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Sals Cimnijj iiMtla ®wws. 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, —w♦ ♦ 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, - - >— 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. «r 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. ■ ♦ 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,