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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher, HEALTH. It Should be Enjoyed in a 'Physical and Spiritual Sense. Early Training in Both Directions the Duty of I’urents—Sermon by Kev. T. De- Witt TiUmage, D. D, Brooklyn, Nov. 20.—Tho subject or Dr. diseofwe to-day was: “The Gospel oI ileklth,” and his text from Prov erbs vii. 23: “Till a dart strike through his fiver.” Ho said: There is a fashion insermonics. Acorn parti vely small part of the Bitde is called on for texts. Most of the passages of Scripture, when announced at the opening of sermons, imjuedmlel^divjjdathemselves into old discussions that wo have heard from boyhood, and the effect on us is soporific. The auditor guesses at the start just What the jireacher will say. There are very important chapters and verses that have never been preached from. Much of my lifetime lam devoted to unlocking these.gold chests and blast ing open these quarries. We talk about the heart, a.M .preach about the heart, and sing about the heart; but if you refer to the physical organ that we call the heart, it has not half so much to do with spiritual health or disease,, moral exaltation or spir itual depression*.as tho organ to the con sideration of which Solomon calls us, in "the text, when he described sin progress ing “till a dart strike through his liver.” Solomon’s anatomical and physiological discoveries wore so very great that he was nearly three thousand years ahead of the scientists of his day. Ho, more than one thousand years before Christ, seemed to know about the circulation of the blood, which Harvey discovered sixteen hundred and nineteen years after Christ, for when Solomon, in Ecclesiastes, describing the human body, speaks of the pitcher at the fountain, ho evidently means the thrSe canals' leading from the hdtirt that receive the # blood like pitchers. When be speaks in Ec clesiastes of the silver cord of life he evi dently means the spinal marrow, about which in our day Prs, Mayo and Carpenter ' and Dalton and Flint and Brown-Sequard have experimented. And - Solomon re corded in the Bible thousands of years be fore scientists discovered, it that in his time the spinal cord relaxed in old age, producing tju; tremors of hand and head: “Or tlie silvjrr cord be-loosed.” In the tpxt he reveals the fact that he hud studied that,‘largest gland of the hu man system, tho liver, not by the electric light of ,the modern dissecting-room, but bv the slim light of a” c6niparatively dark age,and yet had sedn its important function in a God-built castle pf the human body, its selecting and secreting power, its curi ous cells', its elongated branching tubes, a Divine workmanship in central and right and left lobe, and the hepatic artery "through *• which God conducts the .crimson tides. Oh, this vital organ is like the eye of God in that ft never sleeps. Solomon knew of and had no ticed, either in vivisection or post-mortem, what awful attacks sin and dissipation make upon it, until with the fiat of Al mighty God it bids the body .and soul sepo rate, and the one it commands to tho gr-ive and the other it sends to judgment—a javeliTf of retribution, not glancing off or making a slight wound, but piercing it from, sidq to side “till the dart strikes through the livlr.” Galen and Hippocrates ascribe to the iiver the most of t,he world’s moral depression, and tlie word melan choly means black bile. . I prfltdh to you tins mormjig the Gospel of health. In taking diagnosis of tbo dis eases of the sbnl you must also take the diagnosis of.the diseases of the body. As if to recoghizcr this, one whole book of the New Testament was written by a physi cian. Luke was a doctor and he discourses much of physical effects, and he tells of the good Samaritan’s medication of the Vvounds by pouring in oil and wine, and recognizes’hunger as a hinderanpe.to hear ing t&e Gosj.ef, so Mi at the five thousand Were fed', and records the sparse diet of the prodigal away from home, and the ex tinguished eyesight of the beggar by the Wayside, and lets us know of the hem • tu-rhage of the wounds of the dying Christ lind the miraculous post-mortem resuscita tion. And any estimate of the spiritual •condition that does not include also an rstijqate of the physical Condition is in complete. When the door-keeper of Congress • fell dead' from excessive Joy because Burgoyne had surrendered at Baratoga, and Philip the Fifth of Spain dropped dead at the news of his country’s defeat hi bottle, and Cardinal Wolsey ex pired as a result of Henry the Eighth’s anathema, it was demonstrated that the body ar.d soul are Siamese twins, and when you thrill the one with joy‘or sorrow you thrill the other. Wc might as well recog nize the tremendous fact that there are two mighty fortresses in the human body, the heart and the liver —the heart the fortress of all the graces, the liver the fortress p/ all the furies. You the hoadTlilled with alp the intellectuali ties, f\nd the esjr with all musical appre ciation, and the mouth with alt eloquence, and the hand with al! industries, and the peart with ail generosities, and yet “adart strike through tho liver.” First", let Christian people avoid the mis take that they are all Wrong with God be cause they suffer from depression of spirits. Many a consecrated man has found his spiritual sky befogged, and his hope ju£ Hojiven blotted out, and himseii plungedf oh in ddep in the Slough of Dcsffond. and has said: “My heart is not right with God, ani I think I must have made a mistake, and instead of being a child of light Gam a child of darkness. N 6 one can feel as gloomy as 1 feel and be a Christian.” Ami he has gone to his minister for con sola'ion, and ho has collected Havels booan books, and Baxter's books ah'd VeatT and read and read, and prayed and prayed and prayed, and wept and wept, and wept, and groaned and groaned and groaned. My brother, your trouble is not with the heart, it is a gas- trie disorder or rebellion of the liver. You need a physician more than you do a clergyman. It is,not. sin that blots outyour hope of Heaven, but bile. It not only yel lows your eyeball, and furs your tongue, and makes your head ache, but swoops upon your soul in dejections and fore bodings. The devil is after you. He lpis failed to despoil your character, and he does the next best thing for him—he ruf fles your peace of mind. When he says that you aro not a forgiven soul, when he says that you are r.ct right with God, when he says that you will never get to Heaven he lies. You are just as sure of Heaven as though you were there already. But Sa tan, finding that he can not keep yon out of the promised land of Canaan, bus deter mined that the spies shall not bring you any of the Eschol grapes beforehand, and that you shall have nothing but prickly pear and crab apple. You are just as good now under the cloud as you were when you were accustomed to rise in the morning at five o’clock to pray and sing “Hallelu jah, ’tis done!” My friend) Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Jones, of Philadelphia, a trans lated spirit now, wrote a book: entitled. “Man; Moral and Physical,>’ in which he shows how different the same things may appear to different people. lie .pays: “After the great battle on the Mincio, in 1859, between the French and Sardinians on one side and the Austrians on the other, so disastrous to the latter, the defeated army retreated, followed by the victors. A description of the march of each army is given by two correspondents of the London Times , one of whom traveled with the successful host, the other with the defeat ed. “The differencerin views and statements of the same place, scenes and events, is remarkable. The former are said to be marching through a beautiful and luxu riant country during the day, and at night encamping where they are'supplied with an abundance of the best provisions, and all sorts of rural dainties. There is nothing of w T ar about the proceeding except its stimulus and excitement. On the side of the poor Austrians it is just the reverse. In his letter of the same date, describing the same places and march over the same road, the writer can scarce ly find words to set forth the suffering, impatience and disgust existing around him. What was pleasant to the former was intolerable to the latter. What mafic all this difference? asked the journalist. ‘One condition only: The French are vie torious, the Austrians have been defeated. The contrast may convey a distinctive idea of the extent toiwliieh moral* impressions' affect the efficiency of the Soldier.’” So, my dear brother, the road you aie traveling is the same you have been t.r»v eling a long while, but, tho difference In your physical conditions makes it look dif ferent, and therefore the two reports you have given of yourself are as widely differ ent, as the reports in the London Times from two correspondents. Edward Payson, some times s'o fafr up on the mount that it seemed as if the centripetal force of earth could no longer hold him, some limes through a physical disorder was so far down that it seemed as if the nether world would clutch lyin'. Glorious William Cow per was as good as good could be, and will be loved in the Christian Church as long as it sings his hymn, beginning. “Tilers is a fountain tilled with blood,” and his hymn beginning, “Oh, for a closer walk with God,” and his-hymn beginning, “What various hidranees wo meet,” and his liyrniTßeginning “GcA moves in a mys terious way.” Yet so whs he overcome of melancholy, or black -bile, that it-was, only through the mistake of the cab-driver.who took him to a wrong place, instead of the river Jmnk, that he did not commit suicide. Spiritual condition so mightily affected by the physical state, what a great opportuni ty this gives for the Christian physician, for he can feel at the same time both the pulse of the body and the pulse of the soul, and -he can administer to both at once, and if medicine is needed he can give that, and if spiritual counsel is needed he can give that—an earthly and a divine prescription at the same time —and call on not only the apothecary of earth, but the pharmacy of Heaven. Ah, that Is tjie kind of doctor I w ant at my bedside when I get sick,one that can not.only count out the right number of drops, but one who cau also pray. That is the kind of doctor I have had in my house when sick ness or death came. Tdo not want any of your profligate or atheistic doctors around my loved ones when Ihe balances of life are trembling. “•A doctor who' has gone through the medical college,and in dissept ing-room has traversed the wonders of the human mechanism, and found no God in any of the labyrinths, is a fool,and cau not doctor me or mine. But, oh, the Christian doctors! IVhat a comfort they have been in many of bur households. And they ought to have a warm place in our prayers as well as praise on our tongues. Dear old Dr. Skillman! My father’s doctor, my mother’s doctor in the village home. He carried all tho confidences of all the fam ilies for ten miles around. We all felt bet ter as soon as we* saw him enter the house. His face pronounced a beatitude before lie said a word. He yelcomed all pf ,us children into life* and lie closed the old people’s eyes when they entered tho last slumber. I think 1 know what Christ said to him when the bid'doctor got through his work; I.think he-was greeted with the words: “Come in, doctor, I was sick and ye visited me!”■ 1 bless OOa'that tho number of Christian physic ians ismultlpiyifig, and soma of the students of the medical colleges are here to-day, and I hail you and I bless you and I ordain you to the tender, beauti ful, Work of a Christian physician, and when you take your diploma from the Long island Medical Col lege, to look after the perishable body, be sure, also, to get a diploma from the skies to look after the imperishable aoul. Let all Christian physicians unite with the ministers of the GoSpel-in persuading good people that it is not because God is against them that they sometimes feel depressed, but because of their diseased body. 1 suppose David, the psalmist, was no more pious when he called on every thing human and angelic, animate and inanimate, and from snowflake to hurri cane, to praise God, than when he said ; TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1887. ‘Out of the depths of hell have I cried un to Thee, O L rd,” or that Jeremiah was .any better when he wrote his prophecy than when he wrote his ‘‘Lamentations.,’’ or that Job was anv bettor when lie said : “I know that my Redeemer liveth,” than when covered all over with the pustules of elephantiasis he sat in the ashes scratch ing the scabs off with a broken piece of pottery; or that Alexander Crudon, the eoncordist, was any better man when he compiled tho book that has helped ten thousand students of the Bible, than when under the power of physical disorder he was handcuffed and straight-waistcoated in Bethnal Green Insane Asylum. “Oh,” says some Christian man, “no one ought to allow physical disorder todepress his soul, lie ought to live so near to God as to be always in the sunshine.” Yes, that is good advice; but I warrant that you, the man who gives the advice, have a sound liver. Thank God every day for healthful hepatic condition, for, just as certainly as you lose it, you will some times, iike David, and like Jeremiah, and like Cowper. and like Alexander Cruden, and like ten thousand other invalids, be playing a dead march on the same organ with which now you play a toccata. My object at this point is not only to emoliate the criticisms of the well against those in poor health, but to show Christian people who aro atrabilarious what is the matter with thorn. Do not charge against the heart the crimes of another portion of you? organism. Do not conclude that be cause the path of Heaven is not arbored with as fine a foliage, or the banks beauti fully snowed under with exquisite chrys anthemums as once, that therefore you are on the wrong road. The road will bring you out at the same gate whether you walk with the stride of an athlete or come up on crutches. Thousands of Christians morbid about their experiences and mor bid about their business, and morbid about the present, and morbid about the future, need the sermon I am now preaching. Another practical use of this subset is for the young. The theory Is abroad that they must first sow their wild oats, and afterwaj-d Michigan wheat. Let me break the delusion. Wild oats are generally sown in the liver, and they can never be pulled up. They so preoccupy that organ that there is no room for tho, implanta tion of a righteous crop. You see aged men about us at eighty, erect, agile, splendid, grand old men. How much wild oats did they sow between eighteen years and thirty f None, absolutely none. God does not very often honor with old age those who have iu early life sacri ficed swine on the altar of the bodily tempie. n Rcmembei, O yquilg i-uhiij WW?' wkll, in afterlife ana after years .of dissipation you may perhaps have your heart changed, religion does not change the liv.er. Trem bling and staggei'ing along these streets to-day are men, aU bent and decayed and prematurely old lor the reason that they are paying for liens they put upon their physical estate before they were thirty. By early dissipation thej put on their body a first mortgage, and a Second mortgage, and a third .mortgage to'ttte devil, and these mortgages are nowbeing foreclosed, and all that remains, of their earthly estate the undertaker will soon. . put out of sight. Many years ago, in fulfill ment of my text, a dart struck through their liver, and it is there yet. God for gives, but outraged physical- la.w, never, never, never. That has a Sinai, but ■no Calvary. Solomon in my text knew what he waS talking about. He had in early life been a profligate, and he rises up on his throne of worldly splendor to shriek out a warning, to all the centuries. David, bad in early .lifo, but good in later life, cries out in an agony of earnestness, “Remember not tire sins of my.youth.” Stephen A. Douglas gave the name of “squatter sovereignty” to those who went out West and took possession of lands and held them bv right of preoccupation. Let a flock of sins settle on your heart before you get to twenty-five years of age, and they will in all probability keep possession by an Infernal squatter sovereignty. “I promise to pay at the hank SSOO six months from date,” says the promissory note.’ “I promise to pay my life thirty years from date at the bank of the grave,” says every infraction of thelawA of your physical'be ing. What? Will a man’s body never com pletely, recover from early dissipation in this worldi Never. How about the world to come? . Perhaps Gijd will fix it up in the resurrection body .so that it will not have to go limping through to all eternity; but get the liver thoroughly damaged and it will stay damaged. Physicians call it can cer of the liver, or hardening of the liver, or cirrhosis of the liver, or inflammation of the liver, or fatty degeneration of the liver, but Solomon puts all these pangs into one figure and says: “Till the dart strike through his liver.” Hesiod seemed to have some hint of this when he represented Promethens for his crimes fastened to a pillar and an eagle feeding on his liver, which was renewed again each uight, so that tho devouring went, on until finally Hercules slew the eagle and' rescued Prometheus. A id a dis sipated early lifo assures a ferocity peck ing away and clawing away at the liver year in and year out, and death is themity -Horcules who can break the power of its beak,or unclench.its claw. So also Virgil and Homer wrote fables about vultures preying upon the liv.gr, but there are those beretto-day with whom it is no fable, but a terrific reality. That young man smoking cigarettes and smoking cigars ha • no idea that he is get ting for himself smoked liver. That young man has no idea that he has by early dissi pation so depleted his energies that he will go into the battle only half armed. Na poleon lost Waterlec days before it was fought; Had he attacked the English army before It was reinforced, and taken it di vision by division, he might have won tho day; but he waited until he had only oue .hundred thousand men against two hun dred thousand. And here is a young man who, if ko put all his forces against the regiment of youthful temptations, in the strength of God might drive them back; but ne ts allowing them to be re-entorced by the whole army of middle-life tempta- tions, and when all those combined forces are massed against him, and no Grouchy comes to help him, ahd BlUcher has come to help his foes, what but immortal defeat can await him! Oh, my young brother, do not make the mistake that thousands all around you are making in opening the battle against sin too late, for this world too late, and for the world to come too late. What bringi "lliat express train from Wt. Louis into J rsey City three hours lute! They lost fifteen minutes early on the route, and that af fected them all the way, and they had to lie switched off here and switched off there, and detained here and detained there, and the man who loses tune and strength in tho earlier part of thor journojv of life will suffer for it all the way through, the firsjt twenty years of life damaging the following fifty years. Borne years ago a scientific lecturer went through the country exhibiting on a great canvas different parts of the human body when healthy, and different parts when diseased. What the world wants now is some eloquent scientist to go through the country showing to our young peoplo on blazing canvas the drunkard’s liver, the idler’sliver, the libertine’s liver, the gam bler’s liver. Perhaps the spectacle might stop some young man before he comes to the same catastrophe, and the dart strike through his own liver. 1 My hearer, this is the first sermon you hayo beard on the Gospel of Health, and it may be the .last you may ever hear on that subject; and I charge you in the name of God, and Christ, and usefulness, and eternal ylestiny, take better care of your health. When some of you die, if your friends put on your tombstone a truthful epitaph, it will read: “Here lies the vic tim of lufte suppers.” Or it will be: “Be hold what chicken-salad at midnight will do for a man.” Or it will be: “Ten cigars a day closed my earthly existence.” Or it will be: “Sat down in a cold draught, and this is the result.” - Or it will be: “I died of thin shoes last winter.” Or it will be: “Went out without an overcoat, and took this last chili.” Or it will be: “Thought I could do at seventy what 1 did at twenty, and lam here.” Or it will be: “Here is the consequence of sitting a half day with wet feet.” Or it will be: “This is where I have stacked my harvest of wild oats.” Or, instead of words, the stone cutter will chisel for an epitaph on the tombstone two figures—namely, a dart and a liver. CARE OF PIANOS. How to Keep Musical Instruments In a Goihl CondiUoii, It is evident that, if the piano is to remain in good order for many rears, good care of it I lie ins tram tin* "KrilllH be closed when not In use In order to pre vent tile collection of dust, pins, etc., on the sound board However, it must not be left closed for a perioi of several months and longer, but be opened occasionally and the ilayiight allowed to strike the keys, or else the ivory may turn yellow. Any hard Sub stance, no matter small, dropped Inside the, piano, a jarring noise. It is in every case desirable that an tndia rubber or cloth cover should protect the instrument from bruises or scratches. The piano should not be placed in a damp room, or left opou in a draught of cold air. Dampness is its most dangerous enemy, codling the strings and tuning pipes to rust, the .cloth used in the construction of the keyfwind action to swell, whereby the mech anism move sluggishly, or often stick This occurs chiefly in the sum mer season, and the best pianos, made of m'Vt thoroughly seasoned material, are ne eejarily affected by dampness, the absorp tio3 being rapid. Extreme heat is scarcely lees injurious The piano should not be placed very near to an open fire or a heated stove, nor over or close to the ltot-air fur naces now in general use. Moths ate very destructive to the -cloth and felt used in a piano, and may he kept out of it by placing a lump of camphor, wrapped ia soft paper, In the inside corner, care being taken to re new it from t ine to time Many persons are unaware of the groat importance of • having their piano kept in order and only timed by a competent tuner. A new piano .should he tuned at least once every three or four months during tlie first year, and at longer intervals afterward.— Mimical Journal Wliere the Heart Is. In one of the art galleries of Italy there is a curious picture, by i:n early paiiner, which represents a sick man stretched on his bed, and his physicians come to visit him. They have examined their patient, and asceitiined his malady to be that his. heart, is g»ne —it bus altogether disappeared. From a pulpit near by, St. Anthony, of Padua, is preaching on the text: “For where your treasure is, th re will vour heart be also.” He announces where the particular organ in question will be found; and the dew he furnishes is followed up, in another compartment of the painting by a group of the sick man’s friends, who open his strong box, and stand amazed at discover, ing the missing member reposing among the abundant gold pieces. The artist apparent ly considered the incident an actual occur rence} and we should err in feeling unmixed amusement at his credulity. For it is as true as though it were a literal fact, that the heart may be enticed from its rightful place to lie among earthly treasures; and it is no ’less certain that, if the affections , are chug severed from their vital connection, spirit ual debility which may well call for anxiety will follow. The case of the invalid, in the picture, is not so singular as at first it might seem.—&. 6. Time* - 'A Yeung Snob Kebukod. I was told the richest thing about a Min neapolis girl A certain Swedish baron of a fine family and education came to this country and, the old story, found himself obliged to obtain any situation to keep him self »bove absolute want, so he entered the clothing store of Mr. as clerk. Well, this young lady, hearing he was a noble, must have his autograph, so ehe came into the store one day and requested it, leaving her album. It puzzled him greatly. Why should she want hi* autograph, a complete stranger? Suddenly the truth struck him and he wrote his name and beneath: “Clerk in Mr. ——'s store. “ “You should have seen her face lengthen,” said he, “ancfTihe said: *1 didn’t want that I wanted your name and your title. 5 ‘There it is,’ I answered; *there’s the name and clerk at Mr. ’s is the only title I wear iu this country. Paul Pio/itt!■* Prat*. „ EXCITING DUEL. An Old Man Shoots a Policeman and is Himself Riddled. Dying; While In the Act of Signing His Will leaving Ilia Property to His Pretty Step-Daughter. Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 23.—A sensa tional shooting affray occurred here to day, in which two policemen and a saloon keeper named Baldwin were the princi pals. William Baldwin kept a dive in a remote part of the city, and his place has been the especial care of the police authorities on Sundays, on which day he kept a very disorderly house. Yes terday two policemen went to‘Baldwin’s saloon’to arrest King, one of Baldwin’s employes, for selling whisky on Sun day without license. King was arrested, and the officers accompanied him to Bald win’s home to get Baldwin to g<> or. his bond. When Baldwin’s house was reached ho was asleep, having been drinking very heavily. He was awakened, and uas very much angered because King had been ar rested. and ordered the policemen off Ui9 premises, accompanying his order by a shot from a 82-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver. He shot twice before the policemen could draw their weapons, and then a duel commenced that was very exciting. The third shot from Baldwin’s revolver struck Policeman Howard in the forehead, felling him to the ground. Baldwin then began firing at the other officer, who fell at the first shot as if dead. Baldwin then turned his attention to Howard, who was struggling to reload his revol ver. The other policeman then rose and fired deliberately at Baldwin three shots in succession. Each took effect n vital parts. Baldwin went, immediately into the house, pulled off liits boots and sent for an attorney to draw his will. Ttie pa per was written and dictated by the dying man, and just as he grasped the pen to sign the instrument which would have left his property, amounting to considerable money, to his step daughter, a very pretty girl, he expired with his pen iu his hand. Howard is in a very precarious condition, and it is feared he will die. The whole difficulty grew out of the efforts of the police to enforce the Sunday law in accordance with the agree ment of tlie saloon-keepers. Baldwin was about sixty years of age, and was a dan gerous character, he having already killod two men. db. A Chance for Superstition. Trr “»*• •''’WAV Knir O') people may regard as inauspicious an ac cident at the White House. In unloiding the sections of the mirror which forms the base of the famous flower piece that adonis the White House dining-table, on slate occasions, one of the mirrors was broken yesterday. The design of the cen terpiece represents Minnehaha in an In dian canoe of silver on the water, which is represented by the mirror. It was pur chased by Mrs. Grant at the Centennial, and was then regarded as a wonderful -iece of work. A Startling Report. Chicago, Nov. 22. — A Daily Xews special from Plainfield. Ind., says a most startling report from Fisher’s Station, a small vil lage eighteen miles northeast of here, came this morning, saying that since tho opening of a mammoth natural gas well at that place a few days ago there had been a perceptible settlement of'the earth of sev eral inches, and that the whole population of tho village and surrounding country ar# terrified beyond description Big haul by a Pickpocket. Tuscola, 1t.t.., Nov. Martin, well-known farmer of Northern Coles County, while returning on the train from Chicago, whore he had been with four car loads of cattle, was robbed of $1,325 in money by an unknown person. The money belonged to a neighbor for whom he bad taken the cattle t he market. Not a Soul Saved. Chicago. Nov. 22.—An unknown two masted schooner m sunk in forty feet of water one mile and a half abreast of Keno sha, and fears are entertained that not a sou Twas saved of her crew. Judging from the size of ttiqJ vessel it is probable Ibat> not less t hflgrfve men manned her when she foundered. Poor Grevy A-Cold. Paris, Nov. 22.—A1l the leading French politicians have refused to form a Cabinet lor Grevy and advise his resignation. It looks as if there is nothing else that he can do. Don Carlos, the Spanish Pre tender, by virtue of the death of his father, claims to be the legitimate King of France. Wonderful Address to the Pope. Pkstii, Nov. 22. —The Catholic Assembly lias voted to present to the Pope an address signed by 1,500,000 men and 86,000 women. The church collections to be presented ti the Pope amount to 185,000. British Arsenal. Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 22.—1 tis rumored that the Imperial Government is negotia ting for two hundred acres of land near Esquimalt, for the purpose of establishing a. vast arsenal. Postal Telegraph by ttn Government. New York, Nov. 22.— A Washington special quotes Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Knott as saying that he is convinced that , the Government will establish a system of postal telegraphy within three -years. This is Official. Coi.i "Mill's, 0., Nov. 22. —According to the official returns of the late election, the total vote for Governor was: Foraker, 358,- 937: Powell. 383.205; Seitx. 24,712; Sharp, 29,700. Total, 746,685. Foraker’s plurality, 33,732 VOE. IV.—NO. 40. SPREADING LEPROSY. lliKli*Hau<le<l Outrage by a Philadelphia Physician. Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 21.—The two unfortunate lepers, Mrs. P Miranda and her nine-year-old daughter, Anita, are now quarantined at, the Municipal Hospital. It is alleged that Mrs. Miranda was advised to keep the secret of her disease by Dr. Van Harlingen, and it is also said that several prominent physicians were consulted, and the treat ment of the lepers begun. During all this time they were stopping with Mrs. Mi randa’s widowed sister, Mrs. Nierson, aM Twenty-fourth and W T right streets. Mrs. Nierson occupied tlie same sleeping apart ments as ttic unfortunate leper. When she learned that her sister was being treated by a physician she inquired what her ail ment was, but Mrs. Miranda merely re plied: “Only a skin disease.” Mrs. Nierson learned that Dr. Van Harlingen was her sister’s physician, and she visited him, but he refused to tell her what, ailed his patient. With her secret buried in her bosom Mrs. Miranda continued to live at Mrs. Nierson’s home, while Anita, her daughter, who is also cov ered with the marks of leprosy, attended school and played with the schoolchildren. At eleven o’clock this morning Mrs. Nierson and a friend visited the health office. They were closely questioned by Dr. J. Howard Taylor, tlie medical inspector, as to the relationship existing between herself and Mrs. Miranda, and the nature of the lat ter’s disease. Mrs. Nierson was very much exercised for fear the disease might be contagious, and asked if Dr. Van Har lingen was not responsible for tiis con duct. “I think it was a high-handed outrage,” said Health Officer Patterson. Mrs. Nierson wanted permission to see her sister at once, but was informed by tlie Health Board that it would Vie impossible to grant her request. It seems to be the opinion that the Board of Health will send tlie lepers cither to a settlement for lepers in Louisana or Canada, and that action will be taken by that body at its meeting to-morrow. CONFLAGRATIONS. Widespread lfuin l>y Forest Fires at the South. Memphis, Tknn., Nov. 21.—The forest fires continue to rage in this section, and the damage sivstained is becoming serious. Several gin houses in Crittenden County, Ark., have been burned; also in the coun ties of Mississippi which border the river. It is impossible to gather definite details of the loss. It is so widespread in its na ture that an estimate can not be given. Hteamers can not run at uight owing to the dense smoke which prevails num v loasourg, ruiss., to a point one hundred and fifty miles above Memphis, a total distance of six hundred and fifty miles. Fires are burning every where within this territory, and there is no immediate prospects of rain. Travel by rail is also obstructed from these causes. Several trestles on the Kansas City road have been destroyed, and com munication with St. Louises rmw made via Forest City, Ark. Nevervbefore in the history of the country lvfg there been such wide spread conflagration and the loss to farmers will be very heavy. The wind-storm which prevailed Saturday and Saturday night must have been destruc tive to many dwellings- and out-houses of planters, especially in the counties to the •westof Memphis in Arß’ap<kß, but owing to tho secluded counA'Aind the lack of telegraphic will be days liefore the true condition of affairs is learned. The same reports come from every quarter of fires anyHfce loss that is being sustained. epiy jscape that is promised will conCinrom rain, and in nearly all the churches prayers were of fered yesterday that showers might fall and the destruo^ffnFt-ease. Demand lor Small Changed Pun, A v. 21.—Superintendent Fox, of rife U. S. Mint, said to-day that not only is Up* kept up for small or the bstfiks are dollars. They ara also demanding new quarter and half dot lar pio«6s. The superintendent stated that by the Ist of January he would hava coined as many gold dollars as ho thought advisnbje for the present. When asked hovvACny, he said: “Less than ten tliou- do not think I*will exceed that am<*nt.” Chamberlain’s Body-Guard. Washington, Nov. 21. —The English rep resentatives on the Canadian Fisheries Commission, especially Mr. Jos. Chamber lain, are accompanied to this city by a Pinkerton’s detectives, foui in iffuSfber. A friend of Mr. Chamberlain states that the distinguished Englishman cloes not fear any violence. Nevertheless the British Minister has employed Pinker ton’s men to keep a faithful attendance upon him, sleeping or Avaking, while in the United States. Sympathy for the Prince. Washington, Nov. 21. —The Secretary of State on the 15th inst., directed the Amer ican Minister at Berlin to communicate to the Emperor of Germany the cordial sym pathy of the President and citizens of this country in the serious illness of the Crown Prince. Tho German Charge d’Affairs at this Capital to-day transmitted to the State Department a reply thereto stating that the Emperor was deeply moved by the message of sympathy. Reign of Terror in Thibodeaux. New Orleans, Nov. 21.— The labor trou bles at Thibodeaux are not over. For sev eral days past, white and black hands, working peacefully under one shed, hava been fired into by negro strikers. Several were wounded and one hassineodied. The outlook is very dark. The {Own is full of idle negroes and each day they beeonia more and more audacious. Frost in the Sunny Southlands. Ai.'gvsta, Ua., Nov. 21.—The thermometer ivas down 1o twenty-six degrees this morn ing, and there was a heavy frost through out Georgia and Carolina.