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JOHN li. HANCOCK, Publisher,
THE SOUL.
True Religion Starts Mankind on
tire Upward Grade.
frowns Awaiting Those who Follow Christ,
the Redeemer—Sermon J>y Rev. T.
DeWitt Talmage, D D.
Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D. T>., of
the Brooklyn (N.Y.) Tabernacle, preached
| last Sunday to a crowded congregation.
Be took for his subject “The Decoration of
the Soul,” and his text was Luke xv., 22,
‘But a ring on his hand.”
1 will not rehearse the familiar story of
the fast young man of the parable. You
know wliat a splendid homo he left. You
know what a hard time lie had. And you
remember how, after that season of vaga
bondage, and prodigality, ho resolved to
go and weep out his sorrows on the bosom
of parental forgiveness. Well, there is
great excitement one day in front of the
old farm-house. The servants come rush
ing up and say: “What’s the matter!
What is the matter!” But before they
quite arrive the old man cries out: “Put
« ring on his hand.” What a seeming ab
surdity ! Wliat can such a wretched men
dicant as this fellow lhat is tramping on
toward the house want with a ring!
Oh, he is the prodigal son. No more tend
ing of the swine-trough. No more longing
for the pods of the carob tree. No more
blistered feet. Off with the rags! On with
the robe! Out with the ring'- Even so
does God receive every one of us when we
come back. There are gold rings, and
pearl rings, and carnelian rings, and dia
mond rings; but, the richest ring that ever
flashed on the vision is that which our
Father puts on a forgiven soul.
I know that the impression is abroad
among some people that religion bemoans
and belittles a man; that it takes all the
sparkle out of his soul; that he has to' ex
change a roistering independence for an
ecclesiastical strait-jacket. Not so. When
n man becomes a Christian, he does not go
* down, he starts upward. Religion mult
iplies one by ton thousand. Nay, the multi
plier is an infinity. It is not a blotting out
—it is a polishing, it is an arborescence, it
is an cfflorcsonco, it is an irradiation. When
a man comes into the kingdom of Clod he is
not sent into a menial service, but the
Lord God Almighty from the palaces of
Heaven calls upon the messenger angels
Jhat wait upon the throne to fly and Vput
■a ring upon his hand.” In Christ aro the
largest liberty, and brightest joy, and
highest honor, and richest adornment.
Put a ring on his hand.”
1 remark, in the first place, that when
Christ receives a soul into his love he puts
upon him (he ring of adoption.
In my church in Philadelphia there came
the representative of a benoVolent society
in New York. He brought with him eight
or ten children of the street that he had
picked up, and be was trying to find for
* them Christian homes; and as. the little
ones stood on the pulpit and sang our
hearts melted within us. At the cloßi of
the service a groat-hearted, wealthy man
came up and said: “I’ll take this little
bright-eyed girl, and I’ll adopt her as one
of my own children,” and ho took'her by
the hand, lifted her into his carriage and
went away.
The next day, while we were in the
church gathering up garments for the poor
of New York, this little child came back
with a bundle under her arm, and she said:
‘There’s my old dress; perhaps some of
the poor children would like to have it,”
Ivhila she herself was in bright and beau
tiful array, and Otiose who more imme
diately examined her said she had a ring
on her hand. It was a ring of adoption.
There are a great many persons who
pride themselves oil their ancestry, and
they glory over the royal blood that pours
through their arteries. In there lino there
was a lord, or a duke, or a prime
minister, or a King. Rut when the Lord,
our Father, puts upon us the ring of His
adoption \va. become the children of the
Ruler of all nations. “Behold what man
ner of love the Father has bestowed upon
us, that we should be called the sons of
God.” It matters not how poor our gar
ments may be in this world, or how scant
our bread, or how mean the hut we live in,
if we have that ring of Christ’s adoption
upon our hand we are assured of eternal
defenses.
Adopt! Why. then, we are brothers and
sisters to all the good of tho earth and
Heaven. Wo have the family name, the
family dress, the family keys, the
family wardrobe. The mother looks after
us, robes us, defends us, blesses
us. We have royal blood in
our voins, and there aro crowns
in our line. If we are His children, then
Princes and Princesses. It is only a ques
tion of time when we get our coronet.
Adopted! Then wo have the family se
crets. “The secret of the Lord is with
them that fear Him.” Adopted! Then
■"’o have the family inheritance, and in the
day when our Father shall divide the
riches of Heaven wo shall take our share
the mansions and palaces and temples.
Henceforth let us boast no more of an
earthly ancestry. The insignia of eternal
glory is our coat of arms. This ring of
uJoption puts upon us all honor and all
privilege. Now we ean take the words of
t hsrle:> Wesley, that prince of hymu-mak
er», and sing:
“Come, let us join our friends above.
Who have obtained the prize,
And on the eagle wings of love
To joy celestial rise.
“Let all the saints terrestrial sing
With those to glory gone;
For all the servants of our King,
In Heaven and earth, are one.”
I have been told that when any of the
U'emhers of nny of the great secret socie
ties of this country nro in a distant city
and are in any kind of trouble, and aro set
Upon by enemies, they have only to give a
c “rtain signal and the members of that
organization wilt dock around for defense.
And when any utsn belongs to this great
Christian brotherhood, if he gets in trou
ble, in trial, in persecution, in temptation,
bo has only to show this ring of Christ’s
adoption, oud all the armed coyoptf pf
vfUJ coins to hi* rescue.
Still further, when Christ taxes a soul
into His love Ho puts upon it. a marriage
ring. Now, that is not a whim of mine:
‘And I will betroth.thee unto Mo forever;
yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in right
eousness, and in judgment, and in loving
kindness, and in mercies.” At tho wedding
altar the bridegroom puts a ring upon the
hand of the bride,signifying love and faith
fulness.
Trouble may come upon the household,
and the carpets may go, the pictures may
go, the piano may go, everything else may
go—the last thing that goes is the marriage
ring, for it is considered sacred. In the
burial hour it is withdrawn from tho hand
and kept in a casket, and sometimes the
box is opened on an anniversary day, and
as you look at that ring you see uudor its
arch a long procession of precious mem
ories. Within the golden circle of that
ring there is room for a thousand sweet
recollections to re volve, and you think of
the great contrast between the hour when,
at the close of the 1 Wedding March,” un
der the flashing lights and amid the aroma
of orange blossoms, you set that ring on
the round finger of the plump hand, and
that other hour when, at tho close of the
exhaustive watching, when you knew that
the soul "had fled, you took from the hand
which gave back no responsivg clasp,
from that amaciated finger, the ling that
she had worn so long and worn so well.
On some anniversary day you take up
that ring, and you repolish it until all the
old luster comes back, and you can see in
it the flash of eyes that long ago ceased to
weep. Oh, it is not an unmeaning thing
when I toll you that when Christ receives
a soul into his keeping He puts on it a
marriage-ring. He endows you frbm that
moment with all his wealth. You are ono
—Christ and the soul—one in sympathy,
one in affection, one in hope.
•S’here is no power in earth or hell to
effect a divorcement after Christ and the
soul are united. Other kings have turned
out their companions when they got weary
of them and turned the|n adrift from the
palace gate, Ahasuerns banished Vashtl;
Napoleon forsook Josephine; but Christ is
the husband that is true forever. Having
loved you once, He loves you to the end.
Did they not try to divorce Margaret, tho
Scotch girl, from Jesus! They said: “You
must give up your religion.” She said: “I
can’t give up my religion.” And so they
took her down to the beach of the sea, and
they drove in a stake at low-water mark,
and they fastened her to it, expecting that
as the tide came up her faith would fail.
The tide began to rise, and came up higher
and higher, and to the girdle, aud to the
lip, and in the last moment, just as the
wavo was washing her soul into glory,
she shouted the praises of Jesus,
Oh, ytm efite no* separate a soul from
Christ. It is an everlasting marriage.
Battle and storm and darkness fcun not
do it. It is too much exultation for a
man, Who is but dust and ashes like my
self, to cry out to-day: “I am persuaded
that neither height, nor depth, nor princi
palities, nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor any other creature
shall separato me from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus, my Lord I”
Glory bo to God, that when Christ and the
soul are married, they are bound by a
chain, a golden chain—if I might say so—
a chain with one link, and that one link
the golden ring of God's everlasting love.
I go a step fur.her, and tell you that
when Christ receives a soul into His love
He puts on him the ring of festivity. You
know that it has been the custom in all
ages to bestow rings Pit Very happy occa
sions. There is nothing more appropriate
fOr a birthday gift thgn a ring. You de
light to bestow such a gift upon your chil
dren at such a time. It means joy, hilarity,
festivity. Well, when this old man of the
text wanted to toll how glad he was that
his boy had got back, he expressed it in
this way. Actually, before he ordored
sandals to be put on his baro feet; before
ho ordered the fatted calf to be killed to
appease the boy’s hunger he commanded:
“Put a ring on his hand.”
Oh! it’s a merry timo when Christ and
the soul are united! Joy of forgiveness!
What a splendid thing it is to feel that
all is right between me and God ! What a
glorious thing it is to have God just take
up all the sins of my life and put them in
one bundle, and then fling them into the
depths of the sea, never to rise again,
never to be talked of again ! Pollution all
goue! Darkness all illumined! God re
conciled! The prodigal home! “Put a
a ring on his hand!”
Everyday I And happy Christion people.
I find somo of them with no second coat,
some of them in huts and tenement
houses, not one earthly comfort afforded
them; and yet they are as happy as happy
can be. They sing “Rock of Ages” as no
other people in the world sing it. They
never wore any jewelry in their lives, but
one gold ring, and that was the ring of
God’s undying affection. Oh! how happy
religion makes us! Did it make you
gloomy and sadl Did you go with your
head cast down! 1 do not think you got
religion, my brother. That is not the effect
of religion. True religion is joy. “Her
ways are ways of pleasantness, and her
paths are peace.”
Why, religion lightens all our burdens.
It smooths all our way. It interprets all
our sorrows. It changes the jar of earthly
discord for the peal of festal bells. In
front of the flaming furnace of trial it
sets the forge on which scepters are ham
mered out. Would you not like to-day to
come up from the swine-feeding and try
this religion! All the joys of Heaven
would come out and meet you, and God
would cry from the throne: “Put a ring
on his hand.”
You are not happy. I see it. There is
no pence, and sometimes you laugh when
yon feel a great deal more like crying. The
world is a cheat. It first wears you down
with its follies; then it kicks you out into
darkness. It comes back from the mas
sacre of a million souls to attompt the de
struction of your soul to-day. No peace
out of God, but here is the fountain that
can slake the thirst. Here is (he harbor
where you can drop safe anchorage.
Would you not like, 1 ask you—not per
functorily, but as one brother might talk
to another—would you not like to have a
pillow of rest to put your head on! And
\voulf| you uot Jiw, wUeu you rfiUjre at
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 23. 1888.
night, to fool that all is well, whether you
wake up to-morrow morning atsix o'clock,
or sleep the sleep that knows uo waking!
Would you not like to exchange this awful
uncertainty about the future for a glorious
assurance of Heaven! Accept of tho Lord
Jitsus to-day, and all is well. If on your
way homo some peril should cross the
street and dash your life out, it would not
hurt you. You would rise up immediate
ly. You would stand in the celestial
s'reets. You would be amid tho great
throng that forever worship and are l'or
ovor happy. If this day some sudden dis
ease should come upon you, it would not
frighten you. If you knew you were going
you could give a calm farewell to your
beautiful home on earth, and know that
you are going right into the companion
ship of those who have already got beyond
the toiling and the weeping.
You feel on Saturday night different
from the way you feel any other night of
tho week. You come home from the bank,or
the store, or the shop, and you 3>iy, “Well,
now my w r eek’s work is done and to-mor
row is Sunday.” It is a pleasant thought.
There is refreshment and reconstruction
in the very idea. Oh, how pleasant it will
be if, when we get through the day of our
life, and wo go and lie down in our bed of
dust wo can rcaliz >, “Well, now the work
is all done and to-morrow is Sunday—an
everlasting Sunday.”
“Oh, when, thou city of my God,
Shall I thy courts ascend?
TV here congregations ne'er hiealt up,
And Sabbaths have no end.”’
There aro people in this house to-day who
are very near the eternal world. If you are
Christians I bid you be of good cheer. Bear
with you our congratulations to the bright
city. Aged men, who will soon be gone,
take with you our love for
our kindred in the better land,
"and when you see them tell them
that we are soon coming. Only a few more
sermons to preach and hear. Only a few
thore heartaches. Only a few more toils.
Only a few more tears. And then what an
entrancing spectacle will open before usl
“ Beautiful Heaven, where all is light,
Beautiful angels clothed in white,
Beautiful strains that never tire,
Beautiful harps through all the choir;
There shall I join the chorus sweet,
’ Worshiping at the Saviour’s feet,”
1 approach you raovv with a general invi
tation, not picking out hero and there a
man, or here and there a woman, or here
and thore a child, but givingyou an unlim
ited invitation, saying: “Coine, for all
things are now ready.” Wc invite you to
the warm heart of Christ aud tho inclosure
of the Christian Church. 1 know a great
many think that the church does not
amount to much; that it is obsolete; that
It did Its work and is gone now, so far as
all Usefulness is concerned. It is tho hap
piest place 1 have ever been in, except my
own home.
I know tllcro are some people who say
they are Christians who seem to got along
without any help from others, and who cul
ture solitary piety. They do not want any
ordinances. Ido not belong to that class.
I can not get along without them. There
are so many things in this world that take
my attention from God, and Christ, and
lloaven, that I want all the helps of all
the symbols and of all the Christian asso
nations; and I want around about me a
solid phalanx of men who love God and
keep His command men ta. Are there any
here who would like to enter Into that as
sbeidtiOn? Then by a simple, child-liko
faith, apply for admission into the visible
church, and you will be received. No
questions asked about your past history or
present surroundings. Only one tost—do
you love Jesus!
Baptism does not amount to any thing,
say a great many people, but the Lord
Jesus declared: “He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved,” putting baptism
and faith side by side. And an Apostle
declares: “Repent and be baptized ever/
one of you.” Ido not stickle for any par
ticular mode of baptism, but I put great
emphasis on the fact that you ought to be
baptized. Yet no more emphasis than the
Lord Jesus Christ, tho Great Head of the
Church," puts upon it. *
The world is going to, after a while, lose
a great many of its votaries. There are to
be revivals*of religion that Will shake the
earth. We give you warning. There is a
great host coming in to eland under the
banner of the Lord Jesus Carist. Will you
be among them! Will yeti DC among the
gathered sheaves*
Home of you have been thinking on this
subjoct year after year. You have friend
out that this world is a poor portion.
You want tn be Christians. You have
come almost into tho kingdom of God; but
there you stop, forgetful of the fact that
to be almost saved is not to be saved at all.
Oh, my brother, after havingcomeso near
to tho door of mercy, if you turn hack you
will never eomo at all. After you have
heard of tluj goodnbss of God, if you turn
away and die it will not l»e beeause you
did not have a good offer.
“God's spirit will not always strive **'
With hardened, self-destroying man;
Ye who persist Kis love to grieve
May never hear His voice again."
May God Almighty this hour move upon
your soul and bring you back from the
husks of the wilderness to tho Father’s
house, and set yon at the banquet, and
“put a ring on your band.”
Not what a man lias, but what a man is.
Is the true measure of a man’s worth. It is
his properiie>, rather than his property, by
wnicb he is to bo estimated. And the way
in which a man shows what he is, and
what are his properties, is by Ms chosen
activities in life. His tactec and their grat
ifying, his desires and their pursuing' nro
a resultant evidence of a man’s character.
“ boxvsre, therefore," says Marcus Aurelius,
“that every man is worth jiißtsomuch as
ihe things are worth about which ho busies
himseit” Hence it is true, in a sense, that
what we cw for others is the evidence of
what we ax? ‘n ourselves.—,!)', 6. Time*.
If all men had the w isdom and pnritv to
speak only the tilings that might to be
spoken, snd hence to avoid all tho things
that ought pot to be spoken, what n changed
world this would immediately kccotne!
The change would be ho giyat that we
should hardly be able to reoofiu'tra it as
world— y, Y.
KID TOTH CONUKESS.
First Session.
Washington. March u.—Senate—Petitions
and memorials were received and bills intro
duced. Mr. Brown, of Georgia, advocated the
passage of his resolution, offered January 4, for
the repeal of the internal revenue laws. The
undervaluation bill was considered, without ac
tion. Aft-r executive session of the Senate, at
8:30 p. m., adiourned.
House —Mr. Carlisle presided. A bill was
passed granting right of way through Ft. Riley
military reservation, in Kansas, to the Kansas
Valley Railroad Company; the Committee on
F,lections reported in the Illinois contested
election cast' of Worthington vs. Post, confirm
ing the right of Post to his scat; the district
militia bill -T a National Guard organization
was considered and over: Senate bill re
ducing fee for passports to one dollar was pass
ed; a bill referring a cotton claim case to the
Court of Claims was discussed until 4:50 p. m.,
when the House adjourned.
Washington. March 15 Senate—A letter
was read from a pension attorney in Washing
ton asking a fee of an ex-soldier for the passage
of a private bill by Congress, and an investiga
tioa was ordered. A large number of bills were
reported, including one for the admission as
States of Washington and North Dakota Terri
tories. Mr. Teller spoke on the President's tariff
message. Consideration of the undervaluation
bill was resumed. Eulogies were delivered on
the late Representative Molßtt, of Michigan, by
Messrs. Palmer, Paddock and Stockbridge. ind
at 1:30 p. m the Senate adjourned as a further
murk of respect.
House.- Messrs. Thomas iWis.l and Allen
(Miss.) denied certain newspaper reports about
their relations with stock speculators; a reso
lution was introduced and referred calling upon
the Postmaster General for information in re
gard to his order preventing American dealers
in seed from using the Canadian mails on th#
same terms as Canadian dealers; the emergency
deficiency bill, as amended by the Senate, was
considered until 5:20 p. m., when tho .House ad
journed.
Washington, March I#.—Senate. - Petitions
Were presented and referred. A bill was intro
duced to appoint and retire General John C
Fremont as a Major General: also foi'the ad
mission of Utah: Frye's resolution calling for
copies of the minutes and protocols of the Fish
eries Commission was passed: consideration of
the undervaluation bill was resumed; a resolu
tion was offered instructing the Committee on
Inter-State Commerce to inquire into C., B. &
Q. difficulties. By agreement it was allowed to
lie over for the present, and at 5:30 p. m. the
Senate adjourned.
House.—Mills asked unanimous consent to
hold the Ways and Means Committee meetings
during sessions of the House. Mr. Burrow's ob
jected. Petitions were presented for the passage
of service pensions and per diem bills. A bill
was reported fixing the rate of postage on seed,
plants, bulbs, etc., at once cent for oach two
omi-.es.’* j'be urgency deficiency bill aud Senate
amendments were considered and afterward re
ported to the House. Conferees were appoint
ed, arid the test tlf the day fioHsiiined In con
sideration cf private business. Half a dozen
bills were passed. At 5 o’clock a recess was
taken until 7:30 p. m., the evening session being
devoted to private pension bills.
Washington, March 17.—Senate.—Not in
session.
House —Pension bills were palnd increasing
to fifty dollars per month the pensions of the
widows of Rear Admiral Wells and Rear
Admiral Wyman, respectively. Several bills
were reported. A resolution was called up as
signing four specified days for the considera
tion of labor bills. It was filibustered against
by Mills until the expiration of the morning
hbui-i wheri it went fiver until Tues lay. The
bill to secure actual settlers thfe public lands
adapted to agriculture was called up. Sev
eral amendments were offered, arid the mat
ter was allowed to go over. A resolution to
dppolHt n crimmissioa tf) Investigate tliri civil
service lr. the departments during the present
and past administrations was objected to by
Grosvenor, of Ohio, and at 4:15 p. m. the House
adjourned.
Washington. March 19. Senate.- Petitions
were presented and bills reported. Among the
bills introduced was one by Mr. Sherman to
grant arrears of pensions in certain cases; the
bill to provide for the establishment of a bureau
of animal industry Was tfiade a special order for
Monday next; a number Of bills passed; lln inter
national copyright bill was reported; Mr. Blair
reported a-bill provldlhg that, in the appoint merit
of e* Confederates to the civil service, thdsfi
suffering from wounds and disabilities shall be
preferred; it was objected to by Mr. Platt and
4fek»t'bvJr; a bill wait introduced and referred
fof the admission Of Wyoming to the Unklfl.
House —A petition Was presented for the in
crease rif tbk duty on lime fit the Caßhdiafl
rate, kills Were introduced under the cail of
States. A resolution to investigate railroad
sirikes was referred; also, to set apart May S
and 3 for genera’ pension legislation i rilsoi tri
Investigate the efridttion of the civil service in
all departments and branches of the Govern
ment; also, to place all articles protected by
trusts on the free list ; and b> Mr. Thompson,
of Ohio, to inquire into the reason for the abro
gation of the orders of the Commissioners for
bidding the further erection of poles for tele
phone or telegraph service in the District, and
to rcpttrt tiiC: earliest practicable date for put
ting all wires under ground. Mr. Grosvenor
moved an inquiry into the delay in printing and
distributing the dependent pension bill passed
by the Senate ten days ago. The b‘ll author,
izing the issue of fractional silver certificates
was passed, after debate—yeas 173, nays A
bill suspending thj ftMnagh 6! illrco-d6’’ai aud
biie-dollar go’.d pieces was parsed.
Washington, March 20. Senate.—Execu
tive communications were received. The bill
to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to
anticipate the interest on Government bonds
was reported. On the reference of Blair's hill
to give preference in civil appointments among
disloyal persons to wounded fir disabled ex-
ConfPdcrates* thelfe was an interesting discus
«!On. It went over until to morrow on the ex
piration of the trfifning hour. The calendar
Was thbn taken up and several private bills
passed. After a short executive session the
Senate, at 5:35 p. m., adjourned.
House—A bill was passed for the erection of
fire-proof workshops at tho National armory,
Springfield, Mas*. F.nloe. of Tennessee, ex
posed a scheme of One O’Farrell to secure a fee
of one dollar from fourth-class postmasters for
securing legislation in their behalf. The bill
making Grand Rapids. Mich., a port of entry
was passed. A bill was reported to prohibit the
Government from purchasing articles made by
convict labor; also to prohibit thy employment
of convict or alien labor on public Works. The
resolution assigning fpur days for the considera
tion of bills from tho Labor fomn ittee was
:idopte<i aflpr an exciting struggle.' Hills ex
tending the eight-hour law to letter carriers,
and referring eight-hour claims to the Court of
Claims, were discussed until 5:15 p. In., wheq
the House adjourned.
KNOCKED OUT. i
lowa’s Law Prohibiting tile Importation
of Liquor Into the Stale Declared Un
constitutional and Void by the Supreme
Court.
Chicago, March 20.—The docisionof the
United States Supreme Court on Monday
in the case of Bowman.against the North
western Railroad Company, involving a
construction of tho prohibitory law of
lowa, establishes a point of more import
ance than appeared on the surface. The
case strikes at the root of tho prohibitory
law, and the decision will be received in
lowa and other Slates with prohibition
laws with unusual interest. Tho lowa law
prohibits the introduction of liq
uor into the State, as well as
tho sale therein. Railroads as common
carriers are particularly enjoined from
bringing liquor from other Statos, Bow
man is a brewer at Marshalltown, lowa,
and in order to test the question whether
the lowa law preventing the railroads
from delivering liquor will bo uphold
in the courts, ho ordered a quantity
of whisky in Chicago. It was deliv
ered to tho Chicago and Northwest
ern railway. That company declined to
receive and transport it. Bowman there
upon began suit for $5,000 against tho
company. Tho case came to trial before
Judge Blodgett in tho United States Dis
trict Court about fourteen months ago.
Tho railroad placed tho prohibitory law of
lowa as an excuse for its refusal, but
Blum & Blum, who were Bowman’s attor
neys then, and subsequently in the Su
preme Court, attacked tho law as unconsti
tutional and void upon the ground that it
was an attempt to regulate intor-State
commerce. Blum & Blum were pitted
against W. C. Goudy and J. E. Monroe, who
represented the company, while the At
torney-General of lowa appeared for tho
State of lowa. Judge Blodgett decided in
favor of the company; that the law was
valid, but Bowman’s attorneys took tho
case to the United States Supreme Court,
with the result that the lowa law is de
clared unconstitutional and void. Out of
nine Justices thore were three
who dissented from this opinion,
one being Chief-Jttstico Waite. Tho
railway company is held to lie lia
ble to Brewer Bowman for its refusal to
deliver his whisky, but a more important
result is the declaration in the decision
that railroads can carry liquor into lowa.
“The effect,” said Mr. Blum to-day, “is to
render nugatory tho prohibatory law. Tho
Attorney-General staled before Judge
Blodgett that it would be impossiblo to
maintain prohibition in tho author
ities were denied the power to prevent tho
shipment of liquor into the State.”
MAYOR HEWITT’S REASONS
For Declining to Fly the Irish Flag on New
York tU Hall on St. Patrick's Day.
New Ifonls, March 30,—Mayor Hewitt to
day sent to the boat’d Of aldermen a com
munication defending his notion in refus
ing to permit the Irish flag to be raised on
the City on St, Patrick’s Day. In it
he says he is of opinion that no flag but
the American lias any right to float from
any public building in this city or any
other city. Ho can not sco why, if Ger
many has to be ruled by Germans aud
France by Frenchmen, America ought not
to bo ruled by Americans. It might
be construed, he says, that his action
showed a feeling averse to the Irish citi
zens of this country, but it was well known
that tijeir struggle and aspirations for
home rule always had and always will
havd his earnest support and sympathy.
The communication concludes ris follows:
“In order to show that the question In
volved is a serious one, worthy of the
attention of statesmen and patriots; I
invito your careful study of the
fftets presented, which will serve
to show why candidates for office are
So anxious to secure the foreign vote,
and to prove also that the danger line has
been reached, when it must bo decided
whether American or foreign ideas must
rule in this city. If the warning which I
have been constrained to give shall have
the effect of arousing public attention to
the good, old-fashioned idea of American
home ru’o.homesteads and home products,
1 shall feel that I have not made a mistake
in the official action Which my sense of
duty has required me to tali' 1 .”
Prominent Arkansan Kilted.
Little Rock, Akk., March 20. News
rfearibfid iierfl this triornirig of a fatal acci
dent to Major J. J. lioliins, a. planter, liv
ing beyond Hamburg, Ark., on the Louisi
ana border. A horse be was riding ran
away, throwing him. His foot was caught
in the stirrup and he was dragged about a
mile. Both eyes were torn out and his
skull crushed,
Corpse Dropped Overboard.
New Yokk, March 20. —The bark Em
blem arrived at Brooklyn to-day with a
metallic casket on board containing the
body of Captain Win. J. Roberts. In taking
it ashore the crew let it slip and it fell over
board and sank. It will bd rC Cove red to
morrow,
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Tramp Killed.
Fairmocnt, 111,., March 20. Stephen
Brown, a farmer, living near Eugene, In(l.,
fiftricu iriiieS southeast of this place, shot
and instantly killed a ti-amp Sunday even
ing fot threatening to sot fire to Brown’s
hoiise on being refused ariy thing to eat,
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Pleading for Mercy.
St. Louis, March 20.—Two more of tho
indicted Bald Kuobbers have presented
written confessions to tho sheriff. Amos
Jonos and William Stanley follow John
Matthews in their plea for mercy.
Women lo Vote.
Boston, Mass., March 20 —The House
this afternoon, by a vote of 100 to 93,
passed the bill granting women tho right
to vote on the question of granting liquor
licenses.
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Insane Whil» Arguing a Case.
Erie, Pa., March 20. -L K Norton, a
prominent attorney of this city, became
violently insaiie while arguing a case m
court. He vvae arrested and sont to an
asylum, ” '
VOL. V.—NO. 4.
FIGHTERS SENTENCED.
Sullivan and Mitchell Subject
to Six Days’ Imprisonment
in France,
And of Course Their Hall Stands Forfeit*
ed—The Sentence Will Hang Over
Them for Ten Years to Come.
Benlib, March 19.—The summonses
issued against Sullivan and Mitchell are
returnable to-day at Benlis. As may be
remembered tho French authorities origi
nally demanded one thousand francs for
■the appearance of the two offenders, but
the bail was subsequently enlarged to four
.jhouaand fraucs, which sum was put up
by Phillips and Moore. It is need
less to say the principals were absent.
They were defended by De la Porte,
who read letters from his clients, in
which they regretted that professional en
gagements prevented their answering the
summonses of the court. Do la Porte
called the attention of the court to the fact
that no witnesses had been summoned to
assert whether there was a battle or sim
ply a wrestling match. He remarked that
no flagrante delicto had been proved, aud
that the prosecution wns simply based on
surmise and on admission of persons inter
ested, who assuredly would have held their
tongues had they been aware that they
had acted contrary to law. Admitting
that two men had settled a grievance with
their fists, ho added that the fist in Eng
land was the ultimo ratio of classes who,
in France, were prone to draw the sword.
Dueling, although punishable by law, ex
isted in France. In conclusion De la Porte
said the men had been stopped on the pub
lic highway, prosecuted and treated as
criminals, without having caused a scan
dal or disturbed public order. The
court, after briet deliberation, consid
ered that the non - appearance of the
defendants aggravated the offense
and sentenced (Sullivan and Mitchell to
six days’ imprisonment and the maximum
line of 200 francs for each. Further, that
the balance of the sinn of 4,000 francs de
posited to secure the presence of the ac
cused persons should, after deduction of
the fine, costs, etc., be forfeited to tho
State. Owing to the non-appearance of
the two men the sentence becomes final
within ten days after judgment has been
served on the two men who have chosen
domicile in France at the office of De la
Porte at Benlis. Neither can come to
France without danger of being arrested
for the next ten years.
Slsfer Confesses Her Brothers’ Crimes,
Columbus, Kas., March Id. —Clara Bin
lock, a teacher in the city schools, has con
fessed that Wm. Blalock, her brother, fired
the shot that killed Constable David
Goodin; that Clay Blalock was .with Wil
liam when the shot was fired; that they
were the burglars who had committed so
many depredations lately, and that Fed
Fry was an associate in their crimes. Fry
has been arrested, but tho Blalock boys
have fled. Business men hav e offered a
reward of $1,003 for the capture of too Bla
locks.
Mississippi Levees Broken.
Nr.vv Orleans, March 1!). —A special to
the Timen-DemocrM from Shreveport says:
News reached this city this morning that
the levees on Caldwell, Cautoon and Eagla
Bend plantations, fifteen miles below here,
had broken, and that the lower country,
from Tom Johnson’s place to Jones’ Ba
you, a distance of eight miles, was all un
der water. It is feared that the levee on
Dorsh’s place will also break before morn
ing. It is supposed that some one cut tho
levee on the Caldwell place.
Death of the Oldest fx-Senator.
Augusta, Oi., March 11- H >n. John T.
King died here to-day, aged eighty-nine.
He was elected to tho United States Senate
to succeed Geo. M. Troupe in 1833. and was
re-elected to succeed himself in 1835. Ho
resigned in 1837, and was for nearly forty
years president of the Georgia railroad.
Ho was the oldest living Ex-Senator. On
account of a speech against Van Buren’s
Administration he was severely .criticised
by the pardsan State press, which led to
his resignation as Senator.
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Pour Engines Come Together,
Sacramento, Cat,., March 19.—A col
lision occurred on the Central Pacific near
Cisco this afternoon, between two freight
trains. Two engines wore attached to
each train, and all four engines and a
number of cars were badly wrecked. En
gineer John Pickens was killed instantly,
kfid several others injured. Four other
persons employed on the trains are miss
ing, and it is feared are buried in the de
bris.
Wife Murder and Suicide.
WAKnf'Nfox, Mo., March 10.—Saturday
night Green Hum Pbreys became involved
in n quarrel with his wife while she was
dressing, and in response to a request to
leave the room he fired three shots at her,
inflicting fatal wounds. While under ar
rest In his home, yesterday, he committed
suicide by shooting himself. Humphreys
tvas a prominent and wealthy citizen.
Catching it in the West.
Sioux CITT, la., March 19.—A snow
storm, which began about midnight last
night, has continued all day. The drifts
in the streets stopped the horse-cars this
morning. Railroad communication north
and west is interrupted. All trains from
the East are several hours late. The storm
extends over this State, Nebraska and
Colorado.
Boating Accident.
Detroit, March 19. —Jack Bonline, Dan
Burde mid Jake Sibilla were rowing on St,
Clair river at Port Huron, Mich., when
their boat capsized, and Burde and Sibilla
were drowned Ben line clung to the boat,
and when rescued was ueariy dead fiosn
exhaustion and cold,