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PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1890.
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tttbjectt 1fh City f fMntasesu."
- Ttxf ''.is he journeyed As earn neat
.,. ftowuufcu-;." AcUix, S.
, j.Ia Palestine we spent last eight In a mad
Hovel of one story, with camels and sheep ip
the basement. Yet never did the most bril
liant hotel on any continent seem so attrac
, . tive to me as that strncture. If wa had been
obliged to stay in -a tent, at we expected to
co that nl?ht, we must have perished. A
vioieut storm bad opened upon us Its
volleys tt hail and jmow and rain and
windB as - if to let us know what
the Bible means when prophet and ev&n
, Relist and Christ Himsalf spoke of the fury
of the elements. The atmospherio wrath
, broke upon us about 1 o'clock in the after
noon end we were until night exposed to
it ' With hands and feet benumbed, and our
, bodies chilled to the bone w made our slow :
, , way, WhJe hign np on the Voeka, and the
ga e blowing the hardest a rignal of distress
i baited the party, for down in the ravines one
of the borf.es had fallen and his rider must
not be le t aiohe amid that wilderness of
scenery and horror oi storm As the night
eued and strengthened. Some of oar attend
. ants going ahead had pained permission for
i us to halt j or the nigncintha mud hovel I
'.- spoke of .a Our first duty on arrival was
v the resuscitation of the exhausted of our
. party My room was without a window,
auo an iron store without any top in the
' center oi the room, the smoke selecting ray
. eyes in the absence of a chimney. Through
an opening In the floor Arab faces were sev
rai tunes thrust up to see how I was pro
. Easing But the tempest ceased during the
night and befora it was fnllv dav w wara
' feeling for the stirrups of our saddled horses,
vuBoong me aay wnose long march will
pronounced in the hearing of the intelligent
or Christian without making the blood -tingle
and the nerves to thrill, and putting the best
emotions of the soul into agitation Damas
" eusl ,
. DuriDg the day we passed Cassarea Philip
. pi, the northern terminus of Christ's jour
ney ings. , North of that He never went. We
' ranch at noon, seated on the fallen columns
of one of Herod's palaces. .. -j,
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, comin? to a
hill top, we saw on the broad plain a city,
which the most famous camel driver of all
time, . afterward called - Mohammed, the
prophet and the founder of the most stu
pendous system of error that has ever
cursed the earth, refused to enter because
' -he said God would allow no man to enter
but one paradise, and he would not enter
this earthly paradise lest he should be de
nied entrance to thd heaveuly. But no
city that I ever saw so plays hide and seek
with the tr veler. The air, is so clear the
distant objects seem close by. You come on
the top of a hid and Damascus seems only a
little way on. But down you go Into a val
ley and you see nothing for the next half
hour but barrenness ana rocks regurgitated
by the volcanoes of other ages. Up another
bill and down again. Up again and down
again. But alter, your patience is almost
exhausted you reach the last bill top, and
: the city ot Damascus, the oldest city under
the whole heavens and built by Noah's
grandson, grows upon your vision. 1 Every
mile of tbe journey now becomes more sol
emn and suggestive and tremendous.
This is the very road, for it has been the
only road for .thousands of years, the road
Jrom Jerusalem to Damascus, along which a
cavalcade ot mounted officers went, about
1854 years ago, in the midst of them a fierce
little man who made up by magnitude ot
hatred for Christianity for , his diminutive
fttnma mnA wnc t.ha loading r,i-if. mil
' though, suffering from cbronio inflammation .
of the eyes, from thos yes flashed more in
dignation against Christ' followers than any
one of the horsed procession. This little man,
before -his name was changed to Paul, was
called' -Saul. So many of the mightiest
natures of all, ngos are . condensed
into small ncss of stature. The Frenchman
who was sometimes called by his troops "Old
of bis abbreviated personal presence, styled
"Little Map." Lord Kelson, with insignifi
cant stature to start with and one t ye put out
at Calvi and his right arm taken off at Tene
riffe. Droves himself at Trafalgar tbe might-
'iest nerd-of the English navy. .- The greatest ,
of American theologians, Archibald 'Alex
; ander, could stand under tbe elbow of many
of bis contemporaries. Look out for little
mission of good or evil. The thunderbolt is
only; a condensation of electricity -
Well, that galloping group of horsemen on
the road to Damascus were halted quicker
than bombshell or cavalry charge ever halt
ed a regiment. The Syrian noon-day, be
cause of the charity of the atmosphere, is
the brightest of all noon-days, and tbe noon
day sun in Syria . is positively terrific for
brilliance. Iut suddenly that noon there
flashed from the heavens a light which made
that Syrian sun seem tame as a star in com
,(parison. . It was the face of tbe slain and as-
under tbe dash of that overpowering light all
the horses dropped with their riders. Human
face and horse's mane together in the dust.
itDU lueu -: vu , umps w : jiuuc Al
lowed uttering the two' words, the
second word like the first: "Saul!
Saul P For three davs that fallen equestrian
was totally blind," for excessive light will
sometimes extinguish the.- eyesight. And
what cornea-and crystalline Jens could en
dure a brightness greater than the noonday
Syrian sunt I haa read it a hundred times,
but it never so impressed me before, and
frobably will never so impress me again, as
took ruy' Bible from tbe addle bags and
read aloud trf our comrades in travel, "As
be jonrned he came near Damascus, and
suddenly there fhinerl round about bira a
light from heaven, and ha fell to the' earth
and heard a voice saying nnto him, 4Sanll
' tfnl! VWhVneriecutest thou' Ke? and he
SB.id,WbarThou, Lordf Aai the Lord
taid, I am Jesus, wnom thou persecutest.'
:JButwe cannot 6top,fcnger on this road,
for we t bell- -tee this- nnh.cM-sed equestrian
later in Damascus', toward whioh his horse's
head is iuraed. and at which we must our
selves am ve before night. The evening is
nai. ae miki(ui.-i'"
mon behind us and approach tbe Bhadow
of the cupolas of two hundi-ed mosques we
cut through a. circumleveuceof many mile'
of garden iWhich embower the city. So
luxuriant are these garden, so opulent in
-colors, aa luscious of fruitii,, so glittering
nm.4na . kn i-inh wifli' ImwrAra anil ,
I:U,-Jllli.nia, ,.. "
lcioskfttbat ihe Mobammedan's heaven was
fiifchioned after what are to be seen here of
" blcom and imitate. Here in Damascus at
the right waeon are cherries Tand mulberries
and apricote and almond and pistachios
and pomegranates and; pears and apples
and plums and citrons and all the richness
of toe ronnd wor.d's pomology. No won
der that Juiian oalled this city "the eye of
the latt," and that the poets of Syria have
rtyied it "thn luster on ttie neck of doves."
aid hibtoriuna wiid, "It in the golden clasr
which rr.n'!c the two nklrn vt the world
tci. lh(r. '
i.an.r t.-.--rs eif:i - r point t;:r-f,
with Damascus, tht the troubla is they have
tarried in their minds ff dm boybood the
book Which dau'ea so, many young peoplei
"The Arabian Nigh-4 and they oome into
Damascuk looking for Aladdin's lamp and
Aladdin's ring and the genii which appeared
by robbing them . But as I have never read
"The Arabian Night," such stuff not being
allowed around our house in my boyhood,
and nothing lighter in the way of readinx
than "Baxter's Saint' Everlasting Best"
and D'Anbigny'a "History of the Reforma
tion," Damascus appeared to me as sacred
and secular histories have presented it, and
to the city was not a disappointment, but
with few exceptions a surprise 4
Under my window to night in the hotel at
Damascus I hear the perpetual ripple and
tush of the river A ban a. Ah. the secret is
tut I Fow X know why all this flora and
fruit, ad why everything is sd green, and
the plain one green emerald. The rive?
A banal And hot fat off the river Pbarpar,
which our horses waded through to-day I
Thank the rivers, or rathei1 tbe God who
made the rivers! Deserts to the north,
deserts to the south, deserts the east, deserts
to the west, but here a paradise. And as the
Hvers Gihon add Pison and Hiddekel and
Euphrates Made the other paradise, Abana
andPharpar make this Damascus a paradise.
That it what made Gen. Nawnart of this city
of Damascus sd mad when he was told for the
cure Of his leprosy to go and wash in the rivet
Jordan. The river Jordan is much of the
year a muddy stream and it Is never so
clear as this river A ban a that I hear rum
bling under my window tcnight nor as the
river Pbarpaf that we crossed today. They
are as clear a thoueh they had been sieved
through some especial sieve ot the mount
sins. General Naaman had great and patri
otic pride in thesa two rivers of his own coun-
try, and when Ehsha the prophet told him
thit if he wanted to get rid of his leprosy
he must go and wash in tbe Jordan, he felt
as we Who liva on the magnificent Hudson
would feel if told that we must go and wash
in the muddy Thames, or as if those who live
on the transparent Rhine were told that they
must ?o and wash in the muddy Tiber.
So General Naatuan cried out With a voica
as loud as ever he had used in commanding
his troops, uttering those memorable words
which every minister of the Gospel sooner or
later takes for his text. "Are not Abana and
Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than the
waters or israeir juay i not wasn m tnem
and be clean f Thank God, we live in a land
with plenty of rivers, and that they bless all
our Atlantic coast and all our Pacific coast;
and reticulate all the continent between the
coasts. Only those who have traveled in the
deserts of Syria, or Egypt, or have in the
oriental cities heard the tinkling of the bell
of those who sell water can realize what it la
to have this divine beverage in abundance.
Water rumbling over the rocks, turning the
mill wheel, saturating the roots of the
corn, dripping from the buckets, filling the
pitcners oi cue nousenoia.roumg enrougn too
fonts or baptistries of holy ordinance, filling
the reservoirs of cities, inviting the cattle to
come down and slake their thirst and the
birds of heaven to dip their wing, ascending
in robe of mist and falling again in benedic
tion of shower water, living water, God
given water 1
We are awakened in the morning in Da
mascus b? the song of those who have
different styles of food to sell. It is not a
street cry as in London or New York, but
a weird and long drawn out solo, com
pared with which a buzz saw is musical.
It makes you inopportunely waken, and
will not let you sleep again. . But to those
who understand the exact meaning of the
song it becomes quite tolerable, for they
sing: "God is the nourisher, buy my bread;'
God is the nourisher, buy my milk;" "God
is the nourisher, buy my fruit." As you
look out of the window you see the Moham
medans, who are in large majority in the
city, at prayer. And if it were put to vote
who should be king of all the earth, flftean
thousand in that city would say Christ, but
one hundred and thirty thousand would say'
Mohammed. Looking from the window, you
see on the housetops and on the streets Mo
hammedans at worship. The mueszin, or the
officers of religion who announce tbe time of
worship, appear high up on the different
minarets or tall toners, and walk around the
minaret, inclosed by a railing and cry in a
sad and mumbling way: "God is great. I
bear witness that there is no God but God.
I bear witness that Mohammed is the
apostle of God. Come to prayers 1 Come to
salvation 1 God is great. There is no other
but God. Prayers are better than sleep "
Five times a day must the Mohammedan
engage in worship. As he begins he turns
his face toward the city of Mecca, and un
rolls upon the ground a rug which he almost
always carrier. With his thumbs touching
the lobes of bis ears, and holding bis face
between bis bands, he cries: f'God is great."
Then folding his hands across his girdle, be
looks down and says: "HolinesBto Thee.O
God. and praise be to Thee. Great
is Thy name. Great is Thy great
ness. There is no deity but Thee."
Then the worshiper sits upon his heels, then
he touches his nose to the rug, and then his
forehead, these genuflections accompanied
with the cry, "Great is God." Then, raising
the forefinger d bis right hand toward
heaven, he says. "I testify there is no deity
but God, and I testify that Mohammed is
the servant of God, and the messenger of
God." The prayere close by tbe worshiper
holding bis hands opened upward as if to
take the divine blessinsr. and then his hands
are rubbed over his f aca as if to convey the
blessing to his entire body
There are two or three . commendable
things about Mohammedanism. One is that
its disciples wash before every act of prayer,
and that is five times a day, and there is
a gospel in cleanliness. Another commend
able tiling is they don't care who is looking
and nothing can stop them Is their prayer.
Another thinz ia that by the order of Mo
hammed, and an order obeyed for
thirteen hundred years, "no Moham
medan touches strong drink. But the
polygamy, the many wifehood of Mohomme
danism, Las made that religion the unutter
able and everlasting curse of woman, and
when woman sinks tbe r ce sinks. Tha
proposition recently made in high ecclesi
astical places for the reformation of Moham
medanism instead of its obliteration, is like
an attempt to improve a plague or educate a
leprosy There is only one thing ; that will
ever reform Mohammedanism, and that ia
its extirpation from the lace of the earth by
the power of the Gospel of the Son of God,
which makes not only man, but woman, free
for this life and free for the life to come.
. The spirit of the horrible religion which
prevodes the cfty of Damascus, aiong whoss
streets we walk and out of whose bazars we
make purchases, and ia whose mosques we
study tbe wood carvings and bedizsment,
were demonstrated as late tii 1300, when in
this city it put to death 6000 Christims in
forty-eight hoars and put to the torch 3000
Cbristiau homes, and those streets we walk
to-day were red with the carnage, and the
hrieks and groans of the dying and dishon
ored men an t women mvle this place a hell
on earth. This went on uutU a Mohamme
dan, better than his religion, Abrl-el-Kader
bv name, a great soldier, who In one
war had with 2500 troops beaten 60,000
f the enemy, now protested against
this massacre a and gathered the Chris- i
tisns of Damascus ' into castles ana
private 1iti-s und Ml;ed hw own horns
vith the ftiTi'i : at FiifTeivni. Af .-. a whila
ti.i mob cii-1 I Isi d'jor fl.nl 1 lfd t:ia
"L'lMva; 'i '" n hi"- - - :-rin .-.
drew his sword, and with A few et his old
soldiers aroUnd him charged on the mob and
cried: " Wretches f Ia thif the way you honor
tha prophet? May his Curses be upon you I
Shamaon youl Shame 1 You will yet live
to repent You think you may do as you
please with the Christians, but the day of
retribution will come. ' The Franks will yet
turn your mosques into churches. Not a
Christian will I give up. They are my
brothers. Stand back or I will give my men
the order to fire."
Then by the might of one great soul under
God the wave of assassination rolled back.
Huzza for Abd-el-Kader 1 Although now we
Americans and foreigners pass through the
streets of Damascus unhindered, there is in
many parts of the city the subdued hissing of
a hatred for Christianity that if it dared
would put to death every man, woman and
child in Damascus who does not declare al
legiance to Mohammed. But I am glad to
say that a wide, hard, splendid turnpike
road haa within a few years been con
structed from Beyrout, on toe shore of the
Mediterranean, to this city of Damascus, and
if ever again the wholesale assassination is
attempted French troops and English troops
would, with jingling bits ana Jigntning
hoofs, dash np the hills and down this Da
mascus plain and leave the Mohammedan
murderers dead on the floor of their mosques
and seraglios. It is too late to the history of
the world for governments to allow such
things as tbe modern massacre at Damascus.
For suoh murderous attacks on Christian
. missionaries and Christian disciples the Gos
pel is not so appropriate as bullets or sabers
scarp and heavy enough to cut through with
one stroke from crown of head to saddle.
. But I must Say that this city of Damascus
as I sea it now is not as absorbing as the Da
inascus of olden times. I turn my back upon
the bazars, with rugs fascinating the mer
chants from Bagdad, and the Indian textile
fabric of incomparable make, and the manu
factured saddles and bridles gay enough for
princes of theoriencto ride and. pull, aud
baths where ablution become inspiration,
and tbe homes of those bargain makers of
to-day, marbled and divaned and fount aiaed
and upholstered aud mo-aiced and arabea
qued and colonaded until nothing can be
added, and the splendid remains of the great
mosque ot John, originally built with gates
so heavy that it required five men to turn
them, and column of porphyry and kneel
ing places framed in diamond and seventy
four stained glass windows and six hundred
lamps of pure gold, a single prayer offered
in this mosque f a'd to be worth thirty thou
sand prayers offered in any other place. I
turn my back on all these and see Damascus
as it was when this narrow street, which the
Bible calls Straight, was a trreat wide street.
a New York Broadway or a Parisian Champa
Elysees, a great thoroughfare crossing the
city from gate to gate, along which tramped
and rolled the porno of all nations.
There goes Abraham, tbe father of all the
faithful, lie has in this citv been purcbas
big a celebrated slave. There goes Ben Ha-
aaa oi uiDie times, leading tbirty-two con-
querea monarens. There goes David, King,
warrior and sacred poet. There eoes Tamer
lane, the conqueror. There goes Haroun al
Raschid, once the commander cf an army of
mncty-nve thousand jfersians ana Arabs
There comes a warrior on his way to the bar
racks, carrying that kind of sword which
the world has forgotten how to make, a
Damascus blade, which tbe interlacings of
color changing at every new turn of tre
light, many colors coming and going and in
terjoining, the blade so keen it could cut in
twain an object without making the lower
part of the object tremble, with an elasticity
that could not be token, though vou brought
the point of the sword clear back to tbe
hilt, and' h.winz a watered appearance
which made the blade seem as- though just
dipped in a clear fountain, a triumph of cut
lery which a thousand modern foundryraen
and chemists have attempted in vain to imi
tate. On the side of this street damasks,
named after this city, figures of animals and
fruits and landscapes here being first wrousht
into silk damasks. And specimens of da
maskeening by which in this city steel and
iron were first graved, and then the groves
filled with wire of gold damaskeening. But
stand back or be run over, for here are at the
gates of the city laden caravans from Aleppo
in one direction, and from Jerusalem in an
other direction, and caravans of all nations
paying toll to the supremacy. Great is Da
mascus! . But what most stirs my soul is neither
chariot nor caravan nor bazar nor palace,
but a blind man passing along the street;
small of stature and insignificant in personal
appearance. Ob, yes; we have seen him be
fore. He was one of that cavslcade coming
from Jerusalem to Damascus to kill Chris
tians, and we saw him and bis horse tumble
up there on the road some distance out of tbe
.city, and he got np blind. Yes, it h Saul of
Tarsus now going along this street called
Straight. He is led by his' friends, for he
cannot see bis hand before his face, unto the
house of Judas; not Judas the bad,but Judas
the good. In another part of this city one
Ananias, not ' Ananias the liar, but
Aaaniav the Christian, is told by
the Lord to go to this bousa
of Judas on Straight street and put his hands
on tbe blind eyes of Saul that bis sight might
return. "Ob,rf said Ananias, "1 dare not go;
that Saut is a terrible fellow. He kills
Christians and he will kill me." "Go," said
the Lord, and Ananias went. There sits in
blindness that tremendous persecutor. He
was n crnafc nature crushed . He had started
for the citv of Damascus for the one purpose ot
assassinating Christ's followers, but' sinca
that fall from his horse he hi entirely
changed. Ananias stops up to the sightless
man, puts his right thumb on oue eye and
the left thumb on the other eye, and in an
outburst of sympathv and love and faith
rayr: ."Brother- Saul! Brother Saull the
Lord, even Jesus that appeared unto thee in
the way as thou earnest, has sent
me that thou mayst receive thy sight and
ba filled with the Holy Ghost .'f Instantly
something like scales fell from the blind
man's eyes, and be arose from that seat the
mightiest evangel of all the ages, a Sir Will
iam Hamilton for metaphysical analysis, a
John Milton for sublimity of thought, a
Whitefield for populw eloquence, a John
Howard for widespread philanthropy, but
more than all of them put together inspire.!,
thunderbolted, multipotent, apostolic. Did
Judas, the kind host of this blind man, or
Ananias, the visitor, see scales drop from
the sightless eyes? I think not But Paul
knew they had fallen, and that is all that
happens to any of us when we are converted .
The blinding scales drop from our eyes and
we see things differently.
- A' Christian woman, missionary among a
most degraded .tribe, whose religion was
never to wash or improve personal appear
ance, was trying to persuade one of those
heathen women not only of need of change
of heart but change of habite, which would
remit in change of appearance but the effort
failed until the missionary had placed in her
own hallway a looking glasa, and when the
barbaric , woman passing through the hall
saw herself in the mirroo for the first time,
she exclaimed. "Can it be possible i look like
that?" and appalled at her own appearand
she renouncea her old religion aud asked to
be instructed in the ChritiUan religion. And
wo wa feel that we ere all right in our sinful
and unchanged condition until toe scales fall
from our eyes, an 1 in the looking p-lnss of
I Jo-l's word we nv ourselves a? wo ro i!y ore,
i.V 1 divine gr- , t r:i-.,.-,fornit vs.
' reart r ia t'-.i ! ito-liv
- : 1 f! s 1 1 " t ' -'-!
his eyes. And there are many here from
whose eyes the scales have already fallen.
You see all subjects and a1! things different
ly God and Christ and eternity, and your
own immortal spirit. Sometimes the scales
do not all fall at once. When I , wa a boy,
at Mount Pleasant, one: Sunday afternoon
reading Doddridge's "Rise and Progress of
Keligion in the HouC that afternoon some
of the scales fell from my eyes and I saw a
littl. After I had been in the ministry about
a year, one Sunday afternoon, in the village
parsonage reading the Bible story of the Syro
Phenioian's faith, other scales felt from
my eyes and I saw better. . Two Sunday
evenings ago, while premring for the even
ing service in New York; I picks 1 up a
book that I did not remember to have seen
before, and after I had read a pag-s about
reconsecration to God. I think tha remain
ing scales fell ' from my eyes. Shall not
our visit to Damascus to-day result, like
Paul's visit, in vision to the blind and in
creased vision for those who saw somewhat
before?
X was reading of a painter's child who bs
eacne blind in infancy. But after the child
waa neiriy grown a" surgeon removed th
blind nes. TV hen told that this could bs done,
tbe child's thought, her mother being dead,
wa she would be able to see her father, who
had watched over her with great tenderness.
When night came she was in raptures, Rid
ran her hands over her' father's face, aud
shut her eyes as if to assure herself that this
was really the father whom she had only
known by touch, and now looking upaa
him, noble man as he was in appearance as
well asm reality, she cried out: "Just to
think that I had this father so many years
and never knew himf As great and greater
ia the soul's joyful surprise when the scales
fall from the eyes and the long sp ritual
darkness is ended, and we look up into our
Father's face always radiant and losing, but
now for the first revealed, and oir blindness
forever gone, we cry, "Abba Father V
To each one of 'this vast multitude of
auditors I say as Ananias did to Saul of
Tarsus when bis sympathetic fingers touched
the closed eyelids: "Brother Saul Brother
Saul! The Lord even Jesus that appeared
unto the9 in tbe way that thou earnest, hath
sent me that thou migh test' receive thy sight
and be filled with tbe Holy Ghost P
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Failures Reported In New York and other
Parts of the Conn try.
The New York oleoring-house issued $500,
000 i additional certificates. The total now
outstanding is $15,023,000.
There has. been some discussiou of the wis
dom of banks buying bills of exchange at the
low rates now prevailing and importing gold
against them. It ia announoed that the dir
ectors of the Bank of Commerce authorized
the purchase of a large amount of sterling ex
change and to take out clearing-house certifi
cates for this purchase.
Advices from London says: "Bullion to
he amount of 350.000 was withdrawn from
tthe Bank of England for shipment to
America."
Charles H. Hamilton andWill iam F. Bishop
comprising the firm of Hamilton A Bishop,
stock. Droaers and bankers of lj liroaaway,
made an assignment to Harman Aaran.
Assignee Aaron savs the liabilities of the
suspended firm would amount to about $75,000
Their assets are not as vet known.
Tarlow fc Hntshing, manufacturers of knit
gooos at 34 walker asreet, nave oeencioiea
ty tnesaena.
Bichard D. Young, perfumer at 100 Will
iam street, made an as-ienment.
CXakksville, TEJfjr.Tne Franklin Bank
of this eity, has suspended payment Tbe
failure was caused by the irecent failure of
Henry Sealer t, of New York, a large tobacco
nist, with whom the Franklin had been doing
a large credit business. The Franklin Bank
is a private bank, its capital stock is $50,000.
The assets and liabilities of tbe bank are not
known as yet.
Kendrick, Pettns & Coh a large tobacco
firm, made an assignment. The suspension
of the bank, in which the firm had large de
posits, and the stringency of the money mar
ket made it impossible for the firm to meet
their oblications. and in order to protect all
their creditors alike they assigned. The lia-
Dimies are hi.uuu. A statement or We assets
has not been made.
The liabilities of the Franklin Bank amount
to over $200,000. and assets exceed the liabili
ties by about $50,000. The liabilities of Ken
drick, Pettns dt Co., are over $400,000; nominal
e.sets exceed this amount. A run on tbe
Farmers and Mechants' National Bank fol-
ln.l BTirl Imm tSAvrn .InsArl T kia waa
caused by the other failures, but that institu
tion will probably resume business in a day
or two. Great excitement exists in business
circles.
Memphis, Tesn. N. L. Averv and Raph
ael Simmes, conducting business under the
firm name of N. L. Avery A Co., at Osceola,
Ark.; Avery A Simmes, at Blytheville, Ark.,
and N. L- Avery, at Frenchman's Bayou.
Ark., made an assignment at Osceola. Ark.
They were the principal merchants of that
town, xiiauiiiues mu,wu, aue prjncipauy no
Memphis and St. Louis creditors. Assets
nominally $80,000. The failure is attributed
to poor crops ana inability to make collec
tions. -
Arkansas Citt. Kan. The information
is given out that tbe American Bank, will net
resume business. A bank inspector and Un
ited States marshal will take charge of the
bank and close np its business. There is about
$190,000 dne depositors.
DENVER. CO I. The crocerv and imDorUncr
house Of John II. Carl t ton was closed on at
tachments of $20,000, The liabilities are $24,
000; assets unknown.
AMPUTATED HER BRAIN.
A limarkabl Surgical Operation 1st a
Cblcago Hospital.
A patient will leave the connty hospital this
week who has undergone one of tbe most re
markable cases of brain amputation that has
ever taken place in. Chicago. Four-year-old
Mamie Brown was admitted to the county
hospitnl last Aneust suffering from a fracture
ot the skull. The entire left side of the head
had been crushed in by the kick of a horse.
A trephining operation was performed. No
Hi effects were noticed for several days when a
curious growth was observed on the head,
above aud behind the right ear. A close in
vestigation showed that the dura mater, or
tough membrane covering the brain, had been
Iractnred, and the brain was forcing its way
through the aperture and out through the
fractured skull. There waa a hole tn the
bead as large as a silver half dollar. The
bruin continued to protrude, forming what
wasralM hernia ot the brain. Enough forced
its wav nut to form a lump larger than a wal
nut. Itwasthenthntnncperattonwas decided
on. It ias seen thut &u attttnpt to replace
th !i xiti would be useless, and it was decided
to remove it. The operation was in every way
iH't -r-Mtil. Little .'smie rallied from the,
cyx uiiiMi end was ir ti able to be running
Brno ;l the ward". ? !-e has lo;t n'ir,i i,f her
I-:"" iu'l fc : v 'it r.a briyht es r ' " f ur
,ii.
THE NEWS,
M. Steenbert, a traveling salesman from
Philadelphia, committed suicide in a Chicago
hotel. Three tramps were burned to death
in. a barn in Peorio, 111. Judge Woods, Su
the United States District Court at Indian
spoils, has decided that an insolvent corpora
tion cannot prefer its directors or officers as
creditors. The commission appointed at
the General Conference of the M. E. Church
to revise the constitution and discipline be
gan work in Indianapolis. -Horace Keller,
who died in Cleveland, lett $500,009 for a nat
ional gallery of arts, to be established in his
ify.- Mrs. Oscar Dorsey compelled Charles
Vosa, a Wichita, Ks.. gambler to give up
$500 her husband had lost. -Day, the wife
murderer, will be hanged in Ottawa, Ont., on
the 18th instant. The jury in the case of
Joseph S. Young, of Philadelphia, on trial for
the murder of hi- wife at Atlantic City,
brought In a verdict of not guilty. John
M.L. Irhy has been elected United States
senator to succeed Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina. Henry B. Blue, aclerk employed
by Thomas II. Perkins A Co., stockbrokers,
Boston, is charged with tbe embezslement of
$17,000 from his employers.
Major MeLoughlin, agent at the Standing
Bock Agency, says there is no longer any dan
ger of an Indian outbreak. Mrs. Henry F.
Schmidt and her husband.of Chester, Pa., have
been arrested, charged with the murder of the
wife 'sitter, Miss Emma Pntzenmeyer
Burglars entered the house of O. A. M oyer,- at
Doylestown, Pa., in his absence, and, at the
point of pistols, forced his wife to get out ef
bed and give them $700. The Anti-Lottery
law, prohibiting the giving away of china by
baking powder and tea houses, has seriously
affected the glass trade. -The will of the late
Judge Hale, of St. Paul, Minn., shows an es
tate of $1,000,000, and includes handsome be
quests for a free medical dispensary and a
public library, besides gifts to various relig
ious aud charitable institutions in that city.
Fire in 8ykestcwn, Mo., did $50,000 damage.
John Battley was shot and killed by a
woman at Coropton, Ala. It ia reported in
tan Francisco that all the crew of the bark
Charles W. Morgan, lost in the Arctic, were
saved. -Frank W. Gregory, managing edi
tor of the Memphis Evening Globe, has been
indicted for violating the lottery law. -Five
people were injured (not seriously) by the
ditching of a Missouri, Kansas and Texas train,
near Denison, Texas. Seven counterfeiters
were eaptnred at Palestine, O. An electric
street ear was struck by a train at Wichita,
Kan., and two people seriously hurt Twelve
thousand bushels of grain were burned at
Carmi, 111. Loss $20,000. John P. Clow,
an ex-pugilist was shot and killed in a Denver
saloon. H. 8. Depew, general traffic mana
ger ot the Mobile and Ohio. Railroad, died in
St. Louis. Mayor Crgier, of Chicago, haa
signed the ordinance giving $5,000,000 to the
World's Fair. The Federation of Labor
denounced the Pennsylvania coal police. -
The Democratic and Citisens' Reform move
ment in Boston elected the mayor and majority
of the board of aldermen.-The horse dealers
of Eastern Pennsylvania are organising a
breeders' association. Holloway Hall shot
'and killed his young wife, dangerously
wouhded her brother, and then killed himself,
near Henrietta Mills, Bnthford connty, N. C.
Tbe body of the wife of Senator John F.
Miller was buried in Bock Creek Cemetery.
A workman fell off tbe dome of tbecapitol
at Tope k a, Kasn and was killed. At a
meeting of the stockholders of the Richmond
Terminal Company Jay Gould and George
Gould were elected directors. A cyclone,
near Monroe, Ala., killed a man and a child
and injured several people. There is a
strike on the Union Pacific at Ogden, Utah.
Three millions in gold are on the way to
New York from Europe to relieve the financial
stringency.
The national convention of the Americas
Federation of Labor opened in Detroit, Presi
dent Oompers presiding. AI Doggett, con
tractor for furnishing postal cards for the
government at Birmingham, Ct, was declared
a bankrupt. The Baltimore and Ohio pro
poses to enter Chicago over the tracks of tbe
Chicago and Northern Paoifio Ilailroad Company.-
-The new Grand Central depot in
Chicago, erected for tbe joint use of the
Northern Pacific and Wisconsin Central Rail
roads, was formally opened. Hon. Samuel
Steel Blair, of Hollidaysbnrg, the oldest mem
ber of the Blair county (Pa) bar, and ex
Congressman, died of congestion of the brain,
aged sixty-nine year.- Frank Shirley and
John Trapper, miners, were fatally injured in
the Crop Tree mines at Greensbnrg, Pa., by a
premature explosion. Captain Lyall.of the
British four-masted ship Buckingham, was
stabbed to death by tbe cook while en a voy
age from Dundee to New York. Washing
ton McLean, the father of John R. McLean,
proprietor of the Cineinnati Enquirer, died ia
Washington, aged seventy-four , years. A
locomotive exploded at Dale, Wyoming
connty, N. Y., and killed Thomas Maloney,
of Buffalo, the engineer. The Simpson M.
E. Chnrch, ot Scranton, Pa ws destroyed by
fire. -Maud Grantham and Oscar Meyer
students at the Missouri Weslayen University,
were drowned while skating. Walter Wil
liams has been left $30,000 by Edgar Wilson,
a life conviot who recently died at the Still
water (Minn.) Penitentiary. There is des
titution la South Dakota. -Mr. James Mel
landon was burned to death in her home, at
Gloucester, N. Y. -Mrsw Julia Lippincott
has been acquitted on two more indictments
f forgery. Rev. Pashal Strong, of the
East Millstone, N. J., Reformed Church, fell
dtad ia the pnlpit.
AUGUST MfiLMONT was an enthusiastic col
lector of old china. He picked np odds and
ends in this line wherever he could find them,
and when he was so decrepit irom rheunir.tism
and tii old wound th.it he could scar.;c!y
crawl, k was not uncommon to sec him pnin-h-l'y
hi-"ili,ing hoiue'.v.'ird wir.h a Mi; oi-.'na
tfijt'-i ::. r ariu a-i'l t'; short-le;--.-.-! c-a;
ill:n':. '
DESTITUTBFARMER3. '
'. ' . - ; '''i W' t-St:
Iient Gov. Fletcher's View of tlii
Situation in Soutli Dakota.
tVhej- tbe Greatest' SulTerUig Is . and
What has Canted it-Aid Is
i Wanted Badly. f
Lieutenant Governor Fletcher, asked re
garding destitution among South Dakota
farmer, said: ' "'
"Yes, there is destitution in South' Dakiia
all reports to the contrary notwithstandin v
And what is more, I can't see tbe wisdom ot
attempting to cover up these facts or being
all inetily-motithcd about the business. It'
they are the truth, they are bound to ont, no
matter how much any so-called boomers mv
attempt to cover them up. . And w hat is uiort-,
I can 't see how by making these things pub
licly known anytning but good can resu'tr
"It is not to be supposed that anyone is
coming here without investigating the condi
tion of affairs, or that we want anybody t
come in any other way. "It is a misfortune
that there ia destitution, but it will only be
temporary. ' . t,
"The experience is one common to the
settlement of all new countries. There are
vorae seven connties in the State that I know
of that are suffering and in destitute circum
stances, resulting from ihe drouth which has
prevailed in these parts more or less for the
past three seasons.
"In Brown county the Southeastern part
had a fairly good crop. The rest is in most
destitute circumstances. Then, there are
Marshall, BlePherson, Campbell, Wallworth,
Edwards and Spink. These counties are alt
in bad shape, with hnrdly any crops to speak
of. Jn our county we hive an organization of
some 16 townships, with a representative in
each township through whom we distribute
all we can gather in any way to alleviate tins
wants of those people suflerine the most
"What is going to be done? I am of the
opinion that there is no danger of our getting
too much assistnnce. The only proper way
to handle the matter is through the boards of
commissioners in every county." If these
commissioners take the proper course and rhtt
circumstances are thoroughly understood, the
railroad companies will furnish free transpor
tation to needy sufferers. Then if the other
interests of the country will do an equnl
share with these railroads, there will be plenty
of money to bny goods for the railroads to ship
iu to supply all who are really suffering.
"We maybe called beggars, but ta it not
better to beg than to freeze and starve? And
that is just what people are already doing and
will continue to do with increasing measure
from this time on. If the counties provide
the means of commencing farming next year
they will do a great deal. .
"I believe in asking aid wherever we can
fet it- It seems a false pride-that we should
eep such serious facts as these suppressed.
It Is unnatural and uncoiled for on any
grounds that I can see. South Dakota may
be amply able to take care of itself, and live,
but whether that covers the present situation
is the question. I do not believe that fine
sentiment as it is, it will keep people iroin
starving and freezing to death in our part i
the State. If impartial judges thought the .
itnatioa a serious one last year they will find
it as much worse this year."
Gbakd FOBX8, N. I)" The Chamber of
Commerce and the Business Men's Associa
tion have administered a severe rebuke to
Congressman llansbrough for introducing a
resolution in Congress asking for an appro
priation of $oO0,0Q0 tor destitute citizens oi
North Dakota, wtreu the six counties of tbe
Red River Valley alone in the State raised
during the crop season of 1800 25,000,000
bushels of wheat, besides other cereals, und
have loaned to wheat buyers o Minneapolis
and Doluth $400,000 during the last 30 days
to tide them over the crisis caused by the
stringency in Eastern markets. These busi
ness bodies insist that North Dakota is able to
provide for all its needy and protest a.sainet
the adoption of the llansbrough resolution. '
WICHITA, KaS. The Oklahoma country i
covered with snow from 5 to 12 inches deep.
The demard for aid increases from the poor
settlers. Of the $47,000 appropriated by the
government for the benefit of the poor there
remains scarcely $15,000. The committee on
supplies handling this money has reached
here. The members report that they do not
want to fay that the situation is alarming, but
they have by no means enough to supply food
end clothing for the poor. Aid must come or
the suffering will be intense,
CRUSHED BY THE MASONRY.
A Blaat Furnace Otvea Way and Kill
Eight Hen.
A terrible accident occurred at the blast
furnace department of the Illinois Iron and
Steel Company's works at Joliet. The fur
nace, nhich was blown out for relining and
repairs made necessary by a recent explosion,
which was attended with loss of life, fell to
the ground without warning. Eleven men
were at work in the inside at the bottom and
about six on top when the accident occurred.
Masonry work and furnace linings were piled
up on each other in a confused heap, mingled
with the ft cg tt and dying workmen. A band
of willing laborers was at once summoned
and beuan the work or recovery and rescue.
Gathered about them and urging them to re
newed effort were the wailing wives and chil- 1
dren of the unfortunate men. Within halt
an hour they had succeeded in taking out
eight bodies. Five of the unfortunates wew,
dead, crushed almost out of resemblance to
human snape, while the otner tnree were ap
parently fatally injured. 1
One man was buried in the water tank and
another cut in two. One of the men en top ol
the furnace escaped serions injury.
WADE HAMPTON DEFEATED.
Irby, she Farmers' Alliance Candidate,
Elected United States Senator,
A dispatch from Columbia, S. C, says: On
the fourth ballot in joint session J. L. M. Irby
was elected United States Senator to succeed
Wade Hampton. The vote stood : Irby, 10,;
Donaldson, 10; Hampton, 42.
Hon. John Laurens Manuing Irby wssbnru
at Laurens, S. C.on September 10, 1&54. He
attended the Universitvof Virginia,and after
ward Princeton. Leaving there he read la
for three years under Judge Mcl vers, bin prac
ticed his profession only two vears. Since
then he has resideded on his plantatfon, and
farmed successfully, near Laurens. He to iir
part in the memorable Hampton enmpaien of
76. . When be entered the political arena tour
years aeo He at once became a prominent le id
er. At the same time giving properstteof i i. ri
to his fnrniinir interests he espoused thecnuM
of the Farmers' movement at its inception,
and was an mi dent admirer of Captaiu B. i
Tillman.
VicE-PitrmiRicT Mort w's -MMt d li
ter. Mis' l.'Jith Morton, i" 17 jcs -Site
ii pretty giil, v i -n
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