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WOMAN.
Her Position in the World Higher
Than Man’s,
And Braver Thun He When True Courage
in Required—Sormon by Rev, T. lie Witt
Talmage.
Tnn Hampton?, Sept. 4.—Rev-. T. DeWitt
Talmage’s text to-day was from Solomon's
Song, Chapter vi., 8: “There are three
score queens.”
« So Solomon, by one stroke, set forth the
imperial character of a true Christian
woman. She is not a slave, not a hire
ling, not a subordinate, but a queen; and
in my text Solomon sees sixty of theso
helping to make up the royal pageant of
Jesus. In a former sermon I showed you
at some length that woman's position was
higher in the world than man’s, and that
she had often been denied the
right of suffrage, she always did vote and
always would vote by her influence; and
that her chief desire ought to be that she
should have grace rightly to rule in the
dominion which she has already won. I
began an enumeration of some of her
rights, and this morning I resume the
subject.
In the first place, woman has the special
and the superlative right—not again going
back to what I have already said—woman
has the special and superlative right of
blessing and comforting the sick.
What land, what street, what house, has
wot felt the smitings of disease? Tens of
thousands of sick beds! What shall we
do with them? Shall man, with his rough
hand and clumsy foot, go stumbling
around the sick-room trying to soothe the
distracted nerves and alleviate the pains
of the tossing patient? The young man at
college may scoff at the idea of being un
der maternal influences; but at the first
blast of the typhoid fever on his cheek he
says: “Where is mother?” Walter Scott
wrote partly in satire and partly in com
pliment when he said:
"Oh woman, in our hours of ease.
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou.”
I think the most pathetic passage in all
«tic Bible is the description of the lad who
went out to the harvest-field of Shunem
and got sun-struck—throwing his hands
on his temples and crying out: “Oh,
my head! my head!” aud they said:
“Carry him to his mother.” And then
the record is: “He sat on her knees
till nooD, and then died.” It is an awful
thing to he ill away from home, in a
strange hotel; once in a while men coming
in to look at you, holding their hand over
their mouth for fear they will catch the
contagion. How roughly they turn you in
bed ! How loudly they talk ! How you long
er the miuisteries of home! I know one
such who went away from one of the
brightest of homes, for several weeks’
business absence at the West. A telegram
came at midnight that he was on his death
bed, far away from home. By express
train the wife and daughters went West
ward: but they went too late. He feared
not to die, but ho was in agony to live until
his family got there. He tried to bribe the
doctor to make him live a little while lon
ger. He said: “I am willing to die but
not alone.” But the pulses fluttered, the
©yes closed, and the heart stopped. The
express trains met in the midnight, wife
and daughters going Westward—lifeless
remains of husband and father coming
Eastward. Oh, it was sad, pitiful, over
whelming spectacle! When we are sick
we want to be sick at home. When the time
comes for us to die, we want to die at
home. The room may be very humble,
and the faces that look into ours may be
very plain; but who cares for that? Loving
hands to bathe the temples. Loving voices
to speak good cheer. Loving lips to read
the comforting promises of Jesus. In our
last dreadful war men cast the cannon;
men fashioned the musketry; men cried to
the hosts, “Forward, march!” men hurled
their battalions on the sharp edges of the
enemy, crying, “Charge! charge!” but
Woman scraped the lint; woman adminis
tered the eordials; woman watched by the
dying couch; woman wrote the last
message to the home circle; woman wept
at the solitary burial, attended by herself
and four men with a spade. We greeted
the Gonerals home with brass bands and
triumphal arches and wild huzzas, but the
story is too good to be written any-where,
save in the chronicles of Heaven, of Mrs.
Brady, who came down among the sick in
the swamps of the Chickahominy; of
Annie Ross, in the cooper-shop hospital;
of Margaret B reckon ridge, who came
to men who had been for weeks with
their wounds undressed—some of them
frozen to the ground, and when she
turned them over those that had an
arm lcft'waved it and filled the air with
their “hurrah!”—of Mrs. Hodge, who
came from Chicago with blankets and
with pillows, until the men shouted:
“Three cheers for the Christian Commis
sion! God bless the women at home!”
then sitting down to take the last mes
sage: “Tell my wife not to fret about mo,
but to meet me in Heaven; tell her to
train up the hoys whom we have loved so
well; tell her we shall meet again in the
good land; tell her to bear my loss like
the Christian wife of a Christian soldier;”
and of Mrs. Shelton, into whose face the
convalescent soldier looked and said:
“Your grapes and cologne cured me.”
Men did their work' with shot, and shell,
and carbine, and howitzer; women did
their work with socks, and slippers, and
bandages, and warm drinks, and Scripture
texts, and gentle strokings of the hot tem
ples, and stories of that land where they
never have any pain. Men knelt down
over the wounded and said: “On which
side did you fight?” Women knelt down
over the wounded and said" “Where are
you hurt? Wh .t nioe thing can 1 make for
you to eat ? What makes you cry ?” To
night, while we men are sound asleep in
our bods, there will be a light in yonder
loft; there will be groaning down that
dark alley; there will be cries of distress
in that cellar. Men will sleep, and women
will watch. r-***'* • ncr.
Again, voman has a superlative right to
take care of the poor. There are hundreds
and thousands of them all over the land,
lhere is a kind of work that men*can not
do for the poor. Here comes a group of
little bare-foot children tc the door of tho
Dorcas Society. They need to bo clothed
and provided for. Which of these direc
tors of banks would know how many
yards it would take to make that little girl
a dress? Which of these masculine hands
could fit a hat to that little girl’s head?
Which of the wise men would know how
to tie on that new pair of shoes? Man
sometimes gives his charity in a
rough way, and it falls like the
fruit of a tree in the East, which
fruit conies down so heavily that it
breaks the skull of the man who is trying
to gather it. But woman glides so softly
into the house of destitution, and finds out
all the sorrows of the place, and puts so
quietly the donation on the table, that all
the family comes out on the front steps as
she departs, expecting that from under
her shawl she will thrust out two wings
and go right up toward Heaven, from
whence she seems to have come down. O,
Christian young woman! if you would
make yourself happy and win the blessing
of Christ, go out among the destitute.
A loaf of bread or a bnndle of socks may
make a homely load to carry, but tho
angels of God will come out to watch,
and the Lord Almighty will give His mes
senger hosts a charge, saying: “Look
after that woman. Canopy her with your
wings and shelter her from all harm;”
and while you are seated in the house of
destitution and suffering, the little ones
around the room will whisper: “Who is
she? Ain’t she beautiful?” and if you
will listen right sharply, you will hear
dripping down through the leaky roof,
and rolling over tho rotten stairs,
the angel chant that shook Bethle
hem: “Glory to Gcd in the highest,
and on earth peace, good will to
men.” Can you tell me why a Christian
woman, going down among the haunts of
iniquity on a Christian errand, never
meets with any indignity? I stood in the
chapel of Helen Chalmers, the daughter
of the celebrated Dr. Chalmers, in the
most abandoned part of the city of Edin
burgh, aud I said toiler as 1 looked around
upon the fearful surroundings of that
place: “Do you come here nights to hold
services?” “O, yes,” she said. “Can it be
possible that you never meet with an
insult while performing this Chris
tian errand?” “Never,” she said,
“never.” That young woman who has
her father by her side walking down tho
street, an armed police at each corner, is
not so well defended as that Christian wo
man who goes forth on Gospel work into
the haunts of iniquity, carrying tho Bibles
and bread. God, with the red right arm
of His wrath omnipotent, would tear to
pieces any one who should offer indignity.
Ho would smite him with lightnings, and
drown him with floods, and swallow
him with eai-thquakes, and damn him
with eternal indignations. Borne one
said: .“I dislike very much to see that
Christian woman teaching those bad
boys in the Mission School. lam afraid
to have her instruct them.” “Bo,” said
auother man, ‘“I am afraid, too.” Said the
first: “I am afraid they will use vile
language before they leave the place.”
“Ah,” said the other man, “I am not
afraid of that. What 1 am afraid of is
that if anj’’ ot those hoys should use a
bad word in that presence the other boys
would tear him to pieces and kill him on
the spot.” That woman is the best shel
tered who is sheltered by the Lord God
Almighty, and you need never fear going
any where God tells you to go.
It, seems as if the Lord had ordained
woman for an especial work in the solic
itation of charities. Backed up by barrels
in which there is no flour, and by stoves in
which there is no fire, and by wardrobes
in which there are no clothes, a woman is
irresistible; passing on her errand, God
says to her: “You go into that bank, or
store, or shop, and get the money.” She
goes in and gets it. The man is hard
fisted, but she gets it. Bho could not help
but get it. It is decreed from eternity she
should get it. No need of your turning
your back and pretending you don’t hear;
you do hear. There is no need your say
ing you are begged to death.
There is no need of your wasting your
time, and you might as well submit first
as last. You had better right away take
down your check-book, mark the number
of the check, fill up the blank, sign your
name and hand it to her. There is no need
of wasting time. Those poor people on
the back street have been hungry long
enough. That sick man must have some
farina. That consumptive must have
something to ease his cough. I meet this
delegate of a relief society coming out of
the store of such a hard-fisted man, and I
say: “Did you get the money?” “Of
course,” she says, “1 got the money; that’s
what I went for. The Lord told me to go
<n and get it, and Ho never sends me on a
fool’s errand.”
Again: I have to tell you that it is a wo
man’s specific right to comfort under the
stress of dire disaster. Blie is called the
weaker vessel; but all profane as well as
sacred history attests that when the crisis
comes she is bettor prepared than man to
meet the emergency. How often you have
seen a woman who seemed to be a disciple
of frivolity and indolence, who, under one
stroke of calamity, changed to a heroine.
Oh, what a great mistake those business
men make who never tell thei; business
troubles to their wives! There comes
some great loss to their store, or
some of their companions in busi
ness play them a sad trick, and
they carry the burden all alone
He is asked in the household again and
again: What is the matter? but he be
lieves it a sort of Christian duty to keep
all that trouble within his own soul. Oh,
sir! your first duty was to tell your wife
all about it. She, perhaps, might UDt
have disentangled your fiuances or ex
tended your credit, but she would have
helped you to bear misfortune. You have
no right to carry on one shoulder that
which is intended for two. There are busi
ness men here who know what I mean.
There cam*a crisis in your affairs. Yen
struggled bravely and long; but after
TRENTON. DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1887.
awhile there came a day wnen you said:
“Here I shall have to stop,’’and you called
in your partners,and you called in the most
prominent men in your employ, and you
said: “We have got to stop.” You left
the store suddenly. You could hardly
make up your mind to pass through the
street and over the ferry-boat. You felt
every body would be looking at you, aud
blaming you, and denouncing you. You
hastened home. You told your wife all
about the affair. What did she say? Did
she play the butterfly? Did she talk about
the silks and ribbons and the fashions?
No. Bhe came up to the emergency. She
quailed not under the stroke.
She helped you to begin to plan right
away. Bhe offered to go out of the com
fortable house into a smaller one, and
wear the old cloak another winter. She
was one who understood your affairs with
out blaming you. You looked upon what
you thought was a thin, weak woman’s
arm holding you ujl; but while you looked
at that arm there came into the feeble
muscles of it the strength of the eternal
God. No chiding. No fretting. No tell
ing you about the beautiful house of her
father, from which you brought her, ten,
twenty or thirty years ago. You said:
“Well, this is the happiest day of my life.
lam glad I have got from under my bur
den. My wife don’t care—l don’t care.”
At the moment you were utterly ex
hausted, God sent a Deborah to meet tho
host of the Amalekito3 and scatter them
like chaff over Ihe plain. There are some
times women who sit reading sentimental
novels, and who wish that they had some
grand field in which to display their Chris
tian powers. Oh, what grand and glorious
things they could do if they only had an
opportunity! My si3*er, yon need not
wait for any such time. A crisis will come
in your affairs. There will be a Ther
mopylae in your own household, where
God will tell you to stand. There are
scores and hundreds of households to-day
whore as much bravery aud courage are
demanded of women as was exhibited by
Grace Darling, or Marie Antoinette, or
Joan of Arc.
Again: I remark, it is woman’s right to
bring us to the kingdom of Heaven. It is
easier for a woman to bs a Christian than
for a mar.. Why ? You say she is weaker.
No. Her heart is more responsive to the
pleadings of Divine love. Bhe is in vast
majority. The fact that she can more eas
ily become a Christian, I can prove
by the statement that three-fourths of
the members of the churches in all Chris
tendom are women. So God appoints
them to be the chief ageucies for bringing
this world back to God. I may stand here
and say the soul is immortal. There is a
mau who will refute it. I may stand here
and say we are lost and undone without
Christ. There is a man who will refute it.
I ma}' stand here and say there will be a
judgment day after awhile. Yonder is
some one who will refute it. But a Chris
tian woman in a Christian household, liv
ing in tho faith and the consistency of
Christ’s Gospel—nobody can refute that.
The greatest sermons are not preached
on celebrated platforms; they are
preached with an audience of two or
three, and in private homo life. A con
sistent, consecrated Christian service is
an unanswerable demonstration of God’s
truth. A sailor came slipping down tho rat
line ono night, as though something had
happened, aud tho sailors cried: “What’s
the matter?” He said: “My mother’s
prayers haunt me like a ghost?” Home
influences consecrated. Christian home
influences are the mightiest of all in
fluences upon the soul. There are men
here to-day who have maintained their in
tegrity, not because there were home in
fluences praying for them all the time.
They got a good start. They were launched
on the world with the benedictions of a
Christian mother. They may track Sibe
rian snows, they may plunge in African
jungles, they may fly to the earth’s end—
they can not go so far and so fast but the
prayers will keep up with them.
I stand before women to-day who have
the eternal salvation of their husbands in
their right hand. On the marriage day
you took an oath before men and angels
that you would bo faithful and kind until
death did you part, and I believe you are
going to keep that oath; but after that
parting at the door of the grave, will
it be au eternal separation? I 3 there
any such thing as an immortal mar
riage, making the flowers that grow on
tho top of the sepulcher brighter than
the garlands which at the marriage
banquet flooded the air with arms! Yes;
I stand here as a priest of the most high
God to proclaim the bans of au immortal
union for all those who join hands in the
grace of Christ. O, woman, is your hus
band, your father, your son away from
God? The Lord demands their redemption
at yotlr hands. There are prayers for you
to offer, there are exhortations for you to
give, there are examples for you to set,
and I say now, as Paul said to the Corinth
ian woman: “What knowest thou, O
woman, but thou canst save thy hus
band!”
A man was dying and he said to his wife:
“Rebecca, you wouldn’t let me have fam
ily prayers, and you laughed about all
that, and you got me away into worldli
ness, and now lam going to die and my
fate is sealed, and you are the cause of my
ruin!” O woman, what knowest thou but
thou canst destroy thy husband? Are
there not some here who have kindly influ
ences at home! Are there not some here
who have wandered far away from God
who can remember the Christian influ
ences in their early home? Do not de
spise those influences, my brother. If you
die without Christ what will you do with
your mother’s prayers, with your wife's
importunities, with your sister’s entreatr
ies? What will you do with the letters
they used to write to you, with the mem
ory of those days when they attended you
31 kindly in times of sickness? Oh, if
taere be just one strand holding you from
floating off on that dark sea 1 would just
Eke this morning to take hold of that
strand and pu’l you to the beach. For the
sake of your wife’s God, for the sake of
your mother’s Gou, for the sake of your
daughter’s God, for the sake of your sis
ter’s God, fomc this day and be saved.
Lastly: I wish to say that one of the spe
cific lights of woman is, tnrcuf h the grace
of Christ, finally to reach Heaven. Oh,
what a multitude of women in Heaven!
Mary, Christ’s mother, in Heaven; Eliza
beth Fry in Heaven; Charlotte Elizaboth.
in Heaven; the mother of Augustine in
Heaven; the Countess of Huntington,
who sold her splendid joivels to build
chapels, in Heaven; while a great
many others who have never been heard
of on earth, or known but little, have gone
into the rest and peace of Heaven. What
a rest! What a change it was from the
small room, with no fire and one window,
the glass broken out, and the aching side
and worn-out eyes, to the “house of many
mansions!” No more stitching until
twelve o’clock at night; no more thrusting
of the thumb by the employer through the
work to show that it was not done quite
right. Plenty of bread at last. Heaven
for aching heads, Heaven for broken
hearts, Heaven for anguish-bitten frames.
No more sitting up until midnight for
the coming of staggering steps. No more
rough blows across the temples. No more
sharp, keen, bitter curses. Some of you
will have no rest in this world. It will he
toil, and struggle, aud suffering all the
way up. You will have to stand at your
door fighting back the wolf with your own
hand, red with carnage. But God has a
crown for you. I wantto realize this morn
ing that Hois now making it, and when
ever you weep a tear He sets another
gem in that crown; whenever you have a
pang of body or soul, He puts another gem
in that crown, until, after a while, In all
the tiara there will bo no room for another
splendor, and God will say to his angel:
“The crown is done; let her up that she
may wear it.” Aud as the Lord of
Righteousness puts the crown upon your
brow, angel will cry to angel: “Who is
she?” and Christ will say: “I will tell
you who she is. Bhe is the one that came
up out of great tribulation, and had her
robe washed and made white in the blood
of the Lamb.”
■ ■ ■
CONCERNING MARRIAGE.
Wliy It Is No Longer an Entirely Olio-
Bided Bargain.
Marriage is still only too often a bargain,
hut at least it is no longer an entirely one
sided bargain. It is tending toward the only
true ideal of lifelong companionship—-a part
nership on equal terms, with equal give-and
take on both sides. Women no longer feel
hound to render that Implicit obedience
which was considered cle riffueur in our great
grandmothers’ days, and men no longer uni
versally demand it. Husbands, moreover,
are beginning to learn that their prime duty
is not "to look after” their wives. The very
sentence is indictative of the most ghastly
misapprehension of the whole ideal of mat
rimony. The general feeling of society
condemns a man who lives to rule his wife
on the same principles as a Pasha rules his
harem. And indeed the whole scheme of
modern life makes it practically impossible
for him to do so. A married woman en
joys, ns a rule, complete liberty dur
ing the lifelong day, and even at night it
is frequently iimtossible for a busy
man to wife. Thus every
thing turns relatflMlketween the
married couple. If a girl is really in love
with the man she marries, she may be trust
ed with any amount of subsequent freedom.
If not, not; and therefore we say that the
injudicious and worldly parents who are re
sponsible for the great majority of ill-assorb
«l unions are also responsible for the many
evil results which ore to be seen in society
at tliis day. For it is a fact that rows of
are as much forced into mar
riage French girl, whose husband i«
fleeted while she is yet in her convent,
■pt by main force, no—but by the whole
tine of her education, by the exaggerated
imr of being an old maid, by the obvious
necessity of making way for a younger sis
ter, by the persistent scheming of her pa
rents, and by her own longing for emanci
pation. For marriage undoubtedly doe?
mean emancipation to most women;
cud it is precisely those who look forward
to it most who are likely to make the worst
use of it— l'aU Ms* l Gazette.
Sell-Control.
The greatest and most commonable life’s
work which can be dono by man is that
which is required in tho formation of a
good, noble, Christian character. For, in
doing this work, he dare not fail to per
form well the duties to self, to society and
to God. If he refuses to attend to those
duties in a proper way, he can not havs the
least hope of ever devaioiing a worthy
character, because they determine liis re
lation to man aud his Creator, and make
one what he really is. But in striving to
perform them he must early learn that all
his efforts will end in a sad failure if he
can not properly control himself.
The more perfect control of self, the
more perfect will be the self-support, the
nearer just and lawful will be the self
defense, and the more complete and
nearer will be self-culture. The more
government over self iu the social world,
the more morality, the greater 'the re
spect and love of our neighbor, and the
sway and influence over others. The
more self-control in performing tho
duties to God, the more beautiful, grand
and sublime the Chriskan character.— A.
It. i&echiel
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Tak i I.ife i i Earnest.
I meet with a great many persons in the .
course of the year, and with many whom I
admire and like; but- what I feel daily more
and more to need, as life every year rises
more and more before me in this true re
ality, is to have intercourse with those who
take life in earnest It is very painful to me
to be always on the surface of things; and I
feel that literature, science, politics, and
many topics of far greater interest than
mere gossip, or talking about the weather,
are yet, as they are generally talked about,
ttill upon the surface—they do not touch
the real depth of life. It is not that I want
much of what is called religious conversa
tion—that. I believe, is often on the surface,
like other conversations; but I want a sign
which one catches as ry a sort of intuition,
that a man knows what he is about in life,
whither tending, In what cause engaged,
and, wh< n I find this, it seems to open my
heart as thoroughly, and with as fresh a
sympathy, as when I was twenty years
younger. —Dr Arnold.
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In every thing it is good to begin well.
The day that is begun with a cheerful
spirit gives promise of happiness and use
fulness throughout. - • United rrt&byterian.
— <>.
A iooo txawplt la tha heat airmoa.
A TORNADO.
Wind Ripe Things Out of Shapo in
Michigan and Ohio.
JPrctty Much Every Tiling in Its Path De
molished— Considerable Damage Done at
the Northwestern Insane Asylum.
Toledo, 0., Bept. o.—News is received
of a tornado which swept down from
Michigan at about five o’clock this after
noon into Lucas Comity, narrowly escap
ing the Tri-State Fair Grounds, where
thousands of people were assembled and
thousands of dollars of exhibits were in
position, aud passing to the new North
western Ohio Insane Asylum. As near
as can be ascertained, the storm started
near Adrian, Mich., touched Bylvania. a
town seventeen miles north of Toledo, and
went off to the southwest. The wires are
all down to Adrian and Bylvania, and
no particulars can bo had from those
places beyond the fact that considerable
destruction has been dono to buildings.
The track of the storm crossed tho old
road of the Lake Shore railroad, between
Adrian and Clayton, Mich., and again
crossed the Air Line of the Lake Shore
between Air Line Junction and Holland,
Ohio. Several freight cars were unroofed
barns torn down, fences leveled and trees
uprooted. As far as heard, no fatalities
or human injuries resulted. At the In
sane Asylum the tornado swept down
with a roar and passed in five minutes,
having ripped things up in an amazing
way. Dr. Eyman, assistant physician,
with his wife and child, was just driving
into the grounds in a buggy when tho
storm struck them, completely overturn
ing the buggy and badly wrecking it. The
force of the storm carried the wife
and child across tho road, but they fortu
nately escaped without injury. Five
chimneys were knocked off tho Ad
ministration building and through the
roof. Several other chimneys
were carried away, and two
pavilions were unroofed. The cov
ered way leading to the dining-hall was
carried away. The steps were torn away
from the iron spikes which nailed them
down and carried about two hundred feet
and ground to splinters. Considerable
fencing was carried away and the furni
ture of the Administration building dam
aged, owing to tlie storm sweeping
through the roof. The damage is estimated
at 53,000. Rain and hail accompanied the
storm. It is the worst atmospheric dis
turbance over Ijpown in this locality,
which lias always been remarkably free
from such things.
PICKED THEM OFF.
A Sheriff Shoots Four Cattle Thieves—
Three of Them Dead.
Albuquerque, N. M., Sept, (i.—One of
the most complete single handed shooting
scrapes that ever occurred in this sec
tion, transpired yesterday noon at Hol
brook, A. T. Four desperadoes rode
into that town yesterday morn
ing from Tonto Basin, named Tom
Blivens, Jake Cooper, Charles Roberts
and Jim Blivens, all notorious cattle
thieves. Sheriff Owens, having warrants
for their arrest, rail upon his men 111 a lit
tle shanty adjoining the livery stable of
Brown & Kinders. He demanded their
surrender, which was answered by a vol
ley of shots, but as Ihe men emerged from
the shanty, Sheriff Owens shot them clown
one by one, killing all instantly except
young Blivens, a brother of one of tho
men killed. For months theso men have
caused a reign of terror in the Territory
of Arizona.
Points on Patents.
Washington, Sept. 6.—Benton J. Hall,
the Commissioner of Patents, in his
synopsis of his anmiul report furnished
the Secretary of the Interior, says that at
the end of the fiscal year ended June 3),
last, the office was well up with the busi
ness in charge. The number of applica
tions for paten s of all kinds received dur
ing tho fiscal year was 40,078; for the fiscal
year ended June 33, 1886, the number was
88,408. The commissioner renews the
recommendation of his predecessors, that
the patent office be furnished more room
and greater facilities and that tho model
hall aud library rooms be restored aud re
paired.
Jlne Ives Failure.
New Bept. 6.—Win. N. Cromwell,
assignee for Henry S. Ives & Co., made a
report to the Superior Court to-day. It
is a voluminous documeut, filled with
tables of figures. The liabilities are *17,-
666,175.16; the nominal assets are $25,064,-
"68.37, and the actual assets $11,123,016.76.
Secured creditors on loan account amount
to $5,492,241.21. Secured creditors, biiU
payable, are $1,673,820.90. Tho liabilities
on slock loaned amount to $1,010,000. The
amount due to unsecured creditors is
$9,580,116.35.
Terriblo Epidemic.
London, Sept. 6.— Over one thousand
cases of scarlet fever are reported in Lon
dou. The disease is increasing in extent
and virulence so rapidly that many vic
tims are deprived of proper medical treat
ment, through tho inability of tho physi
cians employed to give each patient tho
necessary attention. The hospitals are
crowded to their utmost capacity, aud tho
problem of what to do with tho sufferers
who are constantly arriving, has becomo
a perplexing one.
Deadly Explosion.
London, Sept. 6. —An enormous gun in
process of casting in the Vickers’ foun
dry, at Sheffield, exploded to-day, killing
five men and injuring a large number of
others, three of whom died in the hospital
shortly after being taken there. The
foundry buildings were demolished by the
shock.
Cardinal Gibbons Robbed.
New York, Bept. 6.—The residence of
Cardinal Gibbons was robbed 011 Sunday
of two valuablo rings, one of which was a
present from Hope Loo. They were stolen
from a drawer in the liorary, the lewk of
irhich ’.he thief cut ou't.
VOL. IV— NO. 29.
A BLOODY RIOT.
Haiiil-to-Hanil Conflict Between Miners—
One Man Killed and Many Wounded,
Some of Whom Will Die of Tlielr Injur*
ies.
VVilkesbarre. Pa., Bept. 5. —For along
time a bad fooling has existed between thß
Irish and Italian miners of Hazelton. The
Irish and Germans accused tiro Italians of
undermining them and working in the
mines for less wages. Affairs were
brought to a crisis last week when a
whole colony of Italians—sixty in number
—arrived from Castle Garden to work in
j the mines. Saturday was pay day, and
in the evening there was more
or less whisky consumed. The Irish
and German laborers held a secret
meeting early Sunday morning and re
solved to “clean out” all the Italians in
the place. John Cannon, of Janesville,
was selected leader. Accordingly, on
Sunday afternoon, the Irish and Germans
to the number of 155 proceeded to the
Italian headquarters. Every man was
armed with a stout pick-handle and some
carried rocks in their pockets. Only a few
had fire-arms in their possession. The
Italians got word of what was in the air
and they all collected in their houses,
which stood side by side. When (he
attacking party came up they fired
rocks and bricks into the windows,
smashing ail ttie glass and break
ing in the door. This scared the Italians
very badly. The invading party then
started to set fire to the buildings for the
purpose of burning up the “cheap Ital
ians,” as they called them. Mike Red
mond, one of the leaders of the attacking
parly, got on top of tho roof and commenc
ed cutting a hole through the shingles.
He was fired upon from within aud foil tp
the pavement with a bullet-hole in his
head. This enraged the attacking party
and they made another terrible on
slaught on the Italian houses. The Ital
ians determined to make an attack from
the place, and under the leadership' of
“Hig Fresh” they sallied forth. They were
armed with stilettos, butcher-knives and
pistols. The attacking party did notcxpact
this, aud were taken by surprise. The
Italians made a rush for tho enemy, and
before the latter could recover from their
surprise their lines were broken and
they became badly demoralized. A terri
ble hand to hand struggle ensued, in
which tho Italians used their stilettos
with deadly effect. They slashed and cut
in every direction, and many of the Irish
and Germans who were intoxicated fdl to
tlic ground and were left weltering in
their own blood. The people of the whole
town now flocked to the scene of
tho riot, and the greatest excitement
prevailed. The nine constables of the
town were entirely helpless with such a
large mob. The Burgess mounted a car
riage and beseeched the mob not to shed
any more blood, but his advice was of no
avail. The attacking party, after a re
treat down Pine street, got reinforcements
and returned to the scene. They outnum
bered the Italians three to one. Italy’s
sons were unable to contend against such
large numbers, and when the attacking
party came up they fled to their homes.
Five of the Italians received fatal wounds
and a number of others on both sides were
badly hurt.
Letter-Carriers’ Pension Bill.
Chicago, Bept. 5. — Superintendent Don
avail, of the Chicago post-office, has
drafted a bill for the pensioning of letter
carriers, who either through age or disa
bility are prevented from the discharge of
tlieir official duties. The provisions of the
bill are similar to those of bills formulated
with a similar object in view in behalf of
the worthy public servants, and will be
presented at tho next session of Congress
for adoption.
Internal Revenue Collections.
Washington, Bept. s.—The collections of
internal revenue for July last were $lO,-
097,379, being $381,411 more than the re
ceipts during the same month of last year.
There was a decrease of $178,540 in the
collections on spirits, an increase of $312,-
700 on tobacco, an increase of $204,727 on
fermented liquors, and a docrease of 88,*
290 on miscellaneous objects. The receipts
from oleomargarine were $25,818.
Last ot the Boodlers Resign.
Chicago, Bept. s.—The resignation of
Finlay A. McDonald as a member of the
board of county commissioners was sent
to Chairman Aldrich to-day. McDonald
always operated with the “boodlers,” and
it is generally believed that he shared in
the spoils. His resignation is in defer
ence to public sentiment, and the board
inay now be said to be absolutely purged
from all “boodle” association.
Charleston Rises from Her Ruins.
Charleston, S. C., Sept. s.—The Xren
amt Courier's review of the earthquake
work will show that in tho past year over
six thousand buildings have been rebuilt
or repaired, and that two hundred and
seventy-one absolutely new buildings
have been erected. The whole cost is
$4,300,000, of which Charleston spent at
least $3,000,000.
Kidnaped Three Children.
Jersey City, N. J., September 5.—A col
ored sleeping-car porter named Poindex
ter was arrested to-day charged with kid
naping the three children of Mrs. Ford, of
Locust Valley, Cal. The lady positively
identifies him as tho man with whom she'
left her children, and a citizen testifies
that he saw Poindexter with the party.
A Murderer’s Arrest and Farewell.
Wheeling, W. Va., Bept. 5. —Chief of
Police Smith arrested a man to-night
wanted at Lynn, Mas 3., for murder, step
ped into tho Western Union Telegraph
Office to telegraph to Lynn, and while he
was writing tho dispatch the alleged mur
derer skipped, and so far has not been re*
arrested.
On a Railway Crossing.
Bai.em, Mass., Bept. s.—Odilon Menard,
his wife and baby were struck by a train
when driving across the track this after
noon. The man and child were killed, and
the v’omuH, it is thought, k fatally in
jured