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Published by Roaicom Pcbushiho Co, V "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.". Thomas Hcsojt, Svsihxss Makxoir VOL. 1. PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1890. NO. 18. - S" 4, , "A DBAD LION."- IlEY. DR. TAl,ff AOEM SVXD AY .'Preached the Aeartrmr of Knelt, 1 XSrofeUIjrn, Hv t. MHS 'til'.,-,- ., V ' ' '' cIaXTs "A Iw'ntf ap s better than a ifcatt lion." -Eccies, ix., 4. . The Biblo is the strangest, the loveliest, the mightiest the weirdest, the best of books. - Written by Moses the kwyer, Jonhua the soldier, Samuel the judge, Ezra the builder, J oh tha ooet. David the shepherd. Daniel the . prime minister, Amos the herdsman, Mat thew the custom nouse omcer, ojuko me uoo . , tor, Paul the scholar, .John. the exile; and . yet a complete harmony from the middle -, verse of the Bible, which is the eighth verse of the one hundred and seventeenth Psalm, . .both ways to the upper and lower lids, and from the shortest passage, which is the thir ' tv-flfth ' Terse of the eleventh chapter of ' John, to the longest verse, which is the ninth '. verse of ' the eighth chapter of Esther, and ' yet not an imperfection in all the 773,693 words which it is composed of. It not only reaches over the pastj but pver the future; has in it a ferryboat, as in second Samuel; ' and a telegraphic wire, as in Job; and a rail V road train, as in Nahum, and introduces us to a foundryman by the name of Tabul Cain. and a shinbuilder bv the name of Noah, and K - on . architect by the name of Aholiab, and ' tolls us how many stables Solomon baa to late care of his horses, and how much he paid for . those horses. But few thmgs in this versatile and comprehensive, book interest me so mucn v as its apothegms, those snort, terse, semen . ' tious. epizrammatio saylnes, of which my text is one: "A living dog is better than a oeadiion." :, , Here the Hon stands for nobility, and the dog for meanness. You must know that the ' dog mentioned in the text is not one of our American or European or Scottish dogs that, ' in our mind. Is a synonym for the beautiful : the graceful, the affectionate, the sagacious 4 and the true The St Bernard dog is a hero, and if you doubt it; ask the snows of the :.' Alps, out of which he picked the exhausted , traveler. The shepherd aog is a poem, ana - if vou doubt it. ask the Highland of Scot- 1 land. The Arctic dosr is the rescue of ex plorers, and if you doubt it, ask Dr.. Kane's . expedition.- iub wur-uuuj ua uui )u i ' teotion. and if vou doubt, it. ask ten thou- eand homesteads over - whose, safety he 1 i watched last night. But Solomon,uthe author . t fit o-v- livctfl in -Ynrnonlam ' nnH t.h cinir he speaks ol in tne text was a aog m Jerusa lem. ' i'' V: ' "V '- "' Last December I passed .days and nights , within a Btone's throw or wnere ooiomon wrote this text, and from what I saw of the canines of Jerusalem, by. day, and heard of them by night, 1 can understand the slight appreciation mv text ruts upon the dog of Palestine. - It is lean and snarly and disgust ing, and aimcted. with parasites, and takes re venge on the human race by filling the nights ' , 'j- with clamor.' All up and down the moie, tne - most of which was written in Palestine or (Syria, or contiguous lands, the dog is.lised in ,' contemptuous comparison. ! Hazael said: "Is ; . thy servant a dog, that he should do this 1 thing?" In self abnegation the Syro-Pboeni-' cian woman said: "Even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the Master's table." r Paul says, in Philippians: "Beware of dogs;" - and St, tfohn, epeaung oi neaven, says: ; "Without are dogs." ' .. On the other hand, - the lion is healthy, . strong, and loud voiced, and at its roar the forests echo and the mountains tremble. It is marvelous for strength, and when its hide " in removed the musovilar compactness is something wonderful, aad the knife of the : r ' dissector Lounds back from tbetandons.. By the clewing off of the forests of Palestine and the use of firearms, of which the lion is particularly afraid, they ; hava disappeared from . nlaces where onco they ransred, but v iney were very uuiu jn wiuou wui. iuoj ' attacked an army of Xerxes while marching that one thousand lions were siain in iony . ;i TPr in tlTB-Ttinthiteatre of Rome. The ' "Rorbary lion, the Cape lion, the Benegal lion, -' ' " tha Assyrian lion; make up a most absorbing : : und exciting chapter in natural history. As most of the Bible was written in regions lion haunted, this creature appears in almost 'all parts of the Bible as a simile. . . ' . -' - - David, understood; its habits, of nigat ' prowling and day slumbering, as is. seen from his description: 'The young lions roar after " their prey and seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather them- Selves together, and lay them down ia their - dens." And again ha cries out, J'My soul is ' among lions." r Moses knew them and said, "Judah is couched like a lion." . Sampson - knew them, tor he took honey f rota the car ." moil nt a Rlniii Jion. Solomon knew them and " ' eays, Tbe King's wrath is as the roar of a a lion,"-and again,',,The slothful man says, Y Vhereis a lion in the way," Isaiah knew i i nA S.1VK.': in the millennium. "The i' shall eat straw like an ox." Ezekiel iV'iiew them, and says, "The third was as tha rf face of a lion." 'Pul knew them, and says, ''I was delivered out of the mouth. of the Hon.". Peter knew 4 them, and, says, "The devil as a roaring Hon walketh about." St. John knew them, and says of Christ, ."Be hold the Lion of the tribe of JadahP . Now. what dos my text mean when it puts a living dbg and adead lion side by side, and says the former is better than the latter? It means that small faculties actively used are of more value than great faculties un employed. How often you see it Soma man with limited capacity vastly," useful. , He takes that,which God has given him and says: , "My mental endowment ia not large and the world would 'not rate me high for my intelligence! and my vocabulary is '' imited,-and ray education was defective, but here coes . what I have for God and salvation, ;'" makin!; of the world v good and happy." Ha " puts in a ; word here and .Word there, encourages a i faint hearted, man gives a Scripture passage in consolation to some bereft .woman, picks up-a child fallen in the street and help him brush oft the dust and puts a ' . five cent piece in his hand, telling him not to cry, so that the boy is singing before he gets round the ' corner; waiting on everybody that ha's a letter '. to carry or- a message to deliver; comes into a rail train, or stage ' coach, or depot, or shop, with a smiling face that nets everybody to thinking: "If that man can, with what appears small equip nienC in life, bo. happy, why cannot 1, pos Bessina far more than he has, be equally, happy?' One day, of that kind of doing thmgs may not amount to much, but forty years of thatno one but God Himself can appreciate its immensity. ' ' ; - ' There are tens Of thousands of such people. Their circle of acquaintance is small. The man is known over at tBe store. He is clerk or weipher or drayman, and he is known ' among those wha sit near him clear back in the church under the galleries, and at the ferry gates where lie comes in knocking the Bnow from his shot, and threshing his arms ' around his body to revive circulation, on Homo January raunv-!?. But if he shoidd die to-morrow thpne would not be a hundred rwople who would know about it. He will hevrr have his name in the newspapers but nocc, and that will - the announcement of hiii death, ir some tin-? will pay : for thein-ert-tion. to much a luw for tht two hnea. But h will come tip li-rwusdy on the other Bid', an'l thn God wl u has watched bun all through will s;ive Ismi a'hi'jher' seat fend a better mansion and a grander" eternity than tnany a man who bad on earth, before his namet the Word honorable, and after his name LL.D, and K H. 8. Christ said in Luke, the sixth chapter, that in heaven Bome who had It hard here would lauzh there, .. . And I think a laugh of delight and con gratulation wilt run around the heavenly circles when this humble one of whom t poke shall go up and take the precedence of many Christiana who in this world felt them-, lelves to be of ninety-nine per cent, more; importance. ' The whisper will go round the galleries of the tippsr temple: "Can "it be possible that that was. the weigher in oof itoref "Can it be possible that thatwaa the car-driver on our streetf. "Can it be possible that was the sexton of our churchf 'Can it be possible that is -the man that heaved coal into our cellar?" "I never uld have thought it. What a reversal of, 2iings I We were clear ahead of him on' Mrtti, but he is clear ahead of ua in heaven , IVhy. we - had i ten times more - brains ihan he had, wa had a thousand times more noney than he had, we had social position a 'nile higher than he had. we had innumer-. ible opportunities more than he bad, , but it eems now that he accomplished more with Ms one talent tbau we did with our ten,"T ivhile Solomou, standing nmong the thrones, Jverhears the whisper, and sees the wonder nent, and will, .with benignant andall-sug-testive smile, say. "Yeo, it. is as I told tha irorld many centuries ago better is small !aculty octivelv used than great talent un jmployed,, 'better is a living dog than a dead ion.'" --a-?- . The simple fact is that the world has been, indthe world ia now, full of dead lions. l"bey are people Of great capacity and largo pportunity, doing nothing for the improve ment of society, nothing for the overthrow if evil, nothing for the salvation , of souls. Bome of them are monetary lions.' They itave accumulated so many hundreds of thou tandsof dollars that you can feet their tread ivhen they walk through any street nrcome into any circle. ' They can by one financial novo upset the money market Instead of he ten per cent, of their income which the Bible lays down as the proper proportion of ihelr contribution to the cause of God, they Jo not giye five per cent., or three per cent.. r two per .cent,, or one per cent, or a half oer cent., or a Quarter per cent . That they re -lions, no one doubts. When they roar. Wall street, State street, LiomDara street ana the Bourse tremble. In a few years they will lie down and die. They will have a creat funeral, and a Ions row of fine carriages, and mightiest requiems will roll from the organ, and polished shaft f Aberdeen granite will indicate where their dust lies, but for all' use to the world that man might as well have never lived. As an experiment as to how much he can carry with him, put a ten cent piece in the palm of his ' dead . hand, r and, - five years after open the , tomb, . and , you will find ' he has dropped even1, the ten ' cent piece. A : lion ! Yes, " but a dead lion! He left all his treasures on earth, and has no treasures in heaven. , What shall the stone cutter put upon the obelisk over him? I eu7gest, let it be the man's name, then the date of his birth, then ' the date of bis -death, then the appropriate Bcripture passage: "'Betteris a living dog than a dead lion." r V r:f. But I thank God that .we are having jusi now an outburst of splendid beneficence that is to increase until the earth is girdled with it. It is spreading with the speed of an epi demic, but with just the opposite effect of an epidemic. - Do you not notice how wealthy men are opening free libraries and building churches in their native village? Have you not seen how men of large means, instead of leaving great philanthropies in . their wills for disappointed neirs to quarrel aooui and the orphan courts to swamp, are be coming their own ' executors and adminis trators? After putting aside enough for their families (for "he that provideth not for his own. and especially those of his own household, ' is worse than an infidel"), they are saving: "Whac can I do, not after I am dead, but while living and in full possession of my faculties, to properly direct the build ing of the churches, or the hospitals, or the colleges, or the libraries that I design for the public welfare.1 and while yet'I nave full capacity - to enjoy the satisfaction of seeing the zood accomplished?' There ar bad fash ions and good fashions, and, whether good or bad, fashions are mighty. ' ,-:"- One of the good fashions now starting will sweep the earth the fashion for wealthy men to distribute, while yet alive, their surplus accumulation. It is-being helped by the fact that so many large estates have, Im mediately Rafter the testator's death, gone into litigation. Attorneys with large fees are employed on both sides, and the case goes on month after month, and year after year, and after one court decides it ascends to an other court and is decided in the opposite direction, and then new evidence is found, and the trials are all repeated. The children. who at the father's funeral . seemed to have an uncontrolable grief, after the will is read go into elaborate process to prova that the father .was crazy, and therefore in competent to make a will; and there are men on the jury who think that the fact that the testator gave so much of his money to the Bible society, and the missionary society, or the opening of a free library is proof positive that he was insane, and that ne knew not what he was signing when he subscribed to the words: .; "In the name of God, amen. I, being of sound mind, do make this my last will and testament." : v ? The torn wills, the fraudulent wills, tn broken wills have recently besn made such a spectacle to angels aad to men that all over the land successful men are calling in archi tects and savine to them; ; How mucn would it cost for me fcj build a picture gak lery for our town?' or, "What plans can you draw me out for a concert ball?" or, "I am specially interested in the incurables,' and how large a building would aocommodat three hundred of' such- patients?" or, "Th church of God has been a great help to me all my life, and I want you to draw me a plan for a , church, commodious, beautiful, well ventilated, and with plenty of window! to let in the light; I want you to get right at work In making out plans of such a building, for, though I am well now, life is uncertain, and before I leave the world I want to se something done that will be an approprlat acknowledgment of the good cress of God to me and mina;. now when can I bear from your-- --4i " , : in our own city we have many examples m thia. i What a erandnur of beneficence hat our fellow citizen, Mr. Pratt, demonstrated, building educational institutions which will put their hands on the Nineteenth century, ana the Twentieth centnry and au tne cen turies! . All honor to such a man I Do not say so when he is dead, say it .now. It would b a good thiig if some of the eulojres we chisel on tombstones were written on paper in tim for the philanthropists to read them whili yet they are alive. Less post mortem praise, and more ante-mortem! . i - A poof Scotch lad came to America, at twelve years of age, and went to Pittsburg. He looked around for work, and became an. engineer in a ceUa-r, then rose to become telegraph messenger boy. then rosa to a posi tion in a railroad otnee, then rose to a place in telezranh offica. then rose to be superin tendent of a railroad, then rose till he became an iron and steel manufacturer, then rem until he opened frea libraries in his nativt lu:id and last month a free library in Aiie 'henv Citv. and now offers two million dot 1 ars for affree library in Pittsburg. This ex , ,r !.i will be catching until tiie earth; ft -jluUonije4.. - . , J. v 4 i 1 Row majestic such men in comparison with some I wot of, who amass wealth and clutch it with both hands until death begins to feel for their heart strings, and then they dictate to an attorney a last will and testa ment, in which they spits some daughter because she married against - her father's wish, and fling a few crusts to God and suf fering humanity, as much us to say: "I have kept this surplus property, through all these severe winters, and-through all these long years, from a needy and suffering world, and would keep it longer if I could, but as I mutt give it up, lake it, and much good may if" do you V Now we berfn to understand the text: "Better-is a living dog than adead lion." ' " ;'', . - Who would attempt to write the obituary of the dead lions of commerce, the dead lions of law, the dead lions of medicine, the dead lions of social influence? Vast capacity had they, and mighty range, and other men in their presence were as powerless as the an telope or heifer or giraffe when from the jnngle a Numidian lion springs upon its Erey. But they get through with life. They ivdown in their magnificent lair. They have made their last sharp bargain. They have spoken their last bard word. They have committed their last mean act. : When a tawny inhabitant of the desert rolls over helpless, the lioness and whelps fills the air with shrieks and howls, and lash themselves into lamentation, and it is a genuine grief for the poor things. But when this dead lion of monstrous uselessness expires, there is noth ing but dramatized woe, for "Better is a liv ing dog than a dead lion." ':" r ",'' '' l'-:"' My text also means that an opportunity of the living present is better than a great op portunity passed. We spend much of our time in saying: "If I only had." We can J all ' look back and see some occasion where ' we might have done a great deed, or might! have effected an - important rescue, or we might have dealt a stroke that would have accomplished a vast result. Through stupid ity or lack of appreciation of the crisis, or through procrastination, we let the chance go by. , How much time we have wasted in thinking of what we might have said or. might have done! We spend hours and days and years' in walking around that dead lion. We cannot resuscitate it. It will never open its eyes again. There will: never be another spring in its paw. - Dead as; any feline terror of South Africa, through whose heart thirty years ago Gordon Cum-! ming sent the slug. Don't let us give any. more time to the deploring of the dead past. There are other great opportunities remain-' ing. ; They may not be as great, but they are worthy our attention. Small opportunities all around, opportunities for the saying of kind words and doinz of kind deeds. Help lessness to be helped. Disheartened ones to be encourged. Lost onerf to be found. -Though the present may be insignificant as compared with the past, "Better is living dog than adead lion. , - The most useless and painful feeling is the one of regret - Repent of lost opportunities we must, and get pardon we may, but re grets weaken, dishearten and cripple for fu ture work. If a sea Captain who once had charge of a White Star steamer across the "Atlantic Ocean, one foggy night runs on a rock off Newfoundland, and passengers and ship perish, shall he refuse to take command of a small boat up the North River, and sayi "I never will go on the water again -unless I can run one of the White Star line V - Shall the engineer of a lightning express, who at the station misread the telegram of the train dispatcher and went into collision, and for that has been put down to the work of ensrineerinir on a freieht train, say: "I never will , again . mount - an engine un less I can run a vestibule express?" .Take what you have of opportunity left Do your , best with what remains. Your shortest win ter day is worth more to you than can be the longest day of a previous summer. Your opportunity now, as compared with previous opportunities, may . be small as a rat terrier compared with the lion which at Matabosa, fatally wounded by the gun of David Liv ingstone, in its death agony leaped upon the ,missionary explorer and with its jaws crushed jthe bone of his arm to splinters, and then 'rolled over and expired,; bu - '-Better is a ' living dog than a dead lion." : I My text also means that the condition of . !'ihe most wretched man alive is better than that of the most favored sinners departed. . I The chance of these last Is gone. Where they are they cannot make any earthly assets I available. After Charlemagne was dead, he was set in an ornamented sepulcher on a Jgolden throne, and a crown was put on hi cold brow, and a' scepter in his stiff hand, but that gave him no dominion in the next world. One of the most intensely interest ing things I saw last winter in Egypt v as Pharaoh of olden times, the very Pharaoh !who oppressed the Israelites. The inscrip tions on his sarcophagub' and the writing on 'bis mummy bandages prove beyond contro versy that he was the Pharaoh of Bible times. Ail the Egyptologists and the exploration '.agree that it is tne old scoundrel himself. .Visible are the Very teeth with which - be gnashed against the israeiitlsn Dries: makers. There, are the sockets of the merciless eyes with which he looked upon the overburdened people of God. ; There is the hair that floated jn the brease off the Red Sea. There are the very lips with which he commanded them to make bricks without straw. Thousands of years afterward, when the wrappings of th 'mummy were unrolled, old Pharoah lifted np liis arm as if in imploration, but his skinny bones cannot again clutch his; shattered .sceptre. He is a dead lion. And is not any 'man now living, in the fact that he has op jportunity of repentance and salvation, bettei ,off than any of those departed ones who, by authority or possessions of influence, wert 'positively leonine, and yet wicked? ' . - What a thing to congratulate you on is your life! Why, it is worth more than all the gems of the universe kindled into one - precious stone. I am alive I What does that 'mean? . Why, it means that I still have all opportunity of being saved myself and help ing others to be saved. To be alive! Why, it means that I have yet another chance to 'correct my past mistakes and make sure ,work for heaven. Alive, are we? Come, let us celebrate it by new resolutions, new self examination, new consecration and a new career. The smallest and most insignificant to-day is worth to us more than five hunded yesterdays. Taking advantage of the pres ent, let us get pardon for all the past and security for all the future. Where are our forgiven sins? I don't know, God don't know either. He says: "Your sins and in iquities will I remember no more." What encouragement in the text for all Christian workers! Despair of no one's sal vation. While there is life there is hope. When in England a young lady asked for a class in a Sunday-school, t he superintendent said, "Better go out on the street and get your own class." She brought in a ragged and. filthy boy. The superintendent gave him good 'appareL - In a few Sundays -ne absented himself. Inquiry discovered that in a street fight he bad his decent apparel torn off. P He was brought in and tC second , time respectably clad. After a few Sundays he again disappeared, and it was found that he was again ragged and wretched. "Then," said the -.teacher, "weenndo nothing with him.". - But the superintendent fitted him tip again and started him again. -v f After awhile the gospel took hold of him .and his heart changed. He started for the ministry and became a foreign missionary, and on heathen ground lived and translated the Scriptures, and preached.- until among the most illustrious narni-n of. the chnrch on earth hv iu heaven ist h . name of glorious i' liob'jrt Morrison. Go f'jr.h and save the losu" 'and remember however depraved, however .'ragged, and however filthy and undone a cnild is, or a man is, or a woman is, they are worth an effort. 1 would rather have theii opportunity than any that will ever be given .to those who lived in magnificent sin and . splendid unrighteousness and then wrap their gorgeous tapestry around them and without a ,prayer expired. , "Better is a living dog than a dead lion. In the great-day It will be found that the last shall be first. There are in 'the grog shops and in the haunts of iniquity to-day those who will yet be models of holiness and preach Christ to the people. In yonder group of young men who came here with no useful purpose, there is one who will yet live for Christ and perhaps die for him. In a pulpit stood a stranger preaching, and he saiii: ,"The last time 1 was in this church was fif teen years ago, and the circumstances were peculiar. Three young men had "come ex pecting to disturb the service, and they had stones in their pockets which they expected to hurl at the preacher. ' . One of the young men referred, to refused to take part in the assault, and the others, in disgust at his cow ardice, left the building. One of the three was hanged for forgery. Another is in prison, condemned to death for murder. I was the third, but the grace of God saved me." ; -t My hearers, give no one up, ; The ease may seem desperate, but the grace of God likes to undertake a dead lift. I proclaim it this day to all the people Free Grace! Living and dying, be that my theme--Free Grace I Sound it across the continent, sound it across the seas Free Grace ! Spell out those words in flowers, lift them in arches, build them in thrones, roll them in oratorios Free Gracdrt That will yet Edenize the earth andneonla heaven with nations redeemed. Free G race Salvation I Oh, the joyful sound, Tis pleasant to oar ears, i : A sovereign balm for every wound, . A cordial for our fears. Buried in sorrow ard In em At death's dark door we lays But wo arise by grace divine . . To se a heavenly day. . ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Emile Zsla's receipt from "Nana" alooe is ' stimated at $100,000. Walter Besant, the novelist, intands to visit this country nsxt Summer. : Generat Boulanger may shortly make a v.'sit to America, but not to leoture. Miss Emma Jucbhas purchased raal estate In nearly all the growing cities of th- North west ,..'., Archbishop Kenriok, of St Louis, now in his frith year, takes a dally walk of about six miles. , t- - , - --:"' . William Salmon, an' Enzlish physician, who will soon be 100 years old, is the oldejt l-Ttng physician. s - ; Frank B. Tracy, the son of the Secretary of the Navy, is an enthusiastic floe - stook raiser, and has a farm in Tioga county, N. Y. Priucs Marat is described as looking old and worried, which is not extraordinary when it is remembered-that he is a grand-: lather. . ' , , . ,",';' ;. - William Eudicott, of Boston, has just en tered bis 03J year. Ha is sole survivor of the seventh generation of John Eudicott' descendants..- . ; : Professor Samuel Green, who was killed on an iceboat at Ontario receutly, was a deaf mate, and an instructor in the institu tion for deaf mutes there. Miss Veazsy. dauzhter of the Interstate Commerce Commissioner, is named Anita Gettysburg. She was born on one of thi tiays of toe Gettysburg battle. Empress Eugenie still owns the ohatteau of A men berg, in Switzerland, given htr by the late Emperor of the French. There hi keep inaoy relics of her days of prosperity. . Justin McCarthy, has teen for some years an ardent and enthusiastio student of the period of the French Revolution, and it about, to publish the first instalment of bis Researches. :'':; or- v v. ;-;.v k , ...; ;,;:. Bronson Howard has been warmly received in England. Mrs. Humphrey Ward hai shown him a great deal of attention, and he has been invited to visit Andrew Lang, Mall Caine and other noted British men of letter ' . . " ? ' ' "M. Ernest Zola, inventor of the spring nippers, notifies hi customers that he ha nocuinr in common with his namesake. Entile Z Ma, writer," was the form of an ad vertisement in a newspaper, which set ail Paris laughing. ,. Q ieen Margherita of Italy, receives some cui.ous letters. One epistle from this couotiy asked her to send to tha writer a co. u piece collection of Italian postage stamps. Atioi her American requests Her Majesty to i or ward oue of her oast-off jewels. ' Hans von Bulow, the celebrated pianist, is knowu in putdio as the most quick-tempered conductor that ever yielded a baton, and in private as the moat genial, cultured and ur baue of men. His memory is enormous, an 1 he can conduct a complicated Chopin con cert without onoe looking at the score. Bishop Mackenzte.of Zulaland.who died on February 9th, of enteric fever, gav instruc tions previous to his demise that his corpse should te buried ia Zulu fashion. Accord ingly no co tan was used, but the body was tied up in a blanket in a kneellngr position, iiid was thus placed in a hole. . . Sir Henry Parks, the real founder of Britinb domination in Australia, is the poi lessor of a lucky sixpense. . It is the mouey wbica be earned by holding a hor9 whan he first stepped ashore from an emigraut t-bip at Sydney half a century ago, a friend -, Jess and penniless emigrant - He is-very proud of the ootn, which he always carries about him for luck. - . ' i , . Lotta is rated as the richest single woman in the world who has earned her own money. Her wise mother, who is an excellent woman of business, watches the markets and invest i the actres' fund as fast as aha receives them. The little "Marchioness" owns a hotel . in Boston, An appartment house in New York and other real estate ia Washington, Chicago and Long Branoh, besides stocks and bonds. Ituv. John Hall is unnecessari'y tall, and . fairly - bubbles '-over with .. fatherly counsel. He is Irish and preached in his na uv4 cjuntry until 18o7, wuen he was cUeJ' . to the pastorate of tha Fifth Avenue Presby terian Uhurcb, at New York, where ht -has since gathered about him one of the largest ' and vry wealthiest congregations in th United States, f . - - .,:. -,.' v .;"'." SHE WAS WEARY OF LIFE; ; A Young- Woman Commits Suicide ip aGraftyard.';;'-,,' A young woman was found dead in Utioa, N. Y in St ''Agnes Cemetery, with an empty laudanum vial near. The only name found was Mary L. E tgletfisld, and this was on an envelope containing a cibl net photo graph ot deceased, taken In Aloany. A note vs found worded a follows: " v "I have worked until I am tired ont. I have no right anywhere on earth. Won't soma ch iritablj persons bury ms without sroiof to a great expense? My brother is in Berlin, Wis. I have written him to pay for my burial without taking uiy body to Bing bamtoo. Bury me in the pos.tr'i fiild .iny wor only jay m- .Xo r-t.- V'ipo.I wUl sn-ccVin ehdlng "toy lite, and "not make a !."... jef It" PEOPLE IN THE TREES. Distressing Scenes on the Mis sissippi. Lowlands. -' ' ' ': " - " 1 i 1 " -V .. ' v- - Twenty Thonsnnd Acres Under Water, Thousands or People Destitute Cattle Starving-nnd bruwaing. Mr. J. J. Hogans, of tbe Memphis Commer eial, has arrived in St Louis direct from the Boo Jed district, along thi Mississippi river. Mr. Hoan ba just completed a tour of the devastated region. He says the situation is alarming, and that ia his opinion the flood has not reached tbe highest notch, I a th Laconia Circle, whic'j is situated la Desna county, Ark., and comprising about aO.OOO acrej, the scene is a heartrending on The 'trip of th country is now Inundate! to a depth of five to twjuty feet, and tbe inhabi tants, nuinberiug between two thousand and three thousan i people white and negroes women and children are perched on botue top and in thj trees. Lira stock not already, drowned are jniintaiuiug a precarious exis tence with tueir wretched owuers in some in stances on tbe roofs of residence and else where, on improvised platiorms of wreckage. Starvation is telling on the cattlj, while tha human victims are in scarodly lex deplora ble cOLdition as to food. From Helena tbe entire Mississippi delta country reaching from Vlcksturg west to Sbreveport, and down to New Orieacp, seemed doomed to de struction. Mn Uogan reports that a 1 tha people ia tbe wide district there are flieing for their liven. ;',;. .-.v :- ' -v- Vickbburq. Miss Litest returns from the Muiippi levers report no change, ex cept tbat t .e wot-r i steadily advauciog southward from S.cipwith crevasse, and th towns of Mayervii:e, Fitters and Hayes ar being surrounded, and muit go under la a short time. The steamer , Evergreen is in Irom a sec ind tr.p to Steei' Byou, going as far as the drift would admit in exploring tbe adjacent pi mt tons in skiffs. Her officers re port thai mey lcuud uo su l-riug; that cat tle and other st oa. had tn-eu , removed, and the people were safe. The bayou Is rising fast. Tbe bai? is caving rapidly in front of Bedford teveu, Mi-lison parish, tha caving being now wituiu seveoty-iive feet of the leve. Work beaa aad the sew levee may be finished before tbe old on goes into tha river, r The levee iuspectorr elsewhere in Louisiana report no change. Trains have been aoandoued between Greenville and Boi ling Fork, and in fact all train oa tbe river side division except from Greenville to Hampton, twenty-ei.bt miles, and between Coahoma aad Beuoit, sixty-five miles. This leaves Greenville withcut communication with the out-id world except by nrer. The situation oa the ' JUbwilppi Valley Railroad' main lias between Yhsoo river and Katunmeir is very s.-rious indeed. ' " ' Six iuches more of wt.'r will send tha Vicki-.urjC, Shreveport and Paeiflo Railroad under between Tabulab aud Like One. Tbe water is rising slowly, but it is very unlikely that the road can run train more than a week lunger, and additional crevasses may stop operations at any tinia. Mr. E W. Mo. Caue, contractor for bridges for the New Or.ean aud Northwestern Railroad, until lately In proo.es of construction between Vtdalia and Wiuusboro', L-u, arrived from Kayville, La. Ho says work b . been stopped, and the construction company now has its teams and men ,n Ray villa. The water rose live feet in Dry Bjyou, six miles from Ray villa, iu twenty four hours, and is now within half a mile of town. Greenville is now on an island. The town is ia the greatest uaauerof an overfljw, with little hopj of keeping out the water, though tbe levees are stiK standing. A despatch from Tailulaa, La,, says all farmt-rs east of that place are planting, while all West are uuder water. j! Hauka, Ark. Tud river stands 57.9 feet oa tue fcaugt Jiree iacbes aad a-half below tbe higu-water mark oi 158J, The steamer Houston Comts and barges ladeoed . with provisions douute.i by the people of this place bas reached tbolitcouy circle. The uufor tuoate peop e of ih it district are beiu re-" lieved ts lt as posjibie. Tne levees arouna Helena are still In gool condition, and the feeliug here is one of con fidence. . UKiKNVltXJE, Misa Latest news from Break: OautJ Mill. Sk pwith 7M; Eutoa 9 JO, aud Huntiiigiou 5 JO ioet wiue, and all, except Off utt', caviug rapidly. It is now K i Ven up that the entire cjuutry from Lake Bolivar iu th Warren county hills will ba flooded. ... , ANOTHER MINE EXPLOSION. Tbeee Men Killed and Four Others V ' injured Vow it Occurred. - By an exp'dfeioa" Of gas in No. 4 s.ope of the Susquehanna Coal Company, at Nanti coke, PaLi three men were killed, four sari-ou-ly Injured aad two slightly injareJ. The explosoa occurred about two o'clock A. M., iii the sixth pit of tbe west gangway. Tbe slope is situated in the heart of the town. As soon as it was learned tnat a large num ber of mea were ia tbe mine, resouiag par ties at once e.itered to ascertain the extent of. tha casualty- At noon the rescuers cam) oat of tbe pit- biuring all tne bodies of tha dead and Injured. .-. - As far as known the gas that bad accumu lated ia the slope at the fatal spot came from a blower at the side of tbe slope and was .ignited by John J. Griffith, the brattice man, who carried a naked lump. A number of other miner and laborers were injured by tbe concussion,, but thir injuries are not serious enough to pivveut them from return ing to work The mine is not damaged to any great extent - .. . , "MARKETS.? - BaLTTK0HXFiour-tyMIlls,sxtra,$4.SU a4.40. Wheat Mouther n - Fults, Wjttf. CoraSouthern White, 4 37a38 ots,'Yeliow $:eA54a. Oats-Southern and Penusyiv&nla 27.0cU. ; Rve Maryland & Peansylvana 55a576i , Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania. 13 5ual3 004traw-WbeaT.&)aa.oy;Uutter, Eastern Creamery, tioaaio., near-by receipts lOaaocts; Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream, 11 eta. Western,. 9al0 cha;. Eggs ia ml'iii ; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, la&U), Uood Common, 3 (XJaf'uO Middling, 6a7,ua Goo4 to line red,8a'J; Fancy, luafld, . Nkw Yoax Flour-Soatbern" Common t fair extra, 3.ta4M; Wheat No 1 Whit 8?a87V; Rye Stat. 57aG0; Corn Siutberi" Yellow, 87a373.0ats-Whlta, State -idy eta. Butter S tit te,.8;il74' ete,. Cheee dtili" 8KaiK isggs-riuui.ts. ... . ... . , t aibAtxt.PHiA. . FiQur PennsyiTanla. fancy, 4 25a 75; Wheats-Pennsylvania aal Southern Red, 85n91; Rye-r-Peansyivania Wa60c: Cora Southern Yellow, SIXa-a eta. Oats 23a cte; tluttar State, ata cts. ; Cheese N. Y". Factory, 9a eta. Eg State, 13aU cts. . -. CATTLE. ' . : ' BA.LTIMORZ Beef, 4 75a4 93; Sheep $3 00 a5 75vHog 4 75a5 25. J . f , ftKiW YoBK-Beof 6 0Qa7 D0;Shoep-$5 50 .48 x5; Hogsw44Qa4"C " E;st LiwkrT-J3r--..'4 iss;4 sa'Sheap- ti WaS Si Hflas-t4SaU4 a I " SOUTHERN ITEMS; ISTEItESTIHG ItEWS C01fPIIEI rROH HINT SOUKCES. List week $173,000 worth of real astate, was sold in Wythevlile, Vs. Norfolk. Vs., bas hopes of a rolling milli a shoe factory and a piano factory. : Elijah Smith fell from the railroad bridge at West Uu'oa, W. Vs-and wa killed. A company to conduct a cannery on an extensive seals bas been organizsl ia Dan ville, Va. " The podtodce in Rtlelgh, N. C now bandies about tea thousanl pleoes of mail matter daily, j -- Prof. William M. GraybUl, of Roanok county, Va,, bas aocepted the presidency of the Synodlcal College at Rogers vi lie, Tson. -A youns; man named Charles Story fall M , 1 t LI... d.kl-.l. Ik. I A m A t irom a smaii uoat vbuh uiuir m iimw river, near Balcony falls, Vx, and drowned. ' - Mr. H. Ardlnger. of WiUiamsport, Md... trapped a famdy of twelve foxes, the m-Hh r ana eleven cubs, at Indian Church, west of -tbat place. r ;''..',,", Fincastle,' Va. will vote oa tha question nf .nhar-rihinir SJS (XX) to th . ni-OnOSc! road . from that p!aoe loTroutVille, on the Shenaa doab yalley Railroad, ., ; James Buckham, a workman at E klas, W. Va., placed a dynamite cap ou tbe stov to warm. It exploded, seriously laeratios; his face, hands and body. Mr. A. S pence klded a large swan on ths Potomac,, near Harper' Ferry. Tbe bird measured six feet from tip to tip of bit wings, aud was maguifljeat specimen. , V ... "Aunt" Frances Price, of Alderson, Greenbrier county, W. Va., died a lew days aito d one huu years. She was bora in Augusta county, V.. in 1790. . Tbe boundary line of the site for Trinity college, at Durham, N. C, are being hid ofT. Tbe campu will contain a oout s.xcy acres, , iuclullog a most beautiful grovs. , . , . -James Allen, working at Prlngle' mill, near ths bead of Mftl Creek, Jackson ooun y, W. Va., was run over by a ro-l.ug Jo au.t srnxbed so bd.y tbat be lived but forty-five mibutcS. '. ' There is a guinea rooster ia New Mar tinsville, W. Va., that object to red headed people who stop to look ot bim, aad fiercely attacks all red-headed children who com near him. .-.. Ths authorities ot the .Wilmington & Wei ion Railroad have determined to buiid a road from VYasbingtoo, via Greenville to WiUon, N. C Worn will oouimeLCJ thus spring. A one dollar not, which bid been raised to ten, was recently presented at a store ia ' KeedysvillH, Washington county, Md., hav ing bev-n passed unobserved oa the mm who presented it, .' :, ; The wagon factory in Raleigh, N. C, is now in full blast, ani turnio out eight or ten wagons a day. Tbe wuramaosbip is, ia all respects, equal to that done in tbe North, aad orders are constantly pouring in I rout -all section. . '- Tbe proprietor of Duke's Cigarette factory " at Durham. N. C, sny that instea t ot remov ing tueir piaat to N .w York, extensive ad- dit.oos wilt be maue, necessitating th em ploymeutof a large i.uinbtr oc additional baud. . . - Two perfectly developed calf beads on - u . I. i , J . . k 1 i lord & Whitteker at tueir uuicjer-ilwp ia r'utnain county, W.-Va. Ths uKnatrw4ltjr wa bora at Foe a, but diep at tarth. -. ' In tearing down the old Powers Hoate, near Janelew, W. Va., Mr. Isaac Jacssoc -fouod tbe head of a cane, artistically o irvs t. from a buck's born, oa tbe top of wmcb is inscribed: "B'n July 25, 179J, A. B, W." , Mr. Albert knight, of Paw Pw, W. Va., bas oa bis farm a sorrel iuare tbat was left with bim at the time of Jones' raid, la tbe last of April, 1363. The animal was' then supposed to be fire years old, aad has sino proven to be one ot tbe best horses in the country. She must be at least thirty-two years . age, and is right rpcy yet. 1 ,. . , -A suit over tha owuernhip of two ducks bas finally boen settled ia Ritchie county. W. Va , alter dragging through two courts. n.i nf thx iifcifrAniM riHvnra 1.5 duminr.ji - and the costs foot up to several hundred ba- aides lawyers' fees. A saunK ranca is a new enterprias start ed near Lightburn, W. Va , by Meara. Mar shall,. Suunecker & Co. They have . fifty grown skunks a breeders, and expect to iu- , cr.aee ths 8 toe It to oa hundred. '1 ney claim that there is biir monev ia it. A company has been formed to develop the floe black marble recently discovered on ' Back creek. Jttoletourt' county, Va. The capital stock of the company i plaoad at S 100,000, I7J.C00 of which bas already been taken la Roanoke. -Eastern capitalists ha vs closed a deal for large tract of rich coal lands between Prnaty towa ana r iemingioo, v. va.,an i wiu open very extensive mines, tbeir contract calling for not less than fifty cars of coal per day. About 300 coke ovens will be erected. A sarious and nearly, fatal accident oo- curred at Lynohburg, Va,, to a burial party. While the pall-bearers were carrying out the corpse of a little child of W. E. Callahan, high const&bJe or tbe city, tha hih porch gave way aad precipitated four younif msa and tbe ecffla into a deep gully about fifteen : feet. All of them were more or las burt. and one quite severely. T. ii. Ho well and J. F. Thomas, wtio are partner ia the grocery bu-ioesJ, in Daa villa, Va. .had a lively fight a few days ago.ln which loth were badly used ap. They were taken before the mayor and fined, after which they made friends. ; They shook bands and resumed business at the old stand. About 15,000 logs have eoma out in the present rise on the Twelve Pole river, W. Va., and there are at least 5.0JO more on tbeir way down the stream. It is estimated . that there are now in Twelve Pole river about 1150,000 worth of 'timber ot different kinds. -.; . ; , - The proposition to build arailroad from" soma point on Haw river, in Alamance county N. U, via Mebanrsville and Ca well counties to Danville, Va. . is meeting with1 much en- f eouragemeati- Sev, rl townships in Caswell v and Alamance counties have" made liberal ' subscriptions, amounting ia all to toj.tOd. ' .' A seven-year-old son of -Mr. Joaiaa orown.wno lives near JSdgemout, Washing- -ton county, Md., fell frombe haymow to toe barn floor a few days ago. He walked to the house, and did not seem to belo jured . much, but he has siccus died Irom the effects ot thi fall. y i-.'w .- ;.v "."' -InformaUoa 'froia Boone.VLincbla and adjoin irsz conn tie in -West V.oia." i to I'll .(TanLlklir. hnnM,!.'.'!.. ..H,. , ' . for wasx ot food. Grain i very scarce, and the roads are o bad no feed cn toe hauled -into the counties. The aggregate loss -will le.jarse,; . . , ',...., . ; ..,.:.. A passenger train on the Northern Faclflo Railroad was wrecked per Nixon, Montana. The cars took firo and all were burned ex cept two sleepers. Express Messenger Miles is mtaif, and it is supposed he wn barnwi to '. deiu - Tw emigrant paawBgors, two ladjr tarfits, one child, tbe.PEiEiirfBi&ste-j .postal- BJer.k-aai porfer -cf" Hm,: toirkiJ : "i!ar wweicjarM... ". - . - ..,.& .