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PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1890.
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DR-.TALUAGB'S SERH01I.
TUE LIFE AND DEATH OF 1IEXKY
V W. CJKAnT.
The Brooklyn : Preacher - Pbjm mm
' Eloquent Trlbnte to the Glfte4 :
Author mid Journalist.
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r Text: VTWca thtm a great roll, and writ
, in it with a man's pen." Isaiah viiL, 1.
1- To Isaiah, with royal blood in his veins
' end a habitant of palacas, does this divine
order come. He is to take a roll, a large
Kill, and write on It with a pen, not an an- '
" .feel's pen, but a man's pen. So God honored
the pen and so He honored mamincrint. In
our day the mightiest roll is the religious and
' secular newspaper, and the mightiest pen is
the editor's pen, whether for good or evil.
, And God says now to every literary man,
,.nd especially to every journalist: "Take
thee a great roll", and write in it with a man's
pen." . .
Within a few weeks one of the strongest,
most vivid and most brilliant of those pens
was laid down on the editorial desk in At
lanta, never again to be resumed. I was far
, way at the time. We had been sailing up
from the Mediterranean Sea, through the
Dardanelles, which region is unlike anything I
ever saw for beauty. There is not any other
water scenery on earth where God' has done
so many picturesque things with islands.
They are somewhat like the Thousand Islands
of our American St. Lawrence, but more
like heaven. Indeed, we had just passed
Pafcmos, the place from which John
had. his apocalyptic vision. Con
stantinople had seemed to come out to
greet us, for your approach to that city is dif
ferent from any other city. Other cities as
you approach theni seem to retire, but this
city, with -.its v glittering minarets and
pinnacles, seems .almost to . step into the
water to greet you But my lauding there,
that would have been to me an exhilaration,
was suddenly stunned with the tidings of the
death of my intimate friend,- Henry W,
Grady. J could hardly believe the tidings,
for .1 had left on my study table at home
letters and telegrams from him, those
letters and telegrams having a warmth
and geniality and - a wit such as he
only could express. The departure of
no public man for many years has so affected
me. For days I walked about as in a dream,
and t resolved that, getting home, I would,
for the sako of his bereaved household, and
for the sake of his bereaved profession, and
tor tno salts or wnat be had been to me and
shall continue to be as Ion; as 'memory lasts,
, I would speak a word in appreciation of
him, the most promising of 'Americans, and
learn some of the salient lessons of his de
parture. : .. . .-
X have no doubt that he had enemies, for
no man can live such an active life as he
lived or be so far in advance of his time
.without making enemies, some because he
defeated their projects and some because he
outshone them. Owls and bats never did
like the rising sun.s But I shall tell you how
hi appeared to me, and I am glad that I
tcid him while he was in full health what I
' thought of him. Memorial orations and
gravestone epitaphs are often mean enough,
tor they say of a man after he is dead that
which ought to have been said of him
while living. One garland for a living
brow is worth more than a mount
; in of japonicas .. and calla lilies
heaped on a funeral casket," By a little black
volume of fifty pages containing the eulo-
giums and poems uttered and written at the
demti of Clay and Webster, and Calhoun
and Lincoln and Sumner, the world tried to
pay tor the forty years of obloquy it heaped !
upon those living giants. ' If I say nothing in
fraise cf s man while he lives I will keep st
ent when he is dead. Myrtle and weeping
willow can never do what onght to have been
done by amaranth and palm branch. ' No
amount of "Dead March in Saul" rumbling
from big organs at the obsequies can atone
tor non-appreciation or the man before be fell
on sleep. The hearse cannot do what ought
to have been done by chariot. But there are
iportant things that need to be said about
trttriend. who was a orophet in American
!ournansm-atra wno only a lew years ago
leard the command of my text: "Take thee
a great roll, and write in it with a man's
pen."
His father dead, Henry W. Grady, a boy
fourteen years of age, took up the battle of
life. It would require a long chapter to re
cord the name of orphans who have come
, to the top. When God take3 away the head
of the household He very often gives to some
lad in that household a special qualification.
Christ remember how that His own father
lied early, leaving Him to support Himself .
and His mother and Hi& brothers in
the carpenter's shop at Nazareth,
and lie is in sympathy with
all boys and all young men in the struggle.
You say : "Oh, if my father - had only lived I
would have had a better education and I
would have had a more promising start, and
there are some wrinkles on my brow that
would not have been there."- But I have no
ticed that God makes a special way for or
phans. ; You would not have been half the
man you are if you had , not been obliged
from your early days to fight your own bat-
ties. What other boys got out of Yale or
Harvard you got in the University of Hard
Knocks. Go among successful merchants,
lawyers, physicians and men of all 'occupa
tions and professions, and there are many of
them who will tell you: "At ten. or twelve, or
fifteen years of age I started for myself;
father was -sick, or father was dead."
But somehow they got through and
got i'p. I account for it by the fact that .
W-rt is a special dispensation of God for '
orphans. All hail, the fatherless and the
motherless! The Lord Almighty will see
you through. Early obstacles for Mr. Grady
were only the means for development of his
intellect and heart. And lq I when at thirty
nine years of age he put down his pen and
closed his lips for the perpetual silence, he
had done a work which many a man who
lives on to sixty and seventy and eighty
years never accomplishes. There is a great
deal of senseless praise of longevity, as
though it were a wonderful achievement to
live a good while. Ab, my friends, it is not
bow long we live, but how well we live and
how usefully we live. A man who live to
eighty years and accomplishes nothing for
God or humanity might better have never
lived it all Methusaleh lived nine hundred
and sixty-nine years, and what did it
amount tor In all those more than nine
centuries he did not accomplish anything
which seemed worth record.- Paul, lived
only a little more than sixty, but how many
Metfausalehs would it take to make one Paul?
Who would noV rather have Paul's sixty
years than Methusaleh's nine hundred and
sixty-nine Robert McCheyne died at thirty .
years of age and John Sommerfield at
twenty-seven. years of age, but neither earth
nor- heaven will ever hear the end of their
usefulness. Longevity 1 Why, an elephant
can- beat you at that, for it lives a hundred
and Jlttf and two hundred years. Gray
hairs are the blossoms of the tree of life if
found in the. way of righteousness, but the
frost of the second death if found in the
way of sin. - ' , .
One of our able New Tork journals last
spring printed a question and sent it to many
poonie and among others to myself: "Can
the'editor of a secular -journal be a Chris
taior1' Some of the newspapers answered:
No. I answered: Yes; ana lest you may
nt understand me I say: Yes, again. Sum
mer before last, riding with Mr. Grady from
a religious meeting in Georgia on Sunday
night, he said to me some things which 1 now
reveal for the first time because it is appro
priate now that I reveal them. He expressed
his complete faith in the' Gospel and ex
pressed nis astonishment and his grief that
In our day so many young men were re
jecting Christianity. From the earnest-,
new and the tenderness and the con
fidence with which he spoke on these
things I concluded that when ' Henry
W. -Grady made public profession of his faith
In Christ and took his place at the holy com
munion in the Methodist Church, he was
honest and truly Christian." That conversa
tion that Sunday night, first in the carriage
and then resumed in the hotel, Impressed me
in such a way that when I simply heard of
tug departure witnout any of the particu
lar, 1 concluded that he was ready to go. - I
warrant there was no fright in the last exi
gency,, but that he found what is com
monly called "the last enomy" a good
friend, and from his home on earth he
went to a home in heaven. Yes, Mr.
Grady not only demonstrated that an editor
may be a Christian, but that a very great in
tellect may be gcspeUzed. His mental capa
city was so wonderful it was almost start
ling. I have been with him in active conver
sion while at the same time, he was dicta
ting to a stenographer his editorials for the
Atlanta Constitution. But that intellect was
not ashamed to bow to Christ. Among his
last dying utterances was a request for the
prayers of the churches in his behalf.
There was that particular quality in him
that you do not find in more than one person
out of hundreds of thousands namely, per-:
sonal magnetism. People have tried to de
fine that quality, and always failed, yet we
have all felt its power. There are some per
sons who have only to enter a room or step
upon a platform or into a pulpit and you are
thrilled by their presence, and when they
speak your nature responds and you cannot
help it. What is the peculiar influence with
which such a magnetic person takes hold of
social grouos and audiences? Without at
tempting to define this, which is inde
finable, I will say it seems to correspond to
the waves of air set in motion by the voice or
the movements of the body. Just like that
atmospheric vibration is the moral or spirit
ual vibration which rolls out from the
soul of what we call a magnetic person.
As there mav be a cord or rone binding hnH-
ies together, there may be an invisible cord
binding souls. A magnetic man throws it
over others as a hunter throws a lasso. Mr.
Urady was surcharged with this influence,
and it was employed for patriotism and
Christianity and elevated purposes.
uu may not Know wny, in tne conversa
tion which I had with Mr. Gladstone a few
weeks ago, he uttered . these memorable
words about Christianity, some of which
were cabled to America. He was speaking
in reply to this remark: I said, "Mr. Glad
stone, we are told in America by some people
that Christianity does very well for weak
minded men and children in the infant class,
but it is not fit for stronger minded men;
but when we mention you, of Buch large in
tellectuality, as being a pronounced friend
of relitrion, we silence their Latteries." Then
Mr. Gladstone stopped on the hillside
where we were - exercising and said:
"The older I erow. the mora confirmed I am
jn my faith in religion." . "Sir," said he, with
flashing eye and uplifted hand, "talk about
the questions of the day, there is bat one
question, and that is the Gospel. That can
and will correct everything. Do you have
any of that dreadful agnosticism in Ameri
ca?" Having told him we had, he went on
to say: "I am profoundly thankful that
none of my children or kindred have been
blasted by it. I am glad to say that about all
the men at the too in Great Britain are
Christians. Why, "sir," he said, "I have
been in public position flftr-eight years,
and forty-seven years in the Cabinet of the
British Government, and during those forty
ieven years I have been associated with
uxty of the master minds of the century,
and all but five of the sixty were Christians."
He then named the four leading physicians
and surgeons of his country, calling them by
name and remarking upon the high qualities
if each of them and added: "They are all
thoroughly Christian." My friends, I think
it win do quite respectable for a little longer
to be tba friends of religion. William E.
Gladstone, a Christian; Henry W. Grady, a
Christian. What the greatest of English
men said of England is true of America and
sf ail Christendon. The men at the top are
the friends of God and believers in the sanc
tities of religion, the most eminent of the
lawyers, the most eminent of the doctors,
the most eminent of the merchants, and
there are no better men in all our land than
some of those who sit in editorial chairs.
And if that does not correspond with your
acquaintanceship, I am sorry that you
have fallen into bad company. In an
swer to the question put last spring,
"Can a secular journalist be a Chris
tian?" I not only answer in the affirmative,
but I assert that so great are the responsibil
ities of that profession, so infinite and
eternal tho consequences of their obedience
or ' disobedienca of the. words of my text,
"Take thee a great roll, and write in it with
a man's pen," and so many are the surround
ing temptations that the men of no other
profession more deeply need the defenses and
the re-enforcements of tho grace of God.
And then look at the opportunities of jour
nalism. I praise the pulpit and magnify my
office, but Istate a fact which you all know
when I say that where the pulpit touches one
person the press touches five nundred. Tho
vast majority of people do not go to church,
but all intelligent people read the newspa
pers. While, therefore, the responsibility of
the ministers is great, the responsibility of
editors and reporters is greater. Come, broth
er journalists, and get your ordination, not
by the laying on of human hands, but by the
laying on of the hands of the Almighty. To you
is committed the precious reputation of men
and the more precious reputation of women.
Spread before our children an elevated lit
erature. Make sin appear 'disgusting and
virtue admirable. Believe good rather
than evil. While you show up the
hypocrisies of the church, show up the stu
pendous hypocrisies outside the church. Be
not, as some of you are. the mere echoes of
public opinion; make public opinion. Let
the great roll on which -you write with a
man's pen bea message of light and liberty
and kindness and an awakening of moral
power. But who is sufficient for these thingsf
Not one of you without divine help. But get
that influence and the editors and reporters
can go up and take this world for God and
the truth. The mightest opportunity in all
the world for usefulness to-day is open be
fore editors and reporters and publishers,
whether of knowledge on foot, as in the book,
or knowledge on the wing, as in the news
paper. I pray God, men. of the newspaper
press, whether you bear or read this sermon,
that you may rise up to your full opportunity
and that you may be divinely helped and res
cued and blessed. , .
Some one might say to me: "How can you
talk thus of the newspaper press, when you
yourself have sometimes been unfairly treated
and misrepresented?" I answer that in the
opportunity the newspaper press of this
country and other countries have given mo
week by week to preach the Gospel ' to the
cations, I am put under so much obligation
that I defy all editors and reporters: the
world over to write anything that shall call
forth from me one word of bitter retort from
now till the day of my death, My opinion is,
that all reformers and religious teachers, in
stead of spending so much time and energy
in denouncing the press, had better spend
more time in thanking them lor what they
have done for (he world' intelligence and de
claring their magnificent opportunity, .and.
urging their employment of it all for benefi
cent aud righteous purposes.
Again, I remark that Henry W. Grady
stood fdr Christian patriotism irrespective of
political spoils.' He declined all official' re
ward, ti He could Jiave been Governor of
Georgia, but refused it. He could have been
Senator of the United States, but declined it.
He remained plain Mr. Grady. Nearly all
the other orators of the political arena, as
soon as the elections are oyer, go to Wash
ington, or Albany, or Harrisburg, or At
lanta, to get in city or State or National
olflce reward for their services, and not get
tin? what they want spend the rest of the
time of that administration in pouting about
the management of public affairs or cursing
Harrison or Cleveland. When the great
political campaigns - were over Mr. Grady
went home to his newspaper. He demon
strated that it is possible to
toil for principles which he thought to be
right, simply because they were right.
Christian patriotism is too rare a commodity
in this country. Surely the joy of living
under such free institutions as those estab
lished here ought to be enough reward for
political fidelity. Among all the great writ
ers that stood at the last Presidential elec
tion on Democratic ami Republican plat
forms, you cannot recall in your mind ten
who wvre not theniselv looking for remu
nerath -j appointments. Aye, you can count
them all on the fingers of one hand. The
most illustrious specimen of that style r
man for Ihe last ten years was Henry W.
Grady.
Again, Mr. Grady stood for the new south
and was just what we want to meet three
other men, one to speak for the new north,
another for the new east and another for the
new west. The bravest speech made for the
last quarter of a century was that made -by
Mr. Grady at the 2 Tew England dinner in
New York about two or three years ago. . I
sat with him that evening and know some
thing of bis anxieties, for he was to tread on
dangerous ground and might by one mis
spoken word have antagonized forever both
sections. - His speech was a . victory that
thrilled all of us who heard him and all who
read him. That speech, great for wisdom,
great for kindness, great for pacification,
great for bravery, will go down to the gene
rations with Webster's speech at Bunker
Hill, William Wirt's speech at the arraign
ment of Aaron Burr. Edmund Burke's
speech on Warren Hastings, Robert Emmet's
speech for his own vindication.
Who will in conspicuous action represent
the new north as he did the new south? Who
shall come forth for the new east and who
for the new west? Let old political issues be
buried, let old grudges die. Let new theories
be launched. With the coming in of a new
nation at the gates of Castle Garden every
J rear, and the wheat biu and corn crib of our
and enlarged with every harvest, and avast
multitude of our population still plunged in
illiteracy to be educated, and moral ques
tions abroad involving the very existence of
our Republic, let the old political platforms
that are worm-eaten be dropped and plat
forms that shall be made of two planks, the
one the Ten Conunandmsntsand the other the
Sermon on the Mount, lifted for all of us to
stand onT But there "is" a lot of old-politicians
grumbling all around the sky who don't
want a new south, a new north, a new east or
a new west. They have some old war
speeches that they prepared in 1861, that in
ail our autumnal elections they feel called
upon to inflict upon the country. Thoy growl
louder and louder in proportion as they are
Sighed back further and further ind the
enry W. Gradys come to the fro at. But
the mandate, I think, has gone forth from
the throne ot Uod that a new Amer ican na
tion shall take the place of the old, and the
new has been baptized for God and liberty
and justice and peace and morality and re
ligion. -
And now our much lamented friend has
gone to give account. Suddenly the facile
and potent pen is laid down and the eloquent
tongue is silent. What? Is there no safe
guard against fatal disease The impersona
tion of stout health was Mr. Grady. What
ompactaes of muscle! What ruddy com-
Elexioul. What flashing eye! Standing with
im in a group of twenty or thirty persons at
Piedmont, he looked the healthiest as his
spirits were the blithest. Shall we never feel
again the hearty grasp of his hand or be
magnetized with his eloquence? Men of the
great roll, men of the pen, men of wit, men
of power, if our friend had to go when the
calf came, so must you when your call
comes. When God asks you what have you
done with your pen or your eloquence or your
wealth or your social position, will you be able
to give satisfactory answer? What have we
been writing all these years? If mirth, has
it been innocent mirth, or that which tears
and stings and lacerates? From our pen
have there come forth productions healthy
or poisonous? In the last great day when
the warrior must give account of what he
has done with his sword, and the merchant
what he has done with his yard stick,
and the mason what he has done with
his trowel, and the artist what he has
done with his pencil, we shall hava to give
account of what we nave done with our pen.
There are gold pens and diamond pens and
pens of exquisite manufacture, and every few
weeks I see some new kind of pen, each said
to be better than the other; but in the great
day of our arraignment before the Judge of
quick and dead that will be the most beauti
ful pen, whether gold or steel or quill, which
never wrote a profane or unclean or cruel
word.'1 or which from the day it was carved.
or split at the nib, dropped from its point
kindness and encouragement and help and
gratitude to Uod and benediction lor man.
May God comfort that torn up Southern
home and all the homes of this country and
of all the world which have been swept
by , this plague of -influenza, which has
deepened sometimes into pneumonia, and
sometimes into typhus, and the victims of
which are counted by the ten thousand 1 Sa
tan, who is the "Prince of the Power of the
Air." has been poisoning the atmosphere in all
nations. Though it is the first time in our re
membrance, he has done the same thing be
fore. In 169S the unwholesome air of Cairo,
Egypt, destroyed the life of ten thou
sand in one day, and in Constantinople in
1714 three hundred thousand people died of it.
I am glad that by the better sanitation of our
cities and wider understanding of hygienic
laws and the greater skill of physicians these
Apollyonic assaults upon the human race are
being resisted, but pestilential atmosphere is
still abroad. Hardly a family here but has
felt its lighter or heavier touch. Some of
the best of my flock fell under jts
power, and many homes -here t repre
sented have been crushed. ..The fact u
tne biggest failure in the universe is this
world if there be no heaven bevond. But
there is, and the friends who have-gone there
are many and very dear. O tearful eyes,,
look up to the hills crimsoning wfth eternal
morn!... That reunion kiss wul more than
make up for the parting kiss, and the wel
come wall obliterate the good-bye. "The
Lamb which is in the midst of the throne '
shall lead them to living fountains tf water
and God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes." Till then, O depastec
loved ones, promise us that you will
remember us, as we promise to remember
you. And some of you gone up from this
city by the sea and others from under
southern skies, and others from the homes o'
the more rigorous north and some from th
cabins on the great western farms, we sbal
meet again when our pen has written its las:
word and our arm nas done its test day'
work and our lips have spoken the last ad eu.
And now, thou great and magnificent soul
of editor and orator! under brighter skies
we shall meet again. 'From God thou earnest,
and to God thou bast returned. Not broken
down, but ascended. Not collapsed, but irra
diated. Enthroned one! Coroneted one!
Sceptered one I Emparadised one! HaL
and fare welll .
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
The Czir of Russia, it is said, Is an expert
violinist.
' Rev. Sam Jones is going to turn farmer in
Eminence, Ky.
President Harrison is said to have become
interested in Ibsen's social dramas.
Squire Massie Beasley, of Aberdeen, O.,
has married 4070 couples in nineteen years.
M. Pasteur is said to be suffering from
paralysis, which is slowly but surely stealing
over him.
Lord Woleley is not popular with the royal
family of England. The Queen especially
dislikes him.
Dr. McCoeh, it is said, is not likely to de
liver any lectures in Princeton after the
present term.
Ex-Governor Sawyer, of New Hampshire,
has gone to the Soutn for a few weeks for tho
good of bis health.
Ex Queen Natalie has ordered $100,000
worth of furniture from Russia for her new
house in Belgrade.
Carl Rosa's memorial is to take the form of
a sick fund for members of the Carl Rosa
English Opera Company. ,
H. F. DeBordeleben, a merchant of B'r
mingbam, whose wealth is estimated at $8,
000,000, is the richest man in Alabama.
Chief-Justice Morton, of the Massachusetts
Supreme Court, is regaining health, and
hopes to be on the bench again next week.
; " John Burns, the leader of the London dock
stike, is coming to this country for a short
rtst, and to study the labor problem here.
Dr. R. D. Po ell, senior, of the three "phy
sicians extraordinary" to Queen Victoria, is
to succeed the late Sir William Gall as physi
cian inordinary.
Baron Lamington, whose death Is an
nounced at the age of 74, was father of the
Countess of Delaware and Marchioness Fran
cesco Nobile Vitiieschi.
F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, is pro
ficient in ten languages German, French,
Italian, L it in. Greek, Sanscrit, Arabic, Per
sian, Russian and Turkish.
Monsignor Capel has been living for four
years in retirement on a Calitornia ranch
engag-d in literary work, the result of which
will be made public shortly.
' Vice-Admiral Borgasse du Petit-Thouars,
of France, gave a banquet to the officers of
the American Squadrou of Evolution aboard
his flagship at Ville-Francbe.
Princess Victoria of Prussia, who is to re
ceive an a lowance of $40,000 a year to live in
England, has been on bad terms with her
brother, the Emperor, for several years.
Mrs. Spooler, wife of the Senator from
Wisconsin, is one of the pleasantest of the
ladies in the Senatorial circle of Washing
ton. She has dark hair and eyes and possesses
an excellent education in music.
Mr. Spurgeon has just issued the thirty
fifth volume of his sermons, and from this it
appears that he has put into print no fewer
than 2100 of these discourses. The weekly
sermon has been published continuously sine
1855.
M Nicolini-Patti, the stepson of Adelina
Patti, has obtained an engagement as first
tenor at the Paris Grand Opera House. He
has been trained by the diva herself and will
make bi debut in a few days as Manrioo in
"Trovatore."
Busyhead.the Cherokee chief, now in Wash
ington, is tall, with a brown skin, but with
the features of a Caucasian. .It is said
that be is not more than one-eight In
dian. Some years ago he married a nieoe of
Senator Butler, of South Carolina.
Miss F.orence Firmstone, daughter of a
Wincbester.Englaad, clergyman, nas cleared
her father's church of a debt of SW0 by solic
iting shilling subscriptions from people in all
parts ot the country uy mail She wrote per
sonal letters in all cases, anl the magnitude
of the task will be appreciated when it is re
membered 18,030 successful letters had to be
written.
' Minister Phelps and bis family have moved
from Kaiserbot, Berlin, into their new house,
67 Dorotheen Strasse. The former residence
ot the American Minister did not afford suf
ficent accommodation for entertainments
and Mr. Phelps says the reason of his removal
was to get rid the quicker of his friends; that
in case of crowded receptions, one door might
be used to welcome the coming and another
to spte 1 the parting guest.
TRAGEDY I iTrT CEMETERY.
Grave Robbers Fired Upon - Oa of
Them Killed.
, While a storm was at its height shortly
after midnight a terrible tragedy took place
in the Northern Cemetery, at New Albany,
Ky. A party of grave robbers were sur
prised in the act of desecrating the resting
places of the dead, and one of tbem was in
stantly killed. Three, otb-ra were arrested
and placed in jail, but a fifth one escaped.
The party consisted of three LouUvi)l phy
sicians Dr. J. T. Blackburn, Dr. W. E.
Grant and another whoa name is unknown
and colored ats'stants. They had gone over
to steal the bodies of Thomas Johnson and
Edward Pearce, which were buried last week,
and deliberately p anned the affair. A little
carelessness, however, spoiled everything
and led to the death of one of the negro
helpers, whose name is unknown. The plot
had been given away to the ofaaent by a boy
named Peebles, who took a bribe and pointed
out the grave to the officer of the cemetery.
When the ghouls arrived at the grave of
Johnson, a voice called out: "Throw np your
bands."
Taken by surprise, the men started to ran.
and as tbey did so a volley was fired and one
of them fell. As be dropped to the ground
the lightning flashed on a pistol be had half
drawn, but be bad not the strength to use it,
and died without a struggle. The guards
olo;ed quickly around the - men aod made
them prisoners and took toetn-to jaiL
A CAN Air BOAT .DISASTER.
Biasing-fU Thrown Over the Inmates
ol a Cabin by nu Explosion.
By the explosion of a lamp in the cabin of
canal boat, the A. Chandler, of New York
Central Railroad, ljlnfe: at tbe'fobt ot West
Sixtieth Street, Dennis Daily, three years
old, the son of Captain Patrick Daily, was
burned to death, and Captain Daily, his wife
Ellen, and two other children, were so
severely burned.that they had to be taken to
the hospital. ,
An Astrol oil lamp was sucoonded from
the centre of the cabin, and about half an
hour before midnight this exploded, scatter
ing the burning oil over the sleeping Inmates '
and setting the cabin on fire. Several canal '
boatmen cams to the rescue, took oat the I
children and put oat the fire, and notified the ,
Roosevelt Hospital authorities, who sent am- i
bnlanccs for the injured people. Tho boy ,
D-nnls died in a few hours afterwards. The
other two boys are badly burned too, and
two girls were also injured.
THE NEWS,
Mary Frances Keller, aged nineteen year,
seeks a divorce in the Wisconsin courts from
her eighty-year-old husband. Vincent
Libes and Henry Simmonds engaged la a
terrifio slugging match at Akron, O., over
a girL The proposed site in Chicago for
the World's Fair will be In :Lako Front
Park, on grounds twenty-two acres larger
than the Paris site. -W. H. Harris' dis
tillery at Louisville, Ky., was burned. 'Lost
$15,000. George Clark was banged at
Waynesburg, Pa. for the murder of Wm.
McCauseland. David Willoughby.a mem
ber of the town council of London, O., was
arrested on the charge of attempting to
blow up a safe In a hotel and being impli
cated in a plot to rob. Mrs. J. S. Doss was
nearly killed at Chippewa Falls, Wis., by
an explosion In her kitchen stove, which she
suspects was caused by her husband, from
whom she has been separated for some tinv,
The wife of Rev. Dr. Robert Lowry, the
widely-known writer of sacred music, died
at her home in Plainfleld, N. J. Dr. Mar
tin B. Anderson, ex-president of the Univer
sity of Rochester, N. Y., died at Lake Helen,
Florida. Mrs. Sarah A. Hoan, aged fifty
eight years, of Roanoke, Va., was struck by
a railroad train and killed. By tha break
ing of a track of a passenger coach on an
east bound passenger train on the Norfolk
and Western Railroad at Roanoke, Va., a
number of passengers were injured. The
French steamer Nautiqus, from Havre for
Baltimore, in ballast, was abandoned at sea
in a sinking condition. The entire rubber
businessof the country has been formed into
a trust company. At a large meeting of
the corn millers at Indianapolis the Pennsyl
vania and the Baltimore and Ohio Companies,
were deroinced for alleged discrimination
in corn rates. A petition is being circu-i
lated among stockholders of the Reading
Railroad asking tha removal of Austin Cor
bin from the presidency, because of his in
terest in a rival corporation. John Cald
well, who fought in the war of 1S12 and in
tha Indian war, died at the Soldiers' Home,
in Kearney, N. J. , aged one hundred and six
years.
Charles Hanley anllvlll'i'am Dodson were
suffocated by gas in a crossing watchhouse
of the Vandalia Road at Terre Haute, Ind.
The Kearney, Hutchinson and Gulf Rail
way has been chartered to construct a road
900 miles in length across the state of Kan
sas, and to connect with the Union Pacific.
Treasurer Fiynn.of Caster sounty.S.D.,
is charged with being a defaulter to the ex
tent of 113,000. Hundreds of people are
gathering on the Southern border of Kansas,
prepared to cross to the Cherokee Strip when
the President shall declare it open. The
Merrimac Glove Factory at Warner, N. IL,
was burned. Loss $40,000. A party of
grave robbers were surprised by the police
in a Louisville cemetery, and one killed and
two captured. A terriffio storm passed
over Southern Kentucky, destroying thous
ands of pounds of tobacco. Tha one hun
dred and first annual meeting of the Penn
sylvania Conference of the United Brethren
Church opened in Chambersburg, Pa.
George Wheeler was arrested in New York
charged witb passing counterfeit coin.
During a raid on a distillery by revenue offi
cers near ;HilIsboro, N. G, Revenue Agent
S. Kirkpatrick received a dangerous w ounl
and a negro belonging to the distillery we s
shot and killed. The Atlantic Coastlino
system proposes consolidating a number of
Southern roads, A tornado swept over
Northern Texas, blowing down the Masonic
Hall and other buildings in Gainesville.
The funeral of John Jacob Astor in New
York was devoid of any display, the remains
being laid beside those of Mrs. Astor in Trin
ity Cemetery. Bernard O'Brien, of Pitts
ton, Pa., was kicked to death by a horse.
The B. & O. and Pittsburg and Western
Railroad Companies are about to establish
an extensive lake and rail line. A number
of tenants were evicted from the land of the
Graff-Bennett iron works, near Pittsburg.
A bill for a railroad to run from Norfolk,
Va., to New Mexico, there to connect with
the Atchison and Topeka road, was reported
in the Virginia Legislature. A mail train
on the Evansville and Terre Haute road went
through a bridge near Vincennes, Ind. The
engineer and fireman were killed and several
passengers injured.
The Women's National Liberal Union, now
meeting in Washington, is not in harmony
with the W. C. T. U. Secretary Tracy
will not again occupy his burnt residence.
Secretary Windom appeared before the
House committee and explained his silver
bilL John H. Browne committed suicide
in Syracuse, N. Y., having separated from
his wife through his mother's objections to
their marriage. The Superior Ice Com.
pany's building,' at Ashland, Wis., collapsed,
fatally injuring one man and seriously in
juring several others. Tbo Governor of
Pennsylvania has named a commission to
locate definitely the boundary line between
Delaware and Pennsylvania, A boiler in
the bath-room ot the barber shop ot Boll &
Nagie, at Big Rapids, Mich., exploded,
fatally Injuring one man and stunning
another who was taking a bath at the time.
r Stockdale Jackson, of East Liverpool,
O., took poison in mistake for medicine.
Fire St Dubuque. Iowa, did $50,000 damage
to the-Globe building. Duncan C Harri
son, leading man of the "Paymaster" com
paay, bow playing in Chicago, was stabbed
by H. Drinker, another actor .The manu
facture of sugar from sorghum is becoming
a great industry in Kansas. Capt. James
H. Merryman, of the United States revenue
service, died at Eagle wood, N. J. Ths
first Slavist convention in the United States
was held ia Allegheny City, the object being
to form a national organization for ths pur
pose of looking after the interests of the
Hungarians in all parts of the country.
Thirty-two prisoners have broken oat of the
New Castle, DeL, jail during the past four
months. "
STORMS ETHEIEST.
Railroads and Other Property
Badly Damaged. , -
Ca Mains Torn Away In Iay ton. O.
Tobacco Rained in Kentucky
Hurricanes In Texas
, A terrfic electric storm, with heavy ralo,i
fi oded the river at Dayton, Ohio. Ripraps
and levees were slashed out and a 10-inch
natural gas main was torn away.
The water of the creek shot into the air
like a geysarand a column of gas represent
ing black smoke ascended 200 feet, terrify lng
the people. The injury to the gas main shuts,
out the west side from fuel for heating and
cooking purposes. .j
, Indianapolis, Ind. Considerable dam
age bas been done to railroad property all1
over Iadiana by heavy rains. In this city
and vicinity several small bridges have been
washed away.
- The Evansville and Terre Haute bridge
over Est River is so weakened that even foot
men are not permitted on it. Franklin is
practically cm off from railroad communi
cation. .
The Pan Handle bridge over the Mad River,
this side ot Columbus, O., was washed out'
and trains on that division are compelled to
go around over the Lictla Miami road.
At Laura, on the eastern division of the
O. Li. & W. road, a passenger train came
tbrougu water so deep that it put out the fire
uuier the boiler. A freight train tried to
lollow soon after, but was too late, and sev
eral cars were wrcited. Jmt north ot Vin
cennes ia Kelso's Cref k. It washed out 150
feet of t ie Indianapolis and V.noennes track.
Lima. O There are heavy damages here
from a fliod. Many county bridges were
swept away, and also the railroad bridges
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day too..
AugltiBe River, running through Lima, was
overflowing at nine o'clock, causing conster
nation among farmers and small towns.
Ddinase to bouses an 1 crops is reported.
KOPKI.VSVIIXK, KY One of the most vio
lent una d'stru.tive storm j ever known in
Southern Kentucky passsd over this sac to J,,
destroying several houses and doing great
injury to property.
la the vicinity of Bell view, a village south
of this city, six tobacco barns with all their,
contents were destroyed, and a dozm bouses
were unroofed and blown down. The loss
is estimated at J2 LOW. a : . '- .
The rain fell in torrents and the wind blew
a perfect cyclone over this city, doing great
damage. The river at this place is almost
out of its banks, b i-ig tirher than known
before in yearr. F.ve thousand pounds of
tobacco h ve been destroyed.
Ht Locis, Mo. A special to the rost Dis
patch says a terr ble hurricane swept over a
pare of Northern Texas. ' lb. j Masonic Hall,
in Gainsvilie was lorn to p.eces, the court-
house unroofed, the Santa Fe railroad depot
wrecked and 20 buildings blown down. Sev
eral persons were injured. . .-
Cakso.v, Key. Tnere was a terrible storm
at Lake Tahoe. S nail cratta were smashed
to pieces, the wharves ssverely shaken and
are almost unsafe. Tha force of the wind
was such that trees, nous s and woodpiles
Were blown to pieces. The snow is dritting,
along tho road here, covering thj station
houses aud burryiug logging camps.
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES;
i Martin and Hugh Bralnered, brothers, were
killed by the fall of a ccaffold in the Mollie
?ibsou Mine, at Aspen, Colorado..
Marcus Marx, a member of a wholesale
clothing firm in Chicago, was fatally Injured
by falling 73 feet down the elevator shaft of
their building,
A large vat used for boiling cotton in the
dye bouse of the Palmer mill at Three Rivers,
Massachusetts, exploded. Three men were
severely scalded.
George Bailey, Norman Sthofleld and
Frank Fairchild, boys, were drowned in Sil
ver Lake, at Port Dover, Oatario, by the ice
breaking while they were skating.
A telegram from San Antonio, Texas, says
that late reports from the small-pox d stricts
along the Rio Grande show an appalling mor
tality list on a ranch in Duval county, where
14? out of 150 employes were stricken with
the disease and 65 of the number died. There
is a scarcity of physicians and nuries.
The engine and bazsaze car of a Dassenier
train plunged through a bridge over Chls
holm Creek, near Wichita, Kansas, the other
morning. The passenger coaches were left
on the brink. Road Master Peters was killed,
and a number of others were injured. The
support of the bridge had been burned away
during the night, supposed by tramps.
An explosion of dynamite cartridges oc
curred at William Taylor's home, at Philips
burg, New Jersey. The house was wrecked,
the lurniture destroyed and Mr. and Mrs.
Taylor and their two children seriouily In
jured. A boarder had placed the cartridges
in the stove to dry and Mrs. Taylor, not
knowing they were there, shut the open door,
the jar causing the explosion. - '
Grant L. Davis, commercial traveller, wai
drowned in the Owasco outlet, near Auburn,
New York. The Lehigh Valley train sw pped
on the bridge near the New York Ceni ral
crossing, to allow a train to pass. Davis,
thinking the train was at the station, step
ped off the platform and fell 20 feat into the
water.
Mrs. L. W. Bradley, wife of a wealthy citl
K3n of Dubuque, Iowa, died suddenly a few
days ago under peculiar circumstances. . In
the morning she fell and Lroke fcer arm. A
surgeon wat sent for, and before proceeding
to set the arm administered chloroform.
Wnile at work upon the arm he discovered
that she wai sinking rapidly, and she soon .
died without recovering consciousness. It is
stated by the physician that an artificial
tooth, of which be was unaware, fell down
her throat and strangled her.
At tfoyonne. New Jersey, Policeman Wil
liam Hurley arrested Michael Joyce for vag
rancy and started with him for police head
quarters. To avoid attracting a crowd llur
ivy decided to walk part of the way on the
tracks of ths Central Railroad of New Jer
sey. A passing freight train caused tbem to
step upon the west-bound tracks directly in
front of an outgoing passenger train, which
they failed to notice until too late, to avoid
Ik Hurley was killed: Joyce escaped with
severe soalp wounds and bruises.
Ths dwelling or John Linton, in Kingston,
Ontario, was burned. Four of his children
were found dead in bed, having been suffo
cated by smoke. Mrs. Liston, after vuin ef
forts to arouse her children, jumped from a
second-story window with a babe in her arms.
Her leg was broken by the fall, but the baby .
was uninjured. Mr. Liston also made hereto
efforts to save the children, and only lei t the
building after he had been so severely burned
that he will probably die. The family num
bered seven children iu all, ihrre of whom
were rescued after being more or less burned.
Harry Burgess, a 10-year-old, living at
Martin, Alleghany county, Mich., cm draw
a caricature almost eijml to a Hast, and
Olive iuiam b years ou, living in tha
fame town, cn ruproducrt any iiH:ec! roujio
ts bears, uo tiuucr how iMik-ult.