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StlSTOniCAL SOCIETY. IZZT. Southsrn CosvcrJon of Consrezatbrl C---: OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE PROHIBITIONISTS IN NORTH CAROLINA." vol. y. GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY AUGUST 12, 1887. NO. 31. - -. - - -' - i - - North Carolina Proh TIONIBT To The Patrons ofTMs Paper, WEBOW. We Want Your Trade. ,We Keep cons tan tlv in Stock and to Arrive Lime, (Va. and Rockland,) Rosendale and Portland Cement, Calcined and : Land Plaster, Guanos, v.uuapion jnowen, tsucseye Mowers ; Tiger & Coat es Hay Rakes, Bick ford, & Huffman Grain Drills and - ; order Repairs for same. , Butter worth Threshers, Boseer Horse Powers, Smith Well Fixtures, " Terra Cotta Flue Pipe, Tobacco Flues and do Tin Roofing which does not leak and guarantee the same. ? Keep Valley and Shingle Tin always Ready. SPECIE!, MENTION. 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It - is confidently believed that this Company preseuts the most perfect plan of insurance now in existence. Try it and leave your family independent in case of death. L. A. BAILEY. H- C. HOLTEN, Greensboro, N". C, March 18th, 1887' POMONA HILL tot- These Nurseri s are located 2 miles west of Greensboro, on the Richmond & Danvile and Salem Branch Railr. ads Th.re you can find . ' . - One and a-Half Million of Trees and Vines Growing. Parties wanting Trees, &c., are respect. I"uly invited to call and examine scck acd learn the ex ten of these Nurseries. -Stock consists of all the leading and new varieties of Apple, r Pea h, Pear, - (Standu d and Dwarf.) Plums, Apricats, Graphs, . 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" I: - 1 - We buy in large quantities for cash from first hands, thus securing every advantage in price and transportion. We own the buildicu in which we do busiaess, and give our "personal atten lion to our business. These facts make it evident that we can sell goods as low - i as any and much lower than those who " do not enjoy these advantages. Not only have wc every advantage, but we recognize the fact th it our in terest and the interest of cur customers are identical. Wo will sell you more Goods for S I than any other house in the City. I - . -' WE WARRANT EVERY ARTICLE WE SELL Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money ! Hefnnded. All Kinds of Country Produce taken in exchange for goods at the highest market price. .. ' . -. - . - "We call special attention to our Patent I Roller Flour, EQUAli TO THE BEST. Please iye its aCall wlen in wan ... . i of aiytliins in our Line. , Very. Respectfullv, HENDRIX BROS.; WHOLESALE AXD RETAIL GROCERS, East Market St., Opposite Planters' Hotel anI . 15. S. Court House. GREENSBORO, N. C. DR. TALMAGE. THEBROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY ' SERMON. ' Sulject: Christian Principles Involved in Life and Fire Insurance. TEXT: "Let him avooint officers over th land, and take p th fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.' Genesis xli., 84. y. These werj the words of Joseph, the Presi dent of the first insurance company that the world ever saw. Pharaoh had a dream that distracted him . He thought he stood on the banks of the Elver Nile, and saw coming up ; out of the river seven fat, sleek, glossy cows, and they began to browse in the thick grass. Nothing frightful about, that. But after them, coming Out of the Same river, he saw seven cows that were guant and starved, add the worst looking cows that had ever been seen in the land, and in the ferocity of hunger they devoured their seven fat predecessors. Pharaoh, the. King, sent for, Joseph to de cipher these midnight hieroglyphics. ; Joseph made short work of it, and intimated the seven , fat cows that came out of the river are seven years with plenty to eat, the seven emaciated cows i that followed them are seven years with nothing to : eat.c "Now," said Joseph, ; 'Ijet us take one fifth of the '-corn - crop of ; the seven prosperous years and keep it as a provision for the seven years in which there shall be no corn crop."; The King took ; the counsel and..app6inted Joseph, because of his integ rity and public spiritedness, as the President of the undertaking. " , The, farmers paid one-fifth of their income as a premium. In all the towns and cities of the land there were branch houses. - This great Egyptian life insurance company bad millions ot dol lars as assets. ' Alter awhile the dark days came and the whole nation would have starved if it had not been for the-provision they had made for the future. But now these suffering families had : nothing to do but go up and collect the amount of their L'f e policies, s The Bible puts it in one short phrase : "In all the land of Egypt there was bread." I say this was the first life insurance company. It was divinely organized. It had m it all the advantages of the "whole life plan," of the ."tontine plan," of the "re served endowment plan," and all the other good plans. We are told that Rev. Dr. An hate, of Lincolnshire, England, originated the first life insurance company in No I it is as old as the corn cribs of Egypt; and God himself was the author and originator. If that were not so I would not take your time and mine in Sabbath discussion of this subject. I feel it is a theme, vital, religiou? and of infinite import, the morals of life an J fire insurance. - . .- ; .. , . t ( ' , About ten or twelve years ago there was a great panic in life insurance which did good. Under the storm the untrustworthy and bo gus institutions were scattered, while the genuine were tested and firmly established, and where doss the life insurance institution stand to-day f What amount of comfort, of education, of moral and spiritual advantage is represented in the simple statistic that in this country the life insurance com pan es in one year paid $7,000,000 to the families of the bereft; and in five years they paid $300,00J, 000 to the families of the bereft; and are promising to pay and 'hold themselves in readiness to pay $2, 000, 000,0 JO to the fami nes of the bereft! I 1 ; They have actually paid out more by divi dends and death claims than they have ever received in premiums, jl know of what I speak. . The life insurance companies of this country paid more than $7,000,000 of taxes to the government in five years.: So, instead of these companies being indebted to the land, the land is indebted to them. To cry out against life insurance because here and there one company has behaved badly is as absurd as it would be for a man to burn down 1,000 acres of harvest field in order to kill the moles and potato bugs as preposterous as a man who should blownp a crowded steamer in mid-Atlantic for the purposa of destroying the barnacles on the bottom of the hulk. But what does the Bible say in regard to this subject? i If the Bible favors the institu tion, I will favor it; if the Bible denounces it, I will denounce it. In addition to the fore cast of Joseph in the text, I call your atten tion to Paul's comparison. Here is one man who, -through neglect, fails to support his family while he lives, or after he dijs. Here is another man, who abhdrs the Scriptuns and rejects God. . Which of those men is the -worse! Well, you say, the latter. Paul says the former.- Paul says that a man who neg lects to care for his Household is more obnox ious than a man who rejects the Scriptures: "He that provideth not for his own, and espe cially those of his own household, is worse than an inndeL" Life insurance companies help most of us to provide for our families after we are gone; but, if we have the mo jey to pay the premiums and do not pay them, we have no right to expect mercy at the hand of God in the judgment. We am worse than Tom Paine, worse than Voltaire, and worse than Shaftesbury. : , The Bible de clares it we are worse than an infideL After the certificate of death has been made out, and thirty or sixty days have passed,and the officer of the lite insurance company comes into the bereft household and pays down the hard cash on an insurance policy, that officer of the company is performing . a positively religious r-te according to the Apostle James, who ays; VTrue religion and undented before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction," and so on. The religion of Christ proposes to take care of the tem poral wants of the people as well as the spirit ual. .When Hezeliiah was dving the injunc tion came to him: "Set thy- house in order, for; thou shalt die and not livo." That injunction in "ourf day would mean: "Make vour will; "settle up your accounts: make thiues' plain: don't de- ceivev your heirs with rolls of worthless mining stock; don't - deceive them with deeds for western lands that will never vield anv croD but chills and - fever; don't leave for them notes that have been out lawed, and second mortgages on property that will not pay the first.'' "Set thy house in order. " That is, fix up things, so your going out of the world may; make as- little" consternation as possible.; See the lean cattle devouring the fat cattle,' and in the time of plenty prepare for the time of want. The difficulty is, when men think of their death, they are afraid to think of it only in connec tion with their spiritual welfare, and not of thejievastation in the household which will come because of their emigration from it. It is meanly selfish for you to be so absorbed in the heaven to which you are going that you forget what is to become: of your .wife and childrenaf ter you ere dead, t- You: can get imt. nf this world without leaviosr a dollar and yet die happy if you could not provide for them: you can trust them in the hands of th& God who owns all the harvests, and the herds, and the flocks; but if you could pay the premiums on a policy and neglect them it is a mean thing for you to go up to heaven while they go into the poorhouse. You, at death, move into a mansion, river front, and they move into two rooms on the fourth story of a tenement house in a back street. When they are out at the elbows and knees, the thought of your splendid robes in heaven will not keep tham -warm i nn mmisier xu ui cm-" Bolendid sermon over your remains, ana tne r . . - t-n Va quartet may sing IK. llllll . ' - W. organ loft, but your death will be a swindle. You had the means to pro viae tor tne com fort of vour household when you left it and vrai wi(?kfllv npo-lfinted it " Oh. says soma one, "I have more faith than you; fbelievo when I go out t this world the Lord will provide for iliem." Go to Black well's Island, go through all the poorhouses of the country, and I will show you bow often God provides for tne neglected children of neglectful parents. That is. he provides for them through public oharity. As for myself, I would rather have the Lord provide lor my family in a private Dome, anapnrougn my own industry, and patsrnal and conjugal faithfulness. But says s Jine man: ""I mean in the next ten or twenty yeirs to make a great fortane, and so I shall Jeave my f amilyf when I go out of thi3 word very comfort- able, SoW do you know you are going to uv ten or twenty years? If we could look up the highway of the future, we could see it crossed by pneumonia, and pleurisies, and consumptions, and colliding rail trains, and runaway horses, and breaking bridges, and luneral processions, . Are you so certain you are going to live ten or twenty years, you can warrant your household any comfort after you go away from them? Beside that, the vast majority of men die poor! - Two only out of a hundred ; succeed in- business. , Are you very certain you ... are . going to be one - of the two? Rich one day, poor the njxt. -A" man in" New York got; f 2,000,000, and the money turned his brain and he died in a lunatic asylum. All Ws,Pperty was left with the business firm, and they swamped it; and then the family -ot the insane man were-left without a dollar. In eighteen months the prosperity, the insanity, the Insolvency, and the complete domestic ruin. Beside that, there are men who die solvent, who are solvent' before they gat Under the ground, or before their estate is settled up. How soon the auctioneer's mallet can knock the life out of an estate. : A man thinks the property is worth $15,000; under a forced sale it brings $7,000. v;r The business man takes advantage of the crisis and he compels the widow of his deceased part ner : to sell ; out ' to him at a ruinous price, ; or lose all. The stock was gup-' posed, to- be ' very valuable,, but it has been so "watered" that when he executor tries to sell it he is laughed out of Wall street, or the administrator is ordered by the surro gate to wind up the whole affair. The estate "tf1 snpposod at the min's death to be worth $60,000; but after the indebtedness had been met, and the bills of the doctor and the un dertaker, and the tombstone cutter have been paid, there is nothing left That means the children are to come home from school and go to work. That means the complete hard ship of the wife, turned out with nothing but a needle to fisht the great battle of the world. Tear down the lambrequins, close the piano, r.'p up the Axminster, sell out the wardrobe, anl let the mother take a child in each hand and trudge out into the desert of the wcrld. A life insurance would have hindered all tint. ..; , . :, . ; : But, says some one, "I am a man of small nans, and Icant afford to pay the premi um." That is sometimes a lawful and a genu ine excuse, and there is no answer to it; but in nine cases out of ten when a man says that he smokes up in cigars, and drinks down in wine, and expends in luxuries enough money, to have paid the premium on a life insurance policy which would have kept his family from beggary when Jbe is dead. : A man ought to put himself down on the strictest economy ' until he can meet this Christian necessity." You have no right to the luxuries of life un til you have made such provision. I admire what was said by Rev. Dr. Guthrie, the great Scottish preacher. A few years before bis death he stood in a public meeting and de clared: "When I came to Edinburgh the peo ple sometimes laughed at my black stockings and at my cotton umbrella, and they said I loooked hko a common plowman, and they de rided me because I lived in a house for which I paid 25 a year rent, : and of tentimc I wallted when I would have been very glaa to have a cab; but, gentlemen, I did all that be cause I wanted to pay. the premium on a life insurance that would keep my family com fortable if I should die." That I take to be the right expression of an honest,., intelli gent, Christian man. , " The utter indifference of many people on this important subject accounts for much of the crime and the pauperism of the day. Who are these children sweeping the cross ings with broken broom and begging of you a penny as you go by? Who are these lost souls gliding uuder the craslizht. ia thin shawls? Ah, they are the victims of want; in many of the cases the forecast of parents and grandparents might have prohibited it. God only knows how they struggled ; to do right. They; prayed until tha tears froze on their cheeks,' they sewed on the sack until the breaking of the day; but they could not get enough money to pay- the rent; they i could not get enough money - to de cently clothe themselves; and one day j in that wretched home the . angel of parity and the angel of crime . fought a great fight between the empty bread tray and the fireless hei rth.'and the blackwinged angel shrieked: - lAha! I have wpn the day." Says some man: '-I believe what you say; it is right and Christian, and I mean some time to attend to this matter." My friend, you are going to lose the comfort ot your household in the same way the sinner loses heaven, . by procrastination. I , see . all around me the destitute and suffering families of parents who meant some day to attend to this Christian duty. During the process of adjournment the man gets his feet wet, then comes a chill and delirium and the doleful shake of the doctor's head, and the ob sequies. If there be anything more pitiable than a woman delicately brought up, and on her marriage day by an indulgent father given to a man to whom she is the chief joy and pride of life until the moment of his death, and then that same woman going out with helpless children at her back to struggle for bread in a world where brawny- muscle and rugged soul are necessary I say, if there-be anything more pitiable than that, I do not know what it is. And yet there are good women who are indifferent in regard to their husband's duty in this respect: and there. are those positively hostile, as . though a ,life insurance subjected a man to some fatality. There is in Brooklyn to-day a very : poor woman keeping a xiandy shop, who r vehemently opposed the insurance of her husband's life, and - when application had been made for a policy of $10,090 she frustrated it. She would never have a doc ument in the house that implied it was pos sible for her husband ever to die. One day, in quick revolution of machinery, his life was instantly dashed out. - What is the sequel? She is, with annoying tug, making the naif of a miserable living. -Her two children have been taken away from her in order that they may be clothed and schooled, and her life is to be a prolonged hardship. O man, before forty-eight hours have passed away, appear at the desk of some of our great life in surance companies, have 'the stethoscope of the nhvsician Dut to vour. heart and lungs. and by the seal of some honest company de cree that your children shall not be subjected to the humiliation of financial struggle in the day of your demise, i.;-:''--':;:? ' But I must ask the man engaged "in life in surance business whether they feel the im portance of their trust, and - charge them I must that they need divine grace to help them in their work.- In this day, when there are so many rivalries in your line of busi ness; you will bs tempted to overstate the amount of ass3ts-and ,the. extent of the surplus,, and : you will- be tempted to abuse the franchise f. the company, and make up thb deficits of one year by adding some of the receiyts of another year; and you will be tempted to send out m3an, anonymous circulars " derogatory to other companies, forgetful of the fact that, anony mous communication -means only two things the cowardice of the author and the ineffi ciency of the police in allowing such a thing to oe aatea any wnere save insiae ox peni tentiary. Under the mighty pressure many have gone down, and you will follow them if you have too much confidence in yourself , wVtA An not nnnaal to the Lord for positive help. - Butif any of you belong to that mis-i-rmnt f lnss of neonle who. without any finan cial ability, organize themselves into what thv call a life insurance coainany. with a pretended capital of $ 300,000 or $300,000, then vote yoursell into tne lucrative po&iwon, ' j --4.1. oil -nminmJ- for M.1 If 1 lllimi - - UO.lk.V3 SM. wJ . . yourself, and then, at tha approacn of the State Superintendent, drop all into the hanH nf those life insurance undertakers : whose business id is no gatner up uiB uioua of defunct organizations ana Dury 7cnem in their own fault then, I say, you had better get out of the business, and disgorge the widow's houses' you have swallowed.":- But my word is to all those who are legitimately en gaged in the business. Yoa ought to be bet--ter than other men, not only because of the responsibilities that rrest upon you, but bo cause the truth is ever confronting you that vnnr Rtnv on earth is uncertain, and your Ufa a matter of a few davs oyears. Do not those i black edged letters that com3 into your office mutA vnn think? Does not the doctor's cer tificate on the deatholaim give you a thrill! Your periodicals, ' your, advertisements, and even the Uthozraptir of vour ooHcies warn you that you are mortal.. According to your own showing the chances that you will die this year are at least 2 per cent Are you prepared for the tremendous exigency! , rhe most condemned mai in the judgment day; will be the unprepared life insurance I man, for the ..simple reason that $ts whole business was connected with human exit, and j ho cannot say: "I did not think." His whole business was to think - on that - one thing. O, my brother, get insured for eter- i nity. In consideration ot what Christ has done in your behalf,- have the indenture this day made out, signed and sealed with th j red seal of the cross. ; vy "," v ;But I have words of eucouragenrjnt and comfort for those of my hearers who are en gaged in the fire insurance business. y. You are ordained by God to stand batween us and the most raging element of nature. We are indebted to you for what the national board of underwriters and the coaventioncf chiefs of the fire department have effected through., your "suggestions and through yoar encour agement We are indebted to you for what you hare 1 effected in the construction of buildings, and in the change in the habits of bur cities; so that by scierftific principles orderly companies extinguish the fire, instead of the old time riots which used to"extin,ruish the citizens. And we are indebted t you for . the successful demands you have made for the repeal of unjust laws for the battle yoa have waged against iniendiarism and arson for the fatal blow you have given to the theory that corporations have no souls, by the cheerfulness and promptitude with which you have met losses from which you might have escaped" through : technicality of : ,he law. : I do not know any class of men in our midst more high toned and worthy of confi dence than thesamen, and yet I have some times feared that while your chief business is to calculate about loss 3S oa earthly property, yot might without sufficient thought go inV that which, . in ragaf d to your soul, in r your own parlance might be called "hazards," "extra hazards," "spe cial hazards." An unfo; given siain the soul is more inflammable ancLexo!oive than cam phene or nitro glycerine. However the rates may be yea, though tha whole earth were paid down to you in one solid premium you cannot afford to lose your soul Do not take that; risk lest it be said hereafter that while in this world you had keen business faculty, when you went out of the world you went out everlastingly insolvent "; The scientific Hitch cocks and Sillimaus -and Mitchells of the world have unit i with thosa rl writers to make us believe; that there 1 rooming a conflagration to sweep across the earth, com pared with which that of Chicago in 1881. an 1 that of Boston in 1872, and that of New York in. 1S55, were mere nothing, Brojklya on fire! New York on fire! Charleston on fire! S in Francisco on firj! Canton on fire! St Peters burg on fire! Paris on lire! London on flrel the Andes on fire! the Appenines on fire! the Himalaya on fire! ; What will be peculiar aLuat the day will ba that the water witn which we put out great "fires will itself take flame; and the Mississippi, and the Ohio, and the St. Lawrence, and Lase Erie, and. the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and tumbling Niagara, shall with red tongues lick the heavens. The geological heats of the center of the world will burn out toward the cir cumference, and the heats of the outside will burn down from the circumference to the . center, and this world will become not only according to th 3 Bible, but according to S2i enee, a living coal, the living coal aferward whitening into ashes, the ashe3 scattered by the breath of the last hurricane, and all that will be left of thi3 glorious p'anet will be the flakes of ashes fallen on other worlds. Oh ! on that day will yoa be fireproof, or will you be. a total loss? Will you be rescued, or wiu you be consumed? When this great cathedral of the world, with its pillars of rocks, and its pinnacles of mountains, and its cellar of golden mine, and its upnoistery ot morning cloud, and its baptismal font of the sea, shall blaze, will you get out on the fire escape of the Lord's deliverance? Oh! on that day for which all other days were made, may it be found that thesi life insurance men had a paid up policy, and these fire insurance men had given them, instead of t ie debris of a consumed worldly estate, a house not., made with hands, eternal in tho heavens. " POPULAR SCIENCE. v A remarkable fresh-water turtle from Fly River New Guinea, is one of tho most striking discoveries in herpetology of the last twenty years, its hdids iorm regular paddles, having claws on the two inner digits only. It forms the type of a new family. . " . A singular rodent from Somali-land ia about the size of a mouse, but is said from its hairless skin, small eyes, and pe- culiar head, to iook more line a unj puppy. .The ears are simple round holes, without a conch, and the eyeballs are barely half a millimeter in diameter. It burrows in the earth. Specimens of the pearls said to be sometimes formed in the interior of co coanuts have been obtained in North Celebes by Dr. Sydney J.; Hickson? He describes them-as. .being- about, half an inch in diameter, worn smooth by fric tion, and consisting of pure carbonate oi lime, with no trace of vegetable matter. Artificial clouds were recently mad for the protection of vines - from f rosl at Pagny,on the Franco-German fronticr.J Liquid tar was ignited in tin ooxes, witu pieces of solid tar on the ground neai the vines. 'Large clouds of smoke arose and protected the vineyard for,two hours. Although ; vines in the neighborhood were injured by the frost, all' that re mained under the clouds were left unin jured. 'Of course this contrivance can succeed only in calm weather, but it is only in calm "weather that white frosts occur. " . - i -y Wood powder has recently been intro duced -as an" explosive in thc; Belgiar army in place of dynamite. - The powdei is obtained by treating ordinary sawdusl with a mixture of, nitric and sulphuric acids, which is afterward formed mtc cartridges by means of powerful presses. To protect these cartridges from mois ture, they are afterward covered with paraffined, paper. K The instantaneous production of the gases arising upon the explosion causes the air in. contact with the face surface, of the cartridge to. act tc some extent as a light tamping, and the power of the explosion is directed to the other face. In comparative experiments made with wood powder and dynamite it was ascertained that, .for equal 'weights, charges of the first' substance were at least as powerful as those of the second, and the results were more regular. : ; ;s " At a recent meeting of the English Linnsean Society a paper was read "On the sense of; smell in dogs," in - which some experiments with a setter dog were detailed, which showed, for one thing, that while a very small part of the sur face of a boot is sufficient to make a trail which the animal can trace, ; the scent is not able to penetrate a single layer ol brown paper. It was found, too, thai the setter was ready at . any moment to be sruided by inference as well as percep-. tion, and that the act" Of inference was instantaneous. '-. The ; experiments - also showed that not only the- feet but the whole body of man exhale a peculiar oi individual odor, which a dog can recog nize as that of his master amidTa crowd of people, and that the individual quality "of this odor can be recognized at great distances to . windward, - or in calm weather in 'any direction. 1ELEGKAPHIC-SUMMARY. r Eastern and Middle States. - George William Curtis was re-elected President of the National Civil Service Re form League at its annual meeting in New port, R. I. mbs. Cleveland has been spending a few I days at Marion, Mass.. where she has been a guest of General Greely. . - , V ;; ; Fob the- sixth time within six months an attempt has been made to burn out the New Yorker Herold, a German daily paper. The would-be incendiaries were again unsuccess ful, r'y-y-. -. y-y:,..ty- The Boston yacht Volunteer has proven her self the fastest of all American yachts by easily defeating the Mayflower, Puritan, and other fast vessels in a forty-five-mile race at Newport. Tne Volunteer,' it is expected, will win the trial races, and thus be chosen to compete with the fast British yacht Thistle in the international race for the America's cup at New York this autumn. r Five acres of land over a coal mine near Pittston, Penn., caved in suddenly a few days since, wrecking three houses. - The expulsion of the Socialists from the United Labor party in New York city has raised a big row. The Socialists declare they will ruin the new party. - i George Deummond, Earl of Perth and possessed of other titles of nobility," died a few days . since in a New Y ork hospital, leaving a wife and child in extreme destitu tion. When - fifteen years old he eloped to America with his grandmother's maid, and ever since had tried to support himself by various employments. His family l-ef used to permit his return unless he left his wife. " South and. West, ' ' -Six workmen were killed aud one injured by the falling of a wall at the ruins of a burned elevator ifr Minnesota. The Virginia Democratic State Convention at Roanoke had nothing to do but adopt a platform. Cleveland's administration wa3 endorsed.. 1 --f . -y.y:' .''- ' The Texas election has resulted in the de feat of the proposed amendment to the Con stitution prohibiting the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors. The canvass was a hot one, and the anti-Prohibitionists claimed a majority of 50,000 to 100,000 votes. Ex-Congressman Raixey, of South Caro lina, whose death is announced,-was the first colored Representative who presided over the deliberations of tho Hours. This occurred during the long session of the Forty-third Congress. - -? A small, excursion steamer was sunk in tho middle of Lake Manawa, near Council Bluffs, Iowa. . Three or more of the thirty pas sengers. thrown into the "water were drowned, " Two Creoles fought a duel with swords in the suburbs of New Orleans, one of them re ceiving a painful wound in the left breast r Later returns indicate the defeat of the Prohibitionists ' in Texas by oyer 125,000 votes. :. . :.-: . '- .. - " ;-' ".' -. .'- A good corn crop is probable in " Kansas, Missouri and Iowa, but - small yields in Illinois and Indiana. : ' , : . At the launch of a lanre steamer in Milwaukee, the wave caused by her plunge into the water washed away the supports of a coal shed, v the roof of - which was. crowded with people. .. Three persons were instantly killed, four or five were fatally injured, and about ten more were badly hurt. . Washington. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a circular stating that "the interest due, Sep tember 1 and December 1, 1887, on the-4 per cent, bonds of the United States, October 1, 1887, and January 1, 1888, on the 4 per cent ; bonds, and January 1, 1888, on the bonds issued in aid of Pacific railroads, will be prepaid on and after August 15, 1887, with a rebate at the rate of M per centum per annum on the amounts prepaid. "T Proposals are also invited for the sale to the Govern ment of United States 4 W per cent bonds of 1891, acts of July 14, 1870, and January 20, 1871.: This action has been taken to relieve the expected stringency in the money market by reducing the Treasury's heavy surplus. " Secret art B atard wants a new fishing treaty with Great Britain on account of the Canadian troubles, and is negotiating for that purpose. ' ;-;. - -y--'-J .- - The Siamese Prince - and the lour yoi ons of the Kins: of Siam called at the White House on Friday and wore presented to the President Foreign. Captain Mackenzie, a New Yorker, has won the International Chess Tournament in Frankfort. Germany. All the great European chess champions participated. s ; ; ' A Panama dispatch states that the Govern ment soldiers who were surprised by the rebels when bathing, and who fought a skirmish'-while naked and were successful, have been given a badge in recognition of their bravery. V.;-.'--.-.--j ;'y -: y "i :- All, the copies of a recent issue of the New York Herald containing the music of the Boulanger March, a song which has become famous because it is in honor of General Bou langer, the ex-War Minister, have been seized in the paper's Paris office by the French police. . ",: -'. v- ":. Allan Francis the United States Consul at St. Thomas, Canada, who was injured in a recent railway disaster there, is dead. He was seventy-three years old. , j ' ; ' ; Another American vessel the North Haven schooner J. H. Perkins has been seized by the Canadian officials at Souris, Prince Edwards Island. The charge is viola tion of the Canadian customs law by shipping men, and the punishment is a fine of $400 for each offense. Violent shocks of earthquake have been felt at Laghouat, Algeria. A number of houses were destroyed. ' Three Canadian sealers have been seized by a United States cruiser in the Behring Sea. ; A fire in London destroyed Whiteley's enormous drapery and r general stores and warehouses, causing" a loss of" $1,250,000. Three employees and two firemen were killed by falling fifty feet and many other men were lnjureo. A severe earthquake shock Has been felt throughout the island of Cyprus. . r BLOWN THROUGH THE ROOF. An TTtmer Michigan Housewife's Ex- - perience with. Nitre-Glycerine. A special from Houghton, Mich , says: Edward Landre, of Calumet, a small mining- town in the north of Hhis county, returned from the mine where he is employed bring-, ing a box which had contained nitro-glycer-ine. .'A friend accompanied Jjindre home, and the two were sitting in the kitchen where Mrs. Landre was busy getting supper. A man named Alfred Panauette was also in the room. :. A baby two years old occupied a high chair and a ten-year-old daughter of the Landres was helping her mother." The fire needing fuel, Mrs. Landre went out into the yard, and " se ing the box her husband had brought home, nicked no the cover, split it in two. and out the pieces in the stove. A sharp, hissing noise like escaping steam im mediately followed, and an instant later a terrific explosion The stove was blown in to innumerable pieces, and the iron teakettle, itself in tact, was blown through the root,.-, cutting it way as clearly as if it were a solid shot fired from a cannon. - Through this aperature was also blown the baby, - The stove lifter was driven into the "roof and the door was fairly riddled with stove fragments. The baby, astonishing to relate, was' not killed, but it was t .rribly bruised about the face and lost one eye, and perhaps the sight of the other. The little .girl was badly burned and Panquette's nose was flattened. Landre escaped with slight wounds, and his . wife, who stood right over the stove at the moment of the explosion, was not much hurt. CHICAGO "BOODLERS ELEVEN OFFICIALS AND EX-OFFI-CIALS CONYICTED IN ONE liATCII. Seyen Sentenced to. Two Tears' Im prisonment and Four Fined. Justice dealt the Chicago boodlers a blow between the eyes Friday evening, not as hard a blow as was expected, but still a substan tial blow. The great " case, in . which -an ex-warden of : the " County Insane Asylum : four ex-members of . the ; Board . of County Commissioners, and seven members of the - - present board were charged with conspiring to defraud Cook County by false pretenses, and second, con spiring to obtain money from Cook County by false pretenses, came to an end with a con viction of the entire twelve and a verdict fix ing the punishment of four at a fine of $1,000 and of seven of the others at two year's imprisonment in the" penitentiary. Commissioner George C Klehm, president of the present board and the twelfth member of the gang, pleaded guilty a week before and his punishment will be fixed by the court Several of the men sentenced are noted cor ruptionists. . About eight o'clook. n. m.. information wna received that the jury had reached a verdict . Instantly the -court room was in commotion, while the people along the -corridors and on the sidewalks were on tipto&J of expectation. ,. The eleven defendants some pale and ner vous, others swaggeringly defiant stepped to their row of black chairs just as the jurors entered. The loud buzz of excited conversa tion ceased with startling suddenness. All of the jury studiously avoided looking in the direction of the accused. - The faces of the talesmen were ominously grave. When the. verdict was handed in and- the clerk with trembling voice announced one after another of the entire eleven- guilty, the defendants seemed rooted to their chairs," the very em bodiments of despair. - - Then began the list of ' penalties. "Com ' missioner McClaughry, two years." There was a start of surprise among the spectators.'' ' The extreme penalty of the law was three years, and a fine of $1,000. Nothing less had been -expected by the great ma jority of those present. "Commissioner Ochs, two years," read the; Clerk, and the defendants began to look up. Commissioners Leyden, Van Pelt, Wren and Wasserman, and Warden Varnell all got two years, and every ohe looked measurably relieved except Wren. : . He ' turned ashen and seemed utterly dazed. The crowd was now prepared for any surprise, and it came speedily in the following statement: "Commissioners McCarthy, Oliver, Cassel- man and GeE, a fine of $1,000.'.' A look of unmistakable exultation took possession of the countenance of McCarthy, the burly commissioner, who had throughout the trial, and for months previous, been the mest con spicuously attacked of all the crowd. . Immediately those of the defendants who had escaped with a fine were released on bail. -. The others were remanded to jail. A motion for a new trial for every one was entered by the defendants' attorney. ' The first two ballots of the jury were on the question of guilt The first ballot stood 11 to 1 for conviction, and the second ballot 12 to nothing for conviction. Ballots were then taken on the . question of punishment. The first ballot stood 9 for five years on all, 2 for tworyears on all, and 1 for $1,000 fine on all. , The second ballot was the same as the first . The third ballotresulted in a compromise and verdict as rendered. TAR AND FEATHERS. A Minister Gets Himself Disliked by -Preaching Free Love Doctrine - Tte Rev G.G.Rhodes a Methodist preacher of "Lepeer, Mich.," swore "out warrants for the arrest of Dr. William F.; Harrison and Dr. Wils m, the latter a veterinary surgeon r and for twenty eight others whose names are not given, for grievous bodily assault. Mr. Rhodes says that a few days ago, while he was holding divine service at a private house in Rich Township, thirty men disguised with -false beards and blackened faces, entered the house of Harrison, and Wilson, he says, led the party. Rhodes was seized and struck On the head with a club. He was then taken out, his clothes removed, and his, body bedaubed with tar. A feather bed was then cut open and the feathers ap plied. He was next ridden on a rail and terribly, maltreated. : They dragged him, ha claims, to ards a mill-pond on the farm and threat ned to throw-him in, but desisted when he said he could not swim. They, however, gave him a severe well pumping and then another core ot tar ana a coac on fine grass, the feathers having given out. He was finally liberated more dead than alive. -i.'-. ' Rhodes claims not t know the motive ot the party, but from another source comes the statement that the preacher has given great offence in the community by his free love doctrines, which he has mixed with -free Methodism. Rhodes is an old man and a harmless looking creature. He says that some of the party to the outrage feel greatly stirred up against him because he has expos ed the evil doings in the township. Harri- - -w wr i v . A. J 1 son ana vvnson nave Deen arresLeu, ami their examination is set f or Wednes Jay. ,. BLOODY BATTLE IN TEXAS. Negroes Provoke a Fiht, and Several are Mortally wounded. A dispatch from Nacogdoches, Tex. says: At the close of a concert in the suburbs of ;Nacogdoches, Texas, a deadly encounter oc curred between seven or eight white boys on- the one side and ten or fifteen negroes on the -'other.-1-The negroes provoked the fight by halting the whites and drawingtheir pistols. Forty or fifty shots were exchanged at from ten to twenty feet One negro, Jeff Sim mons, was found dead with a buiiec xnrougn his heart His pistol was-still in his hand. Another Negro, Porter Anderson, was found .with a mortal wound. About a fourth of a mile off still another negro, Tom Thorn, was found with a large bullet in his shoulder having passed under the shoulder-blade. He will recover. A negro named Levi Allison received several slight wounds. ' - - Giles Holton - was the only- one of the whites injured. - He received a slight wound in the hip and a severe and dangerous one in the leg below the knee, fracturing the large bona Trouble between the whites and negroes has been brewing for sometime and it is feared by some that it is not yet over. 1 ; - M ' - . KILLED BY . LIGHTNING. A Bolt Comes Down a Chimney. What a Stage Driver Saw. A spec'al-from Romney, W. Va., says: Geo. Rodgey, eighteen years old, who re sided near .Williamsport, in Grant county, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. He was sitting near the fire-place in his fa thers house, when the bolt came down the chimney through a stovepipe hole. The only mark left by the suptile fluid was a small blue spot on the young man's right shoulder. The stag driver just returned from Peters burg, in the same county, says that just as ho passed Rodg"-y's house, a large ball of fire, about two feet in diameter, fell from the clouds, and when about six feet" from the ground burst with a terrific report, scatter ing streaks of flame in every direction, and so frightening his horses as to render them almost unmanageable. This was a few min utes after Rodgey was killed.
The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.)
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