TCBMSIIED BV HoANOKB PUBLTSHIKO Co.
"FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
C. V. Apsbon, Business Manager,
VOL, II.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1890.
NO. 26.
.THE NEW&
"William' Mortell and James McGrath were
enti'iirwl to life imprisonment in Chicago for
the warder of Policeman Fryer . -Bosnian's
Jflwring mills in Marion, Ks., were wrecked
tawl two men were filially injured, by an ex-
, plosion. The Chicago Postoflice building
! a said by Inspector or Uuildings Cluss lo be
beyond redemption." A call has becu issued
t tor a wnveution of the retail clerks of Amer.
Sea, The stockholders of ' the Nashville,.
Cliattanooga and St Louis Railroad have de
Tided to increase the capital Btock" of the com
pany ten per cent. Mrs- Matthews, ,tf
Athens, Ala., shot A negro who assaulted her
lie wan afterward found (lead. Margaret
barker was wnreneedjo imprisonment or
lifuin Montgomery, Ala., for being an acces
sory to the murder -of another woman's hus
band. William T. Tennrtiill, of the New
York Cotton 'Exchange killed Jilmsclf in
Englewood, N. J. y William Mottling-and
wife were asphyxiated by gas in their room in
Chicago. Leo Heolfner, a Pole, is missing
from Minneapolis. He left behind bis wife
and mistress-Judge Hughes has given an
opinion in Richmond that Registration books
re public records, and registrars are required
to permit United States election supervisors
access to them. An old man named Heller
dropped dead of heart disease, brought on by
political excitement, at a meeting in Blooms
burg.'Pa. A heavy fall of snow on the Ten
nessee mountains. By the overturning of
a vessel contain j ng twenty . tons of niolton
metal iii a foundry at Bethlehem, Pa., six men
"were horribly burned.-:7 A Hungarian wo
man poured boiling water over two. quarrel
ing men at Gallitzen, Pa., and badly scalded
them. In a quarrel over taffy, fifteen-year-old
Johnnie Am do shot his younger brother
in the head in their l"! in New York.
A company has purchased live hundred
acres of land across the ri vor from Petersburg,
Vn., and will establish a town. The steam
fitters of Chicago are on strike. The Non
partisan National Woman's Christian Tern
perance Union has 1 sued a call for a national
convention. A section of Barnum's circus
train was wrecked near Macon, Ga., and eight
horses killed. -W. S. Wharton, a. Chicago
- money lender, and also interested in the in
surance business, has disappaared, and it is
reported that, hi . indebtedness amounts to
50,00(). -U-Deputy Circuit Clerk E. Ward
Houston, of Pnrkersburg, W.Va., was arrested,
, charged with forging certificates of pay for
Mnesscs. Judge Robert L. Johnson, of
Ebensburg, Cambria , county, Pa.,, died of
apoplexy, aged) sevehty-six -yetts vThe
legality of Speajker Reed's quorum rulings is
to be tested in proceedings broughtTtty a New.
York importing firm against the McKinley
kill. Lee A 1 Jen, a j notorious horse thief,
was captured, in thf Comanche country by:
United States officerl. t-Louis Rittep house,
an insane- mnn'living near St Louis, shot a
neighbor and his brother, and while attempt
ing to kill his father the latter split Ids skiill
with a hoe. Percale and Antley, two Flat-
head Indian murderers, were sentenced to
death in -, Helena, Mont--; Mrs.'Rearick, of
Woonsockct, S. P., has confessed to poisoning
her husbaud. James Prenell, a noted Chi
cago thief recently released from prison, tried
to kill Miss Alice Oakes, the girl whose testimony-convicted
him." He did .not succeed.
- S. S. Cole, a freighter, was murdered by
. Indians in the Big Bead country, Washing
ton. William Watsoua Santa Fe section
hand, was murdered and his body secreted in
a closet in the railroad station at Fort Madi
son, ' Iowa.- Williatu parnwell, an Austin
Tex., police officer, shot Maggie Null and
then killed himself.- The steamer Alex
ander Swiitcojlapsed near El en wood, Pa. -Juiiu
i Dornsipe, a son of ex-Mayor Dornsipe,
of Kansas City, committed suicide in Sun
Francisco. 4-Thomas Tagcart, a Columbus,
Ind., farmer, confessed on his death bed to
having murdered Thomas Jameson, in 1885.
The steam-fitters of Chicago have gone on
a strike. rA-negra boarded a train on the
Houston and Texas, Railroad, killed the col
ored porter, and made good his escape.
Charles M. Thorlton,a farmer living near Al
liance, Neb,, killed Ferd Robinson and fatally
shot his sweetheart, Myrtle Kerr. Edward
Hock, of Sullivan, Ind., threatened to kill his
wife, and . was in turn killed by some un
known men. Four persons were fatally in
jured by a trail Hear Steubenville, O. T.
J. Blount, of Miiuciej Ind., was beaten and
kicked .to, death inthe Richmond, Ind., in
sane hospital. Ex -Lord High Sheriff Hut
ton, of London, was arrested in San Francisco,
at the instance of a fellow-lawyer.-1 Frances
Duchalk, aged seventeen years, was assaulted
by au unknown man in Chicago, and then
thrown under a train, but was itaved, by her
sister. -A three-year-old boy, ueur Wichita,
Ks., Tell iuto 'a tub of boiling water and' was
completely cooked. i'hos. Roouey killed
Robert Madden in Brewsters, N. J., with a
tiugle blow,- Richard Doyle shut aud killed
Thomas Lynch in Troy,- N. Y. Peter
L&uche, aged, nineteen " years,; bf Philadel
phia, deceived a fit'teen-year old girl and her
mother, by palming off a marriage licenso for
a certificate, and making the girt believe he
was Jgaliy pjmel to her. f-Tlie Sioux Iu
Jina are rapidly taken up thie new supersti
tion circulated by the medicene men to the
effect thai next spring all tha whites are to bo
annihilated, the dead Indian-, riue from the
grave and the red man's supremacy to be es
tablished WITH HIS OWN WEAPON.
Thtenteiqd to Kill IIU Slclt Wirt;, bat
i lot Uruiued Hliuaelf.
Ed warily .louck, residing iu Sullivan, Ind.,
went home druuk the other-night and began
to abuse his wile who was ill in bed, threaten
ing to kill her with a hatchet. While he was
standing over the bed where she day four
masKed men entered the room, touk him out
ami, with the same hatchet, beat fm head into
a jeily. flouck-died lrom tbe effects of his
injuries. No one saw.tue nnmlcr except
iiuiH'lt's wite, who tunnot describe the nieu
very accurately. No -arrests have been made.
. RET. DR. TALMAGB.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun
day Sermon.
Subject i The Dead Keaand the Itlver
Jordan."
, TeXTi n A certain man went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho." Luko x., 30.
David the poet here pictures a volcano, and
what Church's Cotopaxi does oa painter's
canvas this author does in words. You see
' a hill, calm and still and for ages immovable,
but the Lord out of the heavens puts His
. linger on the top of it and from it rise thick
vapors intershot with fire. "He toucheth
the hills and they smoke." -
God is the only being who can manage a
volcano, and : again and again has He em
ployed volcanic action. The pictures on
the walls of Pompeii, the exhumed Italian
city, as we saw them last November, de
monstrate that tha city was not fit to live,
In the first century that city, engirdled
with palaces, eniparadised with gardens,
pillared Into architectural exquisiteness,
was at the foot of a mountain, up the" sides
of which it ran, with Vineyards add villas
of merchant princes, and all that marble
and bronze and imperial baths and arbori
culture and rainbowed fountains, and a
coliseum at the dedication of which nine
thousand beasts had been slain, and a
supernal landscape in which the shore gave
roses to the sea and the sea-gaw crystals to
the shore, yea, all that beauty and pomp
and wealth could give was there to be seen
or heard. But the bad morals of the city had,
shocked the world In the year 79, on the 4th
of August, a black column rose above the
adjoining mountain and spread out, Pliny
. says, as he saw it, like a great pine tree,
' wider and wider, until it began to rain upon
the city first thin ashes aud then pumice
stone, and sulphurous fumes scooped, and
streams of mud poured through the streets
till few people escaped, and the city was
buried, and t-ome of the inhabitants eighteen
hundred years after were found embalmed
in the scoriaa of that awful doom. The Lord
called upon volcanic forces to obliterate that
profligate city. ; He touched the hills and
they smoked. - .
Nothing but volcanic action can explain
what I shall show you at the Dead Sea upen
which I looked last December, and of whose
waters I took a bitter and stinging taste.
Concerning all that region there has been
controversy enough to fill libraries, science
saying one thing, revelation saying another
thing. But admit volcanic action divinely
employed and both testimonies are one and
the same. Geology, chemistry, geography,
astronomy, ichthyology, ornithology and
zoology are coming one by one to confirm
the Scriptures. Two leaves of one book are
Revelation and Creation, and the penman
ship is by the same divine hand. Our horse
back ride will not be so steep to-day, and you
can stay on without clinging to the pommel
of the saddle, but the scenes amid which we
ride shall, if possible, be more thrilling, and
by the time the horses snuff the sulphurous
atmosphere of Ashaltites, or the Dead Sea,
we will be ready to dismount and read from
our Bibles about what was done that day by
the Lord when He touched the hills anl they
smoked. '
Take a detour and pass along by the rocky
fortress of Masada, where occurred some
thing more wonderful in the way of despera
tion than you ever heard of, unless you have
heard of that. Herod built a palace amid ;
these heaps of black and awful rocks which
look like a tumbled midnight. A great band
of robbers, about one thousand including
their families, afterward held the , fortress. ?
When the Roman army stormed that steep
and the bandits could no longer hold the
place, their chieftain, Eleazar, made a pow
erful speech which persuaded them to die
before they were captured. First the men .
kissed their families a loving and taarfui
food-by and then put a dagger into their
earts, and 1 the women and children
were slain. Then ten men were
chosen by lot to slay all the
other men, and each man lay down by the
dead wife and children and waited for these
executioners to do their work. This done,
one man of the ten killed the other nine.
Then the survivor committed suicide. Two
women and five children had hid them
selves, and after all was over came forth to
tell of the nine hundred and sixty slaugh
tered. Great and rugged natural scenery
makes the most tremendous natures for good
or evil. Great statesmen and great robbers,
great orators and great butchers, were
nearly all born or reared among mountain
precipices. Strong natures are hardly ever
born upon the plain. When men have any
thing greatly good or greatly evil to do they
come down off the rocks.
Pass on from under the shadow of Masada,
the scene of concentrated diabolism.and come
along where the salt crystals crackle under,
the horses' hoofs. You are near the most
God forsaken region of all the earth. You
to whom the word lake has heretofore sug
gested those bewitchments of beauty, Lu
zerne or Cayuga, some great pearl set by a
loving God in the bosom of the luxuriant val
ley, change all your ideas about a lake, and
see this sheet of water which tne Bible calls
the Salt Sea, or Sea of the Plain, and J osephug
calls Lake Asphaltites. The muleteers will
take care of the horses while we go down to
the brink and dip up the liquid mixture in
the palm of the hand. l"he waters are a com
mingling of brimstone and pitch, and have
six times larger percentage of salt than
those of the Atlantic Ocean, the ocean hav
ing four per cent, of salt and this lake 26
percent. Lake Sir-i-kol, of India, is the
highest lake in the world. This lake, on the
banks of which we kneel, is the lowest laka.
It empties into no sea, among other things,
for the simple reason that water cannot run
tap hill. It swallows up the river Jordan and
makes no response of thanks, aud never r
ports what it does with the twenty millions
cubic feet of water annually received from
that sacred river. It takes the tree branches
and logs floated into it by the Jordan and
pitches them on the banks of bitumen to de
cay there. 4
s The hot springs near its banks by the
name of Calurhoa, where King Herod came
to bathe off his illnesses, no sooner pour in
to this sea than they are poisoned. Not a
fish scale swims it. Not an insect walks it.
It hate life, and if you attempt tw swim
there it lifts you by an unnatural buoyancy
to tne suriace,as mucn as to say "we want no
life here, but death is our preference, death."
Tnose who attempt to wade into this lake,
and submerge themselves, come out almost
maddened, as with the sting of, a hundred
wasps and hornets, and with lips and eye
lids swollen with the strange ablution.
The sparkle of its waters is not like the
sparkle of beauty on other lakes, but a
metallic lustre like unto the flash of a
sword that would thrust you. The gaselles
and the ibexes that iive on the hills beside it,
and cranes and wild ducks that fly across
for, contrary to the old belief, birds do safe
ly wing their way over it and the Arab
horses you have been riding, though thirsty
enough, will not drink out of this dreadful
mixture. A mist hovers over paits of it al
most continually, which, though natural
tva portion, seems like a wing of doom spread
over liquid desolation. It is the rinsings of
abomination. It is au aqueous monster coiled
anions the hit In, or creeping with ripples,
aud stea?hful wuh nauseating malodors.
In these regions ' ones stood four great
cities of Assyria I Sodod, Gomorr&b, Adma
and Zeboim, The Bible says they were de
stroyed by a tempest of firs and brimstone
after these cities had tilled Up with Wickedness.
''No, that is absnrd," crie somd ortM "it is
evident that this Was a region of salt and
brimstone and pitch long before that.' . And
so it Was; The Bible says it was A region of
Sulphur long before the great catastrope.
"wellj bow," says some ode, wanting to
raise a quarrel between science and Revela
tion, "you have no right to say the cities of
the plain were destroyed by a tempest of
fire aud sulphur and brimstone, because this
region had these characteristics long before
these cities were destroyed." Volcanic ac
tion, is my reply. These cities had been
built out of very combustible materials. Tht
mortar was a bitumen easily ignited, and thi
walls dripped with: pitch most Inflammable.
They sat, I think, on a ridge of hills. They
stood high up and conspicuous, radiant in
their sins, ostentatious in their debaucheries,
four hells on earth. -
, One day there was a rumbling in th earth,
and a quaking. "What's thatf cry the af.
frighted Inhabitants. ''What's that?" The
foundations of the earth were giving way, A
Volcano, whose fires had been burning for
ages, at God's command bursts forth, easily
setting everything aflarrie, and first lifting
tbese cmes nign id tne air and tned flashing
then! down in chasms fathomless, The fires
of that eruption idtershot 'the dense smoke
and rolled unto the heavens, only to descend
again. And all the configuration of that
country was changed, and where there was
a hill there came a valley, and where there
had been the pomp of uncleanness came wide
spread desolation."" The red hot spade of
volcanic action had shoveled under tne cities
of the plain. Before the catastrophe the
cities stood on the top of the salt and sul
phur. After the catastrophe they were
tinder the salt and sulphur. Science right;
Revelation right. 'He toucheth the hills
and they smoke."
No science ever frightened believers in Re
velation so much as geology. They feared
that the strata of the earth would contradict
tha Scriptures, and then Moses must go un
der. But as in the Dead Sea instance so in
all cases God's writing on the earth and God's
writing in the Bible are harmonious. The
shelves of rock correspond with the shelves
of the American Bible Society. Science
digs into the earth and finds deep down the
remains of plants, and so the Bible announces
plants first. Science digs down and says,
. 'Marine animals next," and the Bible says.
"Marine animals next." Science digs down
and says, "Land animals next." "Then
comes manP says science. "Then comes
man m responds the Bible. Science digs into
the regions about the Daad Sea, and finds
result of fire and masses of brim
stone, and announces a wonderful geologi
cal formation. "Oh, yes," says the Bible,
"Moses wrote thousands of years ago, The
Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Go
morrah brimstone and fire from the Lord
out of heaven,', and David wrote, 'He touch
eth the hills and they smoke.'" So I guess
we will hold on to our Bibles a little longer.
A gentleman in the ante-room of the White
House, at Washington, having an appoint
ment with Mr. Lincoln at 5 o'clock in the
morning, got there fifteen minutes early, and
asked the servant, "Who is talking in the
next roomf "It is the President, sir." "Is
anybody with him?" "No, sir; he is reading
the Bible. He spends every morning from
4 to 5 o'clock reading the Scriptures."
My text implies that God controls vol
canoes, not with the full force of his hand,
but with the tip of his finger. Etna, Strom
boli and Vesuvius fawn at his feet like
hounds before tha hunter. These eruptions
of the hills do not belong to Pluto's realm, as
the ancients thought, but to the divine do
minions. Humboldt counted two hundred
of them, but since then the Indian archipei-,
ago has been found to have nine hundred of
these great mouthpieces. They are on every
continent and in all latitudes. That earth
quake which shook all America about six or
tieven summers ago was only the raving
around of volcanoes rushing ' against the
sides of their rocky caverns trying to break
out. They must come to the surface, but it
will be at the divine call. They seem re
nerved for the punishment of one kind of sin.
The seven cities they have obliterated were
celebrated for one kind of transgression.
Profligacy was the chief characteristic o the
seven cities over which they put their smoth
ering wingi Pompaii, Herculaneum, Stabiae,
Adma, Zeboim, Sodom and Gomorrah.
If our American cities do not quit their
profligacy, Jf in high life and low nf e disso
luteness does not cease to be a joke and be
come a crime, if wealthy libertinism con
tinues to find so many doors of domestic life
open to its faintest touch, if Russian and
French and American literature steeped in
pruriency does not get banished from the
news stands and ladies' parlors, God will let
loose some of these suppressed monsters of
the earth. And I tell thesa American cities
that it will be more tolerable for Sodom
and Gomorrah in the day of judgment,
whether that day of judgment be in this
present century or in the closing century
of tine earth's continuance, . The volcanic
force are already in existence, but in the
mercy of God they are chained in the ken
nels of subterraneous fire. Yet let profli
gacy; whether it stagger into a lazaretto or
eit on a commercial throne, whether it laugh
in a faded shawl under the street gas light or
be wrapped in the finest array that foreign
loom ever wrought or lapidary ever im
psarled, know right well that there is a vol
cano waiting for it, whether iu domestic life
or social h'e or political life or in the founda
tions or tne eartn rrom wmcn sprang out the
devastations that swallowed the cities of V
plain. "He- toucheth the hills and thw
smoke." En-k t.iia ftrairnman Wft r Inlpa.1 when WU
bad seen enough of this volcanic region of
ior another march, around the horses
which are prancing and neighing for de
parture. We are off for the Jordon, only
iwo hours away. We pass Bedouins whose
st?rn teatures melt into a smiie as we give j
them the salutation oaiaam Aieitoum.
"Peace be with you," their smile sometimes
leaving us in doubt as to whether it is
caused by their gladness to see us or by our
poor , pronunciation of the Arabic. Oh,
they are a strange race, those Bedouins.
Such a commingling of ruffianism and
honor, of cowardice and courage, of cruelty
and kindness! When a band of them came
down upon a party in which Miss Whately
was traveling, and were about to take
pocketbooks and perhaps life, this lady, Bit
ting upon ner horse, took out her note-book
ami pencil and began to sketch these brig
ands, and seeing this composure the bandits
thought it something supernatural and fled.
Christian womanliness or manliness is all
conquering. When Martin Luther was told
that Duke George would kill him if he went
to Leipsic, Luther replied: "I would go to
Leipsic if it rained Duke Georges nine days."
ho w we come through regions where there
are hills cut into the shape of cathedrals,
with altar and column and arch and chancel
and pulpit and dome and architecture of the
rocks that I think can hardly just happen so.
Perhaps it is because God loves the church so
well, he builds in the solitudes of Yellow
stone park and Yosemite and Switzerland
and Palestine these ecclesiastical plies. : And
who knows but that unsaen spirits may
sometimes worship there "Dragoman, when
Fiall we sea the Jordan?" I ask. AU th
time we wire on the alert, and looiin
t-Tough tamarisk and widows for tU
created riv-.-r vt all tvae erth. The 111 -
slppt Is wider, the Ohio is deeper, tne Ama
zon is longer, the Hudson rolls amid regions
more picturesque, the Thames has more
splendor on its banks, the Tiber suggests
more imperial procession, the Ilyssus has
more classic memories, and the Kile feeds
greater populations by it3 irrigation but the
Jordan is the quean of rivers, and runs
through all the Bible, a silver thread strung
like beads with heroics, and before night we
shall meet on its banks Elijah and Elisha
and David and Jacob and Joshua and John
and Jesus. '
At last between two trees I got a glimpse
of a river and said, "What is thatf V'The
Jordan," was the quick reply. .And all along
the line which had been lengthened by other
pilgrims, some from America, and some from
Europe, and some from Asia, the cry was
sounded "The Jordan? The Jordan P Hun
dreds of thousands of pilgrims have chanted
on its banks and bathed in its waters. : Many
of them dip a wet gown in the waves and
wring It out and carry It home for their own
shroud. It is an impetuous stream and
rushes on as though it were hastening to tell
its story to the ages. Many an explorer has
it whelmed and many a boat has it wrecked.
Lieut. Moloneaux had copper bottomed
crafts split upon its shelving. Only one
boat, that of Lieut, Lynch, ever lived to
sail the whole length of it. At the season
waen the snows on Lebanon melt the rage
of this stream is like Conemaugo. when
Johnstown perished, - and tha wUd beasts
that may be near run for the hills, explaining
what Jeremiah says, "Behold, he shall go up
like a lion from the swelling of Jordan."
No river so often changes its mind, for it
turns and twists, travelinz two hundred
miles to do that which in a straight line
might be done in sixty miles. Among banks
now low, now high, now on rocks, now of
sand, laving the feet of the terebinths and
oleanders and acacias and reeds and pis
tachios and silver poplars. This river mar
ries the Dead Sea to Lake Gallilej, and did
ever so rough a groom take the hand of so
fair a bride?
This is the river which parted to let an
army of two million Israelites across. Here
the skilled major general of the Assyrian
host at the seventh plunge dropped his lep
rosy not only by miraculous cure, but sug
gesting to all ages that water, and plenty
of it, has much to do with the sanitary im
provement of the world. Hero is where
some theological students of Elisha' s time
were cutting trees with which to build a
theological seminary, and an axe bead, not
sufficiently wedged to the handle, flew off
into the river and sank, and the young
man deplored not so much the loss of the
axe head as the fact that it was not his own.
and cried, "Alas I it was boiTowed," ana
the prophet threw a stick into the river, and
in defiance of the law of gravitation the iron
axe head came to the surface and floated
like a cork upon the water, and kept float
ing until the young man caught it. A mir
acle performed to give one an opportunity
to return that which was borrowed, and a
rebuke in all ages for those who borrow and
never return, their bad habit in this respect
so established that it would be a miracle it
they did return it. Yea, from the bank of
this river Eli jiah took a team of fire, showing
that the most raging element is servant of the
good, and that there is no need that a child
of God fear anything, for if the most de
structive of all elements was that day fash
ioned into a vehicle for a departing saint,
nothing can ever hurt you who love and trust
the Lord.
I am so glad that that chariot of Elijah
was not made out of wood or crystal or any
thing ordinarily pleasant, but out of fire, and
yet he went up without having so much as
to fan himself. When stepping from amid
the foliage of these oleanders and tamarisks
on the banks of the Jordan, he put his foot
on the red step of the red equipage, and took
the red reins of vapor in his bands, and
spurred the galloping steeds toward the wide
open gate of heaven, it was a scene forever
memorable. So the hottest afflictions of
your life may roll you heavenward. So the
most burning persecutions, the most fiery
troubles, may Decoine uplifting. .Only be
sure that when yon pull on the bits of fire
you drive up toward God and not down to
ward the Dead Sea. When Latimer and Bid
ley died at the stake they , went up in a
chariot of fire. When my friend P. P. Bliss,
the Gospel, singer, was consumed with the
rail train than broke through Ashtabula
bridge and then took flame, I said, "Another
Elijah gone up in a chariot of flrel"
But this river is a river of baptisms.
Christ was here baptized and John baptized
many thousands. Whether on tbese occa
sions the candidate for baptism and the of
ficer of religion wont into this river, and
then while both were standing the water was
dipped in the hand of one and sprinkled upon
the forehead of the other, or whether the
entire form of the one baptized disappeared
for a moment beneath the surface of the
flood, I do not now declare. While I candot
think without deep emotion of the fact that
my parents held me in infancy to the bap
tismal font in the old meeting house at Sotn
erville and assumed vows on my behalf, I
must tell you now of another mode of bap
tism observed in the river Jordan on that
afternoon in last December, the particulars
of which I now for the first time relate.
It was a scene of unimaginable solemnity.
A comrade in our Holy Land journey rode
up by my side that day and told me that a
young man who is now studying for the
Gospel mmistry would like to be baptized by
me in the river Jordan. I got all the facts
I could concerning his earnestness and faith,
and through personal examination made my
self confident he was a worthy candidate.
There were among our Arab attendants two
robes not unlike those used for American
baptistries, and thess were obtained. As
we were to have a large group of different
nationalities present I dictated to my
daughter' a few verses and had copies
enough made to allow all to sing.
Our dragoman had a man familiar with
the river wade through and across to show
the deptn and the swiftness of the
stream and the most appropriate place for
the ceremony. Then I read from the Bible
the accounts of baptisms in that sacred
stream, and implored the presence of the
Christ on whose head the dove descended
at the Jordan. Then as the candidate and
myself stepped into the waters the people
on tha banks sang in full and resounding
voice:
On Jordon's stormy banks I stand
And esat a wishful eye
To Caaua'i fair and hsppy land.
Where my poweafions lie.
Oh, the transporting, rapturous scene
Tnat rle to my sight:
Sweet field arrayed in living green ,
And rivers of delight.
By this time we bad reacaed the middle of
the river. As the candidate sank under the
floods and rose a-rain under a baptism in the
name of the Father, and the Son, and the
Holy Ghost, there rushed through our souls
a tide of holy emotion such as we shall not
probably feel again until we step into the
Jordan that divides earth from heaven. V ill
those waters be deep? Will those tides be
strong? No matter if Jesus steps in with us.
Friends on this shore to help us off. Friends
on the other shore to see us land. See I They
are coming down the hills on the other side to
S-eet us. flow well we know their step!
ow easily we distinguish their voices I From
bank to bank we had them with tears aud
they hail us with palm branches. They say
to us, "Is toat you, father?" "Is that you
mother' and we answer bv asking. "Is that
ou, my darliagr' 1 low near they seem, ana
o w naiTow tno stream mat uiv luea us i
CorM wo ba; stand, where Moses stood
Arid vievr the inndscoe o"er, ,
K? J 'Man's ttL'-"1 i i!'t Death's cold fiOod,
i. i frtM u i - i ;ds shore.
Tom WoolfolkPays the Death Penalty
at Perry, Ga.
Ilia Horrible Crime-Hatred of Hie Step
mother and Avarice Alleged the
Motive Hie Trial.
Thomns G. Woolfolk was hanged at Perry,
.Ga., for murdering nine persons, all members
of his father's family, on August 10, 1837
The doomed man slept well from two o'clock
until four. He got up at eight, and had a
interview with a party of newspaper men
with whom he convered for half an hour,
laughing and exchanging jokes.
About one o'clock he Mas conveyed, undei
the eseort ol the local military, to the gallows
which had been built in a little valley in the
outskirts of the town. Seven or eight thou
sand people swarmed the hillsides around to
wjitch the execution. On the gallows Wool
folk was cool and composed.
After the ministers had prayed, he himself
prayed fervently, declaring his innocence in
his invocation. A written statement, signed
by Woolfolk, was read, in which he gave it as
his dying declaration that he was innocent of
the crime for which he was being executed.
At 1.31 the drop fell. The fall failed to
break his neck, and death resulted from
strangulation, his pulse continuing to beat for
eleven minutes alter the fall. Twenty-five
minutes later the body was cut down.
The victims of the awful butchery were:
Capt. R chard F. Woolfolk. Sr.; his wife, Mrs.
Mattie Woolfolk; their children, Richard
Jr., aged 20; Su?an Pearl, awed 17; Annie,
aeed lO; Rosebud, aged 7; Charlie, aged 5;
Mattie, aged 8 months, and Mrs. Temple Vestr
aged 84.
The first alarm of the tragedy came from
Tom Woolfolk, the only survivor of the
mas-sacre. Tom went to the house of a negro
tenant named Green Socket, not far from the
Woolfolk house, about daybreak, and called
to him that someone had killed his father.
Hurried investigations revealed that the
crime had not been exaggerated. Nine dead
bodies were lying in horrid contusion in the
house, everyone of them brained with an ordi
nary wood-axe that had evidently been se
cured lrom the yard. In the room occupied
by the parents were six bloody corpses. The
bodies of Captain Woolfolk, his wife, their
infant and Miss Pearl Woolfolk lay on the
bed in thecorner, the father and mother and
babe having been struck on the head with the
murderous axe apparently before they awak
ened, while the eldest daughter's body had
been cast upon the bed after death. On the
floor were the lifeless bodies of Richard Wool
folk and his younger brother, Charlie, welter
ing in pools of blood. Death had been in
flicted in each case by blows with the butt of
an axe.
Three other bodies lay stiff in death in the
girls' room on the o'her side of the corridor.
The corpse of Mrs. West and of Rosebud, the
7-year-old daughter, reposed where they had
slept side by side in one of the two beds in the
room. The body of 10-year-old Annie Wool
folk lay near the window, as if she had been
warned of the approach of the murderer and
had sought to escape by jumping out of the
window.
Suspicion quickly fell upon Tom as the
murderer, and he was taken in custody. In
vestigation showed that the only tracks about
the house, traced in blood from the blood
bestrewn floor, were those of Woolfolk. Tom
admitted they were his, but said he made them
when he went into the bloody room alone
after the murder. He was searched, and on
one leg about the knee was found the imprint
of a bloody hand. He had on a shirt much
too large for him when searched, and after
ward his own shirt was found in the well,
blood-st:iined andclotted with human brains.
The motive for the crime was found in Tom
Wool folk's enmity for his stepmother and his
desire to have undisputed possession of his
lather's property.
Woolfolk was charged with murder of the
nine members of his father's household by the
coroner's jury, and in December, 1887, he was
brought to trial in Macon before JudgeGustin,
of the .Bibb County Superior Court. The
theory of the defense was that a crazy negro
of the neighborhood had committed the crime,
but the theory failed, and was practically
abandoned before the trial ended. The jury
found Woolfolk guilty after being out but a
few minutes, and he was sentenced to death.
The Supreme Court granted a new trial, how
ever, and in March, 1889, he was .tried at
Perry, Houston county, a change of venue
having been granted because a jury could not
be secured in Bibb. Again Woolfolk was
convicted. Another appeal was taken, but
the Supreme Court sustained the court below,
and ho was finally sentenced to be hanged at
Perry.
STRANGE RAILROAD ACCIDENT,
How Two Men Ixt Their Uvea on the
Rati..
A strange and fatal accident occurred neat
Beech Tree, a few miles from Dubois, Pa., by
which Engineer Casey and Brakeman Laird
were killed and Conductor Crawford and
Fireman Fitzpatriek badly injured.
At 3 o'clock A. M. train 50, with an extra
pusher, broke in two on the up-grade. The
accident was not known to the engineer of the
pusher, who shoved the rear section over the
summit and sent it down the other side to
run along by gravity. Meanwhile Engineer
Casey had run ahead, side-tracked the first
section, and ran back to get the rear end.
The two met with a crash in a deep curve,
the tender was thrust through the cab, pinion
ing Casey to bis seat and injuring him so that
he died to-night. Brakeman Laird was in
stantly killed, being crushed between the cars,
while the others were not seriously damaged.
MARKETS.
Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra.$5.20
$5.37. Wheat Southern Fultz, 101i(q)102
Corn Southern White, 6061c, Yellow,
69tilc. Oats Southern and Pennsylvania
48(o50ic Rye Maryland and Pennsyl vania
75.(4 7(k. Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
11.6U$12.00. Straw Wheat, 7JO$80.
Butter Eastern Creamery, 23gj24c, near-by
receipts 1314c Cheese Eastern Fancy
Cream, 10(llc, Western, 89.lc. Eggs 21(a)
22c. Tobacco, Leaf Interior, lfw$lioO, Goc.
Common, 4$5.00, Middiing, 6$8.00, Good
to fine red, 9(111.00. Fancy 12$13.00.
New York Flour Southern Good to
choice extra, 4.25I5.85. Wheat No. 1 White
1.00 1.08c Rye-State 68 60c Corn-Southern
Yellow. 5di(d8Jc, Oats White. State
4550c. Butter State, 12($lta. Cheese
State, 7(3yC. Ji-ggs a324c.
Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania
fancy, 425($$M. f Wheat, Pennsylvania and
Southern Red,1.031.03Jc. Rye- Pennsyl va
nia,6657c. Corn Southern Yellow, 58J
59o. Oats 544o5c. Butter State, 232tfe,
Cheese New York Factory, 10 101c. Eggs
State, 22&21e.
CATTLE. , .. '
Baltimore Beef 4.25(S$4. 45. Sheep
3.5tVi;$5.00. Hol's 5.00($.00.
Nkw York liorf i.25('a7.00. , Sheep
4.(K'(.8.40. Hoes 4.2iW4.W.
East Libkkty r;.cf 4.4');' ; ; 1.70. Sheep
r . 2 r it.. . . ? - V -. i
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DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
The public library building in New Haven,
Coun., was struck by lightning, and a portion
of the roof was torn off.
Thb public schools in Oxford, Blooming
Gvove, and other villages in Orange county,
New York, have been closed because of dij ii
theria. There was a heaw rain storm, accom
panied by lightning, in Waterburr, Conn.
Mucn diroage was done ia Water bury an 1
surrounding towns. - . '
A passexgeb train on the Keokuk ar.J
Western Railway struck a wagon, near Cen
terville, Iowa. The occupants, Isaac Bremer,
wife aud eon, were killed.
An express train on the Chesapeake aM
Ohii. Railroad rau into a roek that had fall en
on the track, near llinton, W. Va, Engineer
Goodale was badly injured.
Abijah Tisdeix, bir 14-year-old son
George, and a man, are believed to have been
drowned while shooting coots near Hanover,
Mass. Their dory went ashore empty.
One of the fulminate departments of the
'Union Metallic Cartridge Company at Brid
port, Conn, blew up. .George Baker, aged wj
years, employed in the place, was killed.
A collision occurred -between a frei.?'.
and a construction trsin on the Elgin
Eastern Railroad, near Joliet,IlL Thomni
Lawler was killed, and eight others were ia-jured-
Two children of Nicholas Brandt aged 2
and 3 year, upset the stove at their homo in
Dubuque, Iowa, while playing. They wtr
so badiy scalded by hot water that they died
in a short time.
Felix Yopng was killed. James Turner
probably fatally injured and several others
badly bruised, by the fall of a deriick on a
new building in Chicago. They were layic?;
bricks on the third floor. .
Whew the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
passenger train was near Watseka, Iud.. a
rail broke, throwing two of the' passenger
coaches on their sides. Several ot the pas
sengers were badly bruised, and the conduc
tor wus dangerously hurt
George Rhikefield, aged 9 years, died nt
"Stony Lonesome," near We6t Point, N. Y.,
of a gun shot wound in the head. Before ex
piring the boy said he had been shot by h;a
sister Ida, aged 16 years. Whether the shoot
ing was accidental or intentional is not known.
Captain Nicholas J. Skottowe, of the Brit
ish army, and bis wife, fell from the railroad
bridge to the rocks, 20 feet below, at Tins
Dalles, Oregon. Both were dangeronsly in
jured, Skottowe, who is about 70 years ot age,
perhaps fatally. . .
Captain John O'Grady, a mysterious sort
sf a character, perished in a fire in a Fron t
itreet tenement, in Brooklyn, N, Y. - He was
au officer in the Fenian invasion of Canada,
and was afterwards an officer in the regular
irray of the United States.
Tue boiler of a shifting engine, at E!ia
Furnace, near Pittsburg, exploded, killing
engineer John Fiatleyand fireman Thomas
McGufi'. Pieces of the flying boiler struck
and injured Joseph Ferrin and John Clark,
employes at the furnace. The cause of the
rxplosion is not known.
A BURGLARS REVENGE.
lie Attempt the Life of a Girl Who Had
Testified Agalust Him.
An exciting incident took place on Wab&sh
Avenue, Chicago, in which the chief partici
pants were James Prenell, a noted thief, alias
"Shanty," and Miss Alice Oakes, who resides
with her parents at No. 525 on that thorough
fare. .
A year ago Miss Oakes, who is a handsomo
girl of about 17, was a witness against Prenyl
on a charge of burglary, and upon her testi
mony he was given a year in the penite itiftry.
As he was being led away to the jail ot
the time he threatened to "get even" with
her. Being released from his confinement a
few days ago, he started out to carry, hij
threats iuto execution. He watched the resi
dence of the girl, and ascertaining that she
was not at home, secreted himself in the
neighborhood and awaited her return, llo
did not have long to wait, and as Miss Oukf s
turned the corner Prenell darted out of his
place of concealment brandishing a Jong
knife. .
The terrifiedjgirl ran screaming down Ws
bash Avenue, closely pursued by ber would
be murderer. He would undoubtedly have
succeeded in his vengeful design Lut for two
oflicer , who hearing Miss Oakes' screams,
gave chase to Prenell and captured hi in.
A BAD GANG BROKEN UP.
The Career of Kotorloae Criminals
Checked by the Leader's Doath.
The killing of the noted negro desparado,
Redding, in Opelika.Ga., winds up the history
of one of the worst criminal gangs in the
South. Bob Redding was born in GeoriA
thirty-five years ago, and in 18S7 began, his
criminal career in Griffin. He had a brother,
Wiley, a cousin, Emory, and an aunt, Man ly
Dubree, the four constituting the Redding
gang. They fired upon a party of ladies and
gentlemen during a dance in Griffin, wound
ing several. Coming to Atlanta, a Jong career
of murder and burglary .was: piled up, for
which they skillfully escaped punishment fur
years. They stole, in one way And another,
over $20,000. -
When finally arrested Bob was sentenced
to twenty and Emery and Mandy to'fitreen
years each. Bob exposed a plan to free t lie
prisoners, for which he was pardoned, lie
then organized a new gang, the members of
which have since been given long terms it
the penitentiary. Wiley escaped to Arknn .
sas, where he still is. Three months ago lie'
was arrested in Griflin iuto '(800 in gold
his person. He escaped and was not .
heard of nntil killed Sunday.
PLUNDERED BY TRAIN ROBBERS
Fifteen Hundred Dollars Taken From
Pmirnger oa the Bant Fe Hoai.
, As the south bound train on the Santa I'e
road pulled out of Socorro, " Jf, M, three Ken
were seen to step on board. After the t- '5
had passed San Antonio these stranger en
tered the Pullman sleepers and locked r,
door, then drew their guns on the porter f : i
conductor and relieved them of their snr; " ,i
cash. They then introduced themsclv-i
th- passengers," going through most of tl 1,
and making quite a haul. They jump? It: -,
the train on the Basque de Apache graut,
ing to the hills. It's estimated that they p t
$1,500. "
The thing was done so neatly and qui .'
that very few oa the train knew w !,..t J.
happened. The robbers were drestted r
boys, whose caps and mulflcrs were evui '.
intended to discuise them as much e ; -
sihle. The descriptions of them, ss pive.i i
the train men. tallies with the rprr..' " ' "
tliree very hiird characters w'io htn
hanirinc around for several ' . ' ! .
t c.v of the r-ad have cZ.rt- ' re';1.
' 41.000 for t..r cirttt