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I ' " - - : . . . : . . . . .... , . t . . I ..:'., .. ., " "V .,..':'" . , ' V. v-. , ... '.,.'.. v, f ;.,;. . .. ", , v.,.. ... . .. ..''. ,'., " P "V A T T 'A TT ? tt I "Si A TM A , ) ' Y A ( NK '7r-ru". ) . i V 'v , Published bt Koanokb PcBLisBiKa Co, "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." C. V. Ausbon, Business Majsauek. , PLYMOUTH, N. C FRpAY, MAY 9, 189,0. NO. 52. ' , . . i x yUt . I. '"'Bryokljr i4 Divine Preaches on the V . . Voices of Nature," tie Plead for More Sympathy with Ihw '; World of IV a Are, .. . k text: "TTi? fortf fcano Mttrt ituee; lh f, '0 J hint tree ttntf eft tuf I V 4 isa. It. U On wy from W ascus w 84 the uuiua, it'onn a i cite wun snow, ana se pJc. To(i vrhlch f lo cedafs were hewn LMeditenan'ean ; -a, anl then floated in treat fts to Joniw, &ivd thIA azai drawn b ox Seamb up to Jerusalem to Mlt g&tomOa's emple. Tho.- miihtt tre tet are V tTtnea ne "irtwy ieoanoa." inanimate nature ftJt th ( 'fticteof the first tfattsgf e . sion. Whwa 1 . toticbed the fofbiddft tree r ; it Menu as it tb . sinful contact had Hrfiittan not ottiy that tr bat as if the air caught the pollution fiv tn the leaves, and as if the Ep had carric 1 Ihn virus down into the very Soil hO the tntire earth reeked tnth the .. leprosyv linier that aittfttl toiled nature withwtd. The inaniinate Creation,' as if . iw)reof tba. damage done it, seat up the , thoru and hnor and nettle to wound ni fiercely cpixisa i.he human race. ; , . ' Now th pay 3ical earth felt tfce effects , of thf rtist tr,nsjre8sion. soitshali also feel the ffect of the Saviour's mission, i As from ttat one ti-p m Paradise a blight went forth wough t! , pfttlre earth, so from one treeoS Calvary other force shall speed out to in-, terpooeti : and cheeky subdue and override the evil. In the end. Jt shall be found that U tree o i alvai-y has more potency than 7 sbe tren .v Paradise. V As the nations are vangeJi I think a corresponding change will li t : ected in the natural world. I verily believe t uit the trees, a ad the birds, and the l-ivers, e ithe.t,kies will hfyve their millenni , ' vm. if ..lan'ssinaffectad. the ground, and v thevepr ation, and the atmosphere, shall Christ'n "ork be less powerful or less exten. ;r-;tivef y.V - , ;;; .." . lY;.bfls God will take the irregularity end ijjrcEness front .the. elements so as i tnaive.them congenial to the race, yet to be eo symmetrical and evangelized.' The ground ,f h Jl not be Bo lavish of weeds and so grudge T. i of grain. Boils which now have peculiar proclivities toward certain forms of evil pro Juction will be delivered from their besetting -&tos. Steep mountains, plowed down into ' . more gradual ascent, shall , be girdled witb, flocks of sheep aad shocks of porn. The wet t tnarsh shall becdme thedeep grassed meadow; r Vattle shall eat unharmed by caverns once 1 ''jaunted of wild beasts. , TChildren will build .Tplay houses in what was once a cave of ser jrts; and, as the Scripture saith: "The (Waned child shall put his hand on the cock , 'v'sden.". , . "what harvests shall be reaped when v'her drouth, nor excessive rain, nor.mil .... defty nor t infesting insects shall arrest the . growth, and the utmost capacity of the fields . , tor production shall be tMted by aa intelli gent and athletic yeomanry,:- Thrift andcora a tency characterizing, the world's inhabit ants, their dwelling places shall be graceful , ' and healthy and adorned. Free and arbor and grove around about will look as if Adam and Eve had got back to Paradiss. Great cities, now neglected and unwashed, shall be orderly, adorned with architectural symme try and connected with far distant seaports by present modes of transportation carried to Wieir greatest perfection, or by new inven tions yet to spring up out of the water or drop from the air at the beck of a Morse or a Robert Fulton belonging to future genera . ' tions. ' ' , ' . : v Isaiah in ray text seems to look forward to the future condition of the physical earti as ' a cuuuiion ox greac neaury ana exceuence. iina men propnesies that as the strongest and . -not ornamental timber in Labanon was jAJfj 'Jit down to Jerusalem and constructed nto t)iivncient temple, so all that is beautj jt j' iid eiisHeirt in the physical earth shall y c "ibute to tha church now being built m tiirld. MTbe glory of Ljbanon shall come nnto thea; the fir tree, tha pine tree, andthebOi tosethejt to beautify the placu ' .of my sanctuary." :-'.J-."."V. . -i .: : ; Much of this prophecy has already been . fuls'Uled. and I proceed to some practical re . roai'ks upon the contributions which the ' natural world is making to the kingdom of J (4od, and then draw some inferences. - The . first contribution that nature gives to the church is her testimony, in behalf of the truth of Christianity. This is an age of pro found research. . Naturecannot evade man's' inquiries" knc3. In chemist's laboratory she is ps ; tnre and compelled to give up . her mysteries. Hidden laws have come out of theiii". hiding place.. ThtTth and the heavoDsj einceiey hve been ransacked by . geologist and bdtanistand astronomer, a pear , so diferent from what they once were that they may be called "the new heavens and the new earth." 4 T" research and discovery will have pow priul effect upon the religious world. They -must either" advance or acre3t Christianity, ruake men better or make thert worse, I irwj m hurch'shonor or tb chmKa's ovei'throw. Christian, aware of this in the early ages of iiscoveryTwere nervous and fearful as to the progress of science. They feared that some natural law, before unknown, would sudden ly spring into harsh collision with Christian ity. Gunpowder and the gleam of swords would not so much have been feared byre- .' ligionists-'as electric batteries, voltaic piles ' and astronomical apparatus. It was feared ' that Moses and the prophets would be run over by skeptical chemists and philosophers. , Bomeof the followers of Aristole, after the invention of the telescope, refused to look through that instrument, -lest what they saw would overthrow the teachings of that great punosophei . ' '2,Uv bue Christian religion has no such apprehension nov. " . Bring on your telescopes and microscopes snd spBotroacrjpeg and the more the better. . The God of nature is the God of the Bible, and in all the universe and in all the aterni tifs He has never once contradicted Himself. Christian merchants endow universities and' in them Christian professors instruct the chil dren of Christian communities. The warm- ' est and most enthusiastic friends1 of Christ are the bravest and most enthusiastic friends . of science, v The . church rejoices as much over every discovery as the world rejoices. Good men have found that there is no war be tween science and religion. That which at; flrst has seemed to be 'tha weapon of the infidel has turned out to be the 1 1 Wfspon of the Christian. fcicientiflo discussions may be divided into those which ar concluded, and those which are still to progress, depending for decision upon future investigation. v: .Those which are concluded have invariably rendered ther 1 verdict for Christianity, and we have faitn to liev that those 'which are still in prose cur ion will come to as favorable a conclusion. The grer.t systms of error are falling before tS' . discoveries. They have crushed every 1.1) i 'ig but the ' Dible, and that they have es taViiKhed. Mohammedanism and paganism ia t '..ir -n th'rwnd forms have been proved ' faUi1, and by great natural laws shown to be impositions, liuried cities have been ex-h-j'Tl n-.il the truth of ti. I found written ! '.-.cir coftln luls. l'.artit tt, lloliinson and li . urj h.'tve U-M& not mor the apostk of f. s .'.a t!-.i ap -'les f rol; rion. 'i'ho f 1 of ' i T; Tiii - havt 'f".'r i I to - "h i. (J '"!." TIV- :iint-e ivf I - ;n I fitted out for P.to!tine, aiid expldrera have come bevk Id lay that they have found among mountains and among ruins, and on the shore Of waters, living ana undying evidences Of our glorious Christianity; ,; , Men who have gone til Palestine infidels I have come back Christians. They Who were i blind and deaf to the truth at homrt hnvrt seemed to see Christ again preaching upon Olivet, and have beheld in vivid imagination the Son of Go' '.again walking the hills about Jerusalem, q iglia once rejected the truthj bttt after wart said: "I came td Egypt, and the Sciripturesf iartd the pyraniids eoii verted me." When I was in Beyroutj SyriAj last DeCemben Our beloved Ameriean niissiOn- ary, Revk Dr. JessiiiH told nie of. his friend who met a skeptic at Joppa, the seaport Of Jerusalem, ana the unbeliever said to hit friend; "I am going into the Holy Land to how up the folly Of the Christian religion." I am going to visit all the so-called 'sacred places' and write them up, and show the world that the New Testament is an imposi tion upon, the werldvs credulity.' Month after Dr-. Jessutt's iftnd met the skeptio at Beyrotit after he had completed his journev through the Holy Land. "Well, how is it" said the aforesaid gentleman to the skeptic. The answer was; Mi have seen it all, and I tell you the Bible is true! Yes; it is all truel" The mad Who went to destroy came back to defend. , . ' . And what t myself saw during my recant absence. I conclude that ady dnS t hd can gd through the HOly Bind and remain an unbe liever is either 'a bad mart or au imbecile. God eniPldyed me4 ' to write the Bible, but He look many of the same truths whica they recorded and with His own Almighty hand .He gouged theni into the , rocks and drove them down into dismal depths, and, as docu ments are put in the corner stohaof a temple, so in the very foundation of the earth He folded up and placed the records Of heavenly truth. The earth's corner stOrie was laid, like that Of other sacred edifices, in the name 01 the Father, and tof tha Son, and of , the. HblyGhost. The author of revelation, stands ing among thegreat strata, looked upon Moses and said: "Let us record for future ages the world's historyt you write it there on paDyrus; I will wf ifce it here bn the bowl ders."", Again, nature offers an invaluable contri bution to Christianity by tha illustration she makes of divine truth. The inspired writers seized upon the advantages offered by the natural world. Trees and rivers' and cloud and rocks broke forth into hoty and enthu siastic utterances. Would Christ! set .forth the strength Of faith, He points lo the syca more, vhose foots spread out, and strike down, and clinch themselves amid great depths of earth, and He said that faith was strong enough to tear that up by the roots. 'At Hawarden, England, Mr. Gladstone) while showing me ni trees during a pro longed walk through his magnificent park, pointed out a sycamore, and with a wave of the hand said: "In your visit to the Holy Land did you see any sycamore more impress give than that?" I confessed that I bad not. Its branches were not more remarkable than its roots. It was to such a tree as that Jesus pointed when He would illustrate the power of faith. "Ye might say unto this sycamore tree, Be thou plucked up by the root and be thoti cast into the sea,' and it would obey you.". One reason why Christ has fascinated the world as no other teacher is because in stead of using severe argument Ha was al ways telling how something in ,tae fepiritual world was like unto something in the natural world. Oh, these wonderful "likes" of our Lord I Like a gram of mustard seed Like a treasure hid in a field. Like a merchant seeking goodly pearls. Like nnto a net that was cast into the sea. Like unto a house holder ; . t , Would Christ teach the precision with which He looks after ypu, He says He counts the hairs of your head. Weil, that is a long and tedious cou nt if the head have the aver age endowment. It has been found that if the hairs of the head be black there are about iaO,OO0, or tf they be flaxen there are about 140,000. But God knows the exact number: MThe hairs of your head are aU numbered. Would Christ impress us with the divine watchfulness and care, He speaks of the spar rows that were a fiuisanca in those times. They were caught- by the thousands-in the net. They were thin and scrawny and had comparatively no meat on their bone?. They seemed almost valuel, whether living or dead. Now, argues Christ, it ray Father takes care Of them, will He not take care of you Christ would have the Christian, de spondent over his slowness of religious devel opement, go to his corn field for a lesson. He watches first the green shoot pressing up through the clods; gradually strengthening into a stalk, and last of all the husk swelling out with the pressure of the corn: ''First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in theear." ; . . Would David sat forth the f rashness and beauty, of genuine Christian charactar, be sees an eagle starting from its nest just after the molting season, its old featoers shed, and its wings and breast.-decked with new down and plumes, its body as finely feath ered as that of her young ona3 just begin ning to. try the speaa of their wings. '. Thm rejuvenated and replumsd is ta3 Caristian's faith and hope, by every season of communion with God. 'Thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." Would Solomon represant the an noyancaof a contentious woman's tongue, he points to a leakage in tha top of his houia or tent, where,, throughout the stormy day, the water comes through, falling UDon the floor drip! drip! dripl fAnd he says: A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike." Would Christ set forth the character of those who make ereat profession of piety, but have no fruit, Be compares them to bar ren fig trees, which have very large and showy leaves, and nothing bui leaves, would Job illustrate deceitful friendships, he speaks of brooks in those climes, that wind about in different directions, and dry up when you want to drink out of them: "My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away." David when he would impress us with the despond ency into which ha had sunk, compares it to a quagmire of those regions, through which be nad doubtless sometimes tried to walk, but sunk in up to his neck, and he cried; "I sink in deep mire where there is no standing." Would Habakkuk set forth the capacity which God gives the good man to walk safely amid the wildest perils, he points to the wild animal called the hind walking over slippery rooks, and leaping from wild crag to wild crag, by the peculiar make of its hoofs able calmly to sustain itself in the most danger ous places:' "The Lord God is my strength, and Ho will make my feet like hind's feet." Job makes all natural objects pay tribute to the royalty of his book. As you go through some chapters of Job you feel as if it were a bright spring morning, and, as you see the glittering drops from the grass undar your feet, you say with that patriarch? "Who hath begotten the.drops cf the dewf And now, as you read on, you seem in the silent midnight to behold the waving of a treat light upon your path,and you look: up to nditthe aurora borealis, which" Jobdeseribed so long ago as "the bright light in the clouds and the splendor that oometh out of the north." As you read on, there is. darkness hurtling in the heavens, and the ' showers break loose till the birds fly for hiding place and the mountain torrents in ro ifury foam over the rocky snelving, cod with tha same noet, yfu es ilaimi "Vf.ocan numbr the clouds ia wis i'jin, or 'vho fan stay the bott!" it l.avona''' A you ivftd on, yo.X f.;al t.'iirs. ;f 13:11. ng in ii'0! - jclir-v, an!, l-i i ".'J, '.vrtvi; - V.: nig'i ( to"? ;n;i, you say with that same inspired writer, "Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snowf ' And while the sharp sleet drives in yonr facey and the bail stings youf cheek, you quote hini again i 4,Hast thou seed the" treas ures of the faailf; Id the Psalmist's writings' I hear the voices of the sea: Deep calletil outo deepj" add the roar c' fiestas "The Lord shaketli the wilderness Of Kadesh j" arid the loud peal of the black tempest) "The God of glory thunderathj" and the rustlo of the long silk on the well filled husks: "The valleys are covered with corn:" and the cry of wild beasts: 'Thfl young hons roar after their preyj" the hum of palni trees and ce dars: "The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar irt Lab anon;'' the sough of wings and the swirl of fins: "Dominion oVeT the fdwi of the air add the fish of the sea." ; ' The truths of the Gospel might hate been presented m technical terms, and by the means Of dry definitions, but under these the world wottld not hate listened or felt. How COuld the safety Of trusting upon Christ have been presented; were it not the figure of a rOck? How could the gladdening effect of! the Gospel have been set forth; had hot Zacharins thought of the dawn of the morn tag, exdldiming; The day spring from oil high hath visited us to give light to them that sit in darkness." How could the soul's intense longing for Christ have been pre sented sd well as by the emblem bf natural hunger and natural thirst? As the lake gathers into its bosom the shadow of hills. around, arid the gleam of stars above, so, hi 1 tnese great deeps 01 divine truth, ail objects ih nature are grandly reflected. We" walk forth id the spring time; arid everytmu breathes df the Resurrection; . Bright blos sdm and springing grass speak to us Of the coming up Of those whom we' have loved, when id the white, robes of their jdy and cor1 Jnatidri they shall appear; - - Add when irt tha autumn of the year na ture preaches thousands of funeral sermons frdm the text "Wealldd fade as a leaf," and scatters her elegies id our path; we can not help1 but think of sickness arid the tomo; Evert winter, . "being dead, yet speaketh.' The world will not be argued into the right. It will be tenderly illustrated into tha right. Tell them what religidri is lik9. When the mother tried to fell her dying child what heaved was; she compared it to light. ' "But that hiirts my eyes," said the dying girl; Then the mother compared heaven to music.; "But any sound hurts me; I am so weak," said the dying child. Then she was told that1 heaven was uka mother's arms. "Oh, take Ue there P' she said.- Vlf it is like mother's arms, take nie thete i The appropriate simile had been found at last. ! ..' Another contribution which the natural world is making to the kingdom of Christ is tb defense and aid which the elements are cdmrtelled to give to the Christian ' personal lyjs There is no law in nature but iB sworn for the Christian's defense. In Job this thought is presented as a bargain made be tween the inanimate creation and the right eous mam "Thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field." What a - grand thought that the lightnings, and the tem pests, and the hail, and the frosts, which are the enemies of unrighteousness, are all mar shaled as the Christian's bodyguard. ' They fif atfor him. They strike with an arm of fire or clutch with their fingers of ice. Ever lasting peace is declared between the fiercest elements of nature and the good man. They may in. their fury seem to be indiscriminate, smiting down the righteous with the wicked, yet they . cannot damage the Chris tian's soul, although they may shivel his body. The wintry blast that howls about your . dwelling, you may call your brother, and the south wind com ing up on a June day by way of a flower gar den, you may call your sister. - Though so mighty in circumference and diameter, the sun and the moon have a special charge con cerning you. "The sun shall not unite thea by day, nor the moon by nighty : Elements and forces hidden in the earth are now har nessed and at work in producing for you food and clothing. Some grain field that you never saw presented you this day with your morning f meal. Th great earth - and the heavens are the busy loom at work for you; and shooting light, and silvery stream, and sharp lightning are only woven threads in the great loom, with God's foot on the shut tie. The same spirit that converted your soul has also converted the elements fron enmity toward you into inviolable friaadship, and furthest star and deepest cavern, regions of everlasting cold as well as clime? of eternal summer, all have a mission of good, director indirect for your spirit. .Now I infer from this that the study of natural objects will increase our religious knowledge. If David and Job and John and Paul could not afford to let go without obser vation one passing cloud, or riit of snow, or spring blossom, you? cannot afford to let them go without study. Men and women of God most eminent in all ages for faith and zeal indolged in such observations Payson and - Baxter and Doddridge and Hannah Mora That man is not worthy the name of Chris tian who saunters listlessly among these magnificent disclosures of , divine power around, beneath and above us, stupid and uninstructed. - .' - They are not worthy to live in a desert, for that has its fountains and palm trees; . nor in regions of everlasting ice, for even there the stars kindle their lights, and auroras flaih, and huge icebergs shiver in the morning light, and God's power sits upon them as upon a great white throne. Yet there are Christians in the church who look upon all such tendencies of mind and heart as soft sentimentalities, and because they believe this printed revelation of God are content to be infidels in regard to all that has been written in this great book of the universe. . written in letters of stars, in paragraphs of constellations, and illustrated with sunset and thunder cloud and spring morning. I infer, also, the transcendent importance b Christ' religion. Nothing is so far down, and nothing is so high up, and nothing so far out but God makes it pay tax to the Chris, tian relisrion. If snow and tempest and dragon are expected to praise God, suppose you ne expecus uu iiums num juu ojuw w nen wjl naswriicen txis iruta uixju every- t thing around you,, suppose yousHe did not moan you to open your eyes and read it? Finally, I learn from this subject what an honorable position the Christian occupies when nothing is so great and glorious ii) na ture but it is made to edify, defend and in struct him. Hold up your heads, sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, that I may see how you bear your honors. Though now you may think yourself unbefriended, this spring's soft wind, and next summer's harvest of barley, and next autumn's glowing fruits, and next winter's storms, all seasons, all ele ments, zephyr and euroclydon, rose's breath and thundercloud, gleaming light and thick darkness, are sworn to defend you, and co hort of angels would fly to deliver you from peril, and the great God would uusheatb His sword and arm the universe in your cause rather than that harm should couch you with one of its lightest, fingers. As the mountains arou nd about Jerusalem, so the Lord is around about His people from this time forth for evermore." - Oh for more sympathy with the natural 'world, and then we should always have a Bible own before us, and we could take a les son from the most Heating circumstances, as when a storm cam down upon England Cnarle.4 Wesley sat in a room watching it t'uvMr;-i an o.-j.'ii rrl . l iw, ,1'id, fri .rhtti: .i by tlit lilitniur aivl t ; thiitvlcr, a httlo bird il.-w in fin i n-- Tled i i the 1 win of the-ti'ired -t, a-; I, as r- .l "n' ' 7 stro:ceJ it and f.'H the V-.;l b ,.IU;J i'.ai. -art. 1'Ot.TUOd t j fc: be ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Sesator Morbiix, of Vermont, has just ce'ebrated his 80th birthday., JrLi4 Ward Howe is the best Greek scholar of her sex in the country. Gladstone savs that he has triven uo for ever his old occupation of tree felling. EMPEROR William has announced his in tention ot paying another visit to England this year. . Glcck, the composer, is said to take his piano out of doors, and there, compose his finest music ,: 4 . CHAKCELI.OR V03T CAPRIVI is a bachelor. His pipe is his constant companion when he is deliberating.: v P. D Armocr, the Chicago packer, whose fortune has grown to $30,000,000, is said to be as modest as a schoolb .- . . IlENB GeoHge's shortness of statue has disappointed the Australians, and they do not admire his pulpit style of oratory. . GenerAI, Butler's home in Lowell, Mass., is a palace; He is reputed to be worth $5,000, 000, and his law practice is estimated at $100, 000 a year; . , ' , "Max O'Rell" is A man of unusually large physiqucj He is six feet in height, with broad shoulders alt-i a deep chest. Ue weighs more than 200 ponds'. Eev; John Sinciair Hamitow, who died in N,ew.Yor"kt was formerly pastor of the Rut land Square Presbyterian Church, Dublin of which Dri John Hall was also pastor before fcoming to America. . Braider Matthews, the author, is a large man, with tathef rouge features, that are shaded by the light whiskers which adorn his face. He has the largest collection of French . plays in this country 1 - Sexator T.. C. Power, of Montana, is a little man with a sallow face and insignificant features. Hi!) eyes are bright and piercing. He is more of a business man than a politi cian, and is a poof orator. REV; Lord Mulgrave, one of the most hardworking and popular of the clergy in the North of England, who does not hold a, fat living but works laboriously among the poor, has fallen heir to the tit!? and estates of the Marquis of Normanby. . - . , ,' . Mr. Labotjchere indulges in a column of delicious irony in Truth at the expense of Rudyard Kipling, whose verses "Denny Dee per" have lately been published in America. Nobody ever heard of Kipling until he wrote ; some rabid anti-Parnellitedoggerell, and then the London 2'imet published a column of ful some praise of him. . ' Elizabeth P.? Hapgood, translator of Tolstoi's novels, and a great admirer of the Russian novelist, writes, in regard to a state ment by the Tolstoi family that she would , translate the BKreuter Sonata for American readers, that she has refused to do so, adding: "I never read anything like it in my life, and hope I never shall again." ; Pere Didon, the Dominican who stirred Paris in a remarkable manner some four years ago bjr his eloquence, and started those whose attention his sermons had attracted by the mysterious suddenness with which he left the (ralpit, has been writing a life of the Saviour n a monastery at C'orbasti, and it is announced the first volume will soon be published. , , DR. Robertson Smith, the Scotch Orien tal scholar, who was turned out of the Aber deen Free Clmrch College on account of his heterodox views regarding the earlier books of the Bible, has returned to his alma mater as Burnett leclarer, criticizing in his own inimitable way some of the favorite theories of the naturalistic critics of the Old Testa ment ' .... Theodore A. Havemeyeb, the million aire sugar refiner, whose association with the big trust has brought bis name before the , public at difl'erent times during the past year, is the Austrian Consul General in New York, and has been for eighteen years. He is a son-in-law of the late Consul Bitter Von Loosey, and although born in New York, was educated in Germany. . BROKE ON A DOWN GRADE. Ttrrlble Smash-op on the Chesapeake aud Ohio Road. The Cincinnati and Washington express on the Chesapeake and Ohio Road was completely vrecked at the station in Staunton, Va., about three o'clock", A. M. Miss Mvrtle Knox, of Kansas City, and s member o'f the Pearl of Pekin Opera Com pany was killed. - The following were injured: Miss Edith Miller, leg broken in two places, probably fatally injured. . Louis Harrison, scalp wound. Bertha Fisch. injured about the spine. ' Edward A. Stevens, shoulder dislocated. Miss Jane Durham, ankle badly sprained. Mrs. Ed. Webb, leg bruised. ; All these are members of the Pearl of Pekin Opera Company, t ... V, F. Kilpatrick, of New York, was badly wounded in the leg and head. k The train was a vestibule, and was made up of a baggage car, smoker, several passenger coaches and two sleepers. The first was bound for Old Point Comfort, and the rea sleeper, the Austerlitz, was bound for Washington. The train is due in Staunton at 1 A. M., but it wan two bourn late. At about three o clock: ihp station nlAtform was filled with railroad 1 men and loungers, wqo were waning ior iuo -When it came up it was going at a fearful rate of speed--about seventy, or eighty miles an hour and the engine looked as though en veloned in a sheet of flames. Those on the rain. platform quickly got out of the way, and, as hp train rl n filicd hv. sompthin c struck the bag gage car and tore a gash in the side, but that coacn and uie temainaer 01 me iraiu Keptou. The rear sleeper, as it was passing the station, careened a little and strucK me piattorm cov ering. It tore np se veral front posts nd wrecked the whole platform structure. The Bleeper kept on, and pitched Into the Eastern baggage house, a brick building, which .is fifty yards beyond the station, crushing in its front and completely wrecking tho building. The sleeper then turned over on its side, and the car was shattered in thousands of pieces. If the sleeper had gone on fifty feet further it would hav rolled down a steep embankment, and there would not have been a person un hurt. As soon as the Au6trlitz turned over the people hanging around the station rushed to the car. : The whole end of it was torn out. and those within Vere groamng, and some of the women were shriVting. The city fire ainrm was sounded, ana, assisted by citizens, re; cued the passengers. Tha train, which had gone on, -was finally fto? pod h'.uiit a mile up the road. The con ductor iint titwk, ana tne ineu.oers 01 me "Pcarfof l'ekiiv' Tn.n!Te who wre in these rai-if were soon doing all they could to relievo Jh; iijjurtd and their touipaiuous. deali and wrote that hymn which will sung1 while Jhe world lasts:, ' ., ".' Jena, lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly, . While the billows near me roll. While the tempest still is high! , ' Hide, me, O my Saviour, bids. Till the storm oZ lite be pad, ' , Safe iaco the haven guide, O receive mj soul at last. ' THE NEWS. Union and non-union fishermen fought with rifles near Portland, Oregon. Two were killed and one severely hurt. -Richard Snitke, of Rochester, Minn., killed his three year old son and then committed suicide. Italian labor ers in Boston were assaulted by strikers. -Frederick Schmidt, of Monomonee, Wis., died from injuries inflicted ; by tramps. The Fountain Hotel, in Kansas City, was destroyed by fire. AdolphusRobelyand Frank Wells were drowned in the Mohawk river,' near Schenectady,, N. Y., while fishing. Henry E. Hart, a New York coal merchant, has as signed. "The Rag Pickers," a valuable little picture, was stolen from a Chicago art gallery. The British syndicate bought two breweries in Springfield, Ohio, for $608,000. D. L. Rogers, employed in the Pittsburg foundry, committed suicide by inhaling gas. -More election frauds have been discovered in Chicago. -The Bank of America, in Phil- adelphia, was forced to close it doors. Anas- ' ticio Ungo, an Indian, arrested for horse steal ing, was taken from a box car at Banning, Cal., andlynched. The labor parade in Chi cago will be a monster demonstration. Ihe carpenters' strike in Chicago is nearingan end. The Colliers' Protection Union is appeal ing for a boycott on coal hoisted by machinery. In ITarveysburg.O., Berry Ward was shot and killed by his stepson while beating his wife. James G.Tuthill.thc mason, ofMont- clair, N. J., who worked at his trade by day and committed burglaries at night, has been convicted.- The New York importers will protest against the passage of the McKinley tariff bill. The grand jury has indicted the proprietors and editors ot the New York World for criminal libel, at the instance of Judge Hilton. William Moore, paymaster of the Farrell Foundry Company, at Ansonia, has been arrested, charged with embezzlement Jake Ackerman, a notorious crook, was shot and killed, in a Memphis police court, by his wife. Sentence in the case of O'Dono- van Rossa has been deferred. Two Western nun were swindled by "green goods men," in New York, out of two hundred dollars. Leander Bates, a young man of Greenvwid, Del., was killed in New Mexico several days Rg0. Merrick, Price & Co., proprietors of a bucket shop in Philadelphia, suspended. J. W. Carroll's tobacco factory at Lynchburg, Va, was burned. . Loss $40,000. The Balti more and Ohio Railroad Company granted the demand of their employes at Pfctsburg for an advance in wages. -Farmers on the Dela ware peninsula are annoyed by the appear ance of a new and destructive insect in the wheat fields. The vestibule train from Cin cinnati on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was wrecked at Staunton, Va., and Miss Myrtle Knox, of the Pearl of Pekin Opera Company, en route for Baltimore, was kilied,and several other members of the company were injured. In a tenement house fire in M Jwaukee one child was burned to death, three others fa tally burned, and a woman fatally hurt by jumping.- After May 1 the sale of liquors over bars in Boston is prohibited. Thomas Morrison, of Shelburae, Ont, killed his three children and then poisoned himself, The pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Mas sillion, Ohio, has forbidden ' members to join secret societies. It is reported that the vet erans in the Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth, Kansas, are badly treated, being compelled to work in a brick yard. The Grand Army will investigate. The trial of Mrs. Carrie E. Vandergrift on the charge of attempting the life of her son, to obtain the insurance upon his life, began atMount Holly.N. J. -Three slight shocks of earthquake were felt at Sara toga, N- Y. The Federation of Labor has issued a manifesto to workingmen to enforce the eight-hourworkdaypeaceably and quietly. The Rochester Wheel Works, at Rochester " N. Y., were damaged $25,000 by fire, and three fireman were injured by fulling from a ladder. Several horse thieves were whipped and pilloried at Georgetown, Del. Mad dogs have been bitting cattle and causing great' ex citement in the neighborhood of Lewiston,IlL The Misses Minnie and Gertie Pierce were killed at Lima, Ohio, by being thrown out of a carriage against a stone wall. An insane woman at Dubuque, la., attempted to burn her home and murdered her children. A canoe containing twelvs lumbermen, while crossing the rapids on - the Otter river, near Calumet, Micht was capsized and two of the men drowned.- Edward Green wald, a Southern thearical manager, committed suicide in New York. Grass and forest fires in New Hamp shire did considerable damaged.- -Herman Pinner, a wealthy tobacco broker of New York city, died of heartdisaasewhileplayingagame of cards. Mrs. Mary Crimlick, of Boston, is under arrest 01 the charge' of seeking a con piracy to murder her husband. The Anglo-American Gas Lighting Company has been organized' with a capital of over $50,000,000, and is the biggest, thing in the syndicate line yet attempted.- A?capital of $20,000,000 will be provided for the construction of the South Pennsylvania Railroad, under the reorganiza tion plan. Non-union carpenters in Chi ago who are not residents of Illinois, coming from other states, have appealed to the Unifed States authorities for protection. -Richard Croker, theTammany leader,and Mayor Grant, of New York, were shown up in a bad light in the testimony of the former's brother-in-law before the Senate Investigating Committee. . . , . . .. ' . . CHARGED WITH MURDER. jRose Vox, Acou-d of a Flendlat. ?Iurdr, Arrested ta CarTaendale, Pa. Rose Fox, of Norwich, N. Y., was arrested at Cardondale, Ta., charged with the murder ' of Palmer Rich, a wealthy farmer, at Norwich, in October, 1888. Rich went to Norwich one day, drew $SO0 from the bank and went to see Rose Fox, who was running a place of shady repute. That was the last seen of him. All efforts to get evidence enough to war rant the arrest of the Fox woimin were fruit less until a frw weeks 110, whtn a reward of SFl.OOO was offered fur infrniiunn,ai4 a nepro came forward with the statement that hecould prove that Rose Fox chopp. il up Ri h's body with an axe and turned it in a ttove. STATE OF Widespread Improvement Noted Ex . cept in the Flooded Districts ' lb Crlttoal Situation In the Industrial World, Owning to tha Elght-Howr Movement Wheat Exports. , Special telegrams to JJradstreei'g indicate ex- : cept in the lower Mississippi Valley, that there has been a widespread improvement in the distribution of general merchandise. This ha been aided by nearly a fortnight of seasonable weather. Jobbingis fairly active in dry good, groceries, hardware, and boots and shoes through the East, the Central West, South west, West and Northwest, and is backed by Hn increase in the retail and re-assortment de mand. Interior roads are in a better condition than they have been for a long time, and mer-' cantile collections at several Western centres are reported to be , easier for the first time ia some months. ' i . Special returns from Louisiana report that Mississippi Rrver levees are broken in thirty places in that ftate; that fully one-fifth of th sugar and rice lands are, or will be, innndaten; that the country trade is cut off and publw sentiment is demanding a National instead of a State system of levees. ' ;",'' Upon the Pacidc coast the San Joaqum val ley wheat crop promises 10 equai me vci , ontput there, but in the Sacramento Valley it prbmises to be short. There is only one disen- gageu wneas suiii on me 1 uvmu The industrial situation grows more threat ening as the first of May approaches. At Chi cago 20,000 packing house employees, in ad dition to harness makers, clothing workers, gas fitters, stair builders and other trades, threaten to strike, in addition to the Z5,000 alreadyonstrikeforaneight-hourday. Strikes, of building hands are reported from Sharon, Pa., New York, Brooklyn and Portland, Ore- At Boston, Lancaster, Pa., Birmingham, Ala., and Milwaukee, strikes are expected on May 1 of building hands. Employers at Portland, Me., Philadelphia, Pa., Louisville. Ky., In- $ dianapolisr and Wheeling, W. Va, have con ceded demands made. There have been 126 strikes involving 28,253 employees thus far in. April, against sixty-one strikes, involving 12, 193 employees in April last year. Since Jan uary 1 there have been 303 strikes, involving' 66,143 employees, against only 221 strikes, in- . volving 48,924 employees in the first four months of 1889. w , Exports of merchandise in March egffre gated $72,607,481, and imports $57,163,495; showing gains over last year of respectively 6 and 1 J per cent. For three months export aggregated $218,296,456, and imports, $193 624, 72, a gain in exports over last year of per cent, and a decline in imports of 1J per eentj Pork in speculative lines has been pushed up another 25c per barrel, but lard futures have reacted fully l-3c. Trading in hfP10 ducts has been only moderately active. 'leaj with free exports, fair speculative demand, and short crop and low stock reports continue firm and li alfe higher. Indian corn, however, has been in less active demand with free shipments: ." is off 2a3c, while oats have reversed the usual order and advanced ia2c. There have been freer orders for iron this week, and cut price at the South have been less frequent. . . Wool, it is worth noting, has been in fairly active request for the first time in a year or more,manufacturers actually buying for future requirements. But prices are as yet no higher. Exports of wheat (and flour as wheat) from both coasts this week equal 2,259,530 bushels, against 1,204,975 bushels in the like week of 1889, and 2,145,646 bushels last week. Tne total exported July 1 to date is 87,705,570 bushels against 73,191,095 bushels in a like share of 1888-89. The decrease in available stocks of wheat East of the Rocky Mountain last week exceeds the record, amounting to nearly 3,200, ' 000 bushels, against a weekly average for the calindar year of only 1,300.000 bushels. The decrease in stock of Indian corn was also Business failure reported to Bradstreet' number 174 in the United State this week, against 166 last week and 181 this week last year. Canada had 38 this week against 29 last week. The total number of failareain the United States January 1 to date is 4005, against 4245 in a like portion ot loon. ... WRECKED IN A LANDSIDE. Another Accident at Qaefceo. bnt with No Fatal Results. Another landside has occurred in Qu;bec, Can., happily without fatal results, although two houses were demolished and two families narrowly escaped a horrible death. At an early hour in the morning people living in the suburb of Sillery, half a mile from the scene of the last terrible landslide, were l startled from their sleep by a terrific noise. They were startled to see greatmasses of rockrollingdown the cliff, while two dwellings that had stood at its base near Sillery Church were partly de molished and half buried beneath some hun dred tons of rock and debris. r v'v One house was occupied by a Mrs. Lahore and her two daughters, and in the other lived a widow named Leblance with six children. At first it was thought that all the nnfortu nate inmates had met a shocking death, but their faint cries were heard preceedmg from the ruined houses and willing hands at, once began the work of rescue. This was a task of no small danger, as rocks and earth itolljwn. tinned to slide down the face of the cliff,while an immense rock overhung the rescue party. t okint turn hnnn the whole of the- buried people were dug out from their terrible posi won, all unharmed, with the exception ot Mamie Lahore, whose arm was fractured by tfe? ft,!f,tiio M.a tn when the slideoc- curred. Their escape from death is considered marvelous.' , ,. MARKETS. v ': V UArnarORK Flour City Mills,extra,$4.25 a$i 50. Wheat Southern Fultx,. 82i(gS3, Corn Southern White, 404Oc, - Yellow S6Sj36it, Oats Southern and Pennsylvania 27&32o;ti Rye Mary land and Pennsylvania o557ev Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania 12.50$i3.00. Straw Wheat, 7.60(50. Butter Eastern Creamery, WQZSo, near-by receipt 1214c. Cheese Eastern I aney Cream, HCqjlHc, Western, 910c Fctb 1212ie, Tobacco, Leaf Interior, fi lOO, Good Common, 3.00$4.0ft, Middling, 5( ,?J.C0. Good to fine ($9. Fancy, 10(a;tl3w NEW Yous Flour Southern Coir-mon to fair extra, $2-502.8o. Wheat No. 1 Whit 891894. Rye State 6860c CornSouth em Yellow, ;3Si39e. Oats White Stat 28g29Jc. ButMT-State, 8(q)17Jo. Cheese--Siate Si104c. Eggs 1414ie. Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania fancy, 4.25f4.75. Wheat, Penrylva. an-i Southern Red, 5(3,91. Rye Pcnnj Ivsr--5S(a60c. Corn Southern Yellow, Sijf . Oats 3Ha,3J4c, Butter SM-ite, i 4... Chees1 New York Factory, $fcj. State, 13i14c. CATTLE. : Baltimore Beef $3..W(.j,' $4.00(1 ,; -1.75. Hoes $4.0W"'.$4..r New Yof.K Lest 'fa. : 'io. j. 5.5d('f -rt.25. Ho" $4.41!!- i.fcl.r '. EAf-r Liurvry lleef 4 T .17' , .