REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE'S BUN.
DAY DISCOURSE.
.An, Eloquent DlMrtatlon on th Sin of
Gambling-. in Inldiou Vlee Which
' Xainher IU Virtimt by the Thau-
sands-oiay be Saved bj Grace of God.
7?ext: "'Woe unto them that sin, as it were
Wttp a cartrope."-Isa!a!i v., 19.
:. ijhere are some iniquities that onlv nibble
:at the heart. After a lifetime of their work
the man still stands upright, respected and
honorel. These vermin have not strength
enough to gnaw through a man's character.
Bat there are other transgressions that lift
themselves to gigantic, proportions and
nii7A hold of a man and bind him. with
thongs forever. There Rre some iniquities
that have sue'a reat emphasis of evil that
he who commits them may be said to sin
as with a cart-, rope, I suppose yon know
how they snake a great rope. The stuff out
-of which it. Is fashioned is nothing but tow
which you pull apart without any exertion
of yonr finders. This is spun into threads,
any of which you could easily snap, but a
great many of these threads are inter
wound then you have a rope i strong
enough to bind an ox or hold a ship in a
-tempest. ,
I speak to you of the sin of gambling. A
cart rope in strength la that sin, and yet I
wish more especially to draw your atten
tion to the fimall threads of influence out
of which that mitrhtv inianitv la twlatnri
This crime is on thu
advance, so that it is
well not oiilv that f i
kthers and brothers and
i such a discussion, but
jthers and sisters and
lest their present home
was be Interested ii
that wires and m
daughters look out
be sacrificed
blasted. No
or their intended home be
man. no woman, can stand
aloof from such a subject as this and say,
"It has no practical bearing uponmy life,"
fortheremay .be in a short time in your
history an experience in which i you will
find that the discussion involved three
worlds earth, heaven, hell. There are
gambling establishments by the thousands.
There are about 5300 professional gamb
lers. Out of all the gambling establish
ments how many of them do you suppose
profess to be honest? Ten these ten pro
fessing to be honest because they are merely
the antechamber to those that are acknowl
edged fraudulent. There are first-class es
tablishments. You step a little way out of
Broadway, New York. You go up the mar
ble stairs J You ring the bell. Ths liveried
servant introduces you. The walls are lav
ender tinted. The mantels are of Yerinont
marble. The pictures are "Jephthah's
Daughter" and D ore's "Dante" and Virgil
"Frozen Reglonof Hell," a most appro
priate selection, this last, for the place.
There is the roulette table, the finest, cost
liest, most exquisite piece of furniture in
the United States. There Is the banquet
ing room, where, free , of charge to the
guests, you may find the plate and viands
and wines and cigars sumptuous beyond
parallel. Then you oome to the second
class gambling establishment. To it you
are introduced by a card through some
-roper In." Having entered, you , must
either gamble or fight. .Sanded cards, dice
loaded with quicksilver; poor drinks mixed
with m6re poor drinks will soon help you
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,
knowa calf when she sees it? Wrangle not
for your rights in that place, or your body
will be thrown bloody into the street or dead
into the river.
You go along a little farther and find the
policy establishment. In that place you
bet on numbers. Betting on two numbers
is called a "saddle;" betting on three num
bers is 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 ' that "gig"
and behind that "horse" riding to perdi
tion. 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 heaven
for loss of health, loss of home, loss of fam
ily, lo33 Of immortal soul. Exchange sure
enough and infinite enough.
Now you acknowledge that is a cart
rope of evil, but you want to know what
are the small threads out of which it is
made. There is in. many a disposition to
hazard. They feel' a delight in walking
near a precipice because of the sense of.
danger.- There are people who go upon
Jungfrau, not for the largeness of the pros
pect, but for the feeling that they have of
thinking, v What would happen if I should
fall off?" There are persons who have
their blood filliped and accelerated by
skating very near an airhole. There are
men who find a positive delight in driving
within" two inches of the edge of a bridge.
It is this disposition to hazard that finds
development in gaming practices. Here
are ?500. I may stake them. If I stake
them, I may lose them, but I may win
$3000. Whichever way it turns I have the
excitement. Shuffle the cads. Lost! Heart
thumps. Head dizzy. At It again just
to gratify this desire lor hazard. , -
Then there are others who go into this
sin through sheer desire for gain. It is es
pecially so with professional -gamblers.
They always keep cool. They never drink
enough toun balance their judgment. They
do not see the dice so much as they see the
dollar bevond the dice, and for that they
watch as'tbe spider in the web, looking as
if dead until the fly passes. Thousands of
young men in tbe hope of gain go into
. . ... mi t 1 :
these practices, xney say: "weu, mj sw
arvisnot enough to allow this luxury. I
don't get enough from my store, office or
chop. I ought to have finer apartments.
I ought to have better wines. I ought to
have more richly flavored cigars. I ougbt
to be able to entertain my friends more ex-
fensively. I wci-'t stand this any longer,
can with ona brilliant stroke make a for
tune. Now. here eoes. principle or no
rrinciple. heaven or hell. Who cares?"
When a ycung man makes up his mind to
live beyond his income, sat an has bought
him out and out. and it is only a question
of time when the goods are to be delivered
The thing is done. You may plant in the
way sui tne batteries ot tmtn ana rtgnt-
eousness: but man is bound to go on. When
u man makes -1000 a year and spends
$1200, when a young man makes $1500 and
spends $1700. all the harpies of darkness
cry out, "Ha! ta! we have him And
they have. How to get the extra S500 or
the extra 000 is the question., He says:
"Here is rav friend who started out the
other day with but little moner, and in one
night, so great was his iuck, ne roiiea up
hundreds and thousands of dollars. If he
got it, why not I? It is such dull work.
this adding up of long lines ot figures in
the counting bouse, tnts pulling down ot
hundred yards of goods and selling a rem
nant. this aJwavs waiting upon somebody
else when I could put $100 on the ace and
pick up lo6o.
This sin works very insidiously. Other
Ins sound the drum, and flaunt the flag.
and gather their recruits, with 'wild huxxa,
but this marches its procession of pale tic
tims in dead ot sight, in silence, and when
thev drop into the grave there is not so
much sound as the click of dice. ' Oh. how
many have gone down under ltj Look at
those men who were once highly pros
pered. Now their forehead U lickea by a
tongue ot came that will never go out. In
their souls are , plunged tbe beaks which
wCl never be lifted. Swing open the door of
that man's heart and you see a coil of ad
ders wriggling their indescribable horror
until you tarn away and hide your face and
ask God to help you to forget it. Tbe
most of this evil is unadvectised. The
community does hot hear of it. Men de
frauded in gambling establishments
re- not . fools enough to tell ot it.
Once in awhile, however, tp.ere is an
exposure, as when in Boston the police
swooped upon a gaming establishment and
found in it the representatives of all classes
of citizens, from the , first merchants on
State street to the low Ann street gambler:
as when Bullock, the cashier of the Central
Kailroad of Georgia, was found to have
stolen $103,000 for the purpose of carrying
on gambling practices, as when a young
man in one of the savings banks of Brook
lyn many years ago was found to have
stolen $40,000 to carry on gaming oractices:
as when a man connected with a Wall street
Insurance company was found ' to have
stolen $108,000 to carry on his gaming prac
tices. But that is exceptional.
Generally the money leaks silently from
the merchant's till into the gamester' wal
let. I believe that one of the main pipes
leading to this sewer of iniquity is the ex
citement of business life. Is it not a sig
nificant fact that the majority of the day
gambling houses in New York are in prox
imity to Wall street? Men go into the ex
citement of stock gamblincr. and from that
they plunge into the gambling houses, as,
when men are intoxicated, they go into a
liquor saloon to get more drink. The agi
tation that is witnessed in the stock market
when the chair announced the word
"Northwestern," or "Fort Wayne," or
"Bock Island," or "New York Central,"
and the rat, tat, tat, of the auctioneer's
hammer, and the excitement of making
"corners," and getting up "pools," and
"carrying stock," and a"break" from eighty
to seventy, and the excitement of rushing
around in curbstone brokerage, and the
sudden cries of "Buyer threel" Buyer
ten!" Take 'eml' "How many?" and the
making or losing of $10,000 by one opera
tion, unfits 5 a man to go home, and so he
goes up the flight of stairs, amid business
offices, to the darkly curtained, wooden
shuttered room, gayly, furnished inside,
and takes his place at the roulette or the
faro table. But I cannot tell all the pro
cess by which men get into this evil. A
man, went to New York. He was a Western
merchant. He went into a gaming
house on Tark place. Before morning he
bad lost all his money save $1. and he
moved around about with that dollar in his
band, and after awhile, caught still mora
powerfully under the infernal infatuation.
he came up and put down the dollar and
cried out until they heard him through the
saloon, "One thousand miles from home,
and my last dollar on the gaming table."
Many years ago for sermonic purposes
and in company with the chief of police of
New York I visited one of the most brilliant
gambling houses in that city. It was
night, and as we came up in front all
seemed dark. The blinds were down, the
door was guarded, but after a whispering
ot the officer with the guard at the door we
were admitted into the hall, and thence into
the parlors, around one table finding eight
or ten men in midlife, well dressed all the
work going on in silence, save the noise of (
the rattling "chips" on the gaming table
in one parlor and the revolving ball of the
roulette table In the other parlor. Some of
these men, we were told, had served terms
in prison, some were shipwrecked bankers
and brokers and money dealers, and some
were going their first rounds of vice but
all intent upon the table, as large or small
fortunes moved up and down before them.
Oh, there was something awfully solemn in
the silence the intense gaze, the sup
pressed emotions of the players. No one
looked up. They all had money in the
rapids, and I have no doubt some saw,
as they sat there, horses ana car
riages, and houses and lands.
and home and family rustling
down Into the vortex. A man's life would
not have.been worth a farthing in that pres
ence had he net been accompanied by the
police if he had been supposed to be on a
Christian errand of, observation. Some or
these mem went by private key. some went
In by careful introduction, some were
taken in by the patrons, of the establish
ment. Tie officer ol tne law tola me.
"None gets In here except by police man
date or bv some letter ot a patron." 1 While
we were there a young man came in, put
his money down on the roulette table and
lost; put more money down on the roulette
table and lo3t; put more money down on
the roulette table and lost; then feeling in
his pockets for more money finding none,
in severe silence he turned his back upon
the scene and passed out. While we stood
there men lost their property and lost their
souls. Oh, merciless place! Not once in
all the history of that gaming house has
there been one word ot sympathy uttered
for the losers at the game.
Sir Horace Walpole said that a man.
dropped dead in one of the clubhousos of
London. His body was carried into the
clubhouse, and the members of the club
began immediately to bet as to whether he
was dead or alive, and when it was pro
posed to test the matter by bleeding him.
it was only hindered by the suggestion that
it would be unfair to some or the players.
In these gaming houses of our cities men
have their property wrung away from them,
and then they go out. some of them to
drown their grief In strong drink, some to
ply the counterfeiter's pen, and so restore
their fortunes, some resort to the suicide's
revolver, but all going down, and that work
proceeds day by day and night by night.
That cart-rope," says some young man.
"has never been wound around my soul."
But have not some threads of that cart-
rope been twisted?
I arraign" before God the gift enterprises
of our cities, which have a tendency to
make this a nation of gamblers. What
ever you get, young man, in such a place
as that, without giving a proper equiva
lent, is a robbery of your own soul and a
robbery of the community. Yet how we
are appalled to see men who have failed
in other enterprises go into gift concerts,
where the chief attraction is not music,
but the prizes distributed among the au
dience, or to sell books where the chief
attraction 19 not the book, but the package
that goes with the book. Tobacco dealers
advertise that on a certain day they will
put money Into their papers, so that
the purchaser of this tobacco in Cin
cinnati or New York may unexpect
edly come upon a magnificent gratuity.
Boys hawking through the can packages
containing nobody knows what, until you
open them and find they contain nothing.
Christian men wiih pictures on their wall
gotten in a lottery, and the brain of community-
taxed to a find, out some new way
of getting tnings without paying for them.
Ohj'Oung men, these are threads that make
the cart rope, and when a young man con
sents to these practices b is being bound
hand and foot by a habit which has already
destroyed "a great multitude that no man
can number.
Sometimes these gift enterprises are ear-
lied on in the name ot charity, and some of
you remember at the dose of our civil war
how many gift enterprises were oa foot.
the nroeeeds to eo to the orphans and
widows of tbe soldiers and sallow. - What
did the men who had charge of those gift
enterprises care for the orphans and
widows? Why, they) would ix&ve allowed
them to freeze to death upon their steps;
I have no faith in aieharity which for the
sake of relieving present suffering opens a
gaping jaw that nasi swallowed down so
much of the virtue and good principle of
the community. Young man, have nothing
to do with these things - They only sharpen
your appetite for games of chance. Do one
of two things be honest or die.
I have accomplished my object if I put
Wou on the lookout; It is a great deal
easier to fall than jit is to get up again.
The trouble is that when men. begin to go
astray from the path of duty they are apt
"Thr-. nn iiiu,nf mv'trdmr to tret I
back. I've sacrificed my respectability, I
can't return." And; they go on until they
are utterly destroyed. I tell you,! my
friends, that God j this moment, by His
Holy Spirit, can change your entire nature
so that you will sk a different man in a
minute. Your great want whit is it?
More salary? Higher social position? No,
no. I will tell you the great-want of every
man if he has not already obtained it.
It is the grace of God. Are there any who
have fallen victims to the sin that I have
been reprehending?! You are in a prison.
You rush against the wall f this prison
and try to get out! and you fail, and you
turn around and dash against the other
s wall until there is blood on the grates and
blood on your soul. You will never get
out in this wav. There is only one way of
getting out. There is a key that can un
lock that prison house. It is the key of
the house of David. It is the-key that
Christ wears at His j girdle. If you will
allow him to put that key to the lock, the
bolt will shoot back, and the door will
swing open, and you will be a free man in
Christ Jesus. Oh, prodigal, what a busi
ness this Is for you', feeding swine, when
your father stands in the front door, strain
ing his eyesight to catch the nrst glimpse
of your return, and it he calf is as fat as it
will be, 'and the harps of heaven are all
strung, and the feet free.
There are converted gamblers in heaven.
The light of eternity flashed upon the green
baize of their billiard saloon. In the laver
of God's forgiveness they washed off all
their sins. They quit trying for earthly
stakes. They tried for heaven and won it.
There stretches a hand from heaven toward
the head of the worst' offender. It is a
hand, not clinched as if to smite, but
outsDread as if to
droD a benediction,
siiora and may be
Sea Of "God'S love-
Inner seas nave a
fathomed, but the
eternity has
bottom, and
no plummet to strlJce tne
immensity no lronbound
shore to confine it. Its tides are lifted
by the heart of infinite compassion. Its
waves are the hosahnas of theTedeemed.
The argosies that sail on it drop anchor
at last amid the thundering salvo of eter
nal victory. But alas for that man who
sits down to the final; game of life and puts
his immortal soul on the ace, whHe the
aigelsof God keep the tally board, and af
ter king3 and queens, s and ' knaves, and
spades are "shumedM- and "cut," -and the
game, is ended, hovering and impending
worlds discover that jhe has lost it, the faro
bank of eternal darkness clutching down
into its wallet all the;
blood stained wagers.
JOHN P. L0VELL, DEAD.
Pounder of Famous Company Sac
: cumbs to iParalysis. j
The venerable John! P. Lovell, founder of
the arms company bearing his name, a com-'
pany known all over the TWwld, has just"
died at his summer homelCottag? City.
Mass. He suffered a paralyti? shook from
which it was hoped for, a time he would re
cover, but a vigorous j constitution was not a
match lor the encroachments of advanc
ing years. ! John Prince Lovell was born
in East Braintree on July 22, 1820, and
was therefore in bis 78th year. He was
an instance- of a rolling stone gath
ering no moss, for he tried several
trades- before finally settling down to
gunsmithing, at which he became one of,
the most expert and finished workmen in the
world. He apprenticed himself to A.B. Fair
banks, a Boston gunsmith, who in 1840 gave
mi LATI J0H3 P. L0VZLL.
Mr. Lovell a half Interest in the business.
Mr. Fairbanks died the following year. Mr.
T v-Ail rvl- snA.t'VftAr rvartriAr hnf 4 i u m s
bought out the lattery He later added sport-
ing goods of all descriptions to his stock,and
the company has steadiy grown to Its present
mammoth proportions, Mr. Lovell success
fully weathered every panic, never failed
and never was sued. As his sons became o
age to enter business they were taken Into
the firm. Mr. lLovell was connected
with numberless Secret and charitable
organizations. He was the first man to boy
a ticket on the South Shore (later the Old
Colony) railroad when it was built, and had
been a continuous; ticket holder ever
since. He has long been the only
survivor of the original ticket
holders. Mr. Lovell at the completion of his
50 years in business, was given a golden
business jubilee anniversary wbich was one
of the notable events, of East Weymouth
where he has lived for more than half a
century. Mr. LovelL leaves a widow and
five sons, throe of ; whom are members ot
the company.
hobe latitude for hucker,
rim Will Be Allowed t Xama a Fart of
.. Hi JTavc
A Wa.Oiin srton ' special says : Inter
nal Bevenue CkUector Backer, f Geor-
gia, will not go home empty handed
He will not leave; until next week, and
in the meantime ihe president will is- I Few cases in. Floyd county haTe at
sue an order taking from the classified I tracted as much attention or developed
service all outside internal revenue
deputies. j
At the treasrry the commissioner re
fared to say whether the order would
remove all the deputies in the service
or not. "The deputies will know soon
.augbf he said.
3L4BCBED TTITIT BRASS BAXDS.
Miners Swoop Dan CTion DaArmltt
Armed with WalUnr Stick.
Oak Hill, in the vicinity of Turtle
Creek, Plum Creek and Sand Creek;
of DeArmitt, was invaded after mid
night Wednesday by an army of strik
ers who were on Land to attend the
great mass meeting held near t he
mines Thursday morning.
It is estimated that by daybreak
mere were several mousand miners
encamDed UDOQ the hills snrronniW
, ToA rWM,i VwT r3
tne JNew xotk ana islevelana lias Coal I
company's property. They came from
very-: direction, headed by brass
bands, and nearly all of themJ carried
heavy walking sticks, and Borne were
armed. ,: .
There were no threats of violence,
however, and no indications of drink- J
mg, juanywere ssppiiea wnn 100a
enough to last two days. -
Immediately upon reaching Oak Hill
the strikers prepared for camp. In the
valley leading up from Turtle Creek
to one of the New York and Cleveland
mines the company had a powerful
searchlight. It was kept shifting about
in hopes of flanking any movement of
the strikers to creep within reach of
the mine unknown- to the deputies,
who guarded every approach. Long
before daylight the strikers were up,
and after eating their frugal meal,
prepared for the day's work. The
intention was to see "as many of De
Armitt's men .before they got into the
pits as possible.
About 4 o'clock 1,500 strikers as
sembled at Turtle Creek and headed
by three brass bands, with flags and
banners flying, marched by the houses
occupied by De Armitt's men. The
strikers hooted and yelled and then
marched to the mines, where they
planted themselves before the pit,
thus compelling DeArmitt's men to
run the gauntlet to get to work.
A short time later, Sheriff , Uowry
who had been wired to for assistance,
arrived from Pittsburg with fifty depu
ties, armed with ' Winchesters.' The
strikers quietly withdrew and, the new
deputies were placed on guard.
When the meeting ,was called to
order at 10 bclock Thursday morning
i V V AAA '-
mere were d,uuu strtkmg miners in
attendance, and before it was well un
der way there were 5,000 people in the
vicinity.
The demonstration had no efiect
upon the men at Plum Creek, and all
went to work. J i
The strikers used all their powers
of pcrsausion upon the diggers, but
none were molested and no threats
were made.
President Dolan was made chairman
of the meeting,4 and in a short speech
he accused De Armitt of insincerity.
He said if Do Armitt's men; did not
come out, there would be a sympathy
strike all over the United States.
M. P. Carrick was next introduced,
and he said that workingmen all over
the United States were interested in
this strike, because it will have a ten
dency to raise wajres everywhere.
"If you men of the DeArmitt mines
will not come out now, we will march
60,000 men here and compel you to
come out, not by force, but by shame."
"When Eusene Y. Debs was intro-
w
duced there was great enthusiasm.
He said in part:
"I am here not to encourage passion
but to appeal to reason. You are in
the midst af the greatest contest the
world has ever known. Whether you"
succeed or fail depends upon your
selves. In order to win, you must re
mam absolutely sober until this con
test is over. "Whisky clouds the brain,
robs you of your money and makes
vou brutal, and also makes you do
iust what vour enemies want you to
do."
After the meeting the Sandy Creek
miners returned to work, and - the
strikers went into camp and had lunch.
PENSION RULES REVISED.
Chan-res Will Sfake Many ModlQcatlons
In Fretcnt Practices.
A thorough revision of the rules gov
erning the adjudication of pension
claims under the second section ox tne
act of June 27, 1890,, has been made
. t- Wrotrr of the Interior
Webster Davis at Washington, and
sweeping modifications in the present
practices are the result
The changes are embodied in in
structions to the commissioners of
pensions, it is stated that representa
tions were made that the present rules
render the administration of the law
dincult and embarrassing.
The new code, it is said, will fur
nish a safe, speedy and uniform sys
tem of adjusting this class of cases.
riYE 1FJLRS FOR BRIDGES.
Ex-County ' &ehol - Commissioner Cwa-
The Bridges embezzlement trial
which had been in progress at Some,
Craw, for several days was given to the
jury late Saturday afternoon.
I The jury returned a verdict of guilty
I and Judge Henry passed sentence of
I five years in the penitentiary.
I as many sensational features as this.
I It has been in the courts for nearly
I two years, and it has been of enormous
I expense to the county and from ther
I present ; outlook the drain on the
I county treasury from this source is
not likely to stop soon.
SOUTHERN PRO CRESS,
Xtmrm Xadwtric KteUlMd la lb Somtla
During the Past Weak.
Reports received during the past
week from correspondents in all sec
tions of the south continue to be en-
couraging, and an actual increase in
the lolume of business, an nnvnl
tendency in prices and better collec
tions are now to toe notvl.
Hepues to a sncckl i
Aarf3wv .. m -
"ir:""," V u"
i" 15 Ppecw anu ia outlook for
fall tr&d khnv. --
iau traue snows that .,f
generally are now enjoying increased
business; that the volume of trade for
the first half of this year compares
favorably with that ot 1896 (in manr
cases exceeding it); that cotton is well
advanced; that the corn rron will i
unusually large, while the toboorr n1
wheat crop will be below the average, '
but better prices will more than offset
tne shortage.
The general verdict is that the situ
ation is most encouraging, and that
the future holds promise of Varlv
and substantial improvement, not on
ly in the volume of trade, but
prices realized. In all lines of
business preparations are now be-
ing made for an active fall trade,
and this, in connection with the ex
pansion brought about by splendid
crops, is effecting all channels of busi-
oess and advancing an era of general
prosperity.
Among the most important new in
dustries for the past week are the fol
lowing: The Mason,. Hoge & King
Construction company, capital 850,-
000, Charleston, W. Va.; the Queen
City Compress company, capital $50, -
000, Columbus, Miss., and another
compress at Jackson, Tenn. ; the Dal
las City Land company, eapital $lo-
000, Dallas, Ter.; the Ashepoo Fer
tilizer company, capital 8100,000,
Charleston, S. C; .the Martin Gold
Mining and Milling coinpwy, capital
$30,000, Gainesville, Ga., and the
Compressed Coal company, maximum
capital $500,000, Norfolk, Va. ' Tele
phone supply works will be erected at
Knoxville, Tenn. ; a $20,000 oil mill
at Pelzer, S. C, and others at Gads
den, Ala., and Gretna, La. ; a bleach
ing and dye 'house at Tarboro, N. C;
a tobacco factory at Danville, Va., and
woodworking plants
at Alexandria,
La.,- Charlotte, N. C, Walterboro, S.
C.i and Chattanooga, Tenn. Trades
man (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
ASK FOR ItECOXSIDERATIOX.
Instructors' at Ili-own ' University Want
President Andrews To Remain.
A remonstrance has been issued by
the professors at Brown university at
Providence, IL L, and . .sent to the
members of the Corporation.
It protests against the action of the
latter body with reference to President
Andrews, and asks for a reconsidera
tion of the whole matter. The docu
ment lays stress on the importance of
freedom of speech, especially in a uni
versity where there should be no sucx
thing as political prejudice.
The fact is emphasized that there
has been a remarkable increase in the
number of students since Dr. Andrews
became president. The remonstrance
is.signeu by a majority of professors.
COFLAURATIOXS IN OTTAWA.
Fireproof Company and Grata Elevator
Destroyed Kntalllnc Heavy loasea.
The Pioneer Fireproof Construc
tion Company's plant, at Ottawa, III.,
the largest of its kind in the world,
was partially destroyed by fire Sunday
afternoon, entailing a loss of SI 00,000.
There was only a partial insurance.
The fire was of incendiary origin.
The large grain elevator of J. 8.
Shuler was burned to the ground Sun-
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aay morning, uoss, oo.wu, insur
ance, 3,000.
It is now thought this building was
also set on fire. Had there been any
breeze at the time of either fire the
city of Ottawa would have been al
most wiped out, as both buildings
were situated close to the business -center.
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LIQUOR DEALERS QUIT BUSINESS. J
Illinois Town Kefae to Itedure the;
Saloon Licence Tax.
Every one of the forty saloons in
Danville, HL, are closed and the
thirsty citizens must go to German
town or to the road houses for a drink.
The Liquor Dealers Association
petitioned the city council recently to
lower the license from $$00 to $600,
and threatened to close their places on
refusal. The council refused and
Monday morning every saloon in the
city was found closed.
LOOKS BAD FOR BRIDGES.
Former School Commlaleners Sands
Former SchoolComtaissionr Bridges,
of Floyd county, Ga.," has been placed
in jail at Rome es the result of G. J.
BrianVs withdrawing from bis bond.
Bridges will make an effort to procure
inothzr bondsman.
In the trial of the Bridges case Wed
nesday the state introduced a receipt
for $2,800 from to J. J. Black, tax col
lector, for the poll tax for 1894. This
amount had never-been entered on
Bridges books or accounted for in any
way. The receipt was a great sur
prise to the defense and they seem
discouraged; This makes the total
shortage over S7, 000.