MARCH 5, 1891.
NO. 27.
iecial].—Mike
lamed Cham
r outlaw* and
ruesday night
•rack. They ace the same men -who
cobbed and attempted to hum Bracoy’s
gunshop, for watches and skeleton keys
ivere found upon Champion.
Kelly was captured at Rochelle. He
fcJWajhUl'knwXwei—Whe gang. When
f brought to Gainesville last night he was
met by an excited crowd and a noose
was thrown over his head, but the Sher
iff managed to slip it off and got him
safely to jail. Guns were levelled at
him but no shooting occurred.
A second colored man was soon arrests
cd for Kelly, and Champion
charged that he was the mm who had
fired at Mr. Phillips. About 11 o’clock
a party of masked men went to the jail,
overpowered, the jailer and guards, and
locked them up in cells. They then un
locked the cells where the two men were
confined and led them out to a grove not
far from the jail.
They were allowed twenty minutes in
which to pray, r after which they
GOLD BRICK SWINDLER CAUGHT;
. Two South Carolinians Pay $0,000
for About "$1 Worth of Brass.
Atlanta, Ga., [Special].—A shrewd
'gold-brick swindler has been caught here,
and he confesses bis crime. His name is
J. S. Hall or William Harper, and he
•played his game upon two citizens of
Willistori, 8. C. Some time ago Hall
went there and became acquainted with
Messrs. Wentherby and Kennedy, two well
known residents of the place.
He told them fabulous tales about a
rich gold mine in Arizona which had
been discovered by an old Indian. This
Indian, he explained, was almost as sav
age as the primitive red man.
He disliked civilization, and so has
camped several miles from this city in
the wood.
Hall said the Indian had with him
specimens of the gold from the fabulous
mine, and if the men would accompany
him to the camp he would show them
these rich nuggets.
The men became so much interested To
Hall’s story that thay went with him to
where the Red American was camped.
Then Hall produced his samples of rich
gold brick.
He represented that all he wanted was
enough money to begin operations. Then
the mine would be opened, and in a few
days he wouln be as rich as Crcesus.
He proposed to sell the brick for $5,
000, SO as to get a start. The brick, he
said, was worth twice or three times that
sum.
Hall insisted on Having the brick test
ed to satisfy the men that it was good
stuff.
A drill was produced and a large hole
cut in the brick.
The dust was to be placed in a paper
and taken back to the city to be tested,
t One of the men gathered up the dust
himself and put it in a paper. Hall said
he would wrap it up and it was handed
to him. s
Just at this moment the “Indian” be
gan tearing up the earth, animated by an
evil spirit.
This attracted the attention of the men,
and gave Hall an opportunity to substi
tute a paper of real gold dust for the dust
bored out of the brick.
The
of dust was taken te the
Messrs. Weatherby and Kennedy
.. _, . ., dy_
once bought the brick for $6,000. They
had previously weighed it and believed
it to be worth several times $6,000.
They also arranged-to take much stock
in the gold mine where the brick was
found. , .,■*['
When Hall got his hands on the $5,
000 he and the Indian skipped out. When
Weatherby and Kennedy unwrapped
their brick to feast their eyes upon its
richness, they thought it did not exactly
look like the sample.
They had it ekanpnatL and were
mined to find that they had
for $1 worth of brass.
- eha
paid $6,000
The police were notified and telegrams
were sent in every direction to catch the
confidence man. One of flhfw telegrams
came to Atlanta aud in leas than five
hours Hall was caught. He had $60 in
money and a new jfbtol.
Hall in his confession says that he
hesitated to go into the scheme, and
flipped up a dollar to decide his fate.
The dollar said “Go,” and he went.
The H. O. Delegation in Congress.
Washihgton, p. G., [Special.]—The
Democratic members of the North Caro
lina delegation in Congress met Thursday
and resolved to urge the election of Rep
resentative McCIamtrry of North Carolina
to the clerkship of the next house.
The highest priced autograph fat ex
istence is said to be the signature of
Christopher Columbus, which is valued
at $800. Next to that is ths oaly letter
by Corneille that was ever for sale. This
la worth about the same M Columbus’*
SOUTHERN STATE NEWS.
Happenings of importance For A
Week. s'.
Dwellers in City and Country Oat a
Write-Up Here Free of Charge,
and Wo Questions Asked.
' , ' •
VIROI
Charleston. They were met at the station
by two companies of .the 1st Virginia reg
iment and escorted to theiv armory,
where breakfast' was served^, after which
they visited the principal points of inter
' They left for home the
The Farmers’ Border Alliance had an ’
important meeting Wednesday in Dan
ville. A proposition to establish a cigar
n Zouaves of Elizabeth, N.
arrived. *t Richmond Tuesday from
wMMsasMa!
John L. Sullivan signalized his stay
in Richmond last week by taking tp
drink, swearing in the dising-rootn of
his hotel, addrflttMMMgmN&oDstrated -
with for his blackguardism, making a
fierce assault on his waiter who called him
to order. ;
A special from Bedford City announc
es a sad tragedy a few miles from that
town. Robert Leftwitch and his > wife
got into a difficulty, and after a violent
struggle Mrs. Leftwitch drew a pistol,
and shot him through the forehead fatal
ly
be, NortoHt; Winchester and
Charleston, Wj» Vat, have taken up
their option on the IJeckley marble prop
arty at Fiiicastle for which Mr Beckley
received $108,000, and deeds were mads
to the syndicate on Tuesday. These gen
tlemen will at ■ once proceed to develop
the fine grains of the lithographic stone
and varigated marbles. >
NORTH CAROLINA.
Four stores in Wadesboro went
flames Tuesday.
The Grand Central hotel, of Asheville,
up in
nag been sola to a syndicate who will
improve it.
The North Carolina Steel and Iron
Compony -will erect a 120 ton coke iron
blast furnance at Greensboro.
A company has been organized in Hun
tersville and $20,000 subscribed toward
the building of a cotton faetory.
Walker & Meyers have erected a saw
mill at Plymouth with a capacity of 80,
000 feet of lumber per day.
A fire occurred at Vincent in the north
ern part of Alamance county Wednesday,
by which the store and stock of general
merchandise of JT. W. & W. A. Murray
were entirely consumed.
J. A. D. Stevens, an accomplished min
eralogist of Statesville, is preparing a
cabinet of North Carolina minerals for
exhibition at the Columbian Exposition
in 1892.
The Asheville and Bristol railroad will
be finished in twelve months. It Will
pass through a great tobacco section.
A portion of the Alexander estate, on
the French Broad river beyond Asheville,
has been sold by order of court. General
R. B. Vance purchased the Inn and three
hundred acres of land, for which he paid
$7,000. The whole property brought
$18,000.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The British steamshib Hibernia, which
cleared Wednesday at Charleston for
Bremen, carried 6,500’bales of cottgn.
General Thomas F. Drayton, a class
mate of Jefferson Davis at West Point,
died a Florence Wednesday. He was
the last survivor of the class. > The body
was interred at Charlotte, N. C., on Fri
day.
U. S. Civil Engineer Mackay has ar
rived at Port Royal to superintend the
construction of the new government dock
at that point.
■ Frank Frost and Geo. 8. Holmes have
been appointed by Gov. Tillman on
the board of county school examiners for
Charleston County.
It was resolved by the Phosphate Com
mission last Wednesday that on and after
the 1st of March to grant general rights
to mine phosphite lock and phosphatic
deposits in Coosaw River.
The contest of Thomas E. Miller
against Congressman Wm. Elliott of the
7th District, seems to have (.taken new
life. Miller wants to-get some testimony
about the election even if he does not
secure his seat..
A fox came galloping down Broad
street, Charleston, on Tuesday, and was
quickly pursued by a-crewdof the young
sters, but •managed t<* easily escape by
doubling into the new Postoffice (tfte.
Cunning Reynard took solitary refogi
hind a wall, and when they went to
for him he wasn’t there. It is not kn
where he came from oy where he went
Comptroller General Ellerbe has
pared a Circular to .the couuty auriii
Instructing them how lo-luocted in
haak-otdckC
MSeSsrrient of i
TENNESSEE. |
The ./Etna Coal Company, of Chattv
orks at Jasper, Marion county,
^tefltof
has made an assignment for
its creditors.
The Knoxville Tribune lias opened
on the gamblers of that city. The
‘ men are doing a great bUMasu
_ Jcent now Iron brii
the Tennessee river, connecting Ghatts
noog* with the north aide
was opened Wednesday with dmjwessive
ceremonies, R is the first public bridge
bridge was destroyed. It cost *850,000
and is 2,870 feet long * ‘
low water mark.
long and 108 feet above
The south-bound limited passenger
train on the Illinois Central Railroad
jumped the track near Medina about 5:30
-=i—< iVj.'.*,
o’clock in tie morning. The cars took
fire aid were consumed. The passengers
miraculously escaped.
The District Farmers’ Alliance meX at
Humbolt and were addressed by Horn
John McDowell, the president of /the
State Alliance, upon the importance of
thorough organization.
The local branch of the Catholic
Knights of America have decided to as
sist Bishop Radeinacher to remove Father
Walsh as priest at Chattanooga. Fric
tion has existed between the priest and
some of His members for some time.
A biH discouraging the bringing of di
vorces tfy providing that no male could
bring suit, without first executing a bond .
for the costs, was passed by the Legisla
ture Tuesday.
Condemnation proceedings areabout to
be commenced whereby the United
States government wilt scquire possession
of the lands on which the battles of
Chickamauga and Chattanooga were
fought. The whole of thatbattle-scarferl
territory is to be transformed into a peo
ple’s school and pleasure ground, to bo
mundfatumd Paifc^. .
GEORGIA.
The Rev., Geo. Tunsten, rectojr of St.
Phillip’s Episcopal Church, Atlanta, died
Tuesday morning after a brief illness.
The young than, Thomas J. Wooten
who accidentally shot himself in the arm
! last Friday, air Kingston, died from the
effects of the wound Wednesday after
noon.
A State bank, capitalized at $30,000.
WlH open sit Summerville April 1st. The
stock few all been subscribed and the
bank will begin operation in a building
to be erected.
Brunswick is to have a male college.
Profc W. W. Wallace will commence the
erection of au immense three-story build
ing with accommodations for 100 pupils.
This will give Brunswick both male and
female coUeges.
Macon is to have another railroad, to
be called the Macon Terminal. The road
will be in the nature of a belt line. It
wiH be three miles long and will cost
das non
.The South Georgia Melon Growers'
convention met at Albany, and was call
ed to order by President G. B. McCree,
who stated the object of the meeting to
be the consideration of the incresed' acre -
age planted in melons this year, and to
devise some plans for the movement of
the crop. . Committees were appointed.
John Oliver Daniels, of Brunswick, is
a colored man who is attached to the
hydrographic coast survey. In connec
tion with that business .be has a-school
numbering over 100 scholars, which he
teachers at the rate of 25 ceuts a week
per scholar. He speaks French, Spanish
~wnd English fluently.
FLORIDA.
A Gun Club has been organized at
Green Cove Springs.
Charles Bichard Dodge, the expert in
charge of the fiber investigation of the
department of Agriculture at Washing
ton, J). CL, is in Florida studying the dis
tribution and characterization of fiber
plants of the State.
While accompanying his children home
from school at Foster Park, last week H.
Morrison was attacked by two cata
mounts, and after a tcrriffic struggle he
drove them off, but only after they
had badly iciawed his horse.
Dr. Harris of Fort Myers, offers a re
ward of $100 for information which will
convict the person who cut the bud of
one of his finest cocoanut trees at Villa
Franca recently.
jesse MCA Dee, of ue Lancy$comes out
(17,000 ahead in the handling of Florida
oranges so far this season. Up to date
he has shipped ov- r 90,000 boxes from
the crops he has purchased.
The Hamburg, (German) company,
owning about 1,000 acres of phosphate
lands near Thompkin$ville, are preparing
to mine their possessions with German
labor. It will be lager beer and Dutch
men.
OTHER STATES.
Alabama is enacting a law that will
give the generous sum of (185,000 annu
ally to Ex-Confederate veterans and their
widows. -<
D. Good and Ford Johnson had a ter
rible cutting duel at Bluffton, Ala.
Good cut Johnson’s left eye out with a
hatchet and cut into his face several
times. Johnson cut Good’s throat. Both
will die. They were drunk and alone.
A party of Pittsburg capitalists, chap
eroned by Judge W. H. Hudson, are Ip
Florence, Ala.
negro
State
W. JS. Green, a I well-known
politician and ex-secretary of the
Senate of Louisiana, died on Saturday
at Galveston He was prominent not
only in politics bat held omciai positions
in nearly all the colored lodges' and so
cieties in Galveston. Ho was secretary
of the Louiaiaua returning board after the
Tilden-Hayes campaign.
The Mississippi Alliance Manufactur
ing Association, Canton, Miss., is to be
chartered and conduct a general manu
facturing business. From all signs, it
will bo a “go” from the start.
Canadians Want Our Trade.
A recent dispatch from Chicago says:
Henry Wilbanks, a merchant of Charles
ton, B. G„ said here to-day that the
commercial interests of Charleston arc
just at present actively engaged Jn or
ganising some scheme to capture the
commerce between this country end
Jamaica. The commerce, he said, is
now in imminent danger of being cap
tured by Canadians, who are agitating
the subject of subsidising a line of steam
ers to ply between Canadian porta and
Jamaica, and of making special induce
ments to turn the curmnt • of trade of
the United States fromRew York, which
now enjoys the most of'it, to the Do
minion. But Charleston people ere
alive to the probability of turning the
trade to South Carolina, and' if negotia
tions now going on between them and
the flour men of Minneapolis, whence
comes most of the flour now used in
Jamaica, come to a successful fruition,
a line of steamers will be put on the
and the much-deeir*j {ipde s«
A GREAT CONSOLIDATION.
The Plan to Combine Ail Labor ii
Production.
Proceeding* of the Washington, J>.
O., Meeting of the Farmers’ Al
liance, Knight* of Xatbor and
Kindred Organisation*.
In pursuance of a basis for a confeder
ation between the Farmers’ Alliance and
Industrial Union, National Alliance,
Knights of Labor and the Farmers’ Mu
tual Association, agreed upon at Ocala,
and approved by the Supreme Council
of the Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial
Union, and the Colored National Farm
ers’ Alliance and an executive committee
from the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Asso
ciation and the Knights of Labor, con
stituting also an executive board to rep
resent each individual organization above
specified of five members each, a call
was made for each executive board to
meet in Washington city on the 22d day
or January, 1891. The following repre
sentatives assembled in the parlor of tile
Kennjore Hotel: L. F. Livingston, of
Georgia, and Ben Terrell, of Texas, for
the Banners’ Alliance and Industrial Un
ion; T. V. Powderly, John W. Hayes
and A. W. Wright for the Knights of
Labor: R. M. Humphrey, of Texas, and
J. J. Rogers, of North Carolina, for tile
Colored National Farmers’ Alliance;
Ralph Beaumont and L. P. Wild, of
Washington, D. C., for the Citizens Alli
ance. A temporary organization was
had by electing Ben Terrell chairman and
L. P. Gantt, of Georgia, secretary.
Messrs, H. C. Brown, of Georgia, C. W.
Macune, of Washington; L. P. Gantt,
Hons. T. E. Winn and R. M. Everett, of
Georgia, were admitted the privilege of
On motion a confederation was agreed
upon to be known as “The Confederation
of Industrial Organizations, ” upon the
basis agreed upon at Ocala, to-wit:
1. Each organization shall be repre
sented by a committee of five.
2. .Each committee of five shall have
the number of votes corresponding with
the membership in its organization.
3. The policy and measures of the con
federation shall be based upon the St.
Louis and Ocala platform.
4. Each shall stand pledged to assist
when possible in all local efforts to better
the condition of our people.
5. National delegates or correspondents
shall never be denied the one by the other
so long as the confederation ezists.
6. The joint committee on ..confedera
tion shall have the power by a majority
vote to admit other organizations with
similar objects upon application.
7. When plans are agreed upon by the
joint committee on confederation for mu
tual co-operation, sueh organization shall
be bound to support Such plans fully and
cheerfully.
8. Expenses accruing on account of
the joint committee shall be defrayed by
the respective organizations represented,
9. The joint committee on confedera
tion shall have power to adopt such by
laws for the government of the same as
they shall deem beat.
A committee to propose business and
demauds for the confederation was ap-.
pointed, consisting of L. F. Livingston,
of Georgia, A. W. Wright, of Pennsylva
nia, R. M. Humphrey, of Texas, and L.
P. Wild, of the District of Columbia.
At the second day's session an election
was held for permanent officers with the
following result:
Ben Terrell, President; R. M. Humph
rey, Vice-President, and J. W. Hayes,
Secretary and Treasurer.
The demands as reported were unani
mously adopted. They embraced de
mands
1. For the abolition of National Banks.
2. For a free and unlimited coinage of
silver.
3. Fer a revision of taxation laws.
4. For an economical government,
5. For an gradywted tax on incomes.
6. Fora just State and National con
trol of public transportation.
7. For the election of United States
Senators by the direct vota of the peo
ple.
8. And resolved, that this confedera
tion of industrial organizations demand
that in each State a system shall be pro
vided and faithfully executed that will
insure an honest and accurate registration
of all voters, a free, fair, secret and offi
cial ballot, and an honest public count;
and we demand that each State legisla
ture shall make it a felony for any im
proper interference with the exereise of
the registration, ballot, or count
A resolution was adopted requiring
the president to invite delegates from
every industrial organization in the coun
try to meet with this body at the next
regular meeting in 1892.
February 22, 1892, was fixed as the
time for the next meeting, and the place
left to the executive board, to be pub
lished six months previous to the annual
meeting. '
A Song of Progress.
Greensboro, N. d., mado great pro
gress last year- 239 dwelling, stores of
fice and other buildings were erected and
many others were remodeled and enlarg
ed. A sewerage system was established,
and much pipe was laid. Twelve new
stores were opened and 21 new indus
tries started, Including a cotton factory
of 5,000 spindles and a hosiery mill with
a daily output of 75 dozen pairs. Nina*
corporations were chartered
with an aggregate capital of
$2,731,000. Real estate has been in na
tive demand and unimproved lota have
been disposed of nt private sale for figures
aggregating $200,000. The merchants
have made fair profits, and there has not
been a single failure. Population has
increased about 20 per cent. Thin sum
mary tells something of Greehsboro’a
•olid progress.
2OO Chinese Burned to Death.
San Francisco, February 17.—Aus
tralian papers just received shite that by
the -burning of the steamer Ranted, at
Wuhu, two hundred Chinese perished.
Lord Scully, an Englishman, onus
90,000 acres of land in Illinois, and
draws thence an annual income of $300,
000. Other foreign landowners nu up
other sections to a total.of $22,000,000.
REV. DR. TALMAGE
The Brooklyn I Divine's
Snndav Sermon •
yintar, fa the miueum at Cob*
l ww toe mammy or embalmed
V-—-~ «« the very teeth
—~he gnartud against the braelitlsli
the sockets of the mercUest
«8 with which he looked upon the overbur
^ened people of Qod,the fat that floated fa
0,1 th® ^ 'rvr* *tp« with
be commanded them to make brick,
without straw. . Thousands ot yean
after, when the wrappings of tbs
mummy were unrolled, old Pharaoh lifted
aPhi» »ra as if fa imploration, but his
skmny bones cannot again clutch his shat
tered scepter. It was to compel tint tyrant
fa let the oppressed go free that the memora
ble ten plagues were seat. Sailing the Nile
and walking amid the ruins of "Egyptian
cntiee, I saw no remains of those plagues
that smote the water or *he air. None of
the frogs creaked fa the one, none of the lo
cust* sounded their rattle In the other, and
the cattle bore no sign of the murrain, and
through, the starry night* , hovering about
the pyramids no destroying angel swept his
wing. But there are ten plague* still sting
fag and befouling and cursing our cities, and
like angels of wrath smiting not only the
first born but the last born.
Brooklyn, New York and Jersey City,
though called three, are practically one.
The bridge already fastening two of them
together will be followed by other bridges
and by tunnels from both New Jersey and
long Island shores, until what is true now
will, as the years go by, become more em
phatically true. The average condition of .
public morals fa this cluster of cities is as
good If not better than fa any other part of
the world. Pride of city is natural to men
-m all times, if they live or have lived in a
metropolis noted fop dignity or prowess.
Caesar boasted of his native Rome, Lycurgus
of Sparta, Virgil of Andes, Demostnenes of
Athens, Archimedes of Syrtvmse, and Paul
of Tarsus. I should suspect a man of base
ucarmmon woo rarnou uuout wiin mm no
feeling of complacency in regard to the
place of bis residence; who gloned not in its
arts or arms or behavior; who looked with
no exultation upon its evidences of pros
perity, its artistic embellishments and scien
tific attainments.
I have noticed that men never like a place
where they have not behaved well. Men
who have free rides in prison vans never
likes| the city that furnishes the vehicle.
When I see in history Argos, Rhodes, Smyr
na, Chios, Colophon and several other cities
claiming Homer, I conclude that Homer be
haved well. Let us not war against this
pride of city, nor expect to build up ourselves
by pulling others down. Let Boston have
its commons, its Faneuil Hall and its magni
ficent scientific and educational institutions.
Let Philadelphia talk about its mint, and In
dependence Hall, and Girard College, and its
old families, as virtuous as venerable. When
I find a man living; in one of those places who
has nothing to say in favor of them. I feel
like asking nim, *•*'What mean thing did you
l do that you do not like your native city?”
i New York is a goodly city, and when I say
that I mean the region between Bpuyten
Duvvil Creek and Jamaica in one direction
and Newark flats in the other direction.
That which tends to elevate a part elevates
all. That which blasts part blasts all. Bin ’
is a giant, and he comes to the Hudson or
Connecticut River and passes it as easily as
we step across a figure in the carpet. The
blessing of God is an angel, and when it
stretches out its two wings one of them
hovers over that and the other over this.
In infancy the great metropolis was laid
down by the banks of the Huason. Its in
fancy was as feeble as that of Moses sleep
ing in the bulrushes by the Nile; and, like
Miriam, there our fathers stood and watched
it The royal spirit of American commerce
came down to tne water to bathe, and there
6he found it. Bhe took it In her arms, and
the child grew and waxed strong, and the
ships of foreign lands brought gold and
spices to its feet, and stretching itself up
into the nronortinne of a metro noil's, it has
looked up to the mountains and off upon the
sea—the mightiest of the energies of Ameri
can civilisation. The character of the
founder of a city will be seen for many years
in itB inhabitants. Romulus impressed his
life upon Rome. The Pilgrims relaxed not
their nold upon the cities of New England.
William Penn has left Philadelphia an in
heritance of integrity and fair dealing, and
on any day in that city you may see in the
manners,customs and principles of its people
his tastes, his coat, his hat, his wife’s bonnet
and his plain meeting house. The Holland
ers still wield an influence over New York.
Grand old New Yorkl What southern
thoroughfare was ever smitten by pestilence,
when our physicians did not throw them
selves upon the sacrifice! What distant land
has cried out in the agony of famine, and
our ships have not put out with breadstuffs!
What street of Damascus or Beyrout or
Madras that has not heard the step of our
missionaries! What struggle for national
life in which our citizens have not poured
their blood into the trenches! What gallery
of exquisite art in which our painters have
not hung their pictures! What department
of literature or science to which our scholars
have not contributed! I need, not speak of
our public schools, where the children of the
cordwainer and milkman and glassblower
stand by the side of the flattered sons of
merchant princes' or of the insane asylums
on all these islanas where they who went
cutting themselves, among the tombs, now
sit, clothed and in their right minds* or of
the Magdalen asylums, where the lost one
of the street comes to bathe the Saviour’s
feet with her tears, and wipe them with the
hairs of her head—confiding in the pardon of
Him who said.: “Let bim whois without sill
cast the first stone at her.” I need not
speak of the institutions for the blind, the
lame, the deaf and the dumb, for the incur
ables, the widow, the orphan, and the out
cast; or of the thousand armed machinery
that sends streaming down from the reser
voirs the clear, bright, sparkling, God given
water that rushes through our aqueducts,
and dashes out of the hydrants, and tosses
up in our fountains, and hisses in our steam
engines, and showers out the conflagration,
aim sprinkles from the baptismal font of our
ohurches; and with silver note, and golden
sparkle, and crystalline chime, says to hun
dreds of thousands of our population, in the
authentic words of Him who said: “ I will;
be thou clean!” A.. .
All this I promise in opening this course of
sermons on the ten plagues of these three
cities, lest some stupia man might say I am
deprecating the place of my residence. I
speak to you to-day concerning the plague
of gambling. Every man and woman in
this house ought to be interested in ■> this
theme. w
Some years ago, when an association for
the suppression of gambling was organized,
an agent of the association came to a prom
inent citizen and asked him to patronize the
society. He said, 4,No, I can have no inter
est in such an organization. I am iu nc*wise
affected by that evil.” At that very time
his son, who was his partner in business, was
one of the heaviest players in Hearne’s fa
mous gambling establishment. Another re
fused his patronage on the same ground, not
knowing that his first bookkeeper, though re
ceiving a salary of only a thousand dollars,
was losing from fifty to one hundred dollars
per night. The president of a railroad com
pany refused to patronize the institution,
6aymg, “That society is good for the defense
of merchants, but the railroad people are not
injured by this evil;” not knowing that, at
that very time, two of his conductors were
spending tUree nights of each week at faro
tables in New York. Directly or indirectly,
this evil strikes at the whole world.
Gambling is the risking of something more
or less y&luablejuthe hoya. of wmiung my;s
than you hazard. The instrument of gaming
may differ but the principle is the same. The
shuffling and dealing cards, however full of
temptation, is not gambling, unless stakes
are putup; while, on the other hand, gam
bling may be carried on without cards or
dice, or billiards or a ten pin alley. The
man who bets on horses, on elections, on bat*
ties—the man who deals in “fancy” stocks,
or conducts a business which hazards extra
capital, or goes into transactions without
foundation, but dependent upon what men
call “luck,” is a gambler. Whatever you ex
pect to get from your neighbor without of
fering an equivalent in money or time or
rtkill is either the product of theft or gaming.
Lottery tickets and lottery policies come into
the same category. Pairs for the founding
of hospitals, schools and churches, conducted
on the raffling-system, come under the same
denomination. Do not, therefore, associate
gambling necessarily with any instrument,
or game, or time, or place, or think the prin
ciple depends upon whether you play for a
glass of wine or one hundred shares of rail
road stock. Whether you patronize “auction
pools” “French mutuals” or “book-making ”
whether you employ faro or billiards, ro*Slo
and keno, cards or bagatelle, the very idea of
the thing is dishonest, for it professes to be
stow upon you a good for which you give no
equivalent.
It is estimated that every day in Ohris
tendon eighty million dollars pass from
oand to hand through gambling practices,
and every year in Christendom one hun
dred and twenty-three billion one hundred
million dollars change hands in that way.
There are in this cluster of cities about
- 4ght hundred confessed gambling eetab
Isshments. There are about three thousand
live hundred professional gamblers. Out
of the eight hundred gambling establish
ments^ how many o& them do you suppose
profess to be honest? Ten. These ten pro
.688 to be honest because they are merely
the ante-chamber to the seven hundred
md ninety that are acknowledged fraud
ulent. There are first class gambling estab
lishments. You go up the marble stairs.
You ring the bell. The liveried servant in
troduces you. The walls are lavender tinted.
The mantels are of Vermont marble. The
Eictures are “Jephthah’s Daughter” and
►ore’s “Dante’s and Virgil’s Frozen Region
of Hell”—a most appropriate selection, this
last, for the place. There is the roulette
table, the finest, the costliest, most exquisite
piece of furniture in the United States. There
is the banqueting room, where, free of charge
to the guests, you may find the plate and
viands and wines and cigars sumptuous b+
yond parallel.
iucujuu wjuo w kuo HwauuuBH gam
bling establishment. To it you are intro
duced by a card through some “roper-in.”
Having entered, you must either gamble or
fight. Sanded cards, dice loaded with quick
silver, poor drinks, will soon help yon to get
rid of all your money to a tune in short
meter with staccato passages. You wanted
to see. You saw. The low villains of that
place watch you as you come in. Does not
the panther, squat in the grass, know a calf
when he sees it? Wrangle not for yourrights
in that place, or your body will be thrown
bloody into the street, or dead into the Bast
River. You go along a little further mid find
the policy establishment. In that plaoe yon bet
on numbers. Betting on two numbers is called
a “saddle,” betting on three numbers 1*called
a “gig," betting on four numbers is Called a
“horse,” and there are thousands of our
young men leaping .into that “saddle” and
mounting; the “gig,” and behind that
“horse” riding to perdition. There is always
one kind of sign on the door-—“Exchange,”
a most appropriate title for the door, for
there, in that room, a man exchanges health,
peace and hoaven for loss of health, loss of
home, loss of family, loss of immortal soul.
Exchange sure enough and infinite enough.
Men wishing to gamble will find places
just suited to their capacity, not only in
the underground oyster cellar, or at the
table back of the curtain, covered with
greasy cards, or in the steamboat smoking
cabin, where the bloated wretch with rings
in jhis ears instead of his nose, deals the pack,
and winks in the unsuspecting traveler—
providing free drinks all around—but in
gilded parlors and amid gorgeous surround
ings.
Again, this sin works ruin by killing indus
try. A man used to reaping scores or hun
dreds or thousands of dollars from the gaming
cable will not be content with slow work. He
will say: “What is the use of trying to make
these fifty dollars in my store when I can get
five times that in half an hour down at
‘Billy’s?’ ” You never knew a confirmed
gambler who was industrious. The men
given to this vice spend their time, not ac
tively engaged in the game, in idleness or
intoxication or sleep, or in corrupting new
victims. This sin has dulled the carpenter’s
saw and cut the band of the factory wheel,
sunk the cargo, broken the teeth of the
farmer’s harrow and sent a strange light
ning to shatter the battery of the philoso
pher. The very first idea in gaming is at
war with all the industries of society.
This crime is gettiug its lever under many,
a mercantile house in our great cities, and
before long down will come the great estab
lishment, crushing reputation, home, com
fort and immortal souls. How it diverts and
sinks capital may be inferred from some
authentic statement before us. The ten gam
ing houses tha^j onoe were authorised in Paris
passed through banks, yearly, three hundred
and twenty-nve millions of francs. Where
does all the money come from? The whole
world is robbed I What is most sad, there
isiuuueai t* uni id iuwdv onu, iu
are no consolations, for the loss and suffering
>y gaming. If men fail in lawful
business, God pities and society com miser*
entailed by
ates; but where in the Bible or in society is
there any consolation for the gambler? From
what tree of the forest oozes there a balm that
can soothe the gamester’s heart? In that
bottle where God keeps the tears of His chil
dren are there any tears of the gambler? Do
the winds that come to kiss the faded cheek,
of sickness, and to cool the heated brow of
the laborer, whisper hope and cheer to the
emaciated victim of the game of hazard?
When an honest man is in trouble he has
sympathy. “Poor fellow!” they say. But
do g&ipbfers come to weep at the agonies of
the gambler?
In Northumberland was one of the finest
estates in England. Mr. Porter owned It,
and in a year gambled it all away. Having
lost the last acre of the estate, he oame
down from the saloon and got into his car
riage; went back, put up his horses and car
riage and town house aud played. He threw
and lost. He started home, and in a side
alley met a frieud from whom he borrowed
ten guineas; went back to the saloon and be
fore a great while h u wou tweuty thousand
pounds. He d e l nr- lass a beggar In St.
Giles; How many a >£r.s felt sorry for
Mr. Porter? Who consoled him on the loss
of his estate? What gambler subscribed to
put a Btone over the poor man’s grave? Not
one!
Putharmore, this sin is the source of un
counted dishonesties. The game of hazard
itself is often a game of cheat. How many
tricks and deceptions in the dealing of the
cards! The opponent’s hand is orttimes
found out by fraud. Cards are marked so
that they may be designated from the back.
Expert gamesters have their accomplices,
and one wink may decide the game. The dice
have been found loaded with platlna, so that
“doublets” come up every time. These dice
are introduced by the gamblers, unobserved
by honest men who have come into play; and
this accounts for the fact that ninety-nine
nut of a hundred who gamble, however
wealthy they began, at the end are found to
be poor, miserable, ragged wretches, that
would not now be allowed to sit on the door
step of the house that they once owned. In
a gambling house in San Francisco a'young
man having just come from thp mines de
posited a large sum upon the ace, and won
twenty-two thousand dollars. But the tide
turns. Intense excitement comes upon the
countenances of all. Slowly the cards went
forth. Every eye is fixed. Not a sound is
heard until the ace is revealed favorable to
the bank. There are shouts of “Foul!"
‘ ‘Fo^l P’ but the keepers of the table produce
their pistols, and the uproar is'silenoed and the
bank nas won ninety-five thousand dollars.
Do you call this a game of chance? There Is
no chance about &
But these dishonesties in oarrying on of.
the gome aro uothpu: wbpu compared with
the frauds which are
the orphans; has sold the.*™
get the means to oonthme
written the counterfeit
the banker's money vault ouu mmucu rue
assassin’s dogger, there IS nodepth of mean
to whichit will not stoop. There is no
•less tv, nuiiiuitmwuuv Bbuop, j.nereis no
cruelty at which it is appsllM. There is no
StASS-ioStVlt
ons and lunatic asylums. How many rati
ons aud lunatic asylums. How many rall
Sad « r hLa8UTriv.a„nd to*™*?
graca incarceration and suicide! Wit
u«ss years ago a cashier of a railroad who
stole one hundred and three thousand dol
lars to carry on his gaming practices. Win.
S!?J?rtyuth2n*®n^ **B"S 'toleQ <r°“ »
Brooklyn bank within, the memory of many
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yon. and the one hundred and eighty
ousand dollars taken from a Wall street
if ,
thousand dollars taken from a Wall street
insurance company for the same purpose!
Three are only illustrations on a large scale
of the robberies every day oommitted for
the purpose of carrying ont the designs of
pa.pwvvs UtJOUCUB Wk
g.-imMers. Hundreds of thousands of dol
-every year leak out without observa
tion from the merchants till into the
gambling hell. A man in London keeping
one of these gambling houses boasted that
he had ruined a nobleman a day; but if. all
the saloons of this land wfcre to spaak out
they might utter a more infamous boast,
for they have destroyed a thousand noble
men a year.
notice also the effect of the crime upon
domestic happiness.. It has sent its ruthless «
plowshare through hundreds of families, un
til the wife sat in rags, and the daughters
were disgraced, and tbs sons grew up to the
same infamous practices oj took a short cut
to destruction across the murderer’s scaffold.
Home has lost aU charms for the gambler.
How tame are the children's caresses and a
wife’s devotion to the gambler l How drearily
the fire burns on the domestic hearth 1 There
must be louder laughter, and something to
win and something to lose: an excitement to
drive the heart faster and fillip the blood
and fire the imagination. No home, however
oright, can keep back the gamester. The
sweet call of love bounds back from his iron
soul, acid all the endearments are consumed
in the flames of his passion. The family
Bible will go after all other treasures are lost,
and if his crown in heaven were put into his
!iand he would cry: “Here goes one more
;ame, my boys! On this one throw I
stake my crown in heaven.” A young
man in London, on comir.g of age,
received a fortune of one hundred aud
twenty thousand dollars, and, through gam
bling, in three years was thrown on his
mother for support. An only son went to a
southern city; he was rich, intellectual and
'leganfc in manners. Hid parents gave him
on his departure from home their last bless
ing. The sharpers got hold of him. They,"
lattered him. They lured him to the gam
ng table, and let him win almost every time
or a good while, and patted him on the
back and said, “First rats player.” But ful
ly in their grasp they fleeced him, and his
thirty thousand dollars were lost. Last of
all he put up his watch and lost that. Then
he began to think of bis home and his old
father and mother, aud wrote thus:
“My Beloved Parents—You will doubtless
feel a momentary joy at the reception of this
letter from 'the child of your bosom, on
whom you have lavished all the favors of
your declining years. But should a feeling
of joy for a moment spring up in your hearts
when you should have received this from
me, cherish It not. I have fallen deep—
never to rise? Those gray hairs that I
should have honored and protected I shall
bring down with sorrow to the grave. I will
not curse my destroyer, but oh! may God
avenge the wrongs and impositions practised
upon the unwary in a way that shall best
2lease him. This, my deaf parents, is the
ist letter you will ever receive from me. I
humbly pray your forgiveness. It is my
dying prayer. Long before you have re
ceived this letter from me the cold grave
will have closed upon me forever. Luo to
me is insupportable. I cannot, nay, I will
not, suffer the shame of h'aving ruined you.
Forget and forgive is the dying prayer Of
your unfortunate son.”
The old father came to the postoffioe, got
the letter and fell to the floor. They thought
he was dead at first; but they brushed back
the white hair from his brow and fanned
him. He had only fainted. I wish he had
been d®»d, for what is life worth to a father
after his son is destroyed? When things go
wrong at a gaming table they shout: “Foull
Foul!” Overall the gaming tables of the
world I cry out: “Foul! foul! Infinitely
the first beginnings! This road is a down
grade, and every instant increases the mo
mentum. Launch not upon this treacherous
sea. Split hnlks strew the beach. Everlast
ing storms howl up and dpwn, tossing un
wary crafts into the Hellgate. i speak of
what I have seen with my own eyas. I have
looked oft into the abyss, and I have seen
^»^»Sfieh“Sethme^
victims writhed, one upon another, and
straggled, strangled, blasphemed and died—
the death stare of eternal despair upon fibeit
countenances as the water gurgled over