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FORBIDDEN HONEY.
Danger Lurks Among the Hon
eyed Things of Earth.
A Taste of That Which In Pleasant Often
Turns to Gall—Sermon by Rev. l)r.
T. De Witt Talmage, D. D,
Brooklyn, Oct. 16.—Dr. Talmage preach*
ed a sermon this morning, the subjedt of
which was, “Forbidden Honey,” the text
being 1. Samuel, xiv., 43: “1 did but taste
a little honey with the end of the rod that
was in my hand, and, 10, I roust die.” Dr.
Talmage said: The honey-bee is a most in
genious architect, a Christopher Wren
among insects, a geometer drawing hexa
gons and pentagons, a freebooter robbing
the fields of pollen and aroma, a wondrous
creature of God, whose biography written
by Huber and Swammerdam, is an en
chantment for any lover of nature. Virgil
celebrated the bee in his fable of Aris
teaus t an*l Mosos and Samuel
and David and Solomon and
Jeremiah and Ezekiel and St. John
used the delicacies of bee manufacture as
a Bible symbol. A miracle of formation is
the bee; five eyes, two tongues, the outer
having a sheath of protection hairs on all
sides of its tiay body to brush up the par
ticles of flowers; its flight so straight that
all the world knows of the boo line. The
honey-comb is a palace such as no one but
God could plan and the honey-bee con
struct; its cells sometimes a dormitory,
and sometimes a store-house, and some
times a cemetery. These winged toilers
first make eight strips of wax, and
by their antennae, Which are to them
a hammer, and chisel, and square, and
pluml>-line, fashion them for use. Two
and two, these workers shape the wall.
If an accident happens they put up but
tresses or extra beams to remedy
the damage. When about tho year 1776
an insect, before unknown, in the night
time attacked the bee-hives all Qver Eu
rope, and the men who owned them were
In vain trying to plan something to keep
out the invader that was a terror to the
bee-hivos of the continent, it was found
that every-where the bees had arranged
for their own protection, and built before
their honey-combs an especial wall of
wax, with port-hole, through which the
bees might go to and fro, but not large
enough to admit tho winged combatant,
called the sphinx atropos.
Do you know that the swarming of the
bees is divinely directed? Tho mother
bee starts for a new home, and because
of this the other beCs of the hive
get into an excitement which raises the
beat of the hive some four degrees, and
they must die unless they leave their heat
ed apartments; and they follow the mother
bee and alight on tho branch of a tree, and
cling to each other and bold on until a
committee of two or three have explored
the region and found the hollow of a tree
or rock not fa# off from a stream of water;
and they here set up a newcolonv, and ply
their aromatic industries, and give them
selves to the manufacture of the saccha
rine edible. But who can tell the chemis
try of that mixture of sweetness, part of
it the very life of the bee and part of it
the life of the fields!
Plenty of this luscious product was hang
ing in the woods of Bethaven during the
time of Saul and Jonathan. Their army
Was in pursuit of an enemy that by God’s
command must be exterminated. Tho
soldiery woro positively forbiddeu to eat
anything untii the work was done. If
they disobeyed they wore accursed. Com
ing through tho woods they found a place
where the bees had been busy, a great
honey manufactory. Honey gathered in
the hollow of the trees until it had
overflowed upon the ground in great pro
fusion of sweetness. All the army obeyed
orders and touched it not, save Jonathan,
and he not knowing tho military order
hbout abstinence dipped the end of a stick
he held in his hand into the candied liquid,
and, as yellow and brown and tempting,
it glowed on the end of the stick, he put it
to his mouth and ate the honey. Judg
ment fell upon him, but for special inter
vention he would have been slain. In my
text Jonathan announces his awful mis
take: “I did but taste little honey with
the end of the rod that was in my hand,
and 10, I must die.” Alas! what multi
tudes of people in all ages have been dam
aged by forbidden honey, by which, I
knean temptation, delicious and attrac
tive, but damaging and destructive.
Literature, Fascinating but dreadful,
comes in this category. Where one good,
honest, healthful book is read now there
uro one hundred made . up of rhetorical
trash consumed with avidity. When the
boy on the cars comes through with a pile
of publications look over the titles and
notioe that nine out of ten of the books are
depleting and injurious. All the way from
New York to Chicago or New Orleans
notice that objectionable books dominate.
Taste for pure literature is poisoned by
this scum of the publishing houses.
Every book in which sin triumphs over
virtue, or in which a glamour is thrown
over dissipation, or which leaves you at its
last line with less respect for the marriage
institution and less abhorance for the para
mour, is a depression of your own moral
character. The book-bindery nmy be at
tractive, and the plot dramatic and start
ling, and the style of writing sweet as the
honey that Jonathan dipped up with his
rod, but your best interests forbid it, your
moral safety forbids it, your God for
bids it and one taste of it may lead to such
bad results that you may have to say at
the close of the experiment, or at the close
of a misimproved life-time: “I did but
taste a little honey with the rod that was
in my hand, and, 10, I must die.!”
Corrupt literature is doing more to-day
for the disruption of domestic life than any
other cause. Elopements, marital in
trigues, sly correspondence, ficti
tious names' given a tpost-office
Windows, clandestine meetings in.
parks, and at ferry gates, and
in hotel parlors, and conjugal perjiifies
are among fhd damnable results. When a
Vvpmuut young or old, gets her bead thor-
oughly stuffed with the modern novel, she
is in appalling peril. But some one will
say: “The heroes are so adroitly knavish,
and the persons so bewitchingly untrue,
aud the turn of the story so exquisite, and
all of the characters so enrapturing, I can
not quit them.” My brother, my sister,
you can find styles of literature just as
charming, that will elevate and purify,
and ennoble, and Christianize while they
please. The devil does not own all the
honey. There is a wealth of good books
coming forth from our publishing houses
that leaves no excuse for the choice of that
which is debauching to body, mind and
soul. Go to some intelligent men or
women and ask for a list of books that
will be strengthening to your mental and
moral condition. Life is so short and your
time for improvement so abbreviated that
you can not afford to fill up with hustts and
cinders and debris. In the interstices of
business that young man is reading that
which will prepare him to be a merchant
Prince, and that young woman is filling
her mind with an intelligence that
will yet either make her the chief attrac
tion of a good man’s home or give her an
independence of character that will qual
ify her to build her own home and main
tain it in a happiness that requires no
augumeutation from any of our rougher
sex.
That young man or young woman can,
by the right literary and moral improve
ment of tho spare ten minutes hero or
there in every efny, rise head and shoulder
in prosperity, and character, and influence
above tho loungers who read nothing or
read that which bedvyarfs. See all the
forests of good American litorature drip
ping with honey. Why pick up the honey
combs that have in them the fiery bees,
which will sting you with an eternal poi
son while you taste it? One book may,
for you or me, deoide every thing for
this world or the next. It was a turn
ing point with mo when in Wynkoop’s
book store, Syracuse, one day I
picked up a hook called “Tho Beautios
of Ruskin.” It was only a book of ex
tracts, but it was all pure honey, and I
was not satisfied until I had purchased all
his works, at that time expensive beyond
an easy capacity to own them, aud what a
heaven 1 went through in reading his
“Seven Lamps of Architecture” and his
“Stones of Venice,” it is impossible for me
to describe, except by saying that it gave
me a rapture for good books and an ever
lasting disgust for decrepit or immoral
books that will last mo while my immortal
soul lasts. All around the church and the
world to-day there are busy hives of in
telligence occupied by authors and author
esses, from whose pens drip a distillation
which is the very nectar of heaven; and
why will you thrust your rod of inquisi
tiveness into the deathful saccharine of
perdition?
Stimulating liquids also come into the
catagory of temptations delicious but
deathful. You say: “lean not bear the
taste of intoxicating liquor, and how any
man can like it is to me an amazement.”
Well, then it is no credit to you that
you do not tako it. Do not brag about
your total abstinence, because it is not
from any principle that you reject alcohol
ism, but for the same reason that you re
ject certain styles of food—you simply
don’t like the taste of them. But multi
tudes of people have a natural fondness
for all kinds of intoxicants. They like
it so much that it makes them
smack their lips to look at it. They
are dyspeptio, and they take it to aid
digestion; or they are annoyed by in
somnia, and they take it to produce sleep;
or they are troubled, and they take it to
make them oblivious; ‘or they feel good,
and they must celebrate their hilarity*-.
They begin wjlh mint julep sucked
through two straws on thfe Long Branch
piazza and end intho ditch, taking from
a jug liquid half kerosene and half
whisky. They not only like it, but it is an
all-consuming passion of body, mind and
soul, and after a while have it they will,
though ono wine-glass of It should cost the
temporal and eternal destruction of them
selves and all their families, and the
whole human race. They would say: “I
am sorry it is going to cost me and
my family and all the world’s population
so very much, but here it goes to my lips
and now let it roll over my parched tongue
and down my heated throat, tho sweetest,
the most inspiring, the most rapturous
thing that ever thrilled mortal or immor
tal.” To cure the habit before it comes to
its last stages various plans were tried in
olden times. This plan was recommended
in the books: “When a man wanted to re
form he put shot or bullets into the cup or
glass of strong drink—one additional shot
or bullet each day, that displaced so much
liquor. Ballet after bullet added day
by day, of course the liquor became less
and loss until the bullets would entirely
fill up the glass and there was no room
for tho liquid, and by that time it was said
that the inebriate would bo cured.
Whether any one ever was cured in that
way I know* not, but by long experiment
it is found that the only way is to stop
short off, and when a man does that he
,needs God to help him. And there have
been more cases than you can count when
God so ‘helped tho man that he quit for
ever, and I could count a score of them
here to-day, some of them pillars in the
house of God.
One would suppose tbat,men would tako
warning from some of the ominous names
given to the intoxicants and stand off from
the devastating influence. You have no
ticed, for instance, that some of the res
taurants are called “The Shades,” typical
of the fact that it puts a man’s reputation
in the shade, and his morals in the shade,
and his prosperity in the shade, and his
wife and children in tie shade, and his im
mortal destiny in the shade.
Now, I find on some of the liquor signs
in all our cities the words “Old Crow,”
mightily suggestive of a carcass and the
filthy raven that swoops upon it. “Old
Crow!” Men and women without num
bers slain of rum but unburied, and
the evil is pecking at their glazed
eyes, and pecking at their bloated
chepk, and pecking at their destroyed
manhood and womanhood, thrusting beak
arid claw into the mortal remains of what
was pace gloriously alive, but now morally
TRENTON. DADE COUNTY GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1887.
dead. “Old Crow!” But, alas! how many
tako no warning! They make mo think of
Caesar on his way to assassination, learn
ing nothing; though his statue in the hall
crashed into fragments at his feet, and a
scroll containing the names of the conspir
ators was thrust into his hands, yet walk
ing right on to meet the dagger that
was to tako his life. This infatuation of
strong drink is so mighty in many a man
that, though his fortunes are crashing, and
his health is crashing, and his domestic in
terests are crashing, and we hand him a
long scroll containiug the names of perils
that await him, he goes straight on to phy
sical and mental and moral assassination.
In proportion as any stylo of alcoholism is
pleasant to your taste and stimulating to
your nerves and for a time delightful to
your physical and mental constitution is
the peril awful. Remember Jonathan and
tho forbidden honey in the woods of Beth
aven.
Furthermore, the gamester’s indulgence
must be put in the list of temptations de
licious but destructive. I have crossed the
ocean eight times, and always one of the
best rooms has, from morning till late at
night, been given up to gambling prac
tices. I hoard of many men who went on
hoard with enough money for a European
excursion who landed without money
enough to got-their baggage up to the
hotel or railroad station. To many there
is a completo fascination in games of haz
ard or the risking of monoy on possibili
ties. It seems as natural for them to bet
as to eat. Indeed, tho hunger for food is
often overpowered with the hunger' for
wagers, as in the of Lord Sandwich,
a persistent gambler, who, not being will
ing to leave the dice-table long enough for
tho taking of food, invented a preparation
of food that he could take without stop
ping the game, namely, a slice of beef be
tween two slices of bread, which was
named after Lord Sandwich. It is absurd
for those of us who have never felt the
fascination of the wager to speak slight
ingly of the temptation. It has slain a
multitude of intellectual and moral
giants, men and women stronger than
you or I. Down under its power went
glorious Oliver Goldsmith, and Gib
bon, tho historian, and Charles Fox the
statesman, and in olden times famous
Senators of the United States, who usod t<s
bo as regularly at the gambling-house all
night as they were in the halls of legisla
tion by day. Oh, the tragedies of the faro
table! 1 know persons who began with a
slight stake in lady’s parlor and ended
with the suicide’s pistol at Monto Carlo.
They played with tho square pieces of
bone with black marks on them, not know
ing that Satqn was playing for their bones
at the same time, and Was sure to sweep
all the stakes off on his side of the table.
The New York Legislature sanctioned tho
mighty evil last, spring by passing a law
for its defense at the race tracks, and
many young men in these cities lost
all their wages at Coney Island this
summer, and this fall are borrow
ing from the money tills of their em
ployers or arranging by means of false
entry to adjust thoir demoralized
Every man who voted for the Iver Pool
bill has on his bands and forehead - the
blood of these souls. **•'<*
But in this connection some young con
verts say to me: “Is it right to play
cards? Is there any barm in a game
of whist or euchre?” Well, I know good
men who play whist and euchre and other
styles of game without any wagers. I
had a friend who played cards with his
wife and children, and then at the
close said: “Come, now, let us have
prayers.” I will not judge other men’s
consciences, but I will tell you that cards
are in my mind so associated with the tem
poral and eternal damnation of splendid
young men that I should no sooner say t<?
my family, “Come, let us have a game of
cards," than I would go into a menagerie
and say, “Come, let’s have a game of rat
tle-snakes,” or into a cemetery, and, sit
ting down by a marble s'ab, say to the
grave-diggers: “Come, let us have a game
of skulls.” Conscientious young ladies
are silently saying to mo while I speak:
“Do you think card-playing will do us any
harm?” Perhaps not; but how will you
feel at the great day of eternity, when
we are asked to give an account
of our influence, some man shall say
to you: “I was introduced to games of
chance in the year 1887 in Brooklyn, at
your house, and I went on from that sport
to something more exciting, and went on
down until I lost my business, and lost my
morals, and lost my soul, and these chains
that you see on my wrists and feet are the
chains of a gamester’s doom, and I am on
my way to a gambler’s hell.” Honey is
the start, eternal catastrophe at the last.
Stock gambling comes into tho same cat
alogue. It must be very exhilarating to
go into Wall street, New ‘ York, or State
street, Boston, or Third street, Philadel
phia, and deposit a small sum of money,
run the risk of taking out a fortune. Many
men are doing an honest and safe business
in the stock market, and you are an igno
ramus you do not know that it is just as
legitimate'(o deal in stocks as to deal in
coffee or sugar or flour. But
nearly all the outsiders who go
there on a little financial excur
sion lose all. The old spiders eat up the
unsuspecting flies. I had a friend who put
his hand on his hip pocket and said to me
in substance: “I have there the value of
$150,000.” His home is to-day penniless.
What was the matter? Wall street. Of
the vast majority who are victimized you
hear not one word. Ono great stock firm
goes down and whole columns of news
papers discuss their fraud or their dis
aster, and we are presented with their
features and their biography. But whore
ono such famous firms sinks, five
hundred unknown men sink with
them. The grffat steamer goes down,
and all the little boats arc swallowed
in the same engulfinent. Gambling
is gambling, whether in stocks or
breadstuffs, or dice or race-track betting.
Exhilaration at the start, and a raving
brain, and a shuttered nervous system,
and a sacrificed property, and a destroyed
soul at the last. Young man, buy no lotr
tery tickets, purchase no prize packages,
bet on no base-hall games, or'yacht-racing,
have no faith io luck, answer no mi*ten
ons circulars proposing great income for
small investment, shoo away the buzzards
that hover around our hotels trying to en
trap strangers. Go out and make an hon
est living. Have God on your side and bo
a candidate for Heaven.
Remember, all tho paths of sin are
beautiful with flowers at the start, and
there are plenty of helpful hands to fetch
the gay charger to your door and hold tho
stirrup while you mount. But further on
the horse plunges to the bit in a slough,
r inextricable. The best honey is not lik*
that Jonathan took on the end
of tho rod and brought to his lips,
but that which God puts on tho
banqueting table of mercy, at which we
are oil invited to sit. 1 was reading of a
boy wv n g the mountains of Switzerland
auuf-ascending a dangerous place with
hi father and tho guides. The boy
shopped on tho edge of tho cliff
and said: “There is a flower I
mean to got.” “Come away from there,”
said the father, “you will fall off.” “No,"
said he, “ I must get that beautiful flow
er,” and the guides rushed toward him to
pull him back, when they heard
him say, “I almost have it.” as he
fell two thousand feet. Birds of prey were
seen a fovv days after, circling through
the air and lowering gradually to the place
where the corpse lay. Why seek flowers
off the edge of a precipice, when you may
walk knee-deep amid the full blooms, of
the very paradise of God? When a man
mays’:, at a king’s banquet, why will ho
go down tho steps and contend for the
gristle and bono of a hound’s kennel?
“Sweeter than honey* and the honeycomb,”
says Daniel, “is the truth of God.” “With
honey out of the rock would I have satis
fied thee,” says God to the recreant. Here
is* honey gathered from tho blossoms of
trees of life, and with a rod made out of
the wood of the cross I dip it up for all
your souls.
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HOW TO REAR CHILDREN.
Some of the Things Which Boys and Girls
Ought to Bo Taught by Parents.
One great jioint is to treat them kindly.
Do not preach politeness and propriety to
them, and violate their lawß yourself. In
other words, let the example you set them
bo a good ono.
Never quarrel nor have any unpleasant
ness between yourselves or with others, in
their presence. If you must qnarlfcl, wait
till the children are gone to bed Then they
will not see yon, and, perhaps, by that time
you may not want to quarrel.
NeVer speak flippantly of neighbors be
fore children. They may meet the neigh
bors’ children and talk about it
Teach them to think that the little boy In
rags has a heart in spite of the rags—and a
stomach, too.
Te-. ii them, as they grow older, that a re
spectful demeanor to others, a gentle tone
of voice, a kind disposition, a generous na
ture, an honest purpose, and an industrious
mind, are better than any thing else on
earth. Teach them these things, and self
reliance, and intelligence, and capability
will come of themselves Teach them thest
things, I say, and your hoys and girls will
grow up to lie noble mtqfrind women. — Moth
en' Magazine. Jr
Books for the Blind.
The recently issued report of Dr. Moon’s
society for embossing and circulating the
Holy Scriptures and other useful books
etateeWhcre are now 6(57 different books
print'd from this type, which is adapted
to 331 languages and dialects. This is, in
deed, a triumph of mechanical genius, but
it is muclmnore. The blind in many coun
tries are r*Kenablttd to read the Scriptures,
besides history, geography, relig
ious and biographical works, and their field
of merest has been thus wonderfully en
-lor gel Last year Mr. Prescott, of the
Sydney Home Teaching Society for the
Blind, brought with him to this country a
memorial to Dr. Moon from 500 blind per
sons who had learned to read, thanking him
for the great blessing his system has been to
them. In Edinburgh and its neighborhood
about 250 blind are being visited by the
missionary teachers, and the Glasgow
societies have over 1,200 cases on th< ir
roiL Practically, of the many embossed
types invented, there is now but one be
besides Dr. Moon's in existence. During
last year more than 5,000 volumes were
issued in this type, making a total since the
commencement of ttye work of 165,885. —
London Christi an.
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Queer Japanese Shoes.
In Japan children’s shoes are made of
blocks of wood secured with cord. The
stocking resembling a mitten, having a sep
arate place for the great toe. As these shoes
are lifted only by the toes the heels make a
rattling sound ns their owners walk, which
is quite stunning in a crowti They are not
worn in the house, as they would injure the
soft straw mats on the floor. You leave
your shoes at the door. Every house is
built with reference to the number of mats
required for the floors, each room having
from eight to sixteen, and'in taking lodg
ings you pay so much for a mat They
think it extravagant in us to require a
whole room to ourselves. The Japaness
shoes give' perfect freedom to the foot The
beauty of the human foot is only seen in the
Japanese. They have no corns, no ingrow
ing nails, no distorted joints.— Merchant
World.
Gallant Mexican Soldiers.
At La Guarda an armed escort Is pro
vided by the Government for eveiy dili
gencia, because “knights of the road” are
believed to be still lurking in the lonesome
regions beyond, with an eye to business.
The said guard consists of four ragged sol
diers in scanty cotton garments, with san
dals upon their feet, straw hats upon their
heads and rusty muskets of antiquated
pattern in their hands. As the coach
dashes away at the topmost speed of nine
mulo power the g illant “escort” is obliged
to shuffle along on foot at a lively rate or
be leit behind to the tender mercies of the
bandits, a fate which thoy appeared to
dread. — City of Mexico Lelttr.
Reason can not show itself more reason
able than to cease reasoning on things
above reason.— Sir Philip Sidney.
—
The bearing and training of a child is
woman’s wisdom. Tennyson. •
Tns seed dies into a new life, and so doff*
man.— George MacDonald.
THE WHITE CAPS.
Their Depredations in Southern
Indiana
To he Brought to the Attention of the Fed
eral Courts.
Ixpi anatolis, Ink., Oct. 18.—There is a
rumor afloat that the depredations of the
“White Caps” of Southern Indiana will
he brought before the Federal grand
jury, which convened cn Monday. All
efforts to convict the outlaw’s at their
own homes have proved futile, for
the reason that in nearly all the coun
ties where they operate they have
control of the courts, and it is well
known that during the last month an effort
has been made to get the cases in the
United States court. Govornor Gray and
District Attorney Sellers were recently in
consultation about the proposed investiga
tion, and the Governor, in the strongest
terms, urged that tho Federal court tako
up tho cases if there was any section of
the law under which it could be done. The
statues were carefully examined by the
tw*o,and one old section was found providing
for the punishment of Ku-Klux in tho
South, under which it is believed tho out
laws can be tried. If any doubt should
arise about the constitutionality of that
section there are other sections covering
the cases of the “White Caps,” and there
seems to be no doubt about the Federal
Government having the power to adminis
ter tho law in the case. The law abiding
people in the counties where the depre
dations have been most frequent
are anxious that tho Federal laws should
give them protection and have volunteered
to give tho District Attorney all the assist
ance in their power both in securing evi
dence for indictments and for conviction.
The Federal officials have nothing to say
about what will be done, but there is
ground for belief that witnesses from the
complaining counties will be summoned
to appear before tho grand jury next
week.
CHAINING NIAGARA.
A Million Dollar Company to Try n Buf
falo J>fnn’s Invention.
New York, Oct. 18.—A special says: It
is expected that before long a practical
test of ono of the numerous harnesses for
the control of Niagara’s power, brought
into existence under the stimulus of SIOO,-
000 prize, will receive a practical test
which will its use or prove it
a failure, and give something further on
■which to base arguments that Niagara con
tains no great available power. An end
less chain, with feathering buckets, was
the invention of a Buffalo man. The rights
for Erie and Niagara Counties he sold for
$65,000. He says he has a contract for that
amount. A stock company with $1,000,000
capital is to bo formed if the coming test
proves successful. Geo. W. Smith has ob
tained SIO,OOO backing io the amount which
a 1,000 horse power machine Will cost, and
yesterday he received tho necessary per
mission from the Secretary of War to place
the machinery in tho river. Mechanical
drawings are now being made, and it is ex
pected that tho machine will bo tested this
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Horse-Thieves at Work.
St. Josepu, Mo., Oct. 18.—There has been
another outbreak by horse thieves in De-
Kalb County, and the|Vigilance Committee
is in pursuit. In forty-eight hours over
fifteen head of horses have been taken
from a radius of as many miles just east
of the eastern line of this county, and the
report is that other portions of the county
have been visited. The supposition is that
a regular organized gang, such as has been
operating in Clinton County, is at tho bot
tom of the affair.
Another Cholera Laden Vessel.
New York, Oct. 18. —The French steam
ship Britannia, which arrived here on tho
13th instant from Marseilles and Naples,
and has been held by the health officer at
Upper Quarantine for observation, was
this morning sent down to Lower Quaran
tine, four cases of cholera having been
found aboard of her. The Britannia is a
sister ship to the Alesia, which brought
cholera here some weeks ago.
Terrible Accident.
Lancaster, vA Oct. 18.— A terrible ac
cident the Pennsylvania rail
road near Ronk’S Station, a few miles
east of this city, this afternoon. The fast
line train going west struck the carriage
containing Mrs. Nancy Stultzfuz, of Gor
donvilte, and a woman of tho same name,
of Kansas, and both were killed.
General Butler Retained.
* Chicago, Oct. 18.—General Benj. Butler
has been retained of council for tho
Chicago Anarchists before the Supreme
Court, a::d proposes to do all he can to
save their necks from the rope. The caso
will como up before the Supreme Court
Thursday or Friday.
Mormon Converts.
New York, Oct. 18.—There were 2SG Mor
mon converts landed at Castle Garden to
day from the steamship Nevada. Thoy
came from Liverpool and were bound for
'rialt Lako City.
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Impaled on a Pitchfork.
Oil City, Fa., Oct. 18.—Mrs. Raymond
Adams, living near here, while hunting
eggs in the barn, slipped and was impaled
on the handle of a pitchfork. When found
she was dead. She leaves nine children
and a husband, who had just been released
from the insane asylum.
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Tho Sugar Trust.
New York, Oct. 18.—The “Sugar Trust”
is to have $15,000,000 of bonds and $50,000,000
of stock. Henry Havemeyer will be pres
ident. Some of the large refineries are
already closed, taking an account of stock
preparatory*© entering the trust.
YOU. IV.—NO. 35.
THE PRESIDENTIAL JOURNEY.
Arrival of the Distinguished Party at St.
Paul—Cordiafly Welcomed.
St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 11.—The Presiden
tial party arrived here shortly after 5
o’clock last evening. On the trip from Mad
ison a twenty-minute stop wan made at La
Crosse, Win, and a tour of that city in car
riages occupied the time. Brief stops were
also made at Portage, New Lis
bon, Sparta nnd Lake City. Ar
riving at St. Paui, tho travelers were
enthusiastically greoted at the depot. A
procession was formed and they were es
corted to tho Hotel Ryan. Resting until 8
o’clock, the party was driven through
cheering crowds to Bridge Square, where
the President reviewed a monster torch
light parade, frequently expressing his de
light at the gorgeous spectacle.
After the procession had passed, the party
returned to the hotel, where a public recep
tion was held until a late hour. Mrs Cleve
land spent several years of her girlhood in
this city, and during her visit here has been
called on by many old acquaintances, whom
she seemed pleased to greet once more. On
leaving St Paul the tourists goto Minneapo
las, Omaha, Kansas City, Memphis, Tenn.,
Atlanta, Ga, Montgomery, Ala, Chatta
nooga, Tenn., Nashville, Tenn., Knoxville,
Tenn., and thence to Washington, hoping to
reach there by the 22d inst
MOBBING A CARDINAL..
A Banquet at a Toronto Hotel in Honor
of Cardinal Taschereuu Interrupted by
a Crowd ot Orangemen—Several Thou
sand Persons Engaged In Throwing
Stones.
Toronto, Ont, Oct 13. Cardinal Tasche
roau, the only Cardinal who ever visited
Toronto, was given a grand banquet here
Monday niglit by prominent Roman Cath
olics at the Rossin House, and it seems
that Orangemen had determined not
to let tho occasion pass without making
their dlsapprobat'on of the Pope’s ac
tion in having made Bishop Taschereau a
Prince of the Roman Catholic Church. An
Orange band from a suburb of the city, ac
companied by a large crowd of bloodthirsty
roughs, went to the hotel where tho banquet
was being held. By playing party
tunes and hurling filthy and insult
ing epithets they managed to provoke
a fight The fight soon grew into a
riot and as several thousands were
engaged in it at one time serious results
were anticipated. Stones were thrown by
the rioters, who must have brought tho
missiles with them, and a number wero in
jured, but their friends managed to get
them away before the police made arrests.
The police after an exciting fight with the
mob managed to disperse tho roughs. A
number of arrests were made by the police.
In every instance but one the prisoners
were rescued by friends after being arrested.
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THE POSTAL SERVICE.
Increase in the Business of Thirty Large
Post-Oiiicos During tlie Past Year.
Washington, Oct. 13.—A statement of
the postal business, done at thirty of the
larger cities for the quarter ending Septem
ber 30, has been prepared in the office of
the Third Assistant Postmaster-General.
The statement shows the increase over tin*
corresponding period of tho previous year
at the thirty offices to have been per
cent. The quarter ended September 30 is
the dullest period of the year in postal
business. The business at Cincinnati was
equal to last year’s. A decrease was shown
at Baltimore of 0.08, and at Rochester of
26.3 per oent. The increase by cities is as
follows:
New York, 2.7; Chicago, 11.0; Philadelphia,
C. 9; Boston, 6.4; St. Louis, C.B; Sun Francisco,
6.5; Brooklyn, 3.8; Pittsburgh, 14.6; Cleveland,
6.3; Detroit, 5; New Orleans, 7.5; Washington,
2.2; Buffalo, 10.6; Louisville, 1.2; Milwaukee,
7.8; Providence, 5.8; Kansas City, 30.8; Indian
apolis, 8; Albany, 3.4; St. Paul, 17.3; Hartford,
2.4; Newark, 10.2; Troy, 4.5; Minneapolis, 14.7;
Syracuse, 8.2; Toledo, 2.4; Richmond, 13.1.
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LAMAR’S LUCK.
Tile Secretary of the Interior to SB ITpon
tire Bench—Vilas Mentioned as His Suc
cessor.
New York, Oct 15. — According to tho
most excellent authority speculation over
the successorship to the seat on the bench
of the United States Supreme Court, mado
vacant by the death of Justice Woods, of
Louisiana, may as well end, for L Q. C.
Lamar, Secretary of the Interior, has been
selected for the place. The matter is said
to have gone so far that the appointment
has been tendered to Mr. Lamar, who has
consented to accept it. He is already ar
ranging his affairs with a view to the prom
ised change in his official position. The ap
pointment is likely to be formally an
nounced by a nomination quite early in the
session of the Senate.
Valparaiso, Ind., Oct 15.—Judge E. C.
Field, who is now presiding at the fall term
of the circuit court here, has issued a sum
mons to the grand jury to convene next
Monday, and charges them with a thorough
investigation of the Routs disaster. The
judge’s charge is thorough, and the public
can now hope to see the matter sifted to
the bottom.
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GARRETT STEPS OUT.
He Resigns flic Presidency of the Balti
more Jfc Ohio Iluad-The Telegraph Deal
Consummated.
Baltimore, Md., Oct. 13. — At the meet
ing of the B. & O. railroad directors
Wednesday Mr. Robert Garrett tendered by
letter his resignation of the presidency
and it was accepted. William F. Burns
will act as president of the company until
the annual meeting. It was decided to
pay no dividend on tho main stem, but a
dividend of 5 per cent on the Washington
branch was declared. The passing of the
main line dividend caused the price of the
stock to fall to 115. The directors ap
proved the sale of the telegraph lines to the
Western Union. Their action consummates
the deaL
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False Rumors of an Earthquake.
New York, Oct 15. — A dispatch was re
ceived about 12:30 this morning from At
lanta, Ga, announcing that an earthquake
shock at Charleston, 8. C., had interrupted
telegraphic communication, and that the
extent of the damage done could not then be
learned Considerable alarm was felt until
at a later hour communication was re-estab
lished. It was then learned that the wires
had been disorganized by a fire, the report
of an earthquake having originated with »
telegraph operator