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VOL. II. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY '6, 1891., NO. 39. M1i mm The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun : r. ; day Sermon. Fnbjecti Wondtri of Babylon." Text: " In that night wa Belshattar. lh king of th Chaldeans, 8iain."Daniel V., 80. .-. , . 4f;er1tn6 8lShto' Babylon had been so-' lected, two million of mea were employed for the construction of the wall aad princi pal works. The walls of the city were sixty muee in circumference. They were sur rounded by a trench, out of which had been dug the material for the construction of the city. There were twenty-five gates of solid brass on each side of the square city. Be tween every two gates a great tower sprang wp into the heavens. From each of the twenty-five elites on either side a street ran straight through to the gate on the other side, to that there were fifty streets, each fifteen miles long, which gave to- the city an ap pearance of wonderful rogtdarity. , The houses did not join each other'on the. ground, and between them were gardens and BhruLbery. .From housetop to housetop bridges swung, over which the inhabitants were accustomed to pass. A branch of the Euphrates went through the city, over which a bridge of marvelous structure was thrown, and under which a tunnel ran. To keep the river from overflowing the city in time of freshet, a great lake was arranged to catch the surplus, in which the water was kept as . in a reservoir until times of drought, when It was sont streaming down over the thirsty land. A palace stood at each end of tha Euphrates bridge; one palace a mile and three-quarters in compass, and the other , palace seven and a half miles in circumfer-: ence. The wife ol Nebuchadnezzar, having been brought up among the mountains of t Media, could not stand it in this flat country of Babylon, and so to please her Nebuchad nezzar had a mountain four hundred feet high built in the midst of the city. - ' This mountain was surrounded : by 'ter races, for the support of which great arches were lifted. - On the top of these arches flat stones were laid; then a layer of reeds and bitumen; then two rows of bricks, closely cemented; then thick sheets of lead, upon which the soil Was placed. The earth here deposited was so deep that the largest trees had room to anchor their - roots. All the glory of the flowery tropics was spread out at that tremendous neight, until it must hava seemed to one below as though the clouds were all in blossom, and the very sky leaned on the shoulder of the cedar. At the top an engine was constructed which drew the water from the Euphrates, far below, and made it spout up amid this garden of the skies. All this to please his wife 1 I think she must have been pleased. . . . In the midst of this city stood also the temple of Belus. One of Its towers was one-. eighth of a mile high, and on the top of it an observatory, whicu gave the astronomers great advantage, as, being at so great a height, one could easily talk with the stars. This temple was fall of cups and statues and eensers, all of gold. One image weighed a thousand Babylonish talents, which would be equal to fifty-two million dollars. - All this by day; but now night was about to come down on Babylon. The shadows of her two hundred and fifty towers began to lengthen. The Euphrates rolled on, touched by the fiery splendors of the setting sun, and gates of brass burnished and guttering, opened nd shut like doors of flame. The hanging gardens of Babylon, wet with the heavy dew, began to pour from starlit flowers and dripping leaf a fragrance for many miles around. The streets and squares were lighted for dance and frolic and promenade, i be theatres and galleries of art invited the wealth and pomp and grandeur of the city to rare entertainments. Scenes of riot and wassail were mingled in every street; godless mirth, and outrages excess, and splendid wickedness came to the king's palace to do their mightiest deeds of darkness. A royal feast to-night at the king's palace I Rushing up to the gates are chariots, up holstered with precious cloths from Dedan snd drawn by fire eyed horses from Togar tnah, that rear and neigh in the grasp of the charioteers, while a thousand lords dismount, and women dressed in all the splendors of Syrian emerald, and the color blending of agate, and the cbasteness of coral, and the somber glory" of Syrian purple, and the princely embroideries brought from afar by camelslcross the desert, and by ships from Tarahish acrosstbe sea. f - . ' Open wide the gates and let the guests come In. The chamberlains and cup bearers are all ready. Hark to the rustle of the robes, and to the carol of the music I See the blaze Df the jewels I Lift the banners. Fill the cups. Clap the cymbals. Blow the trumpets. Let the night go by with song and dance and ovation; and let the Babylonish tongue be palsied that will not say, 'Oh, King Bel thazzar, Jive forever 1" .. J Ahl my friends, it was not any common banquet to which these great people came. All parts of the earth had sent their richest viands to that table. Brackets and chande liers flashed their light upon tankards of burnished gold. Fruits, ripe and luscious,in baskets of silver, entwined with leaves, plucked from royal conservatories. Vases, inlaid with emerald and ridged with exquis ite traceries, filled with nuts that were thrashed from forests of di&tant lands. Wine brongbt from the royal vate, foaming In the decanters and bubbling in the chal ices. Tufts of cassia and frankincense ; wafting their sweetness from wall and table. Gorgeous banners unfolding in the breeze that came through the opened window, be witched with the perfume of hanging gar dens. Fountains rising up from inclosures -of ivoiy in jets of crystal, to fall in clatter Ingrain of diamonds and pearls. Statues of J mighty men looking down from niches in the wail upon crowns and shields brought from subdued empires. Idols of Wonderful work, standing on pedestals of precious stones. Embroideries drooping about the windows end wrapping pillars of cedar, and drifting on floor inlaid with ivory and agate. Music, mingling the thrum of harps, and the clash of cymbals, and t!e blast of trumpets in one wave of transport that went rippling along the wall, and breathing among the garlands, and pouring down the corridors, and thrill ing the souls of a thousand banqueters. The signal is given, and the lords and ladies, the mighty men and women of the land, come around the table. Pour out the wine. Letfoum and bubble kiss the rim. Hoist every one his cup, and drink to the sentiment: "Oh, King Belshazzar, live for ever!" Bcstarred headband andcarcanet of royal beauty clean to the uplifted chalices, as again and aain and again they are emp tied. Away wi;h care from the palace I Tear royal dignity to tatters 2 Pour out more wine ! Give us more light, wilder music, sweeter perfume. Lord shouts to lord, captain ogles to captain. Goblets clash, decanters rattle. There comes in the vile song, and the drunken hiccough, and the slavering lip, and the guf faw of idiotic laughter, bursting from the lips of princes, flushed, reeling, bloodshot; wfcile mingling with it all I hear; "Huzza! huJiA! tor great Belshazzar'1 . - W hat is that on the plastering of the wall? Is it a spirit Is it a phantom? Is it God? Out of the Hack sleeve of taa darkness a injrr of tivry terror trembles through toe eir and comes to the wall, circling about as though it would write, and then, with sharp tp of flame, engi-avsson the plastering the doom of the king. The music stops. The goblet falls from the nerveless grasp. There Is a thrill. There is a start. - There is a thousand voiced shriei of horror. Let Daniel be brought in to read that writing. He comes in. He reads it, "Weighed in the balance and found wanting." Meanwhile the Assyrians, who for two years bad been laying siege to that city, took advantage of that carousal and came in. I hear the feet of tha conquerors on the palace stairs. Massacre rushed in with a thousand gleaming knives. Death burets upon the scene, and I Bhut the door of that banqueting hall, for I do not want to look. There is nothing there but torn banners, and broken wreaths, and the slush of upset tankards, and the blood of murdered women,, and the kicked and tumbled carcass of a dead king. For "in that night was Bel shazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain." I go on to learn that when God writes any thing on the wall, a man had better read it as it is. Daniel did not misinterpret or modi fy the handwriting on the wall. It is all foolishness to expect a minister of the Gos pel to preach a;ways things that the people like or the people choose. Young men, what shaU I preach to you to-night? Shall I tell you of the dignity of human nature? Shall I tell you of the wonders that our race has accomplished? "Oh, no!" you say; "t9ll me the message that came from God." I will. If there is any handwriting on the wall, it is this lesson, "Accept of Christ and be saved?" I might talk of a great many other things, but that is the message, and so I declare it. : tresus never flattered those to whom Me preached. He said to those who did wrona; and who were offensive in His sight, "Ye generation of vipers 1 ye w hi ted sepulchers! how can ye escape' the damnation of hell P' Paul the apostle preached before a man who was not ready to hear him preach. What 6UD3ecc aia no tauer JJia ne say, "On I you are a good man, a very fine man, a very no ble man?" No; he preached of righteous ness to a man who was unrighteous: of tem perance to a man who was the victim of bad appetites; of the judgment to come to a man who was unfit for it. So we must always declare the message that happens to come to us. Daniel must read it as it is. A minister preached before James I. of England, who was James VI of Scotland. What subject did he take? The king was noted all over the worjd for his being unsettled and waverinj In his ideas. What did the minister preach about to this man who was James I. of Eng. land and James YI. of Scotland? He took for his text James i., 6: "He that waver eth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed." Hugh Latimer offened the king by a ser mon he preached, and the king said, "Hugh Latimer, come and apologize." "I will," said Hugh Latimer. So the day was ap pointed, and the king's chapel was full of lords and dukes, and the mighty men and women of the country, for Hugh Latimer was to anoligize. He began his sermon by saying: ''Hugh Latimer, bethink thee! Thou art in the presence of thine earthly king, who can destroy thy body. But be think thee, Hugh Latimer, that thou art in presence of the King of heaven and earth, who can destroy both body and soul in hell Are." Then he preached with appalling directness at the king's crimes, ., Another lesson that comes to as. There is a great differ ence between the opening of the banquet of sin and its close. -. Young man, if you had looked in upon the banquet in the first few hours, you would have wished you had been invited there, and could sit at the feast. "Oh! the grandeur of Belsbazzar's feast!" you would have said; but you look in at the close of the banquet, and your blood curdles with horror. The King of Terrors has there a ghastlier banquet; human blood is the wine, and dying groans are the music Sin has made itself a king in the earth. It has crowned itself. It has spread a banquet. It invites all the world to come to it. It has hung in its banqueting hall the spoils of all kingdoms and the banners of all nations. It has gathered from all music. It has strewn, from its wealth, the tables and the floors and arches. And yet how often is that banquet broken up, and how horrible is its end I Ever and anon there is a handwriting on the wall A king falls. A great culprit is ar rested. The knees of wickedness knocked to gether. God's judgment, li ke an armed host, breaks in upon the banquet, and that night is Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain.- . . .. Here is a young man who says: "I cannot see why they make such a fuss about the in toxicating cup. Why, it is exhilarating I It makes me feel well. 1 can talk better, think better, feel better. I cannot sea why people have such a prejudice against it." A few years pass on. and he wakes up and finds himself in the clutches of an evil habit which he tries to break, but cannot; and he cries out: "Oh. Lord God, help me P' It seems as though God would not hear his prayer, and in an agony of body and soul he cries out: "It biteth like a serpent, and it stingeth like an adder." How bright it was at the start ! How black it was at the last ! Here is a man whs begins to road conupt novels. ."They are so charming," says be, "1 will go out and seefor myself whether all these things are so." He opens the gate of a Binful life. He goes in. A sinful sprite meets him with ler wand. She waves her wand, and it is all enchantment. Why, it Eeems as if the angels of God had poured out phials of perfume in the atmosphere. As he walks on he finds the bills becoming more radiant, with foliage and the ravines more resonant with the lalliog water. Oh! what a charming landscape he sees! But that sinful sprite with her wand meets him again; but now she reverses the wand, and all the enchantment is gone. The cup is fall of poison. The fruit turns to ashes. AU the leaves of the bower are forked tongues of hissing serpents. The flowing fountains fall back in a dead pool, stenchful with corruption. The luring songs become laughter. Lost spirits gather about him and feel for his heart, and beckon him on with "Hail, brother! Hail, blasted spirit, hailf' He tries to get out. He comes to the front door where he entered, and tries to push it back, but the door turns against him, and in the jar of that shutting door he hears the words, "This night is Belshazzar, the king of Chal deans, slain." Sin may open bright as the morning. It ends dark as the night! - - I learn further from this subject that Death sometimes breaks in upon a banquet. Whv did he not go down to the prisons in Babylon ? There were people there that would like to have died. 1 suppose there were men and women in torture in that city who would have welcomed Death. But he comes to the palace; and just at the time when the mirth isdashing to the tip-top pitch Death breaks in at the banquet. . We have often seen the same thing illustrated. Here is a young man just come from collage. He is kind. He is loving. He is enthusiastic. He is eloquent. By one spring he may bound to heights toward which many men have been strug gling for years. A prof ession opens before him; He is established' in the law. His friends cheer him. Eminent men encourage him. .. . - '- After a while you may see him standing ia the United States senate, or moving a popular assemblage by his eloquence, as trees are moved in a whirlwind. Sme night he retires early. A fever is on him.- Delirium, like a reckless charioteer, eaizestae reins of lis intellect. Futh -rand mother ttand by. c nd see the ti it-s of lis life gln? op: t the great ocean. The banquet is coming to aa end. The lights of thought and mirth and eloquence are being extinguished. The gar lands, are snatched from the brow. The vision is gone. Death at the banquet! We saw the same thing on a larger scale illustrated at the last war in this country. Our whole nation had been sitting at a na tional banquet north, south, east and west. What grain was there but we grew it on our hills. What invention was there but our rivers must turn the new wheel and rattle the strange shuttle. What warm furs but our traders must bring them from the Arc tic. What fish but , our nets must sweep them for the markets. What music but it must sing in our balls. What eloquence but it must speak in our senates. Ho! to the na tional banquet, reaching from mountain to mountain, and from sea to sea! To prepare that banquet the sheepfolds and the aviaries of the country sent their best treasures. The orchards piled up on the table their sweetest fruits. The presses burst out with new wines. To sit at that table came the yeomanry of New Hampshire, and the lumberman of Maine,' ana the Carolinian from the rice fields, and the western emigrant from the pines of Oregon, and we were all brothers , brothers at a banquet. Suddenly the feast ended. What meant those mounds thrown up at Chickamauga, Shiloh, Atlanta, Gettysburg, South Mountain? What meant those golden ' grain fields turned into a pasturing ground for cavalry horses? What meant the corn fields gullied with the wheels of the heavy supply train? Why those rivers of tears, those lakes of blood? God was angry ! Ju tice must come. A handwriting on the wall', Tne cation had been weighed find found wanting. Darkness! Darkness! Woe to the north! Woe to tha south 1 Woe to the east! Woe to the west! Death at the ban quet! I have also to learn from the subject that the destruction of the vicious, and of those who despise God. Will be very sudden. Tbe wave oC mirth had dashed to the highest point when that Assyrian army broke through. It was unexpected. Suddenly, almost always, comes the doom of those who despise God and defy the laws of men. How was it at the deluge? Do you suppose it Came through a long northeast storm, so that people for days before were sure it was coming? No; I suppose the morning was bright, that calmness brooded on the waters; that beauty sat enthroned on the bills, when suddenly tbe heavens burst, and the mount ains sank . like anchors into the sea that dashed clear ; over the Andes and the Himalayas. The Red Sea was divided. The Egyptians tried to cross it. There could be no danger. The Israelites had just gone through. Where they had gone, why not the Egyptians? Oh! It was such a beautiful walking placet A pavement of tinged shells and pearls; and on either side two great walls of" water solid. There can be no danger. Forward, great hosts of the Egyptians? Clap the cymbals, and blow the trumpets of victory I After them! We will catch them yet, and they shall be destroyed. But the walls begin to tremble. They rock ! They fall 1 The rush ing waters! The shriek of drowning men! The swimming of the war horses in vain for the shore! The strewing of the great host on the bottom of the sea, or pitched by tn angry wave on the beach a battered, bruised and loathsome wreck I Suddenly destruction came. One-half hour before they oould not have believed it. Destroyed, and without remedy. . . I am just setting forth a fact, which yon have noticed a9 well as I. Ananias comes to the apostle. The apostle says, "Did you sell the land for so much?" He says, "Yes." It was a lie. Dead! as quick as that! Sap phira, bis wife, comes in. "Did you sell the land tor so much?" "Yes." It was a lie; and quick as that she was dead. God's judg ments are upon those who despise Him and defy Him. They come suddenly. The destroying angel went through Egypt. Do you suppose that any of the people knew that he was coming? Did they hear the flap of his great wing? No! no I Suddenly, un xpectedly. he came. Skilled sportsmen do not like to 6hoot a bird standing on a sprig near by. If they areskUied they pride themselves on taking it on the wing, and they wait till it starts. Death is an old sportsman, and he loves to take men flying under the very sun. He loves to take them on the wing. Are there any here who are unprepared for the eternal world? Are there any here who have been living without God and without hope? Let me say to you that you had better accept of the Lord Jesus Christ, lest sud denly your last chance be gone. The lungs will cease to breathe, the heart will stop. The time will come when you shall go no more to the offlce, or to the 6tore, or to the shop. Nothing will be left but Death and Judgment and Eternity. Oh I flee to God this hour I If there be one in this presence who has wandered far away from Christy though he may not have heard the call or the Gospel for many a year, I invite him now to come and be saved. Flee from thy sin! Flee to the stronghold of the Gospel! Now ia the accepted time, now is the day of sal vation. " Good night,' my young friendsl May you have rosy sleep, guarded by Him who never slumbers! May you awake in the morning strong and well I But oh ! art thou a despiser of God? Is this thy last night on earth? Sbouldst thou bo awakened in the night by something, thou knowestnot what, and there be shadows floating In tbe room, and a hand writing on the walL and you feel that your last hour is come, and there be a fainting at the heart, and a tremor in the limb, and a catching of the breath-thenthy doom would be but an echo of tbe words of the text, m that night was Belshazzar, the fang of the Chaldeans, slain." . ,, Hear tbe invitation of the Gospel! There may be some one in this house to whom I shall never speak again, and therefore let it be in the words of the Gospel, and not in my own, with which I close: "Ho, every one that thirsteth I Come ye to the waters. And let him that hath no money come, buy wine and milk without money, and without price." 'Come unto me, aU ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Oh I that my Lord J esus would now make Himself so attractive to your souls that you cannot resist Him; and that, n you have never prayed before, . or have not prayed since those days when you knelt down at your mother's knee, then that to night you might pray, saying ; Just as I am, witnoot one plea Bnt that the blood was shed for ma. And that Thou bld'nme come to Toes, O Lamb of God, 1 comet But if you cannot think of so long a prayer as that, I will give you a shorter prayer that you can sav, -God, be merciful to me a sin ner P Or. "if you cannot tbinit of so long a prayer as that, I will give you a still shorter one that you may utter, "Lord, save me, or I 'perish 1" Or if that be too long a prayer, you need not utter a word. Just look and Uvel " Judge Frank. Foster, a possible candi date for United States Senator in Kansas, served in an Indian cavalry regiment during the war.- He has a pale, beardless face, with marked and distinctive features, something like Robespierre's. He believed in ro God and is strongly inclined to Socialism. BEifATo ".VktcOTT is a handsome man with blonds hnir parted in the LnjlJie an1 a silky i . Hi t .he. I IS DEAD. The Secretary of the Treasury Stricken at a Banquet. ,f SCENE AT DELMONICO'S. , NewlYork Board of Trade Dinner ' Inexpressibly Saddened. HEART DISEASE EXPELS LIFE. Mr.' Windom Had Just Concluded a Speech on Finance. NO PREMONITION OF THE ATTACK, Thti Secretary tft Washington for New York In the Morning Apparently In Perfect Health. Hon. William-Window, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, died at 10.05 o'clock P. M., in the banquet lia.ll at Debtnm ico's, where he was a guest of the New York Hoard of Trade and Transportation: llirt had been the first toast of the evening. He had flushed his response, had seated him self, swooned at once, and died almost immedi ately. Kvery effort to restore him was inado, but in vnin. , WILLIAM WINDOM. lie died of heart disease. The great iisHcni blagc lit once dissolved. Mr. Windom had been the only speaker, and the sentiment to which he responded was: .- , "Our Country's Prosperity Dependent Upon lis Instrument of Commerce. " - This was to have been a night of feasting and flow of soul at Delmonico's. The New York Board of Trade and Transportation was to sit at its 19th annual dinner, and the great gold hall vm bright with light and color And feasting therewns happy and unrestrained but death sat, too, at the board, and the only soul that flowed out was that of the nation's financial head. His spirit flew away nt the close of his speaking, which was the Mirst of the night and the last. The unseen guest had silently followed the feast. His shadow dark ened all the brightness of the place, and those who came to spt-ak went away hushed and grave. ' i 1 . In the early evenini? the staid and Klnb'c nien of tho Uonrd ot Trade and Transporta tion cathered in the reception parlors ol Del monico's hostelry, and there welcomed their guests and friends who bad come from near and Irom far places to eat and drink and talk and listen. Perhups most prominent were Secretaries Windom and Tracy, of the Treas ury and Navy respectively. Nova Scotia had n representative among those present in the person of her attorney-general. Mr. Longly. Canada, too, was there in the person of Hon. WiH'ord Laurier, leader of Her Majesty's op position in the Dominion Parliament. Those in official life were welcomed with genial demonstration, and in turn they became cen tres of groups here and there welcoming those whom they knew and greeting those who were presented. Mr. Windom, dignified of mien as usnal, whs not the less genial. His face was bright, his smile quick and his remark and repartee were apt and keen. His meeiing with Ex Secretary of State Bayard was pleasing, and tbe inlornial gathering of guests ami their semi-formal reception was pleasantly prepara tory to the banquet. Then all formed a jolly procession to the banquet hall, where members and guests be came seated, the members at tables upon the floor and the guests at a long table upon a raised platform. The dinner, which began at 6 o'clock, was completed shortly after. 9 o'clock, and Mr. Windom, introduced by Judge Arnoui. who acted as toast-master, arose to speak, being K firct annk(r of the evenfn?. When the Secretary responded to his toast,' it was remarked that he was reading it on hurriedly from the printed copy. At tbe last he requested the anuience not to applaud. A quiver of fear shot through the assemblage like an electric shock as the speaker finished. Mr. Windom was standing erect under the glare of tbe gas-lights, while tbe iaces of the most famous body of men in tbe country all turned toward him. For a moment, the Secre. tary stood silent.whilethe banqueters, equally silent, watched him. It was a moment tbat no one who was present will ever forget. Tben Mr. Windon sat down quietly in his seat, and Toast-master J udne Aruous arose to intoduce Ex-Secretary ot State Bayard. He began a short speech. Mr. Windom gave a short, sharp moan of anguish and fell back in his chair. His face grew purple. His eye-lids opened and shut spasmodically. The cigar which he had been smoking was held between the grim clinch of the teeth. A cry went up from those silting near the gaest table. "Look, look at Mr. windom." very eye was turned toward the man whose voice had just ceased upon the air. At the rear of the hall many stood up, and many 'echoed the cry. Mr. Windon hud collapsed in bis cb;r and was tailing to the floor. His 'face was ghastly, and a cry ol horror arose irom the late festive banqueters. Dr. Robin son bent down, and, making a close examina tion ot tbe prostrate form, discovered that tbe heart was yet beating, and with tbe assistance of Judge Truax, Captain Snow and others, lifted him to bis feet. lie was carried into the room behind the banquet hall. Messengers were haxtily dis patcned for electric batteries, and as many as lour were applied to his body, which was rap idly growing cold. This was exactly 1U.05 1 M. .: i - For six minutes the electric shocks were applied incessantly but without success. He wss pronounced dead by Dr. Robinson, - Dr. Robinson said that heart disease was the cause ot death. ' Mr. iudom wassul ject to Attacks of heart failure. Judge Aruoux mibbingly. announced to tbe bauo utters that Mr. Wiiadora was dead- When it was officially announced that the secretary was dead Secretary Tracy at once went to the nearest telegraph office and sent a message to President Harrison informing him of the untimely event, and requesting him to communicate with Mrs. Windom and have her start on the 11.10 P. M. train for New York. .. . . Dr. Robinson said that when Mr. Windom was brought into the ante-room he felt no nnl.. A V A.nt h MA llACril 1 A F Tift leaf ifinB tlf th. radial artery three or lour minutes alter be i was placed on a table. The scene that ensued when the derth was officially announced is beyond description iu mere words. Gradually the excitement abated and theii the following death certificate was issued: We hereby certify that Hon. William Win dom, Secretary of the United States Treasury, died at Delnionico'scorner twenty-sixth ctreet and Filth evenue at New York City, about 10.11 o'clock P. M , on January 29, ItsDl.and we further certi ly that the cnuse of his death was, first: Cerebral hemorrhage, and, second, coma. E.J. Whitney, M. D., 10J Lafayette avenue, Brooklyn; S. A. Robinson, M. D., West Brighton, S. I. Undertaker liengler, of Grace Church wss summoned, and was put in charge of the re mains. The body wai taken to Room 25 of the Fifth-Avenue Hotel. Secretary Tracy and Attorney Miller, with heads bowed down, awaited at the hotel to receive the remains. Later, President Snow telegrnphed to Pres ident Harrison tbat the bo. y would be sent on to Washington on a t-peeial train in the morning. President Snow appoiuted the fol lowing committee to escort the remains: An brose Snow, Darwin R. James, F. B. Thur ber, W. II. Wiley, Seth Thomasjiud Norman 8. 1'entley. - : The Kewa In Washington. The news of Secretary Windom 'a death was first communicated to the President by the Associated Press, and he was so shocked and overcome by the sudden announcement that he was unable to say anything with respect -to the loss he has suffered. . . . The announcement of the sudden death of . Secretary Windom in New York, gave almost , us greitt a shock to his official lrientis and associates as did the shooting ot President, Garfield to the members of his official house hofil. It was so terribly sudden and unex pected that all who heard the news were pro foundly shocked and so overcome as to be un able to express the grief they felt. As soon ' as the telegram bearing the sad intelligence wits received by the Associated Press its con- -tcnlH were immediately communicated to President Harrison at the White Houe. lie was in the Library at the time talking with Mrs. Harrison, and when the message was read to him he was greatly distressed and almost completely overcome. He imme diately ordered his carriage and went at once t the house of Postmaster-General, but a few blocks away, where a Cabinet dinner had been in progress, and from which he had re turned but a few minutes before. A recep tion had followed the dinner, so the guests had not all dispersed. Mrs. Windom and her two daughters and Mrs. Colgate, ot New York, who is visiting them, were among those pres ent at the reception. - As soon as the Presi dent arrived he had a hurried conversation with Secretaries Blaine and Proctor and the Postmaster-Generel, and told them of the grief that hud befallen them. They then privately informed Mrs. Colgate of Mr. ;Windoni'o death, and sbc,without exciting the suspicions of Mr 8. Windom and her daughters, succeed ed in getting them to their carriage and home. The President, Secretary Proctor and Post-niaster-Geneial Wannmaker entered a car riage and followed directly after. When Mrs. Windom and her daughters reached the house Mrs. Colgate gently broke the dreadful news to the bereaved widow and her daughters. 'Mrs. AVinddiii wus completely overcome aud had to be assisted to her chamber. Tbe shook was a tcriblc one, as when tbe Secretary left Washington he seemed iu tbe best of health jand spirits. : The President aud the members of the Cab inet who were present extended their sympa thy to the stricken tumily and offered their services to them. i Otticia! information of the death came in a telegram from Secretary Tracy and Attorney General Miller, who were present at the ban quet. It said: "Secretary Windom, having concluded his speech, and while the next speaker was beinganikunced,sankdown with ian attack of heart disease and died within 10 minutes. His death occurred at 10 o'clock. You will know how to convey the sad intelli gence to bis family." To this the President (immediately replied, saying that he was greatly shocked, and asking them to take charge of the body and bring it to Washing- , kon as early as possible. ',. Probably no member of the President's offi- ; (Cial family wus more highly esteemed than Secretary Windom, and the expressions of (sorrow from tbe President and those of his "Cabinet who are in Washington indicate how 'highly they prized his friendseip and the lvalue of his. counsels. As the bulletin an fnouncing somewhat in detail the Secietary's death was read to tbe President while still at 'the Postmaster-General's house, be covered his eyes with his hand and moved away with out uttering a word, so greatly was he moved, (lie subsequently said that he regarded it as a freat calamity, which afflicted him sorely. Secretary Blaine, in tpeakiug of Mr. Win dom, said he wa a very valuable member ot (the Cabinet aud had worked with intense zeal Dince he had entered upon the duties of tbe office in connection with the finances.. His death was a great loss to the administration. He was exceedingly popular with the mem bers of the Cabinet, Mr. Blaine said, and he did not think that oue of them had ever had an unfriendly word with him since the Cab inet was formed. Secretary Proctor said that words could not txpress the leeling that ail experienced in the Secretary's death. Their personal relations had been most friendly. '"Mr. Windom," I e said, "was a man of such a pleasant and amia ble disposition that he endeared himself to all of us." , . ' Ills Career. William Windom was born in Belmont county, O., on May 10, 1827.' He received an academic education, studied law at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and was admitted to tbe bar in 1850. . . ' In 1852 he became prosecuting attorney for Knox county, but in )v55 be removed to Min-i nesota, aud soon afterward he wai chosen to Congress irom thatState as a republican, serv ing trom 159 till 1869. In that body he served two terms as chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, aud also was at the head of the special committee to visit the Western tribes iu 1865 and of that on the conduct of the Com. missioner ot Indian Affairs in 1867. In 1870 he was aDDointed to the United I States Senate to fill the unexpired term of Daniel S. .Norton, deceased, and was saose quently chosen for tbe term tbat ended in 1877. He was re-elected for the one that closed in 1883, and resigned in 1881 to enter tbe Cab iuetof President Garfield as Secretary of the Treasury but retired on the accession of President Arthur in the same year, aud was elected by the Minnesota Legislature to serve the remainder of his term in the Senate. In that body Mr. Windom acted as chairman of the commiitee on appropriations, foreign af fi.irs and transportation. He was appointed Secretary of theTreasury by President Harrison, and l as since served in that capacity, lie lelt Washington appar ently in perfect hea'h. to attend the bsu'met of the Board of Trade and Transportation at . New York, wher he was to make an address eutlining the fiscal policy of the government. FIPTY-FIRS?"cONGRESS i .. Senate , 42d Day Lengthy speeches against the closure resolution and in denunciation of th Election bill were made by Senators Cockre! i and Gray. Mr. Aldrieb asked unanimous con cent that the vote on the closure resolution and amendments should be taken at 5 o'clock this afternoon, but Mm Gorman objected, Rnd made a fpeech in which he vigorously de nounced the decision of Vice-President Mor-. ton Thursday by which the closure resolution got before the Senate. The Senate then took a recess till to-morrow. . 43d Da y. The proceedings in Congress to-day were rather tame in companion with recent events. The incident of chief interest were the vigorous speech of Senator Stewart in denunciation of both cloture and the force bill. Mr. Sanders made an argument in ad- vocacy of the proposed rule. He yielded to iMr. Aldrich, who asked nnanimous consent that debate on the pendingresolotion be limi- ted to half sn hour for each Senator; lost. Mr. Sanders then continued his speech in ad vocacy of the rule, and was followed by Mr. Morgan on the other side.- Withont conclude ing his speech- Mr. Morgan yielded the floor, and then, on motion of Mr. Aldrich, at 5.1-S the Senate took a recess until Monday at noon. :v 41th Day.- The Senate by a voto of 35 to :, 34, laid aside the closure resolution and took, up the congressional apportionment bill and resiling of the report continued till 3 o'clock, and the bill wai then laid aside till to-morrow at 2 o'clock, when it comes up as the un finished business. The next question was on Mr. Gorman's motion to amend the journal of Tuesday last by striking out the words "It wa determined in the affirmative." It.wns ( screed to without dissent, and then the journals of Tuesday and Wednesday were approved. Morning business being in order, the Senate proceeded in the usual manner, nothing of. importance occurring, until 4W o'clock, when it adjourned. . , ., TK Day. After the stormy time of the past few weeks the scene in the Senate to-day was wonderfully tame. The body convened at noon, and the nsual routine work occupied the time until two o'clock, when the appor. tionment bill was taken up. Without taking any action the Senate went into executive session, and at 5.15 adjourned. - 46th DAY.The Senate met at 11 A. M., and after some unimportant business in the morning hour resumed the discussion of the apportionment bill:. Mr. Hale gave notice that he would ask for a vote on the measure to-morrow at noon. Home 40th Day. Considerable time was taken up in the House this morning by a resolution ot Mr. Cooper, of Indiana, directingt he llauns investigation committee to report. The mat. ter was finally settled amicably by Mr. Mor-, rcll. the chairman or the' committee, obtain ing the original resolution from the files of the House, reporting it from. the committee and having it referred to the committee on rules. Tbe House then (yeas 145, nays 95) went into committee of the whole Mr. Bar rows (Mich.) in the chair on the Naval ap propriation bill. After some general debate the bill was then taken up by paragraphs for amendment,but without making any progress ' with it the committee rose, and the House ad- . journed. . ' 41STDAY. In the ITouie to-day some pro gress was made with the naval appropri ation bill, but' the Democrats managed to de lay matters so that the bill was not gotten out of committee of the whole. The Republican, hoped to get it reported to the House, if they couldn't get it to a vote, but the Democrats prevented. While not following thcobstruct lve tactics of several days ago, they took ad- . vantageof many opportunties to delay action. 42d Day. After the usual skirmish over the approval ot the journal in the House, Mr, Boutetle, of Maine, moved that the House go into committee of the whole on the naval appropriation bill. The roll-call was com pleted, the House went into committee and, after some discussion of a general character, rose and passed tbe navy appropriation bilL Local bills a fleeting the District of Columbia were considered until adjournment, ; 43d Day. The House had its usual little ' squabble and then went into committee of the whole on the military academy appropriation bill, but rose without taking action, j- 41TH DAY.The House went into commit tee of the whole on the military academy ap propriation bill, but rose without taking ac tion. . . ... . HELD ON A HOT STOVE. ; How a Fiend Treated fits Konr-Yeat-OU! . Son for a Trifling OnYna. Fiendish cruelty was perpetrated by John Meiser, an Ocean county farmer, living near New Egypt, N. J., upon' bis son, who is not yet 4 years of ape. ; - The child was in the houso at the time and committed some slight oliense. The father flew into a rage, and, seizing the child, placed A it upon the top of a hot stove, burning its' flesh in a terrible manner. ; , i ' '- The screams of ithe child qnickly brought its mother to the scene, and she carried it to 4 another room, where she dressed its injuries as best she could. ; Meiser was ashamed to ; " admit thar. he diii thm rlaarl Ui.:...n. J said he merely held the boy over the stove to ii inmcu Him, vut mat no acciuentiy dropped him. .- . .... , Immediately after the affair Meiser fled to escape arrest. The child's condition is critical . MANY REPORTED KILLED. The Seventh Cavalrr and the Wonndtd Knee Injured In a Collision. An extra train of seven coaches and twenty five stock cars, conveying the Se venth Cavalry and the men wounded at Wounded Knee and three batteries of artillery to Fort Riley from Pine Ridge came in collision with a pas senger train bound north near Irving, Jkan. It in reported that there was great loss of life, both trains being wrecked, but the' facts unobtainable at present; as the railroad officii 1 refuse to give out any information. Physicians ffrom Maysvyk', Port Riley, Frankfort and Concordia, Kan., have t een sent to the scene. It is said the engineer of the extra was running on the time of the pas senger train. ANOTHER INDIAN OUTBREAK. Ghost Dances Haiti to Have Martcr vti . Red Lake Reservation. A despatch from Crookstown, Mimjaj-: An outbreak is reported to have tiikcn plao among the Indians oa Red Lake Rusi -rvhiicr. , A number of settiert naiTr Thirf JM t J !' arrived in the' city and '.'report having t'i n driven out by the Indians, wlm, n-.ev - jr. have caught the Mesiah era ice and are ;'i('r ing in ghost dance and threatening the r.(a se; tiers near the reservation. Many ot the stt!trs have t"n')' '. having been thorMivjIily frighifx.! f hostile denioastmti an..
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