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JOHN K. HANCOCK, Publisher.
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
The Ago of Swindle Exemplified
From Pa»t to Present.
Xr»«ts, Syndicates and Ilank .Directors
Need Watching Hadly, Because They
are Departing in Alany Instances
i ron, the True Course.
As, last Sabbath, Rev. T. DeWitt Tal
niage, 1). I>., the pastor, bad baptized by
sprinkling, he this morning baptized by
immersion those who preferred this mode,
a baptistry having been built under the
pulpit. The subject of his sermon was:
“The Age of Swindle,” and the text, Job
viii.j 14: “Whose trust shall be a spider’s
web.” Dr. Talmage said:
The two most skillful architects in all
the world are the bes and the spider. The
one puis up a sugar manufactory and the
other builds a slaughter-house for flies.
On a bright summer morning when the
sun comes out and shines upon the spi
der's web, bedecked with dew, the gossa
mer structure seems bright enough for a
supension bridge for supernatural beings
to cross on. But, alas! for the poor fly
v hich, in the latter part of that very day,
ventures on it and is caught and dun
geoned and destroyed. The fly was in
formed that it was a free bridgoand would
costuothing, but at the othor end of the
bridge the toll paid was its own life. The
next day there comes down a strong wind
and away goes the web and the marauding
spider and tho victimized fly. t>o delicate
are the silken threads of the spider’s web
that many thousands of them are put to
gether oefore they bccoma visible to the
human eye, and it takes four millions of
them to make a thread as large as the hu
man hair. Most cruel, as well as most iu
genious, is the spider. A prisoner in, the
Bastile, France, had one so trained that at
the sound of a violin it every day came for
its meal of flies. Job, the author of.my
text, and the leading scientist of his day,
had no doubt watched the voracious pro
cess of this one insect with another, and
saw spider and fly swept down with tho
same broom, or scattered by the same
wind. Alas that tho world has so many
designing spiders and victimized flies.
There has not been a time when the utter
aud black irresponsibility of many men
having the financial interests of others in
charge has been more evident than in those
last few years. The unroofing of banks,
and disappearance of administrators with
the funds of large estates, and the disor
der amid post-office aceouuts and deficits
amid Uuited States officials, have made a
pestilence of crimo that solemnizes every
thoughtful man and woman, and leads
every philanthropist and Christian to ask:
What shall be done to stay the plaguei
Thoro is a monsoon abroad, a typhoon, a
sirocco. 1 sometimes ask myself if it
would not be better for men making wills
to bequeath the property directly to the
executors and officers of the court, and ap
point the widows and orphans a committee
to see that the former got all that did not
belong to them. The simple fact is, that
there are a large number of men sailing
yachts and driving fast horses and mem
bers of expensive club-houses and controll
ing country seats, who are not worth a
dolnir if they return to others their
Juki rights. Under sonic sudden reverse
they fail, end with afflicted air seem to re
tire from the world, and seem almost
ready for monastic life, when in two or
three years they blossom out again, hav
ing compromised with their creditors —
that Is, paid them nothing but regrets—
and the only difference between the second
chapter of prosperity and the first is that
their pictures are Murillos instead of Keu
eetts, and their horses go a mile in twenty
ceconds less than their predecessors, nnd
instead of one country seat they have
three. I have watched and have noticed
that nine out of ton of those who fail in
what is called high life have moro means
after than before the failure, and in many
of the cases failure is only a stratagem to
escape the payment of honest debts and
put the world otf the track while they
practice a large swindle. There is some
thing woefully wrong in the fact that
these things are possible.
First of all, I charge the blame on care
less, indifferent bank directors and boards
having in charge great financial institu
tions. It ought not to be possible for a
president or c shier or prominent officer
of a banking institution to swindle it year
niter year without detection. I will under
take to 6ay that if these frauds are carried
on for two or three years without detection
cither the directors are partners in the in
famy and pocketed part of the theft, or
are guilty of a culpable neglect of duty,
for which God will hold them as respon
s ble as Ho bolds the acknowledged de
frauders. What light have prominent
business men to allow their names to be
published as directors in a financial insti
tution So that unsophisticated people are
hereby ihducpd to deposit their money in
or buy the script thereof, when the) - , the
published directors, are doing nothing for
the safety of the institution! It is a case
of deception most reprohensible. Many
people With a surplus of moneynot needed
for immediate use, although it may be a
little further on Indispensable, are without
friends competent to advise them, and
they are guided solely by the character of
the men whose names are associated with
the institution. When the crash came,
and wi h the overthrow of, tb6 bank
went the small earnings and limited
fortunes cf widows and orphans,
and the helpless aged, the directors stood
with idiotic stare, and to the inquiry
of tlie frenzied depositors and stock
holders who had lost their all, and to the
arraignment of an indignant public had
nothing to say except: We thought it
was all right. We did not know there was
any thing wrong going on.” It was their
duty to know. They stood in a position
which deluded the people with the idea
that they were carefully observant, call
ing themselves directors, they did not di
rect. They had opportunity of auditing
accounts and inspecting the books. No
„une to do sol Then they had no business
to accept the position. It seems to be the
pride of some moneyed it an to bo tiirec-
tors in a groat m my institutions, and ah
they know is whether or not they get their
dividends regularly, and their names are
used as decoy ducks to bring others near
enough to be made game of. What first of
all is needed is that five thousand b ink di
rectors and insurance company directors
resign or attend to their business ns di
rectors. Tho business world will be full
of fraud just, as long as fraud is so easy.
When you arrest the president and secre
tary of a bank for air embezzlement car
ried on for many years, have plenty of
sheriffs out the same day to arrest all the
directors. They are guilty either of neg
lect or complicity.
“Oh,” some one will say, “better preach
the Gospel and let business matters alone.”
1 reply: If your Gospel docs not inspire
common honesty in the dealings of men
the sooner you close up your Gospel and
pitch it into the depths of the Atlantic
ocean the better. An orthodox swindler
is worse than a hetti ldox swindler. The
recitation of all t.. 0 catechisms and
creeds ever written, and drinking from all
the communion chalices that ever glittered
in the churches of Christendom, will never
save your soul unless your business char
acter corresponds with your religious pro
fession. Gome of the worst scoundrels in
America have been members of churches,
and they got fat on sermons about Heaven
when they most needed to have the pulpits
preach that which would either bring
them to repentance or thunder them out
of the holy communions where their pres
ence was a sacrilege and an infamy.
We must especially deplore the misfor
tune of banks in various parts of this
country in that they damage the banking
institution, which is the great conven
ience of the centuries, and 'tidispensa
ble to commerce and the advance of na
tions. With one hand it blesses tho lend
er, and with the other it blessos the bor
rower.
The bank was born of the world’s neces
sities, and is venerable with the marks of
thousands of years’. Two hundred years
before Christ the Bank of Ilium existed,
and paid its depositors ten per cent. The
Bank of Venice was established in 1171,
and was of such high credit that its bills
were at a premium above coins, which
Were frequently clipped. Bank of Genoa,
founded in 1315; Bank of Barcelona, 1401;
Bankof Amsterdam, 1699;8ank of Hamburg,
founded 1(519, its circulation based on great
silver bars kept in its vaults; Bank of
England, started by William Patterson
in 1042, up to this day managing
the stupendous debt of England; Bank
of Scotland, founded in 1095; Bank
of Irelan I, 1783; Bank of North Amer
ica, planned by Robert Morris, 1771, with
out whose financial help all the bravery
of our grandfathers would not have
achieved American independence. But
now we have banks in all our cities and
towns, thousands and thousands. On
their shoulders are the iuteVests of private
indviduals and great corporations. In
them are the great arteries through which
run the currents of the nation’s life.
They have been the resources of thousands
of financiers in days of business exigency.
They stand for accommodation, for fa
cility, for individual, State and National
relief. At their head and in their manage
ment there is as much interest and moral
worth as in any class of men—perhaps
more. How nefarious, then, the behavior
of those who bring disrepute upon this
venerable, benignant and God-honored in
stitution.
AVe also deplore abuse of trust funds,
because they fly in ttie face of that Divine
goodness which seems determined to bless
this land. We are having the eighth year
of unexampled National harvest. The
wheat gamblers get hold of the wheat, and
the corn gamblers got hold of the corn.
The full tide of God’s mercy toward this
land is put back by those great dikes of
dishonest resistance. AVhen God provides
enough food and clothing to feed and ap
parel this whole Nation like Princes,
the scrabble of dishonest men to get
more than their share, and get it at all haz
ards, keeps every thing shaking with un
certainty, and every body asking, “What
next?” Evexy week makes now revela
tions. How many more bank presidents
and bank cashiers have been speculating
with other people’s money, and how many
more bank directors are in imbecile silence
lotting the perfidy go on, the great and pa
tient God only knows! My opinion is that
we have got near the bottom. The wind
has been pricked from the great bubble of
American speculation.
The men who .thought that judgment
day was at least five thousand years off
found it in 188 S, 18.87, 188<i; and this nation
has been taught that men must keep their
hands out of other people’s pockets. Great
businesses built on borrowed capital have
been obliterated, and men who had noth
ing have lost all they hau. I believe we
are started on a higher career of prosperity
than this land has ever seen, if, and if k
aud if.
11 the first mou, aud especially Christian
men, will leai n never to speculate upon
borrowed capital. If you have a mind to
take your own money and turn it all into
kites, to fly them over every commons in
the United States, you do society no wrong,
except when you tumble your helpless
children into the poor house for the public
to take care of. But you have no right to
take the money of others and turn it into
kites.
There is one word that has deluded more
people into bankruptcy and State prison
than any other word in commercial life,
and that is the word borrow; that one
word is responsible foralltho defalcations
andenibezzlements, and financial conster
nations of the last twenty years. When
executors conclude to speculate with the
funds of an estate committed to their
charge, they do not purloin, they say they
only borrow ;when a banker makes an over
draft upon his institution, he does not
commit a theft, heon!| borrows. When the
officer of a company, by gaming adver
tisements in some religions papers, and
gilt certificate of stock, gets a multitude
of country people to put their small earn
iugs into an enterprise for carrying on
some undeveloped nothing, he does not
fraudulently take their’money, he only
borrows. When a young man with easy
tuet >s to his employer's money drawer, oi
TRENTON. DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 16. 1888.
tho conlidei..:a! clerk bcl >so propinquity
to the account books, takes n few dollars
for a Wall street excursion, ho cxpoc s to
put it buck; he will put it a’.l back; he
will pat it all back very soon. He only
borrows. What is n 'edud is some man ot
gigantic limb to take his place at the curb
stone in front of Trinity church, and when
that word borrow comes bounding along,
kick it clean through to Wall street ferry
boat, and if, striking o:i that, it bounds
clear over till it strikes Brooklyn Heights
or Brooklyn hill, it will be well for the
City of Churches.
Why, when you are going to do wrong,
pronounce «so long a word as borrow, a
word of six letters, when you can get a
shorter word more descriptive of the re
ality, a word of only five letters, the word
steal!
There are times when we all borrow,
and borrow legitimately, and borrow
with the divine blessing, for Christ,
in IDs Sermon on the Mount, enjoins
“from him that would borrow of thee
turn not away.” A young man rightly
borrows money to got his education.
Purchasing a house, and not able to
pay all down in cash, the purchaser right
ly borrows it on mortgage. Crises coine
in business when it would be wrong for a
man not to borrow. But I roll this warn
ing through all these aisle 3, over the backs
of all these pews, never borrow to specu
late; not a dollar, not n cent, not a farth
ing. Young me i, young men, I warn you
by your worldly prospects and tho value
of your immortal souls, do not do it. There
are breakers distinguished for their ship
wrecks —the Han ways, the Needles, the
Caskets, the Douvers, the Anderlos, the
Skerries—and many a craft has gouo to
pieces on those rocks; but 1 have to tell
you that all the Han ways and the Needles
and tho Caskets and the Skerries are as
nothing compared with the long line of
breakers which bound the ocean of com
mercial life North, South, East and West
with the white foam of their despair and
the dirge of their damnation: The break
ers of borrow.
If 1 had only a worldly weapon to use on
this subject I would give you the fact
fresh from the highest authority that 9)
per cent of those who go into speculation
in Wall street lose all: but I have a better
warning than a worldly warning. From
the pl ace where men have perished—body,
mind and soul—stand off, stand off! Ab
stract pulpit discussion must step aside
on this question. Faith and repen'ance
are absolutely necessary; but faith
and repentance are no more doctrines
of the Bible than commercial in
tegrity. Render to all their dues. Owe no
man any thing. And while I mean to
preach faith and repentance, more and
more to preach them, 1 do not mean to
spend any time in chasing the HUtites and
Jebusites and Girgashites of Bible times,
when there are so many evils right around
us destroying men and women for timo and
eternity. The greatest evangelistic preach
er the world ever saw, a man who died for
his evangelism—peerless Paul—wrote to
the Romans, “Provide things ho-test in the
sight of all men ;” wrote to the Corinthi
ans, “Do that which is honest;” wrote to
the Phillippians, “Whatsoever thing* are
honest;” wrote to the Hebrews. “Willing,
in all things to live honestly.” Tho fible
says that faith without wort is duad,
which, being liberally translated mfars
that, if your business life does not corre
spond with your profession, ycur religion
is a humbug.
Here is something that r.;ieds to be
sounded into the ears of all the young men
of America, and iterated and loiteratod, if
this country is ever to be delivered from
its ealamit ; C 3, and commercial prosperity
is to be established and perpetuated, live
within your means.
1 have the highest commercial authority
for saying that when the memorable trou
ble broke out in Wall street four years ago
there were $225,0.)0,000 in suspense which
had already been spent. Spend no more
than you make. And let us adjust all our
business and our homes by the principles
of the Christian religion. **
Our religion ought to mean just as much
on Saturday an l Monday as on the day
between, and not be a mere periphrasis ot
sanctity. Our religion ought to first
clean our lives. Religion is not, as some
seem to think, a sort of church delegation,
a kind of confectionery, a sort of spiritual
caramel or holy gumdrop, or sanctified
peppermint, or theological anaesthetic.
It is an omnipotent principle,
all controlling, all conquering. You
may get along with something less than
that, aud you may deceive yourself with
it; but you cau not decoivo God and you
can not deceive the world. The keen busi
ness man will put on bis spectacles and
will look clear ' through to the back of your
head and see whether your religion is a
fiction or a fact. And you can not Hide
your samples of sugar, or rice, or tea, or
coffee if they are false; you can not hide
them under the cloth of a cAmmunion
table.
All your prayers go for nothing so long
as you misrepresent your b inking institu
tion, and in the amount of the resources
you put down more specie and more frac
tional currency, and more clearing-house
| certificates, and more legal-tender notes,
and more loans, and more discounts than
there really are; and when you give an
account of your liabilities you do not raeu
tion all the unpaid dividends, and the
United States bank-notes outstanding,
and the individual deposits, aud the obli
gations to other banks and bankers. An
authority more scrutinizing than that o(
any bank examiner will go through and
through and through your business.
The world waits on ns 'dint we may do it
good, and we all have a mssion in that d -
rection. But onr benevolence is not rl
ways confined to specific acts of religion
and charity; these, indeed, may constitute
the smallest part of It He who, in a good
c.uß3 or work, no matter what it k, does
his best, is making his contribution ‘o the
world’s highest Interests. United
ttrian.
If the regrets which too often Pert tho
end of life con’d be put into Vrm resolr.
t’O.i* at the beginning they would alter tho
affairs of-Lie
GERMANY MOURNS.
Her Eelovecl Ruler Finclb Everlast
ing Peace.
Prince Frederick William, tlie New Em
peror, »( Once Departs From
it«mo for the Imperial
Palace*
Beri.iv, March 9— JSmperor William
died at 8:3) o’clock this morning.
Berlin, March 9.—When tho Reichstag
met to-day Prince Bismarck, with deep
emotion, informed the members of the
death of the Emperor. Hea’.si announc
ed that the new king would assume the ti
tle of Frederick IL
Berlin, March 9.—At the-meeting of the
Lower House of thß Prussian Diet to-day,
Her Von Puttkanier, Vice President of
the Prussian Ministerial Council, arose
and said: “1 have the sad duty to make
a most painful communication to the
House. It lias pleased God to tall His
Majesty, tho Emperor, iu the twenty
eighth year of his glorious reign, from
his earthly existence by a peace
ful death at 8:3) o’clock this morn
ing. You will not expect me at this
most solemn moment, when sorrow and
care so deeply stir our hearts, to attempt to
depict the feelings with which the whole
nation is filled through the loss of or.r
most beloved, exalted and venerable ruler.
1 may, however, safely and confidently say
on this day of soro trial that tho Prussian
people and their representatives wiil now,
moro than ever, be penetrated by tho con
sciousness that the sorrows of our exalted
sovereign’s house are theirs and that
the deeper the universal pain at tho
decease of cur ever-remembered King the
stronger and more indissoluble will be the
link uniting Prussia’s sovereign house and
Prussia’s people in good and evil days. 1
leave it to yourselves to take such resolu
tions as are suitable to tho gravity of tbo
situation.” Herr Von Koeller, the Presi
dent of the House, closed tho sitting with
the words: “God protect the Royal Hcuso
and tho fatherl nd.”
San Remo, March 9.—The Crown Prince
and Princess of Germany will leave San
Remo immediately for Berlin.
San Remo, March 9.— Tho Emperor of
Germany (Frederick William) passed a
fairly good night. During the early part
of the night he was restless, but ho slept
better afterward.
Berlin, March 9.—Tho Staati » Atizirger
publishes the following proclamation :
“It has pleased God t.o call His Majesty,
tbo Emperor and King, our most gracious
master, from life, after a short illness and
after a r chly blessed reign. The whole
Nation mourns with tho Royal Houoo tha
decease of the deeply beloved and vener
able monarch whose wisdom has ruled so
long and gloriously over its fortunes iu
war and in peace.
[Signed] “Tiie Minister of State.”
Berlin, March!?. —Eye witnesses of the
scenes at the death of the Emperor state
that, during the last few hours of his life,
he suffered no pain. Shortly after 8
o’clock all the members of the family
staying at the palacciWhe court dignitar
ies, Generals and Ministers of State were
summone 1 tc the chamber in which the
Emperor lay dying. The Emperor was in
a half-sitting position on a camp bedstead.
All the members of the Royal family took
places at the bedside. The room was
crowded. Brines William stood nearest
the Emperor, half bending over the couch.
He earnestly watched the face of the dy
ing monarch until ho expired.
London, March 9—Q icon Victoria and
the Prince of Wales were informed of th 6
death of the Emperor at 9:80 o’clock this
morning. The news reached the clubs be
fore the members assembled. Special
messengers informed the Ministers, the
Prince of AVales, the foreign ambassadors
various members of the House of Lords
and persons prominent in political circles.
The excitement of yesterday has been re
newed, and the German Embassy is be
seiged by callers. In consequence of yes
terday evening’s conflicting rumors the
definite news of the Emperor’s death was
at first received cautiously. The flag-, on
the public buildings were place 1 at half
mast and the notice of the Emperor's
decease was posted on the bulletin
boarJs of the newspapers. Flags are at
half-mast generally throughout England
on account of the death of Emperor
William. At 11:15 o’clo -k this morning
Prince Henry, of Bittenberg, con
veyed a message from the Queen to
Count Von Halzfeidt, the German Ambas
sador, expressing Her Majesty’s sorrow at
the Emperor’s death. The balls which
were to have been hold at Dublin*Cast!*
to-night and on B‘. Patrick’s Day have
been postponed. Largo crowds gathered
about the new paper offices, and many
were the expressions of sorrow and regret
mingled with sympathetic remarks ns tc
how the death of the Emperor would ; ff ;ct
the new Emperor, Frederick William. The
Queen has sent telegrams of condolence tc
Berlin and to San Remo.
Berlin, March 9. —Tho evening papers
contain what ore reported to be the last
words spoken b_:tbe Emperor. They arc:
“Alexander has promised me that ho will
not make war against us.” It is reported
that the Emperor also sa ! d: ‘I am con
vinced that we ought not to go to war with
Russia, toward whom the most friendly
attitude ought to bo adopted.”
Washington, March 9.—The official an
nouncement of the death of Emperor Wil
liam was received at the Germau LegatioD
early this morning. The telegram was sign
ed by Prince Bismarck. Baron Vo iZadtwilz,
Charge D’ Affaires, when questioned upon
tho subject of the succession, said that
Crown Prince Frederick William became
Emperor of Gormany aud King of Prussia
immediately o:i the.death of his father,
aud that now, ns always, if the question ol
the incapacity of the sovereign is raised,
it will be decided by the two Cham bars cl
Prussia.
Bt. Petersburg, March 9. —The Imperial
theaters have been ordered closed out oi
respect for the memory of Emperor Wil
liam. The newspapers generally express
the greatest respect for the late Emperor.
Some uneasiness is felt regarding the pos
sible political consequences of his death.
Rome, March 9.— The Chamber of Depu
ties will adjourn as a mark of respect Tor
the dead Emperor. The genera 1 impres
sion is that there will be no change in the
political situation sa long as Prince Bis
marck lives.
SNOW-BOUND.
The Beautiful l ying in Depth From Four
to Twelve Feet in New York City.
New York, March 13.—For the combined
fury of tbo hurricane, the duration and
depth of the snowfall and the lowness of
the temperature, yesterday's storm lias
r.o parallel in the h’story of this section
of the country. If people who read of the
terrible blizzard iu the Northwest this
winter will picture the same con
ditions on this densely populated slip of an
island, they can form some idea of the ex
tent of the knock-down blow New York
has received. Fancy a man dug out of a
ten foot snow-drift, in Broadway near New
York’s post-office, or a woman dropping
dead from cold and exhaustion at the cor
ner of Fulton street and Broadway, tbo
greatest thoroughfare in New York
City. The blockade in tho streets
is so ba 1 that when n firo alarm
sounded to-night it took fifty men with
shovels and four horses to pull ono
of tho engines out of a snow-bank. Dozens
of railroad trains are snow-bound iu huge
drifts on all sides of the cityj and no idea
can as yet be formed of the loss of life.
Not a train left the Grand Central Depot
yesterday and but one came in. Tho wait
ing-rooms were crowded with travelers an l
all anxious to depart, and persons waiting
to hoar from friends who were an route to
this city. The only means of trav
el in tho city itself is by
the elevated roads, which have at last
got into some kind of running order. Oa
the surface roads not a whoel moved to
ri ay. The snow and ico is frozen solid over
tho tracks to a depth of several feet, and
snow-plows are useless. Evon the great
Brooklyn bridge failed for a timo yester
day, and to-day live thousand people
walked from Brooklyn to New York over
the East river on a solid ice bridge, which
had formed between the two cities. All Sta
ten Island was snow-bound to-day, and
people living in the interior of tho island
were unable to leave their houses. The snow
in many places is fifteen feet high, and the
Staten Island railroad is completely block
aded. The snow in this city is lying iu
depth from four to twolve feot. Tho list
of ihe casualties caused by the storm, as
reported by tho police, number about
forty. 'That it is not longer is probably
due, in some measure, to the instructions
given to the police to arrest all persons
not able to take caro of themselves. The
arrests for intoxication last night were un
usually large. The money loss to the city
will be over $2,500,000.
Dropped Sixty Feet.
Leavenworth, Kas., March 13.—List
night John Sheridan, an employe on tbo
Missouri and Kansas bridge, while cross
ing that structure, stepped off tho edgo
and fell sixty feet to tho water below,
which is very shallow. When ho recovered
coruMsiousness he found that his left arm
waPbroken below the elbow, an 1, although
badly shaken up, managed to crawl to tbo
bank, where he remained all night. He
was found by the carpenters and taken to
eaqu>. The broken arm and a few bruises
wore the only apparent injurios lie .sus
tained.
Convicts Carried Oft by Dynamite.
Atlanta, Ga., March 13.—A premature
blast of dynamite thive miles from Bre
men buried four convicts beneath a hugj
pile of dirt, and when exhumed three wero
f- uud to bo dead. The fourth is not ox
pccted to recover. The convicts wero from
the yards of the Chattahoochio Brick Com
pany, which li is the contract for building
the Chattanooga, Columbus and Southern
railroad. The fuse was too short, for the
men had barely started when tho explo
sion occurred.
♦
The Horse-Thief’s Enemies.
Champaign, 111., March 13.—A grand
councilor tho Illinois division of tbeAVa
bash Anti-Horse-thiof Dotective Associa
tion open>“d here to-dav with a large at
tendance, and delegates from numerous
independent associations of a similar na
ture are participating in the proceedings,
and it has been decided to effect a combi
nation and form the State into one general
association.
Death of “The Bee Woman.”
San Francisco, March 13.—A dispatch
received here to-day says: “Mrs. Ellen
Tupper, known as “The Bee Woman* ”
and one of the foremost entomologists of
the world, died suddenly this morning at
El Paso, Texas, where she was visiting
her daughter. She was widely known in
the East and throughout Europe.
Freight Trains Collide.
Pittsburgh, March 13. Two freight
trains on the West Pennsylvania railroad
collided near Freeport, Pa., this morning
and were wrecked. Jas. Hamil, a brake
man,was fata!lv injured, and three or four
others were s ightly bruised.
Embezzler Sentenced.
Washington,- March 13.—Cyprus P. Ben
edict, an employe of the Adams Express
Company for twenty-one years, this city,
pleaded guilty of embezzlement and was
sentenced to three and a-half years in the
Albany penitentiary.
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Bridge-Keepzr Assaulted.
Columbia, S. C., March 13. —The bridge
keeper of Broad river his wife,
both aged over seveuty years, were as
saulted, brutally beaten, robbed and the
house sot on tire. The old man will proba
bly die.
Snow-Drifts Twenty-Five Feet Deep.
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.. March 13.—Reports
from the interior of Hudson river counties
show tho country roads terribly blockaded.
In some instances drifts a-e twenty-five
feet deep. Stock of every description suf
fering.
Illinois State Convention.
Chicago, March 13.—Tho Democratic
Slate Central Committee met at the Palm-'
er House to-lay, and decided to hold the
State Con veution-at Springfield, May 23.
Killed by Snow-Plows.
Tboy, N. Y., March 13.—Three men have
been killed near here to-day by snow-plow
accidents. Two men foun l d'ead m
the snow at Arnoldsville.
VO],. V.-NO. 3.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
First Session.
Washington, March 7.—Senate.-Mr. Beck
?ave notice lie would reply to Senator Sherman's
denial regarding silver demonetization on Tues
day next. Bills were introduced, including one to
provide for more efficient mail service between
the United States and South and Central Amer
ica. Bills were passed of a local character. The
urgent deficiency bill was taken top and the
House provision to enforce the eight hour law
In the Government Printing Office was stricken
out. Mr. Payne offered an amendment appro
panting $60,010 for Ihe pay of assistant custo
dians and janitors of public buildings, tt was
rejected in committee of the whole and again
in the Senate.
KOt’SE —A resolution was adopled request
ing the President to send to the House all cor
respondence relating to the disputed boundary
between British Guiana and Venezuela. Outh
waite's bill extending tho bonded period for the
Union Paddo railroad was reported. A bill
was reported authorizing the establishment of
sundry life saving stations; also to authorize
the loan or articles by the department for ex
hibit at the Cincinnati Centennial Exhibition;
also to pension prisoners of war; also to create
a Department of Agriculture and Labor. A
public building bill was passed appropriating
(50,000 for Sedalia, Mo.
Washington, Marchs.— Senate.— A petition
was presented against the admission of Utah
as a State. A bill was reported for a joint celc
oration by sixteen American Republics of
the Centennial of the United States.
The Senate resumed consideration of the de
pendent. pension bill, which was passed—yeas
44. nays 16: Mr. Blair introduced his bill of.
former sessions to pension all soldiers who
served three months in the army during the
war. A resolution was adopted calling for cor
respondence between the United States and
Venezuela in regard to tho seizure of the
American steamship IXero. Ats:3op. in tho
Senate adjourned until Monday.
HOUSE.— A hill was passed appropriating $lO,-
000 for the purchase of certain swords belong
ing to the widow of General James Shields.
Bills were reported to establish a Government
postal telegraph. Public lands business was
then considered, and at 5:15 p. m. Ihe House ad
journed.
Washington, March 9.—Senate.— Net in
session.
House.—Friday being private bill day, tho
omnibus war claim bill was taken up and an
amendment agreed to appropriating WO,OOO for
the relief of the Protestant Episcopal Theologi
cal Seminary nnd High School of Virginia, for
its occupation during the war. The bill then
passed. After a few private bills had been
passed, the House at 5 p. m. took a recess until
7:.SOp. m.. tho evening session being for the con
sideration of private pension bills.
Washington, March 10.—Senate.— No ses
sion.
House.—The dependent pension bill was re
ceived from the Senate, and referred to the
Committee on Invalid Pensions. Reports wore
tw-eiwA fvorn opmoiittfloß on bills of minor im
portance. Tarsney. of Michigan, entered a mo
tion to reconsider the vote by which the House
last evening entered an order making the hills
granting pensions to Mrs, Logan and Mrs. Biair
a special order for the 23d inst. The remainder
of the session was devoted to Indian affairs.
Washington, March 12.—Senate—Tariff pe
titions from the National Association of Wool
Growers and the New England Association of
Wool Manufacturers were presented asking for
protection Among bills introduced was Sher
man's making an appropriation for the Execu
tive Departments to participate in the Ohio
Centennial celebration in September and Oc
tober. Colquitt, of Georgia, made u long speech
indorsing tiie President's message. Dolph fol
lowed, mid, after an executive session, the
Senate adjourned.
House.—Bland, of Missouri, made his usual
objection, and protested against log-rolling.
There was a tilt between Cannon, of Illinois,
and Bland, because the former questioned the
sincerity of the Missouri member’s objections
in certain cases. Under the call of the States
several bill 3 were introduced, including Ran
dall's tariff measure, which was referred to the
Ways and Means Committee. Bain, of Pcnn
s lvania, started a lively row by offering a reso
lution declaring that petitions for hearings be
fore the Ways and-Means had been refused,
and referring inquiry on the subject to the Com
mittee on Rules. Breckinridge made a point
that tho resolution was not in order, and Reed
spoke to a point of order, stating a hypothet
ical case in which he gave Democratic methods
of secrecy full exposure. This roused Mdls to
a great exhibition of anger, but Cutcheon, of
Michigan, made an interruption that enabled
Speaker Cox to call Mills to order and decide
against Bain. The rest of the day was devoted
to District of Columbia affairs. House adjourn
ed at 4:19.
Washington, March 18.—Senate—Bills were
reported and placed on the calendar. Mr. Hale
called up his resolution to examine into the
civil service branches of the Government. An
amendment was offered to extend the investi
K#:ons into the elections of ISO and ISR4.
After considerable discussion the amendment
was defeated and the original resolution adopt
ed by a strict party vote. Mr. Beck spoke in
advocacy of his bill or the retirement of U. S.
legal tenders, cte. He attacked Mr. Sherman
for his responsibility for the demonetization of
silver. Mr. Sherman responded in his own de
fense.
HoufE.—Mr. Bland reported a bill limiting
the coinage of the double eagle to twenty pet
cent, of the gold deposited in the mints, and
discontinuing the coinage of the thrcc-dollar
and one dollar gold pieces—calendar: Mr.
Springer reported the omnibus bill for tho'admis
slon into the Union Dakota,Montana, Washington
and New Mexico—referred to committee of the
whole; bills were reported for the erection of
public buildings at Galesburg, 111., and Daven
port, la.: for an appraiser’s warehouse at Chi
cago; for a public building at Ft. Worth, Tex.;
the Grosvenor resolution relative to rebellion
records was reported back and adopted.
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Tiie m'ners’ strike iu the Lehigh Valley
has been declared off.
A train on the Erie railroad jumped the
track at Scio. N. Y., killing one passenger
and injuring twelve others.
Grant Pouter and John Burkel, colored
prisoners in the Athens (O.) jail, over
power d the sheriff and escaped.
The Boston Stock Exchange has de
cided to prohibit members from dealing
with bucket shops under penalty of SI,OOO
for the first offense and expulsion for the
second offense.
Marietta, O.,Titusville and McKeesport,
Pa., will l ave free mail delivery system
after April 1.
Members of the Canadian Parliament
who have been interviewed on the subject
of bucket-shops are unanimously in favor
of their abolition.
By the fail of an elevator in a grocery
house at Portsmouth, O , Lawrence Veu
! dorfer reciive i injuries which arc thought
' to be fatal.