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1 i J t I TtnlVIa Ur SUBSCRIPTION: i ' . f " .: (CASS III ADTHC) One Copy, One Year, ;f . W. G. BURKHEAD, - Editor. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. All icorrespondentB ath hereby notified that to insure the insertion of their com munications they must; furnish us with their bona fide name and address, 'which we obligate to keep in strict confidence. Write only on one side of the sheet. - - Taai Prnrr in in no fee responsible for the, !owg of its. correspondents. , - ASilress all communications to j THE TOBACCO PLANT, Dubham, N. C. GOD'S-AfeRE. I like that ancient Saxon-phrase which calls The burial-gronnd Gods-Acre!' It is just; It consecrates each graveSwithin its walls, And breathes a beniso o'er "the sleeping dust. ?5 God's-Acre! Yes, that bfessed name imparts Comfort to those who-. in the grave have isown - "-' The seed that they had' garnered in their hearts, m 7 Their bread of life, alas? no more their own. S . Into its furrows shall we:gll be cast, In the sure faith that -e shall rise aain I At the great harvest, Wn the archangel's I Wart ' - - i Shall winnow", like a tan, the 'chaff and fgrain. ; ;! . 1 Then shall the good standjn immortal bloom, in the iair garaens oi uu.Beeoncl Dirth ; And each bright blossonlgbaingle its perfume ith that pt dowers wBich nev bloomed ion earth. . " . - M'ith thy rude plowsharef Death, turn up the isod, . . -! . ' .And spread the furrow for the seed we sow ; This is the field and Acrt&of our God, . This is the place' whege human harvests igrow! : . : - - . j ! ; Hexky Vf. Longfellow. IIESIiAlL IIVIlETHE SPOIL WITH THE ffTKONG. Dr. Talmage's SertSton, Preached . Sunday Morning, Jan. rt)th. "He Shall divide the SKiwith the strong." Isaiah;53:1 -.3 .1 . Mvt family, who' sw it with their own eyes year, before last, tell me that in the coliseum fit Rome, where persecutors used to iet out. the half siarvpu nous u eai.;,up nrisiians, threjis now planted the figure of a . cross And I -rejoice to know that the upright piece of wood failed to a transverse piece hji.s become the symbol, not more 06 suffering than . of victory. It is pf flChrist the con queror that my textg speaks- As a , kingly warrior, havilffg subdued, an I empire, might divicfe the palaces, and mansions, and jities, and val leys, i and mountains among his officers, so Christ isfgoing to divide up all the earth, andt all the heavens among His people, nd you and I will have to take oujbshare if we are strong in faith aiioff strong in our Christian loyalty, for my text de clare$ it: "He shalLZivide the spoil with the strong. The capture 'of '.this' round planet . for Christ is not so mfich of job' as you might imagine, heri j THE CHURCH TAKEfi OFF ITS COAT and rblls up its sleeps for the work,' as it will. There are?f 16,U00,U0U,U0U people now in the wprld, and there are 450,000,1X10 Uittstians. bub tract the 450,000,0aiwho are Chris tians from the 000,000. and ' there ; are 11 ,050,00TO left ' to be Christianized. Now divide the 11, 050,000,000 by the 450,000,000 al ready Christianized,a-i?d it makes only twenty-hve people wr each Lhns tian to bring to Chrisg, Surely, when . the church gets wide awake, no 1 Christian will be conent to take to heaven less, than tweity-five.: Why, I hope to take with rri at least 10,000. I know evangelists thfet' have already gathered 50,000 -eachf for .the king dom. There are at lst 100,000;000 men in Chnstendom hoseone busi ness it is to save soiaRl Sb that when I tell vou all that, .wf -need to aver - age is twenty-five; s3ils reaped for God in a lifetime,, allidea ot impos eibihty vanishes irop the omnip otent crusade. I kncgtv of a Sabbath school teacher who Ihas spent her lifetime in teaching. tfie voune. and she Ms had five different classesjiu- nne all these years,, atfid she tells me they aVeraged about ven in a class, and t$ey were all cont jerted, and five times "seven are thirty-fi ve, as near as I can calculate. Sfte brought her twentv-five and had ten to spare My grandmother brought her whole family into the kingdom, and her grandchildren, and, hope, all her f" great-grandchildren, pf Godremem- ; bers a; prayer seventyghve years ola . as well as though it yere a minute; arid she took her ti?enty-five into the kingdom and hid at least one hundred to spare, Jsides that, the telegraph and telephie will, within a few years, put the v-nole-earth in to a compass of ten -fainutes. Con eider this, and also f that omnipo tence. 'and omniscierfee, and omni presence preside overall the work of betterment, ana - youpwui laKetnis enterprise of the worlg s redemption out of ithe impossibilities into the possibilities, and tberput of the pos- sibilities int the prbabilities, ana Vioti nlnt rtf the rrnnnlMlitipn into t.hft certainties. The building of the Un ion Pacific railroad Kom ocean to ocean iwas a' greater undertaking r than the girdling of ttie earth With ; the Gosnel. for the on4 enterprise de pended upon the hurSan j&Tm while ; the other depends upon almighti J ness. f. . j Do I really mean ' - ALL THE EARTH WltJ. . SUKRESf DER to Christ? Yes. Hov about the ' uninvited portions? Will Green- 7 land be evangelized ? The possibil brave lives are dasHId out among the icebergs, that greitt refrigerator, the Polar region, will he given, up to the walrus and thebea-, and that the inhabitants will corns down by in itatioh into tolerable climates, or those climates may sokten, and, as it has been positively demonstrated that the Arction regii was once a blooming garden and B fruitful field, those regions may .change climate and again be a bloomgig garden and a fruitftil field. It is proved beyond controversy by Germatl and Ameri can scientists, that theoretic regions were the first portionsilof this world inhabitable- the world hot beyond human endurance, piose regions were, of course, the first .to be ool enough for human foot and human lung, jit is positively! proved that the Arctic region wasa tropical cli mate: Professor Ueeh, of Zurich, says the remains of f flowers have been found in the Arctic, showing it waa like Mexico for. Climate, and it : : ! - : l VOL. XVI. NO. 3. is found that the Arctic wns flip mother region from which all the flowers descended. Professor Wal lace says the remains of all styles of animal life are found in the Arrti'r including those animals that can nve only in warm climates. Now, that Arctic region which had been demonstrated bv flora geological argument to have been as r 11 r ... iuu oi vegetation and iife as our Florida-, may be turned back to its original bloom and glorv. or it will be shut up as a museum ot crystals ior curiosity seekers once in a while to visit. But Arctic and Antarctic in some shape 1 ' WILL BELONG TO THE REDEEIIEK's REALM. ! WThat about other unproductive or repulsive regions ? All the deserts will be irrigated, the waters will be forced up to the great American'des ert, between here and the Pacific-by machinery now known or yet to be invented, and, as great Salt Lake city has no rain, and could not raise an apple or a bushel of wheatinone hundred years without artificial help, but is now through such means one great" garden, so all the unproductive parts 01 all the continents will be turned into harvest fields and or chards. A half dozen De Lesseps will furnish the world with all the canals needed, and will change the course of rivers and open now lakes, and great Sahara desert will be cut up into farms with an astounding yield of bushels to the acre. The marsh will be drained of its waters and cured of its malaria. 1 saw the other day what was for many years called the Black Swamp of. Ohio, its chief crop chills and fevers, but now, by the tiles put into the ground to carry off the surplus moisture, trans formed into the richest and healthi est of regions. The God who wastes nothing, I think, means that this world, t'rom pole to polej has to come to perfection of foliage and fruitage. For that reason He keeps us running through space, though so many fires are blazing down in its timbers, and so many mock terrors have threat ened to dash it to pieces. As soon as the earth is completed Christ will rlivirlp it mi ntvwinor tbp trrmrl Thp reason he does not divide it now is because it is not done. A kind father will not divide the I apple among his children until the. apple is ripe. In fulfillment of the New Testament promise, "The meek shall inherit the earth," and the promise of the Old Testament, " He shall di vide the spoil with the strong," the world will be apportioned to those worth y to possess it. i It is not so now. In this country, capable of holding, feeding, ck hing, and sheltering 1,200,CKX),0(H people, and where we have only G0,O00, 100 inhabitants, we have 2,000,000 who cannot get honest work, and, with their families, an aggregate bf'20, 000,000 that are on the verge ot star vation. Something wrong, most cer tainly. In some way there will be a new apportionment. Many oi the MILLIONAIRE ESTATES WILL CRACK TO PIECES on the dissipations of grandchildren, and then dissolve into the possession of the masses who now have an in sufficiency. What, you say, will become of the expensive and elaborate buildings now devoted to debasing amuse ments? They will become schools, art galleries, museums, gymnasiums, and churches. The world is already getting disgusted with many of these amusements, and no wonder. What an importation of unclean theatrical stuff we have, within the last few years, had brought to our shores ! " And professors of religion patronizing such things ! Having sold out to the devil, why don't you deliver the goods and go over to him publicly, body, mind and soul, and withdraw your name from Christian churches and say : "Know all" the world by these presents that I am a patron of uncleanness and a j child of hell." Sworn to be the Lord's, you are perjurers. But at last the tide has turned, and the despisers of purity overdid the matter. A foreign actress of base morals arrived, intending to make the tour of the Statesbut the remaining decency of our cities rose up and canceled the contracts, and drove her back from our American 6tage a woman fit for neither conti nent In the name of Almighty God I take these abominations by the throat; If you think these of fenses are to go on forever, you do not know who the Lord is. ! God will not wait 'for the day of judge ment All these palaces of sin will become palaces of righteousness. They will come into the possession of those strong for virtue and strong for God. "He shall divide the spoil with the strong." j China and Africa, the two richest portions of the earth, by reason of metals and rare woods and inex haustible productiveness, are not yet divided up among the goo4 because they" are not ready to be divided. Wait until all the doors that Living stone opened in Africa shall be en tered, and Bishop Taylor with his band of self-supporting missionaries have done their work, and the: Ash antees and Senegambians shall know Christ as well as you know him, and there shall be on the banks of the Nile and Niger a higher civil ization than is now to be found on the.banks of the Hudson, then CHRIST WILL PIVIDE UP THAT CONTI NENT . among his friends. Wait until Chi na, which is half as large as all Eu rope, shall have developed her ca pacities for rice, and tea, and sugar among edibles ; and her amethyst, and sapphire, and topaz, and opal, and jasper, and porphyry, among precious stones ; and her rosewood, and ebony, and camphor, and var- . I I J I . 1 I I f II III II III! II Jw I II I I I I I I I I I I I I JTA I I I I I I I I "HERE SHALL TEE PRESS nish trees among precious woods ; and turned up from her depths a half dozen Pennsylvanias of coal and iron, and twenty Nevadas of silver, and fifty Californias of gold, and her 500,000,000 people shall be evangelized ; then the Lord will di vide it up among the good. If my text be not a deception, but the eternal truth, then the time is coming when all the farms will be owned by Christian farmers, and all the commerce controlled by Chris tian merchants, and all the authority held by Christian officials, and all the ships commanded by Christian captains, and all the universities under the instruction of Christian professors, Christian kings, Christian presidents, Christian governors, Christian mayors, Christian common council. Yet, what a scouring out ! what an upturning ! what a demoli tion ! what a resurrection must pre cede this new apportionment! I do not underrate the enemy. Julius Csesar got his greatest victo ries by fully estimating the vastness of his foes and prepared his men for their greatest triumph by saying : "To-morrow King Juba will be here with 30,000 horses, 100,000 skirmish ers, and 300 elephants." I do not underrate the vast forces of sin and death, but do you know who com mands us? Jehovah-Jireh. And the reserve corps behind-us are all the armies of heaven and earth, with hurricane and thunderbolt. The good work of the world's redemption is going on every minute. Never so many splendid men and glorious women on the side of right as to-day. Never so many good people as now. Diogenes has been spoken of as a wise man because he went with a lantern at noonday, saying he was LOOKING FOR AN HONEST MAN. If he had turned his lantern towards himself he might have discovered a crank. Honest men by the ten thousand ! Through the international series of Sunday school lessons the next gen eration all through Christendom are going to be wiser than any genera tion since the world stood. The kingdom is coming. God can do it. No housewife with a chamois cloth ever polished a silver teaspoon with more ease than Christ will rub off from this world the tarnish and brighten it up till it glows like heaven, and then the glorious appor tionment for my text is re-enforced by a score s other texts, when it says of Christ : "He shall divide the spoil with ,the strong." ' "But," you say, "that is pleasant to think of for others, but before that time I shall have passed up into an other existence, and I shall get no advantage from hat new apportion ment." Ah, you have only driven me to the other more exciting and 'transporting consideration, and that is that Christ is going to divide up heaven in the same way. There are old estates in the celestial world that haye been in the possession of its inhabitants for thousands of years, and they shall remain as they are. There are old family nransions in heaven filled with whole genera tions of kindred, and they shall never be driven out. Many of the victors from earth have already got their palaces, and they are i pointed out to those newly arrived. Soon after our getting there we will ask to be shown the apostolic residences, and ask where does Paul live, and John, and shown the patriarchal res idences, and shall say : "Where does Abraham live, - or Jacob ?" be shown the martyr residences and sav : "Where does John Huss live, and Ridley ?" We will want to see the boulevards where the chariots of conquerors roll. I will want to see the garden where the princes walked. We will want to seel Music Row, where Handsel, and Hadyn, and Mo zart, and Charles . Wesley, and Thomas Hastings and Bradbury have their homes, out of their win dows, ever and anon, rolling some sonnet of an earthly oratorio or hymn transported with the composer. We will want to see revival Terrace, where Whitefiald, and Nettleton,and Payson, and Rowland Hill, and Charles Finney, and other giants of soul-reaping, are resting from their almost supernatural labors, their doors thronged with converts just arrived, COMING TO REPORT THEMSELVES. But brilliant as the suDset, and like the leaves for number, are the celestial homes yet to be awarded, when Christ to you, and millions of others, shall divide the spoil. What do you want there ? You shall have it An orchard? There it is ; twelve manner of fruit, and fruit every month. Do you want river scenery ? Take your choice on the banks of the river, in longer, wider, deeper roll than Danube, or Amazon, or Mississippi, if mingled in one, and emptying into the sea of glass, ming led with fire. Do you want your kindred back again? Go out and meet your father and mother with out the staff or the stoop, and your children in a dance of immortal glee. "Do you want a throne? Select it from the million burnished eleva tions. Do you want a crown ? Pick it out of that mountain of diamonded coronets. Do you want your old church friends of earth around you ? Begin to hum an old- revival tune and they will flock from all quarters to revel with you in sacred reminis cence. All the earth for those who are here on earth at the time of con continental and planetary distribu tion, and all the heavens for those who are there. That heavenly distribution of spoils will be a surprise to many. Here enters heaven the soul of a man who took up a great deal of room on earth, but sacrificed but lit tle, and among his good works sel fishness was evident He just crowds through the shining gate, but it is a 1 . . THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UN AWED BY INFLUENCE DURHAM, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1887i very tight squeeze, so that the door keeper has to pull away to get him in, and this man expects half of heaven for his share of trophies, and he would like a monopoly of his splendor,and to purchase lots in the suburbs, so he could get advantage from the growth of the city. Well, he had a little grace of heart, just enough to get him through, and to him is given a second-hand crown, which one of the saints wore at the start, but exchanged for a brighter one as he went on from glory to glory. And he is put in an old house once occupied by an angel who was hurled out of heaven at the time of Satan's rebellion. Right after him comes a soul that makes a A GREAT STIR AMONG THE CELESTIALS, and the angels rush to the scene, each bringing her a dazzling coronet. Whoisshe? Over what realm on earth was she queen"? In what great Dusseldorf festival was she the cantatrice? Neither. She was an invalid who,never left her room for twenty years; but she was strong in prayer, and she prayed down revival after revival, and penteeost after pentecost, upon the churches, and with her pale hands she knit many a mitten or tippet for the poor, and with her contrivances she added joy to many a holiday festival, and now, with those thin hands so strong for kindess, and with those white lips so strong for supplication, she has won coronation, and enthronement, and jubilee. And Christ says to the angels who have, brought each a crown for the glorified invalid : ."No, not these ; they are not good enough. But in the jeweled vase at the right hand side of my throne there is one that I haweTbeen preparing for her for many a year, and for every pang I have set an amethyst, and for every good deed I have set a pearl. Fetch it now and fulfill the promise 1 gave her long ago in the sick room : "Be thoiufaithful unto deatli and I will give thee a crown." But notice that there is only one being in the universe who can and will distribute the trophies of earth and heaven. It is the dirine ner, the commander-in-chief of the cen turies, the champion of the ages, the universal conqueror, the son of God, Jesus. You will TAKE THE SPOILS. FROM HIS HAND, or never take them at all. Have His friendship and you may defy all time and eternity ; but without it you were a pauper, though you had a universe at your command. We are told in Revelation that Ja cob's twelve sons were so honored as to have the twelve gates of heaven named after them over one gate of heaven, Napthali ; over another gate of heaven, Issachar; over another Dan; over anotiier,Gad ; over another, Zebulon ; over another, Judah ; and so on. But Christ's name is written over all the gates, and on every panel of the gates, and have His help, His pardon, His intercession, His atone ment I must, or be a forlorn wretch forever.. My Lord and my God ! make me and all who hear me this day, and all to whom these words shall come, be Thy repentant, be lieving, sworn, consecrated and ran somed followers forever. . What a day it will be ! This en tire assemblage would rise to your feet if you could realize it, the day in which Christ shall in fulfillment of my text divide the spoil. It was a great day when Queen Victoria, in the midst of the Crimean war, dis tributed medals to the soldiers who had come home sick and wounded. At the Horse Guards, in presence of the royal family, the injured men were carried in or came on crutches. Col. Trowbridge, who lost both feet at Inkerman ; and Capt. Saver, who had the ankle joint of his right leg shot off at Alma; and Capt. Currie, his disabled limb supported by a soldier, and others maimed and dis figured, and exhausted and with her own hand the queen gave each the Crimean medal. And what tri umphant days for those soldiers when, further on, they received the French medal with the imperial eagle, and the Turkish medal with its representation of four flags France, Turkey, England and Sar dinia and beneath it a map of the Crimea spread over a gun wheel. And what rewards are suggested to all readers of history by the mere mention of the Waterloo medal, and the Cape medal, and the Gold Cross medal, and the medal struck for bra very in our American war. But how insignificant all these, compared with the day when the good soldiers of Jesus Christ shall come in Out of the battleof this world, and in the presence of all the piled up glories of the redeemed and the unfallen, Jesus, our king, shall divide the spoil. . THE MORE WOUNDS, THE GREATER THE INHERITANCE. The longer the forced inarch, the more vivid the trophy. The more terrific the exhaustion, the more un troubled the transport Not the gift of a brilliant ribbon, or a medal of brass, silver or gold, but a kingdom in which we are to reign for ever and ever. Mansions on the eternal hills, dominions of unfading power, em pires of unending love, continents of everlasting light. Atlantic and Pa cific oceans of billowing joy. It was a great day when Aurehan, the Ro man emperor, came back from his victories. In the front of the pro cession were wild beasts from all lands, one thousand and six hundred gladiators richly clad, wagon loads of crowns presented by conquered cities ; among the captives, Syrians, Egyptians, Goths, Vandals Sarma tians, Franks, and Zenobia, the beautiful captive queen, on foot in chains of gold that a slave had to help her carry, and jewels under the weight of which she almost fainted. Ana then came the chariot of Aure- Han drawn by four elephants in gorgeous caparison and followed by the Roman senate and the Roman army, and from dawn till dark the procession was passing, s Rome in all her history never saw; anything more magnificent. But how much greater the dav when our conqueror. Jesus,shall ridle under thefriuniphal arches of heaven ; His captives, hand or foot or in chariots, all the king doms of earth and heaven ; in pro cession the armies celestial on white horses. Rumbling artillery of thun derbolts never again to pe unlim bered. Kingdoms in line, .centuries in line, saintly, cherubic, .seraphic, archangelic splendors in line, and Christ seated on one great rolling hosanna, made out of all hallalujahs rf nil wnrlrls sVmll rrv halt ' t. thf procession. And not forgetting even the humblest in all the reach 01 his omnipresence, He shall riso,and then and there, His work done and His glory consummated, proceed.amid an ecstacy such as neither mortal nor immortal ever imagined, to divide the spoils. i OUR EUROPEAN' LETTER. 'Die Folkur.ger" at the presden Opera House. Special to The Plant.) Chemnitz, Saxony, Jan.:j 187. If the reader has not read 'Aleestis, the Story of an Opera," 1 ' strongly advise him to do so at once. It isa beautifully written novel by an -unknown author, and is published in the "Leisure Hour Series'' by Hen ry Holt A: Co., New York. 'Thepfot of the story, or rather the history ol the characters, is bricHy tins: A young man of good Austrian family, loving his violin more than his rank, wandered to -Dresden and secund a place in the orchestra of the. tiieatre. Several years ai'tcrwaids ;he com poses an opera which lie calls 'A lei s tis,''and wishes to have it performed in the Dresden theatre. The musi cal diriector, out of jealousy, refuses however to permit its presentation until the heroine of the book, an ac tress who loves the composer, con sents to marry his rival, thedirector. in order that he may see his opera performed before the pulmonary dis ease,!"!' which he is dying.hasreached its last stage. This is the ' pith of the story, though it is told, of course, in a more pathetic way in the book. Having "Alcestis" still fresh in my mind, and knowing, moreover, that the orchestra of the Dresden Opera House is without an equal any where in the world, I made it con venient, a few nights ago, td attend a performance there, with a young lady friend. The building is a magnificent one, externally as well as internally. Like all public buildings in this coun try the architecture is of the most substantial and beautiful character. Internally it is faultless. -In the centre there are chairs, just as in our theatres, but instead of parquet and dress circle, small boxes succeed each other around the whole semi-circle. Altogether there are four tiers of these loges, one above the otliei ; and at the top is a sort of gallery with chairs in it. " ? Each loge is entered by a door in the rear, so that between acts it is convenient and customary to make calls on one's friends who liappen to be near. On either side of the stage is a royal box, surmounted by::a gilt crown ; but the king's principal box is in the centre of the second tier of loges, and is surmounted by a can opy of scarlet cloth topped with a gilt croWn larger than the othe'rs. A wide space is reserved for the orchestra, and the stage is fully g$ large as the largest in America, that of the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. At one time during ,the performance I computed that there were at least lour hundred pe id red per- iced that audience sons on the stage. Between the acts I noti nearly every one in the was talking English, and remarking the fact to my young lady 1 friend, who is quite an habitue of the' place, she informed me that the theatre is largely supported by English and Americans. . i At half past seven the orchestra began the beautiful music of "Die Folkunger," and I had never heard anything so exquiste before. In numbers the orchestra is large, yet at times while all were playing, the music would sink to a mere whisper so sweet and thrilling, that I can't believe that the angel choir will ever be able to excel it. Then with a rush a perfect tornado of hqrmony would burst upon us,carrying every thing before it. Yet there was nothing to suggest that the orchestra wished to divide the honors with the. stage. Indeed the two worked so well to gether that it would be difficult to divide the general impression made by them both, in order to say which gave the most pleasure. Fortunately for me it was a night on which all" the best singers took important parts. Unlike ourAmer ican operas, in which on.e or two sing wellnd the others abominably, to make the contrast, even thetninor parts in this country require good and sometimes excellent voices. The plot of "Die Folkunger" is in teresting, and its development is ar tistic. The king, of Sweden having been murdered, his daughter, Maria, is made queen. 'Shefchowever has a brother, who is supposed to be dead, but who is really alive and unable to proclaim his identity on account of a solemn oath which he had been forced to take by a nobleman who wishes to marry Maria and' make himself king. Maria, however, sus pects the truth, and tries in- every way to extract a word from her brother which will enable her to sur render the crown to him. She is, however, uncessful until she induces .him to sleep in a room which he A ND UNBRIRED BY GAIN" I had known in his childhood. She r then 'overheard him talking in his j j sleep, and falling on her knees before j j the chair in which he is seated, she I j acknowledges him as her king. i Filled with, horror at having bro- ; ken his oath,' he rushes to a window and leaps out, hut is fortunately un- j injured. ; 1 Thfe nobleman, who has injured j nim,jiearning oi the turn anairs had takeil, rushes into the palace and at tempts to kill the queen. In this, howejver, he is frustrated, and is borne off to prison by the attendants, whilej the opera ends pleasantly. The stage settings throughout the evening were: perfect, and the scenery was managed without any ungrace ful piues. The costumes, too, were beautiful, an4 those of the queen were Seven magnificent. Thj? performance was completed" at teii o'clock,and vie went away not in tlife least ; disappointed in what had !een our anticipations of an ideal j performance at the Dresden theatfe. I an told that'the opera is equally as good in Paris and Vienna, but that tfhere is no ochestra worthy of comparison with that of Dresden,and I caij readily believe it. Such a thoroughly trained organization of skillful musicians could' not exist away from the Fatherland of music, and the city which for generations has had an ;ochestra, to belong to whicij. was an honor toany muscian. I , M- OU Rj WASHINGTON LETTER. Special to The Plant. W.iiinlton,D. C, Jan. 12. There has been so much misapprehension in thtj public inind on the subject of what vongresa. would do on the ques tion ' the revenue, that I deem it important, after several inter views! with leading men here, and especially with North Carolina and Virginia Congressmen, to state the situation as it appears to me. Several conferences have been held. The Subject ,has been thoroughlv canvassed. A definite understand ing hijs been ;arrived .at as between the b!o wings, or those of the two wingsjof the Democratic party favor able tb the repeal or. reduction of in ternaljrevenue taxes; But sufficient practical expression has not been made jipon the Republicans. This was the essential part of the programme. All men understood that Mr. Morri son's opposition wouldrender it ab solutely necessary for the Southern low tariff, arid Northern Randall men, to be reinforced by a majority of the Republicans. It is pretty generally conceded that Reed has balked 'Hiscock's little attempt to re form tie tariff on one item sugar and abolish the tobacco tax. The Republicans may vote, probably will vote generally to go into committee of thjj whole to consider the questien. But they will not aid Mr. Randall in his proposed motion to lay aside the - Morrison bill. It is possib e when Randall returns from Philadelphia, whither he went last week, that he may conclude to mod ify his! programme, and vote to con sider nbt the Morrison, but Ways and Meansj committee bill. This would enable, him -to offer such amend ments fas he desires. By the help of the Republicans he could at any time prevent the passage of that measure. Col Cowles told me yes terday! that he had seen and secured assurances from seventy members, nearly; all Democrats, that they would jvote for internal revenue re duction that is, for the repeal of the fruit brandy and the tobacco taxes, j Col. Cabell, of Virginia, an other prominent agitator in this in terest, laid to-day that matters were looking first-rate, but that nothing definite as to the day and other final detailsjhad been arranged. It is said that notwithstanding Mr. Randall's absence, some of his friends will meet to-night at Mr. McAdoo's room, in the Riggs' House, and talk over the situation. Outside of the circle of thos interested specially in the proposed movement, there is no one here wjho believes that anything will be j done to reduce the surplus by this: Congress. The Inter-State Commerce bill is still deloated in the Senate. The better opinion late this afternoon was thit it would run for several days, perhaps a week longer. The bill will have a majority, but Mr. Cullom its manager, is not claiming as many votes 'as he claimed last week, probably the only Democrats who will vote against it are Messrs. Brown,- Morgan, McPherson and Payne,- two from the South and two from the North. A newspaper correspondent who has watched the bill closely, said to-day that half of the Republicans would vote for the measure. But yesterday Mr. Cul lom only clainied a majority in the Senate of eight, which, if true, would show either more Democrats were against ;the bill, or that fewer Re publicans were for it than has been estimated. Railroad men and some of the chambers" of commerce have been npaking a strenuous fight against; this long-hung-up measure. The bill creating a Department of Agriculture and Labor; and giving the new; department a secretary in the cabinet, passed, the House yes terday by the overwhelming major ity indicated in the following vote : yeas, 226 ; nay, 26. Messrs. Ben nett, Cowles, Green, Henderson, Johnston, O'Hara and Skinner taking the North Carolina delegation alphabetically, vottd in the affirma tive; General Cox in the negative. Of the n,oes the majority were among the very strongest men in character and intelligence in the House. They were Blount, Bragg, the Brecken ridges, Hammond, Morrison,. Oates, Ranneyl Throckmorton, Tillman, Turner and others. Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, was absent ' on business $1.50 PER ANNUM. He recently gave constitutional rea sons against its passage. This step will be a departure from the ways of the fathers, and will render necessary several additional secretaries, repre senting special industries. For there is no reason in favor of a Secretary of Agriculture and Labor that will not apply to a Secretary of Com merce or a Secretary of Manufac tures and Mining. The Farmers' National Congress, in session here for two days, has an at tendance of over one hundred and fifty members. Judge Bennett and Mr. Tucker made able speeches this afternoon ; the former against, the latter in fa vr of the hitter's anti-polygamy substi tute bill. The bill passed by a large majority. Comptroller Trenholni has been before the House Banking and Cur rency committee, to present a bill, in accordance with the President's recommendations, providing for Gov ernmental assumption of responsi bility for losses to depositors in the defunct Freedmen's Bank. The bill appropriates 81,KKJ,(X)0 for the pur pose. The accounts Are to be settled by a commission. The amount due 011 the 13th of July, 1874, minus payments since, the lwsis. and the possession of a pass book prima-facie evidence of deposit. All claims which are not presented by the lst of March, 1888, shall be debarred. Postmasters shall act as agents. On Thursday Mr. Trenholm will furnish the committee with a plan for the security of national bank cir culation. It has passed the House. Ed. Judge Bennett's substitute bill, re ported Monday, transfers Durham, Orange and Chatham counties from the Western to the Eastern Judicial District of North Carolina. Col. Green has introduced a bill providing for taxation of incomes. The exemption is 81,000; between that and 85.000 the uix is three cents; between 85,(KK and '$10,000. five cents; between 310,000 and S20.000. ten cents; between $20,000 and $30, 000, fifteen cents, and no increase for incomes above the latter figures. He says the House is in favor of an in come tax. The basis of his bill is the old income tax law. On Monday General ox intro duced a bill extending the time for considerins the French Spoliation claims. He also introduced a bill paying one year's salary to the widow of Rev. Moses Hopkins, late minister to Liberia, who died at his post of duty. Jacob A. Bowles has been nom inated by the President as postmas Ur at Hickory. Mr. Johnston hus secured the passage of a bill to pension Lifurs Roberson ; and O'Hara one pension Isaac Askie. The Pee Dee Manufacturing Co., through Senator Vance, has asked for the repeal of the internal taxes. Theo. D. Tropier has been ap pointed, under Civil Service rules, to a thousand dollar clerkship in the Postoffice Department W. M. Chaplain has been pro moted in the Land Office from $1,200 to $1,400 salary. The Wilmington public building bill appropriates, as amended, $150, OtX), Kissed the House last Saturday under conduct of Judge Bennett, and has been referred to the proper com mittee in the Senate. The mother of Mrs. Senator Vance isvery ill in Louisville, and is not ex pected to live. Mrs. Vance is there. Mr. Thomas R. Ransom is as well as he was the latter part of last week. He had high fever every day up to this week. The trial of the negro assailant of Mrs. Page has again beer postponed. It will come up after next Monday ; someday not yet decided. He is trying to get evidesce from two or three points of unsound mind, but it ought to do him no good as such theory is opposed to the facta in the case. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. S. Yeates died on Mon day afternoon. Railroad men recently here : Cols. A. B. Andrews and A. S. Buford, Messrs. F. W. Clark and Sol Haas. Hon. R. F. Armfield is here, and Hon. Clement Dowd was in the city yesterday. . J. R. Ludlow, Durham ; A. F. Lucas, Charlotte ; Theo. F. Klutts. Salisbury, were recently in the city. Hon. A. H. Van Bokkelen, a lead ing citizen of Wilmington, and Prof. Sol. C. Weil, of the same city, Were here a day or two since. Col. Key, of Statesville, is in the city. The last of our delegation to ar rive was Hon. Thomas J. gkinner, who brought his family back with him Sunday. He got his Bryant Waters pension bill through the Sen ate. It had previously passed the House. Waters was a soldier of the war of 1812. He en in a chair to see the President. Mr. Skinner secured $30 a month for the blind veteran. Fie postoffices in North Carolina were discontinued on Monday : Bear grass, Martin county, (mail to Keels ville) ; Bray, Camden county, (mail Old Trap) ; Corapeake, Gates county, (mail to Wiggins Cross Roads) ; Kil kenny, Tyrrell county, (mail to Alli gator); Oldham, Forsythe county, (mail to Winston). John T. Pirkey has been commis sioned postmaster at Sands. The Cotton Crop Estimates. Wilmington Sur. The following estimates have been promulgated as representing the cot ton crop for the season of 1886-'87 : Agricultural bureau, 6,705,817 bales ; Neill Bros., Liverpoool, 6,600,000 bales; National Cotton Exchange. 6,414,000 bales; Hill, Fontaine & Co., Memphis, 6,387,000 bales; Bradstreets, 655,000 bales. RATES FOR ADVFRTlciwrs . I VII1U . 1 inch, one insertion, - 1 inch, one month o7 1 inch, three months, ..." ' t 1 inch, six months, ? 1 inch, one year. ".'.. '. '. . ". 6 00 i column, three months,. ."" 10 C0 oia uiuums, 17 "0 coiumn, one year . . 30 ,)0 column, three montha T , SU 00 colnmn bit niAnt. 2 wiuuia, one year, 55 00 1 column, three months,.. . 30 00 1 column, six months. . . ' 55 00 1 column, one year. .' 100 00 1 column, one insertion,. . . . . . . . " 6 i0 2 columns, one insertion,. 10 10 Space to suit advertiser charged for in accordance with above rates. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. neiore ttie week is gone the may be thick with Tariff talk. ur Churchill got out ot the Cabinet because he did not care in a tight place. Many an able politician digs his political grave when he thinks he is building his boom. Philadelphia Sorth American. Joaquin Miller's little daughter, Juanita, lias a wonderful memory and she can repeat evervthing her lather has written. Another gypsy queen is dead. Her late nomadic Majestv must not be confounded with Mr. Watson's Goddess of Reform. A victim of the faith cure : Tl e New York World says, "We belie e that the Attorney General will 1 e compelled to resign.'' j Governor Torres, of Sonora, Mexi- co, is confined to his room with small pox. and fears are entertained that he m ly not recover. J Ella Wheeler-Wilcox says she can see more light, than darkness in ti e world. So can we. Ella, when the sidewalks are one sheet of ice. .Jay Gould isstoutlv opposed to the Interstate" Com mere bill. This is the biggest argument yet in favor of its passage. Baltimore American. "Does it pay to be a woman as she is?'' asks a female writer. We are inclined -to that it is better than to be a wontan as she isn't New -Haven News. It is not certain that all roads lead to Rome nowadays, but it is tolerably clear that Father McGlynn will not take any of those that do. Philadelphia 'V.s. Mr. Grady, of Atlanta, Ga., is a smart editor and a 'whole-souled man, and we hope he may live to see his glowing picture of the "New South" a living reality. Chicago Tribune. Miss Cleveland expresses her be lief that people partake of the na ture of the food they eat, but no one ever noticed that a wolf becomes more lamblike through his favorite diet. Out of the twenty-five babies born in Douglas county, Ore., since the 1st oTJanuarv last all but two are rirlsfThere will be some bustle in Oregon ''bv and bv. New Haveii Aeus. Bob Ingersoll docs not entirely agree with Mr. Blaine in the opinion that extemporaneous sermons are better than others. He writes his sermons out carefully before deliver ing them. The St. Louis Poxf-Dispatch says : The sectional monomaniacs should learn without delay that the equal rights guaranteed to the negro in vol ve the right to vote the Democratic ticket if he wants to. When Abraham Lincoln issued his emancipation proclamation he liberated 10,(KX,000 of whites who needed freedom and liberty worse than the 'poor ignorant and be nighted black.1-Cincinnati Enquirer. The Emperor William says that he pmys every night that peace may be preserved. It was cruel to toll the old man about the Gate City Guard of Atlanta. Why nit per mitthim to stow his bones away in the imperial rraveyard without any further anxiety. Mr. George W. Childs' recent fall caused Philadelphia more pain than it did the genial philanthropist. - In deed, we arc free to admit that the shock was felt away down in Geor gia, where - everybody admires Mr! Childs and where all his admirers are his friends. Macon Telegraph. William D. Bishop, of Bridgeport, Conn., president of .the New York and New Haven Railroad) js in the city to attend the Yale reunion. "Well,' he said last evening, in a moment of inadvertence, unconscious of the presence of a reporter of the Post, "there have been changes in Washington since I was here as a member of the Thirty-fifth Congress, long lcfore the war. I got the Con gressional directory to-day and looked it over to see how. many of the members of my Congress I could invite to a dinner. How many of them do you suppose I found? Ex actly six; that is 'all. There are Kelley and two others in the House, and Morrill, Sherman and Dawes of the Senate, who were then in the House. Then there are Lamar and Atkins in the Goverment service. That will be nine of us all told. And yet it was only a little while ago. Washington Post. When Frank R. Stockton, the writer of short stories, first came to Washington, he was asked by one of those present at a dinner given in his honor, to solve the - mystery which hangs about the story of "The Lady and the Tiger.'v Before Mr. Stockton could answer, a gentleman suggested that the pleasureof having written so successful a story must be considerably diminished by being so frequently asked to tell the sequel. Mr. Stockton laughed and said : " It is very true ; I have been requested more than once to inform curious readers whether the princess directed her lover to the jaws of the tiger or to the arms of the beautiful lady, but as I didn't know I couldn't sat isfy them. I finally decided to have it settled for me, and when I wag at Wellesly College I left the decision to theVoung ladies of that institu tion. Eighteen of them voted that the princess woidd sooner have sacrificed her lover than have seen him wed the lady, against six who voted to let him live. I think women can best judge their own sex, and I am satisfied' to abide. by the Wellesly decision.. ' IV. b' HI f)
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