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Solar eclipse is here prophesied to take- place about the time of the destruction of ancient Jerusalem. -Josephus, the historian, says that the prophecy ' was literally fulfilled, and that about that time there were strange appearances in the heavens. The sun was not destroyed, but for a little while hidden. Christianity Ls the rising sun of our time, and men have tried with the unrolling vapors of skepticism ami the smoke .of their blasphemy to " turn .the 'sua into darkness. Sup pose the archangels of malice and horror should be let loose a little while and be allowed to extinguish unil destroy, the sun in the natural heavens. They would take the oceans Qrom other worlds and pour them on this luminary' of the planetary sys tem, and the waters go hissing down amid the ravines and the-caverns, and there is explosion after explo sion, until there are only a few peaks '(."iiredet't in the;sun, and these are cooling down ' and going out until the vast. continents of -flame are re duced to a small acreage of fire, and 'that whitens and cools off until there .ire only a few coals left, and these .ire whitening and going out until there' is not a park left in all the mountains of ashes and the valleys of. ashes and the chasms of ashes. An extinguished sun. A dead sun. A buried sun. Let all 'worlds wail at the stupendous obsequies. Of course, this withdrawal of the solar light and heat throws otlr earth into a universal chill, and the tropics become the temperate, and the tem perate becomes Arctic, and there are Jro.en rivers and Kiio.KN LAKES AND FROZEN OCEANS. rrom Arctic ana Antarctic regions the inhabitants gather in toward the center and find the equator as the poles. 1 he slain lorests are piled up into a trreat bonfire, and around them gather the shivering villages and cities. The wealth of the coal mines is hastily poured into the furnaces and stirred into rage of 5 combustion, but soon the bonfires begin to lower, and the furnaces be-"-gin to go out, and the nations begin to die. Cotopaxi, Vesuvius, - Etna, Stromboli, Californian geysers cease to smoke, and the ice of hail storms remains unmelted in their crater. All the flowers have breathed their . last breath. .Ships with sailors frozen at the mast, and helmsmen frozen at the wheel, and passengers frozen in the cabin : all nations dying! first at the north and then at the south. Child frosted and dead in the cradle.: ( Jctogenarian frosted and dead at the hearth. Workmen with frozen hand on the hammer and frozen foot on theshuttle. Winter from sea to sea AH congealing winter. Perpetual winter. Globe of rigidity. : Hemis phere shackled to .hemisphere by chains of ice. Universal Nova Zem bla. The earth an ice floe grinding against other ice floes, lhe arch angely of aaalice and horror have done their work, and-now thev may take their thrones of erlacier and - - - - o - look down upon the ruin they have wrought What the destruction of the sun. m the natural heavens would be to' "our physical "earth, the destruction of Christianity would be to the moral world, l he sun turned into dark . ness. Infidelity in our time is con sidered a great joke. There are peo- pie. who rejoice to hear Christianity caricatured, and to near Christ as sailed with quibble, and fjuirk, and misrepresentation, and badinage, and harlequinade. I propose this morning to take In4 fidelity and Atlieism out of the realm of jocularity into one of tragedy, and snow you what thev propose, and what, if they are successful, they will accomplish. There are those in all our communities who would like to see the Christian religion overthrown and who say the world would be better without it. I want to show you what is the end of this road, and what is the terminus of this crusade, ana what this world will be when ATHEISM AND INFIDELITY have triumphed over it, if they can 1 say, if they can. I reiterate it, if "eycan. in the first place, it will be the complete and unutterable degrada tion of womanhood. I will prove it iacta and arguments which no honest man will dispute. In all communities and cities and states and nations where the Christian re ligion has been dominant, woman's condition has been ameliorated and improved, and she is deferred to and honored in a thousand things, and every gentleman takes off his hat before her. If your associations have been good, you know that the name ui wne, mother, daughter, suggest fciacious surroundings. You know there are no better schools and sem inanes in Brooklyn or in any city of una country than the schools and seminaries for our young ladies, V,,, 1 11.. , 0 A.UUYV mat wnne woman may sutler injustice in England and the united btates, she has more of her rights in Christendom than she has anywhere else. Aow compare this with woman's condition in lands where Christian uy has made little or no advance- in China, in Barbary, in Borneoin Tartary, in Egypt, in Hindostan. The Burmese sell their wives and uaughters as so manv sheen. Th innuoo tfible makes it disgraceful IT- t J IT ana an outrage for a woman to listen to music, or to- look out of the win- uow in the absence of 'her husband, and gives as a lawful ground for di vorce a Woman s beginning to eat before h4r husband has finished his meal. What mean those white bun dles on the ponds and rivers in China inj the morning ? Infanticide following infanticide. Female chil dren destroyed simply because they are female. Woman harnessed to a plow as an ox. Woman veiled and barricaded, and in all styles of cruel seclusiorL Her birth a misfortune. ; Her life ja torture. Her death a hor ror, ine missionary 01 the cross to day in Heathen lands preaches gen erally tp two groups a group of men. who do as they please and sit where they please ; the other a group of women hidden and carefully se cluded an a side apartment, where they mjay hear the voice of the preacher, but may not be seen. Xo refinement. JNo liberty. NO HOPE FOR THIS LIFE. No hope for the life to come. Ringed nose. Cramped foot. Disfigured face. Embruted soul. Now com pare those two conditions. How far toward this latter condition that I speak of would woman go if Chris tian influences were withdrawn and Christianity were destroyed? It is only a puestion of dynamics. If an object )e lifted to a certain point and no , fastened there, and the lift ing power be withdrawn, how long before 1hat obiect will fall down to the point from which it started ? It will fall down, and it will go still further than the point from which it started Christianity has lifted wo man up from? the very depths of degradation almost to the skies. If that lifting povVer be withdrawn she falls c ear back "to the depth from which die was resurrected, not going any lo ,ver because there is no lower depth. And yet, notwithstanding the lact that the only salvation of woman from degradation and woe is the Christian religion, and the only influence that Jias ever lifted her in the social scale is Christianity I have rad that there areyomen who reject Christianity. I make no re mark in regard to those persons. 1 make ho remark in regard to them. In the silence of 3rour own soul make your observations. If infidelity triumph and Christi anity he overthrown, it means the demoralization of society. The one idea in the Bible that atheists and infidels most hate is the idea of ret ribution. Take away the idea of retribution and punishment from society, and it will begin very soon to disintegrate ; and take away from the minds of men the fear of hell, and there are a great many of them who would very soon turn this world. into a hell. The maiority of those who are indignant against the Bible because of the idea of punishmentare men whose lives are bad or whose hearts are impure, and who hate the Bible because of the idea of fu ture punishmentfor the same reason that Criminals hate the penitentiary. Oh, I have heard this brave talk ABOUT FEOPLE FEARING NOTHING of the consequences of sin in the next world, and I have made up my mind that it is merely a coward's whistling to keep his courage up have feeen men flaunt their immor alities in the face of the community, and I have heard them defy the judgment day and scoiT at the idea of ariy future consequence of their sin ; but when they came to die they shrieked until you could hear them for nearly two blocks, and in the summer night the neighbors got up to put the windows down because they pould not endure the horror, 1 would not want to see a rail train with five hundred Christian people on board go down through a drawbridge into a watery grave. would not want to see five hundred Christian people go into such disas ter, but 1 tell you plainly that 1 could more easily see that than could for any protracted time stand and see an infidel die, though his pillow were of eider down and under a canopy of vermilion. I have never been able to brace up my nerves for such a spectacle. There is some thing at such a time so indescribable in the countenance, r just looked in upon it for a minute or two, but the clutch of his fist was so diabol ical, and the strength of voice was so unnatural, I could not endure it "Thfere is no hell, there is no hell, there is no hell !" the man had said for sixty years : but that night when ted in the dying room of my el neighbor there was something is countenance wmcn seemea y : " lhere is, tnere is, mere is, e is V Tjie mightiest restraints to-day aeralnst theft, against immorality, against libertinism, against crime of all sorts the mightiest restraints are the retributions of eternity. Men knew that they can escape the law, but down in the offender's soul there is i ie realization of the fact that THEY CANNOT ESCAPE GOD. He stands at the end of the road o profligacy, and he will not clear the guilty. laKe an idea oi reinouuou and punishment out ot the hearts and minds of men, and it would not , 4 i c n il . JV' be loner beiore BrooKivn anu iew York and Boston and Charleston ancjl Chicago became Sodoms. The only restraints against the evil pas sions of the world to-day -are Bible restraints. Suppose now these generals of Atheism and Infidelity got the vie tory, and suppose they marshaled a great army made up ot the majonty of the world, lhey are in compa nies, in regiments, in brigades the whole army. Forward, march ! re ho sts of infidels and atheists, ban ne "S flying beforebanners flying he hind, banners inscribed with the words : "No God ! No Christ ! No ir Uivw v - punishment ! No restraints ! Down wrth t.h Bible ! Do as vou nlease !" The sun turned into darknese. I Forward, march ! ye great army of I lo6 infid on a to sa the infidels and. atheists. And first of all you will attack the churches. Away with those houses of worship ! They have been standing there so ong deluding people with consola tion in their bereavements and sor rows. All those churches ouerht to be extirpated : they have done so much to relieve the lost and bring home the wandering, and they have so long held up the idea of eternal rest after the paroxysm of this life is over, l urn the tet. 1'eters and uls and the temples and taber nacles into club houses. Away with those churches ! I Forward, march ! ye great army of infidels and atheists, and next of all they scatter the Sabbath schools the Sabbath schools filled with bright eyed, bright cheeked little ones who are singing songs on Sunday after noon, and getting instructions when hey ought to be on the street cor ners playing marbles, or swearing on the commons. Away with them ! Forward, march ! ye GREAT ARMY OF INFIDELS arid atheists, and next of all they will attack Christian asylums the institutions of mercy supported by the Christian philanthropies. Never mind the blind eyes and the deaf ears and the crippled limbs and the weakened intellects. Let paralyzed old age pick up its own food, and orphans fight their own way! an(l the half reformed go back to their evil habits. Forward, march ! ye great .army of infidels and atheists, and with your battle axes hew down the cross and split up the manger of Bethlehem. I On, ye great army of infidels and atheists, and now they come to the graveyards and the cemeteries of the earth. Pull down the sculpture above Greenwood's gate, for it means the resurrection, lear away at the entrance of Laurel Hill the figure of Old Mortality and the chisel.) On, ye great army of infidels and atheists, into the graveyards and cemeteries ; and where you see "Asleep in Jesus," cut it away, and where you find a marble story in heaven, blast it, and where you find over a little child's grave : fe u her little children to come unto me," substitute the words de lusion" and "sham," and where you find an angel in marble, strike off the wing, and when you come to a family vault, chisel on the ;door : "Dead once, dead forever." j Hut on, ye great army ot infidels and atheists, on ! They will attempt to scale heaven. There are heights to be taken. Pile hill on hill and Pelion upon Ossa. and then; they hoist the ladders against the w-alls of heaven. On and on until they blow up the foundations of jasper and the gates of pearl. ' j THEY CHARGE UP THE STEEP. Now they aim for the throne of him who hveth forever and ever. ,j lhey would take down from their high "place the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost. "Down with them!' they say. "Down with him from the throne !" they say. "Down forever ! Down out of sight ! He is not God. He has no right to sit there. jDown with him ! Down with Christ !" A world without a head, a universe without a king. Orphan constella tions. Fatherless galaxies. Anarchy supreme. A dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated God. Patricide, regicide, deicide. That is what they mean. That is what they will have, if they can, if they can, if they can. Civilization hurled back into semi barbarism, and semi-barbarisih driv en back into Hottentot savagery. The wheel of progress turned the other way and turned toward the dark ages. The clock of the centu ries put back two thousand I years. Go back, you Sandwich Islands, from your schools and from your colleges and from your reformed condition to what you were iii20, when the missionaries first came. Call home the five hundred missionaries from India and overthrow their twp thou sand schools, where they are trying to educate the heathen, and scatter the one hundred and forty thousand little children that they have gath ered out of barbarism into civiliza tion. Obliterate all the work of Dr. Duff in India, of David Abeel in China, of Dr. King in Greece, of Judson in Burmah, of David Brain ard amid the American aborigines, and send home the 3,000 mission aries of the cross who are toiling in foreign lands, toiling for Christ's sake, toiling themselves into the grave. Tell these 3,000 men of God that they are of no use. Send home the medical missionaries who are doctoring the bodies as well as the souls of the dying nations. Go home, London Missionary society. Go home, American Board of j Foreign Missions. Go home, ye Moravians, and relinquish back into darkness and squalor and filth and death the nations whom ye have begun to lift. Oh, my friends, there has never been such a nefarious plot On earth as that which infidelity and atheism planned. We were shocked, a few years ago because of the attempt to blow up ' the parliament house in London; butif infidelity andatheism succeed in their attempt, THEY WILL DYNAMITE A WORLD. Let them have their full way, and this world will be a habitation of three rooms a habitation with just three rooms the one a madhouse, another a lazaretto, the othfer a pan demonium. These infidel jbands of music have only just begun their concert yes, they have only been stringing their instruments. I to day put before you their whole pro- framme from beginning unto close, n the theatre .the tragedy comes first and the farce afterward ; but in this infidel drama of death the farce comes first and the tragedy after ward. And in the former atheists and infidels laugh and mock, but in the latter God himself will laugh and mock. He "I will says so. laugh at ther calamity and mock wheh their filar cometh." From such! a chasm of individual. national, world-wide ruin, stand uaclt. Uh, young men, stand back You see the prac sermon. I want that road leads. front that chasm ! tical drift oft" my 3'ou to see where Star id back from that chasm of ruin. The time is oing to come (you and I miy not live to see it, but it will come, just a-i certainly as there is a God, it will come) when the infidels and the atheists who openly, and out and out und above board preach and practice Infidelity and Atheism will be considered as criminals against society, as they are now criminals agjainst God. Society will push out the leper, and the w'retch with soul g.ngrened, and ichorous, ano vermin covered, and rotting apart with h is bestiality, will hp left to cjie in the ditch, and" will be de nied decent burial, and men will come with spades and cover up the carcass whete it fails, that it poison not the air, and the only, text in all the Bible appropriate for the funeral sermon will! be Jeremiah xxii, 19: "He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, A thousand voices come up to me this morningisaying : ' Do vou really . - i . . . think infiddlity will succeed? Has Chfistianit received its death jlow ? and WILL THE JilP.LE 11EOMK OBSOLETE when the smoke of the citv chimney arrests and destroys the nponday sun. l3osephus says about tht time of the destruction of Jeru sal 'in the sun was turned into dark ness; but only the clouds rolled be tween the Hun and the earth. The sun went right on. It is the same sun, the same luminary as when at tho beginning it shot out like an ehctric spark from God's linger, and to-day it i warming the nations, anl to-day it is gilding the sea, and to-day it is filling the earth with light. The same old sun, not at all worn out, tjh'ough its light steps one hi ndred and ninety nullion miles a second, though its pulsations are four hi ndred "and fifty trillion undulat- tknsina second. Same sun with j beautiful ivhite light, made up of j th 3 violet and the indigo and the j blae and tie green and the red and j the yellow md the orange theseven j beautiful (ardors now just as when the solar spectrum lirst divided I them. - j At the beginning God said: "Lot; there be light," and light was, and j li;ht is. and light shall he. So Chris- ' tiunity is lolling on. and it is going j to warm a'l nations, and all nations i afie to bask in its light. Men mav i shut the window blinds so they ean npt see it, or they may smoke the pipe of speculation until they are shadowed under their own vaporing; but the Lord God is a sun ! This wlhite ligh tMof the Gospel, made up of all the beautiful colors of earth apd heawn violet plucked from amid the Spring grass, and the indigo of the southern jungles, and the blue of the skiefe, and the green of the foli age, and the yellow of the autumnal woods, and the orange of the south ern groves, and the red of the sub sets. All jthe beauties of earth and heaven brought out by this spiritual spectrum. Great Britain is going to tjake all Europe for God. The United fftates are going to take all America fjor God. loth of them together will tjake all Asia for God. All three of fhem will take Africa for God. "Who irt thou, ph, great mountain? be iore Zerul 'babel thou shalt become a plain." The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Hallelujah, amen ! 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Our Correspondent Rids Adieu to the Lagoons and. Passing lioineo and Juliet's Home, Sleeps in Milan. To prevent my description of Venice becoming unreasonably long I will be obliged to nurry over man7 things which I found exceedingly in teresting. I must, therefore, beg the reader to enter with me yonder gon dola, whose bow is resting against the stone steps a few yards from the Doge's palace. The Canal Grande, the main thoroughfare of Venice, pierces the city in a great S. It is two miles long and about thirty-five f'urds wide. Hundreds of gondolas and other crafts dart hither and thither, backwards and forwards, in ceaseless procession. Handsome houses and stately palaces rise di rectly from the water, though in some places a narrow sidewalk separates the canal from the houses. In most instances, however, the stone steps of the main entrances lead directly down into the water and the waves ripple within the open doorways. Marking the houses of the nobility, rows of lofty wooden piles, painted with the colors of the family, rise from the water at a distance of fifteen or twenty feet from the shore. Here, on the left, is the house in which the great German composer, Wagner. died. Opposite is the hir.igniticcnt palace in which once lived poor little Desdemona. the bride of Othello, the Moor of Venice. "Othello was no Moor," said our guide ns ;v- rook gently by. and vour 'Ilis.Mimaiiir w.: on. rreat r.iiirlishman was no lead Itv the sinnlaritv of .w.-.r!. Perhaps one of the most interest ing places in enice is ieio glass factor v, and I can assu'r iOi'flili! reader that, it In.' ias the mora courage to escape from' the place without having spent a hundred francs, he must be either a htiro or else devoid of artistic taste. 5-Mich beautiful glass and glass mosaic work I have never seen elsewhere. Put see ! before us is the famous Rialto bridge, crossing the canal with a single span and resting upon 1:2.0 Ml piles. On either side is a passage way for pedestrians while anbther is in the middle, with high shops on either side of it. Everything is ar ranged for pedestrians, for the. reader must not forget that the only horses in Venice are the bronze ones over the portal of St. Mark's. : Close by the bridge is the. old Ex change, where Shy lock is said to have practiced his usurious trade. A short walk now brings us to an ancient church which the guide says was built by the early christians in the year -1M, or thereabouts. A few more sU'ps and we art: in the fish market, a most interesting place early iuthe morning. Everywhere stands baskets of shrimps, lobsters, eels and a hundred varieties of beautiful fish; fresh from the salt waters of the Adriatic' Rut let us hurry along. Now to the right, now to the left we go. Here the rica, or street, is'only a yard wide. Ncav we take a sharp turn to the left, ascend the steps of a little bridge and, descending on the other side, enter a passage way which leads directly through a house and find ourselves before some mdrble church whose interior is rich with art treas ures, j. Ah, beautiful Venice, Vou are very hard to leave, but the ! hour of de parture is come and the locomotive is an inexorable monster that insists on bearing us on to other scenes. Slowly we roll back over the I'onte Sulla Laguna. On the northwestern horizon lie the Alps like soft white clouds. The air is soft and balmy and both windows of our coupe are open. Along yonder village street pass a couple of Monks,-bareheaded and barefooted, except ";for the san dals which protect their feet from the stones. Their one garment is a coarse brown tunic which hangs to their feet. The tops of their heads are shaved and their feet and faces show no symptoms of "?ver having been washed. From their waists hang cords supporting heeds and crucifixes. The priests, in compari son are quite genteel, l.-ing dressed in black tunics and black broad brimmed felt hats. Rut see ! A peasant stands in the middle of the road plaiting the tail of a gray donkey. The Italian trains moyeslowlv but yet,in this instance, we have attained such, a degree of headway that are deprived of the melancholy satisfaction of being pres ent at the inquest Passing through Padua we leave the level country and see on all sides of us some very respectable moun tains which proved tobeoutspurs of the Alps. Near icenza two tine ruins on topf a high hill are sharply dehneu against the yellow sunset sky.' . Verona! -What memories of sweet little Juliet and brave Romeo crowd upon us ! .A group of peasants pass ing down tfie moonlit road singing a plaintive ballad adds to the sad ness which creep over us. Rut let us sliake ourselves. Romeo and 1, ! Juliet are out memories-wniie a irnawing appetite i3 a dreadful real ity. Let us go forth through the soft moonlight, for the train. has stopped for ten minutes, and regale ourselves on garlicky sausage and sour wine. The station master has blown his horn, the station bell has jingled, and so it is that fair Verona fades away into the past once more. The moon is shining! beautifully, but the intervening hills deprive us of even a glimpse of the bright waves of the Lago di Garda, We must have napped for here we are in the station of Milan After a good night's' rest in the Hotel du Nord we are now ready to follow our guide through the great manufacturing city of Italy. The fog is so dense that we cannot see more than twenty feet ahead of us ; but we do not propose to be daunted by trifles. A minute's walk brings us through the Porta Venezia and, hurndng up the Corso Vittoria Emanuele, we reach the Piazza del Duoma, the ca thedral square. As is probably well known to the reader theathedral of Milan is one of the most remarkable edifices that has ever been conceived in the mind of man. Next to St. Peter's at Rome and the Cathedral of Seville it is the largest church in Europe. The in terior is ITo feet long and lJ feet wide. The nave is loo feet high and 50 feet wide. The greatest- leight of the building is oGO feet. The roof is adorned with US Gothic turrets and over '2,000 statues. This magnificent pile consists entirely, of white marble. The . interior of the building is worthy of a careful visit. The mass is being celebrated as we enter. Through the exquisite stained glass windows a flood of many tinted rays of light falls upon a devout throng of worshippers kneeling on the chairs winch they ha ve hired tor a trifle from the sexton who stands near the door. rhe magnificent tones of the or gan reverberate from roof and pillar aid the rich, clear voices of the sur- pliced choristers thrill the listener. On'.v poor llayed St. Rortholomew seems u.n forgetful of himself and bis own sufferings as he stands, hewn from Carrara marble, vith Ids skin hanging over his shoulder. Rut let us hurry to' the roof! The roof of the cathedral o'f Milan is cer tainly one of the wonders of the world. Delicately chiseled marble, modeled m fantastic designs ; rows of tulips, roses and lilies in white ;tone, hundreds ot pinnacles capped with the statues of saints and famous men, such is the roof of the cathe- Iral of Milan. Fortunately for us the mist hangs low and the distant view is unob- scured. To the extreme left rises Monte Viso and, near bv, Mont Cenis. through whose bowels the lo comotive burrows. Further on Mont Rhine, (ireat St. Bernard and Monte Rosa raise their hoary heads ; while the Matterhorn, the Cima di Jazi and the Rernese Alps sparkle before the morning sun. In the distant Southeast rise the towers and domes. with the Appenines in the back ground. The history of the founding of this splendid structure affords a' rather characteristic glimpse into medi.rval piety. It seems that that there lived here, a hundred years before the dis covery oi America, a promising voung man named (.nan OMea.zo Visconti. a nephew of, the reigning duke. Young Visconti, being ot an unbitious temperament, at length entered into a conspiracy against his uncle and vowed to the Madonna that he would erect a magnificent cathedral to her honor if she would lend him her assistance. The con spiracy turned out to be a success and the uncle was murdered. Where upon the young duke employed tier- man architects and began the erec tion of this splendid edifice. Let us now enter the dining hall of the suppressed monastry of Santa Maria della Crazio (now a cavairy barrack). The entire end 'ot the room opposite the entrance is occu pied by a fresco painting, engrav ings and copies of which have been scattered all over the world. It is The Last Supper," painted at the end of the 15th century by Leonardo da Vinci. Deplorable as is the con dition of this great work- it is dis colored by dampness and every year great flecks, of the plaster are falling off yet no copy, however good, can produce on the mind of the observer the same deep impression as the scarred and faded original. Strange to say, however, no serious effort seems to be being made for the pres ervation of this famous picture which is certainly one of the greatest art treasures of the world. As, however, my letter is growing already too long, 1 will have to omit an account of my visit to the crema torium, the Teatro della Scala. where Verdis' new opera ''Othello" was first produced ; and, hurrying by all the other sights of Milan, ask the reader to accompany me to the shores of the blue Mediterranean. X. X. X. The Old Linon Duster. fg Boston Courier. llow denr to my heart is the oltl linen duster, The old linen duster that covers my hack, It never did tit me, 'twas made for a buster, A buster much bigj;?r than I am, alack '. Yet still in the summer, when than Hades 'tis hotter, That old linen duster I never would swap I"or a new overcoat made of sealskin and otter, With agraffes of pure gold set w ith dia monds on top. That voluminous duster, That old linen duster. That buster of a duster that covers my back. Homespun Pineapple Lemonade. Hooray! Madison Ixader. There is an apple tree in Rocking ham county which has borne fruit for four years and has never been known to blossom. The apple grows off from a soft shoot or sprig which springs from the larger limbs. The fruit i3 something similar in taste to the pine apple, and make a most delicious drink when prepared as lemonade. The point which baffles one is how the fruit can grow with out a bloom. Don't judge by appearances. A brand new coat may coyer a wire dummy. . PHEASANTS AND FISH. FKOM AVOOOKI HILL AVIXIY SllOitK. TO All Sorts ot" News Items, Some I.iOiij and Some Short, Some New ami Some Old, But News Items Just the Same. The steam heating arrangement at the Capitol in Kaleiuh is said to be "(). K."' The "candidate" 'can. now make his arrangements to go to Raleigh next winter. Plant. Lexington Di.n!h: Mr. (ieorge Beck, of Conrad Hill, has a stuep 1' 1 which brought Iwiu six lambs in less than twelve months. A few more like that would make sheep raising profitable even in a country where the dogs have all the advantage. The Governor Wins pardoned Den- j n tL' ATdf 'ait lflr TT- C lillLinii,.! 4-0L 1 ,.o,-.. ;t. cu."iu mi: cii i irui ui i m: uign-' ; way robbery and lias already served 12 years. lie ought to have a very good character by this time. No body has head anything "ajrin" him for morc'n ten year. Ei. Plant. Laurinburg P..r-hni,.y,--: A general breaking of mill dams on Mark's creek happend during the rains of last week, among which was the one of the factorv at Hamlet, which, is soon to be operated by Lhe II. unlet Manufacturing Company, of which Mr. G. K. Wishart, of Rockingham. I is secretary. Henderson d'niil f.rnf: Work has been commenced on the shuns of the ! Henderson Puddimr and Manuia- ! Mr I Crozier's place in the northeastern edge of town. It will be brick. luxi'.( j feet, and two stories high. It is ex pected that the building. will l e fin ished this weel:. Thus another im portant enterprise will soon be added to our town. Greensboro Nrlh S-'nff: The wa ter tower has been completed, and the immense tank lias been nlac-d on top. This tank is made of cedar. ! and is said to be one of th- best ever i erected in the South. Nearly all ! the pipe is under ground, and the hydrants are et. It win not be; many days before water will be-turin-d j ri-M 111 T on. me pumps anu ai maenmerv i s are in place. i C fiarliiile C .,;.;: A renor!.!' ! learned Wednesday that the cotton ; seed and oil nulls in this city are to j lie enlarged and thai 1 ." M . brick j have been ordered for the purpose. : lhe nulls already comprise on three-story brick building and a two- I story frame structure, besides a stor- j aire warehouse lOM feet long, and the new addition wul niiiK" U one o! tin most extensive plants for ml numng in the South. ! Henderson -' Lint': At a in- rt- ! ing of the Hoard of Town Conuni-- ' sinners held Monday afternoon, an . appropriation of J was voted to ! the Vance Guards. This act wil! !e : generally commended by the tax ; payers of the town. Now let tln ie ! be a generous response on the part of the citizens when private s'ubscri p- : tions are asked for. Ilesidts the forty odd members of the company taxing themselves ?! each, and tbe ! .$.V0 from the county and town, they are yet behind about S'ioO. N'ii: if- ObsrrriT : The judgment of the lower court in the cas" of the State against W. A. Potts for the ; murder of Paul Lincke, in which : Potts was convicted and sentenced . to be hanged, was sustained. This ; mean Potts' death warrant and it is ; only necessary for the Governor now : loet the day of execution. The : murder, which occurred in November j last in P.eaufort count-, and thesub- j sequent trial of Potts caud intense interest at the time. i Shelby Aurora: A party of ten i 1 1 - i.- lestrians, led ny Air. Andrew Pritchard and Miss Nancy Green, on matrimony intent, went at " o'clock before day on Friday to the house of 1). S. Lovelace, .1. P., but the magis trate refused to make the loving pair one, because there was no li cense and the bride was under eigh teen years and her parents not con senting. So the ten undaunted wended their way. to the South Caro lina line where no license is neces sary, and Mr. John Rupp blinded the lives of Mr. Andrew Pritchard and Miss Nancy Green, daughter of Elijah Green. The happy couple returned home Saturday afternoon to begin together the battle of life. Favetteville Or'vr: The meet- ing at the Raplist church continues with unabated interest, (')n Sunday nignt ttiere were tnirieen proiessions, and many anxiously inquiring the way. Cp to date more than two ; hundred have made a profession of j faith. About sixty await tne ordi-j nance of baptism at the liaptist church, while others have united I with the other churches ot the city. 1 lhe pastor, Rev. It. 1. Gray, .is as sisted by Kev. . 1. I ope. Air. Pope came to stay hut a tew days, i but owing to the interest manifested at each service, he has been pre- i vailed upon to remain He is now ! in his third week. A crowded house ' greets the earnest preacher at each service, and the Word as it is preached, in earnestness and power,' goes directly to the hearts of his hearers, j The meeting closed on Tuesday night with still a warm in terest manifested. There were six additional accessions to the church. A Verse By Peter Stuart Ney. Froman old Coiy-Book of One of His How sweet to the heart Ls the thought of to morrow, "When hopes fairy pictures bright colors displav; How sweet when we can from lutunty bor row , A balm for the griefc that atlhet as to-day. A seasonable remark "Pass the gait, please." im:oim,i: tal,kki about.. Mr. Mills xi as elected to the House of D.tHHl. is to make an Amert 1H,(HX) and expenses ox well, the balloonist, age, and has made 7' n) by a majority Kubelisteiii run tour at for ti Itv niirhf, Henry T. (1 is 7l vear of vovaes in t!i eair. i times as much boom There is b for (iresham in Illinois :is there is in Ohio. .V. Isuix n. for Shermai Admiral S r William Hewitt, com-. mander of tlie Channel fleet, died at Portsmouth, lie was "4 v j)dand, Sunday niiiht. ars old. Lord Stanh.v of Preston, Lord, Lansdowne'd successor as (Jovernor Oeneral of Canada, leaves Kncland ,U1 Jlme i x lor the I'onnnion.. lolgiiatu s Donnelly, who is -he hilt severely eiutioK. ty tne. iMigiisii critics: Tak comfort, ton are es- capmg a ni re severe clubbing at home. Henrv C Miauldip.g. the inventor f "Spauldijig's (due." who .was at one tllllt died in oltfl sMMKM recently Li'pior an altiis-djouse. did it. Accord in tS (he si-hedule it is al- most time i r -leif. l'avis to -plunge the Northern P.ourbons into another :.,Uack "! ,iFli,ium vuwn -Phil. i lie noun nauoii oi senator ingaiis pi . : L . . : .. c .. . i 1 i . ii . :!S 'irt H hoiee of the Kansas He pelican ir President v:vs a rare partisan bravado anil ciierac . 77m. 7'vn, example of political d l,!"- Iv.veil, the former prcsi- lt lit of Wil who has 1( tution for Ii elect. i ii" r Sf.i'r. lani and Mary College, ii in charge of the insti rly years past, has been In professor. Hii-h annul The report of Senator Hoar from the Connn ttee on Privileges and hb - ctions n ! favor of Mr. Turpie's rL'ht to hi - eat. settles a contest lor never was any rational which then basis Charles I )! icken's nurse, Mary Wel has just beiii buried.- prototype, of the pretty in '"Pickwick , Papers." ed him with the name ,., (ijbs,,)) ; 1 1 was tin, ...usimai and f'lrnisl Weilei ()ur ,,rt i ( 'arolina Rishop, Reck-.' en lecturing on the Holy with l a Land, at Au-da, Ga., and the It 13 l "':' ys of the lectures, "they ifui and instructive." - Wefe heaU! II it III I lfll"ll Coh P.ob S'ir. - , ngersoll does not know w net tier I j ath is darkness or dawn. Possibly hi may yet discover that to it will he neithep.dark- sol ne peopii ness nor d ti -i 'V ' o !" --. - Tiit- -n;' !.-:1'l- r in j wn. but a' big display of !,i in tsif'n1 ( in rii-r Inn run! i-i-'istic reception of Rou- iiti-s o! tbe Department rt li ;s a natural exhibition fa victorious local party, a us lb! lows that the same, ins throughout the coun- says Col. I ngersoll, i.'iess when empires wen; poration." That was in 1 days when the Repub in power. I)o we want f the j. y l t ov he m try. V. .n "C-.i:kl'n ""was in Co given to en the good o lieans wen the Repul lieans again ? Lmiisrih' i 'i,ui it r-Jtiiyriin'. I das all 1 Yoorhees have buried the hatcht the Senato t. The former wrote to k- con-jTatulatimr him on the wav h( used his hatchet upmi ; Vaporer. This, called reply and then a long 1 1 ' m uiijUm Star. Gordon, -of Georgia, lias the Kans'; out a kind conference i.i eriioit ; commuted a murderer s sentence on j the routu ' gent limn; that lie was not intelli b to appreciate the econ crime. This is certainly j om v of his- I getting things down to as fine a point i as ingenuity can reach. Hilt t more A nii'i'i' Oil. Gov. I.( . of Virginia, has declined to allow tjhc use of his name as a candidate I emocrat i r delegate to the National c Convention, for the rea- son. as lie says, "that he does not think per mis holding official posi tions shot, M be so grasping as to de sire other honors." Senator Ingalls, the great blather skite of t;e Republican party, does not meet with the encouragement in Kansas tniat he anticipated, and an- ti-Ingalls deh urates are pent to the Chicago I the first Republican Convention from lstru t, m which he resides. lllr (Ah.) Nnr,-. HJimntii Reprc -sj.-ntati ve Scott, in his 'great peeeh of fast Friday, hit hard blows in many directions, and there is, as of course, a tremendous , a matter, outcry. The protection organs, in iVnnsylv uiia. especially those of Pittsbur . are fairly foaming at the mouth w ith nrge. 'ihinjton 7V.V, Jh m The sj leeches so far made by the Democratic members of the coni- rm ttee oh wavs and means in favor of tanf! reduction show thatSieaKfr Carlisle made no mistake as to the ability off its membership. Mr. Scotts eneeeii it an eye-opener for the pro- te tionisf press. I'UVwh -i 'j,hia Imurrf , 1 'cm. What a great man William E. Gladstone is. He has received more nav ner pa-re for an article in an Americafn periodical' than any other man evdr received. 11 is article in review bf lngerpoll in the May number.of the Nnrlh American IW- 1 M 1 ..l-i.l.. A.,..A cific, lie miuican, na.- uncuuj tuusw twentv-t'.vo rdili'M of that number to be HHJed. W'ihninijloii.Slar. Justice Wm. Strong, of the United States S ipreme court, retired, is now SO vears ot age. He is a tall, fine looking man,. who does not appear to be more than COL He has his salary of 810,000 a year, and a good income Resides, but he still lectures on constitutional law in one of the Washington schools, and sometimes gives professional advice. N. Y.Slar. - s I i i f if f - - s. ! - '
The Tobacco Plant [1872-1889] (Durham, N.C.)
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