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IE strong ram DLL TALMAGE FIIEACHIJS IS THE STATE OP WASHINGTON. He Compares SInnera to Bathers Who Cannot Swim and Who Must Ilj feared by Christ or rcrish. Text: "lie Khali spread forth His hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth upreadfth forth his hands to swim." Isaiah xxv 11, At this season of tho year multitudes of people wfldo into the ponds aud lakes and rivt'i's and Eons. At first putting out cau tiously from the Bhore, but bavin g learned the right stroke of arm and foot, they let the waters roll over thm, and in wild glee dive or lloat or swim. So the text will be very suggestive: "He shall spread forth His hand iu the midst of them, as he that swimmeth hpreadetn forth his hands to swim." The fisherman seeks out unfrequented nooks. You stand all day on the bank of a river in the broiling sun, and fling out your line, and catch notliing, while the export angler breaks through tho jungle and goes by tha shadow of the solitary rock, nd in a place whore no fisherman has been for ton years, throws out his line and comes home at night, his face shining and his basket full. I do not know why we ministers of the Gospel need always be fishing in the rome stream, and preaching from tho same text that other people preach from. I can not understand the policy of tho mir-fcter who, in Blackfriars, London, England, every week for thirty years preached from the Epistle to the Hebrews. . It is an exhiliara tion to me when I come across a theme which I feel no one elso has treated, and my test is ono of that kind. There are paths in God's Word that are well beaten by Christian feet. When men want to quote Scripture, they quote the old passages that every one has heard. "When they want a chapter read, thej rend a chapter that all the other people have been reading, so that the church to-day is ignorant of throe-fourths of the Bible. You go into the Louvre at Paris. You confine yourself to one corridor of that opulent gal lery of paintings. As you come out your friond says to you: "Did you see that Rem brandt?" "No." "Did you see that Ru bens?" "No." "Did you so that Titian?" "No." "Did you see that Raphael?" "No." "Wi.ll," says your friend, "then you didn't see the Louvre." Now, my friends, I think we are too much apt to confine ourselves to one of the great corridors of this Scripture truth, and so much so that there is not one person out of a million who has ever noticed the all suggest ive and powerful picture in the words of my text. This text represents God as a strong swim mer, striking out to push down iniquity and save the souls of men. "He shall spread forth His hand in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim." The figure is bold and many sided. Most of you know how to swim. Some of you learned it in the city school, where this art is taught; some of you in boyhood, in the river near your father's house; some f you since you came to manhood or wo manhood, while summering on the beach of the sea. You step down in the wave, you throw your head back, you bring your elbows to the chest, you put the palms of your hands downward and the soles of your feet outward, and yon push through the water as though you had been born aquatic. It is a grand thing to know how to swim, not only for yourself, but because you will after a while, perhaps have to help others, I do not know anything more stirring or sublime than to see some man like Norman McKenzie leaping from the chip Madras into the sea to save Charles Turner, who dropped from the royal yard while trying to loosen the sail, bringing him back to the deck amid the huzzas of the pas sengers and crew. If a man has not enthu siasm enough to cheer in such circumstances he deserves himself to drop into the sea and have no one to help him. The Royal Hu mane Society of England was established in 1774, its object to applaud and reward those who should pluck up life from the deep. Any one who has performed such a deed of daring has all tho particulars of tliat bravery recorded in a public record, and on his breast a medal done in blue, and gold, and bronze; anchor, and monogram, and inscription, telling to future generations the bravery of the man or woman who saved some one from drowning. But, my friends, if it is such a worthy thing to save a body from the deep, I nsk you if it is not a worthier thing to save on immortal soul? And you shall see this hour the Son of God step forth for this achievement. "He shall spread forth His hand in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim." In order to understand the full force of this figure, you need to realize, first of all that our race is in a sinking condition. You sometimes hear people talking of what they consider the most beautiful words in our lan guage. One man says it is "home," another says it is the word "mother," another says it is tho word "Jesus,", but I will tell you the bitterest word in all our language, the word most angry and baleful, the word sat urated with the most trouble, the word that accounts for all the loathsomeness, and the pang, and the outrage, and the harrowing; and that word is "sin." You spell it with three letters, and yet those three letters de scribe the circumference and pierce tho diameter of everything bad in the universe. Sin! it is a sibilant word. You cannot pronounce it without giving the piss of the flame or the hiss of tho serpent. Sinl And then if you add thrco letters to that word it describes every one of us by nature sinner. We have out raged the Jaw of God, not occasionally or now and then, but perpetually. The Bible deolarepjt. Hark! It thunders two claps: "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." "The soul that sinueth, it shall die." What the Bible says our own conscience affirms. After Judge Morgan hud sentenced Lady Jane Gray to death his conscience troubled him so much for the deed that ho became insane, and all through his insanity ho kept saying: "Take her away from me! Lady Jano Grey. Take hor away! Lady Jane Grey." It was the voice of his conscience. And no man over doe3 anything wrong, however great or small, but hii conacienco brings that matter before him, and at every step of his misbehavior it says: "Wrong, wrong," Sin h a loprosy, sin is a paralysis, sin is a consumption, sin is pollution, sin is death. Give it a fair chance, and it will swamp you, body, mind and soul forever. In this world it only a;ives a faint intimation of its virulence. You see a patient in the first stages of typhoid fever. The cheek is somewhat flushed, tho hands somewhat hot, precadod by a slight chill. "Why, you say, "tvphoid lover does not seem to be much of a disease." But wait r.ntil tho pationt has been six weeks under it, mid all his energies have been wrung out, and ho is too weak to lift his little finger, tvnd his intellect is gone, then you so 3 tho full havoc of the . disease. Now Fin in this world is an ailment which is only in its very first stages; but let it get under full way and it is an all consum ing typhoid. Oh, if we could see our unpar doned sins as God sees them our teeth would -iiJtter, and our knees would knock together, and our respiration would be choked, and our heart would break. If your sins ars wiforgiven, they are bearing down on you, nn 1 you are sinking sinking away from happiness, sinking away from God, sinking rtvvuy from everything that is good and 'J hon whet do we want? A swimmer! A firw.X swimmer! A swift swimmer! And, MMwvd be God, in my text we have him on r :'!('(!. "lie shall pprend forth His hands in tho us!. l;t of thnn, as he that swjmmetb f-i-r? ri.k'ih forth bis bands to swim." You ' ! ivo ii"tii't"-l that when a swimmar goes out ri-.fiioiiny one lt putsoiT his heavy appar- t. If" nm'-t not have any Mich impediment h'l-rA l.-'m if lio ii goin tido this preat deed. A o-l w ;,,-,! Cirit sti'i'iK-l forth to fnve us i' ' ''.t f-i t!0 (mIuIaN of heaven '. If - i-'-t "te fit--; r.i"i t't-'-.i H-j . pJ and it came up over His wounded feet, and it camo above the spear stab in His side aye, it dashed to the lacerated temple, the high water mark of His anguish. Then, rising above the flood, "He stretched forth His hands in tho midst of them, as ho that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim." If you have ever wavchod a swimmer, you notice that his whole body is brought into play. The arms are flexed, the hands drive the water back, tho knees are active, the head is thrown back to escape strangulation, the whole body is in propulsion. Aud when Christ sprang into the deep to save us, He threw His entiro nature into it all His Godhead, His omniscience His goodness, His love, his omnipotence head, heart, eyes, hands, feet. We were far out on the sea and so deep down in tho waves and so far out from tho shore that nothing short of an entire God could save us. Christ leaped out for our rescue, saying: "lio! I come to do thy will" and all the surges of human and Satanic hate beat against Him, and those who watched Him from the gates of heaven feared He would go down under the wave, and instead of sav ing others would Himself perish; but putting m uirawit uj me i umn, ana sua King tnesurf from His locks. He came on and on. until H is now within the reach of every one hero. Eye omniscient, heart infinite, arm omnipo tent. Mighty to save, even unto the utter most. Oh, it was not half a God that trampled down bellowing Gennesaret. It was not a quarter of a God that mastered the demons of Gadam. It was not two-thirds of a God that lifted up Lazarus into the arms of his overjoyed sisters. It was not a fragment of a God who offered pardon and peace to all the race. No. This mighty swimmer threw His grandeur, His glory, His might, Ilis wisdom, His omnipotence and His eternity into this one act. It took both hands of God to save us both feet. How do I prove it? On the cross, were not both hands nailed? On the cross, were not both feet nailed? Hia entiro nature involved in our redemption! If you have lived much by the water, you notice also that if any one is going out to the rescue of the crowning he must be independ ent, self reliant, able to go alone. There may be a time when we must spring out to save one and he cannot get a lifeboat, and he goes out and has not strength enough to bear himself up, and bear another up, he will sink, and instead of dragging one corpse out of the torrent you will have two to drag out. When - Christ sprang out into the sea to deliver us He had no lifebuoy. His father did not help Him. Alone in the wine press. Alone in the pang.. Alone In the darkness. Alone in the mountain. Alone hither sea. O, if Ho saves us He shall have all the credit, for "there was none to help." No oar. No wing. No ladder. When Nathaniel Lyon fell in tho battle charge in front of his troops, he had a whole army to cheer him. When Marshal Ney sprang into tha contest and plunged in the spurs till thj horse's flanks spurted blood, all Prance applauded him. But Je3us alone ! "Of the people there was none to help." "All forsook him and fled." O, it was not a flotilla that railed down and saved us. It was not a cluster of gondolas that came over tho wave. It was one p3rson, independent and alono, "spreading out His hands amon us as a swimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swim." Behold then, to-day, tha spectacle of a drowning soul and Christ, the swimmer. I believe it was in 1818, when there were six Eaglish soldiers of the Fifth Fusiliers, who were hinging to the bottom of a capsized boat a boat that had been upset by a squall three miles from shore. It was in the night, but one man swam mightily for the beach, guided by tho dark mountains that lifted their top through tho night. He came to the beach. He found a shore man that consented to go with him and save the other men, and they put out. It was some time before they could find the place where the men were, but after awhile they heard their cry; "Help! Help!" and they bore down to them, and they saved them, and brought them to shore. Oh, that this moment our cry might be lifted lone, loud and shrill, till Christ the swimmer shall come and take us lest we drop a thousand fathoms down. If you have been much by water, you know very well that when one is in peril help must come very quickly, or it will be of no use. One minute may decide everything. Immediate help the man wants or no help at all. Now, that is just tho kind of a relief we want. The case is urgent, imminent, instan taneous. See that soul sinking. Son of God, lay hold of him. Be quick ! be quick ! Oh, I wish you all understood how urgent this Gospel is. There was a man in the navy at sea who had been severely whipped for bad behavior, and he was maddened by it, and he leaped into the sea, and no sooner had he leaped into the sea than, quick ns lightning, an albatross swooped upon him. The drowning man, brought to his senses. seized hold of the albatross and held on. The fluttering of tho bird kept him on the wave until relief could come. Would now the dove of God's convicting, converting and saving spirit might flash from the throne upon your soul, and that you, taking hold of its potent wing, might live and live forever. I want to persuade yon to lay hold of this strong swimmer. "No," you say, "it is al ways disastrous for a drowning man to lay hold of a swimmer." Thero is not a river or lake but has a calamity resultant from the fact that when a strong swimmer went out to save a sinking man, the drowning man clutched him, threw his arms around him, pinioned his arms, and they both went down together. When you are saving a man in tho water you do not want to come up by his face; you want to come up by his back. You do not want him to take hold of you while you take hold of him. But, blessed be God, Jesus Christ is so strong a swimmer, Ho comes not to our back, but to our face, and He asks us to throw around Him the arms of our love, and then promises to take us to the beach, and He will do it. Do not trust that plank of good works. Do not trust that shivered sjmr of your own righteousness. Christ only can give you transportation. Turn your face upon Him as tho dying martyr did in olden days when he cried out: "None but Christ! Nona but Christ!" esus has taken millions to the land, and He i8 willing to take you there. Oh, what hardness to shove Him back when He has been swimming all the way from the throne of God to whore you are now, and is ready to swim all the way back again, taking your redeemed spirit. I have some times thought what a spectacle the ocean bed will present when in the last day the watar is all drawn off. It will be a line of wrecks from beach to beach. There is where the harpoons went down. There is where the line of battle ships went down. There is where the merchant men went down. There is where the steam ers went down, a long line of wrecks from boach to beach. What a spectacle in the last day when the water is drawn off I But oh, how much more solemn if we bod on eye to see tho spiritual wrecks and the plaets where they foundered. You would find thousands along our roads and streets. Christ came down in their awful catas trophe, putting out for thoir souls, "spreading forLh His hands as a swimmer spreadeth forlh his hands to swim;" but they thrust Him in tho sore heart, and they smote His fair chwk, and tho storm and darkness swallowed them up. I ask you to lay hold of this Christ and lay hold of Him now. You will 6ink without Him. From horizon to horizon not one sail in sight. Only ono strong swimmer, with head flung back and arms outspread. I hear a great many in the audience saying: "Well, I would like to bo a Christian. I nin going to work to become a Christian," Mf brother, you begin wrong. When a man is drowning, and a strong swimmer comes out to help him, ho says to him: "Nowbequiet. Put your arm on my arm or on my shoulder, but don't struggle, don't try to holp your self, and I'll take you ashore. The more you struggle and the more you try to help your self, the more you impede me. Now be quiet and I'll toko you ashore." When Christ, the strong swimmer, comes out to save a soul, the sinner says: "That's right. 1 am ghvd to see Christ, and I am goinr; to help Him in the work of my redemption. am going to pray more and that will help Him; and i ani proingto wevp extrnvninintly pvvr ray tii.-s find" U;il will help , my brother, it will not. Step your doing. Christ will do all or none. You cannot lift an ounce, you cannot move au inch, in this matter of your redemption. This is the difficulty which keeps thousands of souls out of the kingdom of heaven. It is because they cannot consent to lot Josns Christ begin and complete the work of their redemption. "Why," you say, "then is thore nothing for me to do?" Only one thing have you to do, and that is to lay hold of Christ and let Him achiovo your salvation and achieve it all. t I do not know whether I make the matter plain or not. I simply want to show you that a mar cannot save himself, but that the Al mighty Son of God can do it, and will do it, if you ask Him. O, fling your two arms, the arms of your trust and love, around this omnipotent swimmer of the cross. That is a thrilling time when some one swamped in the surf is brought ashore and being resuscitated. How tho people watch for the moment when he begins to breathe again, and whon at last he takes ono full in halation, and opens his eyes upon the by standers, a shout of joy rings up and down the beach. There is joy because a life has been saved. O, ye who have been swamped in the seas of trouble and sin! we gather around you. Would that this might bo the hour when you begin to live. The Lord Je sus Christ steps down, He gets on His knees. He puts His lip to your lip, and would breathe ' pardon and life and heaven into your immortal, soul. God grant that this hour there may be thousands of souls resusci tated. . I stand on tho deck of tho old Gospel ship amid a crowd of passengers, all of them hoping that the last man overboard may be saved. May the living Christ this hour put out for your safety, "spreading forth His hands in the midst of you, as a swimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swim." ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Dr. Rose Bryan, who has made a special study of lunacy, is a theosophist. The Sultan of Turkey maintains 474 car riages, although he has personal need of only about four. General Albert Pike, the head of all the Masonic orders and rites in this country, in in his tUth year. Dr. Thomas Waterman, a prominent sur geon of Boston, is the most skillful ventrilo quist in that city. Cardinal Newman, who is now in his 89th year, cordially reeeivej Atnericrn visitors whenever his health permits. A new story of Abraham Lincoln is going theround this summer. i ho gave it the Elixir of Youth is not known. Jay Gould had bad luck fishing this sum mer, but he has caught enough gudgeons in his time to satisfy a reasonable man. General Sherman has had a bard time in the Catskills. All the bands there insisted upon playinjt "Marching Tb rough Georgia. ' Mme, Dejrine Klumpke, who has received the degree of "Doctoresse" from the Paris Faculty of Medicine, is an American mar ried to a Frenchman. Farjeon, the popular English novelist, rat tles off his stories on the typewriter just as tbougu he were playing the accompanimeut to a comic song. Sir Edward Arnold, author of "The Light of Asia," has a son with liberary ambitions. Tne youug man is writing a romance entitled "The Wonderful Adventures o Phra, the Phoenician." Amelie Rives-Chanler has not attracted much attention on the other side of the water. She went over at a time when she was thrown Into competition with a good many promi nent Americans. George Slosson, the billiard champion, says that billiard balls and cues are the best weather barometers in the world. He can tell at once by their surface and action what the weather is going to be; Oliver W endell Holmes says that in review ing bis life be finds that ha Ims taken more interest in surgery than in poetry, but he realizes that bis fame will rest upon tha ef forts of his pen, not of this knife. Emma Abbott is going to try Wagnerian opera uext year. Shu has just returned from Europe and has brought back forty new dre-ses with ber. Tney are the productions of Felix und Worth. The Hon. Moses Humphrey, of CoDCord, N. H., has been president of the State board of agriculture since iis organization, eighteen yeai s ago. . He is eighty years oid, but still one of the most active aud vigorous business men in the State, ; Vice-President Levi P. Morton has given up his New York city residence and it is of fered for rent. He will spend his summers at his country seat on the Hudson aud hia winters at his Washington residence until the expiration of his official term. Senator Blackbnf n is said to be the crack shot of the Western statemen, and he has a mild liking tor hunting, and likes tj go fishing occasionally; but he has baen mis represented by the newspaper man who Sit him up as a terror to tho wild game of Ken tucky. The news comes by cable that Russell Har rison has purchased in London eight suits of clothes, fourteen pair of trousers, four top coats and an infinite number of boots and waistcoats. It is further announced that he has bought an Inverness capo and a dress suit for his father. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, deter mined when ha assumed bis present oflice lo visit every county in the Keystone State. He has just completed bis task in bis visit to Pike couuty. As there are more than sixty coun ties in Pennsylvania, he has been obliged to do a vast amount of traveling to eSCect his purpose IN DANGER OF WANT, Starvation Staring West Virginia Far mers in the Face. The victims of the recent disastrous flood in Tucker, Tysarfc, State, Little Sandy and other creek valleys in W. Va., are many of them in sad need of help. They are houseless and homeless, and but for the charity of their once poor neighbors, the hill farmers, the suffering would be ter rible. Aa it is, the drain upon the resources of the farming communiths which escaped the flood is too great to be long withstood. The town and villages are doing all in their power to relieve them, but their assistance is entirely inadequate. While the deprivations and sufferings are great at this time, it will probably he greater within a few weeks, when the weather gets colder. There are miles of desolate territory, with scarcely a house left standing, and not a ves tige of crops. The homeless women and children are scat tered among the bill farmers, while tho men are searching for work over the desolate country. Taken altogether, the outlook for these poor people during tae coming winter is a gloomy one. MRS. MAYBRICK'S DOOM. H?r Sentence Commuted From Djath to 1.mi;iI Servitude for Life). Th) London Globe says: "The s3nteno of Mrs. Mayb-lck hm bson commuted to panal servitude for llfo." In a short tims tho re port was confirm si by governmaat anth )r ity, and work on the scaffold on which nhs wfn to h-ive baen him if it wis dropped. Tha decision wai bis d upon the conflict of milieu ttwtiminv a to wnothsr th poison found in d-K'assd'si vtomajh wjs eullloietit to pr "luce death. After m prolonged consultation betwann eminent lawyers and Mr. Matthews, the homo secretary, the unanimous opinion was arrived nt. that Mrs. Maybricic had administered poiNon to her husband with inttjufi to kill. No further appeal, either for aniens from prison or for mitigalio-i of the smitunv t? life irnfjrhyii'Botit, will I5? cntertalat.' . SOUTHERN ITEMS: ' INTERESTING NEWS COMPILEl v'FKOM MANY SOURCES. "-The creamery at Chnrlestown, W, Va., shipped 11,500 pounds of butter last month. The Baltimore and Ohio Roaa will erect a new passenger depot at Mattinsburg W, Va. Henry Gheen was run over and killed on the Virgiuia Midland Railroad, at Manassas, Va. A tannery and a bucket factory are among the new enterprise projected at Roan oke, Va. The new addition to the Hannah More Academy, at Keistersiown, Md., is progress ing rapidly, A census of Salem, N. C, has just been taken, s lowing a population of 2,U7D of which only 12 are colored. East Liverpool, W. Va., basaband ccm- poHvu of little Kirls, who make good musio u .d jook well In their uniforn b Charles Kemmer aud Henry Arnett were drowned white attempting to cross a flooded stream in Braxton couuty, VV. Va. According to the opinion of the farmers the hay crop of Montgomery county, Md. will be the largest ever known in its Lnstor' At D'rwood, Montgomery county, Md., a pirty of Connecticut pjpio are negotiat ing lor a site ou which to iiect a door and SMtth factory. Sparks from a passenger engine destroyed the tiextie-work at Clict s Hu.low, V. Va., the G. C. and C. Railroad, delaying tralilc for a d.y. rMaltbew Gibbs, supposed to be the oldest man in Charlotte, N. C, died at his home near Ceuter. Mr. Gibbs was 1US years old, aud died of sheer old age. Two negroes named T. F. Allen and John Carter escaped trom jail at Lynchburg, Va., by knocking the jailer dowu. .One was re captured, but the other is still at large. A very large cave has been found on the Lry Fork of tun cheat river, W, Va., wuich tn s some very flue stalactite lormatiuns. U has not yet been thoroughly explored. Typhoid fever exists to an alarming de gree in the county west of Hagerstown, Md. 1 be physicians iu the vicinity of Uiearspring are overtaxed, und the malady seems to be on the increase. William Bos well, of Bridgeport, Aid, an employe of the Antietum Ceuuut Mills, near bhurpsuurg, Mo., bad tnree fiugers almost severed from his lett hand by a circular saw that ne was operating. A gang of thieves, that have lately been op.ii t.jiug in Jefferson couuty, have extended tueir opera Uojs into Berkeley county. The tunnel s of the two counties are organizing to bunt them down. A large sewer, draining a section of the market iu Wheeilug, W. Vu.,has been blocked ior some time, ana un digging it up, it was touud that tho trouble was uautsad by a large pile oc counterfeit silver dollars. The Orrel Coal Company, which bag mines at Newburg, Tyrconucii and Fair muuut, W. Va., La shut down wdrfc,und dis cuai ged i j six uuudred employes. The mana gers uiuiui ihit the mines are not paying. uuring a terrible thunder storm at Ztnn Grove, W. Va., the large and elegant Uarn of Mr. Lew Lawis was struck by lightning and burue l to the ground. Loss J&,UOo. The storm did considerate damage to crops. A charter has been issued to the Gault y and Eusiern Railroad Company to construct and operate a railroad from tho mouth of tha Gauley' river to Uuuterviile, W. Va. This road will run through tae Heart of the finest coul and timber regions of the at.ta. Mr. Levi Smith, whiio workinga thresh ing macbiue near Wheeling Park W. V , kiued a snake measuring nearly seven feet, irbicli contained over one hundred and fisty young ones. The repti.e was a cross between a garter-snake und a dry land moccasin. An Irew Surgeon, an employe of the C. & O. at Foot Spring, W. Va., ws struck by a pttksmg train and had the tip of his head knocked off. He was walking on the tract aud paid no heed to th warning whistle, and was struck and killed. The recent strike at the.Vlctor and the OattB Cotton mills, in Raleigh, N. C.,at which threo hundred hands weut out, is vertually over and but 15 to. 20 operativts re main tbtaiiiute about working the additional hour and half imposed upon them. The old paper milis in Montgomery couniy, Md. , on the road from Potuuiac to Washiugtou, which have remained idle for forty years, have attracted the attention of a party of Puiiadelphians, who ate now ne gotiating for their purcuuse, with a view to operating the same. Cot. A. W, Jones, of Missouri, has pur- chased ih j Win. Collins property in Potomac district, Montgomery county, Md., tor 5,00a The property, containing 40 acres, is located in the gold region, aud a ten-stamp mill and a largo force of hands will be put to work immediately to develop it. Chauncey Martin, a leading farmer of Preston county, W. Va., was chloroformed by masked burglars, who entered his house and robbed it of ftkJO. All his family were away Horn home. When found Mr. Martin was almost deud from the effects of thauru. A vigorous effort is being made to-secure the plan offered by the Peiitisylvnnia R-ul-road at Frederick, Md., to tender the uw of their traeiu from Littieiown to Frederick to the Harrisuurs aud Gettysburg Company, us a liuk of thu Pennsylvania proj.cced ex tension to Washington. Senator Chas. J. Faulkner, of Martins burg, W. Va., will be compelled to remain indoors or go upon crutches from a severe fracture of the lelt-cap, caused by a base-ball bat which he trod upon in his lawn. The bat turned under his foot, causing him to fall and fracture his knee-cap. -Mr. John Davis, of Calvert county, Md., while engaged in digging a well, had succeed ed in reaching a depth of twenty-five feet, when the y-ope used in hoisting the bucket suddenly broke, and the loaded bucket de scended on the unfortunate man crushing him in a shocking mauner. George Kimmel, while out hunting with his brother, near Potomac Station, Md., wus necidentally shot in the right foot, by the trigger of the gun becoming entanglfd in some tangled briers. The loud partly lodged in the instep and the remainder passed through the toot. Monongahela county, W. Va., has a pretty female mail carrier in the person of itfiss Lizzie Arnett, w ho carries tho mail from Georgetown to Morgantown and return daily, the round trip being nineteen miles. Miss Lizzie has a nice little road cart aud a good horse, and always Ret in on time. She is prompt aud accomuioditing. Surveys we e legiin last (Saturday for a line of rmlioad to bo constructed from Pat terson Criek DepOj of the Baltimore mid Ohio, to .Moortleld, Hardy county, W. Vu. The county of Grant has tubscril.e 1 $0J,'JlW to the capital stock of th j road, aud several free rights of way. Mr. Elmer Moss, of Burktttsville, Md., while picking berries on South Mountain, came across a huge rattlesnake, which he succeeded ia killing. The reptile measured four feet four incjes in lengtn, und twelve inches around toe ceuter of tils ooly. It bad seven rattles and a button, indicating an age of ten years. Judge Thomas Li Compto reports tbnt several oc hid cattle on his farm, at Castle Haven, Md., are suffering from an unkuowu disease. The nyinp.ouisure a swelling iu the eyts, succeeded by tue udder of tue cows turning purple and stopping of the flow of milk. None of tho cattle hive died, bat thoy uppear to suffer intense Pain. A slide on the railroad at Cnpcrton, Fayette county, W. Va., occurred a tew days njo. The siute, which had been dumped at t e mouth of the mines, clipped and cover, d the tract tor a d.s"nc j of vi'it teut to a d p'-h of from 5 to 8 feet. Is too a force ot 75 men Hi hours to clear the track. Two bouse were overturned, injuring tLe occupants to a 'Jtrta;i5St,'i't, but tio Ji v wvfv w A firm of great genius lift 1 offered the British government au itnmonao eura for tho use of the national postage ttfimp for' advertising purposes. The, advertisement is to be printed on tha back of tho stamp before tho gum h put on, no that the purchaser of every stamp must see the announcement be fore he moistens the gum. This ia au Australian idea. , 6T. FE1ER etJHPMSED. St. Teter "Goodness gracious! How and when did you get up here?" Mr. Wheatpork, from Chicago "The fire-escapes from our new buildings all run Mi here now." St. l'eter "Well, the escape is only temporary. You had better go below again." C hi cago Ledger. William Craine, of Erie, Ta., fool ishly attempted to cross a banana peel on his bicycle. Now Willio is in the hospital and his "bike" is in the repair shop. There is no appeal from the de cision of the banana skin. A Berlin musician, Dr. Eisenmann, has applied electro-magnets to the piano so as to sustain, increase, and diminish sound. Tho timbre of the tone may bo changed also, as from a violoncello to a piccolo What wrought the change? This woman' face Is ruddy wi h a rose'. prace. Her nyo Is brlffht. Her heart is light. Ah, trnly 'tia a Rnodly si -ht. A few brief months nno her cboffe Was pallid and hor etep was weak. "The end is near For her, 1 fear," Sighed many a friend who held her dear. I can tell you what wrought tho chaugoia her. She was told by a lrlond, who, like hor, bad suffered untold misery from u complica tion of female troubles, that Mr. Pierre's Fa vorite Prescription would crtainly cure hr. This friend "knew whereof she spoke," for sho had been cured hy the remedy she advised her friend to use. SheN onthunlaatln in its praise, and tells her friends t hat Dr. Pierce de erves tho universal gratitude of woman-kind for having given it this infallible remedy for its peculinr ailments. It is pitaranteed to glv sat isfaction in every ca'o or money r; funded. Dr. Pierc'fl Pellet", one a dose. Cure head ache, constipation anil in'lit;cwtlon. "I hpor your pardon," said the conv.'ct to the Governor, This is the age of wondors. and the average American citizen is no longer surprised at any thing. If you want to exporienco that sensa tion, however. Just write to B. F. Johnson & Co., 1008 Main St, Richmond, Va., ond hear what they have got to ew.y of the success of some of their agents. They have got the goods that sell, und any one out of employment will consult their own interests by appUing to them. Eternal vigilance enables a mn to carry the same umbrella for years, Ever since 1801 tiiei e have been women more emh year) who claim that there N no soap half as good, or s economical as Doobtns's Electric. There mmt be some t ruth in their claim. Try it, see how much. Your grocer has it. It is no s'gn that ft hen meditates harm to her owner because sho las lor him. Dlngan lnor Drug. Blue-mass for torpid liver, castor oil for con stipation, other disgusting drugs for piles, dys pepsift, and Tsick-headaolie. are being wurely banished from use by the sweet, fruit-like Hamburg Figs. 23 cents. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug Co., N.Y. Smoke the best--"Tans ill's Punch" Cigar. When marketlna for chicken?, nlwsysre mTnver that tliBiroo'l din youna. Weak and Weary Describes the condition of many people debilitated by the warm weather, by dtsenso. or overwork. 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The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 30, 1889, edition 1
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