Newspapers / The North Carolina Prohibitionist … / Sept. 30, 1887, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
To The Patrons of This Paper, : WE BOW. We Want Your Trade. We Keep constantly in Stock and to Arrive Idme,.(Va. and Rockland,) . Rosendale and Portland Cement, . Calcined and Land Plaster, ' Guanos, Champion Mowers, Buckeye Mowers ; Tiger & Coatea Hay Rakes, Bick ford & Huffman Grain Drills and '.J order Repairs for same. ; ... :: .Butterworth -Threshers, Boseer4Iorse Powers, Smith Well Fixtures, Terra Cotta Flue Pipe, Tobacco-Flues and do Tin Roofinr ;-which does not leak and guarantee the same. : " ' , . -, ; Keep Valley and Shingle Tin always Ready. . , SPEOlAIi "MENTIO N. By all means see the New . Champion Front Cut Steel .Mower and the latest improved Bickford te HutTman Grain Drill, with no Trigger Work and Cog Wheels (at end to always trouble and annoy you--very simple now, and the beautiful and equally good Butterworth Thresher. WHARTON & STRATFORD The Valley mutual Life Association of Virginia. D R,-CARTER BERKLEY, RALEIGH, ft. C, ; Manager for the State. This Association was organised Sept. ' d lo7S. It is firmly established and in every way worthy of trusts . . - It has furnished reliable life insurance ; t less than one-h If the -rates charged by old line life insurance companies on the same risks. 1 Its Death C laims lo the amount of over $600,000, have been paid in full. its membership exceeds Light thous and carefully selected risks, composed -of representative men in all classes of life, whose names on its role-of membership certify their unqualified endorsement. It is confidently believed that this Company proeuts the most perfect plan of insurance now in existence. Try it and leave your family independent in case of death. - ' , . L. A. BAILEY, H- C. H0LTEN, Greensboro, N". C, March 18th, 1887 - - . - - - - POMONA HILL v IrdurseriesS POHOlfA, N. C. tot- These Nurseri s are located 2 miles west of Ureensboro, on the Richmond & Danvil e and Saleni Branch Railroads . Th re you can find One and a -Ha If Million r ol Trees and Vines Growing. Parties wanting Trees, &c. , are resprct. ful y invited to call and examine s a. ck and tearn the exten of these Nurseries. Stock consists of all the leading and new varieties of Apple, Pea h, Pear, - XStandn d and ' Dwart.) Plums, Apricots, Graphs, Cherries, Mulbei ri s, Nectar.nes, Figs, Quinces, Goo e Lerr.es, Raspb3rrces, Currants, Pocans, Eng lish Wal utes, Ja-anesa Pei simmon, Strav brri.s, Sniubs, Roses Jvvergreens, Shade Trees, &c, and in fact ev rj tiling of the hardy class usually ke.t : in a first-class Nursery, SUITABLE FOR ; NORTH CAROLINA AND THE SOUTHERN. BORDER STA1ES. "J. New Fruits of sp cial note are the Yel o T ansparent Apple,-Lady Ingold l each, the Laws .n Keiffer, Lucy, Duke and Beaufo t Pears, Lutie, Niagra, and the Georgia Grape, Woitoid's Winter. , - Descriptive Catalogues free. . jgp"Ckv spondence solicited. Special in- : cucements t j large Planters. Address. - J. VAN. LINDLEY, Pomona, Guilford Co. JM. C ul9-6mo ' . , ' . - - - INSURANCE AGENCY Tornada, Fird Life. Ot W. CAK1C Jb CO., : Greensboro, 1ST. C O. W. CARR, Trinity College and High Point, H, C -. "- - . , ASSETS OVER $200,000,000. rTflTII?V'0 be made. Cut this out lilUillJ I "and return to us, and we will send you free, something of great value and importance to you, that will start jotriu-busines i'which will bnngyou in more money right away than anything else in the world. Any one can do the workand live at home, - lither sex, all ages. Something new, that 'just coins money for all workers. We will stur. you; capital not needed. This is one of the genuine important chances of a life time. .Those who are ambitious will not delay. Grand outfit free. "Address," ViiCE & Co., Augusta, MaL".e. , Groceries! Groceries!! Groceries!!! wmm k detail. -)iot(- "When times are - hard and money -scarce, which j ia " the case just now, everbody should buy his goods where they can be had for the least money. To the 1 citizens of Greensboro and Surrounding Country and to the Retail Merchants of Koith Carolina, we ven. tuie to Bay that we can and witi sGLt all goods' in our line a low as they can i . . -": .- , b: bought in th3 State. r We buy in large quantities for c.tsh from ' first hands, thus securing every advantage in price and transportion. We own: the building in which we do , . ...I'..----'. -. . . . . . - business,' and give our. personal- atten- tion to our business. These facts make . ' ! ,.: ' t ; ' ' - '- . " r -: ;,' . " it evident that wc cau sell goods as low r - as any and much lower-than those who do not enjoy these advantages. . : Not oniy have we every advantage, but . we tecognize the fact thit our in- tcrest and the interest of cur customers . 1 ... . . aic identical. Wo will sell you more Goods : 1 " i for SI than any other r house in the City.- WE WARRm EYERT ARTICLE WE SELL Satisfaction Guaranteed ; or. Money, Refunded. All Kinds of Country Produce - i- . taken in exchange for goods at the highest market price. We call special attention to our Patent Roller Flour, EQTJAIi TO THE BEST. Ptee im ns a Call wIieii in wau : of anytlinr in our Line. V .Very Respectfully, HENDRIK BROS.. WHOLESALE AXD KETAIL GROCERS, East Market St., Opposite : Planters' " Hotel ;anrt S. Court House. r - GREEIISBOEO. n. C. DR. TALMAGE. ; THF BROOKIiTN DIVINE'S SUNDAY S -. - SERMON. Subject : "A s Straight Up and. Down 'fea v'- Religion." : Text: "Arui the Lord said unto metAmo. what seesl thu.P and I said, a plumb tine, Amoss vii.. a ; . - : - . . . . solid masonry of th4 world has to me A iascmation. - Walk about some of th& triutn phial arches and : the ft&thedrals, 400 orT500 years old, and see theni stand for centuries, as erect as when they, were buiided, walls of great height not bending a quarter of an inch this way or that Bo greatly honored were the masons who buiided thessalis that they were free from taxation and calledfree'? masons. The trowel gets most of the credit lor these buildings, and its clear ruining on stone and brick has sounded across the ages. But there is another implement of just as much importance as the trowel, and my text recognizes i Bricklayers, and stone maiona,: and carpenters, in the building of walls, uSs an instrument made of a cord, at the end of which a lump of lead is fastened. They drop it over the side of the wall, and as the plum met naturally seelcs tho centre of gravity in, the : earth, the i workman - discovers where the wall . recedes, , and where it bulges out, and just what is the perpendicu : lar. Our text represents God as standing on wiilt of character, which the Israelites nal built, and in thafe- way measuring -it And the Lord said unto me, Amosr-j1at seest thou? and I said, A plumb line.." : . ' What the world wants is a straight up and dowu religion. Much of the so-called piety of the day bends this way and that, to suie the times, r It is horizontal with a low state of tentiment and morals. -1 "We hAVo all been building a wall of charactSrj and it is glar ingly impjrfect and heeds reconstruction. How shall it be brought into the p?rpendicu-. Jr Only by the divine measurement. "And the Lord said noto me, Amos, what sees! thou? and I said. A plumb line." - : The whole tendency of the times is to make us act by tho standard of what others do. If theyplav cards -we play cards. If they dance, we danee. If they read certain styles of books, we read them. : Wo throw over tha wall of oar character the tangled plumb-line of othr lives and reject the- iofalllb'e. test which Amos saw. The question for me should not be what you think is right, but what God thinks is right. This perpetual reference to the behavior of others, as though it decide! any thing but human fallibilisy. is a mistak3 as wide as ths world. .There are 10,000 plumb lines in ure, but only One is true and exact, ; and that is the lino of God's eternal right. There is a miarhty attempt being made to re construct and fix up the Ten Commandments. To many they seem too rigid.. The tower of -Pisa leans over about thirteen feet from the perpendicular, and psople go thousands of miles to see its graceful inclination, and by extra braces and various architectural con trivances it is kpnh IpAm'nor fnnm oontMir-o- fy j century. - Why not have th ten granite Dlocks 01 Sinai set a little aslaflt? Why not ' have the pillar of trul a leaning tower? Why is not an ellipse as gooi as a square? Why is not an oblique as good as straight up ' and down? , My - friends, we must nave a standard; f halt it be God's or man's? s The divine plumb-lin9 needs td be thrown over all merchandise. Thousands of years ago Solomon discovered the tendency of buy ers to depre-. iate goods. He saw a man b sat ing down an article lower and lower, and say ing it was not worth the price asked, and when he hid ourchased at the lowest point he told everybody what a sharp bargain he had struck, and how he had outwitted t he mer chant. . Proverbs xx, 14 s ,4It is nauhtf it is naught, Kaith the buyer, but when he is gone his way than he boasteth.' Sb utterly askew is society in this manner, that you seldom find a seller asking the price thajhe expects to get. He put on a higher value than he pro poses to receive, knowing that he will have o drop, i if he wants fiftv he asks seventv fifr. r And if he wants 2,000 be asks 2,500. "It is naught," saith the buyer. "The fabric i defective; the style of goods is poor; t can get elsewhere a tetter article at a smaller price; it is out of fashion ; it is damaged; it will fade; it will not wear woll,1 After a while the merchant, from Over-persuasion or from de sire to dispose of that particular stock of goods, says: "Well, tke ' it at your own prico,'' and the 1 purchaser goes horn with . light step and caL's into his private office his confidential friends, and ' chuckles while he tells how that for half pries he got the good i. In other words, he lies and is proud of it. Nothing would mate times as gooi, and the earning of a livlihood so easy, as the univer sal adoption of the law of right. Suspicion strikes- through all bargain making. Men who sell know not whether they will ever get the money. Purchasers know not whether the goods shippe 1 will be in accord ing to the sample, and what, with the large number of clerks who are making false entries and then absconding to Canac . and the ex plosion of firms that faT for millions of dol lars, honest men are at; their wits' end to make a living. He who stands up amid all the pressure and does right i? accomplishing somethins: toward the establishment of a high commercial prosperity. I have deep sym Tathv for the laoorinsr classfta who toil with r hand and foot ; But we must not foreet the business men who, without any complaint.or bannered processions through the street, are enduring a stress of circumstances terrific The fortunate people of to-day are those who are receiving daily wages or regular salaries. And the men most to be pitied are those who conduct a business while prices are falling, and yet try to pay their clerks and employes, and are in such fearful straits ; that they, would quit business to-morrow if it were not for the wreck and ruin of others ; When people tell me at what a ruinously low price sney purchased an article it gives me more dismay than satisfactions I know it means the bankruptcy -and defalcation tof men in many departments. The: men who toil with the brain need full as much sympathy as those who toil with the hands. All business life is struck - through with - suspicion, and panics are only the- result of want of confidence.-, 4 ' -. :'':'".-- ::' The pressure to do wrong is all the stronger from the fact that in our daythe large busi-" ness houses are swallowing up the smaller, the whales dining on bluefish and minnows.. The large houses undersell the small ones be cause they can afford it. They can afford to make nothing, or Actually lose, on some styles of goods, assured they , can make . it up on others. So a great dry goods house goes out side of its regular line and sells books at cost, or less than cost, and that swamps the book sellers; or the dry goods house sells brio-a-brao at lowest figures, that . swamps the small dealer , in bric-a-brac. " And the same thing goes on in other styles of merchandise,- and the consequence - is - that i all along the business j streets of all - our cities - there are merchants of small capital who are in terrific . struggle; to ' keep their , heads above water, t The " Cunarders run down the Newfoundland fishing smacks. This is nothing against the: man. who has the big store, for every man. has as large a store and as great a business as he can manage. To feel right and do right under all this pressure requires martyr grace, requires-divme sup port, requires" celestial remfcrceient Yet there are tens of thousands of such men getting splendidly through.- They seer others going up and themselves, going- down, bul they keep their patience and their courage, and their Christian consistency, and after 1 while their turn of success will come. Th owners of the big business will die and theii boys will get possession of the business, and with "a cigar in the mouth, and full to the chin with thai best liquor, and behind a paii of spanking bays theyv will pass everything 'on the turnpike road to temporal and eternal perdition. Then the business will breakup, and the smaller dealers will ' have fair oppor tunity. 'Or the spirit of contentment and right .feeling will take- possession - of, the large firm, us recently - in the " case ol A. A. Low & Co.r and the firm will 'car- "Wa Iiavb onrmtrh ' moriAV for fl.lt Our needs and the needs of our chiidren; now, let us dissolve business and make way for other men in ; the same line.";-- Instead of being start'ed at a solitary instance of magnanim ity, as in the case just mentioned, it will bo- come a common thing. , I know of scores 01 great business houses that have had their op portunity ots vasS acrumUlafeionv and whd ought to quit. I3u, perhaps for ali the days of this getterati5n the struggle bf small houses to keep alive tinder the Overshadowing pres sure Of fefiBftfe houses will continue : therefore, taking things as they are, you will be wise to preserve your equilibrium, and your honesty, and your faith, and throw over aU the coun ters, and shelves, and barrels, and- hogsheads,, and cotton bales, and rice iiasksi the measur ing line Of diYifte right " And the Lord said Unto me, Amos, What seest thou ! and I said, A plumb lin," . ; - . Itt the same way we. need to measure our theologies. . All sorts of religions are putting forth their pretensions." Some have a spirit ualistic religion and their ohief work is with ghosts, and others a religiOffUf political eoon my proposing to put an end to human mis ery by a fi8w style of taxation, and there is a humanitarian religion that looks after the body of men and lets the soul Wok after, itself, and there is a legislative religion that pro pos33 to rectify all wrongs by enactment of better laws, and there is an assthetie rel;gion that by rules of exquisite taste would lift the heart out of it; deformitieaj and religions of, aU sorts, rellg'.ons by the peck, religions by the quare foot, i and - religions by the ton aM of them devices of the devil that would take ths heart away from the only re ligion that will ever effect any thing for the human rwes, and that is the straight up and dpwn religion written in the boekj Which be gins With Genesis amtehds with 'Revelation; the religion Of the skies, the old religion, the God-given religion, the everlasting religion, which says: "Love God above all and your neighbor as yourself." . All religions but this one begin at the wrong end and in the wrong place.- The Bibie religion demands that we first get right with Go L It be g'ns at the top and measures dowd, .while the other religions begui at tll3 bottom and try to measure up. They stand at the foot of -the wall up to, their .knees in She mud of human theory and speculation, and have a plumniet and a string tiei fast to" it And they throw the plummet this way and break a head there, and they throw jjlumniet an other way aad break., a head there, ' and Ihett they throw it up, and it comes down upon their' own pate. ; Fools! '' Why will you stand at the foot of the wall measur ing up . when you 5 ought; - to ? stand at the top measuring down -A " few days ago I was in the country, ' thirsty " after a long waiK. jxna 1 - jcamfr in,- - ana my Child, was blowing- soap bubbles, and they rolled out Of the Cup, blue- and gold." and greeUi and sparklingr and beautiful, aud orbicular, and in sd small a space I never saw. more splendor concentrated. - But she blew Once too often ani all the glory vanished into suds. Taen 1 turned and to-jk a glasiof plain water and was refreshed. And so far as soul thii-st is concerned, I put against all the glowing, glittering soap bubbles..! of worldly reform and hmUan Sp3culation one draught from the fountain from under the throne of God, clear as crystal, Glory, to God for the rcligien that drops from above, not coming up from beneath! "And the Lord fcj?d unto me Amos, what seest thoU and I Said, A plumb-lina" - J - - ' I want you to notice" this fact, that when a taan gives up the straight up and down re ligion in the Bible for any new ; fanrrlM reliz-; ion, it is generally to suit h's slus. You first haar of his change of religion, andr then yoii hear of soma swindle he has practiced in Col orado mining Stock, telling some one if he will put inilOjOOd he Cdnta1te.dat flOJ.OOO, or he. has sacrificed his chastity, or plunzed into ir remediable worliliness. " His sins are so broad he has to broaden h's religion, and he become? as broad as temptation, as broad as - the soul's dai'kness, as troad as helL" They want a religion that will allow them to keep their sins, and then at death say j to them : "Well donSi good and faithful servant and tells them I "All is well, fdr there Is no hell.' What a glorious .heaven they hold before us! Come, let us ge in and see it. There Is Herod and all the babes he massacred. V-There is Charles Guiteau, and Jim Fisk. and Robes pierre.' the friend of the French guillotine,' and all the liars, thieves, housa burners, gai roters. pickpockets and libertines of all the centurie3. They have all got - crowns, ani thrones, and harps, and scepters, and when they chant they sing t "Thanksgiving, and honor, and srlorv. and fiowsr t-3 the broad re ligion that let us all into "heaven without re pentance and iaith m those disgraceful dog mas of ecclesiastical old fogy ism." ' My text gives me a grand opportunity of saying a useful -word to all young men who are now forming habits for a lifetime. Of what use to a stonemason or a bricklayer is a p'utnb hne? : Why not build the wall by the unaided eye and hand i Because they are in sufficient, because, if there be a deflection in the wall it cannot further on be corrected. Because by the law of gravitation a wall mcst be straight in order to be svmmetrical and safe. A young man is in"' danger of getting a defect in his wall of character that may never -be corrected. : One of the best . friends 1 ever had died of delirium tremens at 60 years of age, though he had not since 21 years of age before which he had been dissipated touched intoxicating liquor until that particular carousal that took him off. Not feeling well in a street on a hot summer day he stepped into a drug store, just as yoii and I would have done, and asked for a dose of something to make him feel, better.. And there . was - alcohol in : the dose,. and that .': one drop -"aroused - the old --appetite, and he entered the first liquor store, and stayed there until thoroughly Under the power of rum. He entered his home a raving maniac, his wire and daughters neeing ironi his presence, until he was taken to the city hospital to die. The combustible material of, early habit had lain quiet nearly forty years, and that one spark ignited the conflagation. Remember that the wall may be one hundred feet high, and yet a deflection one foot from the foundatkn affects the entire struct ure. -And if you live 100 years, and do right the last eighty years, you may, nevertheless, do something At twenty yeari of age that will damage all your earthly existance. , "All you who have built houses for youselves or for others, am I not right m saying to these young men, you cannot build a wall so high as to be independent : of th- character of its foundations? A man before thirty years of age may commit enough sin to last nim a lifetime. A cat that has -killed on pigeon eawioS be cure-' Kfi fro-" liline t"i first pigeon. Now, John, or George, or Charles, or William, or Alexander, or An-dre-gr," or Henry, or whatever be your Chris tian name or" surnam3, say here -and uowr "No wild oats for me, no cigars or -cigarettes for me,-no wine or beer for ; me, no nasty storiesforme. no Sunday sprees -for me. I am going to start right and keep on right. God help me, for I am very weak. : From the throne of eternal righteousness let down to me the principles by which I can be guided in building everything- from foundation to capstone. Lord God, by the wounded hand of Christ, throw me a plumb line!" -.- - -Lord Nelson's general direction when going into naval battle was: no man can do wrong that places his ship close alongside that of the enemy. My friend, you will never, do wrong if you keep your Jife close alongside the Ten Commandments. Do right, and you can be as brave as Maria Theresa, who rode up, the Hill of Defiance and shook, her . sword at the four corners of the earth. : t - - - -x - "But," you say, "you shut us young folks out from all fun." Oh, nol I like fun.. I be lieve in fun. I have had-lots of it in my tima But I have not had to go into paths of sin to find it. No credit to me, but because of an extraordinary I parental, example and influence I was kept from outward trangressions, though my heart ? Was bad enough and desperately wicked. -J have had fun illimitable, though I never " swore one oath, And never gambled for so much as the value of a pin, and never saw the inside of a haunt of sin - save as when, ten years ago, with commissioner, of police and a detective and two elders of my church, 1 explored these cities by midnight, not out of curiosity, but that I might- in pulpit discourse set before the people the poverty nd the horrors of un derground city life. Yet though I never was intoxicated for an .Instant, "and never com mitted one act of dissoluteness, restrained nnW hv the erace of God. without which j-e straint I would have gone ieadlong"to the bottom of mfamy, I nave naa so mucn iuu that T don't believe there is a jnan on : the. .planet, in the present"-: time who" has had more. Hear it, men and boys, women and girls, all the fun. is on the side" of rights - Sin "may seem attractive, but it is deathful-.'and like thamanehineelj a tree whose dews are prisonous. ' JThe 9niy geuhme happiness is in an honest Christian life. Tne Chippewa, wantiito see God, blackens his face with charcoal and fasts till he has a vision of what he calls God. . My God I can see best when I take my hat off and let the sunshine bla?e in my face, ani after a rea sonable bi-eakfast. ; He is not a God of black ness and, starvation, but of light and plenti tudej and the glory Of the : ndonddy. sun is Egyptian midnight compared to it. There they go two brothers. The one was convert ed a vear ago in church,one Sunday morning, during prayer. or sermon, or hymn. Noone, knew it at the time. . The persons On either aifi of him Riisoected nothine." but in that- youug man's" Soul .this prdcess went on: "Lord, here I &m, a young man amid the temptations of city life, and I am afraid to risk them alone; come and be my pardon and my helpi save m8 from making the mistake that some of my comrades are making, and save me now." And quicker than a flash God rolled heaven into his soul. . He is just as jolly as he used to be,is just asTbrilliant as he usad to Be. He Catt strike a bail or catch one as easily as before he was converted. . With fun or fishing rod in this summer -vacation e was just as skillful as before. -: The world ; is brighter.. to him than ever. He appre ciates pictures,1 music, innocent hilarity, so-" oiallifej good jokes, and has plenty , of fun, firstclasb fnn. jrlfJrious fn: Bttt his "brother is going ddwti hill., in the morning his head aches irom the champagne debauch, very Body sees h3 is in rap.d descent."1 What cares he for right, or decency, or the honor of his family name? Turned out 'of employment, depleted in health, cast down in spirits, the typhoid fever strikes him ; in the smallest room on the fourth story of a fifth rato boarding Jiouse, cursing God, and calling for. his m3ther and. fighting back, demons from his dying pillow, "-which -is basweated and torn to rags, he plunges out of the world with the shriek of a destroyed spirit.-1 Alas for that kind of fun! ; It is remorse; It is de spair. It is blackness of blackness. It is woe hnendiiig and long reverbet atingj. and crushing- as tJiough all the mountains . of all continents : roll on him in one avalanche. My soul, stand back " from such fun. Young man, there is no '- fun in ship wreckine your character,, no f unl-. in dis gracing your father's name. There is no fun in breaking your mother's heart. There is no fun in the physical pangs of the dissolute. There is no fun' in the profligate's death-bed. There is no fun in an. undone eternity, j Paradelsusi out of th3 ashes of a burnt rose, said he could 1 ecreate the rose, but he failed in the alchemic undertaking, and rosaate life once burned dowu ia sin can never again be made to blossom. ; - v ., - . Oh, this plumb line of jjie everlasting right! God will throw it over all our Jives to show lis our moraljdefleCtions. God will throw it Over all churches to show "whether they are doing useful work or- are standing instances of idleness and pretense. - He will throw that plumb line over all nations to demonstrate whether their, lives are just or cruel, their rulers good or bad. their ambitions holy or infamous. He threw, that plumb line over the Spanish monarchy of other days, and what became of her? Ask the splintered hulks of her overthrown armada. ' He threw that plumb line over French imperialism, and what Was the result? Ask tho ruins of her Ttiileries, and the fallen column of: the Place Vendome. and the - grae trenches of Sedan, and the blood of revolutions of differ snt times rolling through the Champs Klysees. He .threw ' that plumb-line ovet ancient' Rome, and what became of the realm of . the Caesars? Ask her war eagles, with beak dulled and wings broken, flung helpless into the Tiber; He threw: it over the Assyrian Empire of ; a thousand years, the thrones of Swniramis, and -j Sardanapalus, and Shalmaneser, Of twenty-seven victorious ex peditions, the cities of - Phoenicia kneeling to the scepter, and all the world blanched in the presence. What became of all the grandeur f Ask the fallen palaces of Khorsabad and the corpses of her 15,000 soldiery slain by the angel of the Lord in one night,and the Assyrian sculptures of the world's museums, all. that now remains of that splendor before which nations staggered and crouched. - God is now throwing that plumb line over this American republic, and it is a solemn time : with this nation, and whether we keep Hi3 Sabbaths or dishonor them, whether righteousness or in iquity dominate, whether we are Christian or infidel,- whether we fulfill our mission or refusa it, whether we are for God or against him, will decide Whether we shall 'as a na tion go on in higher and. higher-career or go down-in tho same grave where Babylon, and Nineveh, and Thebes, , and Assyria are sepulchered. ..- -: " i .' - "But," say you,:" if there be nothing but a plumb line what can any of us do, for there is an old proverb which truthfully declares: ' If the best man's faults were written on his forehead it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.'. What shall we do when, according to Isaiah, God shall lay judgment to the line and righteousness to the plummet ? Ah, here 4 is where the Gospel comes in with a Saviour's righteousness to make up for onr deficits.) And while I sae hanging on ths wall a plumb line, I se3 also hanging there a cross, c And while the one condemns us ttu other saves us, if only we will hold to it And here and now you may be set f rea with a more ; glorious liberty than : Hampden, or Sidney, or Kosciusko ever fought for. Not out yonder, nor down there, nor up here, but just where you are you may get it The invalid oroDrietress of a wealthy estate in Scotland visitad the continent of Europato gjt rid of hemaladies, ani she went to adea-Baden and tried thosa waters, a"hd went to Carlsbad and tried those waters, and went to,Homburg and triel thoe waters.and instead of getting better-sh9 got worsa, and in despair she said to a physician: " What shall I do?" - His reolv was: -'"Medicine Can do nothing for you. , You have one chance land." ."Is it possible?' she replied. "Why, those waters are on my own estate!" She re turned, and drank of the fountain, and in a rew months completely recovered. ? Oh sick, and diseased, and sinninsr, and dying hearer, why -20 tmdsrins all the world over, and seeking here and there relief for your dis couraged spirit, when close by, -and at your very feet, and at the door of your heart, aye, within the very estate of your own conscious ness, the healing waters -of eternal life may be had, and had this very hourr this very minute, this very Sabbath? Blessed be God that over against the plumb line -that Amos Saw is the cross, through the emancipatine power of which you and I may live and live toreverj - A- WOMAN KILLED. Shot Down in Her Doorway by Un- " 7 - known Parties. T - v News comes from Ronceverte, Greenbrier county, W. Va.", of the cold-blooded and un provoked assassination of a well-known lady of that place.' The murdered' woman was Mrs. Louise Eldridge, t-e wife of John Eld ridge, a prominent Citizen and the keeper of a restaurant in the town. . Mrs:- Eldridge. had been assisting her-husband during the evening, and about . midnight, as he was -about to close up, she steppedto the door, attracted by something in the street. No sooner had she done so than the crack of a- rifle was heard, and. the woman fell to the. floor with a scream and at once expired. An examination showed that she had been shot through the heart, the ball passing entirely, through her body.. The tragedy soon - at tracted a large cr jwd to the spot, and in a levr moments a portion of the men present. thinking they had a -ejue to the murderer, arrested John Caperton, a colored man of bad reputation; but there being no evidence against him the authorities were compelled to discharge him. .. Captain Walker of the Cunard steam-; ship Cephalonia, reports having seen the big meteor in mid ocean. The" meteor appeared -5 in the northeast, and wasverv- brilliant. : sparks radiating from the centre. Ths ilium-. ination lasted six seconds" land . then 'the meteor fell into the sea, apparently about half a milo off shore. A. HURRICANE'S Ml BEOWNSYILLE, TFX.VS, AKD MATA MORAS, MEXICO, KAY AG fcD. jieat' Destruction of Property -tie Bio Grande. Along A hurricane visited Brownville, Texas, and vicinity the other'night The rain accom panying the storm deluged the country for miles. The ' village of Santa . Cruz, oppo site Browusvllle,.was submarged for several hours. The Rio Grande rose rapidly and raged like the sea, and the. backwater overflowed many miles of ferule country. - Hardly a tree is standing near the city, and several hun dred acres of valuable sugar cane were blown flat to the earth. . The roof of Masonic Hall was earriedawayi Soanlan's large oil warehouse was demolished. The telegraph wires were prostrated. '.The damage in Brownsville and - at Matamoras, . - Mexico, 13 - estimated at f 1,000,000., In Brownsville seventy small houses were blown down and 300 others were unroofed ani rendered., unfit for occu pancy. : Jn Matamoras a dozen houses of the better class and from 150 to 200 small houses were ruinedi - while from 400 to 500 others t were unroof ecL In the country on the Ameri can side of the river incalculable damage was done. -Many heads of cattle and sheep were lost and the crops of cotton, corn and .sugar cane were destroyed. ' - '.-.;" V' vy. . . . - Though the barometer and the tide in the Gulf usually give warning of the .omingof bad weather, this storm gave no notice of its immediate approach. At 13 p. M. the weather that had been blowing for several days in creased ' in fierceness, with heavy gusts of rain, and in a short time a. hurricane was on the towns . in its full 'force,- the wind, reaching, ijin.i-the -- height , of -:: the stormf a velocity oft seventy-eight miles an hour. - All night long it continued. Morn ing dawned on a scene Of desolation. ,;. Water filled the streets, through which the roaring north wind drove the rain like ' great volleys of small shot The fallen trees, ruins of houses, and prostrate fences wera half sub merged. At 2:30 p. M. the wind fell almost to a calm, which lasted till 4:30 P.M., when the wind came - from the ; south. - This J shows - that, the- voi taxv of the hurricane, as Was in- tho case of those of 18S0 and 1886, passsed directly over this region. - About nine p. m. the wind again became violent, coming this time from the south, and continued until next morning. . The storm lasted : about thirty-five hours. The rainfall-was 10.40 inches. . The -average - temperature - was seventy-two degrees. ? 'i- -.The diam ter of ..the storm was , much greater and its duration was longer than tho? e of 18S0 and 1886. The force was greater than those of thri blow of the former year, but not so great as that of the one of 1880. The fact that the bulk of the people were bet ter prepared for its coming and that the weaker buildings had r been swept away by the storm of .last year was'-the only reason for its not being more destructive. In Matamoras the narrow streets in the storm were torrents. .; Even in the more cen tral parts of the town the streets were filled with ruins. The school buildings were full of houseless : people, : and the authorities did all in their power for them. Among the merchants goods have be?n - generally damaged by water. The. suffering - in the town and country is severe. At the railroad station several sheds were blown down and the line was reported inundated at - several points. -.- -- - VETERANS MISFORTUNE. v While on a. Tour They Experience the Horror of a Collision. '. - The special train carrying jfche New. York veteran firemen, who are making a toui across the country Irom San- Francisco, ar. rived at St. Lonis, Sunday, accompanied bj the celebrated - Cappa's New: York Seventh . Regiment Band."- z. " A reception committee composed of om man from each of . the old St. Loms Volun teer Corps, was oa hand to receive them. When the party left Kansas-City the train consisted of eight sleeping and dining cars, and one car for the conveyance of the engine which several of the old firemen ran with in their early days. This latter ear was mis sing along wit 1 its contents. The train was also two and a half hours late. This" was caused by an accident at Halden, Mo., about forty mi es from Kansas City. - -, ' -. The trains left Kansas City at midnight, and while moving at the rate of twenty miles an hour, when near Holden the engine attached to the excursion train ran into the engine of a f reign t train which was standing on the side track, "completely demolishing both engines and the baggage car of the ex cursion train.? The fireman aud engineer of the latter train jumped foe their Jives, the former succeeding in escaping -with slight injuries, but the engineer fared badly, break ing both legs and arms and otherwise serious ly injuring himself. u ; : :" :- v The party were all s und asleep at the time, being much: fatigued after their long journey. , They hardly realizad their danger until it was over. Some of the ladies on the train, who were accompanying "their hus bands, w ere terribly -, frightened ; and the coach rang with their screams. . ..'. , After all had been quieted another engine was procured -and the train backed out. The backing out of. the train brought to light a -horrible sight, and for over half an hour caused consid rable excitement among the party. Two men were found on the track crushed to death. Upon a hurr.ed muster of the firemen it was ascertained that the two men were not members of the excur sion pat ty, and it is supposed that they were two tramps who-were stealing their way on the front pIatfor.n of the baggage car, and that they were probably asleep when the collision occurred. - . -. ' After it was announced that the party -were safe, the train pulled out leaving the dead and wounded behind.'.: . - ; - A MONUMENT: RUINED. I low a Vandal Battered. Up a Memor . - ' j ial in the South." ' ' - Relic hunters so mutilated the monument with which ' the United States government marked the spot at Vicksburg, Miss. , where Grant and Pemberton held their famous interview that it was deemed necessary to remove it to a spot where it could be protect ed from the ravages of thosewho were in search of souvenirs, and., accordingly; it was removed to the Indian mound iu theNation al Cemeterv. iast north of the city. . It has lemained there in perfect safety until lately. " - r A (oniah countv man by the name of R. B. Jones was in the city ou a little lark, and he and B. IL . Graves, an -ex-United States nostal clerk, took a notion that they 'would stroll out : to the cemetery. They finally, reached the Indian mound where the Grant Pemberton monument stood. This seemed to excite the ire of the man-from Copiah, in unite of the efforts of: Mr. Graves to I keep him quiet, he tore tip an irO V tablet on which was emoossea me aci 01. wjngras prescribing .the penalties for desecrating United States national cemeteries, and with it hammered the monument out of all recog nizable shape. " The vandal was" loud in: his abuse of the "dead Yankees," as he termed tnem, an i when he passed two 1 ladies who were driving through the cemetery he made a most insulting remark to them. . -Jones was arrested and taken before Judge L wenburg, United States Commissioner, and a charge of malicious mischief was. pre ferred agninst him. i Mr. Graves was also arrested as aa accessory and gavo, bond for his appearance. - .. - AN HONEST BURGLAR. He Returns Money and Says It Was ' Because the Victim Has One Lieg ; : - - - Only: - , f.t The' arrest of Mr. J. A. Rpbspn, defaulting " tax collector of Washington County, Ga., discloses a queer story. His shortage was over $8,500. ; Mr. Robson, when fifteen years . old, enlisted in the First Georgia andjost his left leg. After the war Robson returned to Sandersville and was elected tax collector Of ' Washington County;and since that time he has held office continuously, and bas handled many millions of dollars, ' " - - . ..." One afternoon early in February last, Mr. Robson wasTsitting in his office alone. He had been collecting money all day and was " arranging and assorting his bills when some one came in. - Robson looked up, expecting -to greet another tax payer, but instead of a tax payer he saw a filthy looking tramp be fore him. The man looked at Mr. Robson a -second, and .then remarked: 'Cant I sell . f you some stove-polish to day?' . . 1 "JNo; 1 guess not," answered Robson, bend ing over the pile of money again. . - There was a fire in the stove and the tramp sat down beside it, watching Mr. Robson place the money in tho safe and lock it. In a few minutes a farmer entered the office and ex pressed a desire to pay hi taxes. The col lector accepted the bill, and in making the r change was compelled to open his safe again. - As lie turned the combination the tramp watched him closely.' --.-S -" On Feb.. 19, Mr. Robson discovered that the safe had been robbed of over $2,500. He made the mistake of trying to hide the mis fortune and was shortly published as a de faulter aad was indicted. He then, made up bis mind to keep out of the w ay of the court and on Wednesday was in the act of running away when he was notified that there was a package in the express "office for him," He - was noc expeenng any money, out ne opened the package. The money and the letter roll- edout The letter read: "V Mr. J. A. Robson; tax Celleetor, Sanders "ville,' Ga. . ' ." .-- , .; . , :- ..: " - " ; . ,-. - ' . . Dear S:b: By express find $2,575 I got' from your safe on the night of February 19. My pal didn't tell me, and. I never knew till since I lifted "you that you were an empty legged old confederate. I am flush nowand see you: have lost your office, therefore the remittance. " - Moral Be careful in the future how you" turn the knob of your combination when a vender of stove-polish is sitting close by. ' " - (Signed) Wiixib Corneal;- " Witness J. F. Peacock. r , - 1 ;.Tbe letter appeared to be from one of the . parties who had robbed his safe and believ- J mg that a good'' detective could follow the clue thus given he decided to come to At lanta but before he arrived a telegram was received at police headquarters asking for his arrest , The police have the express pack- -age and are now trying to run down the cracksmen. HIGH LICENSE How the New Liquor Liw in.Minno- ; ' sota is 'Working. . - Minnesota is almost the . first State to put . a high license law into operation. ' Such a law went into effect on the first of July last and we give herewith: a review of . the results of the law, based upon returns from every town; city and township in the .State. The law provides that the license for sell- -' ing intoxicating liquors shall be $1000 in ail -cities containing a population- of 10,000 or -; more, and $500 in all. cities the population of whicb is less than $10,000. ;r It imposes the severest penalties for the violation of any of its mandates, and gives over to the State -authorities partial jurisdiction in matters pertaining to its enforcement.. - ' ' - " It is found, that itt those - cities and towns in which the new law is now enforced there , has been a falling -off of one third in the .. aggregate number of saloons, while a similar . , decrease is with good reason predicted for those places where the ' old license has not . vet mrnired: Exnressmgr it in round num- hanc v-F "I Atft ColVUlO . "XrV the old license law. some -550 have been un able to meet the advance and continue busi ness nnder the new law J..-- ' T " ' - In Minneapolis the saloons have decreased in numler from 334 to 227. In Duluth from 113 to 61. ' Jn Stillwater from forty-three to . thiS-ty-two, and in Winona from ninety-three to twenty-tht ee. St. Paul is not yet affected by the new law. Ia this cicy the old licenses lor her vuu saloons 00 noc expire uuuu .Jan uary J, 1888. The license fee being $100, it is thought that high license will reduce this ' number at least one-third, prooaoiy one-nan. - Saloons which have renewed tneir licenses uuder the new lawr with those which -drop ped out last year, paid an average license fee'of $308. With high license the average fee per sa oon is $088. - : ':" Many of thercities and towns report puDiic jprder as improved. In other places there . appears to be no perceptiDie ainereocea. nf fhA nninioTi that drinkintr has increased while very many- assert that drunkenness has greatly diminished.: Gen erally speaking, business in the police courts, especially those of the smaller cities -andr towns does not appear to be nearly so brisk asbefore. : With a "reduction of one-thirdL in the number of saloons has followed an in crease of one-third in the amount of public revenue derived therefrom. Public senti-. meat is reported as overwhelmingly in favor of the new law and hieh. license. , A QUEER DISCOVERY. Seven Hundred Dollars in Gold ani . st. sKeiewn roanu in a, vmu.. " While making excavations a.bt Talladega -. Ala.-; some prospectors " discovered a largi opening in the hillside resembling a cave Upon examination an immense underground passage leading towards the city was discov ered. The party procured torches and con. tinued their explorations, going as far as " mile underground Thev describe the one .dng as about three feet wide by six feet high. wv nen aoouc a quarter 01 a mile from thi entrance they discovered the skeleton of human being, an old rusty tin box, part of f hammer, an oldniece of a saw, several part of different kinds of weapons and seventy $20 gold pieces, tied up m a leather sack. This cave or underground passage is thought to have, been the renrleavona of a cans- of desperadoes during the rebellion. -: - , MARKETS. ( - Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra,$3. 00 a$3.50; Wheat Southern- Fultz, 78a80cts; Corn Sonthern.White, 58a60cts, Yellow, 51a 52 cts. ; Oats Southern and Pennsylvania t 80a35cts. ; Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania ! 53a55cts. : Ha v Maryland and Pennsvlvania 14 00a$1500: Straw Wheat, 7.50a$8: Butter. Eastern Creamery, 25a28cts. , near-by receipts 19a20cts; Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream, IS alScts., Western, llalljcts. ; Eggs 18al9 Cattle 2.75a$4.00: : Swine 64a6cts. ; Sheep and Lamb 2Ja4i cts; Tobaccoi Leaf Inferior, la$2.50, Good Common, 3 50 $4 50, M iddling, 5a$ft.00 Good to fine red, 7a$i Fancy 10a$12. ; . : 1 i -.T.t -T . TTI1 CI Al "I A . Xt&w jl unn jiuut ouutueru voimiiou to fair extra, 3.40a$4.20; Wheat No.l White,8a a83cts. ; Rye State, 54a56; Corn Southern' Yellow, 4?a48cts.; Oats White State, 34a35 cts. ; Butter State, 15a25 cts. ; Cheese State lOalOJcts. ; Eggs 19a20 cts.. -. - Philapelphia " Flour Pennsylvania,1 fancy, 3.50a$4; Wheat Pennsylvania and' Southern Red, 82a83 cts ; Rye Pennsylvania 57a58cts. ; Corn Southern Yellow, 45a47 cts.; Oats 34a35 cts. ; Butter-rState, 18al9 cts.; Cheese N. Y. Factory, llalS cts. : Eggs' State. 17al8 cts. - - -: , i
The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 30, 1887, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75