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JOHN 15. HANCOCK, Publisher,
GRANDMOTHER.
Directing- and Training the Genera
tions to Come.
tioJdm Opportunities Which Should by
ho Means be Neglected—Tat
muge's Senncj^i.
Sunday Rev. T. DpYtfitt Talmage, D. D.,
preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle the
eighth of his series of “Sermons to the
Women of America, with Important Hints
io Men.” His subject \va9 the Grand
mother and Her Grandchildren.”
Dr. Falinape’s text was from 11. Timo
tby, i., 5; “The unfeigned faith that, is in
ihoe, which dwelt first iu thy grand
mother Lois,” The eloquent preacher
said;
'u this love-letter which Paul, the old
minister, is writing to Timothy, the young
minister, the family record is brought
•out. Paul practically says: “Timothy,
what a good grandmother you had ! You
bught to be better than most folks, be
cause not only was your mother good, but
▼our grandmother. Two preceding gen
erations of piety ought to give you a
mighty push in the right direction.”
The fact was that Timothy needed encour
agement.
?ie was in poor health, having a weak
stomach, and was dyspeptic, and Paul pre
scribed for him a tonic—“a little wine for
■thy stomach’s sake”—not much wine, but
a little wine, a.id only as a medicine. And
if the wine tneu had been as much adul
terated with logwood and strychnine as
our modern wines he would not have pre
scribed any.
But Timothy, not strong physically, is
encouraged spiritually by the recital of
.•grand, motherly excellence, Paul hinting
to him, as I hint this day to you, that God
sometimes gathers up as in a reservoir
away back of the active generations of to
«i»y a godly influence, and then in response
tto prayer lets down the power upon chil
dren and grandchildren and great-grand
children. The world is wofully in want of
a table of statistics in regard to what is
tiie protractedne3s and immensity of influ
ence of or.e good woman in the church and
world. We have accounts of how much
•evil has been wrought by Margaret, the
mother of criminals, who lived near a hun
dred years ago, and of how many hun
dreds of criminals her descendants fur
nished for the penitent iury and the gallows,
and how many hundreds of thousands of
dollars they cost this country in their ar
raignment and prison support as well as
in the property they burglarized or de
stroyed. But will not. some one come out,
with brain comprehensive enough, and
heart warm enough, and pen keen enough,
to give us the faet9 in regard to some good
woman of a hundred years ago, and let us
know how many Christian men and wo
men and reformers and useful people have
been found among ljer descendants, and
how many asylums and colleges and
churches they built, and how many mil
lions of dollars Ihey contributed for hu
manitarian and Christian purposes!
The good women whose tombstones were
planted in the eighteenth century are more
alive for good in the nineteenth century
than they were before, as the good women
of this nineteenth century will be more
alive for good in the twentieth century
than now. Mark you, I have no idea that
the grandmothers were any better than
their grnnddaughers. You can not get
very old people to talk much about how
things were when they were boys and
girls. They have a reticence ana a non
commitalism which makes me think they
feel themselves to be the custodians of the
reputations of their early comrades. While
our dear old folks are rehearsing the fol
lies of the present, if you put them on the
witness stand and cross-examine them as to
how things were seventy years ago the
silence becomes oppressive.
A celebrated Frenchman by the name of
Volney visited this country in 1796, and he
Bays of woman's diet, iu those times: “If a
premium was offered for a regimen most
destructive to health, none could be de
vise 1 more efficacious for these ends than
that in use among those people.” That
eclipses our lobster sa!id*at midnight.
Every body talks about the dissipations of
modern society, and how womanly health
goes down under it; but it was worse a
hundred years ago, for the chaplain of a
French regiment in our revolutionary war
wrote in 1782, in his book of American
Women, saying: “They are tall and well
proportione 1; their features are generally
regular, their complexions are generally
fair and without color.
“At twenty years of age the women
have no longer the freshness of youth. At
thirty or forty they are decrepit.” In 1812
a foreign consul wrote a book entitled “A
Sketch of the United States at tha Com
mencement of the Present Century,” and
he says of the women of those times:
“At the age of thirty all their charms
have disappeared.” One glance at the
p rtraits of the women a hundred years
ago, and their style of dress makes us won
der how they ever got their breath. All
tliis makes me think that the express rail
train is no more an improvement on the
old canal boat, or the telegraph no more
an improvement on the old-time saddle
bags, than the women of our day are an
improvement on Jho women of the iast
century.
But still, notwithstanding that those
times were so much worse than ours,
there was a glorious race of godly women
seventy and a hundred years ago who held
the world bac.c from sin and lifted it to
ward virtue, and without their exalted
and sauct fled influence before this the
last good influence would have perished
from the earth. Indeed, all over this land
there are seated to-day—not so much in
churches, for many of them are too feeble
to come—great many aged grandmothers
They sometimes feel that the world has
gone past them, and they have an idea
they are of little account. Their head
sometimes gets aching from the racket of
'.he grandchildren down stairs or iu the
next room. They steady themselves by the
noVdW'l\?“'. 1 * as they go up and down. When
heard from tbo»ir° 1 d b *ug* oa
l *}y«r read »u/ '•»
bear to have the grandchildren pun
is led even when they doserve it, an 1 have
so relaxed their ideas of famiiy discipline
that they would spoil all the youngsters of
the household by too great leniency. These 4
old folks are the resort when great troub
les come, and there is acalmiug andsooth
ing power in the touch of an aged hand
that is almost supernatural. They feel
they are almost through with the journey
of life and read t';e old book more than
they used to, hardly knowing which most
they enjoy, the G d Testament or the New,
and often stop and dwell tearfully over the
family record halfway between. We hail
them to-cluy whether in the house of God
or at the homestead. Blessed is that
household that has in it h Grandmother
Lois. Where she is angels are hovering
round and God is in the room. May her
last days be like those lovely autumnal
days that we call Indian summer.
I never knew the joy of having a grand
mother: that is the disadvantage of being
theyoungestchild of the family. The elder
members only have that benediction. But
though she went up out of this life before I
began it, I have heard of her faith in God,
that brought all her children into the king
dom and two of them into the ministry, and
t hen brought all her grandchildren into the
kingdom, myself the lust and least worthy.
Is it not time that you and I do two things,
swing open a picture gallery of the wrin
kled faces and stooped shoulders of
the past, and call down from their heav
enly thrones, the godly grandmothers, to
give them our thanks, and then persuade
the mothers of to-day that they are living
for all time, and that against the sides of
every cradle in which a child is rocked
beat the two eternities.
Here we have an untried, undiscussed
and unexplored subject, You often hear
about your influence upon your own chil
dren—l am not talking about that. What
about your influence upon the twentieth
century, upon the thirtieth century, upon
the fortieth century, upon tho year two
thousand, upon Pie year four thousand, if
the world lasts co long. The world stood
four thousand years before Christ came;
it is not unreasonable to suppose that it
may stand four thousand years after His
arrival. Four thousand years the world
swung off in sin, four thousand years it
may be swinging back into righteousness.
By the ordinary rate of multiplication, of
the world’s population in a century your
descendants will lie over six huudred, and
by two centuries nt least over a hundred
thousand, perhaps two hundred thousand,
and upon every one of them you, the
mother of to-day, will have an influence
for good or evil. Ami if in two centuries
your descendants shall have with their
names filled a scroll of hundreds of
thousands, will some angel from Heaven
to whom is given the capacity to calculate
the number of the stars of Heaven and
the sands of the seashore, step down
and tell us how many descendants you
will have in the four thousandth year of
the world’s possible continuance. Do not
let the grandmothers any longer think
that they are retired, and sit clear hack
out of sight from the world, feeling that
they have no relation to it. The mothers
of the last century are to-day in the Sen
ates, tho Parliaments, tho palaces, the pul
pits, the banking-houses, the professional
chairs, the prisons, the alms-houses, the
company of midnight brigands,the cellars,
the ditches of this century. You have
been thinking about the importance
of having the light influence upon one
nursery. You have bean thinking of
the importance of getting those two little
feet on Hie right path. You have been
thinking of your child’s destiny for the
next eighty years, if it should pass on to
be an octogenarian. That is well, but my
subjectsweeps a thousand years, a million
years, a quadrillion of years. I can not
stop at one cradle, I am looking at the
cradles that reach all around the world
and across all time. I am not talking of
mother Eunice, I am talking of grand
mother Lois. The only way you can tell
the force of a current is by sailing up the
stream; or the force of an ocean wave by
running the ship against it. Running
along with it we can not appreciate tho
force. In estimating maternal influence
we generally run along with it down tho
stream of time, and so we don’t under
stand the full force. Lot us come up to it
from the eternity side, after it ha 9
been working on for centuries
and see all the good it has done and all the
evil it has accomplished multiplied in mag
nificent or appalling compound interest.
The difference betweon that mother’s in
fluence on her children now and the influ
ence when it has been multiplied iu hun
dreds of thousands of lives, is the differ
ence between the Mississippi river way up
at the top of the continent, starting from
the little Lake Itasca, seven miles long
and one wide, and its mouth at the Gulf of
Mexico,where navies might ride. Between
the birth of that river and its burial iuthe
sea the Missouri pours in, and the Ohio
pours in, and the Arkansas pours in, and
the Red and White and Yazoo rivers pour
in, and all the StatOc and Territories
between the Allegheny and the Rocky
Mountains make contribution. Now, in
order to test, the power of a mother's in
fluence, we need to come in off of the
ocean of eternity and sail up toward the
one cradle, and we will find ten thousand
tributaries of influence pouring in and
pouring down. But it is after all one great
river of power rolling on and rolling for
ever. Who can fathom it? Who can
bridge it! Who can stop it? Had not
mothers better be intensifying their pray
ers! Had they not better be elevating
their example? Had they not better be
rousing themselves with the consideration
that by their faithfulness or neglect they
are starting an influence which will be stu
pendous after the last mountain of earth
is flat, and the last sea has, been dried up,
and thejast flake of the ashes of a con
sumed world shall have been blown away,
and all the telescopes of other worlds di
rected to the track around which our world
once swung shall discover not so much as
a cinder of the burned-down and swept-off
planet.
In Ceylon there is a granite column thti
iy-tiix square feet in size, which is thought
by the natives to decide the world’s con
tinuance. An augel with robe spun from
Molurri u once » ecalvtry tmoad »s 4
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. MARCH 2. 1888.
sweep the hem of that rolls across tho
granite, and when by that attrition the
column is worn away tiny say time will
end. But by that process that granite col
umn would bo worn oul of existence before
mother’s influence w 11 begin to give away.
If a mother toll a child he is not- good
some bugaboo will come and catch him,
the fear excited may make the child a
coward, and ilie fact that he timls that
there is no bugaboo may make him a liar,
and the echo of that false alarm may be
heard after fifteen generations ..ave been
horn and have expire i. If a mother prom
ise a child a reward fo ■ good behavior and
after the good behavior forgets (ogive the
reward, the cheat; may crop out in some j
faithlessness half a thousand years further
on. If a mol her culture a child’s vanity
and eulogize his curls and extol the night
black or sky-bluo or nut-brown of the
child’.-; eyes, and call out in his presence the
admiration o' spectators, pride an i arro
gance maybe prolonged alter half a dozen
family records have been obliterated. If a
mother express doubt about soma state
ment of the Holy Bible in a child’s pres
ence, long after the gates of this historical
erp have closed and tho gatos of another
era have opened, the result may be seen in
a champion blasphemer. But, on the other
hand, if a mother walking with a child
sees a suffering one by ihe wayside and
says: “My child, give that ten-cent pieca
to that lame boy,” the result
may be seen on the other side
of tho following century in some
George Muller build ng a whole village
of orphanages. If a mother sit almost
every evening by the trundle-bed of a child
and teach it lessons of a Saviour's love and
a Saviour’s example, of the importance of
truth and the horror of a 1 e, and the vir
tues of industry, and kindness, and sym
pathy, and self-sacr flee, long after the
mother has gone and the child has gone,
and the lettering on both the tombstones
shall have been washed out by the storms
of innumerable winters, there may be
standing, as a result of those trundle-bed
lessons, flaming evangels, world-moving
reformers, circulating Summerflolds,
weeping Paysons, thundering White
fields, emancipating Washingtons.
Good or bad influence may skip from one
generation or two generations, but it will
he sure to land in the third or fourth gen
eration, just as tha Ten Commandments,
speaking of the visitation of God on f&m
lies, says nothing about the second genera
tion, but entirely skips the second and
speaks of the third and fourth generations:
“Visiting the iniquities of the fathers up
on the third and fourth generations of
them that hate Me.” Paternal influence,
right and wrong, may jump over a genera
tion, but it will come down further on. a*
sure as you sit there and I stand h&vtf
Timothy’s ministry was projected by his
grandmother Lois. There are men
and women here, the sons and daugh
ters of the Christian Church, who are
such as a result of the consecration of
great great grandmothers. Why, who do
you think the Lord is? You talk as though
His memory was weak. He can no easier
remember a prayer live minutes than He
can five centuries. This explains what
we often see—some man or woman dis
tinguished for benevolence when the
father and mother were distinguished
for penuriousness, or you see some young
man or woman with a bad father and a
hard mother come out gloriously
for Christ and make the church sob
and shout and sing under their exhor
tations. Wo stand in corners of the vestry
and whisper over the matter and say:
“How is this, such great piety in sons and
daughters of such parental worldliness
and sin ?” I will explain it to you if you
will letch me the old family Bible contain
ing tiie full record. Let some septuagena
rian look with me clear upo.i tiie page of
births and marriages and tell me who that
woman was with the old-fashioned name
of Jemima or Betsy or Mehitabel. Ah,
there she is, the old grandmother or great
grandmother, who had enough religion to
saturate a century.
There she is, the dear old soul. Grand
mother Lois. In our beautiful Greenwood
—may we all sleep there when our work is
done, for when I get up in the resurrec
lion morning I want my congregation all
about me—in Greenwood there is the rest
ing-place of George W. Bethune, once a
minister of Brooklyn Heights, his name
never spoken among intelligent Americans
without suggesting two thiugs—eloquence
and evangelism. In the same tomb sleeps
his grandmother, Isabella Graham, who
was the chief inspiration of his ministry.
You are not surprised at the poetry and
pathos and pulpit power of the grandson
when you read of the faith and devoUon
of his wonderful ancestress. When you
read this letter, in which she poured
out her widowed soul in longings for
a sou’s salvation, you will not wonder
that succeeding generations have been
blessed:
“New York. May 20, 1791.
“This day my only son left me in bitter
wringings of heart; he is again launched
on the ocean. God’s ocean. The Lord
saved him from shipwreck, brought him to
my home, and allowed me once more to
indulge my affections for him. He has
with me but a short time, and ill
have I improved it; he is gone from my
sight and my heart bursts with tumultu
ous grief. Lord, have mercy on the widow’s
son, ‘the only son of his mother.’
“I ask nothing in all this world for him;
I repeat my petition, save his soul alive,
give him salvation from sin. It is not the
danger of the seas that distresses me; it
is not the hardships he must undergo; it is
nojt the dread of ever seeing him more in
this world; it is because I cananot discern*
the fulfillment of the promise in him. I
can not discern the new birth nor its
fruit, but every symptom of captivity to
Batan, the world and self-will. This, this
is what distresses me; and in connection
with this hs being siiut out out from
ordinances at a distance from Christians;
shut up with those who forget God, pro
fane His name and break Hie .Sabbaths;
men who often live and die like beasts, yet
are accountable creatures, who must an
swer for every moment of time and every
word, thou and action. O Lord, many
wondet» hast Th >u shown me; Thy ways
of dealing with me and mine have not
been eoa.ir.ou ones ; add this wonder to the
r*ib Wait* veaTerii ttfmriM* lit •»•
tnhlldi a sailor iu the failh. Bird, all
things are possible with Thee; glor
ify Thy Non and extend His king
dom by sea and land; take tiie prey from
the strong. I roll him over upon Thee.
Many friends try to comfort me: misera
ble comforters are they all. Thou art the
God of consolation; only confirm to me
Thy precious word on which Thou causedst
me to hope in tho day when Thou saidst
tome: ‘Leave thy fatherless children; 1
will preserve them alive.’ Only let tliis
life be a spiritual life, and I put a blank in
Thy hand as to all temporal things.
“I wait for Thy salvation. Amen.”
With such a grandmother, would you
not have a right to expect a George W.
Botkunc! and all the thousands converted
through his ministry may date tho saving
power back to Rubella Graham.
God liil the earth and Ihe Heavens with
such grandmothers; we must some (lav
go up and thank those deal old souls.
Surely God will lot us gj up and
tell them of Hie results of their
influence. Among our first questions
in Heaven will be, “Where is grand
mother!” They will point her out, for we
would hardly know her even if wo had
seen her on earth, so bent over with years
once, and there so straight; so dim of eye
through the blinding of earthly tears, and
now her eye as clear as Heaven; so full of
aches and pains once, and now so agile
with celestial health, the wrinkles bloom
ing into carnation roses, mid her step like
the roe on the mountains.
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CHILDREN'S TEETH.
Why They Should Mo Attended To at an
Kurly Age.
Tho importance of keep ng the teeth and
gun s in ihe best possible condition cun not
bo overrated. It is almost self-evident to
all members of the human family; even
the untutored savage tribes of Cen'ral
Africa, mere than the majority of civ
ilized natious of to-day, recognize the ne
cessity of thoroughly cleansing the teeth
after each meal with slivers of wood, by
means of which they extract the last parti
cle of retained food.
That the diseased condition of the teeth
and structures i djucent to them do exert
a most pernicious Influence upon the gen
eral health, is a fact as well establish’d as
any other in medical law. In fact, that
trouble In the train of which multitudes
of illnesses follow—l mean indigeition—in a
great number of cases is caused by poor
teeth, following carelessness and neglect
in their management. In nine cases out
of ten a puny, bloodless, sickly child, will,
on examination, reveal spoiled and sen
sitive teeth, which will not per ait him prop
erly* to masticate his food; so he over
burdens his stomach with a crude mass
hardly lit for an ostiieh. Parents uro in
clined to err in not attendin' to their
children’s teeth at an ear y age. A child
should be put under ch ;rge of a compe
tent dentist as early as at live years of age,
and, If necessary, the first teeth should be
promptly tilled; when they are thus taken
in time, many an hour of suffering and
anxiety may he saved loth to the parent
and child.
Each permanent tooth ought to be care
fully watched fnxjK its first appearance, and
upon any tnd catimi of dec.y it shou’d be
fi.iea before it becomes sensitive; tlrs rule,
of course, holds equally good in all cases,
and I should not be misunderstood as re
comending such a coursa of procedure to
very young children alone, hut also advise
it to children of a larger growth.
In most of srch coses, application to a
competent dentist will show that these
teeth can be filled without pain; tho day
of the “ tooth-stuffer,” who neither km»v
nor cared whether he was working over
living tissues or over a block of woo l, is
now happily past— Stand,ml.
AN EXTINCT TONGUE.
Not a Trac* Lett of tiie Guttural Old Cor
n sli Language.
The old Cornish language is now ext’nct;
It was spoken by a few old lisher-folk at
Newlyn and Mousehole probably for tho last
time during the closing years of the eight
eenth century, and the last sermon in Cor
nish is said to have been preached in Lande
wedneck toward the close of the seven
teenth. Traces, however, are still to be
found in the names of persons and places;
aud in a few rustic words and phrases,
which, unconth as they may sound to a
stranger’s ear, often have in their meaning
a wild beau'.y of their own. For instance,
Pollurrian meant, to a Cornish ear, "the
seabirds’ home;” Carrcg Luz, “the hoary
rock," nnd Crecg Morgan, “the stony hil
locks by the sea.” It was a Cynine rather
than a Gaelic dialect and was tolerably
weil understood by those who spoke
the tongue to which it was mojt
nearly allied—the Welsh and the Bretons.
Indeed, Bishop Gibson, in his additions to
Camden’s “ Cornwall ” (1677-1700), pointed
oul that one of tho disadvantages of sup
pressing the old language would be loss of
commerce and correspondence with the
Armoricans of Brittany. Seawen, a Cornish
writer and vice-warden of the Stannsries,
who, two hundred years ago, even then la
mented ita impending disappearance, con
tends that it was “not so guttural in the
Welsh, nor muttered like the Armoric," aud
we have the testimony of Prof. Mnx Muller
that it was “a melodious and by no means
an effeminate language.” Yet it must be ad
mitted tl at the coup de grace was admin
istered by the Cornish themselves; forSca
wen is compelled to admit tffiat “our people
in Queen Elizabeth's time desired that the
common liturgy should lie in the English
tongue, to which they were than for nov
elty’s sake affected, not of tr le judgment
desired it” The dialects spoken even in
the present day in some country districts
are quite unlike any of the other English
dialects, and arc as unintelligible to a
siranger as that of Lancashire.— yinettenl\
1 Vtatui y.
■ ;
Nature only tells of bird, pitiless, re
morseless law. The tire burns, though
there be a saintly martyr in the flame. The
tide surges in, though a Christian maiden
is bound to a stake in its course. Leap over
the precipice and you are dashed in pieces.
There is no mercy in the electric cloud, in
the ocean or the land. Everywhere yon see
wisdom and power in creation and provi
dence, but not mercy.— IV. M. Taylor.
Our passions are like convulsion fits,
which makt us stronger for the Mine, but
leave us weaker for ever after.— Swift.
Ix your potions* are strong, J/Vi,
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
First Session,
Washington. Feb. 22.—Senate—On motion
of Mr. Hoar, in consideration of the fact that
the day is a legal holiday, the morning business
was dispensed with so that the order of the
Senate of last Monday should be immediately
carried out. Fifty Senators were in their seats
and maintained throughout the session atti
tude:-of most respectful attention. The voice
of t-lm President ipro tem.) though low, was dis
tinctly heard to the extremities of the Chamber.
He read Com manuscript which lay on his desk,
standing with his hands clasp behind him,
except as they were released from lime to time
to turn the sheets of the address.
House.—Not in session.
Washington, Feb. 28.—Senate -Hills were
reported and others introduced. Hills were
passed to purchase a building for the slgnnl
oltlce in Washington; to provide for an inter
national marine conference for securing
greater safety for life nnd property at sea, and
to extend the laws of the United States over
"No Man s Land." The cable electric railroad
bill was passed, and the Senate, at 4:45 p. in.,
adjourned.
House.—ln the alisenceof the Speaker, Mr.
Cox, of New York, was unanimously elected
Speaker pro tem. A resolution was offered re
questing the President to furnish all corre
spondence relating to disputed boundary be
tween the British Colonies and Venezuela. Hills
will lie reported for the erection of public build
ings at Akron, Zanesville. Hamilton and
, Youngstown, 0., and seventeen other places.
Hills were passed for public buildings at Lowell,
Mass.; Birmingham, Ala.; Allentown and Lan
caster, Pa., and for the enlargement of the pub
lic building at Charleston, W. Va. Mr. Bland,
of Missouri, attempting to fllllbuster, at 5 p. m.
t he House adjourned.
Washington, Feb. 24. Senate.—Petitions
were presented and bills reported. A resolution
was adopted requesting tho President to inform
the Senate whether the French Government
has prohibited the importation of Ainciiran
products, and what correspondence took place
on the subject prior to the President’s message
rocommending the acceptance of tiie invitation
to t„e Paris Exposition of 1880. The Nicaragua
Canal incorporation bill was considered until 2
p. m. The Senate then took up the dependent
pension bill. Mr Mandersonadvocated its pas
sage. Mr. Turpie also supported the measure.
Alter a short executive session, the Senate, at
!!:55, adjourned until Monday.
Hot be. Executive communications were
presented and bills were passed. A petition
was presented for the passage of letter carrier
and postal clerk bills now pending. A bill was
reported to Increase the pension for deafness.
The private calendar was taken up. Tiie Me-
Duflie-Davidson contested election ease in Ala
bama was reported and notice given for its con
sideration on Monday week. March 15 was set
apart for business of the Private Land Claims
Committee. An adverse report was made on
the bills fur the admission of North and South
Dakota as separate States. At 5:10 p. m. the
House adjourned until to-morrow.
Washington Feb. *».— Senate Not in ses
sion.
House—Mr. Stewart iGa.) from the Com
jjnittee ou the Judiciary, reported the bill ren
wlerlng eligible to any position in the army any
person who has served in the military, naval
or civil service of the Confederate Slates.
House calendar. Also, adversely, for punishing
the passage of Confederate money ns genuine
S. obligations. Laid on the table. The
first bill called was one appropriating 175,0110
additional for the public building at Chatta
nooga. Tenn. Mr. Hlund iM».) spoke in opposi
tion to the measure in which the House
acted upon a measure for the erection of pub
lic buildings. It was a matter of ambition
for a member to show his constituents his'
influence and power by securing a building for
his district. A member who had a bill for such
a purpose pending could not antagonize a
similar bill championed by a brother member,
and thus one-half of the House was involved in
a system of log-rolling. The next bill was the
Senate bill appropriating $1,200,000 for a build
ing at Omaha. Neb., with a proposed substitute
appropriating $50),(0) for the purchase of a site,
but making no appropriation for the building.
Mr. Bland, by offering numerous amendments,
prevented a vote being taken, and the com
mittee having risen, the House, without taking
notions on the bills reported, adjourned:
Washington, Feb. 27.~Sf.nath.—A number of
petitions were presented and bills reported and
introduced. The Nicaragua Canal bill was
taken up and passed—Bß to 15. The dependent
pension bill was taken up. An amendment was
agreed to extending its provisi >ns “to those
who are without other adequate means of self
support." Several minor amendments were
proposed without action, and after a short
executive session the Senate at 5 :30 p. m. ad-
journed.
House —ln the House the adverse report- of
ihe Committee on Manufactures upon a resolu
tion directing the Secretary of thq Treasury to
institute an investigation into the New York
Sugar Trust was called up, and the resolution
was laid on the table. An adverse report was
made on the resolution directing the Commit
tee on Invalid Pensions to Inquire into the cir
cumstances attending the issue of the “one
hundred-day circular' 1 by the Commissioner of
Pensions. The resolution was laid on the table
—yeas Ilk. nays hit. Under the call of States
l>ills were introduced. District business was
taken up. A testimonial to the memory of
VV. W. Corcoran was spread upon the journal
and at 5:30 p. m. the House adjourned.
Washington, Feb. 28.—Senate —Petitions
nnd memorials were presented. Among bills
reported was one by Mr. Sherman providing
for the investment of the national bank re
demption fund. A bill was introduced bv Mr.
Sherman authorizing tho issue of circulating
notes to national batiks to the par value ot
bonds deposited therefor. Mr. Paddock ad
dressed the Senate on the subject of inefficient
postal service. A joint resolution was passed
to refer the claims of John B. Reed against the
United States for the use of projectiles for
rifled ordnance to 1 oa _ d of army officers. A
Senate bill was passed for it SlO >.OOI public
building at New Orleans. Several other bills
were pas-ed, among them the House bill for a
bridge across Rock creek to the Present's
country properly. Consideration of the de
pendent pension bill was resumed. After con
siderable discussion the Senate went into exec
utive session, and at 5 p. m. adjourned.
House—A number of bills were reported. A
resolution calling on the Public Printer to ex
plain the delay in printing the Pacific railroad
reports, ten thousand copies of which had
been-ordered by the House, was referred to the
Committee on Printing by a party vote. Th'
bill for the organization of Oklahoma Territory
was considered in the morning hour. In com
mittee of the whole the House agreed to bills
appropriating S4;x).(DO for a public building site
at Omaha, &5 000 fir a public building'at Bar
Harbor, 4800,0X1 for a site for an appraiser's of
fice in New York City. 4151.000 for a public build
‘.ng at Buy City, Midi , and $410,0(11 for peblii
hydld'ng at Milwaukee The House ratified the
committee's action, and passed similar bills for
f'Haltunooga and Uaflji*. At l it p, ax 'hi
Hcviss udjovrits,-
VOL V-NO.
DOUBLE LYNCHING.
Two Assassins Swung Off at Clin
ton, Ky.
Cairo, Iu„, Feb. 28. —At two o’clock tbi*
morning a mob of fifty men broke into the
Jail at, Clinton, Ky., nnd took therefrom
Bam Price, white, and Win. Remus, black,
ami swung them over the limb of r conrei**
itr,; sycamore tree. The bodies were | or
rail ted to hang until after daylight, when
ttby were cut dowit by tho author
ities ami buried. The mob
is • said to have been composed
of men residing in Hickman County, many
of them not even wearing masks of any
kind. Most of tho avengers, hotvdvcr,
wore handkerchiefs overt heir faco», but
as is usual with organizations of tiret
character were silent nnd acted under
a lealer who appeared io know his
business. About three months age
Ham Price was arrested near h's home
iu Clinton by Sheriff Henry Winter for
some violation of the law. Asking for
permission to enter his mother’s house
for a change of clothing, hesuddenly reap
peared at the door with a rifle and shot
the sheriff dead in his tracks. Ties deed
was applauded by tiie mother, who was
on the spot, and who undoubtedly wa»
largely instrumental iu causing the mor
der. After a long chase and a reward of
11,390 bad Leon offered the fugitive was
captured at Dresden, Tenn., and
brought to Kentucky a few weeks ago,
being kept in tiie Dresden jail s.;ma
time on account of lynching if he
were confined ai Clinton. Two broth»rs
in-law of Price and his mother, all more or
less implicated in the murder, were
in tlm jail, blit were unmolested.
Remus on Hat uni ay night was dctoctod I<*
stealing chickens from the yard of J. P.
Jackson, residing in the city limits of
Clinton, and when ordered off the
yard he drew a revolver and fired
two shots, both taking effect in the
breast of Jackson, causing his death m
few hours later. The excitement was in
tense when the passenger train passed
Clinton tliis morning. It is claimed that
•ome of the nmb was recognized, but it Is
not. probable any effort will be made to ar
rest the offenders. It was a clannish party
which organized for an expedition of that
character, and it is unlikely they will ever
expose one another.
Death of a Duelist.
Columbia, S. Feb. 28.—Colonel E. B.
C. Cash, tho famous duoilst, is dead. His
killing of Colonel Shannon iu a duet, eigiit
years ago, followod by a ten days’ defiance
of the State authorities in their attempts
to arrest him in his barricade! home,
caused a sensation which in:! to the passage
of au auti-iluoiing law There has boon ise
duel in this State since (hat time.
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To Brand Adultsrated LarJ.
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 28.— A bill was in
troduced in tho Assembly to-duy requiring
all vessels containing adulterated lard to
lie branded “Adulterated,” and providing;
Hint all lard except that of pure rendered
ling’s fat shall bedeomed adulterated. Th«
State beard of health shall enforce the
act.
The C., B. and Q.’s Orders.
Chicago, .Feb. 38.— The C., B. & Q bas
issiud an order giving the s'ri'cers until
noon to-morrow to return to work. Those
out then will be discharged. A number of
Reading men are going West to take the
place of tiie strikers, in retaliation for the
refusal of the Brotherhood to assist them
in their strike.
Drowned in a Bowl of Water.
Memphis, Tens., Feb. 23.— Alice Curd iff,
a married woman living at No. 148 Poplar
street, was found dead in her room early
this morning. While in a drunken condi
tion she had fallen to tho floor, and h r
face was lodged in a large basin of water,
and sho was drowned, being unable to ex
tricate herself.
Movsmenls of Russian Troops.
Bt. Petkrsbi rq, Feb. 28.—Denial is given
to the statement that Russian troops are
being withdrawn from the frontier. It is
stated that the recent movoinents are
solely duo to the unsan tury condition of
many of the places formerly occupied bj
the troops.
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Arrest ot a Ravishor and Murderer.
Chicago, Feb. 28. Z‘ph Davis, the
twcnty-year-old colored boy, who assault
ed and murdered Maggie Gaughun yes er
day at the stio> factory ot Greene Bros.,
was arrested this afternoon at Forest, lIL
He will be brought to this city io-nighL
Settled by Arbitration.
Pitt sih'hgh, Feb. 28. — The umpire in the
Pitlsburgh Tube-works arbitration has de
cided that there shall be no reduction is
wages. This decision : ffeets about six
thousand wrought iron pip 3 makers.
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New American Bishops.
Rome, Feb. 28.—The Very Rev Mr. Ryan
has been appointed Bishop of Alton, I'l.,
and the Very Rev. Mr. Janssen has been
appointed Bishop of th j new Diocese of
Belleville.
A “Green" Engineer.
Chicago, Feb. 28.— A -‘green" engineer
on the C„ B. &Q. cause 1 a wreck at East
Jlinton, which demolished a number of
ears and injured several persons.
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School Teacher Fined.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 28. —Mrs.
Moore,* a school teacher in this city-, tins
been sentenced to pity 1100 damage* for
whipping a ten-year-old pupil.
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Children Perish in Flames.
Fair Haves, Minn., Feb. 28.—Three
small children at this place, loeke 1 in the
house white their parents attended church,
were btirned to death.
I Honor ot Sheridan.
Ch ( ago, Feb. 28.— The new military post
at Higlnvood. neur Chicago, has been des
ignated Fori Biioridau, i* Vonar «•*
tSoutnonn* Gentrol.