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Published bt Roaktom Pubushiho Co. "for ooo, for country and for truth.", Thomas Uxjsou, Btoiwxss UxsAaza VOL. 1- PLYMOUTH, N. C., PMDAY, APRIL 18, 1890. NO. 49. BE. VALIJAGE'S SBRIIOH. His r.ibject "ITachpclali; or,: Easter ; Thoughts." ' '.. :A . -rt . i vY v "" Presetted at the ' Academy of Made, .f Brooklyn New York. ' TBXTV'Vdadl ta Mid of Ephron Mshieh . '.t9S tn Machpelah which was before ilamre, Ike field and the; cave which was therein, ; nmriall the trees thai verve in the field, that iunrein a.il the borders round about, were made sure Abraham." Gen. ' xxiil, n, i& Here in the first cemetery ever laid out. Maohpftah was its name. It was an arbores- joen. wauty, where the wound of death was . la5aiced with foliage, Abraham, a rich man, ?t being able to bribe the King of Terrors, proposes here, As far as possible, to cover up 11 up his ravages. He had no doubt previously noticed this region, and now that Sarah his wife had died that remarkable person who at ninety years of age had born to her the wa Isaac, and who now, after, she had f'sached one hundred and twenty-seven lYears, had expired Abraham is negotiating for a family piot for her last slumber. Ephrou owned , this ; real ; estate, and - niter, in mock sympathy 4 for Abra ham, refusing :,to - take f anything Xor it, now sticks on a big price four hun ired shekels-of silver. This cemetery lot ia liid for, and the transfer made, fla the pres ence of . witnesses in a public place, for there were no deeds and no balls 01 record in those early times; Then in a cavern of limestone rock Abraham put Sarah, and, a few years ' nfter,-himself followed, and then Isaac, and ' Mebekah, and then Jacob and Leah. Em xwered, picturesque and memorable Mach- ; Valah ' That "God's acre" dedicated by Abraham has been, the mother of innumera ble mortuary observances. The necropolis of every civilized land has vied with its me- tropolis, , ;-.- : -, v .y. . The most beautiful hills of Europe outside JrAeral vase and arched gateways and eol- , Hill.? ut fMlV7lSCO JU UUUUI H1Q 1UU VA" mated. The Appian Way of Rome was , bordered by sepulchral -; commemorations. , For this purpose Pisa has its arcades of mar ble sculptured : into exquisite bas reliefs and tbe features of dear faces that have van ished.- - Genoa has its terraces cut Into tombs: and Constantinople covers with cy--Tebs the silent habitations; and Paris has its' rere-Lachaise, on whose height rests Balzao and David and Marshal Ney and Cuvier and T - Ti 1 1 r i : . i - . 2sa . jl iai.ti auu juuueru, una a migaiy gruup of warriors and poets and painters and mu-fcician-A In all foreign uations utmost genius on all sides is expended in the work of in terment, mummification and incineration. . .Our own country consents to be second to . none in respect to the lifeless body. Every city and town and neighborhood of any in telligence or virtue has, not many miles, away, its sacred inclosura, where affection has engaged sculptor's chisel and florist's spade and artificer in metals. Our own city bas shown its religion as well as its art, in the manner in which it holds the memory of those who have passed forever away, by its Cypress Hills and its Evergreens and its Cal vary and Holy Cross and Friends' cemeteries. " :A11 the world knows of our Greenwood, with now about two hundred and fifty : thousand inhabitants sleeping among hills that over look the sea, and by lakes embosomed in an Eden of flowers, our American Westminster Abbey, an Acropolis of mortuary architec-: elegies in stone, Iliads in marble, whole gen erations in peace waiting for other1 genera tions to join them. No dormitory of breath less sleepers in all the world has so many mighty dead. :-, ''i:Wt.;;,W -( ; ' Among preachers of the gospel, Bethune aua xuuiuas no vilis ana cisuup uubs ana Tyng, and Abeel the missionary, ' and Needier and Buddinfrton J and McClintock akl Inskip and Banjrs and Chapin and Noah fcichefK-k and Samuel Hanson Cox. Among rouslcisiuathe-renowned Gottschalk and the holy Thomas Hastings. Among the philau thropivits, Peter Cooper and Isaac T. Hopper and lucretia jaocc ana isaoeua uranam. and John i. Sax9. Amone the jmirnalists. Bennett and Raymond and Greeley. Among scientists, Ormsby Mitchel, warrior as well as astronomer, and lovingly called by his soldlfers "Old Stars;" the drapers, splendid men. as 1 well know, one or r-nem my teacher, the other my classmate. ' Among inventors, - Elia Howe, who, through: the sewing machine, did more to alleviate the toils of womanhood than any man that ever lived, and Professor Morse, who gave us : magnetic:, telegraphy; . the former doing his work with the needle, the latter with the thunderbolt ' Amonir physi-. vo an1 aiiffmnnc -Trw;orr f! TTl 1 i-nYi 1 n ann i Marion Sims, and Dr. Valentine Mott, i iia tae loiiowing epiuiuu u vu uu uruwwi I ... . .11 .- L I L 1 1 J cut m honor of the. Chnstian religion: My , implicit faith and hope is in a merciful Re deemer, who is the resurrection and the life. Amen and Amen." This is cur American A ichpelab, as sacred to us as the Mach- pelahm Canaan, of which Jacob ottered that pastoral poem in -one verse: 'There they buried Abraham, and Sarah his wife there they buried Isaac, and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah." - At this Easter service I ask and answer what may seem a novel question, bu.t it will , be found, before I get through, a practical and useful and tremendous question. ; What will Resurrection day do for the cemeterit? First, I remark it will be their supernatural beautitlcation. At certain seasons it is cus- , tomary in all lands to strew flowers over the mounds of the departed. Ifc -may have been ucEsted. by the fact that Christ's tomb was in a garden. : And whea I say garden I do not mean a garden o these lati tudes. - The late frosts of spring and the early frosts of autumn are so near to each other that, there are only a few - months of flowers in , the field. All the flowers: we see to-day had to be petted and coaxed and put under shelter or they would not have , bloomed at all. ' They are the children of the , conservatories. ' But . at this season and throujih the most of the year, the Holy Land is all ablush with floral opulence. You find all the royal family of flowers there,, some that you supposed indigenous to the far north, and cihers indigenous to the far south the, da:oy and hyacinth, crocus and: anemone, tuKp and water lily geranium and ranuncu . lus mignonette and sweet mar joraaa... In the college at Beyrout you may see Dr. Port's colliftion of about eighteen hun dred kinds of Holj-: Land flowers; wbila anion;; the trees are the oak of frozen climes, and the tamarisk of the tropics, walnut and willow, ivy and hawthorn, ash and elder, pine and syonmorei ' If such floral and bo-. tallica I Nautit? are the wild growths of the fields think of what a garden must be in Pal-; ttinc ! And in fuch a garden Jesus Christ slept fter, on th; soldier's spr. His last drop of blood had coagulated. And then see how appropriate that all ourreemeteries f.bot;l 1 b 3 flr. lined aitd tree shaded, Iu June, . lirwiiwoodw Brooklyn's garden. ;. i : and Henrv Bereh, the apostle of mercy to l lay down at the last very tired. the brute creation. : Amonar the literati the iVyou have heard them say: "I am !arvs. Alir-a'and Phoebe. James K. Pauiduitr V The tact is it is a tired world. If I "V. make thttu fplit . f ell, then, . voa sav, "how i?an you rnt that the -Resurrection' day will fr the ptaeteries? ? Will it not leave pifv. 1 up ground? On.- thafday .!) l n eai-thquake, and will not this', he pni.-' d A'ordeen granite, as well , . b tbaUcna afford but the two words, Our Mary,' or Our Charley? WeU, I will tell you how Resurrection day will beautify all the cemeteries. It will be by bringing up the faces that wcretousonco.and in our memories are to us now, more beauti ful than any calla lily, and the forms that are to us more graceful than any willow by the waters. Can you think of anything more beautiful than the reappearance of those from whom we have been parted?, I do not care which way the tree falls in the blast of the judgment hurricane, or if the plowshare that day shall turn under the last rose leaf and the last China aster, If out of the broken sod shall come the bodies of our loved ones not damaged, but irradiated. The idea of the resurrection gets easiefto understand as I hear the phonograph unroll some voice that talked into it or sung into it a year ago, just before our friend's decease. You turn the wire, and then come forth tb very tones, the yery accentuation, the vet' cough, the very song of the person tha'$ breathed into it onoe, but is now departed. If a man can do that, cannot Almighty God, without half trying, return the voica of your . departed? And if he can return the voice, why not the lips and the tongue and the throat that fashioned t the voice? - ,,And if r the lips : and the tongue . and tha throat, wny not then the brain that sug gested the words? - And if the brain, why not the nerves, of which the brain is the head quarters? And ir he ca-a return the nerves, why not the muscles, which are less in genious? "And if the muscles, why not the bonesy that are less wonderful? And if the voice and the braid and the muscles and the bones, why not the entire body? If man can do the phonograph. God can do the resurrec tion. 1 Will it be the same body that in the, last day shall be reanimated? -Yes, but in-' finitely improved. ' - : Our bodies change every s3ven years, and yet, in one sense, it is the same body. On my wrist ana tne second linger or my rigut nana there is a scar. I made that at twelve years of age, when, disgusted at the presence of two warts, I took a red hot iron and burned them off, and burned them out. , Since then my body has changed at least a half dozan times, but those scars prove it is .the same body. And we never . lose our Identity. If Gon can and does sometimes rebuild a . man .five, six, ; ten times, : in his world,' is it mysterious that He can rebuild him once more, and that in the resurrection? If He can do it ten timas, , I think He can do it eleven times. Then look at the seventeen year locusts. For seventeen years gone, at the end of seventeen years they appsar, and ; by rubbing the hind leg against the wing make that rattle at which all the husband- ' men and .vine dressers tremble as the in sectile host takes up the march of devasta tion. 1 Resurrection every seventeen years! Another consideration makes the idea of resurrection easier. . God made Adam. He was not fashioned eftar any model. There had never been a human organism, and so there was nothing to copy... At the first at tempt God made a perfect , man. . He made him out of the dust of the earth. If out of ordinary dust of the earth and . without a model God could make a perfect man, surely out of the extraordinary dust of the mortal body, and with millions of models, God can make each' one of us a perfect being in the resurrection.? . Surely the last under taking would not be greater than the first. See the gospel algebra: ordinary dust minus a model equals a perfect man; extraordinary dust and plus a model equals a resurrection, body. Mysteries about it? Oh, yes; that is one reason why I believe it. ' It would not be much of a God who could do things only as far as I can understand. ' Mysteries? Ob, yes: but no more about the resurrection of your body than about its present existence. I will explain to you the last mystery of the resurrection, and make it as plain to you as that two and two make" four, if you will tell me how your mind, which is entirely In dependent of your body, can act upon your body so that at your will your eyes open, or your foot walks, or your hand is extended. Bo I find nothing in the Bible statement con cerning the resurrection that staggers me f a moment. All doubts clear from my mind, I say that the cemeteries, however beautiful now, will be more beautiful when the bodies of our loved ones come up. ; , : j": They will come in improved condition. ThCy will come up rested. , The most of them How often so tired I" should so torongh this audience, and go round the world, I could not And a person in any style of life ignorant of the sensation of fatigue. I do not believe there are fifty persons in this audi once who are not tired. Your head i3 tired, or your back is, tired, or your foot is tired, or your brain is ; tired, or ' your nerves are tired. Long jour neying, .or U business application, or bereavement1 or sickness have put on you heavy weighty. So the vast majority of those who went out of this world went out fatigued. About the poorest place to rest in" is this world. . Its atmosphere. - its sur roundings, and even its hilarities are ex- -hausting. So God stops our earthly life, and mercifully closes . the eyes, and quets the feet, and folds the band3,and more especially gives quiescence to the lungs and heart, t iat have not had ten minutes' rest from the first respiration and the first beat. If ft drummer boy were compelled in the army to beat his drum for twenty-four iiours without stopping, his officer would be court martialed for cruelty. If the drummer boy should be commanded to beat his drum for a week without ceasing,, day and night, he would die in attempting it. But under your vestment is a poor heart that began its drum beat for the march of life thirty or forty or sixty or eighty years ago, and it has bad no furlough by $ay or night; and, whether in conscious or comatose state, it went right on, for if it had stopped seven seconds your life would have closed. And your heart will keep going until some time after your spirit has Sown, for the auscultator says that after the last expiration of lung and the last throb of Eulse, and after the spirit is released, the eart keeps on beating for a time. What a mercy then it is that the grave is the place where that wondrous machinery of ventricle and artery can halt I v, - ' Under the healthful chemistry of the sou all the wear and tear of nerve and muscle and bone will be subtracted and that bath of e;ood. fresh, clean soil will wash off the last ache, and then some of the same style or dust out or wincn tne Doay oi Aoam was constructed may be infused into the resur rection body, f How: can the bodies of the human race, which have had no replenish ment from the dust since the time of Adam in paradise, get any recuperation from the store-house from which he was constructed without our going back into the dust? . That original, life-giving material having been added to the body as it once wns, and all tho defects left behind, what a body will be the resurrection body! And will not hundreds of thousands of such appearing above tho Gowanus ' heights make - Greenwood more beautiful than any June morning ytfter a -shower?; v ? The dust of the earth being the original material for the fashioning of the first human being, we have to go back to the samrplace to get a perfect body. Factories are apt to be rough places, and thoss who toil m them have their garments grimy and thejr hands smutched.' But who caree for that, when they turn out for us beautiful musical instru ments or exquisite upholstery! Whkt though the grave is a rough" place, it is a! resurrec tion 'body manufactory, sod froifa it shall come the radiant and resplendent forms of 'our f rwnds -on the'- brightest nia-ntes the world saw ever. You put Into a factory cot ton, and it comes out apparel. You put into a factory lumber and lead, and it comes out' pianos and organs. And so into the factory of the grave you put in pneumonias and con bu motions, and they coma out health. Yo j fut in groans, and they come out hallelujahs, or Us, on the final day, the most attractive piaces win not Da tne paries or the gardens or Mm palaces, but the cemeteries. : : ; We are not told in wnat ssn that diy will come. If it should be wintjr, those wh- come up will be more lustrous thin the snow that covered them. , If in the autumn, those who come up will be mors gorgeous than the Woods after the frosts have penciled them. If in tne spring, the blodaa on waiflh they tread will be dull compared with the rubi cund of their cheeks, v Oh the perfect rasur rection body ! - Almost eyery one has some defective spot in his physical coaptation; ft dull ear, or a dial eye, or ft rheumatic foot, of a neuralgic brow, or a twisted muscle, or a weak side, or an inflamed tonsil, or strati point at which the east wind or a season of overwork asunlts him. . But tb resurrection body' shall be I without one weak spot, and all that the doctors and nurses and apothecaries of earth will there after have to do will bs to rest without inter ruption after the broken niarhta of their earth ly existence. ' Not only will that day be the beatification of Well kept cemeteries, but some of the graveyards that have been neg lected, and been the pasture ground for cat tle and rooting places for swine, will for tb first time have attractiveness given them. 4 M It was a shame that in that place ungrate ful generations planted no trees, and twisted no garlands, and sculptured no marble for their Christian ancestry; but on the day of which I 8 peak the resurrected shall make ther place of their feet glorious. From under the shadow of the church, where they , slumbered among nett'ej and mullen stalks and thistles, - and ' slabs aslant, they hall rise with a glory that shall flash the windows of the village church, and by the bell tower that used to call them to worship, ' and . above the old spire beside which their prayers formerly ascended. What triumphal procession never did for a street, what an oratorio never did for an academy, what sin orator never did for a brilliant auditory, .what obelisk never did for a King, resurrection morn will do for all the cemeteries.: - ' ---' .': ' - ;r '. : v- This Easter tells us that in Christ's resur rection our resurrection, if we are His, and the resurrection of all the pious dead is as sured, for He was "the first fruits of them that Blept." Renan says He did not rise, but five hundred and eighty witnesses, sixty of them Christ's enemies, say He did rise, for they saw Him after He had risan. If He did cot rise, how did sixty armed soldiers let Him get away? Surely sixty living soldiers ought to be able to keep one dead man! Blessed be Godl He, did get away.; After His resurrection Mary Magdalene saw Him. Cleopas saw Him. Ten disciples in an upper room, at Jerusalem saw Him. On a mountain the eleven saw Him. Five hundred at once saw Him.' Professor Ernest Renan, who did not see Him, will excuse us for tak ing the testimony of the five hundred and eighty who did see Him. Ye3, yes; He got away. And that makes me sure that our de parted loved ones and we ourselves shall get away. Freed Himself from the shackles of, clod, He is not gojng to leave us and our in the lurch. . ' There will be no door knob on the inside of our family sepulchre, for we cannot come out, of ourselves; but there ia a door knob on the outside, and that 'Jesus shall lay hold of, and opening, will say: "Good morning! You have slept long enough! Arise! Arise f And then what flutter of wings, and what flashing of rekindled eyes, and what gladsome rush ing across . the familv lot, with . cries of "Father, is that you?" ' Mother, is that you?" "My darling, is that you?" "How you all have changed! The cough gone, ! the ' croup gone, : the consumption gone, the paralysis gone, the ' weariness gone. Come, - let us ' ascend together ! The older ones first,' the younger ones next! Quick, how, get into line! - The skyward procession has already started 1 Steer now by that em bankment of cloud for, the nearest gate!" And as we ascend, on one side the earth gets smaller until it is no larger than a mountain, and smaller until it is no larger than a pal ace, and smaller until it is no larger than a ship, and smaller until it is no larger than a wheel, and smaller until it is no larger than a speck. ;, i'.v."-?'''' ';4 ::y-;'-: Farewell, dissolving earth! But on' the other side, as we rise, heaven at first appsarj no larger than your hand. And nearer it looks like a chariot, and nearer it looks like a throne, and nearer it looks like a star, and nearer It lopks like a sun, and nearer it looks like a universe. HaiL scepters that shall al ways wave! HaiL anthems that shall always roll! Hail, companionships never again to be broken, and friendships never again to part! That is what Resurrection day will do for all the cemeteries and graveyards, ' from the Machpelah that was opened by Father Abra ham in Hebron to the Machpelah yesterday consecrated. And that makes Lady Hunt ington's immortal rhythm most apposite: ' Whert Thou, tny righteous Judge, ehalt come To uke Thy ransomed people home, . . Shall I among then stand? . Shall such worthless worm aa I. - Who sometimes m afraid to die, -Be found at Tny right band? ' Among Thy saints let me be found, -Whene'er th' archangel'! tramp shall sound j - To see Thy smiling face: Then loudest of the throng 111 sing, ; . While hea Ten's reaonndlnK arches ring : -. With shouts of sovereign grace. A KENTUCKY FEUD. Vain Precaution of" a Coaduetoi -An In uoceut Man Killed. Two desperate factions, headed respectively by Albert Barnes and Will Barnes, have been keeping Menifee county, Ky in a turmoil. A party accompanying Will Barness were on - train on the Mt. Sterling Coal Road. They had to pass Chambers' Station,, and as it was known that the other party awaited the train at that place and there was a certainly of a fight the conductor rushed his train by the de ot at a rate of twenty-five miles an hour. lhe train party fired on their enemies on the platform, who returned the fire. For a minute there was a regular fusilade. When matters quieted down, it wa found that on the train there were two killed. Will Barnes, the leader, and Kelly B. Day, a passenger, not in any way connected with the factions. - At the station George Stevens fell as if dead. There is great excitement at Mt Sterling, as it is feared that the tragedy will result in another mountain war. ' - EIGHTEEN HEADLESS BODIES. - The Way lit Which a Pasha Chastised ' Ills Faithless Harem. A horrible story comes from Morocco. . A larjio box was recently bronifht from the interior to the port of Mazagan for shipment. When opened a ghastly sicjht was revealed. In the box, packed closeiy together, were the bodies of 18 young women, one man and a negrefw. All the victims had been decapitated snd their heads were missing. Their bodies were ed t mimed end had evidently beeu in the ' condition in which they were found for a long time. - - . . - ' j: The s!:iughttr lias Wn, to all appearance, o wi'i -. ci 3',i"" pasha, Avho tluiH visited Tea 1 -1 f'T unfaithfully. THE; NEWS. W. F. Dickie, who absconded from New York, has been arrested ' in , Montreal. Thomas Lyons was convicted of murder in Chicago and sentenced to Imprisonment for life. George Fields (colored) was banged at ccranton, Miss., for the murder of Jennie Mos ley, A new counterfeit dollar bill has bean floated in Cincinnati- -Another capture ot ten Chinese was made at San Diego, CaJL Charles Green, aged eleven, of Watertown, N. J., had his hfad crushed between two cars. The steamship Cuba, from Bluefields, landed at Philadelphia with the captain and tight of the crew of the bark Jlerneand. Four laborers were killed by the storm at Roanoke, Va. The Texas Standard Cotton Seed Oil mill and refinery, about a mile west of Galveston, was destroyed by fire. Alfred Andrews was hanged at Bellefonte, Pa., for the murder of Clara Price. A fierce storm did great damage to property of the town of High land Park, III. The Canadian Cabinet has decided to extend the modus vivendi for the coming fishing season. -Talt Hall shot and killed at Cattlesburg, Ey., Cannes Turner, the father of the girl .with whom he was eloping. Wim II. Bartholomew was hanged at Easton, Pa., for the murder of his paramour's husband. Zack' Taylor, condemned for the murder of the Alleghany drover, was hanged at Waynesboro'. Pa. ' The Johnstone Forge Company's rolling mills, at Wilmiugton, Del., was burned. Loss $20.000.- -Fire damaged F. Middleton A Cc'i coffee and spice warehouse, in Philadelphia, $30,000 and sevral firemen were overcome by the fumes of burning pepperr -The body of Joseph Jacobs,, son of a wealthy citizen oi Hamilton, Ohio, was found in the reservoir at that place. Despondency, caused by pover ty, led E. A. Culver, of Denver, Col., to take half a bottle of morphine, and then blew out his brains. -Conductor, Gardner J. Tucker, of a freight train on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, had a desperate en counter with tramps at Lima, Ohio, in which he was fatally wounded. ' Four trainmen were buried in a landslide that a West Short freight train ran" into near St, Johns ville, N. Y.- Twelve women and children were wash ed off a raft in the Mississippi flood at Boyou Falaya.- Delegates representing the Broth erhood of Locomotive Engineers, Firemen Brakemen and Switchmen met in Elmira, N. Y., and adopted a scheme of federation of all the organizations of trainmen in the United States.- Moore A Sinnott, of, Philadelphia ' i have entered suit against a large number oi brewing firms for money advanced to aid th campaign against the prohibitary amendment last year. -The strike at Oliver Bros.' nui and bolt works, Pittsburg, which affected on thousand 'men, has been settled by the mei withdrawing their demand for thedischargi of one workman . and the reinstatement o: another. A horse backed a wagon contain ing two boys over aprepipice fifty feet high at Greensburg, Pa,, and Samuel Dorman wai killed and Mark Steele internally injured Twelve election officers were arrested is . Jersey City as a result of the legislature's in vestigation of the ballot-box fraud. Johs O'Hara and Martin Fahey, aged about seven . teen years, were Bhot by a negro in a quarra' between whites and blacks in Pittsburg. By the breaking of the levee at Catfish Poin on the Mississippi, near Greenville, Miss that town was inundated.-Marcus C. Stearns, one of Chicago's wealt iest citizens, committed suicide. ' A yonng ; Indian named Eaglt Horse shot and instantly killed Frank E. Lewis, a school teacher, at Pine Ridge Agency Nebraska, and then committed suicide Forty buildings in the village of Theresa, neat Watertown,; N. Y., were destroyed by fire. Loss $150,000. John B. Price, formerly book-keeper for nail & Willis, wholesale hard ware dealers, of Kansas City, has disappeared. Shortage about $6,000. By the burning oi a tavern at Greenville Junction, Maine, many of the boarders narrowly escaped. George E. Noonan," his wife and daughter, of Engle wood, Chicago, are seriously ill from the ef fects of poison, and a servant is suspected of the crime.- In the sixtieth annual confer ence of the Mormons at Salt Lake City, Presi dent Woodruff stated that there would be no more revelations. Rev. John .' Dougherty Wood, a Methodist minister, was arrested at Olean, N. Y on a charge oi bigamy. The powder works at Rochester, N, .Y, blew up, killing two men.4 The Chicago Gas Trust has been broken . up and the plants and fran chises sold to a new company organized under the law of New Jersey. Thirteen Chinese were arrested while at tempting to cross the line between Mexico and the United States at Tiajuana,Cal. Thomas Hope and ; Mrs. Mary Rogers, who died re cently in New York, each bequeathed many thousands to charitable, institutions. -A colored girl at empted to poison the Infant daughter of John II. Holmes, of Fredericks burg, Va., with carbolic acid. F. P. Morris, -a real estate dealer of Minneapolis, has di ap peared, and numerous charges of crooked deal ings on his part are coming to light. Two Italians while pummelling each other on a railroad track," near Newburg, N. Y were struck by a train and one instantly killed, and the other seriously injured. Mrs. Anna Cooley was. found dead with a pistol shol wound in hertemple.inthehouse of Micah W. Norton, at New Portland, Me., for whom she had been housekeeper. Seven thousand carpenters of Chicago went on a strike for eight hours at forty cents an hour, and many bricklayers in sympathy with them also quit work. Upon the appeal of Armour & Co., of Chicago, Judge Hughes, of the United States Court, has declared the new Meat Inspection law; of Virginia unconstitional. James Wells, aged sixteen years, shot and killed Eugene Carroll, aged f ighteen years, at Hen derson, Ky, in a quarrel about a girl.- Fire in Morse's livery stable, Chicago, suffocated thirteen horses and destroyed. fifteen buggies. The Chicago Board of Trade dealt another blow at the bucket hops. - The Northwest ern, Mftrble Iron Company's plant aiMilwau. kfc, ri . i!-u - - .? fHfl.fstY br fro.. Pennsylvania Has Hangings for as Many Murders., Mrs. Dtlllarda liover The Crimes of An drews, Taylor and Carter Described. -, William H. Bartho'omew was hanged in jail at Easton at 10.33 o'clork and was pro nouno d dead at 10.48. His neck was broken. The ; cr me for which Bartholomew . was hanged was the brutal murder of Aaron W. Dill ard, near Beersville, Northampton coun ty, on September f, 1889. Bartholo ew and Dilliardwere farmers and lived about three roiJes apart . Barthol mew was a widower and frequently visited Dilliard's home. These vi its resulted in a scandal, an 1 Dilliard changed hi place of residence. Then Bar tholomew proposed an elopement, and Mrs. Dilliard declared she would not leave the place until after her hu-band'sdea h . t: : . . Two days before the murder Bortholomew ca led i n Mrs. Dilliard and propostd to put her hnsban i eut of the May. It was agreed that he should come shortly after midnight and disturb the chickens 'hat roosted on a tree near the house. Mrs. Dilliard was to arouse her husband, send him down to the ya- d with his gun and a lighted lan era. and when he neared ihri tree she should tell him to look up at the hens. The plan was carried out, Dil- ,liard was shot near the tree, he staggered back to the house and fell dead at bis wife's feet. Bartholomew returned to h s borne, and when the crowds ga hered the n-xt morning to in quire about the trageiy they were t Id that Dilliard had been shot by a chicken thitf. Bartholomew was t once s-spscted of the crime, detectives made up astr'ng case r f iir cumstant al evidence against him and be was - arrested. : : " - .: Mr'. Dilliard made a full con'esson on the day of her husband's funeral and repeated it at Bartholomew's trial on a promise that her sentence would be emmutea to imprisonment for if . Bartholomew was convicted within iwo months of thetragedy. Mrs. Dilliard wa also convicted, but in accordance to the pro n ise made is now in the Western Penitentiary. HE MURDERED A GIKL. " Beijlefonte, Pa. Alfred Andrews ' was banged fir the killing of Clara Price. The drop fell at 11.03. ' Alfred James Andrews was 22 years of ag. II v' born in En viand, and; owing to harsh treatment by his stepmother, ran away from home several yea s ago and came to th s count y. : He worked in the mines at various plices, and for the last three years has been living at BriBbin with a woman to whom he was never mar. ied. ; On November 27th last the body of pretty Clara Price, the seventeen-year-old daughter of David Price, of Karthaus, was found lying on the road about a half mile from Karthaus. The inquest showed that she had been shot end also disclosed evidences of attempted out rage. This led to the belief that the girl's as sailant was known to her and that he had shot her to prevent her exposing him. Andrews had been seen on the road shortly after the girl had left her home.. He was convicted on strong circumstantial, evidence, and, after being taken to jail, confessed that he had fhot Miss Price, but persisted in his denial of any attempted ontrage. v Jfe HANGING OF TAYLOR. Waynesbcro. Pa. Zach Taylor was hanged at 11.12 o'clock. He was pronounced dead twelve minutes later. On the scaffold he reiterated his innocence of the crime. . Taylor was concerned in the murder of William McCausland, the Allegheny drover. George Clark, his brother-in-law, - suffered death a few weeks ago for the same crime. Mc Causland was found in the woods with a bullet hole through his head and his pockets rifled. Clark, Taylor and James Neff were arrested and all were convicted, but Neff applied for a change of venue to Washington county, and upon a second trial was acquitted. . "'.-," 1 A COLORED-MAN'S CRIME. - Ebensberg, Pa. Charles- Carter, colored, i was hanged here at 1.51 P. M. s I ' Carter's crime was committed In Johnstown on November 3, 1889. On the night of the murder Carter and John Mathews, also col ored, had had some trouble about one of the women in a disreputable house, and Carter threatened to shoot Mathews. When thelat ter entered the room he shot him ' several times with a pistol and Mathews died the next day. Carter was captured at Harrisburg, Pa. PEACE AT HARLAN COURT. The Turner and the Howard Factions Agree to Stop Shooting Each Other The Harlan County, (Ky.) Circuit Court is in session under the protection of State troops. Hi Hall, one of the leaders of the Turner fac tion, got a sentence last week of twenty-one years in the penitentiary. He expected to be acquitted.' This sentence scaled the other o itlaws, and a meeting was held at the place of trial. Both the Howards an the Turners were represented in large numbers. -There were the Spurlocks, the Days, and others on the Howard side. They were headed by their o .ptain, Wils Howard. Of the Turner faction were Jack and Andrew Turner and thirty five or forty others. They were all . omewhat. disposed to peace. v Judge Boyd thought trouble was coming and made a request for more soldi-rs. Guards were stationed at each end of the four streets loading into Cvurt House Square and no aimed person was allowed to pass. Two sol diers were al o placed at tbe Conrt House door to search six who w shed to enter. , Apparently without any preconcerted ar rangement Wils Howard, the Spurlocxs, the Turners and he Days got together and agreed to suspend hostilities and bury the hatchet for ever. It was also agreed thatshould any more bnshwhicking take place, both sKies would turn out and hunt the assassin. . TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT. 'glIatlve, Executive and Judicial Ap-.- . proprlatlon Bill Agreed on. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill has been completed by the House committUp. It appropriates $20,864,326, which is $10,()00 mvre than the last bill and 62,934 less than th estimates. No new leg islation is proposed. ISome of the changes in the government service provided for arc: Tne salary of the President's assistant sec cretary is increased fnim $2250 to $2,500. The Civil Service Commipon is given five addi tional clerks, and the Sixth Auditor's office sixty-five nioreemployecs. The United S.ates Treasurers' office losts five clerks. The Board of Pension Appends is increased by six member at $2000. ' In tif Land Office eiht chiefs of division are provided for at $2000 each in place of eight clei ks at $18000, and fif teen additional employees-are allowed. . Salaries of thirty-five t findpal examiners in the Pmtnt Office urn i.jereasl from $2400 to $2.'XM:find mat employ are atldevJ. The department of Justice and" Aissixtant Attorney General at &0Q0, and fai Agricultural De partment one at 4000, A wvil as ir addi t "nl employee, i CABLE SPARKS. - - Rmnernr William will visit Rnssia dnrinsr the coming summer. , ' i. There is a movement in Berlin- to erect a monument in that city to Prince Bismark. Carboso, the explorer of the Nyassa end Shire districts of Africa has returned to Lis- . bon. ; ' I Owing to a meat famine in Berlin th res taurants of that city will raise the price of s meat 20 per cent. 1 Til. J t T : J ' ll-i " - Al jo iuiocicu ui uvauun ui vurrn i m , toria is seriously considering the step of ab- 1 j- i.t ti.si- .i : Uicaiuig me DruMii nirone. -, ; ' Prioe Albrecht WaMeck a cousin of the Queen of Holland, has published the reigning Prince of Waldeek as a liar. ... . Munich brewers have raised the price of beer two pfennings per ekes, and as a conse quence a riot is expected there. The young Duke of Orleans will be re leased from prison this week, and secretly conducted across the French frontier. ' Mr. Parnell has filed his bill of denial to the allegations in the O'Shea suit for divorce, and the ease will be heard next autumn. -' A Hungarian lottery company was swindled out of one million florins, but the plotters were arrested, tried and sentenced to prison. ' , Dueling has been forbidden in the German army, except in cases where a council of men of honor decide that circumstances warrant a duel. . . . 1 .'.-.' The miners emnloved in two coal nit at ! Dortmund have joined the strike. Work- is proceeding quietly in the mines in the Essen district. s " " ' A verdict for 1,148,000 francs damages and the costs of the action was returned in the suit of Gibbs Sons, in Paris, against the ; Societe de Metauxv . The Sultan of Turkey has signed an irade providing for new negotiations with England for a convention based on the withdrawal oi the English from Egypt- . . - pany is considering the advisability of having the steamers of their New York line call at a Thames river port on their outward voyage. The Mill Owners' Association of India has resolved to close the spinning mills eight days every month, and the weaving mills four days every month for a , period of three months. , - - The Emperor William of Germany has pre- sented . a prize cup, ornamented with antlers and a figure of Diana, goddess of the chase,, to be shot for at the federal rifle competition in Germany, i - -. Prince Bismarck is compiling a memoir for publication which will comprise the last twenty-five years of his official life. Emperor William has promised to pay him a visit at Friedrichsruhe. , . . , . , M. Etiennc, minister of the French col onies, says that the French forces in Dahomey will shortly make an attack upon Whydah, the coast town of Dahomey, where the Daho mians obtain their arms. The Spanish and Swiss delegates have sub mitted to the Industrial Conference in session in Madrid a project for the repression of false marks of origin on industrial products.' The American delegates approve the project There is great excitement in Dresden over the publication in a newspaper that Bismark , informed a delegation of citizens of thst city ' that he did not retire from the office of Ger man chancellor of his own choice. The Pols and Gen. Sir John L. Simmon, the British special envoy, have signed a pro tocol for the regulation of the appointment of bishops on the islands of Malta and Goro. They have also signed protocols for the regu lation and mixed marriages, and for the con duct of seminaries for the education of prlet on those islands. : PAN-AMERICAN TRIP SOUTH: V Itinerary of the Proposed TwetyThi' Pays' Kzcnniion f the Unit. . The members of Che International Aniflricun Vnterence will leave Washington on the pro posed Southern tour Friday, April 18, at 11 P. M., and will return to Washington May 10, a 2 P. M. The following is the itinerary of the trip: Friday, April 18, leave Washington, D. C-, via the Pennsylvania Railroad, 'at 11 P. M. ; Saturday, April 19, arrive at Old Point Com fort, Va, at 9 A. M. . Sunday. April 20, leave Old Point Comfort ai j i r. n. Monday, April 21, arri vc at Richmond, Va, at 9 A. M-; leave Richmond at 7 P. M.. . ' Tuesday, April 22, arrived at Charleston, S. - C, at 9 A. M.; leave Charleston at 12 night. . - Wednesday, April 23, arriveat Angusta, U, at 9 A. M.; leave Augusta at 11 P. M. - Thursday, April 24, arrive st Atlanta, Ga, at 9 A. M.; leave Atlanta at 12 night Friday, April 25, arrive at Macon, Ga, at 9 A. M.; leave llacon at 12 night - Saturday, April 26V arrive at Brunswick, Ga. at 9 A. M. - The party will go by steamer t jb ernandina, and leave Fernsndina, Fla.. at P. M.r Jacksonville, Fla., at 7J'-0 P. M, and arrive at St Augustine, Fla, at 9 P. M. Sunday, April 27, leave St Augustine at 11 P.M.. - - -.V." ' . Monday, April 28, arrive at Tampo, Fla., at 7 A. M.: leave Tampa at S P. M. Tuesday, April 29, arrive at Pensacola, Fla, at 3 P. M.; leave Pensacola at midnight Wednesday, April 30. arrive at Mobile, Ala, at 8 A. M.; leave Mobile at 12 night . Thursday. May 1, arrive at New Orleans, ' i riday, May 2, leave New. Orleans 13 night - Saturday,. May 3, arrive at Birmingham.: Ala, at 12 noon; leave Birmingham at 12 night ; . , . . Sunday, May 4, arriveat Chattanooga, Tenn, at 8 A.M. . , Monday, May 5,. leave Chattanooga at 13 night Tuesday, May fj, arrive at Nashville at i A, M.; leave Nashville at 9 P. M. Wednesday, May 7, arrive at Roanoke, Va at 3 P.M. Thursday, May 8, leave Roanoke at 7 A.'M arrive at Natural Bridge Station, Va, at 8.15 A.M. . Friday, May 9, leave the Natural Bridge Station at 10 A. M, arrive at Luray, Va, at 1 P.M. . - Saturday, Mity 10, leave Luray, Va, at 10 A. M. and arrive at Washington, D. C, at 2 P. M. . .HOT BLOOD ill) YOUTHS, A Fight Between . a Conplo of BoyHh Rivals In 2ov. Henderson, Ky, was thrown into a state of excitement the other evening over an alter cation between two young men which mulled in murder. It seem thst James Well, a sixleeii-yeir-old boy, and Etijjene Corneii, prob.ihly two years his senior, have fceen p;J1D!f suention to the same young lady, wh name wa nut learned. They met ov the strert and bean quarreling, which soon led to S lows. Cornell picked up a barrel t-' i ve sn 1 f.ru k wells on the bead. Th lattc" drew a rey---i-ver, whps Coraeil trirned and -.-i fr I s : -Wells rave ehase and ftred tw rthr-s - one snot tamntr n:ct mvi
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