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TIIE EELIGIOX OF JESUS.
Kov. Dr. Talmasro Contrasts It with
the Blight of Infidelity.
True Rrllglon Productive of Clieerral Con
tejitmeut, While Cn!nliVf Is a
Continual Source of iilstrjr
and Despair.
The following' sermon on "The Rus-J
tainiug Power of Religion", was deliv- i
V . ?Y 7 i V " , 1.alme the j
7tiCl?n tal,ernacle being based on !
the text:
Thcuih ye havo lala anon the pots, yet j
Bhall ye be as the win.s of a dovo covorad
with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Pa&lnn, IxvilL, IX
I suppose you known what the Is
raelites did down in Egyptian slavery.
Tho men made bricks. Amid the uten
sils of the brick-kiln there wcr also
other utensils of cookery the kettles,
the pots, the pans, with which they
prepared their daily food; and when
these poor slaves, tired of the day's
work, lay down to rest, they lay down
arrx-oug the implements of cookery and
the implements of hard work. When
they arose in the morning they found
their garments covered with the clay
end the smoke and the dust, and be
Km iiched end begrimed with the uten
sils of cookery. Hut after awhile tho
Lord broke
up that slavery, and He
took these poor slaves into a land
where they had better garb, bright
and clean and beautiful apparel. No
more bricks for them to make. Let
Pharaoh make his own bricks. When
David, in my text, comes to describe
the transition of these poor Israelites
from bondage amid the brickkilns in
to the glorious emancipation which
God had prepared them, he says:
''Though ye have lain among the pets,
yet shall ye be as the wings of si dove
covere 1 with silver, and her fealmers
with yellow gold."
Miss Whately, the author of a cele
brated book, "Life in Egypt," said
she sometimes saw people in the east
cooking their food on the tops of
houses, and that she had often seen,
just before sundown ,pigeons and doves
which had during the heat of the day
been hiding among the kettles and i
the pans with which the food was pre- J
pared, picking up the crumbs that j
they might find; ju:;t r.bout the hour
of sunset they would spread their j
wings' and Cy heavenward, entirely j
unsoiled b3T the region in which they j
had moved, for the pigeon is a very j
.leanly bird. And as the pigeons flew I
nway the setting sun would throw sil-
veron their wings and gold on their I
breasts. So you see it is
not a 'far- '
fetched simih
cr
an
unnatural
coiup trison, when David in my text
sars to these emancipated Israelite'.-,
and sa3Ts to all those who are brought
out of any kind of trouble into any
kind of spiritual jo3", 'Though ye have
lain among the pots, yet shall yo be
as the wings of a dova covered with
6i!ver. and her feathers with yellow
gold." '
. Sin is the hardest of all taskmasters.
Worse than Pharaoh, it keeps . us
drudging in a most degrading service;
but after awhile Christ comes and He
Fays, "I?t my people go,'
pass out from 'among the b'
of ;n into the glorious liberty of the
Gospel; we put on the clean robes of a
Christian profession, and whan, vA
last, we soar away to the warm nest
whhh God has provided for us in
Heaven, we shall go fairer than a dove,
its wings covered with silver, and its
feathers with 3-cllow gold.
" i aiu going tos. preach something
which some of you do not believe, and
that is that the grandest possible or
naxient is the religion of Jesus Christ.
There are a great many people who
suppose that religion is a wry differ
ent thing from what it really is. The
reason men condemn the Bible is be
cause they do not understand the
Bible; they have not properly exam
ined it. Dr. Johnson said that Hume
told a minister in the bishopric of
Durham that he had. never particularly
examined the New Testament, yet all
his life warring against it. Halley. the
astronomer, announced his skepticism
to Sir Isaac Newton, and Sir Isaac
Newton said: "Now, sir, I have exam
ined the subject and you have not; anti
I am ashamed that you, professing tc
be a philosopher, consent to condemn
a thing you never have examined."
And so men reject the religion of Jesus
Christ because tley really have never
investigated it. They think it some-
i thing undesirable, something that will
not work, something . 1'ecKsnuhan.
something hypocritical, something re
pulsive, when it is so bright and so
beautiful you might compare it to a
chaffinch, you might compare it to a
robin-redbreast, 3'ou might compare it
to a dove, its wings covered with sil
ver and its feathers with yellow gold.
But how is it if a young man becomes
s. Christian? All throusrh the club -
rooms, where he associates, all through
the business circles where lie is known,
there is commiseration. They sny:
"What a pity that a young man who
had such bright prospects should so
have been despoiled by those" Christians,
giving up all his worldly prospects u,r
something which is of no particular
present- worth! Here is a j-ouug
woman who becomes a Christian;
her voice, her face, her manners
the charm of the drawiag-rocn.
2ow, all through the fashionable cir- 1 3- ark has wings like the dove covered
cles the whisper goes: "What a pity j with silver, arid her feathers with yel
that such a bright light should hare j low gold. '-f
been extinguithed, that such a grace- Aguiu I remark, religion is an adorn
ful gait should be crippled, that such meut in the style of usefulness into
worldly prospects should be oblitcr-. w hich it inducts a man. Here are two
a ted! Ah, my friends, it can be
shown that religion's ways are ways
of pleasantness, and that all her paths
are peace; that religion, instead 01
being dark and dolefui and lachrymose
and repulsive, is bright and beautiful,
its wings covered with silver and its
feathers with yellow gold.
See. in the first place, what religion
will do for a man's heart. 1 care not
how cheerful a man nm jr naturally be
before conversion, conversion uatr. rally
brings him u; to a higher standard ci
cheerfulness. I do uotFj he- will
laugh any louder; I do not siy bat he
inuy st.iud back from some forais oi
I
hilarity in which ho once indulged;
but there comes Into his soul an im
mense satisfaction. A young man not
a Christian depends upon - world
ly success to keep his spirits
up. Now he is prospered, now he
has a large salary, now he has a
beautiful wardrobe, now he has
pleasant friends, now he has more
money than he knows how to spend;
everything- goes bright and well with
him. But trouble comes there are
many young men in the house this
niornmg who can testify out of their
own experience that sometimes to
youn trouble does come-his
friptiils ar rrnna V.!o cnl. n I.
his health ison o ro Ln ArrJ
He becomes sour, cross, queer, misan-
thropic, blames the world, blames so
ciety, blames the church, blames ev
erything, rushes perhaps to the intoxi
cating cup to drown his trouble, but,
instead of drowning his trouble, he
drowns his body and drowns his soul.
But here is a Christiau young man.
Trouble ccmcs to him. - Does he give
up? No! He throws himself back on
tne resources oi Heaven, lie savs
my apparel be worn out?
Christ gives me a robe of righteous
ness. What though my money be
prone.' I have a title deed to the whole
universe in the promise, A11 are yours.'
What though my worldly friends fall
away? Ministering angels are my
bodyguard. What though my fare be
poor and my bread be scant? I sit at
the King's banquet!"
Oh, what a poor, shallow stream is
worldly enjoyment compared with the
deep, broad, overflowing river of God's
peace, rolling midway in the Christian
heart. Sometimes you have gone out
on the iron-bound beach of the sea
wlien there has been a storm on the
ocean, and ycu have seen the waves
lash into white fcatn at your feet.
They did not do you at. harm. While
there yon thought of the chapter writ
ten hy the Psalmist, and perhaps you
recited it to ytmself while the storm
was making commentary vupon the
passage: "God is our refuge and
strength, a very present help in time
of trouble. Therefore will I not fear,
though the earth be removed and
though the mountains bo carried into
the midst of the" sea, though the waters
thereof roar and be troubled, though
the mountains shake with the swelling
thereof." Oh, how . independent the
religion of Christ makes a man of
worldly success and worldly cirenm-
stances! Nelson, tl.3 night before his
last battle, said: ''To-morrow I shall
win cither a peerage or a grave in
Westminster abbey." And it does not
make much 'difference to the Christian
w
v
he rises or falls in worlds
he hits everlasting renown
Other plumage may be torn
in the bbst, but that soul adorned
with Christian grace is fairer than the
dove, its wings covered with silver, and
its feathers with gold.
You and I have found out that peo
ple, who pretend to be happy are not
always happy. Look at that young
man caricaturing the Christian relig
ion, spoiling nt ever thing good, going
into royst wring drunkenness, dashing
the champagne bottle to the door, roil
ing the fiki.stes from the bar-room
counter, laughing, shouting, stamping
the floor. Is he happy? I will go to
his midnight pilio.v. I will see him
turn the gas oif. I will ask , mvself if
the pillow on which he sleepy js as soft
us the pillow . on whichVetiiat pure
youTig man sleeps. Ah! ho. ' When he
opens his eyes in the morning, will the
world be as bright to him as t-hatj'oung
man who retired at nihl snyicg his
prayers, invoking God's blessing upon
his own sovd and the souls of his com
rades, and father and mother, and
brothers and sisters far away? No,
no! His laugh will ring out from the
saloon so that 'oa hear it as you pass
hy, but it is hollow laughter; in it is
the snapping of heart-strings and tho
rattle of prison gates.
IL'ppy! that
young man happy?
Let him fill high the bowl; he can
not drown. an upbraiding conscience.
Let the balls roll through the bowling
alle3r; the deep rumble and the sharp
crack can not overpower the voices of
condemnation. Let him whirl in the
dance of sin and temptation and death.
All the brilliancy of the scone can not
make him forget the last look of his
mother when he left home, when she
said to him: "Now, rnT son, 3'cu will
do right; I am sure 3'o;i will do right;
3-0 will, won't you?'' Ihat onng man
happy? v. 113. across every nignt uierf
flit shadows cf eternaL darkness; there e f
are adders coiled up in evcr'cup; there
are vultures of despair striking their
irou beaks into his heart; tkcrj are
skeleton lingers of grief pinching at
fthe throat,
i I come in amid
the clicking of the
the Hashing of the
! glasses and under
chandeliers, and I cry: "Woe!
cry: "Woe! woe!
; The w:iy of the ungodly f-hall perish.
j There is no peace, saith God, to the
wicked. The way of the transgressors
i is -hard." Oh, my frlt-iuls, there is
more joy in one drop of Christian satis
faction than in the whole rivers of sin
ful delight. Other wings may be
drenched-of the-storm and splashed of
th-i temp test, but the dove that comes
in through the window of this heaven-
j young iun. The one has fine culture.
! exquisite wardrobe, plenty of friends,
J great worldly success, but he lives for
himself. HU chief
comfort. He lives
unregretted. Here
uselessly. He dies j
is another younsr !
man. llis epparl may not be
so good, his education may
not be to thorough. He lives for
others. His happiness is to make oth
ers happy. H' is as celf-denying as
Usat dyintf sold er. f.iiling in the mnks,
wliwii l:e sui i: "Colons!, thure is no
r!?ed of tl:ose boys tiring thcmrelves
i-y Coi i "Iri r me to he hospital; let pae
die I am.'' So this young
may not be
"Cod is my father. Out of all these I fTae-ie tne urst: napoleon passes
disasters Ishall pluck advantage for ' !'' wlth U? 'lost that won ilowlt with
my soul. All the promises are mine, " l"uri u 1'l't . a"a ' u! ll5R1
Christ is mine, Christian companion- ' taro"h ' d evosred thejeonti
ship is mine, Heaven is mine. What ! "tt on tr.c oiremng heart of vhich j
man of whom I speak, loves God.tvant;
j all the world to love - him,
not
asnamea zo carry a cunaie oi jiolhe3
up that dark alley io the "poor. Vhih
o those ycuug irien do you admire the
better? The one & shamj the oj.her a
prince imperial.
Oh, do you knew anything, my
hearer, that is moi'e beautiful so see
than a youn? man st-ort out for Christ? j
Here is some one falling; he lifts him
up. Here is a vagabond boy; helintro
duces him to a mission school. Here is
a family freezing to death; he carries
them a scuttle of coal. Thole are
eijht hundred millions perishing in
midnight heathen darkness; by all
possible meaus he tries to sen them
the Gospel. He may be laug!&d at,
and he may be sneered at, and lje may
be caricatured, but he is net abhamed
to go everywhere, s;iyin "I
jtospel
of Christ. , It is the power
Oi Liod
kud the wisdom of Alodf unto
salve tirn." Such a young man cau go
through everything. Thvre no
force on earth or in hell thut c.n re
sist him. 1 show you three spetajicles.
ot wn:c:i hci went
grinding the
riages in hi
his attendants
boots for him.
vvhc. ls of his gu-car
dvissg moment' poking
to put oa his njUitary
; Uc!e the .leeorul: 'Voltaire, n-ight
una learned and witty aad. eh.jhiient,
with tongue I voles and M,r.$ -. gem
hiiemui. warring a-r-ii J-st Cos a.r
d
poisonm
w hole ldrvrdo
his
in f'dclitv
ping
3'et applau-.'o.t by th e'ap
s of thrones and emniife and
continents his la&t word
in djiirium
supposing Chriit standing by t!e bed
side his last words: "Cruslf:! that
wretch!" ' I "
Spectacle the third: Paul Pfuh in-
signiiiennt in
thru
itt from
all roil ned ustiociation. .seoiir :ej, spat
on, ""hounded like a wild Ueas.t irtiffn citv
to city, yet trying to make thclworii
good and Leaven full; announcing
res,nrrecli-n to tlv't who mouisie'd at
the barred gates of th
consolations whivih !
of widownOou and
t:
iei.-.i.
pakin
: lit Up
eir'.n.i;
tijc e'es
isrS and
want with glow of 'certain and eternal
release; tnidaunted, before thos-who
could takti his. Iff 3, check fluhad.vith
transport and his eye cn leaven;
with one hiiivl slinking defiafiee at
all the foes of oarth and4:li principali
ties of hell, and with the other hand
beckoning messenger angels t come
and I war him away, as he says: ' "I am
now ready to be off-red, and tljb time
of " my departure is at hand; l have
fought the gpo-d Cyh t, I have finished
my course, I have kept thei faith;
henceforth there Is laid up fdf mo .a
crown of righteousness whiffh the
Lord, the righteous Judge, will give
me."' I
Which of the three spectaeles'ido you
mo-;t admire? When" t!;e wind of
death struck the conquercr andlthe in
fidel, they were tossed like sea jfjiHs in
a tempest, drenched of the wave and
torn of the hurricane, th.eir dimal
voieos heard through the everlasting
storm; but when tiie waves ajp.1 the
wind of death struck Paul, likejan i
batroas, he made a thron.j of th tem
pest, and one day floated away ii to the
calm, clenj- summer of Heaven, bright
er th?.n th dove, it wings coverld with
silver, and its feathers with jyellow
gold. . Oh, are you not in lor-'yvith
such a religion a religion thatlcan do
so much for a man
so much for a man
he li'-fes, and
when he ctSmes to
die? -
That I rai-.vht woo you to al, better
life, and that I might show fou the
glories with which God cloths His
dear children in Heaven, I wishS could
this morning swing back cneof the
twelve rates, that there miljft dash
upon your ear one snout of he tri
umph, tiiat there might 61 Came
ii pon ycur e3es, one blaze 4f the
Eoleudor. Oh when I speak of that
good hind, ycu involuntarily thisd
of some one there that you loved
father, mother, brother, sifter, or
dear little child garnered alreadj. You
want to know what they are doing this
morning. I will tell you wlifit the3'
are doing. Singing! You want ip know
what they wear. I will tell ytfa what
they wear. Coronets of irg.impn !
You
to tl
wonder why oft thesy look
to tao. gate 01 tne temple,- anu
watea, and wait. I will tefl why
they.wfiteh" and wait and locSc to the
gate of the temple. For your joining!
I shcut upuuu-d the news to-dr',' for 1
am sure some of yon will reniint and
sturt for Heaven. ' Oh, ve bright ones
before the throne, your earth
'3 i'-
ner. is
are coming. Angels poising rnidiir,
cy "p the name! Gatekt-4per cf
Heaven, send forward the tidings!
Watchman cn the batl!eiucut& celes
tial, throw the signal!" J:
"Oh," yon jay, "religion I an going
to have; it is only a question off time."
My bndher, I am afraid th:it -ion in?.y
lose Heaven the way Louis Ilhiiippi
lost his empire. The Pari.shin mob
came around the tnParies. The liatiors.il
guard stood in defense of thr
and the commander said t
J IjOUIS
Philippe: "fchall 1
e n
Shall 1
oivlcr the- troops to Sre? With t.e vol-
lev we can clear the nla-ce-'Hi
lo."
said Louis Philippe, "not yet.':- A
1 e v.
minutes passed on, and thch rjuls
Philippe, seeing ths case was IWpleii,
said to the geneial: "Sow is - th.a
time to fire," "No," said the general,
"it is too late now; don't you .S?o that
the soldiers are exchanging arjns with
tli citizens? It's too late. "41 Down
j went the throne of Louis Ihii."ppe.
Away from" tha earth went the
house of Orleans, and all because
the king said: "Not yet! npt yet!"
May God forbid that any of yofi should
adjourn this great subject of jeligion,
and should -postpone assailing your
spiritual foes until it is- too jlate, too
)
rlate you losing a throne inj Heaven
' the way that Louis Philippb lost a
throne on earth. f
vyii en tha Jcde descends In uljit.
Clothed In majesty aud ligt; if;
W li?-i tha earth shall quake with, fear,
W b-.-re, oh wja, wilt thou appear
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RESUME C? THE WLEK'S EVE5TS.
llapprninrs of a Bry RnJ TTeek All
Through IJix'e SJa- Politlcn. Sen
alitM5, E.c lirc-rilcled tm
Interest cdJ Iscracu
Coluitjus, Ga., "April 7 -Four men
were drowned in tho Chattahoochee
river opposite this, city late yesterday
afternoon. Five men were out fishing
in a bot and attempted to descend the
slough near what is known as No. 1
rock. The boat was earsized and all
except one man went down. The oc
cupants were: G. AY. Driggcrs and his:
son Milt Hriggers, Will' Adams, Will '
La vendar and Will liidenhauer. Tho
older Driggers was rescued by men on j
shore who threw him a pole and then
pulled him in.
All were fisharmen. The drowned
men were unmarried with the excep
tion of Ridenhauer. Other fishermen
began dragging the river for the bodies
of the men, but up to this time only
one body, that of Adams, has been re
covered. The others may be found
during the day.
The river is very treacherous where
the men w;ere drowned, aud many lives
have been lost there. A number of
years ago a young lady committed sui
cide there b3r leaping from Xa 1 rock.
FATE OF A PARALYTIC.
cerned to DeaHi nt Ilor Home 1: Shelby :
Coviuiy, Kcdturky, ;
SnEr.UYViLi.E, Ky., April 9. One cf ;
the most distressing accidents that I
ever happened in this state occurred
Sunday morning about 6 o'clock, at the j
residence of Mr. Bcbert Sleadd, ten I
miles southeast of this place. I
Mrs. Sleadd, the mother of Robert, i
and widow of James Sleadd, who his
been living with her son, r.nd who has j
been partially paralyzed for several j
months, was left alone sitting in her ;
chair before an old fashioned fireplace. ;
While the( other members of the fam-
Ily were attending to household duties, i
screams were heard, and on entering
the family room, Mrs. Sleadd was dis- j
covered with her clothing in flames.
Her son and his wife quickly wrapped ;
her in blankets and did ever3'thing in i
their power to relieve her suffering, !
but having inhaled the flames she only j stroyed.
lived abput thirty minutes. Her body j Captain John W." Harper, of Wilming
was burned almost to a crisp. j ton, N. C, will put his steamer on bc-
-Mrs. Sleadd was about 65 yeara i tween Brunswick and Savannah for
of age and leaves ten children,! the summer.
five sons and five daughters, all grown.
She will be buried in Grove Hill Ceme
tery to laj', after funeral service at the
Baptist church in Clay Village, at 10:30
a. m.
WHOLESALE GROCERS MEET.
TUo Southern AesosiHticn in Convention in
Jieiv Orleans. j
New Okleaxs. April. 7. The annual !
convention of the Southern Wholesale !
Grocers' association is being held in
this city , and cleleg-ates from most of .'
the southern states are here. The con-i
vention is being held in the old Iloyal
hotel, one of the most historic build- !
mgs cf
ho
The
phis, president of the as.?ociation, in
the chair, and Mr. E. E. Hooker, of the
same city, acting as secretary.
1 The Richmond delegation arrived on
a special car, and is one of the largest
delegationa present, consisting of four
teen members, headed by Mr. Charles
L. Brown, a director of the association.
The annual reports of the officers were
satisfactory. A number of committees
were appointed.
Tw-iilr Korc Indict :int(.
BrRMis'GiiAM, Ala., April 9. The fed
eral grand jury returned twenty more
indictments today against court offi
cials in North Alabama, making fifty
indictments in all which have been
femnd up to date, The charge is the
same in all- making fraudulent returns
to the goverrment.
Today's Indictments vrere five against
ex-Deputy Marshal C. C. Reed, three
against Commission? W. II. II miter, four
against Deputy Marshal A; L. White,
five against Coram istior.er Robert Charl
scn and three against h.3 clerk, NeItJ
Mock.
All were arrested and pi need under
bond excent Mock, who Hzd several
months ago.
Tiie Old, Old 8ior7.
Lyxcheft.o, Va., April 7. Two little
children of Mr. and Mr. C!ark, who re
side near Glade Spring, Va., were
burned to dtath j'esterday. TI14 -father
and mother were at the barn, when
they heard the screaming, and when
tl.ey reached the house, thy
ered the youngest chil l i3ri;;g
tli - ,ccv -
on the
floor, its clothing burned oi? and its
bodv choked to a crisp. Standing ever
the corpse was the older child with the
cruel tfnim.-s playing over the body. In
a very few seconds it, too, -lay dead. It
is thought that the older child met its
death in an eli'ort to save the younger.
5SOi:i:t.' Improved Ciif.i-.n L
Mobile, Aia., April 7. The Norwe
gian bark Asia, lumber laden, passed
down the Mobile ship channel fronj the
citv to the enlf. drawing 22 feet 7
inches. The nlan of improvement un-
,1- T, -r-.rotm nnnr.-.r.riqfV.n pnntpm-
plates a depth of 20 feet in the channel,"
and the test shows that the govern-
ment work Lj lielng c?.rried out 6kul-
fully. Before - tnis dredging of the
channel bepan the deepest draft vessel
which could, come to Mobile was 9 feet.
San Antokio, Tex., April 9. A dis-
patch has been received ber from Gil -
lespie county-, stating that that section
w a visited yesterday by c no of the
severest hail itcrms ever known there.
ISew Orleans and the state i voles, passed, resolutions--'against ths
use in tha da3's of reconstruction. issue of more bell telephone and Gen-
convention began at 11 o'clock i erai iectric stoei ana adapted a plav
i -1 m t tt k r lor iii lor a new labor up r v.
yesxerciaj'. iur. o. n. .nuum, 01 .iieni- 1 1
( Many cattle were killed by the stones s one for pension fraud at Wheeling, Vt
j whieh were rts inches in tircumfe.r- i Vs., Saturday; a petition to the presi-
ence. The great chunks of ice went tjent for her pardon, feign ?d by the
I through roofs cf houses and ruined the 'court oHicials, acccmj-scj-iug the sen
? prospect fo" a fruit c ion. - italic. J
NEWS STATED BRIEFLY.
News of
-Kk Condensed
j Parasraplid.
! - Thorsdar, April 5th.
i Another rich gold find is reported In
j western Chihuahua, ilex,
f T ere is a talk of a syndicate to con
trol the cotton mills of Lowell, Mass.
Women voted at the Colorado munic
! ipal elections yesterday for the first
i time.
1 Governor Greenhalge, of Massachu
i setls, denies that he wants to succeed
j.. Senator Hoar. '
verv sa'oon in Oshkosh, Wis., was
; closed Sunday for the first time m the
! history of the city.
Jav Twitchcll, station and freight
a-rent of the Dolueville railroad, at
i Dolgeville, N. Y., committed suicide.
The Massachusetts house excise com
i mitlee reported afraint liquor legisla
i tion after the state di-pensary plan
Two great copper scales filled with
wheat fe'l .through the ninth floor of
the Chicago Dock company's - ware-
house, killing two men.
Thirtv-one conductors have been re-
leased by the Big Four for "knocking
down" ensh lares ana scumy un
punched tickets to scalpers.
The sealingsteamer Newfoundland
fied L-om St. John's, N. F.. to escape
prosecution for taking seals before
March 14lh and on Sundays.
The steamship Alleghany, from Sa
vannah, Ga., lrought into Baltimore
the cr?w of the British schooner Pearl,
whi h sprang a leak and was aban
don d Fri 'ay.
Ilev. N. G. Johnson, of the Swedish
Lutheran Evangelical church, of Man
chester, N. H., has accepted the busi
ness management of tha Uppsala col
lege, of lirooklyn.
Fridar, April Gth
There is fear of another outbreak;
ajrainst non-union minei-s at Cataldo,
Idaho. '
The funeral of Colonel Edward L.
Caul, of Hudson, N. Y., will take placo
this afternoon.
Colonel B. R. Moore, solicitor of the
criminal court of Wilmington, N. C,
died Tuesday.
The body of an unknown man was
washed ashore at the Big Sandy life
station, near Watertowu, N. Y.
Shreveport, La., is moving in the di
rection of issuing $250,00-) bonds to pave
the streets of that town with vitrified
brick.
Galveston bar is to be dredged to a
depth of 20 feet deep and 500 feet wido,
and an appropriation of 5100,000 is ex
pected.
A great conflagration is raging m
Shanghai China.
Already a thousand
buildings, large and small,
are de
An attempt was made to wreck the
inward bound train from Mattapan,
j M?ss., on the Shawmut branch of the
j Old Colon; road.
j Paul J. Sorg, of Middleton, Ohio, has
j been nominated by the third district
I democratic convention as a candidate
t for congress to aucceed the late George
W. Houk.
Vice-Chancel lor Van Floet, of New
ark, N. J.. asked the Edison Fhono-
graph directors to postpone their elec
tion until next week, so that ho might
give his decision in the receivership ap
plication.
Delegates from Boston, Mass., labor
unions, claiming
to represent 30.000
Saturday, Ap.-.17tSu '
April 10 will be observed as fast day
in Maine. "
Toronto, Ohio, pool rooms must close
after this.
Large numbers of old harp seals are
j reported near St. Paul's Island, oil the
Nova Seotia coast,
The Northwestern Creamery Com
pany, with a capitol of 500,000, has
been incorporated in Illinois.
The execution of Prendergast, the
assassin of Ma3'or Harrison, of Chicago,
has been sta3-ed until July .2.
Richard Peters, of Gloucester county.
j., Yiia l uuueu 01 ;.io by green
goous men in .ew 1 orK.
The Massachusetts senate committee
ftas reportert against the etate farm
and factory project of Morrison I.
Swift.
The lake paenger steamer, State of
Michigan, wnich went ashora Tuesday
night
on Kenosha Reef,
has . been
iicated.-
Wilkins Miller, late of Lvnn. Mass..
who was arrested at Digby, N. S., 13
the first case under the new extradi
tion treaty.
The mayor of Toronto. CnL. refused
to welcome the Dominion Hotelkeep
ers' association because he waaan ad
vanced temperance man.
. Xonday, .Aprlt 9th.
Governor Leweliing, of Kansas, says
1 1 ,.A 1 . . . . -
ne win not ee.renonjinationthisyear.
The si:.ty-fourth annual convention
of Latter Pay Saints is in session in
Salt Lalie .it3'.
Th'? report that Senator jnrl TTonw
: Wo'ei-tt have .4old the Mercer mine in
: Lta.i ;s deniea.
Juror Bohn confirms the "report that
p.n aiicmpi was maae to . bilbe him in
favor or lcivane.
I The heaviest rain that hasfoccurred
in touthwef-t Texas for several months
pr.st fell k riday
Daniel A. Anderson, president of the
1 Lima Rock yuarryinen s union at Rock
! land. Me., has gone iasaue. .-
It'is claimed that a clerical error is
responsible for the allegeil unpaymsnt
4 oz .ucwision sie.) uona coupons.
I One of tha damage suits aerainst- the
! Phoenix Bridge COQlpanv forSJS.OOfJ llfLfi
j been compromUed out of court for
; g3,000. ,
j Secretary Hesters weekly New Or
leans cotton statement shows a fall
ing off, compared with the two past
years.. " '"' ."-
TV. p. will of Bishon O'Farrell. f tli
j Trenton diocese, leaves the bank of an
ie55tate of S33,tK0-to found an oiphan
asylum at liopewei, . j.
1 xr jarraret Moore was sentenced
rpar's imrrlscnment and i.ottd
SHE LEADS TIIE VAi ,
The Bouth's Industrial Interests
Continuously Grox ins.
ENTERPRISES 50TED FOR TEE WEEK.
The Somber of Outside CapUtilUt, Trom
pctiDsr. Incrasos Ually. and Many
Kxtenslve Iea!a Are Now oa
. Uoclt Record Complete.
BAr.TiiroaK. April 7. The Mannfac
turer's Record in its weekly review of
the business situation of the south says:.
The total liabilities of the failures in
the whole country for the first threa
months of 1S94 were 510,000,000 mora
than for the first quarter of 1893, but
in the south, there was a decrease of
77,000, indicating the steady financial
improve eat in the south shead of tha
rest of the country. An improvement
redaction has been made in frehxnt
rates on southern iron to wesJfcra
points, which President Baxter, feyhe
Tennessee Coal Iron and Railrs ad com
pany sa3rs will be of paramount im
portance to Alabama and Tennesseo
iron makers.
Several important enterprises are
getting in shape for active construc
tion work. A number of electric roads
are to be built, including, one - line of
about forty ; or fifty miles to connect
several small towns in Maryland, which
will be constructed by leading Balti
more capitalists.
A very noticeable interest in mining
property is being aroused in the south.
and several large companies have been
organized, recently.
Xhe number of otitsido capitalists
prospecting in the south continues to
increase, and several extensive land
sales have been .made for raising fruit
and-gram crops. '
Among the important enterprises
noted by the Manufacturers' Record
during the week are a 30,000 ice mak
ing company, a 550,000 lumber plant
and a 330,000 wood working entorpriso
in West Virginia, a $20,000 spindle cot
ton mill, an electric light works, lnm"J
ber plant and an organ factory in
North Carolina; a wood-working fac
tory in lennessec; seven large cigar
factories and a phosphate plant in
Florida; railroad repair shops in Mis-
siss.ppi; a I00,00J coal mining com
pany, a $100,000 land company, twocot-
ton compresses, a 823,000 wood-working
eompanj' and s.0,000 agricultural imple
ment factory in lexaa, an electric rail
road in Arkansas, a harness factory, a
saw mill plant and a $50,000 mercantile
company in Georgia, a 50,000 land
company and a saw mill in Kentucky,
ice factory and "an investment company
in Virginia, and a number of smaller
industries hi the several states.
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NOT "FALSE IN HER TRUST.
The Commissioner Frankly Admits the At
tack Upou Tho SeUopIs Objectionable.
Washington. April 7 The speaker
laid before the housa a letter from the
commissioner of education, in reply to
a resolution of the house" directing him
to inform the house by what authority
he published, at pubiic expense, an at
tack on the state of Tennessee, and
whence he derived authority to exer
cise a censorship over the educational
system xn any state. '
The article In question was entitled:
"Hisrher Education in Tennessee," and
charged the state with being "false in
her trust, niggardly and ungenerous,"'
and "help to ridicule the private insti
tutions of learning I tn state." ino
commissioners say that in February
some fifty copies of this circular were
received at the bureau, and copies of it
were sent to the Tennessee senators
and representatives Enloe and Rich
ardson, and it was given to the
press, i. neiay aiter musing it puono
it was discovered that by some over
sight of the editors a number of sen-,
tenees were permitted to stand in the
work reflecting with some severity
upon the action cf Tennessee in regard
to the endowment of its higher educa
tional institutions and the management
of school funds entrusted to its charge.
When these facts were learned the
further distribution of the article was
stopped.
In conclusion, the commissioner Eays
that he wishes to be understood as ad
mitting frankly that the document
contained objectionable - matter v and
that it was not edited as carefully as it
should have been. He urges, however,
that the character of the work was dis- t
covered so soon after the publication
as to enable him to prevent almost en
tirely its distribution. He hopes, he
says, that this explanation of facts will
remove the impression that he has ven
tured to assume tho authority to exer
cise a censorship over the educational
system df one of the states. ,
TEXAS' QUARANTINE LAWS.
The Governor' Proclamation ACctlnz All
Place Sooth of 25 Pegree, W. Latitude.
AriiTiN, April 7. The governor has
issued his proclamation declaring quar
antine, to take effect May 1st, against
aU places south of 25 degrees, north
latitude. All vessels engaged sli the
fruit business must conform to the
rules proscribed by the conference of
the Gulf state health officers at Newr
Orleans February 2d, 1S3I, and an evi
dence of such compliance must be sub
mitted to -the health cfilcer before a
special permit will be granted. ".
THREE MEN KILLED.
And Three More Wounded hj a Premature
- Kxplo3lon
PiTTsr.rno, Ta., April 9. Three men
were killed outright and three others
seriously Injured by the premature ex
! plosion of giant powder and dynamite
this morning near the works of the
Westinghouse Electric company, now
in " course of construction at Brinton
station on the Fenusj-lvania railroad
near Braddock. '
England to Add 120 Iiifferent Ilattleau'p.
Lo:rDON, April 7. The Pall Hall Ga
zette says that a complete program of
the government in the expenditure for
the ensuing financial year of !7,3'W,10O
pounds la the naval establishment, a-
announced in the naval estimates, in
volves the constntclion of thirteen
I ironclad war ships, thirty-seven crul.i-
ers, sixty-four orpeno aer-troyer ana
ix sloops. The .st, ranter for ex
ceed tho i'. of isi by HCW pounds.
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