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VOL. 6.—NO. 45.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
LATEST EVENTS AT HOME AM)
ABROAD.
A Sensation Amorg the Roman Catholic,
of Indianapolis—Speaker Carlisle Bet
ter-Congressional Proceedings
Radical Senators Trying to Force
an Extra Session —The Mar
kets and Other Mattei s.
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 16. —A sensa
tion in Catholic circles has been created by
the peremptory removal by Bishop Chat
tard of Father O’Neill, of St- Patrick’s
Church, growing out of a campaign episode
last October. The ladies of Father O’Neills
parish held a fair. Among articles dis
played was a gold-headed cane, to be voted
to the most popular Presidential candidate,
and Father O’Neill promised to carry the
cane to the winner. Blaine received the
greater number of votes. The bishop was at
the time absent from the city, but the Vicar
General warned Father O’Neill that by his
taking the cane to Mr. Blaine he would in
cur the displeasure of the bishop. He chose,
however, to go, and since his return his re
turn his relations with the bishop
have been estranged. Bishop
Chattard yesterday ordered Father
O’Neill to vacate his pulpit and parsonage
at once. The latter, after mass, stated the
case to the parishoners, who unqualifiedly
expressed their disapproval of the Bishop’s
conduct. One of the trustees declared the
action of the Bishop to be intolerable, and
then and there resigned his office. The re
maining trustee will probably resign next
Sunday. The affair has created a great up
heaval among Catholics here.
ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN.
The Fiendish Work of Tramps.
Lawrence, Kan, Feb. 16—There was an
attempt made yesterday by tramps to
wreck an east bound Santa I e passenger
train. The party boarded the train at To
peka and refused to pay their fare. As there
were no stops between Topeka and Law
rence, the conductor did not attempt to put
them off, but waited until the train
arrived here, when he locked the
doors of the ‘cars and demanded their
fare or threatened to have them
arrested. Opening a window, they
escaped, and walking down the track broke
the lock on the switch and turned it. The
engine was ditched but the rest of the train
was saved by the low speed at which the
train was moving. As it was, a few bruises
to the engineer and fireman was ail the per
sonal damage done. The wreck was cleared
so that the trains were moving by noon.
Two of the parties have been captured, and
the third has been traced to Leavenworth,
Kan.
TREMENDOUS ICE GORGE,
Extending Thirty Miles and Constantly
Increasing.
Zanesville, O, Feb. 16. —The gorge be
ginning at McConnelsville, O, extends to
this city, thirty miles, and is constantly in
creasing. It is under all the bridges and
up to the dam. The river is rising and is
full of floating ice above the dam adding to
the gorge constantly. Water and ice are
over the road, rendering travel by the river
road impossible. Dynamite failed to effect
anything in moving the ice at McConnels
ville. All mills here are stopped by the
back water. Much damage has already
been done.
FROM ATLANTA.
Latest Happenings at the State Capital,
Special Dispatch to the Daily Times.
Atlanta, Feb. 16.—1 t snowed here again
last night and Atlanta is going through an
other spell of severe weather.
Governor Cameron, and party of thirteen,
are in Atlanta to day en-route to New Or
leans.
Vol Dunning’s store was burglarized last
night. Loss slight.
Simeon Talliaferro, a negro, drank a bot
tle of laudanum las' night and was found on
the sidewalk in a d/ing condition, but was
revived.
New York Produce Market.
New York, Feb. 16.—Flour dull and
unchanged. Wheat, No. 3, red winter,
March, 90 58. Corn, No. 2 mixed, April,
361-4; May, 36 1-8, Pork dull; mess $14.25.
Molasses steady ranging from 40
to 50. Turpentine steady »t 20}a30}.
Rosin dull; strained to good, $1 22|al 27J.
Sugar quiet; refined cut loaf 6 7 16a6j;
confectioners, 8. Tallow steady and un
changed. Freights dull. Coffee quiet;
fair cargoes 9J.
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Phelan Tired of Waiting for Justice
New York, Feb. 16—Captain Phelan
whom Dick Shore stabbed in Rossa’s office,
boarded the Pacific Express on the New
York Central Railroad lastnight,accompan
ied by his wife. Phelan delated that he
was tired of waiting here for j istice, ami in
tended to return to Kansas City.
Sebastopol to Be a Free Port.
St. Petersburg, Russia, Feb. 16.—1 t is
stated on semi-official authority that the
Czar is contemplating the issuance of a
ukase making Sebastopol a free port.
Probabilities.
Washington, Feb. 16. —For the South
Atlantic States colder, fair weather, north
west winds, rising barometer.
Speaker Carlisle Better.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 16.—Speaker
Carlisle is very much better.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, MOSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1885.
WAR IN THE SOUDAN.
How an Old Egyptian Officer Views the
Situation.
General Stone sat last night in his luxu
rious drawing room at Flushing, Long
Island, surrounded by all the comforts that
render cold weather pleasant. On the man
tlepiece was a handsome bronze bust of the
unfortunate Khedive, Ismail; on the wall
hung an oil painting of the same ill-fated
person, painted by a young Egyptian whom
Ismail had sent to Italy to study the art.
“This morning, when I read the papers,”
said General Stone, stirring an after-dinner
cup of tea, “and heard that General Gordon
was dead, I was indeed surprised. Not
until this morning had I believed it. Now
I presume, however, the authority is too
good to admit of any doubts. I thought that
the Mahdi would have kept him alive and
used him as a hostage to get some great mil
itary advantage for his life. His ransom
would not have been a money ransom, I
take it. The Mahdi might have treated
him with great honor and distinction and
then voluntarily sent him to Suakim on the
condition that the British should evacuate
the Soudan. What could they have done
then but to evacuate? The death of Gordon
was probably a mistake. The Mahdi most
likely intended to save him, but in such
hordes as his there are always over-zealous
people, who would try to do more than he
would wish them to do.”
“What do you think will be the effect of
Gen. Gorden’s death ?”
“Well, said Gen. Stone, “it is impossible
to tell what the effect will be. The primary
object of the campaign is lost. Pie was
that object. Without knowing the plans of
the British Ministry is it impossible to con
jecture what may occur. As far as the indi
cations go, from the tone of the English
papers, it would seem that they intend to
make a new campaign and punish the Mah
di. That would require very heavy rein
forcements and would hardly be safe without
more than they seem to indicate as intending
to send.
“And a campaign at the approaching sea
son of the year would be very difficult The
Nile will fall steadily from this time until
May. The river will give but little chance
'■ f transportation, and the navigation will be
more difficult day by day. And they have
not provided what they should have done,
in my opinion—a very great number of
camels to effect that transportation. Then
the heat is also increasing at this time of
year. The European troops even at the
best seasons will suffer greatly from debility
and from the fevers of the country. If they
take the Suakin route to Berber to reinforce
General Lord Wolseley they must either
move in very small bodies, and therefore
subject themselves to constant attacks, or
they must have at least three camels to
every man to carry not oniy the men, but
the provisions, the ammunition and nearly
all the water to be used.
“I regard it as utterly impracticable,”
said General Stone slowly, “to march Euro
pean troops on foot over that route in the
season which is now coming. From the
observation of my own officers, very care
fully made, the heat will be at an average
of 100 degrees to 105 degrees in the shade
every afternoon. If they take the Nile
route to reinforce Lord Wolseley,” said
General Stone, spreading out a map of the
country on his knees, “the march would be
immensely longer and much slower, unless
they used vast numbers of camels. There is
therefore little hope of Lord Wolseley re
ceiving any large reinforcements before the
middle of April. Even that would require
such activity, energy and good administra
tion as has been rarely seen in any army.”
“Do you consider Lord Wolseley’s situa
tion critical?”
“He is in a country where it is exceeding
ly difficult to obtain supplies,” said the
General. “He is between the deserts, hav
ing only a narrow strip of cultivated land
along the Nile. The rich country near
Berber is in the hands of the enemy and
has been already heavily foraged by the
large forces of the Mahdi. The rich coun
try to the South and to the Southeast is in
the hands of the Mahdi also. From them
he can draw no supplies. He must get them
either by the Nile or they must be brought
to him by a strong force from Suakim after
he shall have occupied Berber.”
General Stone drew a sketch of the posi
tions of the various towns playing roles in
the campaign. “If Lord Wolse'ey had in
telligent men for enemies,” he said, “he
! would be badly off. If the Mahdi was to
| send a force to Debbi, through wlich all
Lord Wolseley’s supplies must of necessity
be sent, the game would be up. He C’uld
simply go in for a desperate fight. The only
things he could fall back upon would be
I his camels. He would have to eat them ”
“Do you think there was any particular
error in this campaign?”
“I dislike very much to criticise,” said
Gen. Stone. “I tell you I think that under
all the circumstances Lord Wolseley qhose
the best route to accomplish the declared
purposes of the government. But he chose
the wrong means of transportation. He
held to his idea of small boats, where I
think he should have depended almost en
tirely upon camels. Had he assembled at
Wady Halfay 30,000 or more camels I
think his concentration on the Upper Nile
would have been much more rapid. I think
he could have concentrated in less than half
the time. That was a great fault.”
“What do you think of a second cam
paign?”
“The question is,” said General Stone,
“can he make a second campaign and be
successful? Os course it can be made. Is
there any object of corresponding interest
now to the one which actuated this cam
paign? That is for British statesmen to de
cide. Do you know that I always supposed
that General Gordon would hold out to the
very last with a few men, and if he found at
last that things were at their worst blow
himself and his men up rather than sur
render. That was always my idea. I never
thought General Gordon would be taken
alive.” And General Stone sighed as he
glanced at the portrait hanging on the wall.
A Death Sentence to be Commuted.
Nashville, Feb. 16—It is thought that
the Governor will commute the sentence of
death pronounced on ex-United States Mar
shal William. Spencer, who assassinated his
son-in-law. A petition with 8,0000 names
appended has been presented.
EMORY SPEER.
HIS CONFIRMATION LOOKED UPON
AS CERTAIN.
Senator Joe Brown Did It—Hopes and
Speculations in the New Judge—The
Philadelphians in Atlanta—Enor
mous Profits in Obituary Poetry-
Personal and Minor Mention.
Special Correspondence Daily Times.
Atlanta, Feb. 14.—There seems to be
little doubt that Emory Speer will be con
firmed as Judge of the Southern Circuit.
The fact that there is no break in the Re
publican ranks, and that Senator Brown is
his open advocate, practically ends the
matter, unless unforeseen events transpire.
It may be set down as pretty certain that
Speer will be Judge of the Southern Dis
trict. The position is one that will exactly
fit his ideas of elegance and ease. He loves
leisure and the enjoyments of social life.
Personally, Speer is exceedingly entertain
ing. He is brilliant in conversation and
the embodiment of courtly grace. He is a
fine looking young fellow, as proud as a
game cock, carries himself as straight as an
arrow and looks at you with large, piercing
eyes, smiling pleasantly while he sizes you
up, and he generally strikes you for all you
are worth. His face is as smooth as a girl’s,
and his hair is closely cut and brushed back
from bis forehead. Speer is fond of poetry,
and often regales a court room throng with
bits of appropriate verse. He delights in
eloquent flights and legal tilts. In a word
set-to he seldom comes off second best. In
court his speeches are nearly always directed
to the audience rather than the jury, for he
would rather have applause than a verdict.
Speer is somewhat under the weather, so
cially, on account of his recent political
affiliations. The impression here is that
when he gets well fixed in his new place he
will do his best to make a good Judge and
seek to regain his place as a welcome and
unembarrassed guest at the social boards of
his old time friends and the good people
generally. He is still in Washington, but
is expected in Atlanta tn a few days.
OBITUARY POETRY PAYS.
When the Philadelphians w.ere here
Thursday the Times correspondent had an
interesting tali with one of the editors of
j the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the noted
journal owned by George W. Childs, and
famous for its fearfully and wonderfully
made obituary poetry. It is said that the
paper pays $500,000 a year e’ear profit to
its owner, Mr. Childs. Half a million is
quite a. snug sum for one man to get along
thiough life with. The Ledger is a dull
paper, but it is paid for all its queer obituary
poetry at the rate of 50 cents a line. The
poetry is not written by Mr. Childs, as his
envious competitors all over the country
have endeavored to make the public believe.
It is sent in by the bereaved friends and
perused by the bereaved public. The fol
lowing verse is a specimen of how a certain
“Little Willie” was dished up:
“Our Little Wiliie
Was a lily.
God for him sent
And we let him went!”
Another departure was recorded in this
wise:
“He heard the angels calling
From the far distant shore,
He flopped his wings and flew away
And we ne’er shall see him more.”
Fifty cents a line for that sort of literary
effusions 1
The Philadelphians will be in Savannah
about the 22d or 23d. The party will be in
Jacksonville from the 19th to the 22d, and
will reach Charleston on the 23d, so that
they will have to scoot by Savannah in a
hurry. They will return to Philadelphia
on the 25th.
NOTES about town.
It has been decided that the proposition
to sink the railroads and bridge the streets
in the heart of the city is n. g. It is proba
ble that the pedestrianswill tunnel under.
The new Kimball paralyzes the visitors to
Atlanta. The magnificent arcade extend
ing through the seven stories to the roof,
takes their breath away.
While out snow-balling yesterday, Miss
Acree, a beautiful young lady of Atlanta,
threw away in a ball of snow a beautiful
engagement ring, which the most diligent
search failed to restore to her.
This afternoon the artesian well will be
tested in the presence of a committee to see
if the water comes from the surface veins or
the crevice at 1,160 feit deep.
Last night about midnight a New York
drummer named Fowler, while on a razee,
fell on the sidewalk and had his scalp split
open.
It is thought that base ball will break out
in Atlanta as e-rly as the middle of March.
The big snow has disappeared except in
the drifts in shady places.
Sew York Stock Market.
New Feb. 16. —At 1:30 p. tn. to
day quotations were :
Union Pacific
M issourl Pacific 93%
Western Union Telegraph Co 59%
Pacific Mall 54%
Lakeshore. 63%
Louisville and Nashville 25%
Texas Pacific
Denver and Rio Grande -7%
Michigan Central #1
Delaware, Lackawanna A West’n 9<>%
Northwestern - 9'%
St. Paul 72%
Chicago, Burllnerton and Quincy 112%
Oregon Transcontinental 12%
Northern Pacific - 39%
Bock Island Hl
Jersey Central 35%
Memphis and Charleston 34
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 3%
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga. (pld) II
Philadelphia and Reading 16%
Omaha (coin) 26%
Omaha (pld) 37
New York Central 91%
Kansas and Texas Hi
Erie 12%
Chicago ’Change.
Chicago, Feb. 16. —Wheat opened firm;
March 78 1-8; May 835-8a833-4. Corn
steady, March 36 7-8; April 37; May 40
Oats nominal. Lard firm, May $7.20. Pork
firm, May $13.17|. Bulk meats nominal.
“ROUGH ON CORNS.”
Ask for Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” 15c
Quick complete cure. Hard or soft corn
warts, bunions.
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
The Work of Both Houres Tills Morning.
Washington, Feb. 16.—The House met
at 10 a. m., in continuation of Friday’s ses
sion. Mr. Willis, ol Kentucky, not being
present to push the river and harbor bill,
the House went into committee of the whole
on the Legislative appropriation bil’. But
few members were present and rapid pro
gress was made, the Clerk reading on
with but few interruptions. Pending the
vote, on motion by Mr. Hewitt, of Ala
bama, to reduce the salary of the Commis
sioner of Pensions from $5,000 to $4,000, the
committee rose, ami at 10:55 the House ad
journed. Five minutes later it was again
called to order for the session
on Monday-
Mr. Forney, of Alabama, reported the
army appropriation bill, with Senate amend
ments. The amendments were non-con
curred in and a conference asked under the
rule for unobjected business.
The bill for a public building at Aber
deen, Miss., came up as unfinished business,
and was amended by striking out SIOO,OOO
and inserting $75,000, and passed.
In the Senate, Mr. Sherman said he
thought that in the condition of public
business the bill to “Quit title of settlers on
the Des Moines river the State of
lowa,” should not be allowed to continue to
take up all the time of the morning hour,
and therefore, he moved to lay the bill on
the table.
Messrs. Allison and Plumb hoped that the
motion would not prevail.
Mr. Miller, of New York, remarked in an
undertone to Mr. Allison, “Then you will
have an extra session.”
The yeas and nays were ordered, and the
Senate, by a vote of 17 to 23, refused to lay
the bill on the table. Mr. Sherman,
j after the result was announced,
! sa?d, “We may as well give it up, and take
lit leisurely lhe rest of the session. I don’t
! think it is fair play to other legislative
I business.”
i On motion of Mr. Dawes, the Des Moines
: river bill was informally laid aside in order
tha” the Senate might continue the consid
’ eration of the Indian appropriation bill.
WESTERN PRODUCE.
! Provisions Active and Unsettled—l lie Mar
ket to be Advanced by Easy Stages
—Tbe Probable Future of
Wheat and Corn.
Special Dispatch Daily Tinies.
Chicago, Feb. 16.—The persistently se-
I vere attack of winter weather'furnishes a
1 reason for quietness in the produce move
j and at least an excuse for dullness in
speculative trading in grain. Provisions,
however, are active and unsettled, though
the manipulators keep the market well in
hand all the time.
The littie pit is crowded daily. There is
j nothing to talk about except the exceed
| ingly small amount of product there is for
i sale aad the army of buyers.
| It’s the old story; nobody is willing to
jacknowledge he is “short,” but ever.body
claims to be “long,” yet at the same time
they all act as if they some lines they
were anxious to cover. Occasionally the
I screws are turned off a trifle, but by the
| time the crowd thinks the boom has collapsed
j prices are pushed up with a whirl.
j “The policy,” said a broker, supposed to
; be very near Phil Armour, “is to advance
| the market by easy stages, with plenty of
hailing places and set backs, so as to attract
j outside trade.” This is, of course, suppos
ing the big ‘shorts’ don’t try to get out.”
He added, “if they do, there will be lively
times.”
The winter packing season is nearly over,
with much smaller results than were prom
ised by the statisticians, and only a mod
erate run of hogs is expected this spring.
Lard is regarded as relatively cheap, and
many look for a rise when it ceases to be
fashionable to sell lard as a hedge against
purchases of other produce.
Wheat is slumpy, but the bears are de
terred from making a raid and selling it
down by reports that the snow storm has
not extended to the winter wheat sections of
Southern Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, and
that the freezing weather finds the fields
hire. Still a railroad official is authority
for the statement that there are 25,000
loaded cars now in this city or on side tracks
within a hundred miles. If this is so a
warm spell will be likely to bring a flood of
receipts of all kinds of produce.
“There is nothing in favored wheat ex
cept a belief that it is worth the money”
said Green to-night. “In spite cf snowed
up roads supplies are growning,and from the
seaboard comes the significant news that
wheat is being taken by steamer for ballast
in the absence of any demand for freight
room by the trade. This must mean that
British buyers have either in hand or headed
towards them all the grain they want for the
present.”
Corn is steady but weighed down by the
fear that receipts will be much larger than
shippers can carry away leading to a big
increase in stocks in store. Trading is al
most entirely in the way of options and people
who believe in the article have taken on
about all they want to carry. The country
has sold very little, local room traders
being the principal bears. The market is
not expected to show much activity until
the difficulties in transportation are re
moved.
Boiler Explosion.
Springfield, 111, Feb. 16—The engine
boiler at the East Shaft Coal Mine, near
this city exploded this morning, at nine
o’clock. The engineer and fireman were in
stantly killed. The engine house was bad
ly wrecked.
Fatal Magazine Explosion.
Gibraltar, Feb. 16. —One of the large
government magazines exploded to-day.
Seventeen persons were killed.
‘ROUGH ON ITCH.’
“Bough on Itch” cures humors, eruptions
ringworms, tetter, salt rheum, frost-d feet
hilblains.
THE NEW ARCHBISHOP
HIS ADDRESS LAST NIGHT.
The Third Plenary Council of the Roman
Catholic Chui ch—Christ’s Prophecies
andThfir Fulfillment—l he Growth
cf Catholicism in the United
States—Absolution and Purga
tory—An Interesting Ad
dress and a Large
Audience.
Last night at the Catholic Library Hall,
a large audience assembled to hear |
Right Rev. Bishop Gross deliver a
lecture on lhe subject of the Third Plenary
Council of the Catholic Church held recent
ly at Buffalo. It was a splendid address,
full of learning, bright, to the point and not
heavy. No one could grow sleepy listening
to his words. The talk took up something
over an hour, and in a condensed form was
as follows:
He spoke of our Divine Savior’s miracles,
the greatness of them; of His resurrection
of Lazarus, of the daughter of Jairus and
others; but greater, His prophecies. Christ
prophesied the destruction of the temple;
He prophesied His own death and the man -
ner thereof; also that He would rise on the
third day. But although these prophecies
were great, His greatest prophecy was
made when He told His twelve disciples
to go forth and teach all the nations of the
earth and He would be with them even
to the end of time. Here Bishop Gross
stated that the Apostles of Jesus were the
first Bishops of the Catholic Church, and
that this line of bishops had descended in an
unbroken line to the present date. In the
very days of the apostles, said he, all kinds
of heresies arose, the heresies of the Gnos '
tics and thousands of others. What did
the disciples or their successors do? They
called a council and quietly put these here
sies down. Whenever any heresy arose
which threatened society a council of the
bishops was called and a remedy applied.
Look at the state of society before Chris
tianity held its sway. The Emperor of
Rome was supreme in both temporal
and spiritual affair, his will was
sufficient to make or unmake a church. But
when the Bishops held their first council,
Constantine was simply invited to take a
seat and so well did he understand their
power that when they appealed against any
act of his, he immediate'y acqi iesced
Bish< p Gross then spoke of the heartless
and bloody massacre committed by the great
Theodcsius, and how he tried to enter the
portals of the church, but notwithstanding I
hi- greatness was excommunicated by the I
church. Other instances of the kind were i
also cited.
He then spoke of the condition of woman
in the human family—her position at that i
time. It was similar then to what it is now
where Christianity has never penetrated.
He spoke of her condition among the |
Chinese and among the Turks, where she is j
bought and sold. He then spoke of the i
evils of the divorce law as practiced then
and now, the inter-marriage of brother and
sister, etc., showing her condition to be de
graded indeed. But the church came to
her aid and threw its mantle around her,
making matrimony sacred, but perpetual
virginity more so. The improvement in
her condition was due to the influence of the
council of tbe bishops.
Hethen spoke of the councils in America;
how America was discovered in 1492, and
the first council was held in 1555 in the
City of Mexico, followed by the holding of
teveral others in different places where the
authorities had interests. He then spoke
of the prospect of the church at the begin
ning of the settlement of this country, the
laws against Catholics in all the States, no
churches being allowed to be built by them.
How the first church was built by “Charles
Carroll, of Carrollton,” as a part of his house,
in order to “whip the devil around the
stump,” since he would not be allowed to
build a church. He dwelt on the
opinion of the people regard
ing Catholics; how they thought the
priests had horns and cloven feet, and prayed
to idols and sold indulgencies. It was be
lieved that all Catholics had to do was to go
to a priest and say, “here is a $5 bill; 1 got
drunk last night; give me absolution;” or
“here is $2.50, I got in a fight and bruised
a poor fellow; give me absolution;” or “I
whipped my wife yesterday; I guess twenty
five cents is enough for that.” Then purga
tory was another thing not understood. The
people believed that the practice of the
Catholics was to go the bishop or priest and
say, “my father is dead and in purgatory;
take this $lO and get the poor old man out,”
or it might be his wife, or mother, or even
his motter-in-law.
At the close of the revolution, said the
Bishop, there were twelve poor priests—no
schools, no seminaries, in the United States.
The first Bishop was consecrated in 1789, In
1808 the cities of New York, Philadelphia,
Boston and Bardstown were made bish
oprics. The first assembly had been held
in 1810, the first provincial council in 1829
in Baltimore, and these had been followed
by council after council until this third
Plenary Council in 1885. He then called
on his audience to stand and look back to
1789, not 100 years ago. Then twelve
priests, now 7,043 priests; then some half
dozen churches, now 7,533; then one
Bishop, now seventy-seven Bishops and
Archbishops. He called attention to the
magnificent cathedrals, convents, schpols,
colleges and churches throughout the land.
Bishop Gross then gave a clear and con
cise description of the manner in which the
work is done in the Plenary Council, the
nature of that work and the object of the
Council, and the admirable methods pur
sued to arrive at the truth. The Council
met iu public session, in private session and
in solemn session. The Council was divided
into committees, with a Bishop as chairman
of each, and two or three profound theolo
gians, who gave the subjects under consid
eration the closest study. He gave a beau
tiful description of the requiem mass and
the music, and concluded about as follows:
“Rome had her Senate—it had some illus
trious names—but what a degraded thing
did it become at tbe last days of the Repub
lic, and sunk beniath contempt under the
Emperors. England has her Parliament,
of which she indeed has cause to be proud—
S6OO A YE4R
but look at the Senate of the Catholic
Church I It go goes back to the time when
England was a heptarchy, and Germany
a wilderness! And what names can she
boast of? In the high role of honor what
names like Augustus Cyprian, the Leos
and Gregories, At a lasius, Cyr" , Chrysotcirq
Thomas Aguinias, Bonaventure. And in
our country—so young—are there names
more hallowed than those of Archbishop
Carroll, Hughes, England, Kenrick, Haget,
Scalding and Bailey.
“When the bishops speak,” said he, “they
speak with authority and Jpower greater
than a General with 200,000 men at his
back; hence they are headed by the greatest
potentates. Thus I say the prophesy of
Jesus endureth forever. “Go forth and
teach all nations even unto the end of time,
and I will be with you ”
A DULCET DOMESTIC DISCUSSION.
Mr. and Mrs. Jarphly Exchange Views on
the Subject of Mi. rriage.
“I see divorces are getting cheaper,”
placidly remarked Mr. Jarphly with signifi
cant satisfaction to Mrs. Martha Jarphly at
the breakfast table yesterday morning.
“Are they?” said Mrs. Jarphly, with a tilt
of her nose. “Well, it’s a good thing, and
will be better yet if they only get cheap
enough to be within the reach of some people
I know,” and the lady absent-mindedly cen
tered her eyes on the milk pitcher and
smiled sweetly upon it.
That was a gage of battle, and Jeremiah
Jarphly knew it. “Half the men in the
world are fools for getting married anyway,”
he muttered.
“And all the women are,” replied Mrs.
Jarphly, as she gave the milk pitcher an
other smile
“There are a good many wives in the
world that it’s a torture for a man to live
with,” remarked Mr. Jarphly, as he drum
med with a fork in retaliation for Mrs.
Jarphly’s smiling on the milk pitcher.
“What do men marry them for, then ?”
sneered Mrs. Jarphly.
“How’s a man going to tell whether he
can live with a woman or not until he
marries her?” cried Mr. Jarphly.
“Let him find out 1” answered his wife,
with womanly logic.
“Find out?” yelled Mr. Jarphly. “Find
out! It's all courtship and taffy before
marriage and vinegar and ‘find out’ after
wards 1”
“Whose fi.ult is it?” asked the wife with,
asperity.
“It’s the women’s!”
“It’s the men’s!”
“Before marriage they show up all paint
ed and varnished, and are too sweet for
anything, and—”
“Yes, and the men keep sober and behave
themselves, and flatter and deceive, and—”
“And look as mild, and talk as sweet,
and—”
“And are so polite and attentive, and—”
“And don’t tell nothing about how they
snore in their sleep, and —”
“And stay out at all hours, and —”
“And keep awake all night just to pick
quart e s with their husbands when they
come, and —”
“And come home in a shameful condition,
and —”
“And wear their hair in papers for him
and in curls for other people, and —”
“And spend their money in disgracing
their families instead of providing for them
—and”
“Ard jaw a man to death, and —”
“And make them slaves from morning
until night, and—”
“And think more of dress than cf their
wifely duties, and—”
“And go—”
“And don’t—”
“And—”
“Sir 1”
“Mam!
A short time afterwards Johnnie Jarphly
told a neighbor’s little boy that his mother
had a billious attack and his father was
busy mend.ng crockery, and that, all things
considered, he did not think he would at
tend school that day, but would go skating
so as to be handy in case of illness.
Lack,
Pick out the laziest, poorest man in vour
town, and you will find him growling about
luck. When he comes to explain his career
you will see that he planted potatoes and
waited for luck to come around and hoe
them while he sat on the grocery steps and
talked politics. The ill-luck he growls
about has come more through his own
shiftlessness and bad management than from
any other cause. Dilligence makes luck;
economy makes luck; honesty makes luck.
It is too late in the day to make the
world believe that some folks were born
to be rich and others to be poor. It rests
solely with the boy and man.
Five or six years ago I happened to be in
a railroad office when a boy of fifteen enter
ed and applied'for a situation. His parents
were poor, but they had taught him good
manners. His clothes were of cheap mate
rial, but they were clean. The he-«l clerk
to whom the boy applied, looked him over
from head to foot, asked him a few questions
and told him to call again.
“I am going to give that boy a chance,”
he said, after the lad had departed.
“Don’t you have a dozen applications
every week?”
“Yes, but when a boy of his age has the
courage to walk into an office like this
all alone and make application, he has
something in him.”
The boy was given a place as messenger,
with a salary of $3 per week. I was in the
same office the other day, and where do you
suppose I found him? The head clerk had
been promoted and this boy was in his place,
and his salary had risen from $3 per week
to SIOO permonth. Was it luck? No. His
diligence and faithfulness had promoted
him step by step, and the same things will
take him higher and higher, util he will
some day fill the position of Superintendent
or President of the road.
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