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According to the official year book
of the Church of England, which has
recently been published, tho voluntary
offering for church building by the
people during the last flvo years has
amounted to about $25,000,000. This
does not include the sum expended for
mission work.
The vinmese paper currency is m
red, white and yellow paper, with
gilt lettering and gorgeous liapd
drawn devices. The bills, to the ordi¬
nary financier, might pass for wash¬
ing bills, but they are worth good
money in the Flowery Kingdom.
The witnesses for the defence in a
libel suit at Montreal, Canada, testi¬
fied that so high did the character of
the plaintiff stand it was impossible to
libel him. No one would believe his
traducers, and hence his business
standing could not suffer. On this
ground the jury returned a verdict for
the defendant.
The newest envelope in Europe is
devised with sufficient cloveruess to
make ns wonder, observes the New
Orleans Picayune, that any one but
an American should have thought of
It. The flap is squrely cut ofl at the
end and folds down so as to gum itself
close to the bottom of the envelope.
It is creased above the line of gum
and when the top of the envelope is
torn or cut open the flap falls down
and displays an advertisement that
has been printed on the under side.
The persecution of the Jews in Rus¬
sia will largely increase the Hebrew
population of the United States, pre¬
dicts the New York Recorder. One
thousand families are about to settle
}*P‘ 80,000 of land in
on a tract of acres
Caldwell County, North Carolina,
wlycli has just been purchased for the
colony. The settlement is to be mau
aged on tjie plan of Vineland,and it is
•aidVhat the exiles are all well-to-do
farmers, who will bring to their new
home habits of enterp’”sing industry.
, The New York man who succeeded
in moving a railroad car weighing
35,000 pounds is certainly worthy, ad¬
mits tll§ gan Franqscq Chronicle, of
lie title of “the modern Ajax.” Of
course there is much in the knowledge
of how to utilize one’s strength in such
a, feat, but |he fact that eight men
failed to do what lie accomplished
proves that he is a fellow who should
have lived in mediaeval times, when
physical prowess was the stepping
stone to wealth and honor. Nowadays
it means nothing more than a preca
rious living as a dime museum freak.
Maxim, the inventor of the cele¬
brated gun which bears his name,
now announces he has reason to be¬
lieve from experiments made by him
that he has solved the problem of aeri¬
al transportation. He expects soon to
construct a flying machine of silk, to
be driven by steam, that will have a
speed of 100 miles an hour, aud he
makes what Beems to the New York
News to be a wild suggestion, that in
time of war explosives may be
dropped over an enemy’s position
with destructive effect. “Fancy a fleet
* of these monstors of the air coming
together a mile or two above terra
firms and engaging in mortal com¬
bat!” exclaims the News.
“We have practically no army,” as¬
serts the New York Tribune. “Gradu¬
ates from West Point come out to see
an endless line of officers before them,
who are at almost a standstill, and it
is no wonder that when they look far
up the line they ask themselves if
there is any hope of getting near the
top before they have outlived their
usefulness. The European armies are
so immense that a better field is of
fered, though to ambitious young men
promotion even there must seem slow
of peace. But the constant
additions to the armies of great mili¬
tary powers make* room for new¬
comers. France, Germany and Rus¬
sia, far from reducing tlieir forces,
seem to be straining every nerve to in¬
crease them.”
REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
subject: the vacant chair.
Text: "Thou shalt be missed, because
thy seat will be empty."—! Samuel xx.. 18.
Set on the table the cutlery and the chased
silverware of the palace, for King Saul will
give place a state dinner to-day. A distinguished
celebrated is kept at the table David for his son-in-law,
a warrior, byname. in The
take guests, their Jeweled places. and When plumed, people coma invited and
are
to a king’s banquet they are very apt to go.
But before the covers are lifted from the
feast Saul looks around and finds a vacant
seat at the table. He says withjn
himself, perhaps audibly, “What does
this mean? Where is my son-in-law?
Where is David, the great war
rior? I invited him. I expected him. What!
a vacant chair at the king’s banquet!” The
fact was that David, the warrior, had
been seated for the last time at his father
in-law’s table. The day before Jonathan
had coaxed David to go and occupy that
place at the table, saying to David'in the
words of my text, “Thou shalt be missed,
because thy seat will be empty.” The pre¬
diction was fulfilled. David was missed.
His seat was empty. That one vacant chair
the spoke louder than aii the occupied chairs at
In almost every house the articles of fur¬
niture take a living personalitv. That
picture—a stranger would not see anything
remarkable either in its design or execution,
but it is more to yoirthan all the pictures of
the Louvre and the Luxembourg. You re¬
member who bought it, and who admired
it. And that hymn book—you remem¬
ber who sang out of it. And that
cradle—you that Bible—you remember who rocked it. And
remember who read
outof it. And that bed—you remember who
who slept in it. And that room—you remember
died in it. But there is nothing in all
your bouse so eloquent and so mighty voiced
as the vacant chair. I suppose that before
haul and his guests got up from this banquet
there was a great clatter of wine pitchers,
but all that racket was drowned out by the
voice that came up from the vacant chair at
the table.
Millions have gazed and wept at John
Quincy Adams’s vacant chair in the house of
representatives, chair in the vice-presidency, and at Wilson’s vacant
and at Henrv
and Clay’s vacant Prince chair in the American senate,
at Albert’s vacant chair in Wind¬
sor castle, and at Thiers’ vacant chair in the
councils of the French nation. But all these
chairs are unimportant to you as compared
with the vacant chairs in your own household.
Have these chairs any lesson for us to learn?
Are we any better men end women than
when they first addressed us?
First I point out to you the father’s va¬
cant chair. Old men always like to sit m
the same place and in the same chair.
They times somehow feel more at home, and some¬
when you are in their place and they
come into the room you jump up sud¬
denly chair,” and The say, “Hex - e. father, here’s your
chair, for he probability is is it is an arm
and he needs not so little strong upholding. as he ones His
was, a
hair is a little frosty, his gums a little de¬
pressed, for in his earl y days there was not
much dentistry. Perhaps a cane chair and
old fashioned apparel, for though you may
have suggested some improvement, father
doesnot want any of your nonsense. Grand¬
father never had much admiration for new
tangled I notions. the table of of parishion¬
sat at one my
ers in a former congregation; an aged man
was at the table, and the son was presiding,
and the father somewhat abruptly addressed
the son and said, “My sou, don’t try now to
show off because the minister is here!"
Your father never liked any new customs
or manners, he preferred the old way of
doing happy things, when and with he his never closed, looked he sat so
as eyes
in the armchair in the corner. From
the wrinkled brow to the tip of the slippery I
what his placldlfy! The WaV6 tbe foot of the of that past chair. years
of life broke at
Perhaps tient, and sometimes sometimes he told was the a little impa¬
same story
twice; but over that old chair how many
blesseff memories hover! I hope you did
not crowd that old chair, and that it did not
get very much in old the way.
Sometimes the man’s chair gets very
much in the way, especially if ha has been so
unwise as to make over all his property to
his children, with the understanding tl hat
they are to take care of him. I have seen in
such cases children crowd the old man’s
chair to the door, and then crowd it clear
into the street, and then crowd it into tbe
poor house, and keep on crowding it until
the old man fell out of it into his grave.
But your father’s chair was a sacred place.
The children used to climb up on the ruugs
of it for a good night kiss, and the But longer that he
stayed the better you liked it.
chair has been vacant now for some time.
The furniture dealer would not give you
fifty cents for it, but it is a throne of influ¬
ence in your domestic circle. 1 saw in the
French palace, and in the throne room, the
chair that beautiful Napoleon chair, used but to the occupy. mosi
It was a
significant part of it was the letter
“8” embroidered into the back of the chair
in purple and gold. And your father's old
chair sits in the throne room of your heart,
and your affections have embroided into tire
back of that old chair allRthe in purple aud gold that the
letter- “F.” Have prayers of
old chair been answered? Have all the
counsels of that old chair been practiced?
Speak out! old armchair.
History tells us of an old man whose t ires
sons were they victors back in the these Olympic games, with and
when came three sons,
their garlands,put them on the father’s brow,
and the old man was so rejoiced at the vic¬
tories of his three children that he fell dead
in their arms. And are you, oh man, going to
and bring a wreath it of joy father’s and Christian usefulnes
put chair, on your the brow, or on the
vacant or on memory of the one
departed? Speak out, old armchair! With
reference to your father, the words of my
text have been fulfilled, “Thou shalt be
missed, because thy seat will be empty."
I go a little further on in your house and
I find the mother’s chair. It is very apt to
le a rocking chair. She had so many
cares and troubles to soothe that it must
have rockers. I remember it well; it was
an old chair, and the rockers were almost
worn out, for I was the youngest, and the
chair had rocked the whole family. It
made a creaking noise as it moved; but
there was music in the sound. It was just
high heads enough into her- to allow lap. us That children to put out
was the bank
where we deposited all our hurts and wor¬
ries. Ah 1 what a chair that was. It was
different from the father’s chairs it was en¬
tirely tell; different. but all You felt ask it me how? I can¬
not we was different.
gentleness, Perhaps there was tenderness, about this chair more
had more done When more grief
when we wrong. we were
It wayward father scolded, but mother cried.
was a very wakeful chair. In the
sick days of children other chairs
could kept awake—kept not keep awake; easily that awake. chair always
The chair
knew all the old lullabies and all those
wordless songs which mothers sin g to th n *
sick children—songs in su e i all pity an 1
compassion combined. nnd sympathetic influence are
That otd chair has stopped rocking for a
goo 1 many years. It may he sat up.ni the
loft or the garret, but it holds a queenly
power yet. When at midnight you went
into that grog shop to get the intoxicating
draught, dij you not bear a voice that s iid,
“My son, why go in there?” Aud louder of
than the boisterous encore of t e placi
sinful amusement, a voici saying, “Mv
son, what do you do here?” Aud when
you went into the house of abandonment,
a voice saying, “What would your mother
do if she knew you wero here?” And you
were provoked with yourself, and nnd you
charged yourself with superstition fa
naticism aud your head got hot with your
awn thought*, to and and y ou went home had and
you touched went bed, no sooner “WhatI you
the bed tnan a voice said:
a prayerles-i pillow? Man! what is the
matter?” This. You are too roar your
mother’s rocking-chair.
“Oh, pshaw!” you say. “There’s nothing
in that. I’m five hundred miles off from
where I was born. I’m three hundred miles
off from the church whose bell was the
first music I ever heard.” I cannot help
that. You are too near your mother’s
rocking chair. “Oh,” you say. “there
can’t be anything in that, That
chair has been vacant a great while.” I
cannot It help is that. It is all the mightier for
that. omnipotent, that vacant mother
er’s chair. It whispers, it speaks, it weeps, it
carols, it mourns, it prays, it warns, it
thunders. A young man went off and
broke his mother’s heart, ami while ha was
away from home his mother died, and the
telegraph brought the son, and ho came
into the room where she lay and looked
upon her face, and he cried out: “Oh,
mother, mother, wnat your life could not do
your death shall effect! This moment I give
my heart to God.” And he kept his prom¬ chair.
ise. Another victory for the vacant
With reference to your mother the words of
my text were fulfilled, ‘Thou shalt be
missed, because thy seat will be 1 empty.”
I go on a little further, and coma to the
invalid’s chair. What! How ion? have you
been sick? ‘.‘Oh! I have been sick ten.twenty,
thirty years.” Is it possible? What a story
of endurance. There are in many of the
families of my congregation these invalids’
chairs. The occupants of them think they
are doing no good in the world, but that in¬
valid’s chair is the mighty pulpit
from which they have been preach¬
ing, all these years, trust in God. The first
time I preached here at Lakeside, Ohio, amid
the throngs present, there was nothing that
so much impressed me as the invalid spectacle who of
just one face—the face of an
was wheeled in on her chair. I said to her
afterward: “Madam, how long have you
been prostrated?” for she was lying flat m
the chair. “Oh!” she replied. “I have
been this way fifteen years.” I said,
“Do you suffer very much?” ‘Oh, yes,
she said, “I suffer very much; I suffer all
the time; part of the time I was blind. I
always suffer." “Well,” I said “can you
keep your courage up?” “Oj, yes, she said,
“I am happy, very happy indeed. Her face
showed it. She looked the happiest or any
one on the ground. of * to the world,
Oh. what a means grace
these invalid chairs. On that field of hu¬
victory. man suffering Edward the grace of God gets its
and Richard Baxter, Payson, the the invalid,
Robert Hall, the invalid, and invalid, the and
ten thou¬
sand of Whom the world has never heard,
but of whom all heaven is cognizant. The
most conspicuous thing on earth for God’s
eye and the eye of angels to rest on, is not
a thron^f earthly power, but it is the in¬
valid’s chair. Oh. these men and women
who are always suffering, but never com¬
plaining—these neuralgic victims of spinal disease,
and torture, and rheumatic ex.
cruciation will answer to the roll call of
the martyrs, and rise to the martyr’s throne,
and will wave the martyr’s palm.
But when one of these invalids chairs be¬
comes vacant how suggestive it is! No
more changing bolstering up of the weary head. No
more from side to side to get an
easy position. No more use of the bandage
and the cataplasm and the prescription.
That invalid chair may be folded up or
taken apart, or sat away, but it will
never lose its queenly power, it will always
preach of trust iu Go! and cheerful submis¬
sion. Suffering all ended now. With re¬
spect have to that invalid the words shaft of my text
been fulfilled, “Thou be missed,
because thy seat will be empty.
I pass on and find one more vacant chair.
It is a high chair. It is the child’s chair.
If that chair be occupied I think it is the
most potent chair in all the household, All
tbe chairs wait on it; all the chairs are
turned toward it. It means more than
David’s chair at Saul’s banquet. At any
rate it makes more racket. That is a strange
house that cau b9 dull with a child
in it. How that child breaks up the hard
worldliness of tho place and keeps you
young If to sixty, seventy and child eighty years of
age. you have no of your own
adopt one; it will open heaven to your
soul. It will pay its way. Its crowing iu
tbe morning will give the day a cheerful
starting, and its glee at night will give the
day a cheerful close. You do not like chii-.
dren? Then you had better stay out of
heaven, for there are so many there they
would five hundred fairly make yon crazy. of them. Only The about old
millions
crusty Pharisees tol l the Christ. mothers “You to keep the
children away from bother
Him,” they said; “you trouble the Master.”
Trouble Him'! He' has filled heaven with
that kind of trouble.
A pioneer in California says that for the
first year or two after his residence in
Sierra Nevada county there was not a
single child in all the reach of a hundred
miles. But the Fourth of July came, and
the they miners celebrating were gathered the Fourth together with and
were ora¬
tion and poem and a boisterous brass baud,
and while the band was playing an infant’s
voice was heard crying, and all tbe miners
were startled, and the swarthy the men began
to think of their homes on eastern coast,
and of their wives and children far away,
and their hearts were thrilled with home¬
sickness as they heard the babe cry. But
the music went on, and the child cried
louder and louder, and the brass band
played louder and louder, trying to drown
out the infantile interruption, rolling when a
swarthy miner, the tears down his
face, got up and shook his fist and said,
“Stop that noisy band, and give the baby a
chance,” Ob, there was pathos in it, as
well as good cheer in it. There is nothing
to arouse and melt and subdue the soul
like a child’s voice. But when it goes
away from you the high chair becomes a
higher chair and there is desolation all about
you. the homes of this
In three-fourths of con¬
gregation there is a vacant it. _ high There chair.
Somehow you never get over is
no one to put to bed at night; God no and one to ask
strange questions about heaven.
Ob, what is the use of that high chair? It is
to call you higher. What in a heaven drawing I And up¬
ward it is to have children
then it is such a preventive against Bin. If
a father is going away into siu he leaves
his living children with their mother; but
if a father is going away into sin what is
be going to do with his dead children float¬
ing about him and hovering over his every
wayward step. Oh, speak out, vacant from high
chair, and say: “Father, come back
Mu; mother, count bac.c trout wormiins.v'. i
mu watching; you. 1. am waiting for you
VVith respect to yourc'iil 1 two rvoras ol my
text have been fulfilled, ‘Thou shalt be
missed, thy seat will be empty. ’
because
Mv hearers, I have gathered and tried up the to intone voices
of your departs 1 friends I i:i
them mto one invitation upward s;t ar¬
ray nil the vacant chairs of your homes and
of your social circle, and I bid them cry out
this inormnc: “Tima is short. Eternity is
near. Take my Saviour. Be at peso
with my God. Cow up where I am.
We lived together on earth; come )et us
live together in heaven/’ Wo enswer that
invitation. We#>me. IVe *>me. Keep Keep a a seat seat for for u*, u--,
ns Saul kept a seat for Davto, but that seat
,
shall not be empty. Aud oh! when wo are
all through with this world, and wo have
shaken hands a'l aroun.l for the last time,
ana all our chairs in the homo circle and m
the outside world shall be vacant, may which we
be worshiping God in that place from
we shall go out no more forever.
I thank God there will be no vacant chairs
in heaven. There we shall heart-breaks. meet again How and
much talk over our have earthly been through since
Sri•ft.taLSTChS! you you saw
..
liness. The sleepless nights. The weeping
until you had no more power to weep, be
cause the heart was withered and
drisd up Story of empy cradle
and a little shoe only half worn out
never to bo worn again, just the shape of
the foot that once pressed it. And dreams
when you thought the departed had bright com3
back again, and the room seemed
with their j aces, and you started up to
greet them and m tire effort the dream
broke and you found yourself standing amid
room in the midnight—alone.
Talking it ail over, and then, hand ill
hand, walking up and down in the heaven! light.
No beautiful sorrow, heaven! no tears, Heaven no death. where Oh, friends
our
are. Heaven where we expect to be. In the
east they take a cage of birds and bring it to
: the tomb of the dead, and then they open
the door of the cage, aud the birds, flying
out, sing. And I would to-day bring a cage
of Christian consolations to the grave of
your loved ones, and I would open the door
and let them fill all the air with the music
of their voices.
Oh, how they bound Some in these with spirits gladness. be¬
fore the throne! shout
Some break forth into uncontrollable weep¬
ing for joy. Some stand speechless in their
shock of delight. They sing. They They quiver the
with excessive gladness. gaze on
temples, on the palaces, on the waters, on
each other. They weave their joy into gar¬
lands, they spring it into triumphal
arches, they strike in on timbrels, and
then all the love! ones gather in a
great circle around the throne of God—fa¬
thers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and
daughters, lovers and friends, hand to hand
around about the throne of God—the circle
jubilee ever widening—hand to jubilee, victory to han to victory, I, joy to “until joy,
the day break and the shadows flee away.
Turn thou, my beloved, and be like a roe or
a young hart upon the mountains of Beth-
WEATHER AND CROPS.
The Outlook as Reported for
Past Week.
The weather bureau’s weekly crop bul¬
letin for week ended July 18, says: The
week has been cool in all districts east of
the Rocky mountains, except in New
England, New York and southern Texas,
where a normal temperature has pre¬
vailed. Condition of crop? in the various
sections are as follows:
Alabama—Farming interests in excel¬
lent condition; crops doing well in most suf¬
sections; cottoa in a few localities is
fering from disease.
Mississippi—Heavy shower’s at a few
places in the central part of the state,
elsewhere none, or very light; favorable
weather for cultivation and growth of
cotton and corn.
Virginia—Low temperature and de¬
ficiency in rainfall, injurious to corn;
tobacco promising. conditions
Arkansas—General weather
favorable, although the rain was badiy
distributed, particularly in the eastern
portion of the state; col ton somewhat
retarded by cool weather; corn excellent
and the crop assured; fruit will be an
average crop.
North Carolina—Heavy rain in some
portions and of tbe state, generally which favorable
to corn tobacco, shows a
slight and imp: cloudy; ovement, but weather too
cool cotton is at a stand¬
still.
South Carolina—Cool, dry weather,
unfavorable to cotton and corn. The
drought continues in tome portions of
the state.
Louisiana—Rainfall deficient, but ben¬
eficial; the corn crop is made and the
yield promising, co'.ton is fiuiting well,
cane growing luxuriantly. The laying
by of stubble cane is nearly completed;
early rice heading; crops somewhat
grassy; all repons favorable.
Texas—Waim and dry weather have
injured cotton in west and southwest
Texas; in other portion# good showers
have great'y benefited the crop, which
promises a heavy yield. The corn crop
is below the average.
Tennessee—Wheat mostly threshed; in
good condition and fine yield. Cottoa
blooming late; bad stands and prospect
poor. Core and tobacco doing well. Oats
but half a crop. Hay crop large and fine.
IN SESSION AT TORONTO.
Convention of the National Ed¬
ucational Association.
The annual convention of the National
Educational Association of the United
States formally opened Tuesday after¬
noon at Toronto, Ont., in the presence of
about six thousand persons. Rev. G. N.
Grant, principal of Queen’s university,
Kingston, behalf welcomed the delegates on
of Canada, takinsr the late Sir
John Macdonald’s place. Other Cana¬
dians also delivered welcoming addresses.
Short responses were made by Hon. W.
T. Ha».js, District of Columbia, commis¬
sioner of education for the United States;
Professor W. H. Bartholomew, of Ken¬
tucky, for the south central states; State
Superintendent John E. Massey, of Vir¬
ginia, Palmer, for the southeast; Hon. Solomon
of Alabama, for the gulf states;
Hon. Joseph H. Shinn, of Arkansas,
president of the Southern Educational
Association, for the south, and others.
THE WAR IS ON!
MINERS CAPTURE BOTH SOL¬
DIERS AND CONVICTS.
The Situation Assuming- a Se¬
rious Phase.
A Knoxville telegram sap: The nisis
came at Briceville Monday about 11
o’clock, when the miners and a crowd of
sympathizer fr. m the contiguous country militia
surrounded the camp of the state
and captured the troops and convicts,
marched them off to the depot, and put
them on a train and shipped them to
Knoxville. li:tie knoll
The camp was on a in a,
hollow, and surrounded on all sides by
mountains. The miners and thiir
teen hundred, were divided into lorn
equal squads, and approach" which a the on the
f lUr t jde6 of the square camp
formed “ ; D- T he miners sent J up a
flag of , truce, and , sent * u’ a com i it tee to
the officers in command. 1 he committee
notified the officers that they had come
to take the convicts; “Peaceably, if potsi
b]e (j y J f 0IC e, ’ if necessary.”
THE BOYS SURRENDER.
The officers parleyed awhile, and then
agreed to surrender. The troops were
allowed to keep their arms and ammuni¬
tion, nnd then tho troops and convicts
were inarched to the traiD. There they
were loaded in box cars, or whatever
could be had, and the entire lot were
sent to the city. The troops to the num¬
ber of 107, all told, went to the armory
of tbe Knoxville Rifles, where they now
remain awaiting the orders of the gover
nor. The miners made them promise not
to return to Coal Creek. The conviets
were taken to the jail, locked up«nd fed.
An immense crowd met the troops at the
depot. They were freely cheered as
they marched through nearly the streets. five days The
men had been on duty in
the rain, and bad seen but litile in the
way of provisions, and but little equip¬
ment. Their faces were bronzed, but
they presented a soldierly appearnice as
they marched up the street. The city is
now intensely excited. The leaders of
all political parties say celebrated the law its must be
upheld. The mob victory
by cheering, carousing and shooting,
anotheu move by the miners.
Immediately after tbe release of the
convicts at Briceville mines and the
troops and convicts had been placed on
the train, the mob wont to the mines of
the Knoxville Iron Company, surrounded
the victs stockade there, with and the captured guards. the They 125 con¬ also
were shipped away to Knoxville.
THE NEWS IN NASHVILLE.
A Nashville dispatch say3: Monday’s
developments in the mining troubles at
Briceville have caused all the immediately
available military in the state to he called
out by Governor Buchanan, and not less
than fourteen companies of the national
guard, well armed and equipped, are
Scurrying towaid the scene by special
trains.
A HALT ORDERED.
A later telegram says: Governor Buch¬
anan has ordered the militii to wait at
Knoxville, pending further instructions.
This is done because he desires to have
Attorney General Pickel’s opinion as to
his authority to quell the troubles inde¬
pendent of the Anderson county offi¬
cials.
A FIEND INCARNATE.
Horrible Murder of a Young
Lady by a Rejected Suitor.
A dispatch from Hanover, N. II., says:
As Miss Cristie Warden, accompanied by
her mother, her sister, Fannie, aud Louise
Goode’, was returning on foot to their
home, located one mile from the village,
at a late hour Saturday night, Frank
Almy, about thirty years of age, jumped
into the road in front of them, and seiz¬
ing Christie by the arm, said; “I want
you!” Tbe mother and a ter attempted
to defend her. Almy fired at them, but
missed. They ran for assistance. Then
Almy dragged his victim into the bushes
from tbe road and shot her twice through
the head, one shot tearing out her left
eye. When help arrived, the girl w s
dead, and her body was stripped of nearly
every article of clothing. Almy had fled.
Miss Warden was a beautiful and most
estimable young womau about twenty
five years old, a graduate of the state
normal school, aud a popular teacher.
Almy was a former employe of her father, bad
and his attention to Miss Christie
been repulsed. The town of Hanover
offers $500 reward, and Miss Warden’s
father offers $500 for the murderer.
WARDER SUICIDES
In a Fit of Melancholia Puts a
Bullet in His Brain.
A. A Warder Chatanoog* suicided dispatch Tuesday says: night Judge by J.
shooting tince himself through the brain,
the death of his son in-law, the re¬
sult of a family quarrel, in which his
sou-in-law, Simpson Fugette, was shot
and killed, Judge Warder’s daughter
wounded, nnd he himself seriously hurt,
he has been attacked with melancholia,
and his mind has been in a very unset¬
tled condition. Since his release from
confinement on account of his wound he
has been residing on Lookout Mountain
with his wife and mother. Tuesday,
upon the advice of his mother, he went
to the city in order to be relieved of the
monotony known of rural life. By some un¬ in
means he secured a pistol
Chattanooga. the revolver Returning his home, he placed the
to temple and fired,
ball entering his brain and causing death
in about two houpi.