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"FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER .14, 1890.
NO. 27.
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The Eminent' Brooklyn Divine's Sun-
x day Sermon.
' i SnhjMtt "The Gardens of Nolomon."
i 51 ' . .... l . ;:'
! i 7 n vineyards, wads
ne oarifeiMaiid prcAords. and panted tree
F; fV"'"' M'rtr fWetert tfce wood
. .Mat trfiifttt "orW trees. "-Ecclfisiastes
-0. . ). V, . , ..,--
j A. spring morning and breakfast at Jem-Te'?-
A kin? with robes snowy white In
.chariot with gold, drawn by eight
! horses, high mettled, And housing as brii
a ?s. scoUoP out of that very sunrise, '
( na like the. winds fori speedy f ollowed
Hu ,re8inieiV archers on horseback,
with hand on gilded ow and arrows with
teel points flashing in the suny clad from
. head to foot fnTrrian purple, and black
.Mir sprinkled with gold dust, all dashing
"wn the road, the horses at full run, the
U'tihs loose-on their necks, and the crack ot
; whips and the balloo of the reckless caval-
. r cade putting; 1 he mires at defiance. Who is
It, and what is it King Solomon taking an
puting' before breakfast from Jerusalem to
ftis gardens and parks and orchards and res
! ?i' volre -sil mfies down the road toward
: Hebron; ;.r.What a contrast between that and '
1 myself on that very road one morning lass
Decemter thing afoot, for our plain vehicle
I turned back for photographic apparatus, for-
, gotten: e on the way to find what is called
teolomon'f pool, the, , ancient water worka of
Jerusalem,' and the gardens of a king nearly
tnree thousand years ago.- JVe cross the
. aqueduct again and, again, and here we are .
at the three greatreiervoirs, not filing of
I"". -but ' ..reservoirs', themselves.
tnat Solomon built three millenniums ago
for the, purpose , of catching the mountain
streams and passiDg them to Jerusalem to
B,ae thirst of the city, and also to irri
gate the most glorious range of gardens that
ever bloomed, with; -lf "colors, or Breathed "
with fall redoleneey for Solomon -was the
greatest horticulturist, the greatest botanist,
the greatest ornithologist, the greatest capi
talize and the greatest scientist of his con-'
tury. .... .:
Come over the piles of gray rock, and here
we are at the flrsj of the three reservoirs,
.. which are on three great levels, the base of
the ton reservoir higher than the top of the
second, the base of the second reservoir
higher than the top of thethird, so arranged
that the waters gathered from the several
sources above shall descend from basin to
basin, ther sediment t)f water deposited in
acA jf the three, so that by the time it gets
' down to the aqueduct which is to take it to
usaieni u nas naa tnrae in taring j, ana is
."' as pure as when the clouds rained it. Won-
.A1f 1,1 r.lnl.nnna A . 1 il .
reservoirs. 'I he white cement fastening the-
. uiwh ui eiuiiq jgemer isvow jusias wnen
the, trowels three thousand , years ago
smoothed the layers, .x'i'he highest reservoir
S0 feet by 529, the seoond,N33 feet' by 160.
and the lowes reservoir, 683 feet br i69,and
deep enough and wide enough and mighty
enough to float an ocean steamer. : t 4
On that Decambjb jnorning we saw hi
waters rolling down'' from' ! reservoir to
reservoir, and can jfwell understand! how m
this neighborhood the imperial gardens
were one great blossom, and the orchard
one great basket of fruit, and that Solo-.
irn in- his palace, writing the. Song- of
fJ01?g8 . and 'licclesiastes, may have been
. drawing (illustrations from what? ho had
seea thaiavery morning in the- reyal gar
dens when he alluded to melons, and man
drakes, and apricots, and grapes, and
pomegranate?, and finra ani SDiben. and
cinnamon, and calamu?, end campbire,
and "apple trees among the trees tk the
wood," and the almond tree as flourishing,
md to myrrh aut frankincense, and repre
sented Christ ns '.'gone down into his gar
den?, and the beds of spices to feed in the
gercenp, and to gather hlie?," and to "eyes
-. Jike f f.K POoJf,'! and to-the: voice-of the
' 'turtl4 dpve as heard in the land. I think
. i. was,; when Splojnon, was -showing the:
f Queen of Sheoa throush these gardens that
the Bible says of her: "There remaiaed no
more,Dirit in Jieft.'rr Snc.ave it ur:
Iv"" But all this splendor iilu hoi make Solomon
happy. One day,.after, getting back from
t his. morning rlcla. and before the horses had
'yet been cooled off' and rubbed down by' the
t royal equerry, Solomon wrote the niemor
i. able wproXfollowfag my text like a dirge
V played if ter a'grand marcb. f 'Behold all was
i vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was
- no profit onder the Bun." In other words,!
"It don't pay!" Would God that we might
. all leittrn the. lesson that this .world cannot:
produce happiness! At Marseilles there is a
castellattfaou89 km ' high ground, crowned
with alT that grove and garden can do, and
the wholeplace looks' out upon as enchanting
a landscape as the world 'holds, water and
hill clasping hands in a perfect bewitchment
, ,of scenery but the owner, of that place is
t totally blind, and to him all this goes for
nothing, illustrating the truth that whether
J One tie physically r morally blind, brilliancy
of surrounding cannot give satisfaction; but
tradition, fays that when- the "wise men of
the east"" were being glided by the star on
, the way W Bethlehem they for a little while
lost Bight of that star,' and in despair and ex
, ta,ustion cani to a well to drink, when look
ing down into the well they saw the star re-.1fVytfd-jn
thewater and that cheered them,
and thy resumed their journey; and I have
.th-notion that though grandeur and pomp
tfcun&Hndings'&i&y dot afford peace at the
wU wfilod's oonfeolation, dose by, you may
. CndJappinea and. the plainest cop of the
jL..weU.of faJ ration, jnay hold the brightest- star
, that ever shone from the heavens. . 1
' Although, these Solomonic, gardens are In
uiDF, fU'efe'are now 'growing there Sowers
that are'ttf be' -found nowhere else in the-
Holy jpa"rfkV Bow -dbl aepount for that
h'olioimiitchit his ships -and robbed the!
fti-dWnsjtAt'he:w!hole earth ; ior flowers, anl
v fi'jiatod Ibuse exotics hei-e, and these par-
t icular flowers are direct descendante of the;
foreign Jilants, he lmpQried.A Mr. Meshullam.?
i-bristlan'isrRefita; on the v ery ' eight o
these royal gardens, ,has in our day by put-,
iio? in bis own spadi, demonstrated.thatthe
i round isnly waiting for the right call to
' vitlsjt'jtf -asmUpiKiloxHf iaace, and splendor
" i-is uteea hundred . years mttcr Christ mm is
t ie'ded Soibmon"J6nil thousand years before
Christ. So all Palestine is waiting to become
therjcliesifceneofi,horticultHi'e. arborleulv
tufa ftua agriculture! --'v . ' !
Recent - travelers in the Holy Liana
. rppafc-'ot the rocky and stony surface of
- npnViy" air 1'alestine as an impassable barrter
to theinture cultivation of the soil. But it
f hey had examined minutely the rocks and
tctones of the Holy Jjand they would find that
t he v are being skeltoni4 and are being
melted int the foil anU being for the moso
l art limestone, thy are doing for that land
wbattha American and English farmer does
hra, at great tpense and fatigue, he
i rows hw wagtrti tend of lime and scatters it
(in the flelds for their turichment. Th
I .toruiF, the winters, the great midsummer
V i,Mt of 1'aleeUue, .by ca-mnbling up and
riWolvinc the rocks are Kr'lRly prspanns
" ya.Mtine Mild Syria to yield a pniuct likrt
i.ntotht luxui M;.t Vft.hetr f.rma o.
pw Y'iV, an.n I..!cfcter County firms cf
Vr'iDiM'l vip.ti, a iv I somcr.yt CVus-tr farim
I-.-iilCl
fnrm fields of Minnesola'and Wisconsin, and
the opulent orchards of Maryland and Cal
ifornia. Let the Turk be driven out and the
.-American or Englishman or Scotchman go
in and Mohammedanism withdraw its idol
atry and pure Christianity build its altars,
and the irrigation of which Solomon's pools
, was only a suggestion will make all that land
from Dan to Beersheba as fertile, and
aromatic an J resplendent as on the morning
when the king rode out to his pleasure
grounds in chariot so swift and followed by
- mounted riders so brilliant that it was for
speed like a hurricane followed by a cyclone.
As I look upon this great aqueduct of
Palestine, a wondrous specimen of ancient
lna?onry, : about seven feet high, two feet
.wide, sometimes tunneling the solid rock
and then rolling its waters through stone
, ware pipes, an aqueduct doing its work tea
miles before It gets to those three reservoirs,
and then gathering their wealth of refresh
ment and pouring it on to the mighty city
of Jerusalem and filling the brazen sea other
Temple, and the bathrooms of her palaces,
and the great pools of Siloam, and Hesekiah,
and Bethesda, I find that our century has no
monopoly of the world's wonders, and that
the conceited age in which we live had better
take in some oJ the sails of its pride when it
remembers that it is hard work in later ages
to ggt masonry that will last fifty years, to
say nothing of the three thousand, and no
modern machinery could lift blocks of
stone like some of those standinss
high , tip c the walls of Baalbec,
and -the art of printing claimed for
recent ages was practiced by the Chinese
fourteen hundred years ago, and that our
midnight lightning express rail train was
foreseen by the prophet Nahum. when In tho
Bible he wrote, "The chariots shall rai?ein
the street, they shall jostle one against an
other in the broad ways, they shall seem like
torches, they shall run like lishtnino- nri
( our electric telegraph was foreseen by Job,
""J3" " me onus ne wrote, "uansc tnou send
lightnings that they may go and say unto
thee, 'Here we arer " What is that talking
by the lightnings but the electric telegraph?
1 do not know but that the electric forces now
being year by year more thoroughly har
nessed may have been employed in ages ex
tinct, and that the lightnings all up and down
the sky have been running around like lost
hounds to find their former master.
Embalment was a more thorough art three
thousand years ago than to-day. Dentistry,
that we suppose one of the important arts
discovered in recent centuries, is proven to
be four thousand years old by the filled
teeth of the mummies in the museums at
Cairo, E;ypt, and artificial teeth on gold
plates found by Belzoni in the tombs of de
parted nations. We have been taught that
Harvey discovered the circulation of the
blood so lace as the seventeenth century.
Oh, no! Solomon announces it in-Ecclesias-tes,
where first having shown that he un
derstood the spinal cord, silver colored as it
is, and that it relaxes in old age "the silver
cord be loosed," goes on to compare the
heart to a pitcher at a well, for the three
canals of the heart do receive the blood like
a pitcher, "or the pitcher be broken at the
fminfaiH " Whot ia )ia. Knf. i.VtA tfn1at.iatl
of the blood, found out twenty-six hundred
years before Harvey was born? After many
centuries of exploration and calculation as
tronomv finds out that the world was round.
Why, Isaiah knew it was round thousands of
years before whea in the Bible he said: "The
ixrd sitteth upon the circle of the earth. w
(Scientists toiled on for centuries and found
put refraction or that the rays of light when
touching the earth were not straight, but
lent or curved. Why, Job knew that when
?ge3 before in the Bible he wrote of the light:
"It is turned as clay to the seal."
, In the old cathedrals of England modern
painters in the repair of windows are trying
to make something as good as the window
painting of four hundred years ago, and
1 ways failing by the unanimous erdict of
jll who examine and compare. The color of
modern painting fades in fifty years, while
the color of the old masters is as welt pre
served after Ave hundred years as after one
year. I saw last winter on the walls of ex
humed Pompeii paintings with color as fresh,
.is though made the day before, though they
were buried eighteen hundred years ago.
The making of Tyrian purple is an impossi
bility now. In our modern potteries we are
rying hard to make cups and pitchers and
iiowels as exquisitely as those exhumed from
tferculaneum, and our artificers are at
tempting to make jewelry for ear
taid neck and finger - equal to that,
orought up from the mausoleums of two
'thousand years before Christ. We have in
(ur time glass in all shapes and all colors,
but Pliny, more than eighteen hundred years
rgo, described a malleable glass which, if
thrown upon the ground and dented, could
i pounded straight again by the hammer or
could be twisted around the wrists, and that
confounds all the glass manufacturers of
tur own time. I tried in Damascus, Syria,
to buy a Damascus blade, one of .thoseswords
that could be bent double or. tied in a knot
without breaking., -, I could not get one.
Whyt TheKineteenth century cannot make
a Damascus blade, , If we go on enlarging
our cities we may after a while get a city as
large as Babylon, which was five times the
tize of London.
These aqueducts of Solomon that I visit to
day, finding them in good condition three
thousand years after construction, make me
think that the world may have-forgotten
more than it now knows. The great honor
. of our age is not machinery, for the ancients
bad some styles of it more wonderful; nor
art, for the ancients had art more exquisite
and durable; nor architected! for Roman
Coliseum and Grecian Acropolis surpass: all
modern architecture; nor cities, for some of
the ancient cities were larger than ours in
the sweep of their pom p. But our attempts
must be in moral achievement and gospel
victory. In that we have already surpassed
them, and in that direction let the ages push
on. Let us brag less of worldly achievement
and 1 thank God for moral opportunity.
More good men and good women is what the
world wantsr .Toward moral elevation and
spiritual attainment let the chief straggle
be. The source of all that I will show you
before sundown of this day on which we have
visited the pools of Solomon and the gardens
of the king. - . . '.
f ' We are on this December afternoon on the
war to the cradle of Him who called Himself
greater than Solomon We are coming upon
thM chief cradle, of all the world, not lined
ith satin, -Imt strewn wita straws-bob
Weltered by a palace, but covered by a barn:
hot presided over by a princess, but hovered
over by a peasant giri;yeBa
cradle
the
the
f5tt
ever biintr, annirom wcicu wo cthiw j
.fi -11 t.h events of the future have t
.nn,,t. tAk d.te as beinz B. C. or A. D. 1
before Christ er atter Christ. All eternity
past occupied in getting ready for this cradle,
and all eternity to come . to be employed in
celebrating its consequences.
I said to the tourist companies planning
our oriental journey, "Put us in Bethle
hem in December, the place and the month
of our Lord's birth," and we had our wish.
I am the only man woo nas ever anempieu
to tell iow Bethlehem looked at the sea-
son Jews was born. Tourists and writers
are tlu-re in February, or March, or April,
when the valleys are an embroidered sheet
of wild flowers, and auemomts aud ranun-
cuius are flushed as though from attempting
to climb tlii stepps, and la.ri and bul-
twb re fl'.i'.ig th-s ntr wit'i bird crone.
tr ' But i was th rr m Di""'.nber, a v iiitr
t!l
nrreu ica r.:..'.veMi i.v? ivj
oceans of redolence. I was told I must
not go there at that seasou, told so before
I started, told so in Egypt; the books told
me so; all travelers that I consulted about
it told me so. But I was determined to
see Bethlehem the same month in which
Jesus arrived, and nothing could dissuade
me. Was I not right in wanting to know
how the Holy Land looked when Jesus came
to it? He did not land amid flowers and
Rong. When the angels chanted on the
famous birthnight all the fields of Palestine
were silent. The glowing skies were an
swered by gray rocks. As Bethlehem stood
against a bleak wintry sky I climbed up to
it, as through a bleak wintry sky Jesus de
scended upon It. v His way down was from
warmth to chill, from bloom to barrenness,
from everlasting June to sterile December,
If I were going to Palestine as a botanist and
to study the flora of the land I would go in
March; but I went as a minister of Christ to
study Jesus and so I went in December. I
wanted to see how the world's frontdoor
looked when the heavenly Stranger entered
it.
The town of Bethlehem, to my surprise, is
in the shape of a horseshoe, the houses ex
tending clear onto the prongs of the horse
shoe, the whole scene more rough and rude
than can be imagined. Verily, .Christ did
not choose a 60ft, genial place in which, to be
bora. The gate through which our Lord en
tered this world was a gate of rock, a hard,
cold gate, and the gate through which He de
parted was a swin gate of sharpened spears.
We enter a gloomy church built by Constan
tino over the place in which Jesus was born.
Fifteen lamps burning day and night and
from century to century light our way to thi
spot which all authorities, Christian and Jew
and Mohammedan, agree upon as being the
.place of our Saviour's birth, and covered by
a marble shib, marked by a silver star sent
from Vienna, and the words: "Here Jesus
Christ was born of the Virgin Mary."
But standing there I thought, though this
Is the place of the nativity, how different tbe
surroundings of the wintry night in which
Jesus camel At that time it was a khan, or
a cattle pen. I visited one of these khans,
now standing and lookine just as in Christ's
time. 'We rode in under the arched entrance
and dismounted. We found the building of
stone, and around an open square, without
roof. The building is more than two thou
sand years old. It is two stories high; in
the center are camels, horses and mules.
Caravans halt here for the night or during
along Etorm. The open square is large
enough to accommodate a whole herd of cat
tle, a flock of sheep or caravan of camels.
The neighboring Bedouins here find market
for their bay; straw and meats. "Off from
this center there are twelve rooms for hu
man habitation. The only light is from the
door. I went into one of these rooms and
found a woman cooking the evening meal.
There were six -cows in the same room. Oh
a little elevation there was some sti aw where
the people sat and slept when they wished to
rest. It was in a room similar to that our
Lord was born
This was the cradle of a King, and yet
what cradle ever held so much? Civiliza
tion! Liberty! Redemption! Yourpar
don and mine! Your peace and mine! Your
heaven and mine! Cradle of a universe!
Cradle of a God 1 The gardens of Solomon
we visited this morninz were onlr a tvne of
wbat all the world will be when this illus
trious persoDage now born shall have com
pleted His mission. The horses of finest limb,
and gayest champ of bit. and sublimest arch
of neck, that ever brought Solomon down to
these adjoining gardens was but a poor type
of the horse upon which this conqueror, born
in the, barn, shall ride, when according to
apocalyptic vision all the "armies of heaven
shall follow Him on white horses." The
watera that rush down these hills into yon
der three great reservoirs of rock, and then
pour in marvelous aqueduct into Jerusa
lem till the brazen sea is full, and the baths
are full, and Siloam is full, are only an im
perfect type of the rivers of delight, which,
as the result of this great one's conring, shall
roll on for the slaking of the thirst of all na
tions. The palace of Lebanon cedar, from
which the imperial cavalcade passed out in
the early morning, and to which it returned
with glowing cheek and singling harness and
lathered sides, is feeble of architecture
compared with the house ot many mansions
into which this one born this winter month
on these bleak heights shall conduct us when
our sins are all pardoned, our battles all
fought, our tears all wept, our work all
done.
Standing here at Bethlehem do you not
see that the most honored thing in all the
earth is the cradle? To wbat else did
loosened star ever point? To what else did
heaven lower balconies of light filled with
chanting immortals? The way the cradle
rocks the world rocks. God bless the
mothers all the world over! The cradles
decide the destinies of nations. In ten thou
sand of them are this moment the hands that
will yet give benediction of mercy or hurl
bolts of doom, the feet that will mount the
steeps toward God or descend the blasted
way, the lips that will pray or blaspheme.
Oh, the cradle I It is more tremendous than
the ,-rave. Where are most of the
leaders of the twentieth century soon
to dawn upon us? Are they on
thrones? No. In chariots? No. In pul
pits? No. in forums? No. In senatorial
halls? No. In counting houses? No. They
are in the cradle. The most tremendous
thing in the universe and next to God is to
be a mother. Lord Shaftesbury said, "Give
me a generation of Christian mothers, and I
will change the whole phase of society in
twelve months." Oh, the cradle! "forget
not the one in which. you were rocked.
Though old aud worn but that cradle may be
standing in attic or barn, forget not the foot
that swayed it, the lips that sang over it,
the tears that dropped upon it, the faith in
God that made way for it. The boy Walter
Scott did well when he spent the "first five
fuinea piece he ever earned as a present to
is mother.
Dishonor not the cradle, though it may,
like the one my sermon celebrates, have
been a cradle in a barn, for I think it was
a Christian cradle. That was a great cradle
in which Martin Luther lay, for from it
came forth the reformation of the Six
tienth century. That was a great cradle in
which Daniel O'Conncll lay, for from it
came forth an eloquence that will be In
spiring while men have eyes to read or ears
to hear. That was a great cradle in which
Washington lay, for from it came forth
the happy deliverance of a nation. That
was a great cradle in which John
that wUl not cease until the krt
fiowaru lay, tor irom is came lortn a
uuugouuowvuo j-. out iiuv h
air. Great cradles in which the John Wes-
leys and the John Knoxes and the John
Masons lay. for from them came forth an
all conquering evangelization. But the
greatest cradle in which child ever slept, or
woke, laughed or cried was the cradle over
which Mary bent and to which the wise men
brought frankincense and upon which the
heavens dropped song. Had there been no
manzer, there had been no cross. Had there
been no Bethlehem, there had been no Gol-
. otha. Had there been no incarnation, taere
$had been no ascension. Had there been no
. start, there bad boon no close,
i Standing in the chill kban of a Saviour's
' humiliation, and seeing what He did for us,
I ask, What have we done for Hira? "There
: is nothing I can do," says one. As Christmas
as ar r'SMaclii!! In the villas chur:ii a
ol - "in sv I to a r""i:o of r'-. Is in 1y iy
:-.uct e ,. ? i!um-- i.t-i. u i. v
do something for Christ. After the day
was over she asked the group to tell her wbat
they had done. One said: "I could sot do
much, for we are very poor, but I had a
beautiful flower I had carefully trained m
our home, and I thought much of it, and I
put that flower on the church altar." And
another said, "I could not do much, for we
are very poor, but I can sing a little, and so
I went do i n to a poor sick woman in the lane,
and sang as well as I could, to cheer her up. a
Christmas song." "Well, Helen, what did
you do?" She replied, "I could not do much,
but I wanted to do something for Christ, and
I could think of nothing else to do, and so I
went into the church atter the people who
bad been adorning tba altar had left, and I
scrubbed down the altar back stairs." Beau
tiful! I warrant that the Christ of that
Christmas Day gave her as much credit for
that earnest act as He may have given to the
robed official who on that day read for the
people the prayers of a resounding service.
Son Jthing for Christ! Something for
Christ I .
A plain man passing a fortress saw a Rus
sian soldier on guard in a terribly cold night,
and took off his coat and gave it to the sol
dier, saying, "I will soon be home and warm,
and you will be out here all night." So the
soldier wrapped himself in the borrowed .
coat. The plain man who loaned the coat w
the soldier soon after was dying, and in hi,
dream saw Christ and said to Him, "You
have got my coat on." "Yes," said Christ:
"this is the one you lent Me on that cold
night by the fortress. I was naked, and y
clothed Me." Something for Christ I ' By the
memories of Bethlehem 1 adjure youi
Jn the light of that star
lie the sges empearied.
That song from sfsr
Has swept ovci the world,
FOOLED BYA DUMMY.
A Missouri Desperado Outwits Ills Con
fiding Jailer. .,
John C. Turlington, the noted desperado,
who has been confined in jail at Boonville,
Mo., for the last six months, effected his escape
in a clever manner. After the guards gave
him his supper it had been their custom to
allow him the freedom of the jail for t lie pur
pose of exercising until eight-o'clock. Deputy
Sheriff Nicholson took, him bis supper at six
o'clock and left Turlington's cell open so thst
he might have his usual exercise. As soon as
he was left alone the desperado rigged out a
dummy with the pillow and blanket from his
bed and an old shirk. He placed the dummy
in the bed so that it would appear to be lying
with its baok to the door. He placed his
supper dishes outside the door ana arranged
the cell for the night in its usual way and
proceeded to the room in the lower part of the
building occupied by Deputy Sheritts Nichol
son and Garrettson, where he hid hintsH
under the bed and awaited a favorable oppor
tunity to make his escape, which presented
itself when the two deputies went into the
room prepared for their sapper. Then Tur
lington emerged from his place of conceal
ment and escaped by the window, which was
only a few feet from the ground. When
Nicholson went to Turlington's cell to secure
the prisoners for the night he found the supper
dishes outside the door, end mistaking the
dummy for his sleeping charge, locked and
bolted the door.
Turlington's clever ruse was not discovered
until nine o'clock the next morning, when the
guard attempted to rouse the dummy for
breakfast. Ihe alarm was given, and the
search tor the fugitive was begun. 'One of
the searching party returned and reported
that no trace of Turlington had been found,
except, perhr.ns, three horses which had been
stolen during the night at different points on
the road to Jefferson City. He was the
murdererofex-SheriffCrannier, of this county,
and was a self-confessed train-robber.
The former crime was committed after he
had been arrested at Sedalia for shooting at a
railroad brakeman. A confederate supplied
him with a revolver, and he attacked Sheriff
Cranmer one night when the latter had taken
his supper to him. He shot the sheriff in the
breast, but the officer succeeded in bolting the
prisoner's cell door before Turlington could
make his escape. While awaiting trial for
the latter crime, he confessed to being the
confederate of Bill Temple in the Vinito, I.
T., train robery. Temple was convicted of
the latter crime at Fort Worth, Tex., and is
now serving time for it. Turlington was con
victed of Sheriff Cranmer ' murder, and was
sentenced to be hanged. He was granted a
new iienring, anu was swsiuog trial wnen ne
escaped. :
TWO BIG HOTELS BURNED.
The Grand and the Burlington In San
Francisco Destroyed.
Fire was discovered at three o'clock A. M..
in neuter Bros. & Co.'s paint shop under the
Grand Hotel. The fire spread rapidly, and
the hotel was soon in flames. There was treat
excitement among the guests, bnt they all
escaped safely.
The flames spread rapidly throughout the
basement of the block bounded by Market,
New Montgomery, Stevenson and Second
streets, and then spread to the first floor, oc
cupied by the Hall Safe and Lock Company;
Hill & Goldman, druggists' supplies, the
Board of Trade rooms; the Pullman Palrce
Car Company's office; the "Great Northern
Railroad licket office, and the rooms of the
Syndicate Investment Company. The smoke
in the meantime had aroused the inmates of
the Grand and the Burlington hotels, and the
frighteue.l guests rushed to the sidewalk with
what valuables they could carry. The fire
soon shot up thrnuvh the freight elevator in'
the reur of the Grand Hotel, and a disastrous
conflagration was looked for. The general
alarm brought the remainder of the fire de
partment to the scene. The front of Hueter
Bros.& Co.'s store blew ont with a lond ex
plosion, and large volumes of smoke poured
out, almost overcoming the firemeu. There
were several narrow escapes. By live o'clock
the flames had pread alonj? the eastern end of
the block, bursting from the roof and windows.
The wind was slight, and the efforts ot the
firemen to confine the fire within ihe block,
occupied by the Burlington and Grand hotels.
Were KllCCRioif'il. Ahnnt air n'i1v.lr (h. .nf
of the Burlington fell in, carrying part of that j
the Burlington was a complete wreck, and
the front of the Grand on Market street, to
gether with the eastern end, adjoining the
Burlington, was also a ruin
The
tie western end
was saveu.
The Grand Hotel was opened In 1870, by
Messrs. Johnson & Co., and at the time was
considered one of the finest hotels in the worlds
It was four Btories high, and had a frontage of
300 ieet on Market street. Two yearn ago
about hall of the block wns leased toother
parties, aud was called the Burlington Hotel.
The total loss, including tnilJiiiRs, stores,
iarniture and stock, is estimated at $1,500,000.,
The fire is believed to be due to spontaneous
combustion of inflammable materials in the
Hueter Bros. A Co.'s place of business.
FttANK Stockton, the novelist, lives in a
roomy hou"e at Madisou, N. J. lie is a
.l....t !- I i l:. J
tinp the crly psrt of each day to his writing. ;
At times he suffers from wpk eyes, and n j
such -x-ci'tions lit) duplies Lis etories to his I
THE NEWS,
William Summers shot and killed C. A.
Johnson, a constable, at the polls at Liberty,
Kb. There was tome excitement at ths
Philadelphia Stock Exchange on account of
decline in Pennsylvania Railroad stock.
Three thousand coke-workers struck in the
Connellsville coke region. An engineer
named Kyle was killed in a collision on the
Canadian Pacafic Railway near Owen Sound,
Ontario. Gen. O. O. Howard recommends
that certain important changes be made in the
organization of the army.-; The French
government has bought "The Angel us."
The easterns committee of the French Cham
ber of Deputies has adopted the principle of
a double tariff The Socialists at Kiel
elected two members for the ' Reichstag.-
Professor Koch, of the University of Berlin,
wants more time to experiment in reference
to his cure of consumption by inoccolatlon.
-Captain McKenzie, the American chess
player, has sailed from Liverpool for America.
The Quebec Legislature was opened by
the Lieutenant Governor.' Michael Davitt
appeals to the home secretary for the relief of
McDermott's victims. Thos. Power O'Con
nor and wife arrived !jA -New "York.-
Charges of obtaining, money fraudulently
from the State of West Virginia have been
mads against E. Ward Clouston and William
Clemens. Robert T. Lincoln, minister to
England, arrived at New York from England-
A mortgage lor seventy-five million dol.
lars was recorded at Pittsburg. Dr. Frank
lin G. Hill, of Princeton College, is dead.
W. J. Barfield, a storekeeper of Palmetto,
Ga., who was financially embarrassed, com-,
raitted suicide in Atlanta by taking !aud-
anum. John R. McCnllongh, agent for an
Atlanta guano house, 'while asleep in a hotel
at Riverdalc. Ga.' was robbed of $4,001-
John Cook, aged twenty-nine years, of Pleas
ant Valley, near Wheeling, W. Va., commit-'
ted suicide by cutting his throat with a shoe
knife. A telegraph operator's blunder at a
station on the Delaware, 'Lackawanna and
Western Railroad caused an express train to
rash i'Ao a coal train, and four persons were
killed and several injured. The Grand and
Burlington Hotels, in San Francisco, were
destroyed by fire. Seventy girls employed
in the Lalland undergarment factory, at Ash
land, Pa., went on strike. At Kingston,'
Tenn John M. Webster, Jr., the town mar
shal, was shot by-James Edwards, whom the
marshal was trying to arrest, and Webster in
turn shot Edwards. Both men died in an
hour .from their wounds. The stables of
the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment
Station in New Brunswick, N. J., were de
stroyed by fire, together with the valuable
cattle house there. rIn San Francisco Wil-
'.iam Stanton and James Sullivan settled a
quarrel in the prize-ring. Sullivan was the
victor. Conrad Schulm, of Peoria, 111 , wa
sandbagged in Peoria, III. The baby of
Mrs. Carico, of Peoria, III., was burned to
death. -W. V. Hobbs, a gambler, stabbed
William Snyder, a butcher, with, a stiletto in
Chicago. J udge J. Eugene Tenney died in
Lansing, Mich; Two labor-leaders of Bos
ton are charged with accepting bribes.
The wholesale dry goods house of Brown,
Holt & Co., of Chicago, h.as failed.
A fireman named Welch was killed in a
wreck on the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad near Beloit, Wis. Engineer Eagan
was badly hurt Mrs. Qrsene Julian and
ler babe were burned to death at Bethlehem,
Pa, in a fire caused by the explosion of a
kerosene lamp. The People's coal yard at
Amsterdam, N. Y., was burned. Loss $25,
000; partial insurance. Chicago voted over
whelmingly in favor of adding to the guaran
tee fund for the World'sFair. S. S. Schwer-
reiner, of Reading, Ta., has fs-id. Benj.
Huber, a storkeeper in LancasW county, Pa.,
shot himself with a' spring gun set to kill
burglars. The steamer Reynolds went
ashore near Toledo and then caught fireJ She
is a total loss. An epidemic of diptheria is"
puzzling the physicans of Martinsville, Ind.
At a wedding feast in Glasgow, Nev., an
uninvited guest killed the bridgeroom.
David' T. Billings, an Elmira, N. Y. mer
chant, killed himself. Full returns of the
municipal elections in England show heavy
Liberal gains. Gen. Bcrnois, one of the
leaders of the Swiss revolution .in 1848, is
dead. The Prince of Wales opened the
first electric railway in England, running
under the Thames to South London. The
Irish parliamentarians will speak in Phila
delphia, Newark, New Jersey, Baltimore and
Chicagco.- Supervisor Kenny has refused to
deliver to Secretary Noble, the police census"
of New York city.
AN ANARCHIST'S CRIME.
He Murders m Wealthy Live Stock Man
and Safeldea.
At South St Paul, Minn., Benjamin F.
Rogers, ot the big live stock commission firm
of Rogers & Rogers, and one of the best-known
stock dealers in the Northwest, was killed by
George Robarge, near the latter's house, a
mile and a quarter from the stock yards.
Some cattle belonging to Rogers, in charge of 1
a young herder named Loran Mickle, were
being driven across Robarge 's premises to
grazing ground, when Robarge assaulted
Mickle. Mr."Rogers,'whose house' is but, a.
short distance off, heard of the trouble, and
went to the spot He tried to get Robarge to
mark the line of his property, so as to pre vent
further trouble, but the latter was too angry
to pay any attention. , Robarge first used ' a
shovel and then an axe, but was kept off by
Mr. Rogers. Me then procured his shotgun
and shot William Rogers, who bad come upon
the seenoe, in the shoulder.
The wounded man ran for his life, and Ro
barge opened fire on Benjamin Rogers, empty,
ing a load of shot in hii head, making a fright
ful and fatal wound, death resulting almost
instantly. As soon as the Dews of the murder
reached the stockyards an excited crowd of
men started out with guns in their bands and
vengeance in their hearts, but they were too
late. After an excited search of the woods,
they found Robarge in his barn dead. He had
placed the morEle of the gun to his head and
polled the triniier with ni too, blowi;;:; off
the iifptr part of his head. 'Ihe mimseier
and Siccide w an ara rcbisU
SIXTY LIVES LOST.
Two Vessels Sunk, off the Coast of
Barnegat (
An Inbound Schooner Crashes Into -the
Steamer Vlseaya Both Go Down
Immediately After.
The steamship Vizcaya, of the'Companie
Trans-Atlantic Espanola, the Spanish-American
Line, bound trom New York for Cuba,
collided with a four-masted schooner while
six miles off Barnegat, and both vessels sunk
almost immediately. It is supposed that over
sixty people have been lost Tbefsleamer
Humboldt, which arrived ia Brooklyn from
Brazil, rescued eight of, the crew -the first
and second officers, the engineer and surgeon
of the Vizcaya. So far as is known, these are
the only persons out of a total crew and pas
senger list of eighty-six of the Vizcaya and
the crew of the big schooner that are supposed
to have been saved. It is feared that ail the
others have been lost. The Vizcaya left New
York at 1 P. M. lor Havana and other Cuban
pjrts. She had a large cargo of freight a ci ew
of seventy-seven and nine regular passengers.
There were others, however, who are not
entered on the passenger list At half-past
tight o'clock a large four-masted coal schooner
hove in sight She was a much larzer vessel
than the Vizcaya, and immediately bore down
upon her. Her bowsprit struck the steamship
on the .starboard bunters, carrying away the
bridge and the cabin.
Tne captain of the Vizcaya, who was stand. '
ing on the bridge, was instantly killed. Seven
minutes later both vessels had sunk, and the
passengers and crews were struggling in the
water. There were heart-rending shrieks and
eries, which were heard by those on board tho
Humboldt The captain of that vessel headed
lor the spot where tne cries of distress were
heard as quickly as possible, and saw the spars
and masti of the sinking vessel disappearing.
Several people were, struggling in the water.
Boats were lowered and twelve persons were
picked up, and not another soul could be seen,
i'heu the Humboldt steamed away, taking
eare to provide tor the rescued people ou
board. A negro was picked up by a small
boat afterwards. He belonged to the Vizcaya.
The captain and crew of the schooner are u p.
posed to have been drowned.
The Vizcaya was a Spanish screw steamer,
budt in London in 1872 by J. & W. Dudgeon,
she was one of the latest additions to the
Spanish-American fleet, and her captain, who
had been twenty years ia the company's ser
vice, was implicitly trusted in. The head
offices of the company are in Barcelona,,
SEVENTEEN MEN PICKED CP. ,
Lewis, Del. The tug Hercules arrived
here, and reports tnat it was the schooner
Cornelius Hargrave that collided with' the
Spanish steamer Vizcaya. Both vessels sank '
in fifteen fathoms of water. Ten men trom
the Hargrave and seven from the Vizcaya
were picked up by the schooner Sarah L."
Davi, and were transferred to the Hercules.
The latter proceeded for the wreck to rend or
assistance, but at midnight met the tog Battler,
which had been to the scene, and found both ,
vessels sunk and all hands gone. Picked up
the body of a woman. The survivors report
nearly a hundred people were clinging to the
wreck at one time. The survivors nave beca
landed at the Lewis Life Station! also the
corpse of the woman picked up. ; She is re
ported to have been stewardess of he steamer.
llTim iriTie XT lTk....fll..l;r.
saving station have patroled the beach 6incs
the accident, but neichcr wreckage nor bodies
have come ashore from the wreck. ' The
wrecks lie off shore, in about forty, feet of
water, and are directly in the track of ocean
steamers and coasters, and it is possible thst
some of the crew and passengers may have
been picked up. '
' GAGGED AND ROBBED.
An Expres-i Agent's Lively Experience
With Thieves.
One of the boldest robberies perpetrated in
Meadville, Pa., for many years occurred at
the office of the Wells," Fargo Express Com.
pany. C. P. Moore, who was alone in the
office, which is situated in a locality where
people are continually passing, was counting
the contents of his cash drawer, preparatory
to balancing his eash account, when a rap on
the door drew his attention. H' nla'ot n,.
money in the drawer, stepped outside of the
office railing and opened tne door, admitting
two strangers. Upon entering they bade fciui
good evening, then leveled a revolver -at his
head and cautioned him not to move or makV
an outcry on pain oi instant aeatn. lie vs-fof
then bound and gagged aud laid npoa the
floor. - !
The robbers then proceeded to open the
large sate, which was unlocked, and tore open
and appropriated the money packages, valued
at from 5,000 to $ 15,000, alter which thy
made their escape. Mr. Moore was so securely.
t;-d that it was fully half an hour after they
left before he was liberated and made an out
cry for assistance, lie describes the assail
ants as follows: One large, middle-aged man,
wearing a flowing beard, evidently false, and
the other a young, sandy-eoniplexioned man
about twenty years old. The monev the spent
was counting when he was interrupted in his "
won, amounting to several nunarea collars,
was untouched by the robbers.
AN OLD FEUD REVIVED,
VJ' ' "i - .
One of . the McCoys Shot Down hy the
IIMfleld Gang.
A despatch from Huntingdon, W. Va, sa re.
Anse Hatfield was in town last Friday," and
reported everything quiet in Loan count
A few hours later on that day, and while Ansa
; was still in this city, the war which has hern
slumbering on the Big Sandy afuw mqntha
was reopened. McCoy, of Peter's Creek, on
, the Kentucky side of the river, met his death
at the hands of seven of the Hatfield cr !,
led by Jerry Dempsey. . , .:A
The murder took place st Tenuis Camp of
railroad men, on the Norfolk & Western ilsil
road, in Logan county, about eleven o'clock.
McCoy had been out all day, and had cgllei ted
a considerable amountof money for'Coniruc
tor Lewis, who ia -engaged on the railroad,
work. He was returning to the camp, nn.l
was within probably a quarter of mifo.nl' it.
when he was ambushed by the 1 1 a Mu- Ids, mnl
trreeted by a volly frcm WinchesM-rs, the tire
being ttiive timfs repeated. Sixteen or scvimi
tecn bullets took clfocf,aiKf McCoy died in
stantly. His b.ly was rubbed of the monev, iIthoiu,!i
rnllry wns not tho. purpose of t!i. chwh-'h v
murder. The crime mt stin-i-1, ui a tio-
, mendittis excitement, espi:itiily on the Ken
tucky side, wlif-re MrOiy re;d !, nnd pru-
bubly ere this his deitth li:H been n i-enired. AT '
nuy event, it is certain M ! n-i to i cue "
the feud, which uM tow I . ..: . ;
been thoroughly iiyaled. i