Published btKoakoke Publishing Co.
C. V. W AtJSBOS, Bosisjehs Mamaokr.
"FOR GOD. H'OH COUNTRY AND FOR- TRUTII.
VOL. II.
NO. 36.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1891.
BEY. DR. TALIAGB.
The'Enjuiwit Brooklyn Divine's Sun
.day .Sermon.
Subject "A UI?lons Movement In Ml.'
Tkzt; "Tarry ys tilth city of Jerusalem
Until ye bn endued with power from on
AfffA."Luko sxir., 49.
., For n, few months, in the providence of
God, I have two pulpits, oao in Brooklyn,
mad the other in New York, and through the
Kfadoesj of the printing press an ever
widening opportun.ty. To all such hearara
ocl readers I come with an especial message.
The time ha3 arrived for a forward move
ment such as the church and the world have
never saen. That there is a need for each a
religious movement is evident from the fact
that never sinca our world was swung out
among the placets has there been such an
organized nnd determined effort to over
throw righteousness, and make the Ton
'Commandments obsolete and the whole Eiblo
a derision. Meanwhile alcoholism is taking
down its victims by the hundred of thou
sands, and the political parties get down on
tliei knees, practically sayingt '0 thou al
mighty rum we bow down before the'et
Givo us the otilccs-city, State'and national.
Oh, give us the omeoa, and we will worship '
thee for ever and overt Amea.M .. .
f. Tb.3 Christian Sabbath meanwhile, ttpr
pointed for physical, mental and ' spiritual
rest, Is being saculariisad and abolisbedc As
If the bad publishing houses of ourowncoun-.
try had exhausted their literary fllflj, the
IrenchandRursian ss were ha'TObeeh Invited
to pour their scurrility and tnbral, plush into
the troujh where our Americn swine are
now wallowing. Meanwhile there are enough
nouses of infamy in all onr cities, open and
unmolested of the Jaw, to invoke the omnipo
tent wrath which buried Sodom under a de
luge of brimstone. The pandemoniae world,
I think, has masked its troops, and they are
at this moment plying their batteries upon
family circles, church circles, Bocial circles,
political circles and national circles. Apollyon
is in the saddle, and riding at the head of his
myrmidons would capture this world for
darkness ind woe.
That 13 one side of the conflict now raging.
On tbe other side ws have the most magnifi
cent gospal machinery that the world ever
6aw or heaven ever invented. In th$ first
place there are In .tais country more than
eighty thousand ministers of religion and,
take thens as a class, more consecrated,
holier, more consistent, more eelf denying,
rnore faithful men never lived. I know them
by the thousands. I have met them in every
city. I. am told, not by them, but by people
(outside of our profess on, people engaged in
; Christian and reformatory work, that the
, clergy of America are at t he head of all good
enterprises, and whoever else fail they may
be depended on. The truth of this is demon
strated by the fact that when a minister of
religion does fall, it is so exceptional that the
newspapers report it as something startling,
while a hundred men in other callings may
go down without the matter being considered
as especially wortft mentioning.
In addition to their equipment in moral
character the clergy of tliis country have all
that the schools can give. All archaeologi
cal, rhetorical, scientific, scholastic, literary
attainment. Bo much for the Christian
ministry of all denominations. In the next
place on our side of the conflict we have the
grandest churches of all time and higher
Ftyle of membership and more of them, and
a host without number of splendid men and
women who are doing their best to have this
world , purified, elevated, gospelizad. But
we all fed that something is wanting.
Enough hearty Songs have been sung and
enough earnest sermons preached within the
last six months'to save all the cities of A-nier-ica,
and saving the cities you save the world,
for they overflow all the land either with
their religion or their infamy.
But look ct some of the startling - facts.
It is nearly nineteen hundred-years since
Jesus Christ came by the way of Bethlehem
caravansary to save this world, yet the
niott, of " the world has . been no more
touched by this most stupendous fact o
oil eternity than if on the first Christmas)
night the beasts of. -be stall,-Amid -the bleat
ings of their own young", had nut heard, the -bleating
of the Lamb that was to be slain.
Out of the eighteen hundred million of the
human race fourteen hundred million are
without God and without hope in the world,
1 he camel driver of Arabia, Mauomet, with ,
his nine wives. haviDg half as many disciples
as our blessed .Ciiristand Vaere -people aro
worshiping chunks of painted wood' and
carved stone than are worshiping the living
and eternal Go J. Meanwhile, the most of
us who are engaged in ChristiaU-,.wdrk I ,
Bpeak for myEclf m well as others are toil
ing up to our full capacity of body, mind and
eouL harnessed up to the last buckle, not
able to draw apQUmfcXmoDo than--we are
drawing or lift an ounce more than we are ,
lifting. . "
I Whai is the matter? My text lets out the
neoret, We all need more of the power from i
n high. Ifot muscular power, not .logical,
power, not scientific power, not social power,
not financial power, .not brain -power, bu
power from on high.-" Withifc we'could ac
complish more in one week than without it -in
a nundred years. And I am going to get
It, if in answer to prayer, earnest, and )ong
continued, God will grant it to me..HiS un
worthy servant; Men and women who know
how to pray, when you pray for yourself,
pray for me that I may be endued with power
from on high. J. .Trcdkd rather'tlava it than
all ths diamond fields of GolcondA, and all the-,
pearls of the sea, and; all the gold of the
mountains. Many ot tbe mightiestjtatellects
never had a touch of it,1 and mny of the less
t han ordinary intellect! bare been surcharged
with it. And every man and woman on earth
has a right to ospira to it. a right to pray for
it, nnd.'proper y persistent wiilobtaia it.
Power from aa ths level is a good thing, ,
: such power as I my give you, or you may
five me, by enoauraiag wordq ani actions,
'ower from en the level when wo stand by
etch other in any Christian undertaking.
Tower from on the level when other pulpits,
are in accord with ours.. Power from on tho
le vel when to re iHius and secular press,
forward our Cbris.iaa undertakings." But
! power from cai lh itfveJLvi nqt ffictBnC. .
Vower f rorrNsfflfa h what w'eed to take
possession of m Power straight fe-bnj God.
ijuwtaia'urnl owas.' omnipotent power, all
.-enquiring power. .Not more thau one out
t a tiou&and of the m nisters has it con
tinuously,?. Not more than one out of ten
thousand Christians has it all the time. Given
in abundance, -tli,o iast tea years-, of the
.rnnetwuth century Waul J accomplish, more1
for GoA andthechurehpttnd the world than
t he previous nhiel y y,ars of this century. .
A few man and' women in each age of the
wurlfi have possessed it, Caroline Fry, the
immortal Quakeress had it, and three hun
dred of the depraved kand suffering of New
Kate pfiion, under her exhortation, repent-id
end be'ieved. JonatMn Edwards had it, and
Northampton njeetin( house heard the out
imrst of relisioim"-e'uotioi as h t!p:ike of
riprhteoufcnnsi and judgment to come. Sarauol
L'.Klg.Ht, the Chrutiiia merchant, had it-, anJ
jits bni fact I "ins showered the world. Johu
New ton' bad it. Hliiiop Latimer bad it. Isa.
!( it Uvetiiin hal it nndrtiw KuUoi'bad it.
The frcat cviiifl!t Dauiel liaker aud Dr.
Kettleton and Truman Osborn and Charles
l. Fihney had it. In my boyhood I saw Tru
man Osborn rise to preach in the village
church at Somerville, N. J., and before he
had given out his text or uttsred A word
people In tha audience sobbed aloud with re
ligious emotion. It was the power from on
high. Ail in greater or less degree may have
It. Once get it ani nothing can stand before
you. Satan goes down. Caricature goes
down. Infidelity goes down. Worldiness
goes down. All opposition goes down.
Several times in the history of the church
nnd the world has this power from on high
been demonstrated. In the seventeenth
century, after a- great season of moral de
presiiou, this power from on high came
down upon Joan Tillotson and Owen and
Fiavel and Baxter and Bunyan, and there
was a deluge of mercy higher than the tops
of the " highest mountains of sin. In tne
. eighteenth century, in England and Amwica,
religion was at a low water mark. William
Cowpar, writing of the clergy of these days,
gaid-
Except a few with Eli's spirit blest,
Ilophni nl Phiueas mar describe ite re it.
Tbe infidel writings of Shaftesbury and
Hobbes and Chubb haa done their work.
Bat power from on high carce upon both
the Wesleys and Lady Huntington on tbe
other side the Atlantic, and upon William
Tennant and Gilbert Teniiant and D.ivid
Brainerd on this side the Atlantic,, and both
hemispheres felt the tread of a pardoning
,God. Coining to later date, there may be
here and there in this audience aa as?d man
;or woman whq can remember New Yor!c in
J1S3 1, when this potter from oi high de
scended most wpndt'onsly. It came upon
pastors and congregations and theatres and
'commercial establishments. Chatham
Street Theatre, New York, was the scene of
a most tremendous religious awakening.
A committee of Christian gentlemen called
upon the lessee of the theatre, and said they
would like to buy tha lease of the theatre.
,He said, "What do you want it fori" They
replied, "For a. church." -'For wh-a-atf
eai'i the owner. - VFor- a church," wa3 the
reply. The owner said, "You may have it,
and I will give you a thousand dollars to help
you on with your work.'? Arthur Tappaa,
a man mightily persecuted in his time, but a
man, as I saw him in his lost days, as ho:iest
and pure and good as any man I ever knew,
stepped on the stage of old Chatham Theatre
as the actors were closing their morning
rehearsal and said, "There will ba preacbiug
here to-night on this stage;" and then gave
out and 6ang with such people as were there
the old hymn:
Tbe voice of free grace cries, escape to the mount
ain, For all that believe Christ haa openel a fountain
The barroom of the theatre was turned in
to a prayer room, and eight hundred par
sons were present at the first meating. For
seventy successive nights religious service-i
were held in that theatre, and such scenes of
mercy and ealvation as will be subjects of
conversation and congratulation among tha
ransomed in glory as long as heaven lasts.
But I come to a later time 1837 remem
bered by many who are here. . I remember
It especially, as I had just enterei the office
of the ministry. It was a year of hard times,
A great panic had ftung hundreds of thou
sands of people penniless.- Starvation en
tered habitations that had never before
fcnown a want. Domestic life in many cases
became a tragedy. Suicide, garroting,
burglary, assassination were rampant. What
an awful day that was when the banks went
down I There has been nothing like it in
thirty years, end I pray God there may not
be anything like it in the next thirty cen
turies. Talk about your Black Fridays! It
was Black Saturday, Black Sunday, Black
Monday, Black Tuesday, Black Wednesday.
Black Thursday as well a3 Black Friday.
This nation in its extremity fell helpless
before the Lord and cried-for pardon and
peace, and upon ministers and laymen the
nower from on hiih descended. Ensiae
houses, warorooras, hotel parlors, museums,
factories, from 12 to 1 oclocif, while tae oper
atives were resting, were opened for prayere
and sermons and inquiry rooms, and
Burton's old theatre on Chambers street,
where our ancestors used to assemble to
laugh at the comedies, and all up and down
the strests, and out on tae docks and on the
decks of ships lyin? at the wharf p3onle san?,
"All hail the power of Jesus's name," whUi
others cried for mercy. A gr !at mass meet
ing of Christians on a week day. in Jayne's
Hall, Philadelphia, telegraphed to Fulton
Street Prayer Meeting in New York, saying,
"What hath God wrought?" and a talegram
went back saying, i'wo hundred souls
saved at our meeting to-day." A ship came
through tbe Narrows into our harbor, the
captain reporting that himsalf and all the
crew had been converted .to ' God batwecn
New Orleans and New York. .
In the busiest marts of our busiest Amer
ican cities, where the wc-"hipers of Mam
mon had been counting "their golden beads,
men began to calculate, "What shall it pro
fit a man if he gain the wl-ole world and lose
his soul?" The waiters in restaurant after
the closing of their day's work kpeit among
the tables where they had served. Police
men asked coos3nt of the Commissioner of
Police to be permitted to attend religious
meetings. At Albany members of the New
Vn-lr lrfcslfttnra assembled in the room of
the Court of Appeals at half-past eight
o'clock in ths morning tor prayer ana praise.
Printed invitations were sent out to the tire-
men of New York saying, "Come as suita
yoUr convenience best, whether in fire or
citizens' dress, but cornel come 1" Quarry
men knelt amon;; the rocks. Fishermen
. knelt in their boats. Weavers knelt among
the looms. Sailors knelt among tne nam
mocks. Schoolmasters knelt among their
classes'. A gentleman traveling said there
was a line of prayer meetings from Omaha
to Washington City,; and he might have
added a line of . prayer .meetings from the
Atlantic to tha Pacific coast, and from the,
St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Maxico.
in those days what songs, what sermon
what turnings to God, what recital of thrill
ing experiences, what prodigals brought
home, what burning tidings of souls savosd,
what serfdom of sin emancipated, what
Iwild rout of tbe forces of darkuess, wiiafc
'(victories for the truth I What millions on
earth and in heaven are now thanking Grfi
jfor 1857, which, though the year of worst
flnaheial-calamity, was the year of Amer
ica's most glorious -blessing. How do you
account for 1S57, its spiritual triumpn3
tin the heols of its worldly, misfortuna? ,
It was what my taxt call tne power iromoo.
high. . .
I That waS lhirty-tbre 3 years ago, and
though there have been in various parts of
ithe land many stirrings of the Holy Ghost,
there has been no , general awakenms.
Does it not seem to you that , we ought to
have and may have the scanea of power m
1857 eclipsed by the scenes of power in Iplr
The circumstances are somewhat amilar.
While we have not bad national panic and
universal prostration as in 1S57, there has
been a stringency in the money market that
ba put many of tha families of the earth
their wits' end. Large commercial intcrwtt
'collapsing have Idft multitudes of employ M
"without means ot sanjiort. Tbe rack!
Jbrainsof businss men hive almost or ci
.tirely given way. New illustrations all over
ittia land, ot the fact that rio'va have not only
toot, on which they wall; slowly as thsy com .-,
but wings on wlacli they spjfid wnen -th3v
jgo. E;rnuM;M:i'houkuoivi?-.thow crampjd
md Fcvereaiiilmiemn atinieitinvi iin many.
I I.AtiiI n tin? bn-invi rum of K was fiJ
I jowi'.l by th- slorio-ii triu:.:'h of zrai-i1,
the awful straggles of 1890 be followed by j
the hallelujahs of a nation saved in 1891. i
Brethren in the Gospel ministry I if we
spent half as much time in prayer as we do
in the preparation of our sermons nothing
could stand before us; We would have the
'fju.vci ik uu vi UJKU m ic uovor unu lira. t,o
jmembership of all Christendom 1 if we spent
half as much time in positive prayer for this
influence as we do in thinking about it and
talking about it, there would not be secre
taries enough to take down the names of
jthoae who want to give in then names for
enlistment.
As the po-ver from on high In 1857 was
more remarkable in academies of music and
lyceum halls and theatres than in churches,
.why not this winter of 1891 in these two
academies of music, places'of secular enter -tainmeni
vwhere we areduriDghe rebuilding
.of oar Brooklyn Tabernacle, so grandly and
graciously treated by the owners and lessors
and lessees; why not expect and why not have
ithe power from on bisth, comforting power,
arousing power, convincingpower, convert
ling power, saving power, omnipotent power?
My opinion is that in this cluster of cities by
the Atlantic coast, there are five hundred
thousand people now ready to accept the
Gospel calf, if, freed from all the convention
alities of the church, it were earnestly and
with strong faith presonted to them.
I In theso brilliant assemblies there are hun
dreds who are not frequenters of churches,
and who do not believe much if at all in min
isters of religion or ecclesiastical organiza
tions. But God knows you have struggles in
which you need help, and bereavements in
which you want solace, and persecutions in
which you ought to have defense, and per
plexities in which you need guidance, and,
with a profound thoughtfulness you stand byi
Ihe grave of the old year, and the cradle oC
theyoun-; year, wondering where you will be
,nnd what you will be when "rolling years
hall cease to move." Power from on high
descend upon them f .
. Men of New York and Brooklyn. I often
you God and heaven! From the day youj
jL'ame to these cities what a struggle you have,
bad! I can tell from your careworn counte-i
nances, and the tears in your eyes, and the
,(leep sigh you have just breathed that you!
want re-enforcement, and here it is, greater,
then Blucher when he re-enforced Welling-:
ton;, greater than the Bank of England when;
last month it re-enforced the Barings name-!
y, the God who throuzh Jesus Christ, ia
ready to pardon all your sin, comfort all your
sorrows, scatter all your doubts, and swing
all the shining gates of heaven wide open
before your redeemed spirit. Come into the!
kingdom of God I Without a half second ofi
delay come inl
Many of my hearers to-day are what the
world calls, and what I would call splendid'
fellows, and they seem happy enough, and'
are jolly and obliging, and if I were hi
, trouble I would go to them with as much)
confidence as I would to my father, if he
were yet alive. But when they go to their
rooms at night, or when the excitements of
social and business life are off, they are not'
content, aud they want something better
than this world can offer. I understand)
them so well I would, without any fear of
being thought rough, put my right hand on'
their one shoulder and my left hand on their
other shoulder and push them into the
kingdom of God. But I cannot. Power
from on high, lay hold of them I
At the1 first communion after the dedica
tion of our former church three hundred and'
twenty-eight souls stood up in the aisles and
publicly espoused the cause of Christ. At'
another time four hundred souls; at another
time five hundred r and our four thousand
five hundred membership were but a small
part of those who within those sacred walls
took noon themselves the vows of the
Christian. What turned them? What
saved them? Power from the level? No.
Power from on high. 4
But greater things are to be seen if ever
these cities and ever this world is to be taken
for God. Tnere is one class of men and
women in ell tbese assemblages in whom I
have especial interest, and that is those who
had good fathers and mothers once, but they'
are dead. What multitudes of us are or
phans! We may be 40, 50, 80 years old,but
we never get used to having father and
mother gone. V Oh, how often we have had
troubles that we would like to have told them,
and we always felt as long as father and
mother were alive we had some one to whom
we could go! Now I would like to ask if you
think that all their prayers in your behalf
have been answered. "No," you say, "bat
it i3 too late; the old folks are gone now."
I must courteously contradict you. It is
not too late. I have a friend in the ministry
who was attending the last hoars of an aged
j Vvr-;tf lor, anr mv frion'I said to the old
Christian. "Is there no trouble on your, j
mind?'' Tha old man turned his face to the.
wall for a few moments, ana snen sua:
"Only one thing. 1 hope for the salvation of
my tea children, but not one of them is yelf
saved. Yet I am sure they will be. God
means to wait until I am gone," 8o he died..
When my friend told of the circumstances,
eight of the ten had found the Lord, and Ij
have no doubt the- other two before this have i
fouud Him. Oh, that the lon postponedi
answers to praver for you, my brother, for:
you, my 'sister," might this hour descend in
power"from on high.
Oh, unanswered prayers of father and
mother, where are you? In what room of
the old homestead have they hidden? Oh;
unanswered prayers, rise in a mist of many!
4.n..T.o a inn,1 nnr tihnn'hreak in a shower
which shall soften the heart of that man,
who is so hard he cannot cry, or tna wmna
who is ashamed to pray! Oh, armchair ofi
the aged, now emnty and in the garret among;
the rubbish, speak out! Oh, staff of the pil
grim who haa ended his weary journey, tell
of the parental anxieties that bent over thee l
Oh, family Bible, with story of births and
deaths, rustle tome of thy tune worn leaves,
and let us know of the wrinkled hands that
once turned thy pages, and explain that spot
where a-tear fell upon the passage: ''Ob.i
Absalom, my son, my son, would God I had
died for thee."
Good and gracious God! what will become
j praying parentage, we never pray for onr-
selves! we wiu pray. o " iwguj iww.
Oh, for the power from on high, power to
move this assemblage, power to save Brook
lyn and New York, power of evangelism that
s jail sweep across this continent like an ocean!
surer e, power to girdle the round earth with:
,r.'i JCr.Aa (Hrmwf in t.hn Vilfwi of the CTOSSl
I If this forward movement is to begin at all
blicio u DvM.v j.- - r i
why not this place? And there must be some
time for it to begin, and why not this time?
And so I sound for your ears a rhythmic in
vitation, which, until a few days ago, never
came under my eye, but it is so sweet, so Bob
bing with pathos, so triumphant with joy,
that whoever chimed it, instead of being
anonymous, ought- to be immortal :
Thy ln 1 bore on Calvary's tree;
The ftripes, thy lne, were laid on ma,
That peace and pwdon might be free
O wretched sinner, comet
Pardoned with guilt, woaldrt thou hs WesW
Trust not tbe wriq; It give no rest;
I bring relief to hearts oppress
U weary ilnner, corns!
Come, leave thy harden at ths erosis
Count all thy gin bat empty dross,
ily ra :e repay all eartiily loia
O needy auiner, coma! , ,
Come. h!Lherhrinn thy boding feara, ,
Tity viitug heart, toy bnrilng V sr.
"rn nifr-v voli nalntfl tuint
THE NEWa -
Mauro Candanm, a Mexican mayor, was ar
rested at El Paso, Tcxai It is rumored
that the McCoy-Brumfield feud baa broken
out again in Logan county, W. Va,and that6
men have been killed.--There is talk of
impeaching Mr. McGrath, of the Kansas
Alliance party. -At a banquet given by the
Young Men's Democratic Association In
Philadelphia, Mr. Cleveland made a speech.
Ex-Secretary Bayard and ethers spoke. A
cyclone did considerable damage near Sher
man, Texaa Nineteen table gla.'i manu
facturers in Ohio, West Virginia and Penn
sylvania have formed a combine. Three
prisoners escaped ironi the Ohio Penitentiary
By the explosion, of a becla powder cartridge
at Amherst, Mos., several people were seri
ously hurt. Samuel McGIennan, employed
at George West's, Union Mill, Balkton Fpa
N. Y., was drawn between two hot cylinders
and crashed and roasted. He died in three
hours. Henry Redmond and Isaac Mc-
Cutcheon were fatally hurt at Lanraster, Pa.,
by falling fifty feet from a scaffold. The
Wisconsin and Milwaukee Mutual Fire In
surance Companies are in the hands of re
ceivers. The real estate of the Hunting
don (Pa.) Manufacturing Company was
bought by ihe Iron Car Equipment Company
of New York, subject to a mortgage of $10,
000. The new company now has control of
the entire plant -John Morris and Frank
Chatham, two ranchmen of Carbondale, re
newed an old quarrel at Leadville and fatally
shot each otber,: Lieutenant Ca.ey, of the
Twenty-second Infantry, of General Brooke's
command, was shot. and killed by a Brule
Indian while reconnoitering near tbe Indian
camp. -- ... .
General Schofield has authorized General
Miles to appoint a military officer in charge
of the agency at Pine Ridge, but not to change
the Indian agents at any of the other agencieo.
President Harrison has directed the Sec
retary oi War to investigate the condition of
the Sioux, and to tee that troops are massed
in the Indian country for the protection of the
agencies and the settlers. The funeral of
Captain George D. Wallace, who was killed
by the Indians in the battle at Wounded
Knee, took place in Charleston, S. C, with
military houors. The Assistant Commis
sioner of Indian Affairs has been directed to
proceed to the Indian Territory and pay the
Creeks the $400,000 authorized by the last
Congress for land. General Brooke is
stationing troops around the Indian camp on
White Clay Creek to prevent the hostiles
from escaping. -The International Monetary
Conference met at Washington. Some cor
respondence about the Barrundia a flair was
made public, in which Secretary Tracy gives
the reasons why Commander Rester was re
lieved and ordered home. Robert De Rose
shot aud killed his wife at San Francisco.
During a fight among Italians in Chicago, one
named De Meie was fatally cut Three
men beat Robert Bruce, a lodging-house
keeper in Chicago so badly that he will die.
A telegraph lineman has been' jBnedby
the Clay county (Indiana) Court for catting
down shade trees on tbe National road while
erecting telegraph wires. Col. Ray Meyers
has sued the government of Sau Salvador for.
$50,000 damages. Three hundred and fifty
girls, shirtmakers, 'struck at Troy, N. Y.
E. S. Peck, a banker of Frankfort, Ks., has
been appointed receiver of the Farmers and
Merchants' Bank, at Clarksville, Tenn.
Twenty-seven refractory prisoners were
starved into submission at Chattanooga.
Fire at Cairo, III., caused $100,000 damage.
The trial of Rev. Howard B. McQuenry,
an Episcopalian minister, at Canton, Ohio, Jor
heresy, was begun at Cleveland. A widow,
named Sheelay, aeventy yeurs old, was killed
by a train at Duckworth, W. Va.
Colonel Forsythe has been temporarily re
lieved of his command of the Seventh Cav
alry pending an investigation of the recent
fight at Wounded Knee. It is reported irom
Washington that any attempt to substitute a
military for a civil supervision of the Sioux
would be vigorously opposed by the Interior
Department officials. General Morgan, Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, haa written to
Secretary Noble, expressing his willingness
to visit the aeat of war and endeavor to bring
about a restoration of friendly relations w.ith
tbe hostile Indians. The hostiles have burned
the houses of a number of settlers. The orders
to disarm the Indians in the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe country have canted great anxiety
among settlers in Oklahoma aud the Texas
border. The sound of heavy firing was heard
at Ruahville, Neb, and it was reported a fight
had occurred north of that point. Jndge
D. C. Tropkett, died at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Emma Abbott, the opera singer, died at
Salt Lake City. Harry Stonffer, seventeen
years old, died irom the effects of whiskey at
Bowmansdale, Pa. The Mutnal Guaranty
Fire Insurance Company, of Clinton, Iowa,
assigned; liabilities $50,000, assets $232,200.
The Dueber Watch Company, whose works
are at Canton, 0., assigned, nominal assets
$i,500,000,iabilities $450,000 The Pennsyl
vania State Supreme Court decided against
Jno. B. Gloninger in the ten-million-dollar
caae of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.-
Edwin Solomon accidentally killed himself
with a pistol at Salt Lake City. -If is
thought that the shocks felt at Kim weed, Ind:,
were due to explosions of natural gaa.
Much uneasiness is felt along the Mississippi
river, owing to the unsafe condition of the
levees. John Lacy, a tough, killed Edward
Diets at Columbu, Ind., with a razor. The
total amount of lumber surrryed at Bangor,
Me., in 1890, was 179,100,727 feet. John
Rooney was burned to death in a barn near
Platlsburg, N. Y.
"An epidemic of enteric fever, havin;
moFt of the symptoms ot typhoid," i re
ported in Amsterdam, New York, about sixty
cases baing now under treatment. The first
nitrn ii flreonent nansea. 'followed by violent
! headacn, soreoeii in the muscle, pains in the
tit putuf,tt retain a feverish1 (r.-.perauire fof
l'i or l days.
THE TREACHEROUS BEDS-
Lieutenant , Casey Shot by . a Sup.
posed iriendly.
A Warning That Was II re del Too e
Old Rel flonrt and III Wife '
ftelarn to the Agency.
The latent despatches from Pine Ridge
Agency S. D., say: Yankton Charley, one ot
Buffalo Bill's men, now employed as cout
here, brings particulars of the murder ot
Lieutenant Casey, of the Twenty-second In
fantry, of General Brooke's command near
tbe .hostile camp.
Lieutenant Casey had started out to visit
the hostiles to induce the chiefs to come in to
talk with General Brooke. He passed a small
band of Ogallallai, who were butchering, and
proceeded farther, followed, however, by two
of the Indians, who appeared to be friendly.
He was shortly afterwards met by Pet
Richards, aon-in-law ot Red Cloud, who had
been sent by tbe latter to warn him not to
approach nearer the hostiles, because it. was
uuogerouH. Casey sai l he would ride to the
top of a little knoll, whence he could get a
view of the hontiie camp. '
Riohards.dissuaded nim. and he and Casey
turned around and departed. Jutt tlieu Rich
ards heard a shot, aud, turning buck, saw
Casey fall from his horse, the bullet pacing
through the letter's head.
The shot was fired by the yonnger of the
two Ogallallai. who had fo. lowed LVey.
RicharUs would have shot the murderer, but
the cartridges did not tit bis gun. ,
General Brooke sent out a detachment,
under Lieutenant Getty, to recover the re
mains of Lieutenant Casey. The body was
found, stripped, but not mutilated. It was
borne to Oeiricha, whence it will be sent to
Fort Keogh, Montana. .
Red Cloud came into the agency,, and
General Miies has appointed an hour to hold
a conference with bun. Tne old man stepped
out of the hostile camp, and with his wife
jralked 16 miles to this place. General Mile
is hopeful that his. example will be iotlowed
by others.
Colonel Kent inspector-general of the D -partment
of Dakota, Fifth Infantry, and Col
onel Baldwin are ascertaining till the facts
relative to the fight on Wounded Knee Creek.
This is not, as haa been stated, a court of in
quiry. No charges have been made against
Colonel Forsythe ior bis conduct in that en
gagement, nor has be been placed . under
arrest
Medical Inspector Bache reports 25 wounded
Indians and 15 soldiers in the hospital. Gei
ral Colby, of the Nebraska State militia, has
18 companies protecting the towns of Valen
tine, Cody, Gordon, BushviUe, Hay Springs,
Chadron, Crawford and Harrison, extending
150 miles along the western border of the
Pine Ridge and Rocebud agencies.
The companies comprise 1,700 men. Buffalo
Bill ia. assistant to General Colby, and is at
the agency to confer with General Miles.
Colonel Baker, of Omaha, and Major Comegys,
of Cheyenne, are here to pay the troops in the
field. It will require $66,uOU. Colonel Sbafter,
who has been on sick leave, haa returned.
The position of tbe various troops in the
field was changed, and the places will be as
follows: General Carr, with nine troops of the
Sixth Cavalry,oneeompany of the Seventeenth
Infantry and two ITotcnklts guna, at the
faction of Wounded Knee Creek and White
ver. j Colonel Offley, with two troops Eighth
Cavalry and six companies Seventh Infantry,
will be on White River; about four miles
southeast of Big Grass Creek. Colonel San
ford, with four troops of the Eighth Cavalry,
lour companies Second Infantry and one
Hotchkiss gun, will be at the junction of
White Clay Creek and White Ri ver.
Col. Wbeaton, with four troops of the Ninth
Cavalry, four companies of the Second Infan
try and two Hotchkiss guDB, will be on White
River, tbree miles north of Lower Lime Kiln
Creek, and about eight miles from' the hostile
camp.. Major Whitney, with three troops of
the Ninth Cavalry and one company of the
Eighth InfaDtry, will be on Wounded Knee
Creek, n short distance from Ithe late battle
field. Captain lllsley, with four companies
of the Seventh Cavaly, will be on Lower
Lime Kiln Creek, four miles from its source.
The effect of these movements will be to
narrow tbe circle in which tbe hostiles are
now gathered.
It was stated to the Associated Press war
correspondent that 300 Indians said to be
coming, are reported in camp three miles
from the agency. Tbe report has .been verified.
All Hostile Xaw.
Sprikgfieid, Neb. Chief Yellow Horse,
formerly lieutenant of the Indian police at
Rosebud Agency, passed through this town
with a considerable following. When anked
if he was not afraid to meet the warring ele
ment of his tribe, he replied:
"No; we are all hostiles now."
Yellow Horse was supposed to be a friendly.
Swift Bear and his band, formerly of the
same agency, also declared for war. Both
chiefs are suppose I to be bearing for the hos
tile camp near Pine Ridge.
Advices from Nebraska border towns indi
cate a more quiet feeling tdnce the arrival of
the state militia. Settlers adjacent return to
tlnir (arms dnring the day, though tbote iu
isolated fliktricln I rtmuin j 1,1:.
- -- - .... . . , ,t . vuuiCB
of troops patrol the country roundabout.
THE MONETARY CONFERENCE?"
Delegates of tha International Body
Meet In Washington. .
The International Monetary Conference
met atthetate Department.. It was calltd
to order by Secretary Blaine,'who' made " a
brief address of welcome. On mixtion of Dr.
Zegarra, of Peru, Senor Romero, of Mexioo,
was chosen temporary chairman, Mr. Blaine
escorting him to the chair, and then taking
hia seat as the delegate from the United
States. On motion of Mr. Blame, Mr. Jose
Rodriguez aod Mr.sArthur W, Frgnson were
elected secretaries. - Mr. Carter, of Hawaii,
said that as some of the delegates to the con
ference bed not yet srivedin, tin country,
and as some or tbe others bad pot received
their instruction, lie,' would move "'t Hat Ihe
Conference Adjourn subject to the call of the
temporary chairman, which was adopted.
The following ia a list of the delegates pre
pnt: Argentine Republic; Senor Don Vicente
G- Quesada: Bolivia.- Setw Don Melchor
Ohnrrio; Chili, Senor Don P rudencioLaicano;
Ecuador, Senor Don Matias Romero: IJayti,
Mr. Hannibal Price; Hawaiian Kingdom, Mr.
II. A. P. Carter; Honduras, Senior Don R. W.
Stevem; Mexico, Senor Don Matias Romero;
N icsruKua, Senor Don Horacio Gorman; Peru,
' nr Don F. C. C. Zegarra; United States,
Hon. .Times G. Blaine: Venezuela, Senor Don
t!anis!uo Vttaocourt Ren don.
The Chicflgft, Milwaukee and St Paul
Railway Company has commenced a system
of retrenchment by reducing the wages paid
to clerks, telegrapher,, station agents and
trrne section men. The reductions range
Ironi i to f per nivnth.
FIFTY-FIRST C0NGRE3
Senate ,
when the journal was read, including Mr. '
Allison, who had been absent from the Uy
tor some 10 days past. The Senator-elect front
Idaho, Mr. McConnell, who has not yet beer
worn in, was also present and was introduce
to a good many of the Senators, at was !"
Mr. Dubois, of Idahj, who has been elected
tor the term to begin, on the 4th of March
next. No business whatever, was transacted
and the Senate, on motion of Mr. Spooner,
adjourned. . ,
26th Day. After the elections bill had
been disposed of by tbe Senate the silver bill
waa takeu up in its atead, and was read by
the clerk. Mr. Stewart moved to amend it
by adding a prorision for free coinage of sil
ver and fipoke in favor of hi' amendment.
Mr. Sherman made a lengthy argument
against the amendment, and was replied , to
by Messrs. Stewart and Regan. At the cloe
of Mr. Regan's remarks Mr. Teller obtained
the floor, and tbe Senate at 5.10 adjourned.
27th Day. It was some time this morn
ing before a quorum made iu appearance in
the Senate. The financial bill was taken up
immediately alter the morning hour, ami
speeches were made , by Messrs. Teller. Vest
and Morrill the two former arguing for fre
coinage of silver and Mr. Morrell opposed it.
2STH DAY. In the Senate the final draw
ing for terms of the two Idaho Senators took. ,
place, and Mr. McConnell drew the lot which
assigned him to the class of Senators whose
terms expire on Mirch 3, 1891, and Mr. Shoup
that which gave tiiiu the term to expire o?i
March 3, 18W5. The conference report on tbe
public printing deficiency bill was presented .
aud agreed to. Aftercome unimportant mat
ten on the calendar had been disposed of tbe
financial bill was taken up. Mr. Stewart an in
gested that an hour should be fixed for taking
a vote on the bill and amendments, and he
proposed 4 o'clock on Friday next. - The prop
osition met no particular opposition on either
eide, but, as Mr. Cockrell suggested it would
be-well to let the question go over till to-mor-row.
Mr. Stewart assented, and said that he
would to-morrow ask to have the time fixed
for taking a vote on the bill and amendment.
Speeches ia iavor of free coinage were made
by Messrs-Daniel and Plumb, and Mr.'His
cock opposed it.
29th Day. The finance bill was taken up
and Mr. Stewart asked unanimous consent
that a vote should be taken on the bill' and
amendments at 4 o'clock oi Saturday.' Mr. .
Gorman expressed his surprise at the propo
sition. The amendment offered to the bill by
the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Stewart) had
been described by the Senator from Ohio (Mr.
Diirriuoii; as une oi iiib uivst icuiuimnaij
measures introduced in Congress. : Mr. Stew
art realized the importance of Mr. Gorman 'a '
ueirei-tion. hut thought that, as the subject
had been much discussed, tbe Senate ought to
fix a time for taking the vote. Mr. Ingalls
asked unanimous consent tbat general debate
on the bill shall close with the adjournment
on Tuesday next, and (baton Wednesday de
bate shall be resumed on the bill and amend
ments under tbe 10 minutes' rale, the final
vote to be taken on the passage of the bill be
fore adjonrnmenton Wednesday. Mr.Tarpie
and Mr. Coke made speeches in favor of free
coinage. .
House i t - "
24th Day. In the House Mr. Henderson,
of Iowa, presented the conference report on
the urgent deficiency bill. It was agreed to.
A number of unimportant bills were passed,
and at 5.10 the House adjourned. . .1. j
25th Day. The House this morning passed
a i 'ii . t a .1 . i
tne Dili repealing me jaw auinorizing me,
House then went into committee of the whole '
ior the consideration ot the shipping bill, and
the remainder of the session was spent lit the
discussion of that measure. Without taking
any action the committee rose and the House
adjourned. .
zoth day. rne House spent anotner uay
in committee of the whole discussing the ship
ping bill. No action was taken. ?
27th Day. The House spent the day in V
committee or tne whole aiscussing tne snip
ping bNl, and adjourned without taking any
action. : 4. ,
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
A TRAIN on the Santa Fe Road was derailed
aear Wiohita, Kansas, and Thomas Malm and.
G. B. Holt were killed.
Tun ftam Citv' Rtnva WnrVl rV rtuvtriri
Dhio, were destroyed by an explosion of na
uralgus. Loss, $35,000.
Patrick McCaix was killed at an ice
house at Scbodack Landing, on the Hudson,
by being caught in a revolving shaft. .
Clattde McCarthy, need 13 vears. and
John Mahon, aged 12, were drowned by break
ing through the ice while skating at M.uske .
jon, Mich. '
THE family of Benjamin Sours, at Lurar.
Va , were poisaued by eating pumpkin pie '
tupposed to contain rut poison. ... Sours atd
ant child are dead. The others are danger
us!y ill.
A freight train and two "wild" eneines .
brakeman named LaHerty. Two other ti.in'
m ah w Hs l it n- rASl nTf warn Inlit r cut m Ti pm n wj
named Stevinger mortally. ' ' ,
Lou is Schwing accidentally caused the
ieath of his four-year-old daughter in Cint
nnnati by giving her carbolic auid in mistake',
for medicine which had been prescribed tor
her, she having diphtheria. ,
E. J. Kikney. a prominent Republican, .
politician and attorney ot Osage, Kansas, was
found dead beside the railtond track near that
place. .It is supposed he fell trom a train .
while passing from one car to another.
V - T -. V l i , . .1 '
K.itruKTs irom juasiern voiorauoien oi ues
itution and fuinine among the settlers, owina;
to the lack of rain.- It is said that many are
lying ot starvation, ana that Aunureus will
follow if assistance is not soon rendered. "
The roof of the brewery of Herman Koeh
ler, in New York, fell in, burying a number.
f workmen. Twelve were injured, James
Dusneau and -Lewis ,Weber lly. Ihe
building was in course of recGuslruction.
. CAPTAIN Perry and crew of the American
schooner Dare, Who were wrecked on Van
aouyer Island, on. Decern ber-20,' reached Vic
toria, British Columbia, having been brought
by post Indians in canoes. The Dare lelt tan
Francisco ior Tocoma-on December 8. .
THE American ship Rappahannock arrived
at San " Francisco from JJiogo, - Japan, with
1400 tons of coal. "Daring the trip from Phila
delphia to Iliotfo two seamen. John Bauer
Mid Thomas McGee, were killed. Herman
Grans, another sailor, waa alao killed on tbe
way from Hiogo to Sau Francisco.
Me. asd Mrs. J. W. Stroso arranged to
celebrate the nfty-6rt anniversary ot thfcir
marriage, in Ottawa Kansas, ami rcla!vc
went from difierent parts of the State to
tend the festivities. In the morninc, Mr.
Strong died suddenly, ind in tbe afternoon
his widow also pawed away. Roth were ap
parently in good health.
IL'RING the temporary absence of Mr.
Casaxra from her home in a tenement in Chi
cago, her three children lining alone, the t
older one started a bon-fire with paper ub 'ier
the two-year-old baby. A neighbor, hearing .
the children's tereams, extinguished the fte,
but the little victim died soon aittr. '1 be
neighbor' hands vere badly burned in 'f'"t.
tin i; nut h flames.
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