empty of Christ, while every
sentence is repetitions of His titles.
The world wants a living Christ; not a
Christ standing at the head of a formal
system of theology, but a Christ who
means pardon and sympathy, and condo
lence, and brotherhood, and life and
Heaven. A poor man’s Christ. An in
valid’s Christ. A farmer’s Christ. A
merchant’s Christ. An artisan’s Christ.
An every man’s Christ.
A symmetrical and fine-worded system
of theology is well enough for theological
classes, but it has no more business in a
pulpit than have the technical phrases of
an anatomist or a psychologist or a physi
cian in the sick room of a patient. The
world wants help, immediate and word
uplifting, and it will come through a dis
course in which Christ shall walk right
down into the immortal soul and take
everlasting possession of it, filling it as
full of light as is this noonday firma
ment.
That sermon or exhortation of the future
will deal with men in the threadbare illus
trations of Jesus Christ. In that coming
address there will be instances of vicari
ous suffering taken right out of every-day
life, for there is not a day somebody is not
dying for others. As the physician saving
his diphtheritic patient by sacrificing his
own life; as the ship captain going down
with his vessel while he is getting his pas
sengers into the life-boat; as the fireman
consuming in the burning building while
he is taking a child from a fourth story
window; as in summer the strong swim
mer at East Hampton or Long Branch or
Cape May or Lake George himself perished
trying to rescue the drowning; as the
newspaper boy one summer, supporting
his mother for some years, his invalid
mother, when offered by a gentleman fifty
cents to buy some especial paper, and he
got it, and rushed up in his anxiety to de
liver it, and was crushed under the wheels
of a train, and lay on the grass with only
strength enough to say, “Oh, what will
become of my poor sick mother now?”
Vicarious suffering. The world is full
of it. An engineer said to me on a loco
motive in Dakota: “We men seem to be
coming to better appreciation than we
used to. Did you see that account the
other day of an engineer who to save his
passengers stuck to his place, and when
he was found dead in the locomotive,
which was upside down, he was found
still smiling, his hand on the air-brake?”
And as the engineer said it to me, he put
his hand on the air-brake to illustrate his
meaning, and I looked at him and thought:
“You would be just as much of a hero in
the same crisis.”
Oh, in that religious discourse of the
future there will be living illustrations
taken out from every-day life of vicarious
suffering—illustrations that will bring to
mind the ghastlier sacrifices of Him who,
in the high places of the field, on the cross
fonght our battles, and wept our griefs,
and endured our struggles, and died our
death.
A German sculptor made an image of
Christ, and he asked his little child two
years old who it was, and she said: “That
must be some very great man.” The
sculptor was displeased with the criticism,
so he got another block of marble and
chiseled away on it two or three years,
and then he brought iu his little child,
four or five years of age, and he said to
bar: “Who do you think that Mb#
said: “That must be the One who took
little children in his arms and blessed
them.” Then the sculptor was satisfied.
O, my friends, what the world wants is not
a cold Christ, not an intellectual Christ,
not a severely magisterial Christ, but a
loving Christ, spreading out His arms of
sympathy to press ;he whole world to His
loving heart.
But, I remark again, that the religious
discourse of the future will be short.
Condensation is demanded by the age in
which we live. No more need of long in
troductions and long applications, and so
many divisions to a discourse that it may
be said to be hydraheaded. In other days
men got all their information from the
pulpit. There were few books and there
were no newspapers, and there was little
travel from place to place, and people
would sit and listen two and a half hours
to a religious discourse, and “seventeenth
ly” would find them fresh and chip
per. In those dxys there was enough
time for a man to take an hour to warm
himself up to the subject and an hour to
cool off. But what was a necessity then
is a superfluity new. Congregations are
full of knowledge from books, from news
papers, from rapid and continuous inter
communication, and long disquisitions of
what they know already, will not be
abided. If a religious teacher can not
compress what he wishes to say to the
people in the space of forty-five minutes,
better adjourn it to some other day.
The trouble is we preach audiences into
a Christian frame, and then we preach
them out of it. We forget that every
auditor has so much capacity of attention,
and when that is exhausted he is restless.
That accident on the Long Island railroad
some years ago came from the fact that the
brakes were out of order, and when they
wanted to stop the train they could not
stop, and hence the casualty was terrifio.
In all religious discourse we want locomo
tive power and propulsion. We want at
the same time stout brakes to let down at
the right instant. It is a dismal thing after
a hearer has comprehended the whole sub
ject to hear a man say: “Now to recapitu
late,” and “a few words oy way of appli
cation,” and “once more,” and “finally,”
and “now to conclude.”
Paul preached until midnight, and Euty
chus got sound asleep, and fell out of a
window and broke his neck. Borne would
say: “Good for him.” I would rather be
sympathetic, like Paul, and resuscitate
him. That accident is often quoted now
in religious circles as a warning against
somnolence in church. It is just as much
a warning to ministers against prolixity.
Eutychus was wrong in his somnolence,
but Paul made a mistake when he kept on
until midnight. He ought to have stopped
at eleven o’clock, and there would have
been no accident. If Paul might have
gone on to too great length, let all those
of us who are now preaching the Gospel
remember that there is a limit in religious
discourse, or ought to be, and that in our
time we have no apostolic power of mira
cles.
Napoleon in an address of seven minutes
thrilled his army, and thrilled Europe.
Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, the model
sermon, was less than eighteen minutes’
long at ordinary mode of delivery. It is
not electricity scattered all over the sky
that strikes, but electricity gathered into
a thunderbolt anc hurled; and it is not
religious truth scattered over, spread out
over a vast react of time, but religious
truth projected in compact form that
flashes light upon the soul and rives its in
difference.
When the religious discourse of the fu
ture arrives in this land and in the Chris
tian Church, the discourse which is to
arouse the world and startle the nations
and usher in the kindoms, it will be a brief
discourse. Hear it all theological students,
all ye just entering upon religious work,
all ye men and women who in Sabbath
schools aud other departments are toiling
for Christ and the salvation of immortals.
Brevity! Brevity!
But I remark also that the religious dis
course of the future of which I speak will
be a popular discourse. There are those
in these times who speak of a popular
sermon as though there must be some
thing wrong about it. As these critics
are dull themselves the world gets the
impression that a sermon is good in pro
portion as it is stupid. Christ was the
most popular preacher the world ever
saw, and considering the small number of
the world’s population had the largest
audiences ever ' gathered. He never
preached anywhere without making a
great sensation. People rushed out in the
wilderness to hear him, reckless of their
physical necessities. Bo great was their
anxiety to hear Christ that, taking no food
with them, they would have fainted and
starved had not Cfcrist performed a mir
acle and fed them.
Why did so many people take the truth
at Christ’s hands ? Because they all under
stood it. He illustrated his subject by a
hen and her chickens, by a bushel meas
ure, by a handful of salt, by a bird’s flight
and by a lily’s aroma. All the people
knew what He meant, and they flocked to
Him. And when the religious discourse of
the future appears, it will not be the
Princetonian, nor Roc.hesterian, nor An
doverian, nor Middletonian, but Olivetic
—plain, practical, unique, earnest, com
prehensive of all the woes, wants, sins,
sorrows and necessities of an auditory.
But when that exhortation or discourse
does come there w..l be a thousand gleam
ing scimetars to charge on it. There are
in so many theological seminaries profes
sors telling young men how to preach,
themselves not knowing how, and I am
told that if a young man in some of our
theological setr#n..iies says any thing
quaint or thrilling or unique, faculty and
students fly at him and set him right, and
straighten him out, and smooth him down,
and chop him off, until he says every thing
just as every body else says it.
Oh, when the future religious discourse
of the Christian Church arrives, all the
churches of Christ in our great cities wiil
be thronged. The world wants spirtual
help. Ail who have buried their dead
want comfort. All knew themselves to be i
mortal aud to be immortal, and the; want j
to hoar about the groat fuVura, j
TRENTON. DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. JULY 29. 1887.
I toll you, my friends, if thei people of our
groat cities tvho have had trouble only
thought they could get. practical and sym
pathetic help In tho Christian Church
there would not be a street in New York,
or Brooklyn, or Chicago, or Charleston, or
Philadelphia, or Boston which would be
passable on the Sabbath day if there were
a church on it; for all the people would
press to that asylum of mercy, that great
bouse of comfort and consolation.
A mother with a dead babe in her arms
came to the god Veda, and asked to have
the child restored to life. The god Veda
said to her: “You go and get a hrndful
of mustard-seed from a house in which
there has been no sorrow, and in which
there has been no death, and I will restore
your child to life.” Bo the mother went
out, and she went from house to bouse,
and from home to home, looking for a
place where there had been no sorrow and
where there had been no death, but she
found none. She went back to the god
Veda and said: “My mission is a failure:
you see I haven’t brought the mustard
seed; I can’t find a place where there
hss been no sorrow or death.” “Oh,’’says
the god Veda, “understand your sorrows
are no worse than the sorrows of others;
we all have onr griefs, and all have our
heartbreaks.”
Laugh, and the world laughs with yon.
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own,
We hear a great deal of discussion now
all over the land about why people do not
go to church. Borne say it is because
Christianity is dying out, and because peo
ple do not believe in the truth of God’s
word, and all that. They are false rea
sons. The reason is because our sermons
and exhortations are not interesting, and
practical, and helpful. Borne one might
as well tell the whole truth on this sub
ject, and so I will tell it. The religious
discourse of the future, the Gospel ser
mon to come forth and shake the nations
and lift people out of darkness, will be a
popular sermon, just for the simple reason
that it will meet the woes and the wants
and the anxieties of the people.
There are in all our denominations
ecclesiastical mummies sitting around to
frown upon the fresh young pulpits of
America, to try to awe them down, to cry
out: “Tut! tut! tut! Sensational!”
They stand to-day preaching in churches
that hold a thousand people and there are
a hundred persons present, and if they
can not have the world saved in their way
it seems as if they do not want it saved
at all.
I do not know but the old way of making
ministers of the Gospel is better—a col
legiate education and an apprenticeship
under the care and home attention of some
earnest, aged Christian minister, the
young man getting the patriaroh’s spirit
and assisting him in his religions service.
Young lawyers study with old lawyers;
young physicians study with old physi
cians, and I believe it would be a great
help if every young man studying for the
Gospel ministry could put himself in the
home, and heart, and sympathy, and un
der the benediction and perpetual pres
ence of a Christian minister.
But, I remark again, the religious dis
course of the future will be au awakening
sermon. From altar-rail to the front
doorstep, under that sermon, an audience*
will get up and start for Heaven. There
will be in it many a staccato passage.
It will not be a lullaby. It will
be a battle charge. Men will drop their
sins, for they will feel the hot breath of
pursuing retribution on the back of their®
necks. It will be sympathetic with
all the physical distresses as well as the
spiritual distresses of the world. Christ
not only preached, but He healed pa
ralysis, and Ho healed epilepsy, and He
healed the dumb and the blind and the
lepers.
That religious discourse of the future
will be aa every-day sermon, going right
down into every man’s life, and it will
teach him how to vote, how to bargain,
how to plow, how to do any work he is
called to, how to wield trowel and pen and
pencil and yard-stick and plane. And it
will teach women how to preside over
their households, and howto educate their
children, and how to imitate Miriam and
Esther and Vashti and Eunice, the mother
of Timothy, and Mary, the mother of
Christ; and those women who, on North
ern and Southern battle-fields, were mis
taken by the wounded for angels of mercy
fresh from the throne of God.
Yes, I have to tell you the religious dis
course of the future will be a reported ser
mon. If you have any idea that printing
was invented simply to print secular
books, and stenography and phonography
were contrived merely to get forth secular
ideas, you are mistaken. The printing
press is to be the great agency of Gospel
proclamation. It is high time that good
men, instead of denouncing the press,
employ it to scatter forth the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. The vast majority of peo
ple in our cities do not come to church,
and nothing but the printed sermon can
reach them and call them to pardon and
life and peace and Heaven.
Bo I can not understand the nervousness
of some of my brethren of the ministry.
When they see a newspaper man coming
m they say: “Alas, there is a reporter!”
Every added reporter is ten thousand,
fifty thousand, a hundred thousand im
mortal souls added to the auditory. The
time will come when all the village, town
and city newspapers will reproduce the
gospel of Jesus Christ, and sermons
preached on the Sabbath will reverberate
all around the world; and some by type,
and some by voice, all nations will be
evangelized.
The practical bearing of this is upon
those who are engaged in Christian work,
not only upon theological s»>d->nts and
young ministers, but upon ai -ho preach
the GospeL, and all who exhort in meet
ings, and that is all of yon, if you are do
ing your duty. Do you exhort in prayer
meeting? Be short and be spirited. Do
you teach in Bible class? Though you
have to study evnry night, bo interesting.
Do you accost people on the subject of re
ligion in their homes or in public places?
Study adroitness aud use common sense.
The meet graceful sad most Harmful ,
thing on earth is the religion of Jeans
Christ, and if you awkwardly present it,
it is defamation. We must do our work
rapidly, and we must do it effectively.
Soon our time for work will be gone.
A dying Christian took out his watch
and gave it to a frieud and said: “Tako
that watch, I have no more use for it;
time is ended for me aud eternity begins.”
Oh, my friends, when our watch has
ticked away for us the last moment, and
our clock has struck for us the last hour,
may it be found we did our work well,
that we did it in the very best way, aud
whether we preached the Gospel in puF
pits or taught Sabbath classes, or admin
istered to the sick as physicians, or bar
gained as merchants, or plead the law as
attorneys, or were busy as artisans, or as
husbandmen, or as mechanics, or were,
like Martha, called to give a meal to a
hungry Christ, or like Hannah, to make a
coat for a prophet, or like Deborah, to
rouse the courage of some timid Barak in
the Lord’s conflict, we did our work in
such a way that it will stand the test of
the judgment.
And in the long procession of the re
deemed that march around the throne may
it be found there are many there brought
to God through our instrumentality and
in whose rescue we are exultant.
But, O you unsaved, wait not for that
religious discourse of the future. It may
come after your obsequies. It may como
after the stone-cutter lias chiseled our
name on the slab fifty years before. Do
not wait for a great steamer of the
Cunard or White Star Line to take you off
the wreck, but hail the first craft with
however low a mast, and however small a
hulk, and however poor a rudder, and
however weak a captain. Better a dis
abled schooner that comes up in time than
a full-i'igged brig that comes up after you
have sunken.
Instead of waiting for that religious dis
course of the future—it may be forty,
fifty years off—take this plain invitation
of a man who, to have given you spiritual
eyesight, would be glad to be called the
s pittle by the hand of Christ put on the
eyes of a blind man, and who would con
sider the highest compliment of this serv
ice if at the close five hundred men should
start from these doors saying: “Whether
he be a sinner or no I know not. This one
thing I know, whereas I was blind, now I
see.”
Swifter than shadows over the plain,
quicker than birds in their autumnal
flight, hastier than eagles to their prey,
hie you to a sympathetic Christ. The or
chestras of Heaven have already strung
their instruments to celebrate your res
cue.
“And many were the voices around the
throne;
Rejoice, for the Lord brings back His
own.”
GIRLS AND BOYS.
Common-Seas* Bints for Their Qaidanea
in loathful Hours.
Young subconscious of the
power thejKert men with
whom they are bronght into contact.
Their standards influence tho couduet of
young men while they are iu their pres
ence, if at ne other time.
A young lady who will allow loud and
boisterous conversation, familiar manner,
inelegant attitudes, careless reference to
church and church members takes down
the barriers that should be maintained be
tvpcn herself and her gentleman frienda.
appear that she makes herself
more attractive by this freedom, but it is
not so. No girl is attractive to a gentle
man who does not maintain a gentle,
womanly dignity, and by her attitude pre
vent a slipping away from the nicest con
ventionalities of society. In the deeper
matters —things affecting life in its spirit
ual and moral side—a girl has a greater
influence than she dreams.
A very safe rule governing the relations
between herself and her gentleman
friends for a girl to make is to never per
mit a word, a subject of conversation, to
take place between a gentleman and her
self that she would hesitate to have
spoken or discussed m the presence of
fathor, mother or brother, and this will
be no bar to a pleasant, entertaining and
fun making intercourse, but it will pre
vent the use of slang, the discussion of sil
ly themes and trifl.ng with subjects that
are, and should be, sacred to every young
man and woman governed by refined and
righteous principles.
Girls love pretty things as naturally as
the bees love sunshine. It is not to be
granted that boys are not susceptible to
beauty in varieus shapes also; but to the
feminine portion of humanity comes the
greater share of the lcve of the beautiful.
In the home life, where so many girls are
of necessity kept until they are grown to
womanhood, the opportunity for beautify
ing themselves as well as their surround
ings is often lost because the father per
haps, and occasions ly the moth n r also,
has grown to think that simple prettiness
is of no possible use. They have out
grown their youthful thoughts, follies in
their eyes now, and have learned to say,
What’s its use? to every thing new.
If a girl in her home life be allowed to
rearrange the rooms according to her
taste, to bring into the living room plants
or simply her flowers, to occasionally nave
some new ornament, cheap in many cases
it may be, but have its newness a thing of
beauty, and not have some one saying:
“It’s useless; it can neither be eaten nor
worn"—she will take much more comfort,
and care much more for her father’s home.
There are fathers who love their
daughters—as well as they know how—and
still they never allow them to think money
or time can be spent on any thing that is
not in itself of some obvious use; they
pooh-pooh at the idea of a flower bed; they
object to vines on the house because they
are rubbish, and the idea of a prettily fur
nished room, either for the family or for
the daughter herself, is an unheard of
folly.
When these girls go out from the barren
home life, what wondey that they seldom
know how t« act in a pleasantly appointed
home I and more, what wonder that the
trusting, loving heart sometimes is too
easily lt>d astray through promises of a
pretty home.—JV. Y Herald, m
—.«■
Do® is just as much behind events that
come gradually as Be is behind those that
«M suddottiy, —o*i4*n Jfefe
SEW NATIONAL LIBRARY.
Clowly tho Deep Foundations Aro
Being Built.
An Institution Which W’iit Bo ttio Glory
of the Country and a Building Which
Will Gloiily Beautiful Washington.
Washington, July 26.—Librarian Spof
ford, who usually makes his home on tho
New England coast about this time of tho
year, is still here. Dirt is flying,old walls
coming down, mortar mixing,stone piling
up, and other evidences of a great enter
prise are making their appearance in the
square just opposite the Capitol. It is the
site for the new public library, and Mr.
Spofford’s stay in Washington most of the
summer will be for the purpose of giving
his personal attention to this great enter
prise, the contemplation of which has been
a part of his very existence for years. Tho
building is to be something enormous, as
is shown by the tremendous excavation
being now made. There are 73,000 cubic
yards to be excavated. The building is to
hold about 11,000,000 square feet of area,
and will have about 21,000 more square
feet than the area covered by the State,
War and Navy Departments. The reading
room will be four feet larger in diameter
than the rotunda of the Capitol. The con
crete foundations are to go in this fall, set
tle during the winter, and work will begin
on the building next spring. Congress will
appropriate as the work goes on. Tho
present designs will accommodate 2,500,-
000 volumes, but whenever the timo
comes that more space is needed,
the adjoining corridors, where at pres
ent the copyright pictures, plans,
etc., will be hung, can bo used for the
spread of the library proper until, if nec
essary, several centuries off, 8,000,000 vol
umes can be placed between the walls.
This building will do for generations of
our national life. J. L. Smithineyer, tho
architect, is dividing his timo between
Washington and the seashore, keeping an
eye on the work as it slowly goes on. Mr.
Smithmeyer hails from Indiana, but has
long made Washington his home. For fif
teen years this great library at the Cap
ital has been his architectural dream.
How many plans he has submitted during
the ups and downs of the effort to get a
starter out of Congress would be difficult
to say. He has personally inspected and
studied every library structure of conse
quence in the world, and his professional
ambition will be satisfied when he sees
this finished nAument of his genius.
A PECULIAR ACCIDENT,
In Which a Horse is Killed by an Klectrio
Wire.
New York, July 26. —A Montgomery
(Ala.) special says: Governor Beuy was
the victim of a peculiar accidcntyesterday
afternoon. He and his private secretary,
J. K. Jackson, were driving down the main
thoroughfare of the city, when one of the
guy wires which support the overhead
cable of tho electric street railway broke
and fell to the ground, striking the Gov
ernor’s horse. The wire was heavily
charged with electricity, aud the horse, be
comingentangled,was shocked and burned
to death in a few minutes. Had it fallen a
second later, the wire would have struck
the Governor and Mr. Jackson, instead of
the horse. The accident has created great
uneasiness about the safety of the ciectrio
cav system.
Colored Duelists.
New Orleans, July 26. — A fatal duel was
fought yesterday evening on the banks of
Yazoo river opposite Greenwood, Miss.,
between George Evans and Bud Harris,
both well-known colored men. The men
were terribly in earnest, and selected
double-barreled shotguns which were
loaded with buckshot. Only two paces
apart they stood, the muzzles of the guns
almost touching. When the word was
given to fire both responded almost at tho
same moment. Evans fell dead, his breast
torn to pieces by the murderous buckshot.
Harris was dangerously, perhaps fatally,
wounded.
General Comly Dead.
Toledo, 0., July 26.—General J. M.
Comly, editor and proprietor of the Com
mercial, died to-night of heart and lung
trouble. He was a native of Perry Coun
ty, 0., wa*bred a practical printer, and
the law, entered the
army in President Hays’ regiment, the
Twenty-third Ohio, rose to be a Colonel,
and was brevetted Brigadier General for
gallant services in the field. After tho
war for several years he was editor of
the Ohio Stole Journal, Columbus, was
postmaster of Columbus from 1872 to 1876,
was appointed Minister to the Sandwich
Islands in 1877, serving five years.
Colored Troops Can Altend.
CnicAGo, July 56.—The order issued bv
General Bently barring out colored troops
from the International Military Encamp
ment to be held here in October was re
called to-day by request of the board of
managers in charge of the enterprise.
$2,500 Reward for McGarigle.
Chicago July 26.—Sheriff Matson has
caused a circular to be printed offering on
liis own account a reward of *2,500 for tho
capture of McGarigle, the escaped boodler.
The circular will be sent to all tho princi
pal cities of the country.
Murder and Lynching.
New Orleans, July 26.—80 b Jones, an
aged colored man, of Sunflower County,
was brutally murdered by his son-in-law,
Lloyd Martin,while trying to prevent Mar
tin whipping his wife. Martin, who was
always considered a hard case, was taken
from the officers by a mob of colored per
sons and lynched at Johnsonville to-duy.
The Pope Will Not Interfere.
Bomb, July 26. The Pope Las decided
that there is no ground for Papal interfer
ence with the Knights of Labor quo uion.
He hits conveyed the announcement of this
decision to Cardinal Gibbons.
VOL. IV.—NO. 23.
MINERAL PRODUCTIONS
In the United Stat'B During the Year
IU 80.
Washington, July 25.—A condense*!
statement of the production of the most
important minerals of tho United States in
tho calendar year 1886 is issued by the
United States Geological Survey in ad
vance of a report propared by David T.
Day, Chief of the Division of Mining
Statistics and Technology. Notably in
creased production aud also an in
crease in value have been tho general
characteristics of the mineral industries
during 1886. The total value of the mine
products increased in round numbers from
*425,000,000 in 1885 to #465, COO, 000 in 1886.'
The important factor in this gain
of *37,000,000 was the increased produc
tion of pig iron, from 4,044,525 long tons in
’BS to 5,683,329 long tons in ’B6 and an ap
preciation of seventy-five cents in the av
erage valuo per ton, making a total gain
of *30,483,360 in this industry alone: do
mestic iron ore consumes 10,000,009 long
tons; valuo at mines, *28,009,000; im
ported iron ore consumed, 1,039,483
long tons; total iron ore consumed,
11,039,433 long tons. The total value of
the gold product in ’B3 was *85,000,090,
an increase of *3,199,000 over 1885. The
production of silver decreased from #51,-
600,000 iu 1885 to *51,000,000 in 1886. The pro
duction of copper in 1886 including 4,500,-
000 pounds from imported pyrites,
amounted to 160,678,081 pounds, valued at
*16,469,503, a decrease of 10,281,526 pounds
and *1,823,496 in value from 1895. The total
production of all kinds of coal in 1886 ex
clusive of that consumed at the mines,
known as colliery consumption, was 107,-
686,209 short tons valued at *147,112,755 at
the mines. This may be divided into Penn
sylvania anthracite, 36.696,475 short tons,
valued at *71,558,126; all other coals includ
ing bituminous, brown coal, ignite and
small lots of anthracite produced in Arkan
sas and Colorado, 70,895,734 short tons, val
ued at *75,754,029.
A MODERN NOAH
Prepares an Ark, Which is Anchored to
llis Cahin.
New York, July 25.—A Boston special
says: There is a strange old man living on
Bear Lake, in New Brunswick,three days’
journey through the woods frou Vancebor
ough, Maine, who has been told by a spirit
that there is shortly to be a second great
flood, in which he is to play the part of
Noah. He has prepared himself with an
ark, which is anchored to his little log
cabin and which is ready to start on a sail
at a moment’s notice. The name of the
prospective Noah is John Hobson, and in
his early days he lived in Amity, Maine.
Tho Indians about Bear Lake call him
Bagonita, which, literally translated,
means “Cracked on the Big Canoe.” As
eighteen inches of rain has fallen during
the past forty-eight hours, his neighbors
are treating the old man well.
Poisoned by Dead Cattle.
Utica, N. Y., July 25.—Giles Smith, of
Deerfield, lost three cows last Wednesday
by bloody murrain. He had them buried
near a running stream, which infected tho
water. Three cows belonging to William
Budlong, jr., a neighbor, died of tiic dis
ease. Budlong and John Raymond, while
looking for the cause, were stung by mos
quitoes, and are now seriously ill, having
been inoculated with the murrain virus.
There is considerable excitement and in
dignation about the matter. The stream
runs through several large farms of im
ported cattle.
Struck Oil at Detroit.
Detroit, Mich., July 25.—Diggers of a
cellar in the northern part of the city this
morning struck a large vein of oil, which
made it impossible to continue work. Ex
perts pronounce the oil of the best quality,
and the property in the neighborhood ha 3
nearly all been taken to-day. A well will
be sunk at once. This is the first indica
tion of gas found in Detroit. There is some
excitement.
Heavy Safe Robbary.
Bessemer, Mich., July 21.—The Colby
Mine safe was robbel of *4,099 Saturday
night. The burglars gained admission by
the office window. Saturday was pay-day
and over *30,009 wa3 distributed. There
is generally about #IO.OOO in the safe after
pay-day, as some men don’t get their
wages until Monday. There is no clue to
the robbers.
Heavy Storm in New York.
Canajoharie, N. Y., July’2s.—The heav
iest rain-storm for the time of duration in
years visited the Mohawk Valley to-day.
Growing grain was washed down and
roadways were washed out.. Store cellars
are flooded aud creeks are greatly swollen.
Epidemics in Illinois.
Salem, 111., July 25.—Dysentery, cholera
infantum and other kindred diseases have
for several weeks prevailed among the
children in this vicinity. At (Odin many
have died, and in the townships of Rac
coon and Haines the fatality has been great.
Volcanic Eruption.
Malta, July 25. A violent volcanic
eruption has occurred on the island of
Galita, off the coast of Tunis. Streams of
lava are issuing from the crater of the
volcano, and the glare of the flames emit
ted is visible for fifty miles.
St. Louis Invitation Accepted.
Washington, July 25.—The President '‘-e
--ceived the St. Louis delegation sent to in
vite him and Mrs. Cleveland to St. Louis
October 2, to-day. Mayor Francis deliv
ered the invitation address, and t.lie Pres
ident accepted the invitation in a few well
chosen words.
Retaliation.
Ottawa, July 25.—A new or ier in coun
cil prohibits the importation of meat cattle
from the United States into Manitoba, the
Northwest and British Columbia, except
for breeding purposes or in trausit from
one to another in the YfrlUed States.