Published bt Koanoke Publishing Co.
'FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. '
C. V. xYusbon, Business Manager.
VOL. II.
PLYMOUTH, N. C.,TftriEtY, NOVEMBER 2?1890.
NO. 29.
EUl TALIIAGE;
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun-
day Sermon.
object t "Among the Bedoalns."
T Tbxt: "Forhtmueh as thou knowest hoio
tcs are to encamp in Vie uildernesi.nNim.
' X, 81. ,
1 Night after night we have slept in tent in
Palestine. There are large Tillages of Bedou
ins without a house, and for three thousand
Tears the people of those places hare lived in
black tents, made out of dyed skins, and
when the winds and storms wore out and tore
loose those coverings others of the Bame kind
took their places. '
Noah lived in a tent; Abraham in a tent.
Jacob pitched his tent on the mountain.
Isaac pitched his tent in the valley. Lot
pitched his tent toward Sodora. In a tent
the woman Jael nailed Sisera, the general, to,
the pround, first having given him sour milk;
called. Mlebin" as a soporific to make him
eleep soundly, tbat being the effect of such
nutrition, a modern travelers can testify.
The Syrian army in a tent. The ancient
battle shout was "To your tents, O Israel:"
Paul was a tent maker. Indeed, Isaiah,mag.
mCcentl? poetic, indicates that all the human
race live under a blue tent when he savs God
stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain and
tpreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in, "and
Hezekiah compares death to the striking of a
tent, saying,.'My age is removed from me
sashenherd'stent."
In our tent in Palestine to-night I hear
something X never heard before and hope'
never to hear again. It is the voice of a
hyena nmid the rocks hear bv. When you.
may have seen this monster putting his!
month between the iron bars of a menagarie .
he is a captive, and he gives a humiliated,
and suppressed cry. But yonder in the mid
night on a throne of rocks he hns nothing to
fear, and he utters himself in a loud, re
Bounding, terriffic, almost supernatural
sound, splitting up the darkness into a
deeper midnight. It begins with a howl and
ends with a sound something like a horse's
whiuing. In the hyena's voice are defiance
and strength and bloodthirstiness and crunch'
of broken bones and death.
' 1 glad to say that for the most part
Palestine is clear of beasts of prey. The
leopards, : which Jeremiah says cannot,
change their spots, have all disappeared, and.
the lions that once were common all through
this land, and used by all the prophets for;
..illustrations of cruelty and wrath, have re-,
treated before the discharges of gunpowder,
of which they have an indescribable fear. But
for the most psrt Palestine is what it origi
nally was. W ith the one exception of a
wire thread reaching from Joppa to Jeru
salem and from Jerusalem to Nazareth and
from Nazareth to Tiberias and from Ti
berias to Damascus, that cne nerve of civili
zation, the telegraphic wire (for we found
.ourselves only a few minutes oft from Brook
lyn and New York while standing by Lake
Galilee), with that ons exception Palestine
just hs always was.
t Nothing surprised me $o much as the per
sistence of everything. A sheep or horse
falls dead, and though the sky may ono min
ute before be clear of all wing3 in five min
utes after the skiaa are black with eagles
cawing, screaming, plunging, fighting for
room, contending for largest morsels of the
extinct,quadruped. Ah, now I understand
the force of Christ's illustration when He
raid: "Wheresoever the carcass is there will
the eagles be gathered together." The long
evity of those eagles is wonderful. They,
live fifty and sixty and sometimes a hundred
years. An, that explains what David meant
when ho said: "Thy youth isrenewei like the
eagle's." 1 saw a shepherd with the folds of
his coat far benj; outward, and I wondered
what was contained in that amplitude of ap-
arel, audi said to the dragoman: "What
as that shepherd got under his coat?" And
tbe dragoman saiif: "It is a very young Jamb
he is carrying; it is too young and too weak
and too cold to keep up with the flock." At
that moment I saw the lainb put its head out
from the shepherd's boeoni and I said: There
it is now. Isaiah's description of the tender
ness of God he shall gather tbe lambs with
his arm and carry them in his bosom."
Passing by a vi,lage home, in the Holy
Lnnd, about noon I saw a great crowd in
and around a private house, and I 6aid to the
dragoman: "David, what is going on there?"
He said: "Somebody has recently died there,
and their neighbors go in for several days
after to Bit down and weep with the be
reaved." There it is, I said, the old scrip
tural custom, "And many of the Jews came
to Martha and Mary, to comfort them con
cerning their brother." Early in the morn
Jng passing by a cemetery in the Holy Land;
I saw among the graves about fifty women;
dressed in biack,and they were crving : ' Oh, j
my child T "Oh, my husband Pr "Oh. my.
father " "Ob, my mother 1" Our dragoman
told us that every . morning, very early for'
three mornings ai ter a burial, the women go,
to the sepnlcher, and after that every week,
very early for a year. As I saw this group
just after daybreak I said : "There.it is again,
the same old custom referred to in Luke, tbe
evangelist, where he says, 'Certain women
which were early in the sepulcher.' "
But here we found ourselves at Jacob's
well the most famous well in history, most
distinguished for two things, because it be
longed to the old patriarch after whom it
was named, and for the wonderful things
which Christ said, seated cn this well curb,
to the Samaritan i woman.. -We dismount
from our horses in a drizzling rain, and our
dragoman, climbing up to the well over
the slippery stones, stumbles and fright
ens us all by nearly falling into it. I meas
ured the well at the top and found it six feet
from eiir tn ftclfA. Q v.a coram nl wi
and thorny growths overhang it. In one
place the roof is broken through. Large stones
embnuk the wall on all sides.
Our dragoman took pebbles and dropped
them Id, and fom the time they left his
hand to the. inswnt they clicked on the bot
tom you could hear it was doep, though not
as deep as once, for every day travelers are
applying the same test, and -though in the
time of Ms.unc!rell,,the traveler, the well was'
a hundred and sixty-five feet deep, now it is
enly seventy-five. So great is the curiosity
of the world to know about that well tbat
during the dry season & Captain Anderson
descended into this well, at one place the
sides so close he kadto.Dut.bi3 hands over hi
head in oroer to get through, and then ha
fainted away and lay at the bottom of the
well as though dead, until hours after recov
ery he came to the surface.
It is not like other wells digged down to a
fountain that fills it, but a reservoir to catch
the falling rains, and to . that Christ refers
when speaking to the Samaritan woman about
a spiritual supply He said He would,if asked,
havo given her "Jiving water." that is, water
from a flowing spring in distinction from tb
water of the well, which was rain water. But
w h y di d Jacob make a reservoir there when
there i plenty of water all around and
abundance of springs and fountains and seein
injrlyno need of that reservoir? Why did
Jacob go to the vast expense of boring and
digging a well perhaps two hundred fees deep
as first Dompleted, when, by going a little
way off, he could nave water from other
fountains at little or no expense? Ab, Jacob
was wise. Ke wanted hi own well. Quarrels
und wars mi',-.ht oriaa with other tribes and
ir..tf ff HT.fer mi?!tt be cut off, so the
were ordered, and the well of nearly four
thousand years ago was sunk through the
solid rock.
When Jacob thus wisely insisted on having
his own well he taught us not to be unneces
sarily dependent on others. Independence
of business character, independence of moral
character, independence of leligious. char
acter. Have your own well of grace, your
own well of courage, your own well of divine
supply. If you are an invalid you have a
right to be dependent on others. But if God
has given you good health, common sense
and two eyes and two ears and two hands
.and two feet, He equipped you for independ
ence of ail the universe except Himself, ll
He had meant you to be dependent on other
you would have been built with a cor.
around your waist to tie fast to somebody
:se. pro; yon are built with common sense
to fashion your own opinions, with eyes to
find your own way. with ears to select your
owu music, with hands to fight your own
battles. There is only one being in the uni
verse who?e advice you need and that is God.
Havo your own well and the Lord will fill it.
Dig it if need be through two huadred feet
of solid rock. Dig it with your pen. or dig
it with your yard stick, or dig it with your
Bhovel, or diss it with vour Bible.
In my small way I never accomplished
anything for God or the church.or the world,
or my family, or myself, except in contradic
tion to human advice and in obedience to
divine counsel. God knows everything," and
what is the use of going for advice to human
beings who know so little that no one but the
all seeing God can roalize how little it is I
suppose that when Jacob began to dig this
well on which we are sitting this noontide
people gathered around and said, "What a
us?less expense you are going to, when roll
ing down from yonder Mount Gerizim and
down from yonder Mount Ebal and out
yonder in the va'loy is plenty of water F
"Ob, replied Jacob, "that is all true, but
suppose my neighbors should get angered
against me and cut off my supply of mount
am beverage, what would I do, and what
would my family do, and what would my
flocks and herds do? Forward, ye brigade of
pickaxes and crowbars, and go down into the
ueptosoi these rocks and make me independ
ent of all except Him who fills the bottles of
the clouds I I must have my own well !"
Young man, drop cigars and cigarettes
and wine cups and the Sunday excursions,
and build your own house, and have your
own wardrob?. and be your own capitalist
"Why, I have only five hundred dollars in
come a year F says some one. Than spend
four hundred dollars of it in living, and ten
Jer cent, of it, or fifty dollars, m benevo
ence, and the other fifty in beginning, to
dig your own well. Or if you have a thou
sand dollars a year spend eight hundred
dollars of it in living, ten per cent., or one
hundred dollars, in benevolence, and the re
maining one hundred in beginning to dig ycur
own well. The largest bird that ever flew
through the air was hatched out of one egg,
and the greatest estate was brooded out of
one dollar.
I suppose when Jacob began to dig this
well, on whose curb we are now, seated this
December noon, it was a dry season then as
now, and some one comes up and says:
"Now Jacob, suppose you get the well fltty
feet deep or two hundred feet deep and there
should be no water to fill it, weuld you not
feel silly?" People passing along the road
and looking down from Mount Gerizim or
Mount Ebal near by would laugh and say:
"That is Jacob's well, a great hole in the
rock, illustrating the man's folly." Jacob
replied: "There never has been a well in
Palestine or any other country that one-)
thoroughly dug was not sooner or later filled
from the clouds, and this will be no excep
tion." -
For months after Jacob had completed the
well people went by, and out of respect for
the deluded old man put tneir hand over
their mouth to bide a snicker, and the well
remained as dry as the bottom of a kettle
that had been hanging over the fire for three
hours. But one day the sun was drawing
water, and the wind got round to the east
and it began to drizzle, and then great drops
splashed all over the well curb, and the
heavens opened their reservoir and the rainy
season poured its floods for six weeks,, and
there came maidens to tbe well with empty
pails and carried them away full, and the
camels thrust their mouths into the troughs
and were satisfied, aud the water was in the
well three feet deep, and fifty fest deop, and
two hundred feet deep, and all the Bedouins
of the neighborhood and all the passersby
realizad that Jacob was wise in having his
own woll. My hearer, it is your part to dig
your own well, and it is God's part to fill it.
You do your cart and He will do His part.
Much is said about "good luck," but peo
ple who are industrious and self denying al
most always have good luck. You can af
ford to be laughed at because of your appli
cation and economy, for when ou get your
well dug and filled it will be your turn to
laugh.
But look up from this famous well and
see two mountains and the plain betwean
then, on which was gathered the largest
religious audience that ever assembled on
.earth, about five hundred thousand people.
Mount Gerizim, about eight hundred feot
higb, on one side, and on the other Mount
Ebal, the former called the Mount of Bless
ing and the latter called the Mount of
Cursing. At Joshua's command six tribes
stood on Mount Gorizim and read the
blessings for keeping the law, and six
tribes stood on Mount Ebal reading the
curses for breaking the law, while the five
hundred thousand people on the plain cried
Amen with an emphasis that must have
made the earth tremble. "I do not believe
that," says some one, "for those mountain'
tops are two miles apart, and how could a
voice be heard from top to top?" My answer
is tbat while the tops are two miles apart,
the bases of the mountains are only half a
mile apart, and tbe tribes stood on the sides,
of the mountains, and tbe air is so clear cnd
the acoustic qualities of this great natural:
amphitheatre so perfect that voices can be'
distinctly heard from mountain to mount-,
ain, as has been demonstrated by travelers
fifty times in the last fifty yeai-s. ,
Can you imagine anything more thrilling
and sublinae and overwhelming than whaf
transpired on those two mountain sides, and'
in the plain between, when the responsive'
service went on and thousands of voices on
Mount Gerizim cried, "Blessed shalt thou be
in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in tha
fields, blessed shall be thy basket and thy
store," and then from Mount Ebal, thousands
of voices responded, crying: "Cursed be he
that recsoveth his neighbor's landmark!
Cursed be he that maketu the blind to wan
der out of the way," and then there rolled up
from all tho spaces between the mountains
that one word with which the devout of earth
close their prayers and the glorified of heaven
finish their doxologies, "Amen! Amen!"
tbat scene only to be surpassed by the
times which aro coming, when the churches
and the academies of music and the audi
toriums of earth, no longer large enough to
'hold the worshipers of God; the parks, the
mountainsides, the great natural amphithe
atresof the valleys, shall be filled with the
outpouring populations of .the earth and
mountain shall reply to mountain, as Mount
Gerizim to Mount Ebal, and all the people
between shall ascribe riches and honor ani
'glory and dominion and victory to Uod the
Lamb, nni there shall ariso an amen like tbe
boomtug of the heavens mingling with thi
tbuaderof the seas.1 ,
. 'Jt and -on we ride, until now wo have
r-iiue to- ir-hiloh. a dead city oa a hill silv
an I vineyards. Here good Eli fell backward
and broke his neck, and lay dead at the news
from his bad boys, Phineas andHophni; and
life is not worth living after one's children
have turned out badly, and more fortunate
was Ell, instautly expiring under such tid
ings, than those parents who, their children
recreant and profligate, live on with broken
hearts to see them going down into deeper
and deeper plunge. There are fathers and
mothers here to-day to whom death would be
happy release because of their recreant sons.
And if there be recreant sons here present,
and your parents be far away, why not bow
your head in repentance, and at the close of
this service goto the telegraph office and put
tit on the wing of the lightningthat you have
turned from your evil ways? .Before another
twenty-four hours have passed take your feet
off the sad hearts of the old homestead. ,
Home to thy God, O prodigal!
Many, many letters do I get in purport say
ing: My son is in your cities; we have not
heard from him for some time; we fear some
thing is wrong; hunt him up and say a good
word to him ;his mother is almost crazy about
him; he is a child of many prayers. But how
can I hunt him up unless he be in this audi
ence? Where are you, my boy? On the main
floor, or on this platform, or in these boxes,
or in these great galleries? Where ore you?
Lift your right hand. I have a message from
home. Your father is anxious about you:
your mother is praying for you. Your God
is calling for you. Or will you wait until Eii
falls back lifeless, and the heart against which
you lay in infancy ceases to beat? What a
story to tell in eternity that you killed her?
My God! Avert that catastrophe!
. But I turn from this Shiloh of Eli's red
den decease under tad news from his boys
and find close by what is called the "Meadow
of the Feast." While this ancient city was
in the height of its prosperity on this "Mea
dow of the Feast" there was an .annual balL
where the maidens of the city amid clapping
cymbals and a blare of trumpets danced in
glee, upon which thousands of spectators
gazed. But no dance since the world stood ever
broke ud in such a strange way as the one the
Bible describes. One night while by the
light of the lamps and torches these gayieties
went on, two buudred Benjamites, wlio had
been hidden behind the rocks and among iho
trees, dashed upon the scene. They came
not to injure or destroy, but wishing to set
up household of their own. the women oi
their own land having been slain in battle,
by preconcerted arrangement each one of the
two hundred Benjamites seized the. one
whom he chose for the queen of his homo
and carried her away to large estate and
beautiful residence, for these two hundred
Benjamites had inherited the wealth of a
nation.'
As to-day near Sbiloh we look at the
"Meadow of the Feast," where the maidens
danced that night, and at the mountain
gorge up which the Benjamites carried their
brides, we bethink ourselves of the better
land and the better times in which we live,
when such scenes are an impossibility, and
amid orderly groups and with prayer and
benediction, and breath of orange blossoms,
and the roll qf the wedding march, marriags
is solemnized end with oath recorded in
heaven, two immortals start arm in arm on
a journey to last until death do them part.
Upon every 6uch marriage altar may there
come the blessing of Him "who setteth the
solitary in families !" Side by side on the
path of life! Side by side in their graves 1
Side by side in heaven !
But we must this afternoon, our last day
before reaching Nazareth, pitch our tent en
the most famous battlefield of all time the
plain of Esdraelon. What must have been the
feelings of the Prince of Peace as He crossed
it on the way from Jerusalem to Nazareth?
Not a flower blooms there but has in its veius
the inherited blood of flowers that drank the
blood of fallen armies. Hardly a foot of
ground that has not at some time been gul
lied with war chariots or trampled with the
hoofs of cavalry.
It is a plain reaching from the Mediter
ranean to the Jordan. Upon it look down
the mountains of Tabor and Gilboa and Car
mel. Throueh its rases at certain seasons
the river Kishon, which swept down the
nrmiss-of Sisera, the battle occurring in No
vember when there is almost always a shower
of meteor s, so that the "stars in their courses"
were said to have fought against Sisera.
Through this plain drove Jehu, and the iron
chariots of the Canaanites, scythed at tbe
hubs of the wheel.?, hewing down their awful
swathes of death, thousands in a minute.
The Syrian armies, the Turkish armies, the
Egyptian armies again and again trampled
it. Thero they career across it. David aud
Joshua and Godfrey and Richard Coaur de
Lion and Baldwin and Salarlin a plain not
only famous for the past, but famous because
the Bible says the great decisive battle of the
world will be fought there the battle of Ar
mageddon. To me the plain was the more absorbing
because of the desperate battles here and in
regions round in which the holy cr03S the
very two pieces of wood on which Jesus was
supposed to have been crucified was carried
ns a standard at tbe head of the Christian
host, and that night closing my eyes in my
tent on the plain of Esdraelon for there
are some things we can see better with eyes
shut than open the scenes of that ancient
war come bofore me. The twelfth century
was closing and Saladin at the head of e'ghty
thousand mounted troops was crying "Ho!
for Jerusalem !" "Ho ! for all Palestine !"' and
before them everything went down, but not
without unparalleled resistance. In one
place ono hundred and thirty Christians
were surrounded by many thousands of furi
ous Mohammedans. For one whole day the
one hundred and thirty held out against
these thousands. Tennyson's "six hundred,"
when "some one bad blundered," were
eciipscd by these one hundred and thirty
fighting for the holy cross. They took hold
iof tho lances which had pierced them with
death wounds, and pulling tbem out of their
own breasts and sides hurled them back again
at tbe enemy.
On went the fight until all but one Chris
tian bod fallen aud he. mounted on the last
horse, wielded his battle ax right and left till
his horso fell onder the plunge of tho jave
lins, and the rider, making tbe sign of the
cross toward the sky, gave ur his life on the
point of a score of spears. But soon after the
last battle came. History portrays it, poetry
chant it, painting colors it, and all ages ad
mire that last struggle to keop in possession
the wooden cross on which Jesus was said to
have expired. It was a battle in which min
gled the fnry of devils and tbe grandeur of
tingels. Thousands of dead Christians on
'this side. Thousands of dead Mohammedans
on the other side. The battle was hot
test close around ibe wooden cross upheld by
.'the bishop of Ptolemais. himself wounded
land dying. And when the bishop of Ptol
'emais dropped Jdead, the bishop of Lydda
seized the crossand again lifted it, carrying
3t onward into a wilder and fiercer fight, and
sword agains javelin, and battle ax upon
.helmet, and p ercing spear against splinter
ing shield. Morses and men tumbled into
.heterogeneouh death. Now the wooded
cross on whitfh the armies of Christians had
kept their era begins to waver, begins to
jdesceud. ub falls I and the wailing of. the
Christian liist at its disappearance drowns
the huzza Jf the victorious Moslemt. . r
: But that standard of tho cross only seemel
-to fall. If rides the sky to-dav in triumph;
.Fiv hunjred million souls, the mightiest,
a rosy of tf o ages. aVe following it, mod whor
t!iatgoe hy will fro, aero?s the fcarth and
tip. the. mi .-t v steejts of t!hav',is. In the
th nineteenth century It is the mightiest
symbol of glory and triumph, and means
more than any other standard, whether in
scribed with eagle, or lion, or bear, or star,
or crescent. That which Saladin trampled
on the plain of Esdraelon I lift to day for
your marshaling. 1 The cross! The cross!
The foot of it planted in the earth it saves,
the top of it pointing to the heavens to which
'it will take you, and tbe outspread beams of
it like outstretched arms of invitation to all
nations. Kneel at its foot. Lift, your eye
to its victim. Swear eternal allegiance to
its power. And as that mirbty symbol of
pain and triumph is kept before us. we will
realize how insignificant are the little crosses
we are called to bear, and will more cheu
f uL'f carry them.
Mast Jetas bear the croM alone.
And the world so free?
No, there's a crow for every o-e,
And there's a crots for me.
As I fall asleep to-night on my pillow f n the
tent on the plain of Esdraelon reaching from
tho Mediterranean to the Jordan, the waters
of the river Kishon sooth'ng me as by a lul
laby, I hear the gatheriug of the hosts for the
last battle of all tbe earth. And bv tbeir
representatives America is hero and Europe
,is here and Asia is here and Africa is here,
and all heaven is here and all hell is here,
and Apollyon on the block horse leads the
armies of darkness, and Jesu on tho white
horse leads the armies of light, and I hear
the roll of the drums and the clear call of the
clarions and tbe thunder of fio cannonades.
And then I hear the wild rush as of million
of troops in retreat, end then the shout of
victory as from fourteen hundred million
throats, and then a song as though aU tho
armies of earth and heaven were joining it,
clapping cymbals, beating the time "Tli3
kingdoms of this world r become thekinT
doms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He
shall reign for ever and ever.
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
Joseph WHHRtl so, of New Orleans, think
he is the only surviving soMier of the Black'
Hawk war.
Queen Victoria is only four feet eight
niches in height, yet she is said to be a regal
sovereign in her bearing.
Miss Isabella Thobtxrn, a sister of Bis
nop Thoburn, of the Methodist Episcopal,
Chur.-h, will return to India next month to
resume her niissinnnry work there.
CONGREfjjiMEjrMwKlNLRY is by no means
a rich man. lie owns a small farm in Ohio,
and a modest residence in Canton. Aside
from this he is worth about $50,000.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward is said
to be- so abnormally sensitive to noises that
the gnawing of a mouse at the wainscot is
sufficient almost to drive her distracted.
Chief Justice and Mrs. Fuller will
celebrate their silver wedding some time in
January next, and their daugnter, Miss Mil
dred, will be married the same day to Hugo
Wallace.
Dumas, the novelist, has aged greatly dur
ing the last twelve months. Despite his years
he bears himself gallantly, and at the recent
wedding of his daughter he was the life of the
company.
Miss Rachel Sherman, the general's
daughter, is so well posted in politics that she
is an invaluable nsdstant to her father in
supplying him wiib names and dat that
have grown dim in his mind.
Henry W. Sage has added $200,000 to his
previous gift of f6Li,000 for the es ablishment
of a department ot philosophy in Cornell Uni
versity. This makes over (gl.OOtyWO which he
bus given to this institution.
The Maharajah Dhulkep Singh, who
has recently begged to be received back in
favor with the Queen, has petitioned her to
restore him his grand cross of the Star of In
dia, which he returned once in anger.
Countess Elizabeth Koenigsmarck,
said to be the handsomest woman in Ger
many, wns recently wedded in a novel dress
of red and white, the colors of her husband's
regiment. The biidesraaids also wore gowns
of scarlet and red.
Justin II. McCarthy is just thirty years
old. He has published eleven books and
seven plays. He is tall und thin, with a very
small head. He has traveled much in Persia,
and has an intimate ncquainiance with the
literature of that country.
MRS. Jopling-Rowe is one of the most
noted woman artists of England, as well as
one of the hardest-working. She paints from
morning till night, seldom leaving her studio
until nightfall. She has a bright and open
iace, an attractive manner, and is regarded as
one of the best talkers in Loudon.
The Queen of Italy is exhibiting a tenden
cy toward stoutness, n 6tnte of things that is
most unwelcome to ber. To ward ort this in-,
creasing corpulence she spent the greaterpart
of last summer in long and exhaustive moun
tain tramps, which reduced her weight, but
used up the royal ladies who attended her.
The Duke of Portland, owner of the great
racers of the English turf, is building a group
of alms houses at his chief estate Welbeck,
and with a nicely discriminated distribution
of honors, inscribes the principal buildinir:
"These houses were erected by the sixth
Duke of Portland, at the request of his wife,
for the benefit of the poor and to commemor
ate victories of his race horses."
Miss Mattie Thompson, daughter of ex
Congressman Phil Thompson, i- accounted
one of tho exceptionally pretty girls of the
Blue Grass region. Miss Thompson was se
lected as tho Queen of Beauty at the celebra
tion of the Satellites of Mercury, held at
Louisville, but choose rather to be one of the
maids of honor, who ore Neleeteil from among
the prettiest girls of the different towns
throughout the state.
MRa Emma E. Foksythe is an American
woman who goes by the name of the White
Queen, iier realm is an island in the South
ern Pacific called New Britain, whose chief
industry is the tale of mother-of pearl. Mrs.
Forsythe was left a widow at the age of
eighteen, and with very little money. She
now owns one hundred and fifty thousand
acres of fertile land, two steamers that ply
between the islands and the port, ad she is
preparing to close a contract tor the building
of lour more vessels for the island trade.
Mrs. Nicholson, of New Orleans, who
owns and edits the Picayune, and who is the
only woman in the country in such a posi
tion, is o quiet, low-voiced and retiring in
manner that one would never suspect her of
holding the place she fills. When the Wom
en's Club of New York gave her a reception,
and it was announced that she had been made
the young club's first honorary member, Mrs.
Nicnolsou, quite like the sweet .woman who
never saw a composing-stick or handled a
blue pencil, deputed her husband to acknowl
edge the compliment in her stead. She sat,
meanwhile, blushing and listening. Mr.
Nicholson, wno is the husband manager of
his wife's paper, is a big, genial gentleman,
with a memory lor politics that goes back
forty years.
Jame? LICK, the philanthropist, left
$150,(MWto San Francisco free bath? a real
wash-house for tbe working jpor who have n
baths at home. The institution is now ready
and open. It has sixty rooms for nien and
forty tor women. The wall are of i)ite u
the tabs are enameled. Thirty r, dilutes J.s
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Young Indians in Hiding Bent on
Mischief.
The Troopa Now Holding tbe Excited
Reil Men In Check-The iot Dance
Still Going On.
frenernl HlYMltt.' frivinj nro nnu ni f tin Fin
Ridge Agency, and the Indians have thus far j
not attempted any disturbance. The ghost
dances continue, and General Brooke has
made no attempt to stop this diversion.
Standixo Rock Agency, N. D. The
news that troops have been ordered to the res
ervation has spread rapidly among the
savnges, and the general effect has been bad.
Several hundred of the braves have disap
peared, with whatobiect and in what direc
tion caunot be learned. There is evident
fright in some quarters, and it is the general
impression that the bucks are ruuning away
from what they regard as an impending
catoniity. It may be, however, that t'.ieynre
bent upon pillage and murder, or have gal
loped across the country to incite the North
ern Cheyenes, the most excitable, band of
Indians in the West, to take arms against the
whites. The aged warriors and women are
frightened over the outlook, and profess the .
wannest friendship for the piUetucos.
Mojor McLaughlin, the agent here, has just
returned from Sitting Hull's camp, on Grand
river, and reports that the dances arc still
going or, but Sitting Bull's influence has
weakened greatly in the last week. Now he
has no more than a hundrcl or so followers.
He received Major McLaughlin rordntUy, but
the young bucks serowled at the agent as
though he were not welcome. He had a loog
talk with Setting Bull, and is satisfied that the
old chief's faith in the corning of the Messiah
is on the decline, and unless something un
foreseen occurs, there is no probability of
trouble this winter, and possibly none next
spring. General Ruger's presence had the
effect of reducing Sitting Hull's followers by
nearly one half, so that now he has not
enough men to carry on a campaign if he
wanted to.
Fremont, Neb. Forty-five Indians, mem
bers of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, passed
through here on their way to the Pine Ridge
aceucy. The leaders aid they had heard
about the new Messiah from their friends be
fore leaving Europe- Indians went crazy on
religion just as white people did, they said,
but they hoped there would be no trouble.
One of tbe cheifs said they would do all they
could among the Indians at Pine Ridge to
restore quiet, and they believed the older
heads were opposed toany outbreak. Settlers
are much alarmed in the vicinity of Valen
tine and Rosebud agencies, and are flocking
to those points. It is believed that the pot
traders are encouraging this alarm, eo as to
iucrease their sales.
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
Luna Mapel, 17 years old, walked off an
open drawbridge in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and
was drowed.
! Frank Keller, of Linton, Indiana, acci
dentally shot and killed his wife, while clean
ing a revolver, which he thought was empty.
A passenger train and a censtruction
train collided near Yarmouth, Massachusetts.
No one was killed, but about 15 persons were
injured.
William" Chablton, aged 8 years, shot
and killed his sister C'ulisa, aged 6 years,
at their home in St. Louis, while playing wit j
a shotgun.
A pbize herd of Berkshire hogs, owned by
M. K. Price & Son, of Oskalooa, Iowa, has
been nearly des'royed by choler.i within the
last two weeks. One hundred hogs, valued
;at $1,000, have died.
j An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging in
Cleuientville, Ohio. There have beea 89
'cases, 25 of which have proved fatal. At
.'present 40 persons are suffering. Business
ih as been suspended. The place has a popu
lation of 2Ua
i THE boiler at the mill of M. J. Wright A
'Son, near Magnolia, Mississippi, exploded a
few days since. Samuel Pritchard, Jr., and
Nelson Andrews were killed, and Charles
,'1'ayior, Wiley Cook, William Miller and
Joseph Douglass were scalded, Taylor and
Cook, it is feared, fatally.
A passenger train ran into a hand car on
which were nve track rep timers, near Millers
burg, Kentucky., James Finly was killed,
John Garrudy had In ivgscuiott, and the
other three received injuries that may termi
nate fatally. The fog was so dense that the
engineer did not see the hand ear until it was
!'oo late.
' A sharp explosion in Judge GreshamJs
court room in Cniuugorenteit a panic anion
the people present and stopped the proceed,
lings of court. An investigation disclosed tha'
the wall of the northeast corner of the build
Jing had separated, leaving a visible crack fot
30t'eet. The government recently investigated
the safety ot the costly pile, and found it in a
very bad condition.
, Marian C. Jones, a young woman, died
under the iufluficc cf chloroiorm while un
dergoing a slight surgical operation in a bos.
pital in Chicago. Her parents took her to the
hospital to have a small mule removed from
per right cheek- The mole was excised, but
when the physician sought to revive the pati.
ent she was seined with a convulsion and ex
pired. The Board of Agriculture of Ohio has
been advised of an epizooty or hog cholea in
many counties ot that State, notably: Frank,
liu, Darke, Butler, Preble and others, in which
swine are dying in large numbers. . The State
Health Department tins received no informa
tion of the epizooty, althoinrhstories are afloat
that large numbers of the diseased hos have
been slaughtered and shipped to Philadel
phia. While Martha Murphyrgged 13 years, was
attending to some cooking ut her home in
Cumberland, Maryland, her dress caught fire.
Her mother, who was in an adjoining room
with a three-months-old infant, rendered
Irantic by the sight ot her touring child, at-
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icuijneu vo exiiuguisn me names, in OOing
so her own clothing and thai of the infant
caught fire, burning both iu m horrJile man
ner. Martna will die.. The mother and in
fant Hitfi 1m. ft, 1 1 . Ii a ! ... 1 t L A.ma. ... I nHA. :
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THREE KILLED AND ONE DYING.
Disregard of Order 4Mt a. WrecU oii
the ll. & O i in Ohio.
A-collision occurred on the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad near Scott's Station, Ohio, the
other morning, between eait and west bouu J;
lrelght trains, killing John. Watson, engineer.
and JamesFlCisher. areman.inMaiitK-: Jamrs
Barrett, a fireman was scalded so badly that
he died ait uour later. 1 nomas Burke, another
employee, was seriously injured about the
head and cannot recover.' v
Watson and Fleisher lived at Newark, O.,
where their remains were conveyed. " Burke
nd Ilarret were taken to their homes in
Bel In ire. io!li eiijpnes aud cars wore co;t.
pleteiy wrecked.
Tli- r, M:',t rt causedlby disregarding
r-rderi. - . .
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
IXTERKSTIPia WEWS COMPltVBD .
FROM MANY SOURCES.
t There is move on foat to establish a hrg .
! V)iit:)ern female college ot Lynchburg V a.
More than $1,000,000 of outside capital has .
1een invested in Norfolk, Va.,during the past .,
jiionth.
Col. W. II. Harness, of Hardy county. W.
iVft., uses a shot gun with which he has killed
"l.'Odeer. . ' '
!It is proposed to build a belt line railroad
from Glasgow to various points in Rockbridg
county, v a.
A Pennsylvania syndicate has purchased a
large tract ot coal land in Harrison county,
West Virginia. ' . -
The South Atlantic and Ohio mnchine shops
at Bristol, Va., with all their contents, were
destroyed by fire.
Kocky Mount has raised the required sub- '
script ion, and will be a point on the Roanoke
and Southern Itailroad. .
It is rumored that the Pennsylvania Rail- ,
road Company has purchased terminal fucili-'
ties at Lynnhaven bay, Va. , ..
Mr. C. B. Wood, of Rappahannock county,
Va., has sold this fall about 800 barrels of ap
ples, for which he received $2,00.
A tract of land between Norfolk and Lnm
bert's Point, which sold in May last for $43,-,
132, was resold last week for $107,830. " .
A oka koini navfanfarl Kw VtrVl i fK
Durham and Raleigh. N. C, will be connected
l.v ppnhnne within the next ninetv davs.
The Nolan Flouring Mill, at Brncetown, ,
together with a large quantity of grain and
flour.
-Application has been made by W. P. Irwin .
and others, of Glasgow, Va.; for authority to
organize the First National Bank of Glasgow,
Virginia. ".
.'. new Pi cabvterian church has befn con-
vracieti lor iu vMiuru, x. v.. w.whiu,to'i .
Rev. Joseph Renrie, of Chas? City, Vs., will ;
be the pastor.
Thos. B. Young, town sergeant of Charles
town, W. Va., died of pneumonia recently.
He served in the old Stonewall Brigade dur-
ing the late war.
James Stealey, a brakeman in the employ
of the West Virginia Improvement Company,
fell from his train in the yards at Weston,
Wk Va., and was instantly killed.
Isaae Morris, a young man employed on
the -engineer corps of the Ohio Valley Rail
road, was drowned at Moundsville, W. Va.,
while crossing the Ohio river in a skill.
Statesville, N. (X, boasts of a little white
girl only four years old who chews tooacco.
dips snuff, smokes, plays cards, picks the
banjo and swears. She had to be weaned by
mum strength.
Walter M. Hester, of Winton. N. C travel-.
ing for J. Forest & Son, Baltimore, committed '
suicide on a train near Kernersville N. C. by
shooting himself through the head. Melan
choly is assigned as the cause.
It is announced that the canning factory of
H.J. McGrath & Co., at Washington, N. G,
will be ready for operations by the let of
December. It is estimated that 2,500 bushels
of oysters will be canned daily. ,. -
The board of trustees of the Shenandoah
Baptist Association, comprising all the coun
ties in the lower Valley in Virginiaand West
Virginia, have decided to locate their new
collegiate academv in Winchester.
o
In consequence of the chance made by the
Eastern Field Trial Club from Amelia Court
house', Va., to High Point, N. C, the meeting '
of the Virginia Field Sports Association,
which had been announced to occur at the
former place has been recalled. ?
Many prominent Democratic leaders think
that Gov. McKinney, of Virginia, should
by all means call an extra session of
the Legislature to receive the plan of debt
settlement which the Olcott committee are
expected to submit. :
Information has been received at Louisville,
Ky., that Deputy Sheriff J. P. Giles, of Har
lan county, had been killed at Rose Hill, W.
Va., on the day of November elections. Mr.
Giles was trying to arrest two men and killed
them both. No other particulars.
Isaac McNabb, seventy-two years of age
and unmarried, was found dead on the floor
of his house, near Morton, Harford county,
Md., in which he lived alone. . From ap
pearances he was about to kindle a fire when
stricken. A coroners inquest decided that
death occurred from natural causes.
Donations for the soldiers' home in Raleigh,
N. C, continue to be receivtd and the institu- .
tion is now pretty well provided with com
forts. The fund lor enlargement, nowever is
quite small and there is talk of asking the
legislature for an appropriation. This seems
to be the only resort for making a completo
success of the scheme.
temple in Raleigh, N.C., which hasslumbered
for several months, has-been revived with a
fair show of 6ucces. The lodges here now
number over threa hundred members, among
thero some of our wealthiest and most influ
ential members. It is more than probable'
that an imposing eaificewill be erected during
the coming year.
Tbe Massachusetts and Southern const-action
company, which has the contract for the
building of the first one hundred and fifty-six,
miles of the Cape Fear and Cincinnati rail
road, has sublet it to Leating A Co., of Colum
bus, Ohio. The road is to run to Wilminston
and Southport, N. and tbencc to Conway,
S. C. It will then branch off in three direc
tions, one line to Charleston, one to Salisburv,
and the other to Greenville, S. C. ".
A large barn on th farm of Messrs. George
and Stephen Font, a short distance southwest
ot Frederick, Md., was destroyed by tire of
supposed incendiary origin at an early hour
Saturday morning. About three hundred
bushels of wheat, fifty tons of hay, bc vera I
binders, lot of harness and various farming
implements were consumed. AH the live
stock was saved except one bull, which per
ished in the flames. Loss, about $2,500.
The Chalestown (W. Va.) Mining, Manu
facturing and Improvement Company hns
purchased the following land" adjacent to tUr.i
town: The James M. Ranson tract, 334" sere,
lor $65,800; 100 acres from John Burns,$l'ii;
106 acres from H. B. Davenport, for 4vJ,"e,
John T. Gibson has sold his farm of 'M'l
acreonemileand a-half westof Charleston
to J. T. Colston for $21,200. Tho Rns las : ,
in Jefferson county,1 three miles from-Shcj-herdstown,
has been sold to 4. W. Met.; a: j
for $52 per acre. ; ' v-
POISONING BY "WHOLESALE.
Startling- Reports From Cltn1eft
, On -ntt .Dead, Others, Dying.
A startling report. comes from Clinton, 1 -to
the effect that a we of wholesale ; - .
ing has startled the tow n.
It is said that eight persons liave been
t anil him U.'lf cllil,!,, ..,,.!
four brothers. . Particulars have not ye.t
learned, but it is known that at least t
is dead, while others are semvtt '- iil.
Dr. J. T, Roth bock, of - i c,
has been awarded atilvcr v-.-. a ,
graphs of American trees -e.xh -forestry
division clti; l -