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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. _» • *■ 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. —♦ ♦ ■ 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. * 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. - - ♦ ♦ ------ 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. ♦ 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. —♦ ♦- *■ 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.