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Y, A. HAVRON, Publisher,
THE SECOND SEMES
Of Sermons to the Women of
America by Dr. Talmage.
Character Should be Weighed When Mar
riage la Proposed. »» Against Jewels,
Rouses anti Bank Accounts.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, r>. D., preached
the s?cond of bis series of sermons to the
women of America with important hints
to rn n : last Sunday. The subject of the
in, nr. a • -Marriage for iVorldy Success
Without Hegard to Moral Character,” and
the text was from I. Samuel xxv. 2: “And
there was a man in Maon, whose posses
sions were in Carmel; and the man was
very .great, and lie had three thousand
sheep and a thousand goats.” Ur. Tal
mago said:
My text introduces us to a drunken bloat
■of large property. Before the day of safety
deposits and Government bonds and Na
tional Banks people had their investment
in flocks and herds, and this man, Nabal,
■ «r the text, had much of his possessions in
live stock. Hecimo alsoof a distinguished
family and had glorious Caleb for an an
cestor. But this descendant was a sneak,
a churl, a sot and a fool. One in
stance to illustrate it: It was a
wool-raising country, and at the time
of shearing a great feast was prepared
for the shearers; and David and his
warriors, who -had in other days saved
from destruction the threshing floors of
Nabal, sent to him asking, in this time of
plenty, for some bread for their starving
men. And Nabal cried out: ‘ Who is Da
vid!” As though an Englishman had said:
‘-Who is Wellingtonor a German should
say: “Who is Vou Moltke?” or au Ameri
can should say: “Who i 3 Washington 1”
Nothing did Nabal give to the starving
men, and that night the scoundrel lay
dead drunk at home, and the Bible gives
us a full-length picture of him sprawling
nnd maudlin and helpless.
Now, that was the man whom Abigail,
the lovely and gracious and good woman,
married—a tube rose planted besides a
thistle, a palm-branch twined into a
wreath of deadly nightshades. Surely
lhat was not one of the matches made in
•Heaven. We throw up our bauds in horror
at that wedding. How did she ever con
sent to link her destinies with such a
• reature! Well, she no doubt thought
that it would l:e an honor to be associated
with an aristocratic family, and no one
can despise a great name. Besides
this, wealth would come and with it
chains of gold and mansions lighted
with swinging lamps of aromatic
oil amt *" rtsfiirrid.ilif Cue" Vueei
of banqueters seated at tablei laden with
wines from the richest vineyards and
fruits from ripest orchards, and nuts
threshed from foreign woods and meats
smoking in platters of gold set on by slaves
in bright uniform. Before she plighted
her troth with this dissipated man, she
sometimes said to herself: “How can I en
dure him! To be associated for life with
such a debauchei 1 can not and will not!”
But then again she said to herself: “It is time
1 was married and this is a cold world to
depend on and perhaps I might
do worse, and may be 1 will make a
sober man out of him, and marriage is a
lottery anyhow.” And when one day this
representative of a great house presented
himself in a parenthesis of sobriety and
With an assumed geniality and gallantry
of manner and with promises of fidelity
and kindness and self-abnegation, a June
morning smiled on a March squall, and tho
great-souled woman surrendered her hap
piness to the keeping of t his infamous son
of fortune whoso possessions were in Car
mel ; and the man was very great, and be
had three thousand sheep and a thousand
goats.
Behold here a domestic tragedy repeated
every hour of every day all over Christen
dom—marriage for worldly success with
out regard to character. So Mnrie Jeanne
Phlipon, tho daughter of the humble en
graver of Paris, became the famous Mad.
Roland of history, the vivacious and bril
iant girl united with the cold, formal,
monotonous man because ho enmo of an
affluent family of Amiens and bad lordly
bio id in his veins. The dav when,
through political revolution, this patri
otic woman was led to the scaffold around
which lay piles of human heads that
bad fallen from the axe, and she said to an
oged man whom she bad comforted as they
ascended the scaffold: “Go first that you
may not witness my death.” and then un
daunted took her t urn t odie—that day was
•«*o her only the last act of a tragedy of
which her uncongenial marriage day was
the first. Good and genial character in
a man, the very first requisite for woman’s
happy marriage. Mistake me not as de
preciotive of worldly prosperities. There
is a religious cant that would seem to
represent poverty as a virtue and
wealth as a crime. I can take you
through a thousand mansions where
God is as much worshiped as He ever
was in a cabin. The Gospel inculcates the
virtues which tend toward wealth. In the
millennium we will all dwell in palaces
.end ride in chariots and sit at sumptuous
banquets and sleep under rich embroid
eries and live four or ‘five hundred years,
for, if according to the Bible in those
times a child shail die a hundred years
old, the average of human life will be at
least five centuries. The whole tendency
of sin is toward poverty, and the whole
tendency of righteousness is toward
wealth. G <1 iness is profitable for the life
Ih?t now i« as well as for that which is to
come.
No inventory can be made of the picture
galleries consecrated to God, and of sculp
ture and of libraries and pillared magnifi
cence, and of parks and fountains and gar
dens in the ownership of good men and
women. Tho two most lordly residences
in which 1 was ever a guest had morning
and evening prayers, all the employes
present, and all day long there was an air
of cheerful piety in the conversation and
behavi i. Lord Radsiock carried the gospel
to the Rus-ia i nolniity. Lord Cavan and
1 ‘-rd Clirns spoilt their vacation in evan.
golistic services. Lord Congleton became
missionary to Bagdad. And the Christ
who was born in an Eastern caravansary
has again end again lived in a palace.
It is a grand thing to have plenty of
money and horses that don’t compel you
to take the dust of every lumbering and
lazy vehicle; and books of history that
give you a glimpse of all the past; and
shelves of poetry to which you may go and
ask Milton or Tennyson or B|>encor or Tom
Moore Or Robert Burns to step down and
spend an evening with you; and other
shelves to which you may go while you
feel disgusted with the shamsof the world,
and ask Thackeray -to express your cha
grin, or Charles Dickens to expose tho
I'wksu *--i« m, or Thomas Carlyle to
thunder vfcar indignation; ‘ or the other
shelves, where the old Gospel writers
stand ready to warn and cheer us, while
they open doors into that city, which is so
bright the noonday suu is abolished.
There is no virtue in owning a horse that
takes four minutes to gd a mile if you can
own one that can go in a little over two
minutes and a half; no virtue in running
into the teeth of a northeast wind with
thin apparel if you can afford furs:
no virtue in being poor when you can
honestly be rich. There are names of men
and women that I have only to mention
and they suggest not only wealth, but
religion and generosity and philanthropy,
such as Amos Lawrence, James Lennox,
l’etcr Cooper, William E. Dodge, Shaftes
bury, Miss Wolfe and Mrs. Astor. A re
cent writer says that of fifty loading busi
ness men in one of our Eastern cities, and
ot the fifty leading business men in one of
our Western cities, three-fourths of them
are Christians. The fact is that about all
the brain and business genius is on the side
of religion. Infidelity is incipient insanity.
All infidels are cranks. Many
of them talk brightly, but
you soon find that in tbeir men
tal machinery there is a screw loose.
When they are not lecturing against
Christianity they are sitting iu bar-rooms
squirting tobacco juice, nnd when they get
mad swear till the place is sulphurous.
1 hey only talk to keep their courage up.
and at best will feel like tho infidel who
begged to be buried W'th his Christian
wife and daughter, and when asked why
he wanted such burial replied: “If there
be a resurrection of the good, as some
folks say there will be, my Chris ian wife
and daughter will somehow ge' ie up and
take me along with them.”
Men may pretend to despise religion,
but they are rank hypocrites. The sea
captain was right when he came up to the
village on the seaeoast and insisted in pay
ing *lO to the church, although he did not
attend himself. When asked his reasons
he said that he had been in the habit of
carrying cargoes of oysters and clams
from Ifiat place, and he found since that
church was "built the people were more
honest than they used to be, for before the
church was built he often found tiie load
wiien herame to count it a thousand clams
short. Yes. Godliness is profitable for
both worlds. Most of the great, honest,
permanent ivorldly successes are by those
who reverence God and the Bible. But
what I do say is that if a man have noth
ing but social position and financial re
sources, a woman who puts her happiness
by marriage in his hand re-enacts the folly
of Abigail when she accepted disagreeable
Nabal, “whose possessions were iu Car
mel; and the man was very great, and he
had three thousand sheep and a thousand
goats.”
If there be good moral character accom
panied by affluent circumstances I con
gratulate you. If not, let the morning lark
fly clear of the Rocky Mountain eagle. The
sacrifice of a woman on the altar of social
nnd financial expectation is cruel and stu
pendous. I sketch you a scene you have
more than once witnessed. A comfortable
home with nothing more than ordinary
surroundings, but an attractive daughter
carefully and Christiauiy reared. From
the outside world comes in a man with
nothing but money, unless you count
profanity and selfishness and fondness for
champagne nnd general recklessness as a
part of his possession. He has his coat
collar turned up when there is no chill
iu the ah- but because it gives
him an air of abandon, and eye-glass, not
because he is near-sighted, but because it
gives a classical appearance and with an
attire somewhat loud, a cane thick enough
to be the club of Hercules, and clutched at
the middle, his conversation interlarded
with French phrases inaccurately pro
nounced and a sweep of manner indicating
that lie was not born like most folks, but
terrestrially landed. By arts learned of the
devil ho insinuates h-mself into the affec
tions of the daughter of that Christian
home. All the kindred con
gratulate her upon the almost supernat
ural prospects. Reports come in that
the young man is fast in his habits; that
he has broken several young hearts, and
that he ! s mean and selfish and cruel. But
all this is covered up with the fact that lie
has several houses in iiis own name and
has large deposits at the bank, and, more
than all, lias a father worth manv hundred
thousand dollars, and very feeble in
health and may any day drop off, mi l this
is the only son, nnl a rouni dollar held
close to one’s eye is large enough to shut
out a great desert, and how much more
wdl several bushels of do lars shut out.
The marriage day comes and goes. The
wedding rmg Was costly enough and the or
ange blossoms fragraut enough and the ben
ediction solemn enough and the wedding
march stirring enough. And the audience
shed tears of sympathetic gladness, sup
posing that the craft containing the two
has sailed off on a placid lake, although
God knows that- they are launched on a
Dead Sea, its waters brackish with tears
and ghastly with ghastly faces of despair
floating to the surface and then going
down. Tuere thyy are. the neivly
married pair, in their own new home.
He turns out to l-« a tyrant. Her
will is nothing; his will is every thing.
Lavi h of money for his own pleasure, he
begi udges her the pennies he pitches out
into her trembling palm. Instead of the
kind words she left behind in her former
home, now there are complaints and Jauit
fiudingsand curses. He is the m.isteranu
I’ll* worst Tiliain on earth
TRKNTON, DADE COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY, JANUARY 20. 1888,
is the man who, having captured a woman
from he :• father’s house, and after the oath
of the marriage altar has been pronounced
says, by his manner if not in words!
“I have you now in my power, what can
you do? My arm is stronger than yours.
Mv voice is louder than yours. My for
tune is greater than yours. My name is
mightier than yours. Nosv crouch before
me like a dog. Now crawl away from me
like a reptile. You are nothing but a wo
man anyhow'. Down, you miserable
wretch 1” Can halls of mosaic, can long
lines of Etruscan bronze, or statuary by
Palmer and Powers and Crawford and
Chantry and Canova, can galleries rich
from the pencil of Bierstadt and Church
and Kenset and Cole and Cropsev, could
flutes played on by an Ole Bull, or pianos
fingered by a Gottschalk, or solos warbled
by a iSontagg, could wardrobes like that of
a Marie Antoinette, could jewels like those
of a Eugenie, make a wife in such a com
panionship happy!
Imprisoned in a castle! Her gold brace
lets are the chains of a life-long servitude*
There is a sword over her every feast,
not like that of Damocles, staying sus
pended, but dropping through her lacer
ated heart. Her wardrobe is lull of
shrouds for deaths which she dies daily,
and she is buried alive, though buried un
der gorgeous upholstery. There is one
word that sounds Under the arches and
rolls along tho corridors, and weeps in
the failing fountains and echoes in the
shutting of every door and groans
in every note of stringed and wind
instrument: “Woe! woe!” The oxen
and sheep in olden times brought to tho
Temple of Jupiter to be sacrificed used
to be covered with ribbons and towers—
ribbons on the liorus and flowers on the
neck. But the floral and ribboned decora
tions did not make the stabof the butcher’s
knife less deathful, and al! the chandeliers
you hang over such a woman, and all the
robes with which you enwrap her, and ali
the ribbons with which you adorn her, and
all tho bewitching charms with which you
embank her footsteps, arc but the ribbons
and flowers of a horrible butchery.
As if to show how wretched a good wo
man may be in splendid surroundings we
have two receut illustrations, two ducal
palaces in Great Britain. They are the
focus of the best things that are possible
in art, in literature, in architecture,
the accumulation of other estates until
their wealth is beyond calculation
and their grandeur beyond description.
One of the castles has a cabinet set with
gems that, cost $2,500,000, and the walls of
it bloom with Rembrandts and Claudes
and Poussins and Guidos and Raphaels,
and there are Southdown flocks iu summer
grazing ou its lawns and Arab steeds
prancing at the doorways on the “first
open day at the keunels.” From the <* •■;
castie the Dutchess has removed with fier
children because she can no longer en
dure the orgies of her husband, the
Duke, and in the other castle the
Duchess remains confronted by insults
and abominations in the presence of
which I do not think God or decent society
requires a good woman to remain. Alas’
for those ducal country seats. They on a
large scale illustrate what on a smaller
scale may be seen in many places, that
without moral character in a husband ali
the accessories of wealth are to a wife’s
soul tantalizatiou and mockery. When
Abigail finds Nabal, her husband, beastly
drunk, as she conies home from interced
ing for his fortune mil life, it was no alle
viation that the old brute had possessions
in Carmel, and “was very great, and had
three thousand sheep and one thousand
goats,” arid he the worst goat among them.
The animal in his nature seized the soul in
its mouth and ran off with it.”
Before things are right in this world
genteel villains are to be expurgated. In
stead of being welcomed into genteel so
ciety because of the amount of stars and
garters and me lals and estates Ihey rep
resent, they ought to be fumigated two or
three years before they are allowed with
out peril to themselves to put their hanl
on the door-knob of a moral house. The
time must come when a masculine estrav
wi l be as repugnant to good society
as a feminine estrav, and no coat of
arms or family emblazonry or epaulet
can pass a Lothario unchallenged
among the sanctities of home life.
By' what law of God or common sense
is an Absalom better than a Delilah, a
ion Juan better than a Messalina?
Tie brush that paints one
black must paint the other black. But
what a spectacle it was when last summer
much of “watering-place” society' went
wild with enthusiasm overan unclean for
eign dignitary who<e name in both hemis
pheres iR a synonym for profligacy, and
princesses of American society from all
parts of the land had him ride in their car
riages and sit at their tables, though thev
knew him to be a portable lazaretto, a
charnelhouse of moral put,reflection, bis
breath a typhoid, his foot that of a satyr
and his touch death Here is au evil that
men can not stop, btu women may. Keep
all such out of your parlors; have no re
cognition for them iu the street,
and no more think of allaying your life
and destiny with theirs than “gales from
Arahy” wou’d consent to pats the honey
■moon with an Egyptian plague. All that
money or sooia l position a bad man brings
to a woman in marriage is a splendid
despair, a gilded horror, abrilliaut agony,
a prolongs i death, and the longer the
marital union lasts the more evident will
be tho fact that she might better never
have been born. Yet you and I have been
at brilliant wedding* where before the
feast was over the bridegroom’s tongue
was thick and his eye glassy and his step
a stagger as he clicked glasses with jolly
comrades, all going with lightning limited
express rate to the fatal i rash over the
embankment of a ruined life and a lost
eternity.
Woman, join not your rignt hand with
such a right band. Accept from such an
one no jewel for finger or ear lest that
sparkle of precious stone turn out to be the
eye of a basilisk, and let not the ring come
on the finger of your right fyatid lest that
ring turn out to be one link of a eiiain that
shall bind you in never-ending captivity.
In the name of God an I Heaven and home,
iu tho name of all-time and all eteinitv l
forbid the bat,ns! Consent not to Join ons
of the many regiments of women who have
married for worldly success without re
gard to moral character.
If you are ambitious, O woman, for nobis
affiancing, why not marry a King! And
to that honor you are invited by the Moa
| arch of Heaven and earth, aud this day a
i voice from the skisi sounds forth: “As
the bridegroom rejoieeth over the bride,
so shall thy God rejoice over thee.” Let
Him put upon thee the ring of this royal
marriage. Here is an honor worth reach
ing. By repentance und faith you may
come into a marriage with the Emperor of
universal dominion, and you may be an
empress unto God forever, and reign with
Him n palaces that the centuries can not
grumble or cannonades demolish.
Higi«* worldly marriage is not
ne'i>*sary for woman, or marriage of
any kind in order ;o your happiness. Celi
bacy has been honored by the best being
that ever lived and His greatest apo-tie,
Christ and Paul. What higher honor could
sing e life on earth have! But what you
need. O woman, is 1o be affianced forever
and forever, and the bans of that, mar
riage I am Jthis moment here aud now
ready to publish. Let the angels of
Heaven bend from their galleries of light
to witness while I pronounce you one—a
loving God and a fo’given soul. One of the
most Stirling passages in history with
which I am acquainted tells bow Cleopatra.
(Juoen of Egypt, won the sympathy of
Julius Caesar, the conqueror, until he be
came the bridegroom and she the bride.
Driven from her throne, she sallied away
on the Mediterranean Sea in a storm, an I
when the large ship anchored she put out
win, one womanly friend in a small boat
until she arrived at Alexandria, where
tvas Caesar, the groat General. Knowing
th.it she would not be permitted to land or
p;t2s the guards on the way to Cm tar’s
palace, she laid upon the bottom of the
boat some shawls and sc irfs and richly
dyed upholstery, nnd ‘then lay down upon
them, and her friend w'rappe l her in
them and she was admitted ashore in
this wrapping of goods, which Was an
nounced as a pro entforCm ar. Tnisbundle
w.Ts permitted to pass the guards of the
gules of the palace and was put down at
Cue feet of the Roman General. When the
bundle was uurode 1 th >re rose before Cae
sar one who;c courage and beauty and
brilliancy are tho astonishment of the ages.
This exiled queen of Egypt told the story
oi her sorrows, and he promise 1 her tha
she should get back her throne in Egypt
and take tho throne of wifely dominion in
his own heart. Afterward .they made a
triumphal tour in a barge that the pictures
of many art galleries have called “Cleopa
tra’s Barge,” and that barge was covered
w th silken awning and its deck was soft
S Jib luxuriant carpets- aud the oars wore
sifter-tipped, and the prow was gold
mounted, and the air was redolent with
the spicery of tropical gardens and reson
ant with the music tiiat made the nigh!
glad as the day. You may rejoice, Oh,
woman, that you are not a Cleopatra, a id
that the one to whom you may be affianced
had none of the sins of Caesar, the con
queror.
But it suggests toij|pc how you, a sou
exiled from happiness and peace, may find
your way to the conqueror of earth and
sky. Though it may be a dark night of
spiritual agitation in which you put out
into the harbor of peace you may sail, and
when all the wrappings of fear and doub
and sin shall be removed, you will b
found at the feet of Him who will put you
on a throne Vo lie acknowledged as His in
the day when all the silver trumpets of
the sky shall proclaim: “Behold, llt
bridegroom cometh,” and iu a huge of
light you will sail with Hin he river
whose source is the foot of the throne, and
whose mouth is at the sea of glass minglc-t
with fire.
THE OLD DOCTOR.
A Title of Which the Average Physician
h Deservedly Frond.
In the fulness of time the physician be
comes "cbe old doctor” in his 'ocaiity. This
is too frequently a title earned by length oi
years, not by meritorious service, in the
cause of humanity. It is a title longed fyr
by many 1 efore ege gives them a right to
the distinction. Men of less than thirty -
five years have been known to argue that
the “old doc.or” distinction belonged of
right to them. After 1 fly-five years it
would seem proper to advance the sur
viv ng members of a gr; dilating class of
thirty years ago to this proud distinction.
Age in the profession should lie considered
rather than number of birthdays. It may
seem rather odd to devote any time to this
question, but every proet tioner knows tfiat
tne compliment, “How young you loo': 5
has no modifying influence over Ibe ordi
nary practitioner. If you would p'eas.
your family physician, ren-r.'tk on the gray
ness of bis beard and Lite baldness of his
pate. Tnis may make him replace some
old-fashjemd nauseous dose by some
modern eiegunt pharmaceu ica! prepaia
tinn when next he has '.he option.
Whether the old doc or is a better physi
cian t-haa the man of fewer years depends
much upon the sort of man he is who un
der consideration. There can be no doubt
tn f habits of study, of ke*n observation
and of correc: reasoning, give the old mar;
a great advantage over h : s younger <o!
I eng.ip. It is also c*r ain tt at if his ye rs
h ve been lost in a struggle for money,
while study has been neglected and obser
vation left unpractic >d, the younger man,
even if he be fresh from tbe schools (pro
vided they are good ones), is the safer nnd
better medical man. The rough work of
the profession, the charity and hospital
liases, the fatiguing coun'ry practice and
the exhausting night-work, belong by right
to the younger men, who are able to work
awhile for the experience t ey will require
in later years. The larger fees which flow
from consultation and office prac.ice should
go to (he old doctor, provides! he proves
himself worthy of reoeiv ng them by his
cool judgment, careful examination and
good counsels. Tbe Indian principle of de
pending upon “the OiC. men for counsel and
the young men for war” applies with espe
cial force to the xucdicai profession, —it
Louis Globe-Detuocml.
He who studies nature, ?.n I denies God, is
a man who read* a book, and d-."i:« that, is
had au author. —Channinq.
FIFTIETH CONGKESS.
First session.
Washington, Jan. 11 —Senatx—Among tho
bills introduced an t referred were the follow
ing: To establish bn additional land offices in
Wyoming Territoiy; to enlarge the jnrisdic'ion
of probata courts in Wyoming, and to provide
for a minimum invalid pension of eignt dol
lars a month Joint resolution providing that
no further effort ran properly be made by the
United States to obtain co-operation of Euro
pean Governments in establishing a common
ratio of values between silver and gold, as
money. Laid on the table.
House—The House went into committee of
the whole upon the state of the Union for tho
rot sider tion of the President's message. Mr
Mills offered a resolution referring the message
to the Committee on Ways and Means. The
resolution was agreed to. The House then
again went into" committee of the whole
on the ‘Little Deficiency Bill.” A lorg de
bate ensued and durin its progress the ques
tion as to where the responsibility for the de
feat of the deficiency bill at the last session rest
ed was full discussed. The custom of holding
back appropriation bills also received consider
able attention. An amendment was adopted
uppiopriating SIOO,OOO for the payment of judg
ments and awards against the United States on
account of damages caused by reason of the
mprovemen of the Fox ;>ad Wisconsin rivers.
The committee then rose, the bill was passed,
and the House adjourned.
Washington, Jan. 12.—Senate —Tne resolu
tion introduced by Mr. Chandler for investiga
tion of the recent sttpression of the colored
vote in Jackson, Miss., was adopted by a party
vote, after a statement by Mr. Chandler. Mr.
Mitchell spoke on the restriction of emigrants,
especial y the Chinese. Mr. Stewart followed
him on the same subject. After half an hours'
executive session the Senate adjourned at 4:Ui
p. m.
House —An adverse report was made of the
bill to limit the the payment of claims
against th- United States. A bill was passed
fixing the • penalty for robbery, burglary and
arceny in the Indian Territory. The bill to
authorize national banks to increase their cir
eulation to the par value of bonds deposited,
went over. The battle-flag resolution calling
:.-r ail correspondence on the subject was
adopted. A favorable report was
made on the resolution asking
for information concerning war records. Sen
ate bill for the appointment of a Fish Com
mission was passed. A bill permitting writing
or printing of second, third and fourth-class
mail matter, was reported. A message from
the President was received, transmitting the
invitation of the French Government to that
of the United States ' j participate in the Paris
Kxposition of 1880, to commemorate tbe tailing
o' the Bastile.
Washington. Jan. I:l.—Senate.—Memorials
were presented, and the. direct tax bill was
•sken up and discussed. Mr. Itiddleberger
reived to go into executive session, and was de
feated on a tie vote. A second attempt was also
defeated, tbe object being to get at the Lamar
nomination. Mr. Vance made a tariff speech
on Mr. Brown's resolution to abolish internal
revenue. Mr. Gray spoke against the Blair ed
uealiona) bill, and at 4:35 p. m., the Senate ad
journed until Monday.
Huase.—Mr. Hatch reported his hill to es'
tablrei experimental agricultural stations. A
tii 11 was passed, permitting writing and printing
on second, third and fourth-class matter. The
private calendar was taken up in committee ol
the whole. Mills, of Texas, moved an adjourn
meti%inii! Monday. He was voted down—yeas
ity, nays 153. Hatch, of Missouri, contending
for consideration of the agricultural experiment
station bi 1. Mills explained that he hud told
several members there would be no session on
Saturday, aud exhibited great disappointment
and temper i:t his defeat. Enough members
finally chugged th"ir votes, at Mr. Hatch's
suggestion, to carry an adjournment at 5:15
p. m.
Washington, Jan. 15.—Senate -Petlticjs
. ml memorials were presented and referred, in
E luding one from Nevada against the reduction
of the tariff on wool, and a resolution of the
General Assembly of the Knights of Labor in
favor of an investigation of the Bureau of Print
ing and Engraving. Bills were ini reduced and
others reported. At 1 o'clock the Senate went
into executive session, which lasted three hours.
Mr. Lamar was confirmed as Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court by a vote of 32 to 2K—Rid
dlebcrger, Stewart and Stanford voting with the
majority. Messrs. Vilas und Dickinson were
confirmed as Secretary of the Interior and Post
master General, respectively.
House. —A resolution was adopted calling foy
information relative to discrimination in tolls
against American vessels passing through tbe
Welland Canal. A report of the Committee on
Printing was submitted in regard to the delay
in tne Government Printing Office, on which
■ here was a general discussion. A motion to
recommit the report was defeated by four votes.
Under the gall of States a number of bills were
introduced and referred. The Committee on
Accounts reported a resolution assigning clerks
to all committees of the House. Mr. Perkins,
of Kan-us, offered an amendment to provide
clerks to all members of such committees. The
amendment was voted down after a long dis
cussion—yeas (>4, nays 181—and the resolution
.as reported agreed to—yeas 124. nays >!).
Washing "ON, Jan 17.—Senate.—A bill wa*
* reported to reimburse the depositors of the
Frtcdinan’s Saving und Trust Cimpany. A
.esohition qas agreed to instructing the post
offV ■ committee to inquire into the detention
of ccrt :in mail matter addressed to Senators
o t account of printed nc’ioes on the envelopes.
Vlie House bill relating to permissible matter
t i second, third and fourth - class mat
!3r vva- passed. A resolution was
adopted calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for report as to the amount of
leveaue col ce ed from each kind of liquor each
y ar since the internal revenue law passed, and
frim ih- special tax on distillers and brewers.
A message from the Pres dont with reports of
P c fie Railroad commissioners ware la‘d
before the. Senate. On motion of Mr. Hoa r . thff
m age aid reports were referred to a select
•m: it ce of fi' C. The B air educational bill
wis taken up. Mr. Bowen, of Colorado, speak
ng. He was followed by Biair, and at 4:15 p.
m. the Senate adjourned.
House —The c’.erk called the members to or.
der. and annour.c id the illness of Speaker Car
lisle. Mr. Cox, of New York, was chosen
>) e ker pro tem. Mr. McKinley presented the
irsolutions adopted at the w< ol iron's iccent
conference. Mr. Grosvenor reported a hill
ora the Committee ou Rivers and Harbors for
the purefiisc of land necessa y fer the con
t uc"ion of k cks and dams for the Cumter
land river. Tnis measure was then passed.
In the morning hour Mr. Wilkins railed up the
Oi l to authorize an increase of National Hank
circulation to the par value of bonds dejio-ited,
but An ’erson, of Kansas, and Weaver, of lowa,
filibustered until the time expired, and the bill
went on the calendar of unfinished husites*.
The President's message urd accompanying
Pacific Railroad reports were laid before the
House and referred. Mr. Wilkins moved to
ske up the unfinished business.
VOI,. IV.—NO. 17.
AN ENGINEER’S DREAM-
He Refuses to Kun a Train for Fear of an
Accident—And It Happens.
Bonham, Tex , Jan. 17.—The cannon-ball
train from the East on the Texas and Paci
fic railroad, which was due here last night
at 10 o’clock, was thrown from the track
in Bois d‘ Are bottom, two miies east of
town, and did not arrive until two o’clock
this morning. Tho train, which consisted
of baggage-cnr, two coaches and a sleeper,
was running at, the rate of fifteen miles
an hour over the trestle that spans the bot
tom, when the rails spread and caused tha
engine, baggage-car and one coach to
leave the track. Fortunately the cars did
not fall off the trestle, which was twenty
feet high, thereby avoiding a terrible
catastrophe. No one was seriously in
jured. A peculiar circumstance in con
nection with the accident is that the regu
lar engineer for No. 41, David Lasler, was
to pull the cannon-ball last night, but on
being called at Texarkana to take charge
of his engine flatly refused to go out, giv
ing as bis reason that lie bad dreamed that
the cannon-ball would be wrecked last
night between Texarkana and Bonham.
Another engineer was procured.
* Execution by Electricity.
New York, Jan. 17.—The report of the
Commission appointed in 1886 to report
the most humane and practical method of
carrying into effect the sentence of death,
was sent to the Legislature yesterday. It
reccominends the killing of culprits bv
electricity The report is a very volumin
ous document, and advises that the date of
the execution be made uncertain, so that
the criminal may not knowon what day ho
is to die, and that the corpses go to the
doctors or a nameless grave without relig
ious ri*es, and that newspapers be forbid
den to describe the execution.
Poor-House Crowded.
Cm j pewa Fai.ls, Wis., Jan. 17.—Tha
past two nights were the coldest ever
known in this region. Sunday, at 8 o'clock
in the morning, spirit thermometers indi
cated 50 degrees below’, at noon 22 de
grees. This morning it ranged from 55de
grees to 62 degrees below. Trains are
still irregular. The poor commissioners
are besieged with appeals, and the poor
house is crowded. It was reported to day
that a sick woodman was frozen to death
while being conveyed to this city.
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Preferred Jail to Freezing.
Chicago, Jan. 17.—A Bryan, Tex., spe
cial says: All the prisoners, nine in num
ber, in the jail of this (Brazos) County,
made their escape last evening by burrow
ing under the wall. One of them came
and surrendered after a few hours, saying
it wis so cold be could not stand it in the
woods. Among the escaped prisoners are
the t hree men who robbed the post-office
at Millican, for whom the sheriff offers a
reward of SI,OOO.
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Floods in East Tennessee.
Knoxville, Tens'., Jan. 17.—The rain
has been falling throughout East Tennes
see for the past week.- The river at this
point, is nearing the danger mark. The
thermometer is nearly 52 degrees. Heavier
rains are feared. I’eople in many sections
have taken up temporary habitations oa
the highlands and abandoned their posses
sions to the rushing water.
Terrible Fire al a Christening.
Mount Carmo, Pa., Jan. 17.—At five
o’clock this morning fire consumed a row
of seven frame houses here occupied by
Hungarians. Three men were burned to
death and a woman and a child are miss
ing. The fire originated in a house where
a Hungaiiau christening was being cele
brated, and it is supposed was caused by
drunken inmates upsetting a stove.
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Fresh Water Regatta.
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 17. —Captain John
Prindiville, of Chicago, Commodore
Gardner, of Cleveland, met here to-day to
arrange for an international yacht regatta
on Lake Erie next summer. It is pro
posed so make such prizes as will secure
all the Canadian and other crack boats.
The event will lie the greatest in the an
nals of fresh water yachting.
Successful Sugar Tests.
New Ohioans, Jan 17.—The latest re
sults at tlie Government Diffusion Experi
ment Station, at ex-Governor War
mouth’s Magnolia Plantation, show that
the diffusion process is a great success,
pr*ducing thirty pounds more of sugar
per ton of cane than is produced by tha
most advanced milling process.
Victim Number Fourteen.
Haverhill, Mass., Jan. 17.—John Mad
den, fourteenth victim of the Bradford dis
aster, who was injured at the tank house,
died at the hospital this morning at seven
o’clock. He belonged in Bradford, aud
leaves a widow and four children
Want to Sell Horse Meat.
Chicago, Jan. 17.—Charles Beeburg and
Peter Yepperson have applied to the
mayor for permission to open a butcher
shop for the sale of horse meat. On re
commendation of the city physician the
application was denied.
Hava Assumed Their New Duties.
Washington, Jan. 17.—Mr. Dickinson*
the new Postmaster General, and Mr.
Vilas, the newly-appointed Secretary of
the Interior, were sworn into office to-day,
and each assumed their new official duties.
The Colorado River Frozen.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 17.—The Colorado riv
er for the first time since the settlement of
the country was frozen over yesterday,
the ice he:ng from four inches to a foot
thick.
Reward ior a Murderer.
Wheeling, AY. Va.. Jan. 17.—A reward
of *2,500 has been offered for the arrest
and convieiiou of the parties who shot Po
liceman Glenn, in this city, (Sunday morn
ing.
No Doubl the Barbers Are Sorry.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 17.— The law pro
hibiting barbers from shaving customers
on Sunday was to-day declared unconsti
tutional Ijy the Supreme Court.