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JOHN 11. HANCOCK, Publisher. PROFANITY. God’s Name Blasphemed All Over the Land. A Vile Habit Which Grows find Strength ens With Life—Avoid It in YOutli ir You Would be Free— Ta linage’s Sermon* One of the hymns sung atthe Tabernacle Sundays morning begaii with the words: “ So let our lips, and lives express The Holy Gospel wo profess.” After reading appropriate passages of Scripture, He v, T. Pc Witt Tu imago, D. D. preached on the habit of xutsing and swearing. His text was front the Book of Job, chapter ii., verses 7, Sand 9. “So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smoto Job wTUj soru itoils from tfio sole of his Ktdt unto his crown. And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; a. id he sat down among the ashes. Then said his wife unto him: ‘Dost thou still retain thine integrity I C'grse Uod, and die.’ ” A story Oriental and marvelous. Job was the richest man in all the East. He had cornels and oxen, and asses aud sheep, and, What would have made him rich without any thing else, seven sons and three daughters. It was the habit of these children to gather together for fam ily reunion. One day Job is thinking of his children as gathered together at a ban quet at the elder brother’s house. While the old man is seated at his tent door he sees some one ruqnitjg, evidently from his manner bringing bad news. What is the matter now} “Ob,” says the messenger, “a foraging party of Sabeans have fallen upon the oxen and the asses, and destroyed them, and butchered all the servants except myself.” Stand aside. Another messenger running. What is the matter now! “Oh,” says the man, the lightning has struck the sheep and the shepherds, and all the shepherds are de stroyed except myself.” Stand aside. Another messenger running. What is the matter now} “Oil,” he says, “the Cha’- deans have eaptured t he camels, and slain all the camel-drivers except myself." Stand aside. Another messenger run ning. What Is'the matter now. “Oh,” he says, “a hurricane struck four corners of tho teat where your children were as sembled at the banquet, anu they arc -all dead.” But the chapter of calamity Has not ond ,ed. Job .was smitten with elephantiasis, or black leprosy. Tumors Cjobi head to foot; forehead ridge® with tubercles; eye lashes fall out; nostrils excoriated; voice - destroyed; intolerable exhalations from the entire body, until, with none to dress his sores, he sits down in tho ashes with nothing but pieces of broken pottery to use in tho surgery of his wounds. At this moment, when lie needed all encourage ment and ail consolation, his wife comes in in a fret and a rage and says: “This is intolerable. Our property gone, our chil dren slain and now you covered up with this loathsome and disgusting disease. Why don’t you swear? Curse God, aud die!” Ah, Job knew l ight well that swearing Would net cure one of tho tumors of his agonized body; would not bring hack one of his destroyed camels; would not restore one of iiis dead children. Ho knew that profanity would ouly make the pain more Unbearable, and the poverty more dis tressing, and tho bereavement more ex cruciating. But judging from the profan ity abroad in our day. you might come to tho conclusion that there was some groat advantage to he reaped from profanity. Blasphemy is all abroad. You hear it in every direction. The drayman swearing at his cart, the sew ng girl imprecating the tangled skein, the accountant cursing the long lino of troublesome figures. Swearing at tho sloro, swearing in tho loft, (Wearing in the cellar, swearing on the street, swearing in the factory. Children swear. Men swear. Women swear! Swear ing from the rough calling on the Al mighty in the low restaurant clear up to the reckless “Oh, Lord 1” of a glittering drawing-room; and the euo is as much blasphemy as the other. There are times when we must cry out to the Lord by reason of our physical agony or our mental distress, an 1 that is only throwing out our w'enk hand toward the strong arm of a father. 11 was no profani ty when James A. Garfield, shot in the Washington Depot, cried out: “My God, what doos this mean}” There is no pro fanity in calling out upon God in the day of troub e, in the day of darkness, in the day of physical anguish, in the day of bereave ment; but I am spoaking now of the trivi ality and of tho recklessness with which theliauio of God is sometimes managed. Trie whole laud is cursed with it. A gentleman coming from the far M est eat in the car day alter day behind two persons who were indulging in profanity, and he made up his mind that he would make a iecor-1 of their profanities, and at the end of two days several sheets of pa per were covered with these imprecations, and at the c.ose of the journey ho handed tho manuscript, to one of the persons in front of him. “Is it possible,” said the man, “that we have uttered so many pro fanities, the last few daysl” “It is,” re plied th* gentleman. “Then,” said the man who had taken the manuscript, “I will never swear again.” But it is a comparatively unimportant thing if a man makes record of our impro rietles of speech. The more memorable rons deration is that every improper word, eve; v oath uttered, has a record in the book of God’s remembrance, and that tho J a , xvi ii conic When all our crimes of speech, if unrepeuted of, will be our con demnation. 1 shall not to-day deal in ab stractions. 1 hate abstractions. I am going to have a plain talk with you, my about a habit that you admit to in the community in the ' ’ think it manly to ’dier, hardly abli to street, yet have -once to let you ♦heir own souls or damning tho souls of others. It is an awful thing the first time the little feet are lilted to have them set down on the burning pavement of belli Between sixteen and twenty years of age there is apt to come a time when a young man is as much ashamed of not be ing able to swear gracefull.v as he is of the dizziness of bis first cigar. He has his hat, his boot und his coat of tho right pattern, aud now, if he can only swear without awkwardness and as well as jjis comrades, he believes he is in the fashion. There ard> y'oung men who walk in an atmosphere of imprecation—oaths on their lips, under their tongues, nestling in their shock of hair. They abstain from it in the elegant drawing-room, but. the street aud the club-house ring with their profanities. They have no regard for God, although they luvve groat respect for tho ladies 1 My young brother, there is no manliness in that. The most ungentlomanly thing a man can do is to swear. Fathers foster this great crime. There are parents who are very cautious not to swear in the presence of their children; in a moment of s widen anger they look around to see if the children are prosont when they indulge in ibis habit. Do you notjrmow, O fattier, that tho child is aware of tho fact that yon swear! Ho overheard you in the next room, or some one has in formed him of your habit. He is practic ing now. In ten years ho will swear as well as you do. Do not, O father, be un der the delusion that you may swear and your son not know it. It is an awful thing to start the habit in u family—the fattier to he profane, and then to have the echo of hfs example come bock from other genera tions;. so that generations after genera tions curs > the Lord. The crimo is also fostered by masher me chanics, boss carpenters, those who are at the head of men in hat factories, and in dockyards, and at the head of great busi ness establishments. When you go down to look at the work of the scaffolding, and you find it is not done right, what do you say? It is not praying, is it? The employer swears—his employe is tempted to swear. Tho man says: “I don’t know' why my employer, worth $5'),000 or SIOO,OOO, should have any luxury I should bedonied simply because I am poor. Because lam poor and dependent on a day’s wages, haven’t I as much right to swear as he has with his largo income ?” Employers swear, and that makes so many employes swear. The habit also comes from infirmity of temper. There are a good many people who, when they are at peace, have right eousness of speech, but when angered they blaze with imprecation. Perhaps all the rest of the year they talk in right lan guage, but now they pouf mft the fury of a whole year in one red-hot paragraph of five minutes. I knew of a man who ex cused himself for the habit, saying: “1 only swear once in a great while. I must do that to cloav myself out.” The habit comes also from the profuse use of bywords. The transition from aby word, which may be perfectly harmless to imprecation and profanity, is not a very large transition. It is “my stars!” and “mercy on me!” and "good gracious!” and “by George!” and “by Jove!” and you go on with that a little while, and then you swear. These words, perfectly harmless in themselves, are next door to imprecation and blasphemy. A profuse use of bywords always ends in profanity. The habit is creeping up into the highest styles of society. Women have no pa tience With flat and unvarnished profan ity. They will order a man out of a parlor indulging in blasphemy, and yet you will sometimes find them with fairy fan to the lip, and under chandeliers which bring no blush to their cheek, taking on their lips the holiest of names in utter trivi ality. Why, my friend*, the English language is comprehensive and capable of express ing all shapes of feeling and every degree of energy. Are you happy? Noah Web ster will give you ten thousand wcyrds with which to express your exhilaration. Are you righteously indignant? There are whole armories in the vocabulary— righteous vocabulary—whole armies of denunciation, and scorn, and sarcasm, and irony, and caricature, and wrath. You express yourself against some mean ness or hypocrisy in all the oaths that ever smoked up from the pit, and I will come right on after you and give a thousand fold more emphasis of denunciation to the same meanness and the same hypocrisy in words across which no slime has ever trailed, and into which the fires of hell have never shot their forked tongues—the pure, the innocent, God-honored Anglo- Saxon, in which Milton sang, and John Bunyan dreamed and Bkakcspere drama tized. There is no excuse for profanity when we have such a magnificent language such a flow of good words, potent words, mighty words, words just to suit every crisis and every case. Whatever be the cause of it profanity is on the increase, and if you do not know it it s because your ears have been hardened >y tho diu of im precations so that you art hot stirred and moved, as you ought to bq by profanities in these cities which are enough to bring a hurricane of fire like that which con sumed Sodom. Do you know that this tiival use of God’s name results in perjury? Do you know that people who take tie name of God on their lips in recklessnessand thoughtless ness are fostering the crime of perjury? Make the name of Goda foot-ball in the community and ft has 10 power when in court-room, and in Legitlature Assembly it is employed in solemi adjuration ! See the way sometimes thi.v administer the oath: “B’belp you Goi —kiss the book!” smuggling, which is rfways a violation of the oath, becoims in some cir cles a grand joke. x ou say to a man: “How is it possible hr you to sell these goods so very cheap? 'can’t understand it.” “Ah!” he replies with a twinkle of the eye, “the custom louse tariff of these goods isn’t as much a it might be.” An oath does not mean .s much as it would were the name of Gtd used in reverence and in solemnity. Why is it that so often jurors rendsr unacceptable verdicts, and judgeJ give unaccouitable charges, and useless railroad schemes pass in our State capitals, and there are most unjust TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 13. 1888. changes made in tariffs—tariff lifted lrom one thing and put upon pnjßhd - ? What is an oath? Any thing solemn? I Any thing that calls upon the Almighty? Any thing tiiat marks an event, in a man’s history? Oii.no! It is kissing the hook ! There is no habit, 1 fell you plainly—and 1 talk to hundreds and thousands of meu to day who Will thank me for my utterance —I tell you, my brother-*-1 talk to you not professionally, but just us one brother talks to another on some very important theme—l tell you there is no habit that so depletes a man’s nature as the habit of profanity. Y r ou might as well try toraise vineyards and orchards on tho sides of belching Stromboli as to raise tiny thing good on a heart from which there pours out the scoria of profanity. Y'ou may swear yourself down; you can not swear yourself up. When the Mohammedan linds a piece of paper he can not read he puts it aside very cautiously, for fear the name of God may bcou it. That is one extreme. Wo go the other. Now what is ibo cure of this habit? It is a mighty habit. Men hnvo struggled for years to get over it. There are men in this house of God who would give half their fortune to get rid of it. An aged man was in the delirium of s fe ver. He had for many years lived a most upright life, anil was honored in all the community, but when ho came intcatne delirium of this fever he was full of impre cation and profanity, and they could not understand it. After ho came to his right reason he explained it. He said: “When I was a young man I was very profane. I conquered the habit, but I had to struggle all through life. Y'ou haven’t for forty years heard me say an improper word, but it has been an awful struggle. The tiger is chained, but.he is alive yet.” If you would get rid of tills habit, I want you, my friends, to dwell upon the uselessness of it.. Did a volley of oaths ever start a heavy load? Did they ever ex tirpate meanness from a customer? Did they ever collect a bad debt? Did they over cure a toothache? Did they over stop the twinge of tho rheumatism? Did they ever Help you forward ono step in the right direction? Come, now, toll me, ye who have had tho most experience in this habit, how much have you made out of it? Five thousand dollars in nil your life? No. Ono thousand? No. One hundred? No. One dollar? No. Ono cent? No. If the habit be so utterly useless, away with it. But you say: “I have struggled to over come the habit a long w hile, and I have not been successful.” You struggled in your own strength, my brother. Hover a man wants God, it is in such a crisis of his history. God alone by His grace fifth emancipate you from that trouble. Call upon Him day aud night that you may be delivered from this crime. Remember also in tho cure in this habit that it arouses God’s indignation. The Bible reiterates from chapter to chapter, and verso after verse, the fact that it is accursed for this life, and that it makes a man miserable for eternity. There is not a sin in all the cataloguo that is so often peremptorily and suddenly pun ished in tliis world as the sin of profanity. There is not a city or a village but can give an illustration of a man struck down atthe moment of imprecation. Acouplo of years ago, briefly referring to this sin in a sermon, I gave some instances in which God had struck swearers dead at the moment of their profanity. That ser -mon brought to mo from many parts of this land and other lands statements of similar cases of instantaneous visitation from God upon blasphemers. My opinion is that such cases occur somewhere every day, but for various reasons they are not reported. In Scotland a club assembled every week for purposes of wickedness, and there was a competition as to whicli could use the most horrid oath, and the one who succeed ed was to be made president of the ciub. The competition went on. A man uttered *n oatli which confounded all his comrades, and he was mado president of the club. His tongue began to swell, and it protrud ed from the mouth, and he could got draw it in, and he died, and tho physicians said: •‘Thisis the strangest thing we ever saw; we never saw any account in the books like unto it; we can’t understand it.” I understand it. He cursed God and died. At Catskill, N. Y., a group of men stood in a blacksmith’s shop during a violent thunder-storm. There came a crush of thunder and somo of the men trembled. One man said: “Why, I don’t see wiie*. you are afraid of. lam not afraid to go out in front of the shop and defy the Al mighty, I am not afraid of lightning.” And he laid a wager on tho subject, and he went out, and he shook his fist at the heavens, - crying: “Strike, if you ,darel” nnd instantly he fell under a bolt. What destroyed him? Any mys tery about it? Oh, no. Ho cursed God and died. Oh, my brother, God will not allow this sin to go unpunished. There are stylos of writing with manifold sheets, so that a man writing on one leaf writes clear through ten, fifteen ortwoity sheets, and so every profanity we u-,ter goes right down through the leaves of the book of God’s remembrance. It is no excep tional sin. Do you suppose you could count the profanities of last week—tho profanities of tho office, store, shop, factory ? They cursed God, they curse! His Word, they cursed his only begotten Son. One morning on Fulton street, as I was passing along, I heard a man swear by the name of Jesus. My hair lifted. My blood ran cold. My breath caught My foot halted. Do you not suppose that God is aggravated ? Do you not suppose that God knows about it? Dionysius used to have a cavo in which his culprits were incarcer ated, and he listend atthe top of that cavo, and he could hear every groan, ho could hear ivory sigh and he could hear every whisper of those who were imprisoned. He was a tyrant God is not a tyrant but He bends over this world, and He hears every thing—every voice of praise apd ev ery imprecation. He hears it ail. The oaths seem to die on the air, but they have eternal echo. They come back from the ages to come. Listen! Listen! “All blasphemers shall have their place in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the sec ond death." And if, according to the theory of some, a man commits in the next world tho sins which ha committed in this world—if unpardoned, unregener ated —think of a man going on cursing in tho namo of Uod to all eternity! Hie habit grows. Y'ou start with a small oath, you will come to tho large oath. I saw a man die with an oath between his teeth. Voltaire only gradually came to his tremendous imprecation : but the habit grew on him until in the last moment, sup posing Christ stood at the bed, he exclaim ed : 4 crush that wretch! Crush that wretch !” Oh, my brother, you begin to swear and there is nothing impossible for you in the wrong direction. Who is this God whose name you avo using in swearing! Who is He? Is He a tyrant? Has He pursued .you all your life long? Has He starved you, frozen .you, tyrannized over you? No. He has loved you, he has sheltered you, ho watched you last night. Ho will watch you to night. He wants to love you, wants to help you, wants to savo you, wants to comfort you. Ho was your father’s God and your mother’s God. He has housed them from the blast, and He wants to shelter you. Will you spit in His face by an imprecation? Will you ever thrust Him back by an oath? Who is this Jesus whose name I heard in the imprecation? Has He pursued you all your life long? What vile thing has He done to you that you should so dishonor Ilis name'! Why, Ho was the Lamb whose blood simmered in the fires of sacrifice for you. He is the brother that look off His crown that you might put it on. He has pursued you all your life long with mercy. He wants you to lovo Him, wants you to serve Hirn. He comes with streamingoyes and broken heart aud hiisterod feet to save you. On tlie craft of our doomed human, ity He pushed out into the sea to take you off the wreck. UTILITY OF VOLCANOES Value of the Solid Substances Ejected During Eruptions. The solid matter thrown out by volcanoes is the most important contribution to the materials v'hich the sea has at its disposal for the nourishment of life and for the formation of Btra n. The quantity of the pumifieous and finely pulverized materia) is enormous. When it fails upon the sea it either floats for a time or at once sinks into the depths. In either cise It is, to a great extent, dissolved in the ocean waters, and so contributes to the stor« of materials w'hich may bo appopri ated by the orga,nio life of the sea. When it fnlls on the land, it is generally so inco herent that it is easily swept away by the rains, and so cora»» quickly into the ocean. The importance of this contribution to marine sediments has been overlooked by geologists, bnt it is easy to see that it may amount in muss to something like as much ns the earthy matter which is brought to the sea by the rivers. The volcanoes of the Java district alone have within a century thrown out a mnss of this fragmentary rock amounting probably not less than ono Lundred cubic mijos, and perhaps to twice this quantity. N y, the Mississippi river carries out in the form of dissolved matter, mud and sand about one cubio mile in tw-enty years, or five cubic miles in a century; thus these volcanoes of the Java districts have brought up from the depthn of the earth and contributed to the sea many times as much detrius as has been conveyed to the ocean by tho greatest rivoi of North America Allowing for the porosi ty of the volcanic dust, it still seems un likely that the ejections from a b »lf dozen great volcanoes of the East Indian archipelago, in the period of little moro than a century, from 1773 to 1883, far exceeded that brought into the ocean by all the rivers of North America in the same period. Although the volcanoes of this district are by far the most powerful which are known, v r e still can not fairiy reckon that their ejee ions represent anywhere near tho half of the total quantity which came to the earth’s surface from such vents during the »love-named period of 111 years. For during this time some scores of great cra ters were in eruption, including Skaptar, in Iceland, Vesuvius, A! na, various volcanoes in South America and elsewhere. It seems, therefore, not unlikely that the solid ma’er ials contributed by volcanoes to the sea floor, may, on the average, amount to as much as that taken by the rivers from the land. Among these solid substances which are ejected by volcanoes we find some of the most indispensable elements of or ganic life, including phosphorus, soda, potash nnd other materials. The value of these materials to vegetation may be judged by the fertility which so often characterizes the regions in the Immediate vicinity of volcanic cones which cast forth large amounts of ash. If the rainfall be sufficient this ash quickly decomposes into a fertile soil, which tempts the hunbandman to re plant the fields as fnst as they ere ravaged by tie explosions.— Scnb.M'e Magazine. Wiso Forgetting, Helps to memory ore fought and ore prof fered on every side. Men are asking how they can be aided to remember things which they want to keep in mind. And men who say that they can give assistance in th s line are sure of willing pupils. But there, is a duty of forgetting which is quite as pftsitive and quite zs practical os any duty of remembering. If only we could forget those early lessons of evil which abide with ns re if they were a part of our very nature; if only we could forget those injuries! und unkind nesses which, in spite of our efforts at keeping th6tn out of mind, are as a barrier between us and those whom we would fan remember with unfailing pleasantness; if only we could put out of memory forever those things which ought never to have a place there-- what a blessing it would be to us! Whc will promise to teach n sure method of wise forgetting in five lessons—or in live ban dre I?— S. H. I'iinex. A —♦ • The man who, being in ordinary health and basing the usual powers of our com mon humanity, seeks to sponge the means of subsistence out of others, without con tributing any tiling to the good of others, deserves a whippine-poet; and if it were not barbarism, should favor lash ng him to exertion. — X. Y. Independent, It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose yvjjafc is difficult —George Eliot , FROM THE POPE To the Illustrious President of the United States. Handsome Acknowledgement of the Jubi lee Present—Document Delivered in Person l>y Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore, Mo., April 9.—Cardinal Gib bons lias received the following from Home: “To Ova Beloved Son James Gibbons, Cardinal Priest of the Holy Ho man Church, Archbishop of Baltimore - W«U Ueloveil Aon, I/ealth nnd Ajioetolir Betu <iietxon: Among the countless congratula tions which we have receivod from all . parts of tho world upon the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of our elevation to tho priesthood, we have, as was natural, set most store by the evidences of courtesy nnd regard sent by the rnlcrs of the Nations. For by these marks of their good will toward the head of the church they manifest (and this wo irdently desire) their kindly disposition reward their Catholic subjects. Since, then, the Illustrious President of the United Slates has, through you, our be loved son,seen fit to exhibit a like courtesy, accompanying the expression of tho samo with a gift of a superb copy of the Consti tution of that most powerful Re public, he has, in so doing, afforded us a most peculiar pleasure and satis faction. Moreover, as it is fitting that wo should return to His Excellency the expres sion of our gratitude, wo commit tho dis charge of that duty to you, both on ac count of your exalted rank in tire hierarchy of the Republic and the personal esteem in which His Excellency holds you. In fulfilling this duty we desire that you should assure the Presidentof our admira tion for the Constitution of tho United States, not only because it has enabled in dustrious and enterprising citizens to attain so high a degree of prosperity, but, also, because under its protection your Catholic countrymen have enjoyed a liber ty which has so confessedly promoted tho astonishing growth of their religion in tho past, and w ill, we trust, enable it in the fu ture to be of tho highest advantage to the civil order as well. You will be p’eised to add that we will pour forth fervont pray ers to God for your coun try’s constant advance in glory anil prosperity, and for tho health and happi ness of tho President and his worthy house hold. Finally, to you, beloved son, and to the faithful intrusted to your pastoral care, we loving, in the Lord, impart our Apostolic benediction. Given at Romo, at St. Peter’s, the 4th day of February, in ( the year of our Lord 1888, and tho tenth of our Pontificate. —Pope Leo, X!II.’“ Tho epistle was in Latin. The contents were translated and road by the Cardinal for the President to-day. „« ♦ > FOURTEEN HUSBANDS In Thirty-Eight Years—A Woman Is Said to Have This Record and lie Legally Correct. | Bradford, Pa., April 9.—McKean Coun ty sees Dr. J. M. Chaplin, of Findlay, 0., the champion married man of the Buck eye State, and goes him four better. The doctor has succeeded in transferring his name to ton wives, seven of whom are re ported as living. McKean County’s re cord-breaker is a she, and her experience 1n the “silken bonds of matrimony” would fill a book as big as a dictionary. She lives in Smithport, the county seat of this county, and is known os Mrs. Ida Hoosted. Her chief attraction is her Juno-like form. She is tall and magnificently proportioned, and looks ns if the winds of thirty -eight winters, moro or less, might have toyed with her abun dant dark brown tresses. When scarcely out of her short dresses she contracted her first marriage. She lias been after meu ever since, and is now living with husband No. 14. The other thirteen hub bies are all in the flesh, and all are on good terms with tho marrying woman. She has been legally - separated from all her alliances, and was only married a few months ago to No. 14. Dehorned Cattle Craze. BloomiNOTo.v, 111., April 9.— Thousands of cattle have been dehorned in this sec tion since tho outbreak of the craze, a few months ago, and with but few exceptions the animals rapidly recovered from tho operation. Yesterday, however, news came that several droves of recently de horned cattle ou farms west of Blooming ton are in a most pitiable and serious con dition. Their horns were removed March 1, and the wounds have not healed, and mortification is reported to have set in in the flesh of the head. Something like 100 animals are reported to be thus affected. Strange and Fatal Accident Albuql'ekqi'E, N. M., April 9.—Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Reynolds, of Las Vegas, camo hero yesterday. While thoy were walk ing along the street, Mr. Reynolds carry ing an overcoat on his arm, a loaded re volver fell from one of its pockets, struck on the hammer and was discharged. Tho hall cutered Mrs. Reynolds’ badv on her leftside, ranged upward, passing directly through tho heart, killiug her iustautlv. Lock-jaw From a Trivial Cause. Wheeling, W. Va., April 9.—Last Fri day Carry Baiswonger, while scrubbing, ran a big splinter under her thumb nail. A physician remove 1 it, but the ar.u swelled badly, and to-day lock-jaw set In, and it is said the girl can not live till morn tng. Conklin in Dangerg. New York, April 10. —At an early hour this (Tuesday) morning Ex-Senator Ros coe Conkling was hovering between life and death. An operation was performed on the Senator, and a portion of the tem poral bone was removed to ascertain if pus is lodged on the brain. The operation was successful, but grave doubts ara ex pressed as to his life being prolonged for ty-eight hours. Woman Suffrage Rejected. Albanv, N. Y r ., April 9. —Tuj Assembly to-nigat rej?ctei tho bill for municipal suffrage fqr woman, VOL. V.-NO. 7. KIS FIRST EiRUNK. The Troubles of a Young Man Who Kissed a Girl Against Her Consent. Frederick, Md., April 10. —Goo. O’Neiil, a Very highly esteemed young man of Mid dletown, this county, was 10-duy held in SIOO bail for his appearance at the next term of court. Tho offense for which young O’Neill is to nnswor is the hug ging and kissing of Miss Grace YN>ung, a pretty girl of this town. O'Neill had gone to Frederick on EasteA Mon day to see tho festivities and indulged a little too freely with intoxicants, to which he is unaccustomed. While in the store of M. E. Got zendauner he met Miss. Y'oung, who was with her mother. He begau toy ing with tho girl's handkerchief, then tried to take it frifm her, his conduct be coming more and more free until he final ly wound up by throwing his arms around her neck, huggingl.cr and impressing two kisses on her Jips, according to the testimony of the young lady, which was admitted to bo true by O’Neill. Miss Young was highly indignant. So was Mr*. Y'oung. The mother’s wrath increas ed as she nursed it,and she finally resolved to have the young man nrres!cd on tho charge. O'Neill mada no denial. Ho stated that it was tho first tme ho had rllowod himself to become intox;c.,ted, and that he would never have acted as ho did ii sober. CAUGHT IT ON THE FOURTH. A Gotham Oleo Dealer Gets a Term iu the I’euitenl iary. New York, April 10. — Thomas Hcholes, a grocer, pleaded guilty before Recorder Fmythe in the General Sessions yesterday of selling oleomargarine in place of butter. The Recorder said, after musing over his papers, that he remembered that three suspended sentences for-the same offense were hanging over Scholos. Ho sentenced him to three months in the peniten tiary. Seholes had expected to be fined and he burst into tears. “This is pretty hard. Recorder, to send a respectable man to prison to assoeiato with criminals and thieves,” said Schoies’ counsel. “It is harder for decent people to bo swindled. I am going to send every one of the cart grease butter dealers'to prison now. This business must bo stopped. I have warned them and no more pleading ignorance of the law or of the character of the buttor will ho accepted.” A Sad Case. New York, April 10.—Yesterday afler noon little Annie Forster returned to her home from school, where she had just been promoted to the head of her class. Her father on ' learning of her brightness when she came to dinner gave her an extra penny. She spent tho coin for a toy balloon, and on reaching the door leading to her residence placed tho toy in her mouth while si o searched in her pocket for the latch-key. A moment later she fell to tho flagging in a strangling condition. The child was taken to a physician, who pronounced tlio case one of heart disease. The child died in a drug store. A post-mortem exam illa tion was hold, when it was discovered that the child had partially swallowed the toy balloon, and that it had lodged in tho throat, causing death. A Chance for Conkling. New York, April 10.—Dr. Barker bad a consultation with Dr. Bunds between 8:15 and It o’clock at Mr. Conlding’s home. Tho patient’s condition is greatly im proved, and there is no danger of his death to-nig'.it. The physicians say that if Mr. Conkling can be kept alive for throe days he will recover. A reporter askol Dr. Barker tho blunt question: “Can Mr. Conkling recover?” The doctor cautiously roplioJ : “It is a treacherous disease, and I can not speak for tho future. All tha changes that have taken place to-day are in the patient's favor. But very little pus has been discharged since the operation was performed.” John A. Logan Released. Cleveland, 0., April 10.—At Newcastle, Penn., to-day John A. Logan, who was ar rested for shooting a riotous Italian at ttie Carbon limestone quarries, was released from custody. The magistrate held that as Mr. Logan acted under tho sheriff’® or ders he could not bo held for the shooting. Tho Italian was not badly hurt. Miners Threaten to Strike. Altoona, Pa., April 10. —The soft coa niiners on tho mountain between Ga'lit r.in and Bouth Fork, 4 000 to 5.000 in num ber, still say they will refuse to accept a reduction of 10 jer cent on the price of 45 cents per ton net for mining. Thcv will doc id' formally on Wedneslay and a strike is imminent. A Bloody Collision. Chattanooga, Tens. April 10.—A special from Knoxville says to-day a fight occur red between the strikers at Cumberland Gap'Tunucl,on the Powell’s Valley railroad, and the mountaineers, which resulted in the killing of five men and wounding of twelve. Further trouble is feared. The Fire 0u!. Calcmet, Mich., April 10. —The Calumet <K; Hecla Mine will be opened Wednesday, as the management is convinced that the (Ire is out. Tho great copper smelting works and rolling mill* just completed at Dollar Bay have commenced operations with everything working well. A Murderer at Nine Years. Coit’MniA, 8. C., April 10.—Laney Walker, a boy nine years old, and L;bl>ie Ashe, a girl of twelve, had a fight 3'esier day in Union County, during which Walker plunged a knife into the girl’s breast, killing her instantly. ♦ ♦ * The Hullinan Mjrderers. Ravenna, 0., April 10.—Blinky Morgan is to bo hanged June l for the Hulligau murder. Rob nson is granted a new trial, and Coughlin’s case is now under consul ration by the circuit court bore.