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■forgiveness.
"Lot Not the Sun Gk> Down Upon
Your Wrath.”
lh'e* *»r ReVengo—Sermon toy Re*. T. L‘e-
Wltt Ta Image, U. D. ;
Brooks. t.N. Oct. 23.—Dr. Tafmagtftook t<*
his text to-day: Ephesians, ir., 25: “Let
not the sun go down upon vour wraih.* 1
Dr. Talmage said: What & pillow em
broidered of all colors bath the dying day)
The cradle of .clouds from which the 9un
rises is beautiful onough, but it is sur
passed by the many-colored mausoleum in
which at evening it is buried. Sunset
among the mountains! It almost takes
one’s broath away to recall the scene.
The long shadows strotching over the
piain make the glory of the departing
light, on the tip-top crags and struck
aslant through the foliage, tiie more tran
spicuous. Saffron and gold, purple and
crimson commingled. All tho castles
of cloud in conflagration. Burn
ing Moscows on the sky. Hang
ing gardens of roses at their deepest
blush. Banners of vapor, red as if from
carnage in the battle of the elements. The
hunter among the Adirondack's, and the
Swiss villager among tho Alps, know what
is a sunset among tho mountains. After a
storm at sea the rolling grandeur into
which the sun goes down to at
uightfall is something to make weird and
splendid dreams out of for a lifetime.
Alexander Smith, in his poem, compares
the sunset to “tho barren beach of hell;’’
hut this wonderful spectacle of nature
makes me think of the burnished wall of
Heaven. Paul, in prison, writing my text,
remembers some of the gorgeous sunsets
among the mountains of Asia Minor, and
how he had often seen the towers of
Damascus blajo in the close of the Oriental
days, and he flashes out that memory in
the text when he says: "Let not the sun
go down upon your wrath.”
Sublime and all-suggestive duty for peo
ple then and people ndw. Forgiveness be
fore sundown. He who never feels the
throb of indignation is imbecile. He who
can walk among the injustices of tho
world, inflicted upon himself and othors,
without flush of cheek, or flash of eye, or
agitation of nature, is either in sympathy
with wrong or semi-idiotic. Whon Ananias,
the high priest, ordered the constables of
the court-mom to smite Paul in the mouth,
Paul fin* up and laid: "God shall smite
thee, thou whited wall.” In tho sentence
inf mo '.lately before my text Paul com
mands tho Ephesians: ‘‘He ye anKcy and
sin not.”
It all depends on what you are mad at
and how long the feeling lasts whether
auger is right or wrong. Life is full of
exasperations. Saul after David, Succoth
after Gideon, Korah after Moses, the
Pasquins after Augustus, the Phar
isees after Christ, and every one has had
his pursuers, and we are swindled, or be
lied, or misrepresented, or persecuted, or
in somo way wronged, and tho danger is
that healthful indignation shall become
fcaleful spite, and that our feelings settle
down into a prolonged outpouring of tem
per displeasing to God and ruinous to our
selves, and hence the important injunction
of the text: “Let not tho sun go down
upon your wrath.”
Why that limitation to one’s anger!
Why that period of flaming vapor set to
a flaming disposition! What
has tho sunset got to do with one’s resent
ful emotions I Was it a haphazard senti
ment written by Paul without special sig
nificance! No, no; I think of five reasons
why wo should not lot tho sun set before
our temper sets:
First, because twelve hours is long
enough to be cress about any wrong in
flicted upon us. Nothing is so exhaust
ing to physical health or mental faculty
hs a protractod indulgence -of ill-humor.
It racks the nervous system. It hurts the
digestion. It heats tho blood in brain and
heart until the whole body is first over
rated and then depressed. Besides that
|t sours tho disposition, turns one aside
From his legitimate work, expends ener
gies that ought to be better employed, and
lloes more harm than it does our antag
bnist. Paul gives us a good, wide allow
ance of time for legitimate denunciation,
From six o’clock to six o’clock, but says:
"Stop there!” Watch the descending orb
bf day, and when it reaches the horizon
take a reef in your disposition. Unloose
your collar and cool off. Change the sub
ject to something delightfully ploasant.
Unroll your tight fist and shake hands
With some one. Bank up the fires at the
curfew bell. Drive the growling dog of
enmity back to its kennel. The hours of this
morning will pass by, and tho afternoon
will arrive, and tho sun will begin to set,
nnd I beg you on its blazing hearth threw
ail your feuds, invectives and satires.
Other things being equal, the man who
preserves good temper will come out ahead.
An old essayist says that the celebrated
John Honderson, of Bristol, England, was
at a dining party where political excite
ment ran high, and the debate got angry,
and while Henderson was speaking his op
ponent, unable to answer his argument,
dashed a glass of wine In his face, when
the speaker deliberately wiped the liquid
from his face and said: “This, sir, is di
gression; now, if you please, for the main
argument.” While wordly philosophy
could help but very few in such
equipoise of spirit, the grace of God
could help any man to such a tri
umph. "Impossible,” you say; “I would
have either left the table in anger or have
knocked the man down.” But 1 have come
to believe that nothing is impossible if
God help, since what I saw at BetVShun
faith cure in London, England, two sum
mers ago. While tho religious servico
was going on Rev. Dr. Boardmnn, glori
ous man! since gone to his Heavenly
rest, was telling the scores of sick people
present that Christ was there as of old to
heal all diseases, and that, if they would
only believe, their sickness would depart.
1 saw a woman near me with hand and
arm twisted of rheumatism, and her
wrist was fiery with inflammation, and
It looked like those cases of chronlc flieu
we have seen and sym
path *>a with, cases beyond all human
healing At the preacher's reiteration of
tho words: ‘‘Will you believe! Do you be
hove!” Do you believe now!” I
beard this poor •* sick woman
*»*y. with an emphafcis which sounded
through the building: "1 do believe.” And
then she laid her twisted arm and hand
out as straight as your arm or hand or
mine. If 1 had seen one rise from the dead
I would not have been much more thrilled.
Biuce then I believe that God will do any
thing in answer to our prayer and
id answer to our faith, and
our bodies, and if our
soul is all twisted and misshapen of ro
vengo and hate and inflamed with sinful
proclivity, He can straighten that also and
make it well and clean. Aye, yoo will not
postpone till sundown forgiveness of
enemies if you can realize thaitheir be
havior toward you maybe pnjintothe
catalogue of the "all tilings” luav “work
together for good to those that love
God.” I have had multitudes of friends,
but I have found in my own experi
ence that God so arranged it that the
greatest opportunities of usefulness that
have been opened before me were opened
by enemies. And when, _yoars ago, they
conspired against me, that opened all
Christendom to me as a field in which to
preach the Gospel. 8o you may harness
your antagonists to your best interests
and compel them to draw you on to better
work and higher character. Suppose, in
stead of waiting until six minutes past five
o’clock this evening, when the sun will
set, you transact this glorious work of
forgiveness before meridian.
Again: We ought not to let tho sun go
down on our wrath, because we will sleep
hotter if wo are at peace with every body.
Insomnia is getting to bo one of the most
prevalent of disorders. How few-poople
retire at ten o’clock at night and sleep
through to six in the morning! To relieve
this disorder ail narcotics, and sodatives,
and chloral, and bromide of potassium,
and cocaine, and intoxicants are used,
but nothing is more important than a
quiet spirit if we would win somnolence.
How is the man going to sloop when
he is in mind pursuing an enemy! With
what nervous twitch he will start out
of a dream! That new plan for cornering
his foe will keep him wide awake while
the clock strikes eleven, twelve, one, two,
three, four. I give you an unfailing pre
scription for wakefulness; spend the
evening hours rehoarsingyour wrongs and
the best way of avenging them. Hold a
convention of friends on this subject in
your parlor or office at eight or nine
e’ol.ici*. Close the ct-~ la.; u_> -* t: il
a Ditter leaver expressing your senti
ments. Take from the desk or pigeon
hole the papers in the case to refresh
your mind with your evening’s meanness.
Then lie down and wait for the coming of
tho day, and it will come before sleep
comes, or your sleep will be a worried
quiescence, and, if you take the precau
tion to lie flat on your back, a frightful
nightmare. Why not put a bound to your
animosity? Why let your foes come into
the sanctities of your dormitory? Why
let those slanderers who have already torn
your reputation to pieces or injured your
business bend over your midnight pillow
and drive from you oue of tho greatest
blessings that Almighty God can offer
sweet, refreshing, all-invigorating eleep?
Why not fence out your enemies by
the golden bars of the sunset ! Why not
stand behind the barricade of evening
cloud and say to them: “Thus fur and ho
further.” Many a man and many a wo
man is having the health of body as well
as the health of the soul eaten away by a
malevolent spirit. I liave in time of
religious awakening had persons, night
after night, come into tho inquiry-room
and get no peace of soul. After a while I
have bluntly asked: "Is there not some
one against whom you have a hatred that
you are not willing to give up!” After
a little confusion she has slightly whisper
ed. "Yes.” Then I said to her: "You will
never find peace with God as long as you
retain that virulenco.”
A boy in Sparta, having stole a fox, kept
him under his coat, and though the fox
was gnawing his vitals, be submitted to it
rather than expose his misdeed. Many a
man with a smiling face has under bis
jacket an animosity that is gnawing away
the strength of his body and the integrity
of his soul. Better get rid of that hidden
fox as soon as possible. There are hun
dreds of domestic circles where that
which most is needod is the spirit of
forgivoness. Brothers apart, sisters apart
and parents nnd children apart. Solo
mon says a brother offended is harder to
be won than a strong city. Arc there not
enough sacred memories of your childhood
to bring you together? The rabbins re
count how that Nebuchadnezzar’s son hud
such a spite against his father that after
he was dead he had his father burned to
ashes, and then put the ashes into four
sacks and tied them to four eagle’s necks,
| which flew away in opposite directions.
And thcro are now domestic antipa
thies that seem forever to have scat
tered all paternal memories to the four
winds of Heaven. How far the eagles
fly with the sacred ashes! The hour of
sundown makes to that family no practi
cal suggestion. Thomas Carlyle in his bi
ography of Frederick the Great says the
old King was told by the confessor he
must be at peace with his enemies if he
wanted to enter Heaven. Then he said to
his wife, the Queen: "Write to your broth
er after I am dead that I forgive him.”
ltuloff, the confessor, said: "Her Majesty
had better write him immediately.” “No,”
said the King, "after 1 am dead ; that will
be safer.” So I>£ let the sun of his earthly
existence go down upon his wrath.
Again, wo ought not to allow the sun set
before forgiveness takes place, because we
might not live to see another day. And
what if we should be ushered into tho
presence of our Maker with a grudge upon
our soul! The majority of tho people de
part this life in the night. Between eleven
p jtj, and three a. m. there is something in
the atmosphere which relaxes the grip
which the body has on the soul, and most
people enter the next world through the
TRENTON. DADE COUNTY GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28. 1887.
shadows of this world. Perhaps God m »j.
have arranged it in that way so as th
make tho contrast tho mors glo
rious. I have seen sunshiny days ic*
this world that must have been almost,
like the radiance of Heaven. But, as
most people louva tho earth between sun
down and sunrise, they quit this world at
its darkest, and Heaven, always bright,
will be the brighter for that contrast.
Out of blackness into irradiation. Shall
wo, then, leap over the roseate bank
of sunset into the favorite hunting
ground of dilease and death, carrying
our animosities with us! Who would
wont to confront his God, against whom
wo havo all doao moaner things tb"ji
any body has ever done against us, < >n
rying old grudges! How can wo expect
His forgiveness for the greater when w*
are not willing to forgive other* the loss?
Napoleon was encouraged to undertake
the crossing of the Alps because Charle
magne had previously- crossed them. And
all this rugged path of forgiveness bears
the bleeding footsteps of Him who con
quered through suffering, and we ought
to be willing to follow. On the night of
our departure from this life into the next,
our one plea will havo to be for mercy, and
it will have to be offered in the presence
of Him who has said: "If you forgive not
men their trespasses neither will your"
Heavenly Father forgive y-our tres
passes." What a sorry plight if we
stand there hating this one, and hating
that one, and wishing this one a damage,
and wishing some one else a calamity, and,
wo ourselves neoding forgivoness for ten
thousand times ten thousand obliquities ot
heart and life. When our last hour
comos, we want it to find us all right.
Hardly any.tiling affects me so much in
the uncovering of ancient Pompeii as
tho account of the soldier who,
after the city had for many cen
turies been covered with the ashes and'”
scoriae of Vesuvius, was found standing in
his place on guard, hand on spear and hel
met on head. Others fled at tho awful
submergernent, but the explorer, seven
teen hundred years after, found the body
of that bravo fellow in right position.
And it will be a grand thing if, when our
last moment comes, we are found in right
position toward tho world, ns well as in
right position toward God, on guard and
unulfrighted by the ashes from the moun
tain of death. I do not suppose lam any
more of a coward than most people, but I
declare to you that I would not dare to
sleep to-night if there were any being in
all the earth with whom I would not gladly
shake bands, lest, during the night hours,
my spirit dismissed to other realms, I
should because of my unforgiving spirit
baAaniad AJyjqo for rive ness v 1
Again; We (ufgnt'not to aimw' itm pass
age of the sunset hour before the dismis
sal of all our affronts, because we may as
sociate the sublimest action ot the soul
with the sublimest spectacle in nature. It
is a most dclightsomo thing to have our
personal experiences allied with certain
objects. There is a tree or river bank
where God first answered your prayer.
You will never pass that place or think
of that place without thinking of the glo
rious communion. There was some gate,
or some room, or somo garden walk,
where you were affianced with the compan
ion who has beoa your chief joy in life.
You never speak of that place but with
a smile. Some of you have pleasant mem
ories connected with the evening star, or
the moon in its first quarter, or with the
sunrise, because you saw it just as you
were arriving at h rbor after a tempestuous
voyage. Forever, sud forever, O bearer,
associate tho sunset with your magnani
mous, out-and-out unlimited renunciation
of all hatreds and forgiveness of all foes.
I admit it is the most difficult of all graces
Ito praetico, aud at the start you may
make a complete failure, but keep
bn lu the attempt to practice it.
Shalsespere wrote ten plays before
he reached "Hamlet," and seventeen
plays before ho reached “Merchant of Ven
ice,” and twenty-eight plays before he
reached “Macbeth.” And gradually you
will come from the easier graces to the
most difficult. Besides that, it is not a
matter of personal determination so mu h
as the laying hold of tho almighty arm of
God, who will help U 3 to do anything wo
ought to do. Remember that in all per
sonal controversies the one least to blame
will have to take tho first step toward pa
cification, if it is ever effective. The con
test between JEschines and Aristippus re
sounds 'through history, but Aris
tippus, who was least to blame,
went to ./Eschines and said: “Shall
we not agree to be friends before we make
ourselves the laughing stock of tho whole
country!” And jEschines said : “Thou art
a far better man than I, for I began the
quarrel, but thou hast been the first in
healing the breach,” and they were always
friends afterward. So let the ono of you
that is least to blame take the first step
toward conciliation. The one most in the
wrong will never take it. Oh, it makes
one feel splendidly to be ablq by God’s
help to practice unlimited forgiveness.
It improves one’s body and
soul. It will make you measure
three or four more inches around the
chest and improve your respiration so that
you cau take a deeper and longer breath.
Itximproves the countenance by scattering
the gloom and brightening the forehead,
and loosening the pinched look about the
nostril and lip, and makes you somewhat
like God himself. lie is omnipotence, and
we can not copy that. He is independent
of all the universe, and wo can not copy
that. He is creative, and we can not
copy that. He is omnipresent, and
we can not copy that; but He
forgives with a broad sweep all
faults, and all neglects, and nil insults,
and all wrong-doing, and in that we may
copy Him with mighty success. Go harness
that sublime action of your soul to an au
tumnal sunset, the hour when the gate of
Heaven opens to let the day pass into the
eternities and some of the glories escape
this way through the brief opening. We
talk about the Italian sunsets, and
'•unset amid the Appsnines, aud sun
set amid the Cordilleras; but I
Will teli you how you may see a grander
sv-'se? than any mere lover of nature
evor beheld. That is by flinging into It all
your hatreds and animosities, and lot
the horses of lire trample th"m, and tha
chariots of fire roll over them, nnd the
spearmen of fire stab them, and the beach
of fire consume them, and tho billows of
fire over whelm them. The sublimest thing
God does is the sunset; the sublimest thing
you can do is forgiveness. Along the glow
ing banks of this coming eventide let the
divine and the human bo concurrent.
Again: We should not lot tile snn go
down on our wrath, because it is of little
importance what tho world says of you or
does to you when you have tho affluent
God of the sunset as vour provider and de
fender. People talk as though it were a
fixed spectacle of nature and always the
same. But no one ever saw two sunsets
alike, aud if the world has existed six
thousand years there have been about 2,-
190,000 sunsets, each of them as distinct
from all other pictures in the gallery of
the sky as Titian’s “Last Supper,’’Rubens’
"Descent from the Cross,” Raphael’*
"Transfiguration” and Michael Angelo’s
“Last Judgment” are distinct from each
other. Tr that. God of such infinite re
sources that He can put on the wall of the
sky each night more than the Louvre, and
the Luxembourg, and tho Vatican, aud the
Dresden and Venetian galleries all in one,
is my God and your God, our Provider
and Protector, what is the use
of our worrying about our juman antag
onism? If we are misinterpreted tho God
of the many-colored sunset cau put the
right color on our action. If He can afford
to hang such masterpieces over tho out
side wall of Heaven and have thorn oblit
erated in an hour, He must bo very rich in
resources and can putus through in safoty.
If all tho garniture of tho Western heav
ens at eventide is but tho upholstery of
one of the windows of our future home,
what small business for us to bo chasing
enemies! Let not this Sabbath sun go
dowu upon your wrath.
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WHEN DAYLIGHT COMES.
Hard to Tell Where It Really Begins, f or
It Is Seen Everywhere.
The succession of day and night depends
on the rotation of the eaith on its axis, and
since the oarth is of a globular shape it Is
evident that the whole of its surface can not
be turned toward the sun at one and the
same time; in other words, that it cannot
be noon all over the earth at once. A little
thought will show that whenever it is noon
at any one place it is midnight on the oppo
site side of the earth, and at the different
places between all the times ot the day are
at one and the same moment to be found
Take a particular example to make this
clearer: When it is noon at London the
countries exactly on tho opposite side of
~ »i»k— — • Vy’r'qfl.Jtnil Itf l rybfhr
borhood—are turned directly away from
tho sun, and therefore have midnight.
Paris, being a little further east than
London, will have been brought direct
ly under the sun n little earlier—
that is to say, at London noon Paris
noon has bean gone a few minutes. Go to
Egypt and Constantinople, farther East;
their noon has been gone an hour or two.
Farther on again liuliu is approaching her
eventide, nnd Japan havo already
sunk into dartres. fuce West,
however, across the Atlantic; you Will find
our American cousins have not yet reached
their midday; In fact, are thinking in New
York about breakfast, and out West, in Cali
fornia, are hardly yot getting up. Still to
the We-t wo come round i.gain to New Zeal
and. where the day—which was only just
dawning in California, which was high noon
at Loudon and afternoon in Indiu—the
say the Ist of July, is, as we
saw, eve of departing altogether to
give place to a new one, the 2d of July. It
iA clear, then, that while tho Ist is still
ylung in America, and long before It is over
eJen in England, the 2d will bo well started
in New Zealand and countries In that longi
tude, and will come round the world from
East to West, as all its predecessors have
dona
The question then arises—-where did this
day, the 2d of July, first begin? It was not
in America, for we saw the folks there just
about to riso on the Ist Yet it was begin
ning in New Zealand or some place between
there and America. The fact is that there
is no defined placo where the day can be
said to appear first of all. Civilisation orig
inally spread from East to Weßt across the
old world and then ucross the new, carrying
its calendar with it The day came from
the East and traveled across to the West,
and no one asked whence it originally oame
or where it untimately died Ihus, the com
mon usage, treating the day as appearing
first in the old world and then proceeding
to the new, left no place for the new day’s
birth except the wide Pacific Ocean, and
when traffic began to cross that ocean and
the question was forced upon men’s minds a
sort of understanding was arrived at that
tho day should be deemed to begin there.-*
Chamber's Journal,
How to I>ry Fern*.
Get any carpenter to plane two deal
boards, about half an inch thick, a foot wide
ami a foot and a half long. Between these
place one or two quires of bloltlng paper.
In gathering the ferns cut them as low down
In the stem as possible, and in small speci
mens get up the root, if you can. It is best
at first to make the pressure light, so as to
alter tho form of the plant if needful before
it is completely dried, then increase the
pressure day by day until tho specimens a.o
ready to move. When they aro removed fer
final use they should be secured, if n<*c> s
sary, by little strips of gummed p.qnr,
which is best prepared beforehand by cov
ering a sheet of note paper with a strong
solution of gum, which, when dry, may be
kept for a long time ready for use. In dry
ing ferns, be careful to change the blotting
paper two or three times a week, so as to
remove any dampness, and dry the paper :n
the sun or bpfore the fire very often. It is
best to have two sets of paper, so that one
cm be dried while the other is in ns& Any
ordinary fern will be sufficiently dried in
two or three weeks, at most —Albany (A". Y.)
Journal.
Kixti looks, kind words, kind *vsts and
warm hand-shakes—these are secondary
means of grace when men nre in trouble,
and are fighting their unseen battles.— Dr.
John Hall.
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An actual heroe* aro essential men,
and all men possible heroes.—‘J? B. Broun*
ing.
ANARCHISTS’ DESPAIR.
There Is Little Hope of tho Cov
eted Writ of Error.
Preparations Making for Carrying Out the
Sentence#
Chicaoo, Oct.. ?!.’>.—Mosoa Solomon, one
of tbo counsel for the Anarchists, tele
graphed his clients from Washington last
evouing that there was little hope that a
writ of error would be granted by tho Su
preme Court, and that tho whole matter
would come back to this State to rest with
the Governor. The seven men held a con
ference as soon as they wore liberated and
seemed to feel more depressed than any
time since incarcerated. Parsons afterward
admitted to a reporter that Solomon’s
dispatch had almost destroyed their last
hope aud they were ready for any thing
now. Nina Van Zandt was present when
the news came. Spies told her tho con
tents of the message. “Well, if you die,”
said Nina, “you will not die aione. I will
go into the grave with you.” Lingg shed
tears, and the wife of Engel, who was
present, was almost prostrated by
the news. Preparations are already
being silently made for the great anti-Au
archist drama of the 11th of November.
Already orders have {men given, it is said,
to the members of the Second I. N. G. that
they will be required to be on duty for a
full week, and perhaps longer, prior to
November 11, at their armory, or wherover
their services may be required. Tbo
probability is that tho First Regi
ment will bo called upon to do the same
thing. It is understood, however, that
neither of the regiments will be called
from their respective armories unless in
the ease of absolute need. It is also stated
on authority that tho entiro block on
which the county jail and Criminal Court
buildings aro located will lie cordoned
with police, and all the North Clark street
buildings abutting on the jail will be
guarded with police officers, and no ono al
lowed to enter them until after the execu
tion of the condemned men.
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CHOLERA.
Breaks Out on the Steamship Britannia
Detained nt New York.
New York, Oct. 25.— Cholora has brokon
out on the steamship Britannia, which has
been for some time detained nt Lower
Quarantine. Tho record thus far is ono
death and one new case. Last Sunday
Petrouia Sevanclo was removed from the
Britannic, to tho Hospital at E*»iidjui;*>«
•u* u ’ sx h 8
dread mßense was upon him, and
yesterday ho died. Ho was fifty years old.
Last night Geuo Rosa Madria Givi, an
Italian girl aged twenty-two, was stricken
with cholera on the Britannii, and was at
once removed to tlio hospital on Swin
burne Island. She is very low. The Ala
sia’s passengers who havo been in the
Swinburne Hospital havo entirely recov
ered, and will to-morrow be removed to
Hoffman Island to join the Alesia’g de
tained passengers. No case was devel
oped on Hoffman Island since October 7.
The Britannia is carefully guarded.
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Coal Famine Causes Closing of Schools.
Spkingfirld, 111., Oct. 25.—0 n account
of the scarcity of coal, caused by tha
strike of tho coal miners in this district,
tho public schools were to-day compelled
to close. Tho price of anthracite coal has
advanced one dollar per ton, and oue hun
dred per cent, udvauce in bituminous coal
is predicted. A few days of cold wenther
will cause a shortage of fuel among pri
vate consumers which will undoubtedly
result in a vigorous howl. Borne of the
mines are still being worked, but tho coal
pool will not receive any orders from pri
vate consumers.
The Police Were No! Welcome.
Columbia. S. C., Oct. 25.—At a supper
held by colored people near Newberry
Sunday night a fatal riot occurred. Two
policemen were detailod from that town
to preserve order. They were attacked by
a gang of nogroes who were offended at
their presence Rnd one of the officers was
stabbed and beaten insensible. The other
emptied his revolver in the crowd and the
negroes scattered. One has since been
found dead in a corn field near by and it is
believed others were wounded.
-New Gold Field.
Duluth, Jln'X, Oct. 25.—The reported
find near the International
boundary was proved last evening by the
arrival of George and Frank Spencer, of
St. Louis, and Louis Boaubien, of British
Northwest Territory, with a small tin box
full of nuggets of native gold, including a
magnificent specimen of almost entirely
pure gold, almost as large as a man’s
hand.; They were en route to St. Louis, and
will return with a large party in about
three weeks.
Pallry Dollars lor Precious Lives.
St. Louts, Oct. 25.- John S. Stevens, the
attorney of the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw
railway, with headquarters at Peoria, says
rlie company has up to date settled with
the relations or legal representatives of
forty of the people who were kiiied at
Chatsworth, and with sixty of those who
were injured. The highest amount paid
out on death loss was £2,000.
Convicts Attempt an Escape.
Columbus, 0., Oct. 25.—Prisoners in tho
penitentiary made an attempt at escape,
but were frustrated in their purposes, aud
were reduced to the striped grade.
Giving Club-Houses a Chance.
Boston, Mass., Oct. 25.—The Supremo
Court decided yesteiday that the prohibi
tion Inw did not forbid the sale of liquor
by clubs to members.
Killed Under a Falling Wall.
Tnor, N. Y., Oct. 25.- A portion of the
wall of Senator Miller's paper mill fell,
killing John Mallory, jr., and injuring
Others.
VOL. IV.—NO. 36.
IS GARRETT INSANE?
Blutrcsufng; Report* Respecting the Ux-
Mngiiatii'n Mental Condition.
Nhw Yokk, Oct. 24.—A Baltimore special
soys: There seomi now to be no doubt
that Mr. Robert Garrett, tho dethroned
president of tho Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
is afflicted mentally. His actions since
his return to Baltimore have more ia»a
convinced his relatives and friend* that he
is in a sad condition. Ever wine* bis re
turn to Baltimore hi* relatives and friend*
have used the utmost precaution to keep
the knowledge of his condition quiet
but without avail. Whenever ho was ia
the city lie was closely shadowed by a
physician, which alono gave riso to a sus
picion that something was wrong and his
actions have more than confirmed that be
lief. Some term his affliction softening of
the brain, while others say that it is simply
a giving way of hi* nervous system. His
physician, Dr. N. S. Gortor, a day or two
ago admitted to the Times correspondent
that Mr. Garrett was laboring under a
heavy menial strain, but be was hopeful
that rest and change of living would re
store his patient to perfect health. Tha
slightest reference to Jay Gould throws
him into a state of the wildest excita™
rnent.
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CURSING IN CHURCH.'
Sudden Insanity of a Minister at Sun-*
day-Scliool, Where 110 Swears Bike a
Trooper.
Marshall, 111., Oct. 24.—Westfield, this
county, was treated to a big sensation
yesterday. J. R. Young, the recently
appointed Methodist ministor, arrived
there last week, and while superintend
ing the Sunday-school yesterday morn
ing suddenly began to use profane
and abusive language, and seemed
about to demolish tho entire gathering.
He was promptly secured, as it was seen
that he had become a raving maniac. He
was at once brought to this city and con
fined in jail. He sang religious softgs dur
ing the entire trip, and since his Incarcer
ation has made the jail rosound with gos*
pel hymns, singing constantly. 110 is quite
a talented young minister, but has been
subject to such spells recently. Indeed,
he was at oue time an iumato of an insane
asylum. Tho cause of his sudden attack was
religious excitement.
Testing Constitutionality of Prohibition.
Chicago, Oct. 24. Attorney Packard, of
this city, has left for Washington to expe
dite, if possible, a hearing in the Kansas
and lowa prohibitory suits now pond ing in
the Supreme Court. An important consti
tutional point under the fourteenth amond
uieut haa*found entry into these cases
under the Federal law tho property or
business of a citizen could not bo de
stroyed, without compensation, and tho
State would have to pay tbo damages for
all saloons closed. There are four cases
already undor advisement by the United
Stales Supreme Court, and if a decision is
entered soon in any of them it will put au
end to all pending litigation.
Winter Weather.
St. Paul, Minn, Oct. 24.—1 t has been
bitterly cold here all day, and to-night tka
mercury stands at 29 degress above. At
Billings, Mont., fifteen degrees below zero
is reported, and at Aberdeen, Dak., a
temperature of zero.
Gayi.okh, Mich., Oct. 24.—A terriflo
snow-atorm bas been raging hero for tw 1
days, and the snow is now eight inches
deep. i
Mormons Refuse to Swear.
Salt Lars Citt, Utah, Oct. 24. —The
venire of seventeen jurors for the civil
cases called in the Third District court to
day wore nil Mormons. Twelve of the
number refuted to take the oath required
of jurors by the Tuckor-Edmuuds law. L.
S. Hill, a member of the late Constitu
tional Convention, was one of the number
who refused.
Ho Took Horse Liniment.
Akron, 0., Oct. 24.—A distressing acci
dent occurred west of this city Sunday
morning, by which George Bares, aged
twenty-one years, lost his life. He had
been suffering with malaria, and early
Sunday morning rose from bed, and by
mistake took a dose of horse liniment in
stead of his medicine. He was in intense
agony and died before relief could be ob
tained.
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Sugar Trust Petering Out.
New Yokk, Oct. 24.—1 t is reported that
t,be Sugar Trust is likely to go to pieces,
Owing to the fact that tho Standard Re
finery of Boston insists on its right to com
plete its arrangement for a new refinery
at Baltimore. The other members refuse
to -concede this advantage to the Boston
concern.
A Startling Confession.
Nan Frakcisco, Oct. 24.—Henry Borg
hayon, who committed suicide in this city,
left a confession that he poisoned his sis
ter, the wifo of Dr. I. Milton Bowers, for
insurance money. The husband, Dr. Bow
ers, is now under sentence of death for the
crime, y&i. |
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Double Lynching.
New Orleans, Oct. 24.—Perry King and
Drew Green (both colored), who, accord
ing to King's confession, entered the house
of Mrs. Barker, Lamar, La., with the in
tention of assaulting her two daughters,
were taken by a mob and lynched.
Canard.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 24.—The reported
fight between vigilantes and outlaws near
Wewoka, I. T., last Thursday, proves to be
absolutely false.
Bill Ignored.
Chatsworth, 111., Oct. 24.—The grand
jury has ignored the bill presented against
Section Boss Coughlin for having caused
the Chatsworth disaster.
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Cork Proclaimed.
Dublin, Oct. 24.—The city and county of
Cork have been placed Under vhe minor
clauses of the crimes act.