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RECREATION.
Innooent Athletic Amusements
Should Not be Discouraged.
Mirth ami Music Should Abound in Kvrry
Home. Itut the Spirit of Christian Charity
Should Hover Over All—Sermon by Kev.
X. Do Witt Taliuago, l>. D.
Or. Tillmage preached last Sunday on
“Recreations (rood and Bad,” taking two
texts: 1 Corinthians, ch. 7, v. 31: “They
that us*-, this world, as not abusing it;”
amt Judges, ch. lii, v. 25: “And it came to
pass, when their hearts were merry, that
they said, Call tor Samson, that he may
make us sport. And they called for Sam
son out of the prison-house: and he made
them sport.” Dr. Talraage said:
Wo are entering the gayest season of
the year. The winter opens before us the
gates of a thousand amusements, some of
them good and some of them bad. One of
my texts will show you that amusements
may be destructive; my other text will
show you that amusements may be under
Divine blessing and direction.
There were three thousand people as
sembled in the Temple of Dagon. They
had come to make sport of eyeless Sam
son. They were all ready for the enter
tainment. They began to clap and pound,
impatient for the amusement to begin,
and they cried. “Fetch him out I fetch him
out!” Yonder I see the blind old giant
coming, led by the hand of a child into the
very midst of the temple. At his first
appearance there goes up a shout
of laughter and derision. The blind
old giant pretends he is tired,
and wants to rest himself against
the pillars of the house. So he says to the
lad who leads him, “Show me where the
main pillars are.” The lad does so. Then
the strong man puts his right hand on one
pillar and his left hand on another pillar,
and, with the mightiest push that mortal
ever made, throws himself forward until
the whole house comes down in a thunder
ous crash, grinding the audience like
grapes in a wine-press. “And so it came
tp pass, when their hearts were merry,
that they said, Call for Samson, that he
may make us sport. And they called for
Samson out of the prison-house, and he
made them sport.”
In other words. There are amusements
that arc destructive and bring down dis
aster and death upon the heads of those
who practice them. While they laugh and
cheer they die. The three thousand that
perished that day in Gaza are as nothing
compared with the tens of thousands who
have been destroyed by sinful amusements.
But the other text I have read implies
that there is a lawful use of the world, as
well as an unlawful abuse of it, and the
difference between the man Christian and
the man un-Christian is, that in the former
case the man masters the world, while in
the latter case the world masters him.
For whom did God make this grand and
beautiful world? For whom this wonder
ful expenditure of color, this gracefulness
of line, this mosaic of the ground, this
fresco of the sky, this glowing fruitage of
orchard and vineyard, this full orchestra
of the tempest, iu which the tree branches
flute, and the winds trumpet, and the
thunders drum, and all the splendors of
earth and sky come clashing their cym
bals? For whom did God spring the arched
bridge of colors resting upon buttresses of
broken storm-cloud? For whom did He
gather the upholstery of the fire around
the window of the setting sun? For all
men; but more especially for his own dear
children.
If you build a large mansion, and spread
a great feast after it to celebrate the com
pletion of the structure, <lo you allow
strangers to come in and occupy the place,
while you tin list your own children in the
kitchen or the barn or the fields? Oh, no.
You say “1 am very glad to see strangers
in my mansion, but my own sons and
daughters shall have the first right there.”
Now, God has built this grand mansion of
a world, and He has spread a glorious
feast in it, and, while those who are stran
gers to His grace may come in, I think
that God especially intends to give the
advantage to his ow(i children, those who
are the sons and the daughters of the Lord
Almighty, those who through grace can
look up and say: “Abba, Father.” You
can not make me believe that God gives
more advantages to the world than He gives
to the Church bought by His own blood. If.
therefore, people of the world have looked
with dolorous sympathy upon those who
make profession of religion, and have said:
“Those new converts are going down into
privation and into hardship. Why did they
not tarry a little longer in the world and
have some of its enjoyments aud amuse
ments and recreations!” I say to such
men of the world: “You are greatly mis
taken,” and before I get through I will
show that those people who stay out of the
Kingdom of God have the hardships and
self-denials, while those who come in have
the joys and the satisfactions.
This morning, iu the name of the King
of Heaven and earth, I serve a writ of
ejectment upon all the sinful and polluted
who have squatted on the domain of earth
ly pleasure as though it belonged to them,
while I claim in behalf of the good and the
pure and the true, the eternal inheritance
which God has given them.
Hitherto, Christian philanthropists,
clerical and lay, have busied themselves
chiefly iu denouncing sinful recreations;
but I foel we have no right to stand before
men and women in whose hearts there is a
desire for recreation amounting to posi
tive necessity, denouncing this and that
and the e ther thing, when we do not pro
pose to give them something better. God
helping me this morning, and with refer
ence to my last account, 1 shall enter upon
a sphere not usual in sermonizing, but a
subject which I think ought to be present
ed at this time. 1 propose now to lay before
von some of the recreations which are not
only innocent, but positively helpful and
advantageous.
In the first place, I commend, among in
door recreation?, music, vocal and instru
meijUl. Among the first things created
was the bird, so that the earth might have
music at the start. This world, which be
gan with so sweet a serenade, h finally to
be demolished amid the ringing blast of
the archangel’s trumpet, so that, as there
was music at the start there shall be
music at the close. Wnile this heavenly
art has often been into the uses
of superstition and dissipation, we all
know it may be the means of high moral
culture. Oh, it is a grand thing to have our
children brought up amid the sound of cult
ured voices and amid the melody of musical
instruments. There is in this art an inde
scribable fascination for the household.
Let all of those families who have the
means to afford it have flute or harp or pi
ano or organ. As soon as the hand is large
enough to compass the keys, teach it how
to pick out the melody. Let all
our young men try this heavenly
art upon their nature. Those who
have gone into it fully have found in it
illimitable recreation and amusement.
Dark days, stormy nights, seasons of sick
ness, business disasters will do little
toward depressing the soul which can gal
lop off over musical keys or soar in jubilant
lay. It will cure pain. It will rest fatigue.
It will quell passion. It will revive health.
It will reclaim dissipation. It will
strengthen the immortal soul. In the bat
tle of Waterloo, Wellington saw that the
Highlanders were falling back. He said:
“What is the matter there?” He was told
that the band of music had ceased playing,
and he called up the pipers and ordered
them to strike up an inspiring air: and no
sooner did they strike the air than the
Highlanders were rallied and helped to
win the day. Oh, ye who have been routed
in the conflicts of life, try by the force of
music to rally your scattered battalions.
I am glad to know that in our great cities
there is hardly a night in which there are
not concerts where, with the best musical
instruments, and the sweetest voices, peo
ple may find entertainment. Patronize
such entertainments when they are afford
ed you. Buy season tickets, if you can,
for the Philharmon.c and the Handel and
Haydn societies. Feel that the dollar and
a half or two dollars that you spend for
the purpose of hearing an artist* play or
sing is a profitable investment. Let your
Kteinway Halls and your Academies of
Music roar with the acclamation of appre
ciative audiences assembled at the concert
or the oratorio.
Still further: 1 commend as worthy of
their support, the gymnasium. This insti
tution is gaining in favor every year, and
1 know of nothing more free from dissipa
tion, or more calculated to recuperate the
physical and mental energies. While there
are a good mauy people who have employ
ed this institution, there is a vast number
who are ignorant of its excellences. There
are men with cramped chests and weak
sides and despondent spirits, who, through
the gymnasium, might bg roused up to ex
ubrance and exhilaration of life. There are
many Christian people despondent from
year to year, who might, through such an
institution, be benefitted in their
spiritual relations. There are Christian
people who seem to think that it is a good
sign to be poorly; and because Richard
Baxter and Robert Hall were invalids,
they think that by the same sickliness they
may come to the same grandeur of charac
ter. I want to tell the Christian people of
my congregation that God will hold you
responsible for your invalidism if it is your
fault, and when through right exercise
and prudence you might be athletic and
well. Theeffoct of the body upon the soul
you acknowledge. Put a man of mild dis
position upon the animal diet of which the
Indian partakes, and in a little while his
blood will change its chemical proportions.
It will become like unto the blood of the
lion or the tiger, or the bear, while his dis
position will change and become fierce,
cruel and unrelenting. The body has a
powerful effect, upon the soul.
Tliero are good people whose ideas of
Heaven are all shut out with clouds of to
bacco smoke. There are people who
to shatter the physical vase in which God
has put the jewel of eternity. There are
men with great hearts and intellects in
bodies worn out by their own neglects—
magnificent machinery capable of pro
pelling a Great Eastern across the Atlan
tic, yet fastened in a rickety North River
propeller. Martin Luther was so mighty
for God, first, because he had a noblo soul,
and secondly, because he had muscular
developcment. which would have enabled
him to thrash any five of his persecutors,
if it had been Christian so to do.
Physical development. which merely
shows itself in fabulous lifting, or in
perilous rope-walking, or in pugilis
tic encounter, excites only our contempt ;
but wo confess to great admiration for the
man who has a great soul in an athletic
body, every nerve, bone and muscle of
which is consecrated to right uses. Oh. it
seems to me'outrageous that men, through
neglect, should allow their physical health
to go down beyond repair. A ship which
ought, with all sail set and every man at
his post, to be carrying a rich cargo for
eternity, employing all its men in stopping
up leakages! When you may, through the
gymnasium, work off your spleen and your
querulousuess and one-half of your phvs
ical and mental ailments, do not turn your
back upon such a grand medicament.
Still further: I commend to you a large
class of parlor games and recreations.
There is a way of making our homes a
hundredfold more attractive than they are
now. Those parents can not expect to
keep their children away from outside
dissipations unless they make the domestic
circle brighter than any thing they can
find outside of it. Do not, then, sit in
your homes surlv and unsympathetic,
and with a half-condemnatory look
because of the sportfulness of your
children. You were young once yourself;
let your children be young. Because your
eyse are dim and your ankles are stiff do
not denounce sportfulness in those upon
whose eyes there is the first luster and in
whose foot there is the bounding joy of ro
bust health. I thank God that in our draw
ing-rooms and in our parlors there are in
numerable games and sports which have
not upon them tho least taint of iniquity.
Light up all your homes with in
nocent hilarities. Do not sit down with
the i bumatism, wonderiug how the child-
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1887.
ren can go on so. Rather thank God thai
their hearts are so light, and their luugh
ter is so free, and that their cheeks are so
ruddy,andthattheirexpectationsare so ra
diant. The night willcotne soon enough, ana
the heartbreak, and the pang, and the des
olation—it will coni? soon enough for the
dear children. But.when the storm actu
ally clouds the sky it will be time enough
for you to haul out your reef tackles.
Carry, then, into your homes, not only
the innocent sports and games which aie
the inventions of our own day, but the
games which come down with the sportful
ness of all the past ages—chess and
charades and tableaux and battledore
and calisthenics and laivn-tennis, and
all those amusements which the young
people of our homes know so we”
how to contrive. Then there will be the
parlor socialities—groups of people assenD
bled in your homes, with wit and mimierv
aud joviality, filling the room with joy
from the door to the mantle, and from the
carpet to the ceiling. Oh, is there any ex
hilaration like a score of genial souls in one
room, each one adding a contribution of
his own individual merriment to the aggre
gation of general hilarity?
•Suppose you want to go abroad in the
city, then you will find the panorama and
the art gallery and exquisite collections i f
pictures. You will find the Metropolitan
Museum and the Historical Society Rooms
full of rare curiosities and scores of places
which can stand plainly the test of wh it
is right and wrong in amuse
ments. You will find the lecturing
hall, which has been honored by the names
of Agassiz in natural history; Doremus m
chemistry; Boynton in geology; Mitchtll
in astronomy; John B. Gough in moral re
form, and scores and hundreds of men w.o
have poured their wit and genius ail
ingenuity through that particular chaunel
upon the hearts and consciences aud im
aginations of men, setting this country
fifty years further in advance than it
would have been without the lecture plat
form. '
1 rejoice in the popularization of outdoor
sports. I hail the croquet ground and the
fisherman’s rod and the sportsman’s gun.
In our cities life is so unhealthy and im
natural that when the census-taker repre
sents a city as having lour hundred thou
sand inhabitants, there are only two hun
dred thousand, since it takes at least two
men to amount to one man, so de
pleting and unnerving and exhausting
is this metropolitan life. We want more
fresh air, more sunlight, more of the
abandon of field sports. I cry out. for it mi
behalf of the Church of God as well as in
behalf of secular interests. I wish that
this winter our ponds and our rivers e d
our Capitoline Grounds might be all
aquake with the heel and the shout of tho
swift skater. 1 wish that when the warm
we ither comes the graceful oar might dip
the stream, and the evening-tide be reso
nant with the boatman’s song, the bright
prow splitting the crystalline billow. We
shall have the smooth and grassy lawn,
and we will call out people of all occupa
tions and professions and ask
them to join in the ball-play
er’s sport. You will come back from these
outdoor exercises aud recreations with
strength in your arm and color in your
cheek, and a flash in your eye and courage
in your heart. In this great battle that is
opening against the kingdom of darkness
we want not only a consecrated soul, but a
strong arm and stout lungs and mighty
muscle. I bless God that there are so
many recreations that have not on them
any taint of iniquity; recreations in which
we may engage for the strengthening of
the body, for the clearing of the intel
lect, for tho illumination of the soul.
There is still another form of recreation
which I commend to you, and that is the
pleasure of doing good. I have seen young
men, weak and cross and sour and repell
ing in their disposition, who by one
heavenly touch have wakened up and
become blessed and buoyant, the ground
under their feet and the sky over their
heads breaking forth into music. “Oh,”
says some young man in the houso to
day, “1 should like that recreation above all
others, but I have not the means.” My
dear brother, let us take an account of
stock this morning. - You have a large es
tate, if you will only realize it. Twohands.
Two feet. You will have, perhaps, during
the next year, at least $lO for charitable con
tribution. You will have twenty-five hun
dred cheerful looks, if you want to employ
them. You will have live thousand pleas
ant words, if you want to speak them.
Now what an amount that is to start with !
You go out to-morrow morning and you
see a case of real destitution by the way
side. You give him two cents. The blind
man hears the pennies rattle in his hat
and he says, “Thank you, sir: God bless
you!” You pass down the street, trying
to look indifferent, but you feel from the
very depth of your soul a profound satis
faction that you made that man
happy. You go on still further
and find a poor boy with a wheelbarrow,
trying to get it up on the curbstone. He
fails in the attempt. You say,' “Stand
hack, my lad; let me try.” You push it
up ou the curbstone for him and pass ou.
He wonders who that well-dressed man
was that helped him. You did a kindness
to the boy, hut you did a great joy to your
own soul. You will not get over it all the
week.
On the street to-morrow morning you
will see a sick man passing i.long. “Ah,”
you say, “what can I doto make this man
happy? He certainly does not. want money;
he is not poor, hut he is sick.” Give him
one of those twenty-five hundred cheerful
looks that you have garnered up for the
whole year. Look joy and hopefulness
into his soul. It will thrill him through
and there will be a reaction upon your own
soul. Going a little further on, you will
come to the store of a friend who i» em
barrassed in business matters. You will go
in and say: “What a fine store you have.
1 think business will brighten up, and
you will have more custom after a while.
I think there is coining a great prosperity
to all the country. Good morring.” You
pass out. You have helped that young
man and you have helped yourself. And
that night you go home; you sit by the
fire, you talk a little, yju laugh a little,
you sing a little; you fay, “I really don’t
know what is the matter with me. I never
felt so splendidly in my life.” I will tell
what is the matter with you. You spent
only two cents out of the ten dollars; you
have contributed one out of twenty-five
hundred cheerful looks; you have given
ten, fifteen or twenty of the five thotj
sand pleasant words you are
going to speak during the year;
you have with your own hands helped the
boy with the wheelbarrow, and you foel In
body, mind and soul the thrill of that
recreation. Which do you think was the
happier, Colonel Gardiner, who set with
his elbow on a table spread with all ex
travagant viands, looking o' at a dog on
the rug, saying: “How I would like t»
change places with him—l be the dog and
he Colouel Gardiner,” or those two Mora
vian missionaries who wauled to go into
ihe lazaretto for tho sake of attending the
sick, and they were told: “If you go in there
you will never come out; we never allow
anyone to come out, for he would bring the
contagion?” Thou they made their wills
and went in, first to help the sick and then
to die. Which was tho happier, Colonel
Gardiner or the Moravian missionaries
dying for others? Was it all sacrifice when
the missionaries wanted to bring the Gos
pel tb the negroes at the Barbadoes, and.
being denied the privilege sold themselves
into slavery, standing side by side, and ly
ing side by side down in the very ditch of
suffering, in order that they might bring
those men up to life and God and Heaven?
Oh, there is a thrill in the jov of doing
good! It Is the most magnificent recrea
tion to which a man ever puts his hand or
his head or his heart.
But, before closing, I want to impress
upon you that mere secular entertainments
are not a fit foundation for your soul to
build on.
I was reading of a woman who had gone
the rounds of sinful amusement, and she
came to die. She said; “1 will die to-night,
at six o’clock.” “Oh,” they said, “I guess
not; you don’t seem to be sick.” “I shall
dio at six o’clock, and my soul will be lost.
I know it will be lost. I have sinned away
my day of grace.” The noon came. They
desired to seek religious counsel.
“Oh,” she said, “it is of no use. My day
is gone. I have been all the rounds of
worldly pleasure and it is too late. I shall
die to-night at six o’clock.”
The day wore away, and it came to four
o’clock and five o’clock, and she cried out
at five o’clock: “Destroyed spirits, ys
shall not have me yet; it is not six, It Is
not six!” The moments went by, and the
shadows began to gather, and the clock
struck six, and while it was striking her
soul went. What hour God will call for
us Ido not know—whether six o’clock to
«ught or three o’clock this afternoon, or at
ode o'clock, or at this utQtSSMK S',whig, 1
where you are, falling forward or stand
ing where you are, dropping down, where
would you go to?
THE WRONG WAY.
6<>me of tlitv Kosuljs of Lack of System tn
Doi-y'i 'Hmisowork.
Whßii she rifwri from the ttclfie she grabs
up half a dozen knives and forks, carries
them to the sink, and, as the dish pan ie
missing, diops them into the sink. Then
she begins a hunt for the pan. After five
Ofjtsii minutes’ se irch it occurs to her that
She carried it out with some water in it for
t ys hens. She soon finds it, but it is covered
w.'h iraid, for the hens have made a foot
bat -of it After bringing it in and wash
ing it, ybe puts the half-dozen knives and
forks iiit * the pan; then turns around and
looks at the table, trying to decide what
i jie will do next In a few minutes she
oesto the table and picks up some plates,
liot pute them down, deciding that she will
t tke a cup and saucer, which she puts into
tile dish-pan. It now occurs to her that the
milk pitcher should be put in the dairy but
on taking it up she finds that two or three
flies'are bathing in the milk. After search
ing in vain for a clean spoon she puts her
longest finger into t'.e milk, expecting that
the Hi :s will crawl out on it, but the flies
are “too fly;” so she goes to the swill pail
and tries to turn them out After two
thirds of the milk has run out the flies con
clude to go with the current. As there is
now about two spoonfuls left, she decides
that it is not worth saving, aud puts tho
pitcher into the pan to be washed. After
filling the dish-pan with dirty dishes she
turns on them about a quart of warm
water. She now rattles the crockery around
with the intention of—cleaning it, but as
the water is at the bottom of the pan the
operation is not a success, so she picks out
the articles one by one till the soapsuds are
reached. By the time the table is cleared
away (it "has taken her two hours) shs is too
tired to stand up. This is the result of not
having any order or system in doing house
work.—A. E. UometUad.
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.
Why They Aio of Necessity I.imitcd by
tho Ilia Ills of Olliers.
Our “rights” are always limited by the
rights of others. Not merely according to
the golden rule of the Gospel, but according
to the hard letter of the common law of
civilization, a man must do to others os he
would be done by. Even in so simple a
matter as stopping in the middle of a side
walk on a crowded city street, or standing
in the doorway of a hotel or of a railway
station, a man's liberty Is abridged, or is
defined, by the needs nnd rights of his fel
lows. Where others have n right to move
forward, no man has a right to stand stiii.
If, indeed, a man must stand by himself, he
must first put himself by himßelf—where
his stauding will not hinder the moving ol
others. A right to use a public passage-way
is a right to use it, not to obstruct it, as a
passage-way. Tho Immovable must not
stand in the way of the irresistible Aud a«
it is in so simple a matter as t-his, so It is in
all the various phases of our busy life: we
have no right to forget that others have
their rights. To hinder the progress of oth
ers by our refusing to make progress, is to
make ourselves responsible for their fail
ures as well us for our own. So lone as we
are in the current of human activity, we
must move with the current, or be over
borne by it if we would halt, Wa must
step aside. Hence in order to know our
own rights, we must first know.what are
the rights of our neighbors. H.t?. Tim a.
It Is not disgraceful to any ok* who Is
poor to confess his poverty; but ‘he not ex
erting one’s self to escape pc rei ty Is dis
gr&celu!.— Tencltt.
WORK OF THE WIND.
Three Indian Territory Villages
Destroyed.
At I.east Six Persons Killed. While a l arge
Number IVero Wounded—l>, struction of
Property Great.
Litti.e Rock, Ark., Dec. 19.—A special
from Cove, Polk County, reports that a
destructive cyclone visited Armstrong
Academy, I. T., Fort Washita and Green
at an early hour on Saturday morning,
causing great destruction of property and
loss of life. The following are the casual
ties as far as known: French Adams, U.
8. Army, Washita, killed: A. B. Lin
coln, Washita, killed; Hendersw*.
Green, killed; Peter Reson. Green, killed;
two children, names unknown, killed;
William Covington, Armstrong Academy,
both legs broken; Henry Wait, Washita,
arm and leg broken ; Mrs. Wait, Washita,
arm broken. A terrific rumbling souud
was heard about 5 o’clock. It startled the
few 'settlers from their sleep, only to
awake them to the horror of impending
death. A heavy, black cloud, funnel
shaped, was seen in the distance and rapid
ly approaching. When about a mile north
of Fort Washita it struck the ground, and
from this point south for miles the work
of ruin was continued. The cyclone trav
eled at about the rate of a mile a minute.
In an instant from the time it struck the
earth half the houses in Fort Washita were
in ruins. Light outhouses and dwellings
were picked up and made into kindling
wood by the fury of the wind. Armstrohg
Academy was not greatly injured, but
ranchers in the immediate neighbor
hood suffered greatly. At Green, a
little hamlet six miles south of Arm
strong, tho damage was very heavy
and many persons werfe injured. Seven
teen houses and a general store were car
ried away bodily, while horses and cattle,
within the territory covered by the storm
king, were killed or maimed. The damage
at this time can not of couroe be esti
mated, as the full extent of the storm is
not known. The two children killed at
Green were carried about sixty yards by
the wind and dashed to the ground,
mangled so as to be almost unrecogniza
ble. Many cat tle and other stock were also
killed by lightning. The storm only lasted
about six minutes at any one point.
Eight Men Blown Up.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 19.—The boil
er of the Woodworth saw-mill, at Tilton.
Ga., was blown to atoms to-day, killing
the engineer, W-r > Kinnamen, John Elli
son, James Emery, James WaMcer, Ed Ho
gan and Andrew Hawkins Mr.
and Cossic Hogan were both fataily'
njnred, and both will die in less
han twenty-four hours. The ex
plosion was frightful. The heads
of both Kinneman and Ellison were
blown off, the body of Emery cut in two
by a piece of the boiler, and the limbs of
several of the men were carried more than
two hundred yards away. The cause of
the accident is unknown, but is supposed
to have been for want of water in the
boiler. The report was heard for miles
away. Spencer Bros, were the lessees of
the mill, and had been operating it a week.
Local Option Law Constitutional.
St. Loris, Dec. 19.—The Supreme Court
this morning declared wlmt is known as
the WooJ lochl option law to be constitu
tional. The effect of this will be to give
the temperance movement in the State ad
ditional impetus, and elections will, no
doubt, bo speedily hold on the “wet" or
“dry” question in alt the counties in the
State that have not already taken such ac
tion. St. Louis will also vote on the ques
tion.
The Kilrain-Smith Fight.
Paris. Dec. 19.— Kilrain and Smith
fought on an island in the Seine, near
Rouen, one hundred and six rounds, to a
“draw,” the fight occupying two hours
and thirty-one minutes, and stopping only
on account of the approach of night. Kil
rain is conceded to have had the best of it.
They will now, probably, both challenge
Sullivan, Fox having already offered to
back Kilrain against him for SIO,OOO.
One Month for Killing Canaries.
New York, Dec. IS,—Miss Inez Van
Zandt was sentenced tc one month in the
penitentiary to-day for killing two canary
birds. MUsy Van Zac It boardqd in the
same house Tith Miss Sickles, the owr.er
of the bi—ia, and having quarreled with
her obtained revenge by cutting her ene
my's pets in two with a carving knife, and
then laughing at her when sb cried over
their blood-stained bodies.
Convicted of Wife Murder.
Hartford, Ct., Dec. 19.—John H. Swift
was to-night found guilty of murdering his
wife by shooting her last July. When tho
verdict was announced Swift’s mother
sprang up, and pointing to the State’s At
torney, shrieked; “You are a murderer.”
Swift lighted a cigarette and said: “That’s
better than imprisonment for life. It’s
over in a minute.” Sentence tvas deferred.
Killed Three, Then Himself.
Trot, N. Y., Dec. 19.-S. S. Crandall, for
merly lawyer and real estate broker in
Troy, to-dav shot his wife, his mother-in
law, Mrs. S. S. Stone; his stepdaughter,
Julia Bulkier, and himself, at their home
in Bailstoh Spa. All are d°ad hut his wife,
and she is dying. He had a controversy
with his wife over money matters.
A Woman’s Presence of Mind.
St an stead, Quebec, Dec. 19—At about
one o'clock this morning a bomb, to which
a lighted fuse was attached, was thrown
through a window into the dining-room of
Dr. Canfield’s residence. Mrs. Canfield,
heariug the crash and the hissing of the
burning fuse, sprang out of l>ed and suc
ceeded in detaching the fuse. The bomb
Couta l ned enough giant blasting powder to
wholly d nolish the house and kili all the
inmates. Dr. Canfield’s father, who is a
bailiff, has ooen engaged lately in serving
processes for violations of the Canada
temperance law, and had been threatened
with violence if he did nut desist.
VOL. TV-NO. 44.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
First Session.
Washington, Dec. 14.—Senate.— A report
was read from the Committee on Privileges and
Elections declaring that C. J. Faulkner had
been duly elected Senator from West Virginia.
Mr. Fanlkner was thereupon sworn in. A num
ber of bills were introduced and referred. Sen
ator Morrill's bill to regulate immigration was
taken up and discussed. At 2:40 p. m. the
Senate went into executive session, and tea
minutes later adjourned.
HOUSE. —Not in session.
Washington, Dec. 15.—Senate.—A commun
ication from ihe Italian residents cl Washing
ton proposirg to present to the
United States a marble bust of Garibaldi wai
referred to the Committee on Library. A num
ber of bills were reported back from the Com
mittee on Commerce. A number of bills were
introduced, one to prohibit the borrowing of
money by railroad receivers beyond the amount
o* their annual net income. The Sen
ate adopted a reso ution requesting
the Attorney General to investigate
the issue of a patent, to an employe of the
Agricultural Department for a sorghum sugar
process, and if invalid commence suit to in
validate it. Senator Stewart's bill to provide
for the issue of coin certificates was taken up
and discussed, after which there was an execu
tive session for an hour to refer nominations,
and the Senate at 3p. m. adjourned until Mon
day.
House.—Not in session.
Washington, Dec. 10.—Senate—Not in ses
sion.
House—A cncm rent resolution was adopted
to adjourn from Thursday, December 22, until
Wednesday. January 4. A resolution to devote
next Monday to the introduction of bills was
1 lid over. The death of E. W. Robertson, of
Louisiana, was announced, and at 12:45 the
House adjourned until Monday.
Washington, Dec. 1!). Senate.—A memorial
from Utah Territory was presented asking for
admittance into the Union. Among the bills
thtrouuced.were: Collection of more accurate
Statistics of exports, emigration and immigra
tion. Bills reported favorably: Two additional
land offices in Colorado; forfeiture of wagon
road grants in Oregon; amending the law
concerning Fish Commission and Fisheries.
Other bills introduced: To extirpate conta
gious pleuro-pneumonia, foot and mouth dis
eases and rinder pest among cattle. To require
that a residence of ihree years shall be neces
sary before an alien can declare his intention to
become a citizen of the United States, and of
two years additional before he shall have the
right to vote or hold office.
House.—The Speaker announced the ap
pointment of the Committee on Rules as fol
lows: The speaker, Messrs. Randall, Mills,
Reed and Cannon. Mr. Dibble (S. C.) offered
a resolution relerring to the Committee on Ap
propriations the reports of the Court of Claims
on the French spoliation claims, with in
structions to that committee to report all
claims which have been decided favorably to
the claimants in the general deficiency bill. Af
ter a short debate the resolution was adopted
by a vote of Jfiß to 84.
Washington Dec 20. —SENatn —Petitions
in favor of thr- Blair educational bill and against
the. admission of Utah as a State were pre
sented. An undervaluation bill was reported
from the Committee on Finance. Bills to pen
sion Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Blair, at the rate of
•2,000, were reported. The immediate consid
eration of the former was objected to by Mr.
Berry and the latter by Mr. Gorman, and
both went on the calendar. Postal tele
graph bills introduced by Messrs. Edmunds
and Cullqm were taken from the table and re
ferred to the Post-office Committee. A resolu
tion to pay the'expenses of Mr. Lucas, of West
Virginia, in contesting Faulkner’s scat was offer
ed by the latter and referred. The Blair edu
cational bill was taken up and made the regular
order of business after the holidays by a vote
of 87 to 15.
HOUSE.—A preamble and resolution were in
troduced by Brumm. of Pennsylvania, request
ing the President and Secretary of the Treasury
to prevent the landing of Belgian laborers, un
der contract to take the places of striking min
ers in the Lehigh regions. Referred to tho
Committee on Labor. At 12:15 the House ad
journed to enable the Committee on Rules to
ecidc upon its repoi t.
Texas Wheat All Right.
Fort Worth, Tex., Dec. 20.—Report*
from winter wheat grow ng counties of
Texas, received by the Gazelle, show nn in
crease from 10 to 100 per cent. No more
rain is needed before March, and the indi
cations are that the crop of 1883 will btt
double that of this year.
A Terror Dead.
Wheeling, VV. Va., Dec. 20.—Elihu
Gregg, for fifty years a terror to the bor
der farmers of Pennsylvania, West Vir
ginia, Ohio and Maryland, lias been
found dead with a outlet hole in iiis
breast at n place on the West Virginia
mountains.
Ordered to Their Garrisons.
Pf.stii, Dec. 20. —Several army officers on
furlough here have l>een ordered to return
to their garrisons in Croatia immediately.
A number of officers in the reserve corps
have been ordered to settle their affairs, so
as to be iu readiness to join their regi
ments.
The Porter Took It.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 20. John
White, a colored porter, was arrested this
morning on a charge of having l obbed the
Southern Express office in this city of a
SSOO package a mouth ago. The evidence
against him is overwhelming. He is iu
prison.
From ’Frisco to Portland by Rail.
Portland,Oue., Dec. 20.—The trail bear
ing the “Last Spike” excursionists arrived
here over the cunploted Oregon aud Cali
fornia railroad yesterday afternoon. They
were greeted with music by a band aud
ttie screeching of steam whistles.
Musi Fight Again,
New York, Dec. 20.—Richard K. Fox
has sent a cablegram to manager Hard
ng stating that Kilrain and Smith must
tight again, and to a finish. If Smith re
fuses, ho will claim the stakes, champion
ship aud belt.
Ives Sues Dexter.
New York, Doc. 2().— Henry S. Ives has
f/ued Julius Dexter, Presideutof the C., U.
V I>. railroad, for sioo,oou for false im
prisonment. Mr. Dexter was serve! with
tho pai/u's iy the case iu Wait stre<-t to
iay.