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-S' KEY. DIE TAU1AGE.
THIS, BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SEK.HON.
Subject; Things Which Men and
W omen May Do.”
Text: “ The people that do know their
Ood shall be strong and do exploits.” —Dan¬
iel xi., 82.
Antiochus Epiphanes, the old sinner, came
down three times with his army to desolate
the Israelites, advancing one time with a
hundred and two trained elephants, swinging
their trunks this wav and that, and sixty
two thousand infantry and six thousand
cavalry driven troops, and they were
back. Then, the second time, he
advanced with seventy thousand armed
men, and had been again defeated. But tha
third time he laid successful siege until the
navy of Rome came in with the flash of
their long banks ot oars and demanded
that the siege be lifted. And Antiochus
with Epiplianes said he wanted time to consult
his friends about it, and Popilius, one
of the Roman embassadors, took a staff
and made a circle on the ground around
Antiochus Epiphanes, and compelled him to
decide before he came out of that circle
whereupon Hebrews he lifted the siege. Some of the
had submitted to the invader, but
some of them resisted, valorously, as did
Eleazer when be had swine’s flesh forced into
his mouth, spit it out, although he knew he
must die for it, aud did die for it; and other*
as my text says, did exploits. ’
Au exploit 1 would define to be an heroic
act, a brave feat, a great)- achievement.
“Well,” you say, “1 admire such things, but
there is no chance for ir . mine is a sort of
humdrum life. If I an Antiochus
Epiphanes to fight, I also ..^ald do exploits.”
You are right, so fur as great wars are
concerned. There will probably be no op¬
portunity to distinguish yourself in battles.
The most of the brigadier generals of
this country would never have been
heard of had it not been for the war.
Neither will you probably become a great
inventor. Nineteen hundred and ninety
nine out of every two thousand inventions
found in the patent office at Washington
never yielded their authors enough money
to pay for tile expenses of securing the
patent. So you wifi probably never be a
Morse or an Edison or a Humphrey Davy
or an Eli Whitney. There is not much
probability the hundred that you will be tbe one out of
who achieves extraordinary
success in commercial or legal or medical
or have literary spheres. What then? Cau you
going no opportunity to do exploits? I am
to show that there are three oppor¬
tunities open that are grand, thrilling, far
They reaching, stupendous und overwhelming. ali
are before you now. In one, if not
three of them, you may do exploits. The
three greatest things on earth to do are to
save a man, or save a woman, or save a
child.
During the course of his life almost
every man gets into an exigency, is caught
between two fires, is ground between two
millstones, sits on the edge of some preci¬
pice, or in some other way comes near dem¬
olition. it may be a financial or a moral
or a domestic or a social or a political exi¬
gency. You sometimes see it in court¬
rooms. A young man has got into bad
company and he has offended the law, and
he is arraigned. All blushing and confused
he is in the presence of judge and jury and
lawyers. He can be sent right on in the
wrong direction. He is leeling disgraced and
he is almost desperate.
Let the district attorney overhaul him as
though he were an old offender; let the
ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to say a
word for hitn, because he cannot afford a
considerable fee; let the judge give no op¬
portunity for presenting the mitigating andliustle
him circumstances, hurry up the case
up to Auburn or Sing Sing. If he live
seventy years, for seventy years he will bo
a criminal, and each decade of his life
will be blacker tbau its predecessor. In the
interregnums of prison life he can get no
work, and he is glad to break a window glass
or blow up a safe or play the highwayman
so as to get back within the walls where he
cau from get something to eat and hide himself
the gaze of the world.
Why don’t his father come and help him!
His father is dead. Why don’t his mother
come and help him? She is dead. Where
are all ti e ameliorating and salutary in¬
fluences of society? They do not touch
him. Why did not some one long-ago in
the case undez-stand that there was an op¬
portunity for the exploit which would be
famous in heaven a quadrillion of years
after the earth has become scattered ashes
in the last whirlwind? Why did not the
district attorney take that young man into
his private office aud say: “My son, I see
that you are the victim of circumstances.
This is your first crime. You are sorry. I
will bring the person you wronged into
your presence, aud you will apologize and
make all the reparation you can, aud I will
give you another chance.” Or that young
man is presented in the courtroom, and he
has no friends present, and the judge says,
“Who is your counsel?” And he answers,
“Ihavonone.” And the judge says, “Who
will take this young man’s case?”
And there is a dead halt, and no one offers,
and after awhile the judge turns to some at¬
torney, who never had a good case in all his
life and never will, and whose aivocacy
would be enough to secure the condemna¬
tion of innocence itself. And the profes¬
sional incompetent crawls up beside the
prisoner, helplessness to rescue despair,
where there ought to be a struggle among who
all the best men of the profession trying as help to that
should have the honor of to
unfortunate. How much would such an at¬
torney have received as his for such an
advocacy? Nothing in dollars, but much
every way in a happy consciousness that
would make his own life brighter, and his
own dying pillow sweeter, and his own
heaven happier—the consciousness that he
had saved a man!
So there ai-e commercial exigencies. A
yery late spring obliterates the demand for
spring overcoats and spring hats and thousands spring
appai-el of all sorts. Hundreds of
of people say, “It seems we are going to
have no spring, and we shall go straight
out of winter into warm weather and we
can get along without the usual spring at¬
tire.” Or there is no autumn weather, the
heat plunging into the cold, and the usual
clothing which is a compromise between
summer and winter is not required. It
makes a diffei-ence in the sale o£ millions
and millions of dollars of goods, and some
oversanguine young merchant is caught
with a vast amount of unsalable goods that
will never be salable again, except at prices
ruinously reduced.
The young merchant with a somewhat
limited capital is in a predicament. What
shall the old merchants do as thev see the
young man in this awful crisis? Rub their
hands and laugh and say: “Good for him.
He might have known netter. When he
has been in business as long as we have he
will not load his shelves in that way. Ha!
Ha' He will burst up before long. He had
uo business to open his store so near to ours
anyhow.” Sheriff’s sale! bid Red for flag in the
window: “How much is these out
of-fashion spring overcoats and spring hat?
or fall clothing out of date? What dc
I hear in the way of a bid?” “Four dol¬
lars.” “Absurd; I cannot lake that bid of
four dollars apiece. Why, these coats
when first put upon the market were offered
at fifteen dollars each, an 1 now I am offered
only four dollars. Is that all? Five dollars
do I hear? Going at that! Gone at five
dollars,” and he takes the whole lot.
The young merchant goes home that
night aad says to his wife; “Well, Mary,
we will have to move out of this house and
sell our piano. That old merchant that
lias had an evil eye on me ever since I
started has bought out nil that clothing,
mid h* will have it rejuvenated, and next
year put it on the market as new, while we
will do well If we keep out of the poor
house.” The young man, broken spirited,
goes to hard drinking. The young wife with
her bibv goes to her father’s house, and not
only is his store wiped out, but his home,his
morals and his prospects for two worlds—
this and the nexc. And devils make a ban¬
quet of fire an-1 fill their cups of gall, and
nrinx deep to the health of the old merchant
who swallowed up the young merchant who
got stuck on spring goods and went down,
that is one wav, anl some of you have tried
it.
But there is another way. That misealeu" younc
merchant who fouud that he had
lated in laving ' in too many goods of one
km 1, ,__, and . been flung „ of . the unusual , season,
is standing behind the counter, feeling very
ovei “i"! and Ins account biting his boo.es, finger which nails, reafl or looking darker
and worse every time he looks at them, and
peeted to live in, or go to a third rate board
mg house where they have tough liver aud
sour bread five mornings out of the seven.
ln e r chant cmnes in and says:
own v\ ell, Joe, t this , has been a hard season tor
young merchants, and this prolonged cool
weather lms put many in the doldrums, aud
I late, have to. been just flunking of I you a good deai ot
alter started in business
I once got into the same scrape. Now, if
there is anything I can do to help yon
out I will gladly do it. Better just put
those goods out of sight for the present,
and next season we will plan something
about taem. I will help you to same goods
tuat you cau sell for me on commission, and
i will go dcivvri to one of the wholesale houses
and tell them that I know you and will back
you up, audit you want a few dollars to
bridge over the present I can let you have
thein. Be as economical as you can, keep u
stifi • lip, and remember that you have
two friends, God and myself. Good morn
ing!”
the old merchant goes away and the
young man goes behind his desk, and the
tears roll down his cheeks. It is the first
time he has cried. Disaster made him mad
at everything, and mad at man and mad at
God. But this kindness melts him, and tho
tears seem to relieve his brain and his
spirits rise from ten below zero to eighty
in the shade, and he comes out of the
crisis.
About three years after, this young mer
chant goes into the old merchant’s store and
says: “Well, my old friend, I was this
morning three thinking over You what you did for me
years ago. helped me out of an
awful crisis m my commercial history. I
learned wisdom, prosperity has_ come, and
tn ' ilas K°n 6 ouc [[f ctl9ess »
and the roses that were there when I courted
her in her father’s house have bloomed again
and my business is splendid, and I thought I
ought to let you know that you saved a man!”
In a short time after, the old merchant,
who had been a good while shaky m his
limbs and who had poor spells, is called to
leave the world, and one morning Psalm after he
r T th6 twan ty- th ^d ab t
The Lord, 1 is myshepneid, he close.-, his
eyes on this world, and on angel who had
been for many years appointed to wateh
the old man’s dwelling, cries upward the
news that the patriarch's spirit is about keep as
cending, and the twelve angels who the
twelve gates ot heaven, unite in crying down
to this approaching spirit of the old man
liteoTawZm^'on^rorSTtewyears
book, containing thirty-seven dollars and
thirty-three had left cento, without had been stolen, at the and begin- she
been a penny
ning of winter in a strange city, and no
work. And although she was a stranger, I
did not allow the 9 o’clock mail to leave tti8
lamppost on our corner without carrying
tho thirty-seven dollars and thirty-three
cents, and the case was proved Shakespeare’s genuine.
Now, I have read all trage
dies, and all Victor Hugo's tragedies, and
all Alexander Smith’s tragedies, but 1
never read a tragedy more thrilling the than
that case, and similiar cases by bun
dreds and thousands in all our large cities.
Young women without money and with
out home and without work in the great
maelstroms of metropolitan life. \Vheu
such a case comes under your observation,
how do you treat it. Get out of my way.
VV e have no room in our establishment tor
any more hands. I don t believe 11 omen
anyway. They are a lazy, idle, vorthles.
set. John, please show this person out cl
the door.
Or do you compliment , her , personal which it . an
pearance and say things to her any
man said to your sister or dau jitai you
would kill him on the spot, i hat is one
way, and it is tried every day in the large
cities, and many of those who advertise
for female hands in factories an.l for
governeases iu families have proved them
selves unfit to be in any place outside ol
hell. But there is another way, and I saw
it one dav m the Methodist Book Concern
in New York, where a young woman ap
plied for work, and the gentleman My in daugh- tone
and mannei said in substance.
ter, we employ women here, but I do not
know ot any vacant place m our depart
ment. You had better inquire will at be such and
such a place, and I hope you success
ful in getting something to do. Here is inj
name, audteil them I sent humiliated you.”
The embarrassed and woman
seemed to give way to Christian confidence.
She started out with a hopeful look that I
think must have won for her a l place in
which to earn her bread. rather
think that considerate and Christian gen¬
tleman saved a woman. New York and
Brooklyn ground up last year about thirty
thousand young women and would like to
grind up about as many this year. Out of
all that long procession of worneu who
march on with no hope for this world or the
next, battered and bruised anl scoffed at,
and flung off the precipice, not one but
might have been save l for home and God
and heaven. But good men and good wom¬
en are not in that kind of business. Alas
for that poor thing ! Nothing but the thread
of that sewing girl’s n held her, and
the thread broke.
I have heard men tell in public discourse
what a man is, but what is a woman? Until
some one shall give a better definition, I will
tell you what woman is. Direct affections from God,
a sacred end delicate gift, with so
great that no measuring line short of that
of the infinite God can tell their bound.
Fashioned to refine and soothe and lift and
irradiate home and society and the world.
Of such value that no oue can appreciate it,
unless his mother lived long enough to let
him understand it, or who in some great
crisis of life, when all else failed aim, had a
wife to re-eufoice him with a faith in Qod
that nothing could disturb.
Speak out, ye cradles, and tell of the feet
that rocked you and the anxious faces that
hovered over you! Speak out, home?, ye nurseries
of all Christendom, mid ye whethel
desolate nr still in full bloom with the faces
of wife, mother and daughter, But and help m<
to define what woman is. as geograph
ers tell ur that the depths of the sen corre¬
spond with the heights of the mountains 1
have to tell you that a good woraanlioo 1 is
down. not higher The up grinder than bad the womanhood palace the is deep
more
awful the conflagration that destroys It.
The grander the steamer Oregon the more
terrible her going down justoff thoco ist.
Now I should not wonder if you trem¬
bled a little with a sense of responsibility
when I say that there is hardly a person in
this house but may have an opportunity
to save a woman. It may in your case ho
done by trying by good advice, bring or bear by financial help,
or to to some one of a
thousand Christian influences. If, for in¬
stance, you find a woman in financial dis¬
tress and breaking down in health and
spirits trying to support her children, now
that her husband is dead or an invalid, doing
that but which very important appreciated—keeping and honorable work—
is little a
boarding house, where all the guest?, accord
in ? as the T ? a Y s,mil board, or propose,
without paying any board at all, to decamp,
are critical of everything and hard to please,
busy yourself in trying to get her more
patrons, Yea, and tell her of divine sympathy.
if you see a woman favored of for
tune and with all kindly surrounding finding
In thahollow flatteries of the world her chief
into the kingdom of God, asdid theother day
a Sabbath-school teacher, who was the moaus
of the conversion of the daughter of a man of
immense wealth, and the daughter re
solved to join the church, and she went home
and said, “father, I urn going to join the
church, and I want you to come.'" "Oh
no,” he said, "I never go to church.”
“Well,” said the daughter, “if I were goin’- °
to bo married would you not go to see me
married?” And he said, “Oh, yes.” “Well,”
said she, “this is of more importauce than
that.”
So ho went an 1 has gone ever sine\ and
loves to go. I do not know but that faith
ful Sabbath-school teacher not only saved
a woman, but saved a man. There may be
in this audience, gathered from all parts of
the world, there maybe a man whose be
havior toward womanhood has been per
fidious. Repent! Standup.tlioumaster
piece of sin and death, that I may charge
you Do ■ As boast far as possible make reparation,
not that you have her in your
power and that she cannot liolp herself,
When that fine collar and cravat, and that
elegant uncovered suit of clothes comes off aud your
soul stands before God, you will
be better off if you save that woman.
There is another exploit you can do, and
that is to save a child. A child does not
seem to amount to much. It is nearly a
year old before it can walk at all. For the
first year and a half it cannot speak a word.
For the first ten years it would starve if it
had to earn its own foo 1. For the first fif
teen years its opinion on any subject is ab
solutely valueless. And then there are so
many of them. My, what lots of children!
And some people have contempt for children,
They are good for nothing but to wear cut
the carpets and break things and keep you
awake nights crying
different Wel] your estimate of a child is quite
from that mother’s estimate who
lost Uer Ctlikl this summer . They took it
to the salt air of tne soashor0 and to the
tonic air of the mountains< but no help
c ^ aml the brief paragraoh of its life is
end Suppose ^ that life «uld be restored
cha how muoh would that be .
reaved mother give? She would take all
the jewels J from her fingers and neck and
bure au aad put them down. And if told
that that was not enough she would take
berhouseand make over the deed for it,
ftnd if that wera not enough she would call
iu aU her invesfc ments and put down all her
mortgages aud bonds, and if told that were
back t 'at los &•
1 am glad that there are those who , , know
something of a value o a child Its possi
bfiities are tremendous. Whatwdlthosa
hat ‘ d « 7^ do? ^ h ? r e V' 11 ol ? yetl
walk? toward 1 wha destiny . Shallthosevpsbe wi ha never
dying soul betake Itself?
*[ le throne of blasphemy or benediction
Come chronohgists,and calculate the decaaes
facades, the centuries on centmnes, ot its
Metime. Oh, to save a child . Am I not
right m putting that among the great ex
ploits. ®nt what to do th those .,
are you going w
children wno a™ "”™ 9 " thoutn.tso'I
“A er e Helens or
suctj _ X be ir parentage was against them,
Their name is against them. The structure
of their sku p- is against them. Their nerves
an d muscles contaminated by the ineoriety
Qr dissoluteness of tneir parents; they are
practically a t thAr birth laid out on a
plank j n the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,
an equinoctial gale, an I told to make for
shore What to do with them is the ques
.. k .
Tbere is aaot her question quite as peril
neu ^ and that is, What are they going tc
do vyith ug ? -phey w jll, ton or eleven yean
from now, have as many votes as tho same
number Q f well born children, and they will
baad tb i 3 i aa d over to the anarchy and po
utical damnation just as sure as we neglect
tbeM Suppose Tl wo each one of us save a boy
Joi g You cau do it. Will you!
t
• for all
^ „ JgJU . t ready one or
of lleS0 exploits? e shall make a
dead failure if in our own strength child. But we try
v WO man or my
text suggests people where we that are do to know get equip¬
ment. “The taeir We
God shall be strong and <lo exploits.”
must know Him through Jesus Christ in
our own salvation, and then we shall have
His help in the salvation of others. And
while you are saving strangers You vou tnir.k may
save .some of your own kin.
your brothers and sisters and children and
grandchildren all safe, hut they are not
dead, and uo one is safe till he is dead. Ou
the English coast there was a wild storm
and a wreck in the offing, and Harry, the the cry was,
“Man the lifeboat!” But usual
leader of the sailor’s crew, was not to be
found, and they went without him, and
brought back all the shipwrecked people but
one. leader of the
By this time Harry, the
crew, appeared and said, “Why did “He you
leave that one?” The answer was,
could not help himself at all, and we could
not get him into the boat,” “Man the life¬
boat!” shouted Harry, “and we will go for
that one.” “No,” said his aged mother,
standing by, “you must not go. I lost
your father in a storm like this, and and your I
brother Will went off six years ago,
have not heard a word from Will since he
left, and I don’t know where he is, poor Will,
and I cannot let you also go, for I am old
and dependent on you.” and His reply was,
“Mother, I must go save that one man,
and if I am lost God will take care of you in
your old lifeboat days.” out, and after awful
The put they picked the an
struggle with tne sea poor
fellow out of the rigging just in time to
savo bis life, anti startel for the snore.
As they came within speaking him, distance,
tlarry oriel out. “We save ,1 an 1
tell mother it was brother Will.” On,
yes, my friends, let us start out to save booms
one for time aud for eternity, some knows tnau,
some woman, some ?hild. Auiwiio
but it may, directly or indirectly, be the
salvation ot one of our own Kindred, eele un i
that will be an exploit worthy of n ation
when the world tseli is slupwivcited, and
the sun has gone out, like a spurt. rom a
smitten anvil, and ail the stars are dead!
PIG BREEDING IN SICILY.
Curious Statistics of an Extensive
Industry.
The last British consular report from
Palermo contains some curious details
respecting the breeding of pigs in Sicily,
which in certain districts, und especially
in mountainous parts, are reared in great
numbers. Nearly all the small towns
are overrun with them, and they are not
only useful for food, but act as scaven¬
gers to the dirty streets. They are en¬
ticed in towns to devour the filthiest
food by sprinkling districts, bran where over it. there Iu the
mountainous are
oak forests, they are driven up to the
high regions to feed on acorns. A good
ncorn year is a godsend to those who
possess oak forests. For each full grown
pig as much as 10s. is paid for the acorn
season to the owner of the forest; two
medium-sized pigs and three small ones
are admitted at the same rate.
The pigs, which are thus driven about
herds, under the superintendence ear-marked, of aud boy speedily swine¬
are nil
become accustomed to their new
conditions of life. They form among
themselves a sort of republican govern¬
ment, and are docile to the calls and
windings of the horn of their young
guardians, who are clothed in very plain
and primitive fashion, and live simply on
bread and water, taking out with them
every day loaves baked in the ovens of
the farm, and in shape precisely the
same as those that have been found in
the bakers’ shops at Pompeii. The housed pigs
are driven back home at night and
to avoid disease, and, strange to say,
their sheds are scrupulously clean. It is
said that they establish internally a kind
of sanitary jurisdiction, aud that a pig
which is delinquent against the sanitary the
rules is attacked with fury by rest
and killed.
The Consul has seen covered w* sties
made of stone aud found ea; able of holding 300
or 400 pigs,aud The them value dry,clean of the pigs and
very dusty. only
consists of their being sold as fresh pork
and for the making of sausages. and their They flesh
fatten well upon acorns,
is very white and tasteful, whereas the
color of the pork in the towns is quite
dark. The sausages which are made
are also very tolerable, but the curing of
pork for ham or bacon is unknown in
Sicily. Pigs in Sicily enjoy as much
social distinction as in Ireland; they,
with the poultry and other animals,
share their master’s tenement, and will
trot after him daily to aud fro ou his.way
to work in the fields. than Perhaps pork other is
more commonly eaten any
kind of meat in the island. The boy
swineherds and goatherds who tend the
flocks in the mountains receive a daily
provision of bread cooked iu the farm
buildings,and get nothing else in Winter
or Summer, not even iu the severest
weather, and never, as a rule, ever taste
“pasta” or macaroni. Besides the dole daily
provision of bread they receive a of
7of. a year, paid in three parts, out of
which they And their clothes. A great
part of the year the lads sleep in the
open air or in temporary straw huts,
often in rainy or snowy weather, and
with such a hard life and nothing but
coarse bread and water from year’s end to
year’s end their cheerfulness and good
humor appear quite marvelous, and many
of them are bright, intelligent, lively
lads, and graceful and courteous in their
demeanor.—[London Times.
Cattle at the World’s Fair.
It is gratifying to learn, as we do from
recent announcements, that the cattle
department of the proposed Columbian
Fair at Chicago is receiving much atten¬
tion throughout the world; audit will
probably constitute the finest exhibition
of cattle ever made. The American
Jersey Cattle Club and the Holstein
Friesian Association have each appro¬
priated $10,000 for showing their cattle.
J. F. Sarg, of Nussdorf, Germany, who
represents the Cattle Breeders’Associa¬
tion of Baden, the largest breeders’ as¬
sociation on the Continent, writes that
he intends to send a herd of Simrnenthal
cattle. These cattle come from Switzer¬
land and are large, the cows weighing
about 1,400 pounds, and often 1,(500 or
1,700 pounds, or more. They are white,
and marked with large, irregular and
sharply defined spots or bars of red, yel¬
low or drab color. They are nicely
shaped, have fine bqne, head and skin,
and should make va good impression, |
though they are probably no improve¬
ment to the breeds now found in Amer¬
ica.—[New York Independent.
HE WANTED TO SLEEP AT NIGHT.
“A party was surveying for a new rail
way, ” said Marshall P. Wilder to an in
terested group the other day. “It wai
in the country, and the best line seemed
to be one that would necessitate the re
moval of a big bam. As they wert
studying the situation, the farmer came
out and said:
£ ‘What yon fellers doin’? t t
are
£ ‘Making a new railway,’ they re
plied. Wal, what pesky fools be!’ex
< you
claimed the farmer; ‘do you s pose 1 m
goin’ to get out of bed two or three times
a night to open them barn doors so s tc
let the trains pass through? [New
York Tribune.
HPT I H T T) ATTO J llH T T niVIT I J I
i A imuUUU Ml LSIJX A liJ. I Pi
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NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
Wednesday A telegram from Greensboro, N. C.,
night states tl al ex-Govenxu
A. M. Scales is dying at Ids home in that
city.
South Carolina claims that the census
figures witboir foundation instating that
the assessed valuation of property iu that
state was $1,377,097 less in 1890 than in
1880.
A telegram from Athens, Tend,, stys:
Ten thousand people attended ihe re¬
union and barbecue of ex-confederates of
Union, Monroe, Mei;s, Bradley, Polk
and Rhea counties, held iu that city
'1 hursdav.
At a family picnic at Blossburg, Ala.,
Wednesday, Misses Sallie aud Claudia
Marson, of Birmingham, aged seventeen
and fifteen, respective y, were drowned
while bathing. The ehler g t beyond
her depth and the younger went to her re¬
lief. Neither could swim, and they
drowned in each other’s arms.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Baldwin.
Fla,, says: Tbe town and county is flooded
with counterfeit silver dollars of ’889
issue, of poor manufacture. The United
States marshal with a posse have arrested
George Garrett and Willis Hodges,
white, who reside near here. A large
gang arc behind them in the opinion of
the officers.
The Bremaker Moore Paper Company,
Louisville, Ky., assigned Thursday after¬
noon. Albert S. represented Willis assignee, says
the liabilities are at about
$240,000 and assets at $750,000. The
trouble was that the assets at present
are locked up in a big paper mill, em¬
ploying some two hundred aud fifty men
and women.
The Cumberland Gap Fair and Racing
Association was organized a few days age
at Middlesborough, Ky. The grounds ol
the association arc at Arthur, Tcnn., five
miles from Middlesborough. lion.
David G. Culson was elected president,
and it was decided to hold the first fair
and meeting ou October Gth, 7th, aud
8th.
A dispatch of Thursday from Mobile,
Ala., says: Last Friday tbe family ot
Charles Wncker, living at Spring Hill, in
this county, consisting of six members,
were all poisoned by eating died spoiled Thursday fish.
The mother of the family
morning- after terrible suffering. Two
children are still suffering, but will pro¬
bably recover.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says: The
Postmuster-general has at last made awards
to the captors of Rube Burrows and
Rube Smith, $1,000 to the captors ol
Burrows, and $2,000 to the captors oi
Smith. McDuffie, having received his
reward from the Southern Express com¬
pany, allows Carter to have the whole
$1,000 awarded by the post office depart¬
ment.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Tuesday
says; The public movement for the pur¬
pose of establishing a steamboat line
from this city to S:. Louis, in which one
hundred men are asked to subscribe
$1,090 each, is now an assured success,
the list having reached eighty. This
movement establishes this as a river city,,
and is calculated to have great effect ou
the future prospects of Chattanooga.
A New Orleans dispatch says: Secre¬
tary Hester of the Now Orleans cotton
exchange, desires the statement made in
response to numerous telegrams and let¬
ters received from all parts of the s; uih
asking ior estimates of the cotton crop
of 1890-’91, that a full detailed state¬
ment of the crop will be issued on the
morning of the 1st or 2d of September;
that he has never yet made or assisted in
inakiDg an estimate of the cotton crop,
and will not do so now, especially as the oi
time is so close for the promulgation
the actual figures.
BALMACEDA OVERTHROWN
And Valparaiso in the Hands of
Congressionalists.
A San Francisco dispatch says: The
firm of John D. Spreckels & Bro., of this
city, received the following cablegram
direct from Valparaiso, Chile, Friday
afternoon: “Opposition defeated, Val¬
paraiso is in control of the coDgressioa
alists.”
Another telegram from Washington
says: Acting Secretary of State Wharton,
also received the following cablegram
from Valparaiso Friday night: “Abattle
was fought near this city Thursday morn¬
ing. The government forces were badly
beaten. Heavy loss on both sides. The
city surrendered admiralsof to the opposition, but is
in the hands of the American
German, French and English fleets for
good order. No communic-iti-m with
Santiago. The opposition forces are now
entering the city.”
McCreaky,C onsulate, Valparaiso.
A Princely Gift.
a dispatch of Wednesday, from New
Haven, Conn., says th»t Mis. M. H.
Hotchkiss has presented to the board of.'
trustees of the Yale prepatory school, of
which she is the foun j er $275,000 in
caah. 0fthissum$75,000 willbeexpen
ded up0D the building aQd $200,000
will be used M an eDdo wnient fund for
professorship, eve. In addition to this
> gift Mrs H atchkiss seventy-five has presented to ti of e
tru8 toes a tract of acres
land.