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LOVE SONGS.
The Cradle Hymn Sung by Chris
tian Mothers Long Ago
Be-Echoed as a Lullaby to Soothe the
More Mature—Sermon liy Rev.
Dr. Talroage, I), I>,
Last Sunday Rev. T. De Witt Talmage,
D.D., took as the subject of his discourse:
“A Song Concerning My Beloved.” His
text was Isaiah v., 1: “Now will I sing to
my well beloved asongof my beloved.” Dr.
Talmnge said: The most fascinating
theme for a heart properly attuned is the
Saviour. There is something in the morn
ing light to suggest Him, and something
in the evening shadow to speak His praise.
The flSfcrer breathes Him, the star shines
Him, the cascade proclaims Him, all the
voices of nature chan* Him. Whatever is
grand, bright and beautiful, if you only
listen to it, will speak His praise. When I
come in the summer time and pluck a
flower I think of Him who Is “tho Rose of
Sharon and tho Lily of the Valley.” When
1 see in the fields a lamb, I say : ‘ Behold
the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin
of the world.” When, in very hot weather,
I come under a protecting cliff, I say:
“Rock of Ages, ilcft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee.”
Over the old-fashioned pulpits there was
a sounding-board. The voice of tho min
ister rose to the sounding board, and tbea
was struck back aga n upon the ears of
the people. And so the ten thousand
voices of earth rising up find the Heavens
a sounding-board, which strikes back to
tho ear of all the nations the praises of
Christ The Heavens tell his glory, and
the earth shows his handiwork. The
Bible thrills with one great story of re
demption. Upon a blasted and faded para
dise it poured tho light of a glorious res
toration. It looked upon Abraham from
the ram caught in the thicket.. It spoke
in the bleating of the herds driven down
to Jerusalem for sacriiice. It put infinite
puthos into the speech of uncouth fisher
men. It lifted Paul int> the seventh heav
en ; and it broke upon tho car of St. John
with the brazen trumpets and thedoxology
of the elders and the rushing wings of tho
seraphim.
Instead of waiting until you get s'ck
and worn out before you speak the
praise of Christ, while your heart is hap
piest, and your step is lightest, and your
fortunes smile, and your pathway blos
soms, and the overarching Heavens drop
upon you their beuodiction, speak the
praises of Josus.
The old Greek orators, when they saw
their audiences inattentive and slumber
ing, had ono word with which they would
rouse them up to the greatest enthusiasm.
In the midst of thoir orations they would
stop and cry out “Marathon 1” and tho peo
ple’s enthusiasm would bo unbounded.
My hearers, though you may have been
borne down with sin, and though troubles
and temptation may have come upon you,
and you l'ecl hardly like looking up, me
thinks (here is one grand, royal, imperial
word that ought to rouse your soul to in
finite rejoicing, and that word is “Jesus!”
Taking the suggestion of thi text, I shall
speak to you of Christ, our song. I re
mark, in the first place, that Chr.st ought
to be the cradle song. AY’hat our mothers
sang to ns when they put us to sleep is
singing yet. Wa may have forgotten the
words, but they went into the fiber of our
soul, and will forever be a part of it. It
is not so much what you formally teach
your children as what you sing to them.
A hymn has wings and can fly every
whither. Ono huudred and fifty years
after you are dead, and “Old Mortality”
has worn out his chisel in recutting your
name on the tombstone, your great-grand
children will % be singing the song which
this afternoon you sing to tho little ones
gatherod about your knee. There is a
place in Switzerland where, if you dis
tinctly utter your voice there come back
ten or fifteen distinct echoes, and every
Christian song suug by tho mother in the
ear of her child shall have ten thousand
echoes coming hack from all the gates of
Heaven. Oh, if mothers only know the
power of this sacred spell how much
oTtener the little ones would bo gathered,
and all our homes would chime with the
Bongs of Jesus!
We want some counteracting influence
Upon our children. The very moment your
child steps into the street he steps into
temptation. There are foul-mouthed chil
dren who would like to besoil your little
ones. It will not do to keep your boys and
girls in the house and make them house
plants; they must have fresh air aud rec
reation. God save your children from the
scathing, blasting, damning influence of
the streets! I know of no counteracting
influence but the power of Christian cul
ture and example. Hold before your little
ones the pure !i?o of Jesus; let that name
be the word that shall exercise ovil
from thoir hearts. Give to your instruc
tion all tho fascination of music, morning,
noon and night; let it he Jesus, the
cradle-song. This is important if your
children grow up, but perhaps they may
not. Their pathway may be short. Jesus
may bo wanting that child. Then there
will be a soundless step in the dwelling,
and tho youthful pulse will begin to flut
ter, aud little hands will be lifted for help.
You can not help. And a great agony will
prnch at your heart, and tho cradle will be
empty, and the nursery will bo empty,
and the world will he empty, and your
soul will be empty. Nu little feet standing
on the stairs. No toys scattered on the
carpet. No quick following from room to
room. No strange and wondering ques
tions. No upturned face, with laughing
blue eyes, come for a kiss; hut only a grave,
and a wreath of white blossoms on the top
of It; an l bitter desolation, and a sighing
at night-fall, with no one to put to
bed, and a wet pillow and a grata fcnd a
wr -ath of white blossoms ou^.tie v “thh of it.
The Heaveuly Shepherd \\*til take that
lamb safely anyhow, whether ydu have
been faithful or unfaithful; but would it
cot have Imn pleasanterif you could have
heard from those lips the praise* of Christ ?
J itdver read buj? Ui«ug otoro beautiful
than this about a child’s depart'ire. The
account said: “She folded her hands,
kissed her mother good-bye, sang her
hymn, turnod her face to the wall, said
her little prayer, and then died.”
Oh, if I could gather up in one paragraph
the last words of the little ones who have
gone out from all these Christian circles,
and I could picture the Calm looks and the
folded hands and sweet departure, me
tkiaks it would be grand and boautifiul as
one of Heaven's great doxologios.
I next speak of Christ as tho old man’s
song. Quick music loses its charm for the
aged ear. The school girl asks for a schot
t'sche or a gleo, hut her grandmother asks
for “Balerma” ortho “Portuguese Hymn.”
Fifty years of trouble have tamed the spir
it, and tho keys of the music board must
have a silent tread. Though the voice
may be tremulous, so that grandfather
will not trust it in church, still he has the
Psalm-book open before him, and he sings
with his soul. Ho hums his grandchild
asleep with tho same tune he sang forty
years ago in the old country meeting
house. Some day the choir sings a tune
so old that the young people do not know
it; but it starts the tears down the cheek
of the aged man, for it reminds him of the
revival scene in which he participated,
of the radiant faces long since went to
dust, and the gray-haired minister lean
ing over the pulpit and sounding the tidings
of great joy.
I was ono Thanksgiving Day in my pul
pit in Syracuse, N. Y., and Rev. Daniel
Waldo, at ninety-eight years of age, stood
beside me. Tho choir sang a tune. I said:
“I am sorry they sang that new tune; no
body seems to know it.” “Blosi you, my
son,” said the old man, “I heard that sev
enty years ago!”
Tnero was a song to-day that touched
the life of the aged with holy fire and kin
dled a glory on their vision that our
younger eyesight, can not see. It was the
song of snlvat on—Jesus, who fed them all
their lives long; Jesus, who wiped away
their tears; Jesus, who stood by them when
all else failed; Jesus, in whose namo their
marriage was consecrated, and whose res
urrection ha 3 poured light upon the
graves of their departed. Blessed the
Bible in which spectacled old age reads
the promise: “I will never leave you,
never forsake you!” Blessed the staff on
which the worn-out pilgrim totter 3 on to
ward the welcome of his R*deeinor!
Blessed the hymn books in which the fal
tering tongue and failing eyes find Jesus,
the old man's soag.
I speak to you again of Jesus as the
night-song. Job speaks of him who givoth
songs in the night. John Welch, the old
Scotch minister, used to put a plaid across
his bed oil cold nights, and some one
asked him why ho put that there. He
said: “Oh, sometimes in the night I want
to sing tho praise of Jesus and to get
down and pray; then I just take that plaid
aud wrap it around me to keep myself
from the cold.” Songs in the night? Night
of troublo has come down upon many of
you. Commercial losses put out one star,
slanderous abuse put out another star,
domestic bereavement has put out a thou
sand lights, and gloom has been added to
gloom, and chill to chill, and sting to sting,
and one midnight has seemed to borrow
the fold from another midnight to wrap
itself in more unbearable darkness; but
Christ has spoken peace to your heart and
you can sing:
“ Jesus lover of my soul,
Let me to Thy bosom fly,
While the billows near me roll.
While the tempest st'll ishigh.
Hide me, oh. my Saviour! hide
Till the storm ot iife is past.
Safe into the haven guide;
Oh, receive my soul at last.”
Songs in the night! Songs in tho night!
For the sick, who have no one to turn the
hot pillow, no ono to put the taper ot the
stand, no one to put ice on the temple, or
pour out tho soothing anodyne, or utter
ono cheorful word—yet songs in the night!
For tho poor, who freeze in the winter’s
cold, and swelter in the summer’s heat,
and munch tho -hard crusts that bleed tho
sore gums, and shiver under blankets that
can not any longer be patched, and trem
ble because rent-day is come and they may
be set out on the sidewalk, and looking in
to the starved face of the child and seeing
famine there and death there, coming home
from the bakery, and saying, in the pres
ence of the little ramished one: ‘Oh, my
God, flour has gone up!” Yet songs in
the night! Songs in the night! For the
widow who goes to get the back pay of hor
husband, slain by the “sharp-shooters,”
and knows it is the last help she will have,
moving out of a comfortable homo in deso
lation, death turning back from the ex
hausting cough, aud the pale cheek, and
the lusterless eye, and refusing all relief.
Yet songs in the night! Kong in tho night!
For the soldier in the field hospital, no
surgeon to bind up the gun-shot fracture,
no water for tho hot lips, no kind hand to
brush away the flies from the fresh wound,
no one to take the loving farewell, tho
groaning of the others poured into liis own
groan, the blasphemy of others plowiug
up his own spirit, the condensed bitter,
ness of dying away from home
among strangers. Yet songs in the night!
Songs in the night! “Ah !” said ope dying
soldier. “Tell my mother that last night
there was not one cloud between mv soul
and Jesus.” Songs in the night? Songs
in the night! The Sabbath day has come.
From the altars of ten thousand churches
has smoked up the savor of sacrifice. Min
isters of the Gospel are now preaching in
plain English, in broad Scotch, in flowing
Italian, in harsh Choctaw. God’s people
have assembled in Hindoo Temple, and
Moravian church, and Quaker meeting
house, and sailom’ bethel, and King’s
chapel, and high-towered cathedral. They
sang, aud Lie song floated off
amid the spice groves, or struck
the ice-bergs, or floated off into the
Western pines, or was drowned in the
clamor of the great cities. Lumbermen
sang it, and factory girls, and the children
in the Sabbath-class, and the trained
choirs in great, assemblages. Trappers,
with the same voice with which they
shouted yesterday in the stag-hunt, and
mariners, with throats that only a few
days ago sounded in the hoarse blast
of the noa hurricane, they sang it.
OIM thume (or the serwous, Uao burden
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY. MARCH !». 1888.
for the song. Josus for tho invocation.
Jesus for tho Scripture Icsboii. Jesus for
the baptismal font. Jesus for the sacra
mental cup. Jesus for the benediction.
But the day will go by. It will roll away
on swift wheels of light un l lovo. Agnin
the churches will be lighted. Tides of
people again setting down the streets.
Whole families coming up the church
aisle. WO must have ono more sermon,
two prayers, threo songs and or.e benedic
tion. What shall we preach to-night!
What shall we read? What shall it be,
children? Aged men and women, what
shall it be! Young men and maidens,
what shall it be! If you dared to break
the silence of this auditory there would
come up thousands of quick aud jubi
lant, voices, crying out: “Let it be Jesus!
Jesus!”
We sing His birth—the barn that shel
tered Him, tho mother that nursed Him,
the cattle that fed beside Him, the augels
that woke up the shepherds, shaking light
over the midnight bills. We sing His min
istry—the tears He vv;ped away from the
eyes of the orphans; tho lame men that
forgot their crutches; the damsel who
from the bier hounded out into the sun
light, her locks shaking down over her
flushed check; the hungry thousand who
broke the bread as it blossomed into larger
loaves—that miracle by which a boy
with five loaves and two fishes be
came the sutler for a whole army.
We sing His sorrows—His stone-bruised
feet, His aching heart, His mountain
loneliness, His desert hanger, His storm
pelted body, the eternity of anguish t,h%t
shot through His last moments, aud the im
measurable ocean of torment that heaved
up against His cross in one foaming wrath
ful, omnipotent surge, the sun dashed out,
and the dead, shroud-wrapped, breaking
open their sepulchers, and rushing out to
see what was the matter. We sing His
resurection—the guard that could not
keep Him; the sorrow of His disciples;
tho clouds piling up ou either side in pil
lared splendors as He went through,
treading the pathless air, higher aud high
er, until He came to the foot of the throne,
aDd all Heaven kept jubilee at the return
of the Conqueror.
I say once more, Christ is the everlasting
song. The very best singers sometimes
get tired; the strongest throats sometimes
get weary, and many who sang very
sweetly do not sing now; but I hope by the
grace of God we will, after a while, go up
and sing the praises of Christ where we
will never be weary. You know there are
soino songs that, are especially appropriate
to the homo circle. They stir the soul,
they start the tears, they turn the heart in
on itself and keep sounding after the tune
has stopped like some cathedral bell, which,
long after the tap of the brazen tongue has
ceased, keeps throbbing on tho air. Well,
it will be a home song in Heaven; ail the
sweeter because those who sang with us in
the domestic circle ob earth shall join the
great harmony.
Jerusalem, my happy home,
Name ever dear to me;
- When shall my labors have an end
In joy and peace in thee?
On earth we sang harvest songs as the
wheat came into the barn, and the bar
racks were filled. You know there is no
such time on a farm as when they get the
crops in; and so in Heaven, it will be a
harvest song on the part of those who on
earth sowed in tears and reaped in joy.
Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates,
and let the sheaves come in! Angels shout
ail through the Heavens, aud multitudes
come down the hills crying: “Harvest
home! liar\« it homo !”
There is nothing more bewitching to
one’s ear than the song of sailors far out
at sea, whether in day or night, as they
pull away at the ropes—the music is weird
and thrilling. Ko the song in Heaven will
bo a sailor’s song. They were voyagers
once, and thought they could never get to
shore, aud before they could get things
snug and trim tho cyclone struck them.
But now they are safe. Once they went
with damaged rigging, guns of distress
booming through the storm; hut the pilot
came aboard, and he brought them into the
harbor. Now they sing of tho breakers
past, the light-houses that showed them
where to sail, the pilot that took them
through the straits, the eternal shore on
which they landed.
Aye, it will be the children’s song. You
know very well that the vast majority of
our race die in infancy, and it is estimated
that 18,000,000,000 of thi little ones are
standing bofore God. When they shall
rise up about the throne to sing the mill
ions aud the millions of the little ones—
ah! that will be music for you! These
played in the streets of Babylon and
Thebes; these plucked lilies from the foot
of Olivet while Christ was preaching about
them; these waded in Kiloam; these were
victims of Herod’s massacre; these were
thrown to crocodiles or into the fire; these
came up from Christian homes, and these
were foundlings on thocity commons:—chil
dren every where, in all that land; chil
dren in the towers, children on the seas of
glass, children on the battlements. Ah, if
you do not like children, do not go there.
They are in vast majority, and what a song
when they lift it around about the throne!
The Christian singers and composers of
all ages will he there to join in that song.
Thomas Hastings will bo there. Lowell
Mason will he there. Bradbury will be
there. Beethoven and Mozart will be
there. They who sounded the cymbals and
the trumpets in the ancient temples will be
there. The forty thousand harpers that
stood at the ancient dedication will he
there. The two hundred singers that as
sisted on that day will he there. Patri
archs who lived amid threshing-fl )ors,
shepherds who watched amid Chaldean
hills, prophets who walked with long
beards and coarse apparel, pronouncing
woe against ancient abominations, will
meet the more recent martyrs who went
up with leaping cohorts of fire; and some
will speak of the Jesus of whom they
prophesied, ami others of the Jesus for
whom they died. Oh, what a song! It
came to John upon Patinos; it came to
Calvin in the prison; it dropped to John
Kuox in ttie lire, and sometimes that song
has come to your ears, perhaps, fori really
do think it aometimes brooks over the bat
tlements of Heaven.
A UD'ißtma woman, the wife of a miuis-
ter #f the Gospel was dying sn’, the paraon
age pear the old church, where on Satur
day flight the choir used to assemble and re
hearse for the following Kabbath, and she
snidj fHow strangely sweot the choir ro
heafiir. to-night; they have been rehears
ing thf re for an hour. “No,” said some
one around her, “the choir is not rehears
ing to-niglit.” “Yes,” she said, “I
know they are, I hear them sing; how very
sweetly they sing!” Now, it was not a
choir of earth that she heard, hut the
choir of Heaven. I think that Jes is some
time* sets ajar tho door of Heaven, and a
passage of that rapture, creels our ears.
Th ■ miustrels of Heaven strike such a tre
mendous strain, the wails of jasper can
not hold it.
I wonder will you sing that song! Will I
sing it? Not unless our sins are pardoned,
and we learn now to sing the praise of
Christ, will wc ever sing it there. The
flrstgrcat concert that I ever attended
was New York when Julicn, in the
Crystal Palace, stood before hundreds of
singers and hundreds of players upon in
struments. Some ot you may remember
that occasion; it was the first one of the
kind at which I was present, and I
shall neverforget.it. I saw that ono man
standing, and with the hand and foot
wield that great harmony, beating the
time. It was to me o verwhelming. But,
oh! the grander scene when thov shall
come from the East, and from the West,
and from the North, and from the South,
“a gioat multitude that no man can num
ber,”-into the temple of the skies, host
beyond host, rank beyond rank, gallery
above gallery, and Jesus shall stand be
fore the great host to conduct the har
mony with his wounded hands and his
woiindod foot! Like the voice of many
waters, like the voice of mighty thr.nder
ings, they shall cry : “Worthy is the Lamb
that was slain to receive blessings, and
riches, and honor, and glory, and power,
world without end. Amen and amen!”
Oh, if my ear shall hear no other sweet
sounds, may I hear that! If 1 join no
other glad assemblage, may I join that.
i was reading of the battle of Agincourt,
in which Henry V. figured; and it is *aid
after tho ba’tle was won, gloriously won,
the King wanted to acknowlege the divine
. interposition, and he ordered the Chaplain
to road the Psalm of David; and
when he came to the words, “Not unto
us, O! Lord, but unto Thy name he the
praise,” the King dismounted and all the
cavalry disinouutel, and all the great
host, officers and men, threw themselves
on their faces. Oh, at the story of tho Sa
viour's Jove and the Saviour’s deliverance,
shall w“ not prostrate oursetvos before
Him novev- hosts of earth and host* of
Heaven, falling upon our faces and crying;
“Not unto us, not unto us, but unto Thy
name be the glory !”
THE COZY HOME.
A Raven That Gathers to Itself Countless
Fragrant Memories.
There are all sorta of adjectives which
may be called upon to describe the home;
it may be grand, stately, hospitable, beauti
ful, merry, crowded, ai'\le or elegant, but
its crowning grace is round In the little
word cozy. If the whole house can not be
cozy, there may be some spot Within it, the
mother’s room, for instance, or a little
nook curtained away from the library,
which bears that character. There, those
who come In from the world, weary and
forlorn, sit down to be cheerel; the baby
cuddles close to the mother with head
against her knee; tho big boy forgets that
he has his maubood to assert in the face of
all creat’on. The grl grows confidential
and tells her little open secrets which the
dear mother has already divined, yet is
glad to hear from the daughter's lips. The
lovers draw nearer in the twilight, as in
sweet hushed, tones they repeat the story
which is new as Eden in every experience,
and hand in hand Lusband and wife have
moments of qu’et blessedness.
Sumptuous and splendid, the home may
lack the quality of cozlness, and, bare to
forlornnc6B. It may possess It, For coziness
does not depend on carpets from E stern
looms or rugs from the land of the Moslem,
on easy chairs or pillowy lounges, on flow
ers in the windows or fruit on the table; it
is apart from these things; It belongs to the *
people who dwell In the home and who
giv. s it its tone and atmosphere.
In the cozy home there is liberty for the
Individual, while the general management is
arranged according to law. A cozy bom e must
have somebody at Its head, somebody with
a head, who is responsible for the comfort
and well-l>eing of the family, and who secs
that meals are well-served und generous,
that the work goes on in an orderly way,
and who prevents, needless friction by her
own common sense and w'se forethought
But in the cozy home there is elasticity, and
the nervous invalid or wearied traveler is
not compelled to rise at an hour which
taxes his strength, simply because it is or
dained that an early breakfast is desirable.
For many people an early breakfast if.
a doubtful good, and in the cozy home there
will he provision for those who prefer their
toast and tea late, ns well as for those who
must go early to business or school.
The cozy home gathers to itself a thou
sand fragrant memories, around its hearth
a thousand dear associations cluster. As
years go on, we forget many things, aud
names once familiar are seldom on our
ljna, but the cozy homes abide in our heart*,
and we wish for our children that which
our parents gave to us.— Christian Intel i
genter.
"■ • ♦
Authority in the Home.
Whether or not it is good to use the rod
as an :*s:s'ant in family government Is «n
open question, and each man is lett to an
swer i; for himself. The minister used
to say when administering baptism: “ Re
member to u-e the rod, not as nn instru
ment of wrath, but as an ordinance of God, 1 *
and to this the parents responded as a part
of th* ceremony that, with the rest of it
they sincerely believed in. But if not th?
rod, there must be i*s equivalent —some
thing to enfore authority and teach chil
dren the self-denial that is so necessary a
part of their training. Many a home is kept
in's rable by an exacting “ invalid,’’ who
is nothing more than a victim of over-iu
dulgence during the period of childhood.
There are wives who hang as burdens about
tho lives of their husbands, vrfeo might har*
be*,!t useful women If only they bad be**
taught in youth the beauty and blogslagt
«{ utuffiihsimen*. L'nittJ rrosbytm**, *
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
First Session.
Washington, Feb. i".— Senate —Petitions
were presented against any reduction of the
tarifT from iron, steel and wool industries. Mr.
Sherman reported Ihe bill to amend the acts
relating to Chinese immigration. A bill was
passed to establish a Commission of Art, to
consist of fourteen persons, to select plans for
public buildings, monuments, etc. A hill for
the compulsory education of Indian children
was passed. The dependent pension debate
was resumed. Messrs. Plumb, Vest, Teller and
Wilson made speeches, and at 5 :30 p. m. the
Senate adjourned after a short executive ses
sion. >*
House.—Mr. Holman reported a bih to se
cure to actual setlers the lands adapted to agri
culture, and to protect the forests on the pub
lic domain. The House then went into com
mittee of the whole to consider the bill author
izing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase
bonds with the surplus revenue. After an in
teresting debate tho bill was passed. A bill
was passed relating to postal crimes. Eulogies
on the late Seth C. Moflatt, of Michigan, were
delivered, and at 5 r.O p. m. the House adjourned.
Washington, Maroh I.—Senate.—Credentials
of Mr. Wilson, of lowa, and Mr. Walthall, of Mis
sissippi, for the term beginning March 4,18 W),
were presented and filed. Among the bills intro
duced was one to revive the grade of General of
the Army. The anti-Chinese resolution was
taken up and considered, Mr. Morgan and Mr.
Sherman favoring its passage. Mr. Call criti
cised it. The resolution was adopted. A reso
lution was adopted directing the Secretary of
the Treasury to communicate all reports of spe
cial agents and other officials in regard to sugar
frauds in New York within the past two years.
The dependent pension bill was taken up. Mr.
Heck speaking. Without reaching any conclu
sion ;he Senate at 5 p. m. adjourned until Mon
day.
House.—Bills were reported for the redemp
tion of worn and mutilated fractional coins and
to prohibit the coinage of $8 gold pieces. Also
a resolution calling on the President for in
formation as to what steps have been taken in
the direction of treaty stipulations to prevent
the continued immigration of Chinese laborers.
The joint resolution accepting the invitation
of the French Republic for the United
States to take part in the Internation
al Exhibition of 1889, and another
joint resolution authorizing the President to
arrange a Conference to be held in Washing
ton in 1 SSI) for promoting arbitration and en
couraging reciprocal commercial relations be
tween the United States and South American
Republics were agreed to. The former was
amended to authorize the distribution at the
Exposition of a stutoment descriptive of Amer
can methods of raising and preparing pork for
export.
Washington, March 8.-Senate.—No ses-.,
► iOn. s
House.—A letter was presented from the Sec
retary of the Treasury showing the probable
loss by destruction of U. S. bonds. Mr. Mc-
Kinley had printed in the Recor'l a protest by
glass-blowers against a reduction of duty on
import, window glass as proposed by the Mills
tariff lull. A resolution was reported for Fri
day night sessions on private pension bills. A
bill was reported for the creation of the office
of an Assistant Superintendent of the Rail
way Service and fifty-four chief
clcrkiP The private calendar was taken up.
To the omnibus bill providing for the payment
of thirty odd claims for supplies used during
the war. reported by the Court of Claims under
the Bowman act, Mr. Lee, of Virginia, offered
an ami ndmont appropriating J20.U00 for the re
lief of the P. E. Theological Seminary and High
School, of Virginia. After a fight the amend
ment was adopted—lo 2to 61. At 5 p. m. the
House took a recess until 7:30 p. m., the even
ing session being for the consideration of pen
sion bills.
J
Washington, March 3.—Senate—Not in ses
sion.
House—H. C. Seymour, the new member
from Michigan, successor to the late S. C. Mof
fet. was sworn in. A resolution was adopted
appropriating 15 00) for the Committee on Com
merce to expend in investigating t rusts. A bill
was passed appropriating 875,000 for the con
struction of a revenue cutter for use at Charles
ton. S. C. A hill was reported to increase the
efficiency of the line of the army. Also, a bill
authorizing the issue of fractional silver certifi
cates. Also, a hill proposing constitutional
amendments to change the time for the com
mencement of Iho Presidential term and the
meeting of Congress. The Pacific railroad tele
graph bill lving the special order, It was de
bated and finally passed—year 197, nays 4. At
4:45 p. m. the House adjourned.
Washington,March s.—Senate —Memorials
and i etitions were presented. Mr. Heck’s cre
dentials for tjie Senatorial term commenced
March 1. 1889,'were presented. A bill was re
ported to regulate % graph tells. The depend
ent pension bill was laid aside and the urgent
deficiency was taken up and considered until
6:£5 p. m. when the Senate adjourned
House.— Orders were entered fixing days lor
the consideration of business from the Com
mittees on Commerce and Judiciary. Under
the call of States bills were introduced. Reso
lutions were introduced and referred to inves
tigate the C., B. &Q strike, inquiring into the
alleged unofficial matter by the War Records
Office. Mr Bntterworth introduced a resolution
appropriating 8227,0 X) for a Government exhibit
at the Cincinnati Exposition. The contested
election caso of McDuffie vs. Davidson, of Ala
bama, was considered until 5:25 p. m., ’then the
House adjourned.
Washington. March 6.—Senate—An ad
verse report was made on the hill for the re
tirement of U. S. legal-tender notes of small
denominations,and the issue of coin certificates
In lieu of gold and silver certificates. The
House bill to authorize the purchase of bpnds
by the Secretary of the Treasury was reported
favorably. Several proposed amendments to
the rules were considered. The House bill to
enable the Secretary of the Interior to allow
the use of hot water to parties outside of the
Government reservation at Hot Springs, Ark.,
was considered. At 2p. m. the dependent pen
sion bill was taken up as unfinished business
pending which Mr. Sherman replied to Mr.
Beck's allegations concerning his part in the
demonetization of silver. Mr. Ingalls thf n look
the floor and spoke on the pension bill; Mr.
Blackburn followed. It was agreed to continue
the discussion to-morrow.
House —Mr. Mason was appointed on the
Committee of Claims; Mr. Thomas introduced
a bill prohibiting the use of the likenesses of
’adies for advertisioar purposes without their
consent in the Alabama contested
election case , ; Tl&|MUiie vs. Davidson, was
taken up aid d« b*gal£tintil sp. m.. when me
minority resolution. mnupttag McDuffie elm twl.
was rejected—ydas iKB nays 144—ai d the ma
jority resolution declaring the sitting member
entitled to Ms sc at, was r A pteu without divis
ion. The Hen>.e then aijounsed.
VOL. V.- NO. 2.
RARE MEDICAL CASE.
A N< wurk I'hysiriau ( srr h ft Bullet in
Ills Brain Nine Year .
New Yokk, March 6.—Dr. Trevcniun
Haight, a well-known Newark physician,
died at the Essex Couuty Insane Asylum
in that city on Saturday. Dr. Haight’s case
had been carefully watched by his profes
sional brethren for a number of years, and
it # is doubtful if there is another like
it on record. Nine years ago Dr. Haight,
in a fit of mental aberration, shot himself
in the right temple with a pistol carrying
aB2 caliber hall. Tho bail passed through
tho head into the other side, where it
lodged \vithin an inch of the surface. Tho
•late Dr. O. Gorman, ussistod by Dr. P. V.
Hewlett, succeeded in removing portion*
of the ball, and Dr. Haight apparently en
joyed fair health for some time afterward.
He entered the employ of a life insurance
company of this city as examining physi
cian and also pursued the practice of his
profession in private circles. About fizo
years ago he showed signs of mental im
pairment and was compelled to give up
work. He entered tho asylum at Newark,
where he remained until his death. Dr.
Young and Dr. Hewlett made a medical
examination, which showed that the ball
passed through the temporal region and
penetrated tho frontal lobe. The remains
of the hall were found encysted and
weighed twenty grains. He had also suf
fered from a hardening of the motor tract
of the spinal cord. The medical gentle
men regard the case as orte of groat rar
ity, as a,similar wound would not fail to
prove fatal in one case out of a hundred.
A Fright'ul Storm.
New Orleans, March 6.—A special from
Opelousas says a storm passed over the
southwestern part of this parish on .Sun
day afternoon. The dwellings of Chap
man Guidoy, Mr. Frevo.st, Valentine La
vergins, Mr. Marcote and Louis Bour
geois were blown to pieces. Chap
max Guidey and his son each had an
arm broken. The youngest child of Val
entine Lavergius was killed. Three broth
ers, who were keeping a store, lost thoir
house and their goods were scattered for
miles. All the members of the family of
Louis Bourgeois were injured. About a
dozen dwellings and as many more ou*-
buildings were demolishe I, and in every
case the inmates wore injure! and. the
household effects destroyed. The path of
the storm was three hundred yards wide.
Wants to be a King.
Pa his, March 6- —A telegram from Bt.
Petersburg says that Ffluco Ferdinand, of
JEvutguriii, is preparing.* mutufeatb, in re
ply to Aim t*A pertwr uuitnatnin oTtne mvr
ers regarding the Bulgarian question, iti
which he wilt proclaim Bulgaria a king
dom and call upon the people to crmvu
him King.
London, March 6.—A Constantinople
dispatch says : In accordance with the de
mands of Russia the Porto has notified
Prince Ferdinand that his position in Bul
garia is illegal.
Died at*the Age of 117.
Portland, Me., March 6.— Mary Lud.
kins, a tall, gaunt colored woman one
hundred and seventeen years of age, died
here to-night. She always said sho could
remember distinctly tho visit to this coun
try of the Prince who was subsequently
William IV. of England, and sboclniimd
to have done his laundry work for him
when he was in Quebec. Kite was a won
-I‘rfully well preserved woman and very
active.
Boy Killed.
Beli.evuk, 0., March 6.—George Toor
ney, sixteen years old, who ran a nut ma
chine .it the cultivator works, got caugiit
in the belting, and was hurled around the
shafting, breaking both logs and teariu?
his right arm out of the socket. Ho lived
but a few moments.
Child Burned to Death.
Wellsville, 0., March 6. —An cight
year-old daughter of J. O. Aliison was
burned to death at Georgetown, Pa..above
here, lest night, by her clothing taking
fire at a grate. Another child of Allison’s
was burned Letli in the same manner
eighteen nion'tffc ago.
Followed Her Father.
Boston, Mass., March fi.—Miss Louisa M.
AleHlt, the author, died this morning. KII9
had been ill for several weeks and never
rallied from the shock cf her father’s
death Sunday morning. She was fifty-six
years of age.
A Big Winter’s Work.
Boston, March (i.—The report of logging
in New Hampshire shows tho biggest
winter’s work ever known in tho lumber
:egions. Over three hundred million feat
of spruce timber was handled.
A Handsome Present.
New York, March 6.—Robert Bonner
has made another handsome present to his
sons jointly. He has given them a square
of land on Fifth avenue valued at a mill
ion and a quarter of dollars.
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Desperate Bank Robber.
Bradford, Pa., March 6.—George Kim
ball, a desperate bank robber, shot tho
cashier, grabbed the mouey, made his
escape, shot the leader in the pursuit and
committed suicide.
Mail Robber Arrested.
Dennison, Tex., Mare> 6.— T B. Snyder
was arrested here, charged with opening
theU. S. mail 3. In his possession was
found drafts ou New York banks amount
ing to f 146,575.
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Killed by a Boy.
Mortimer, K in., March 6.—John Geary,
a farmer restd.ug uear here, was shot and
killed by a boy named Pariter in solf
defense. The trouble arose over an elope
ment.
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Wife and Two Children Perish.
Cat LG a, Ont., March 6.— The house
Jehu Daley, of this p ace, was burned, and
his wife fttid two children perished ia the
flames-