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rufcLISIIED BT llOAKOKB PUBLISHING C' . , C. V. W A08BON, TJUSIS&iS MANA3ER. "FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTII. NO. 41. VOL. II. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1891. : BEY. 1 TALMAGB. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun . : day Sermon. ftnbjecti ' TlieJMoii f Winter." . Tl:tJ:,i "Hast thou entered into the trea . ra of the snou" Job xxxviii., 22. Grossly maligned is the season of winter. , i&e spring and summer and autumn have ftaa many admirers, but winter, hoary 'Headed and white bearded winter, hath had more enemies than friends. Yet without nnter the human race would be inane and effortless. You might speak of the winter as the mother of .tempests. I take it as the father ot a whols family of physical, mental and spiritual energies. The most people that I know are strong in prooortion to the num ber of saow banks thoy had to climb over or , push through in childhood, while their lathers drove the sled loaded with logs fenced -th pranchin2 a8 b'go as the At this season ot the year, when we are bo familiar with the snow, those froaan vap pore, those falling blossoms of the sky, those whit angels of the atmosphere, thoRe poems or the storm, those Iliads and Odysseys of ' the wintery tempest, I turnover the leaves or my Btole and though most of it was written in a clime where snow seldom or never fell I find manv of these beautiful congelations. Though "the writers may sel dom or never have felt the cold touch of the . snowflake on their cheek, they had in sight two mountains, the tops of which were su gestive. Other, kings sometimes take oTt . their crowns, but Lebanon and Mount Her mon all the year -round and through the ages never lift the corouets of crystal from their foreheads. ; The first time we find a deep fall of snow u tuo jjiuio jb w u ere eamuei aescnoes a fight between Benainh and a lion in a pit. and though the snow may have crimsoned under the wounds of both man and brute, the shaggy monster rolled over dead, and the giant was victor. But the enow is not folly recognized lu the Bible until God in terrogates Job, the sciential, concerning its wonders, saying, "Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?" I rather think that Job may have exam ined the snowflake. with a microscope; for, although it is supposed that the microscope was invented long alter Job's time, there had been wonders of glass long before tue microscope and telescope of later day were thought of. So long ago as when the Col iseum was in its full splendor, Nero sat in the emperor's box of that great theatre, . which held a hundred thousand people, and looked at the combatants through a gem in his finger ring which brought everything close up to his eye. Four hundred years before Christ, in the stores at Athens, were sold powerful glasset called "burning spheres," and Layard, the explorer, found a magnifying glas3 amid the ruins of Nineveh and in the palace of Nim rod. Whether through magnifying instru ment or with unaided eye 1 cannot say, but I am sure that Job somehow went through the galleries of the &uowflake and counted its pillars and found wonders, raptures, mvs teries, theologies, majesties, infinities walk ing up and down its corridors, as a result of tbe question which the Lord had asked him, "Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow" , Oh, it is a wonderous meteor! Memboldt studied it in the Andes, twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea. De Saussure re veled among these meteors in the Alps, and Dr. Scoresby counted ninety-six varieties of snowflake amid the arctics. They are in shape of stars, in shape of coronets, In shape of cylinders; are globular, are hexagonal, are pyramiaaL, are castellated. After a fresh ' fall of snow, in one walk you crush under your feet, Tuilleries, Windsor castles. St. Pauls, St. Peters, St. Marks, cathedrals, Alhambras and Sydenham palaces innumer able. I know it depends much on our own condition what impression these flying meteors of the snow make. I 6hall not forget two rough and unpre tending wood cuts which I saw in my boy hood 6i Je by 6ide; one a picture of a prosper ous farmhouse, with all signs of comfort, and a lad warmly clothed looking out of the door upon the first flurry of snow, and bis mind no coubt filled with the sound of jin gling sleigh hells and the frolic with playfel lows in the deep banks, and he, clapping his bands and shouting, "It snows 1 it snows P' The other sketch was of a boy. haggard and hollow eyed with hunger, looking from tbe broken door of a wretched home, and seeing in the falling flakes prophecy - of more cold and less bread and greater privation, wring ing his hands and with tears rolling down his wan cheeks crying, "Oh, my God 1 it snows! it snows 1" Out of the abundance that characterizes most of our homes may there be speedy relief to all whom this win ter finds in want and exposure. And sow I propose, for your spiritual and everlasting profit, if you will accept my guid ance, to take you through some of these won ders of crystailiration. And notice first God in the littles. You may take alpenstock and cross tbe Mer de Glace, the sea of ice, and ascend Mont Blanc, which rises into the clouds like a pillar of the great white Thron;, or with arctic explorer ascend the mountains around tbe north pole, and see . glaciers a thousand feet high grinding against glaciers three thousand feet high. But I will take you on a less pretentious journey and show you God in tbe snowflake. There is room enough between its pillars for the great Je . hovan to stand. In that one frozen drop on the tip of your finger you may find ths throne room of the Almighty. I take up the snow in my hand and aee the coursers of celestial dominion pawing these crystal pavements. The telescope is grand, bat I must confess that I am quite as much interested in the microscope. The one reveals the universe above nn; the other juslf as great a universe beneath us. But the teisacope overwhelms me, while the microscope owtuforts me. What rou want and I want especially is , a God in littles. If we were raphie or archangelio in our natures we would want to study God in the great; but such small,. Weak, short lived beings as you and I are want to find God in the littles. ' I "When 1 see the Maker of the universe giv In? Himself to the architecture of a snoWr flake, and making its shafts. it3 domes. VVlts curves, its walls, its irradiations no perfect, i 1 . ii. -hi.. I r J I J M ' 7 . OOnCiUuB ne win luuji auoi uur iiibigiuwa ib aff airs. And if we are of more value (ban a sparrow, most certainly .we are of more value than an inanimate snowflake. So the Bible would chiefly impress us with God i4 the Jilt es. It does not say, "Considor th; clouds," but it says, "Consider the lilies." H does not sav, "Behold the tempests!" but "Behold the'fowls!" and it applauds a cup of old water and the widow's two uiites, and pays the haii of Tour head are all numbered. Do not fear, t erefore, that you are going to be lost in the crowd. lo not think that be. emm you estimate yourself as only one ' snowflake among a three days' January snow storm tbet you will be forgotten. The birth and desth of a drop of chilled vapor is as certainly regarded by the lxr 1 as the crea tion ami demolition of a planet. Nothing is . hi? to God and nothing is small. . What makes the honey Industries of South Carolina mm a source of livelihood and wealth: It is because God teaches the lady u? to make anop.-nuig in the rind of the n;,vicnt Tor ths boa, who cannot otherwise eer ft ice juit-"s of the truit., So God sends tbe ui-vj'-i, ahead tj prepare tte way for the honey be3. He teaches the ant to bite each grain of corn that she puts lathe ground for winter food in order that it may not take root and so ruin the little granary. He teaches the raven in dry weather to throw pebbles into a holiow tree, that the water far down and out of reach may come up within the reach of tbe bird's beak. What a com fort that He is a God in littles I The empsror of all the RuRsias in olden time was looking at a map that spread before him his vast dominions, and he could not find Great Brit ain on the map, and he called in his secretary and said: "Where is Great Britain, that I bear so much about?" "It is under your thumb,"' said the secretary; and the em peror raised his hand from the map and saw the country he was looking for. And it is high time that we find this mighty realm of God close by and under our own little finder. To drop rou out of His memory would be to resign Ills omniscience. To refuse you His protection would be to ab dicate His omnipotence. When you tell' me that He is tbe God of Juoiter.and the God of Mercury; and the God of Saturn, you tell me something so vast that I cannot comprehend it. But if you tell me He is the God of the snowflake, you ten m sometmng i cttn noia and measure and realize.- Thus the smallest snowflake contains a jewel case of comfort. Here is an opal, an amethyist, a diamond. Here is one of the treasures of snow. Take It for your present and everlasting comfort. .Behold, also, in the snow the treasure of accumulated power. During a snow storm let an apothecary, accustomed to weigh most delicate quantities, hold his weighing scales out of the window and let one fitike fall on the surface of the scales, and it will not even make it tremble. .When you want to ex-, press extreme triviality of weight you say, "Light as a feather," but a snowflake is much lighter. It is just twenty-four times lighter than water. And vet the accumula tion of these flakes broke down, a few days ago, in sight of my house, six telegraph poles, made helpless police and fire departments and halted rail' trams with two thundering locomotives. We have already learned so much of the power of electricity that we havo became careful how we touch the electric wire, and in many a case a touch has been death. But a few days ago the snow put its hand on most of these wires, and tore them down as thoueh they were cobwebs. The snow said: "You aeetn afraid of the thunderbolt I will catch it and hurl it to the ground. Your boasted electric lights adorning your cities with bub bles of fire, I will put out as easily as your ancestors snuffed out a tallow candle." The snow pat its finger on the lip of our cities that were talking wibh each other and they went into silence, uttering not a word. The snow mightier than the lightning. In March, 1888, the finow stopped Amer ica. It said to Brooklyn, "Stay home!" to New York, "Stay home 1" to Philadelphia, "Stay homeP' to Washington, "Stay home I" to Richmond, "Stay home P' It put into a white sepulcher most of this nation. Com merce, whose wheels never stopped before, stopped then. What was the matter? Power of accumulated snowflakes. On the top of the Apennines one flake falls, and others fall, and they pile up, and they make a mountain of fleece on the top of a mountain of rock, until one day a gust of wind, or even tue voice of a mountaineer, sets the frozen vapors into action, and by awful descent they sweep everything in their course trees, ro.iks, villages as when in 1827 the town of Bnel, in Valais, was buried, and in 1634, in Switzer land, three hundred soldiers were entombed. These avalanches were made up of singlo snowflakes. What tragedies of the snow have been witnessed by the monks of St. Bernard, who for ages have with the dogs been busy in ex tricating bewildered and overwhelmed travelers in Alpine storms, the dogs with blankets fastened to their backs and flasks of spirits fastened to their necks to resuscitate helpless travelers, one of these dogs decorated with a medal for having saved the lives oil twenty-two persons, the brave beast himself slain of the snow on that day when accom panying a Piedmontese courier on the way to his anxious household down the mountain, the wife and children of the Piedmontese courier coming up the mountain in soarch of him, an avalanche covered all under pyra mids higher than those under which the Egyptian monarchs sleep their bleep of the ages I What an illustration of the tragedies or the snow is found in .that scene between Glencoe and Glencrerau one February in Scotland, where Ronald Cameron comes forth to bring to his father's house his cousin Flora McDonald for the celebration of a birthday, and the calm day turns into a hurricane of white fury that leaves Ronald and Flora as dead; to be resuscitated by tbe shepherds! - What an exciting struggle had Bayard Taylor among the wintry Apennines I In the winter of 1812, by a similar force, the destiny of Europe was decided. The French army marched up toward Moscow five hundred thousand men. What can re sist them? Not bayonets, but the dumb ele ments overwhelm that host. Napoleon re treats from Moscow with about two hundred thousand men, a mighty nucleus for another campaign after he gets back to Paris. The morning of October 19, when they start for borne, is brisht and beautiful. The air is tonic, and although this Russian campaign has been a failure Napoleon will try again in some other direct ion with his h03t of brave surviving Freiummen. . But acloul comes on the skjEavid. the aiff gets emu, ana one of tue soldiers fesls on his cheek a snowflake, and then there is a multi plication of these wintry messages, and soon the plumes of the officers are decked with an other style of plume, and then all the skies let loose upon 'he warriors a hurricane of snow, and the march becomes difficult, and the horses find it hard to pull the supply train, and the men begin to fall under the fatigue, and many not able to take another step lie down in the drifts never to rise, and the cavalry horses stumble and fall, and one tiiouryid of the army fall, and ten thousand perifcCi; nd twenty thousand go down, and fiftv thousand, and a hundred thousand, and hundred and twenty thousand and a hun- red and thirty-two thousand die, and the, lotor of Jena and bridge of Lodi and Eylau (hd Austerlitz, where threa great armies, ommanded by three emperors, surrendered ,jo mm; now nimsuu sui i tuuei o w mo n flakes. - Historians do not aeom to recognize that the tide in that man's life turned from Dec. 16, 1809, when he banished by hideous divorce his wife Josephine from the palace, and so challenged the Almighty, and the Lord charged upon him from the fortress of the sky with ammunition of crystal. Snowei under I Billions, trillions. quadrillions,quin trillions of flakes did the work. And what a 1 suggestion of accumulative power, and what a rebufte to an oi us wno get aiswuramsu vc- cause we cannot do much, and therefore do nothing I 1 ' . "Oh." sav some one. "I would like to stan 1 the forces of sin and crime that are marching for the conquesti of the nations, but I a:n nobody; I have neither wealth nor eloquence nor social power. What can 1 dor My brother, how much do you weigh? As mucn as a snowflake! "Oh, yes." Then do your share. It is an aggrejatioii of small influ ences that will yet put this lost world bamt into tha boso n of a pardoning God. Ala-s toa'J there are so many em an 1 women wlio will not useth oiu ialmis b.c ius th?y hive not ten and will :iof. jjivj p nny biame they cannot give a dollar, and will not speak as well as they can because they are not elo quent, and will not be a snowflake becausa they cannot be an avalanche ! In earthly wars the generals get about all the credit, but in the war for God and righteousness and heaven all the- private soldier will get crowns of victory unfailing. When we reach heaven by the grace of God may we all arrive there I do not think we will be able to begin the new song right away because of tbe surprise we shall feel at the comparative rewards given. As we are being conducted ' along the street to our celestial residence we will begin to ask where live some of those who were mighty on earth. We must ask, "Is So-and-so here?" And the answer will be: "Yes. I think he is in the city, but we don't hear much of him; he was good and he got in, but he took most of his pay in earthly applause; he had enough grace to get through the gate,' but just where he live I know not. He squeezed through somehow, although 1 think the gates took the skirts of bis gar-, ments. I think he lives in one of those back streets in one of the plainer residences." Then we shall see a palace, the doorsteps of gold, and the windows of agate, and tbe tower like the sun for brilliance, and char iots before the door, and people who look like princes and princeses going up and down the steps, and we shall sav, "What one of t.ho hWnrchs lives here?1' That must be the residence of a Paul or a Milton, or some one I whose name resounds through all the pianeb from which we have just ascended." "No, no," says our celestial dragoman; "that is the residence of a soul whom you never heard of. "When she gave her charity her left hand knew not what her right hand did. She was mighty in secret prayer, and no one but God and her own soul knew it. She had more troubljthan anybody in all the land where she lived, and without complaining she bore it. and though her talents were naver great, what she had was alt conse crated to God and helping others, and the Lord is making up for her earthly privation by esoecial, raotures here, and the King of thi3 country had that place built especially for her. The walls began to go up when her troubles and privations and consecrations began on earth, and it so happened what a heavenly coincidence! that the last stroke of the trowel of amethyst on those walls was given the hour she entered heaven. "You know nothing of her. On earth her name was only once' in the newspapers, and that among the column of the dead, but she is mighty up here. There she comes now out of her palace grounds in her chariot be hind those two waite horses for a ride on the banks of the river that flows from under the throne of God. Let me see. Did you not ave in your world below an old classio which says something about 'these are they w&o come out of great tribulation, and they shall reign for ever and ever " As we pass up the street I find a good many on foot, and! say to the dragoman: "Who are t&ese?" And when their name is an nounced I recognize that some of them were on earth great poets, and great orators, and great merchants, and great warriors, and when I express my surprise about their going afoot the dragoman says: "In this country people ar rewarded not according to tbe number of their earthly talents, but accord ing to tbe uw they made of what they had." And then I tllought to myself: "Why, that theory would make, a snowflake that falls cheerfully and 111 the right place, and does all the work assigned it, as honorable as a whole Mont Blaao of snowflakes." "Yes, ye?." say the celestial dragoman, "many of these pearls that you find on the foreheads of tbe righteous, and many of the gems in the jewel oase of prince and princess, are only the petrified snowflakes of earthly tempest, for God does not forget the promise made in regard to them, 'They shall be Mine, said the Lord of host in the day when I make up My jewels.' Accumulated power 1 All the prayers and charities and kindnesses and talents of all tbe good concentered and compacted will be the World's evangelization. This thought of the aggregation of the many smalls into that one mighty is another treas ure of the enow. Another treasure of the enow Is the sug gestion of tha usefulness of sorrow, Absence of snow last winter made all nations sick. That snowless winter has not yet ended its disasters. Within a few weeks it put tens of thousands into tbe grave, and left others in homes and hospitals gradually to go down. Called by a trivial name, the Rus sian "grip," it was an international plague. Plenty of snow means public health. There is no medicine that so soon cures the world's malarias "as" these' white ""pellets-tEaflhe clouds administer pellets small enouzhtobe homeopathic, but in such large doses as to be allopathic, and melting soon enough to be hydropathic. Like a sponge, every flake ab sorbs unhealthy gases. The tables of mor tality In New York and Brooklyn imme diately lessened when the snows of last De cember began to fall. The snow is one of the grandest and best of the world's doctors. ' Yes, it is necessary for tbe land's produc tiveness.! Great snows in winter are general ly followed by great harvests next summer. Scientific analysis has shown that snow con tains a larger percentage of ammonia than the rain, and hence its greater power of en richment. And besides that, it is a white blanket to keep the enrth warm. An ex amination of snow in Siberia showed that it was a hundred degrees warmer under the snow than above the snow. Alpine plants perished in the mild winter of England for lack of enough snow, to keep them warm. Snow strikes back the rich gases which other wise would escape in the air and be lost. Thank God for the snows, and may those of February be as plentiful as those of Decem ber and January have been, high and deep and wide and enriching; then the harvests next July will embroider with gold this en tire American continent. What mellowed and glorified Wilberf orce's Christian character? A financial misfortune that led him to write, "I know not why my life is spared so long, except it be to show that a man can be as happy without a for tune as with one." What gave John Milton such keen spiritual eyesight that he could see the battle of the angels? Extinguishment of physical eyesight. What is the highest observatory for studying the stars of hope and faith and spiritual promiss? The be liever's sick bed- What proclaims the richest and most golden harvests that wave ou all the bills of heavenly rapture? The snows, the deep snows, the awful snows of earthly calamity. And that comforting thought is one of the treasures of the snow. Another treasure of the snow is the sugges tion that this mantle covering the earth is lilce the soul after it is forgiven. "Wash me," said the Psalmist, "and 1 shall be whiter than snow." My dear friend Gash- erie De Witt went ovtr to Geneva, Switzer land, for the recovery of his health, but the Lord had something better for him than earthly recovery. Little did I think when I bade him gool-by one lovely afternoon on the other side of the sea to return to America, that we would not meet again till we meet in heaven. As he lay one Sahbath morning on his dying pillow in Switzerland, the win dow open, he was looking out mon Mont Blanc. The air was clear. That great mountain stood in its robe of snow, glitter ing in tho morning light, and my friend said to his wife: "Jennie, do you know what that wow ou Jlount tila' j k'i w me tumk of.' It makes me thmk Mat tho n ?hteousnes oi Christ and th mrJon ot Go 1 cover all tb- t.!;-. c'-id impfrfections of jay life, as that. snow covers up that mountain, for the promise is that though our sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." Was not that glorious? I do not care who you are, or where 'you are, ycu need as much as I do that cleansing which madeGasherie De Witt good while he lived and glorious when he died. Do not take it as the tenet of an obsolete theology that our nature is corrupt. We must be changed. We must be made over again. The ancients thought that snow water had especial power to wash out deep stains. All other water might fail, but melted snow would make them clean. Well, Job bad great admiration for snow, but he declares in substance that if he should wash his soul in melted snow he would still be cov ered with mud, like a man down in a ditch (Job ix., 30). "If I wash myself in snow water, and make my hands ever so clean, yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch and mine own clothes shall abhor me." We must be washed in the fountain of God's mercy before we can be whiter than snow. "Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord." Oh, for the cleansing power I If there be hi all this audience one man or woman whose thoughts have always been right, and whose actions are always right, let such a one rise, or, if already standing, lift the right hand. Not one! All we, like sheep, have gone astry. Unclean 1 unclean I And yet we may be made whiter than snow whiter than that which, on a cold winter's morning, after a night of storm, clothes the tree from bottom of trunk to top. of highest branch, whiter than that which this hour makes the Adirondacks, and the Sierra Nevada and Mount Washington heights of pomp and splendor fit to enthrone an arch angel. In the time of Graham, the essayist, in one mountain district of Scotland an average of ten shepherds perished every winter in the snow drifts, and so he proposed that at tbe distance of every mile a pole fifteen feet high and with two cross pieces be erected, show ing the points of the compass, and a bell hung at the top, so that every breeze would ring it, and so tho lost one on tbe mountains would hear the sound and take the direction given by this pole with the cross pieces and get safely home. Whether that proposed ?lan was adopted or not 1 do not know, but declare to all you who are in the heavy and blinding drifts of sin and sorrow that there is a cross near by that can direct you to home ard peace and God; and hear - you not the ringing of the gospel bell hanging to that cross, saying, "This is the way; walk ye in it?" THE C0TT0NCR0P REPORT. The Plant Opened Too Rapidly Wait ing for Better Prices. The cotton returns of the Department of Agriculture lor February report the estimated product, compared with last year, the propor" tion sent from plantations and yield of lint to seed. The plants were prolifio in bo' ling, opening so rapidly in the early autumn as to tax the capacity of the pickers and leave the cotton exposed to the weather, which was unusually moist There is consequently a. general complaint ot discoloration, and to) some extent injury of the fibre. From the same cause an unusual amount of trash was gathered with the cotton that was thus ex posed. A consolidation of the country esti mates, as returned by reporters, makes 106 per cent of the product of Jasf year. 'Tlie stfto averages are as follows: North Carolina wh had a very small crop last year, 14Sf?Y X Carolina, 106; Georgia, 106; Florida, Do;- Afn batna, 104; Mississippi, lu3; Louisiana, i)d; Texas, 108; Arkansas, 102; Tennessee, 110. Some correspondents claim that there hai been nn organized eflort to hold buck the de livery of the crop, in the hope of better prices; others report its rapid marketing to get thvr benefit of the higher rates of the opening season. It is possible that these causes were both operative, the one early in the season, the other later, counteracting the early move ment. The proportions sent from plantations are thus reported: North Carolina, fcli per cent.; South Carolina, 85; Georgia, So; Florida, 1)0; Alabama, 86; Mississippi, 8t; Louisiana, DO; Texas, 8S); Arkansas, ti'J; Tennessee, 85; general average, 87. The proportions of lint to seed is reported at 32 to 33 per cent., the better results being in the Atlantic Coast States, in Louisiana and Texas. JAMES REDPATITDEAD. The Famons Irish Jonrnallst and lec turer Din From Ills Injuries A despatch from New York cays: James Redpatb, the famous Irish Nationalist, journalist and lecturer and the vice-president of the Anti-Poverty Society, who wai run down by a Fourth-avenue horse car some days ago, died in St. Luke's Hospital from the effect oi bis injuries. Mr. Redpath was born in Bcrwick-on-the-Tweed, Scotland, in 1833, and came to this country with his parents in 1S48. TWO MEN BLOWN TO ATOMS. Thirty Sticks of Giant Powder Explode At White Q,nall Mine, Colorado. A terrible explosion of giant powder occurred in the Wierfly tunnel of the White (juail Mine, of Kokorao, Colorado. William Young and John Anderson were blown to atoms, and John Johnson, John Mc Leod and Will Crane terribly injured. Many of their bones were broken by flying vouk. The accident was caused by the accidental explosion of 30 sticks ot giant powder, and it is a wonder that all the men in the mine were not killed. MARKETS. Bavtimobb Flour City Mills, extra,$5.00 $5.4J Wheat Southern Fultz, 1.00(d) 1.021 Corn Southern White, 5860c, Yellow, 6?fi0c. Oats Southern and Pennsylvania 48(u).51ic Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania 8182c. Hay. Maryland and Pennsylvania 10.'25$10.75. Straw Wheat, 7.00$8.00. Butter Eastern Creamery, 28(g)29c near-by receipts 1920c. Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream,10i(llc, Western, 891c .Eggs 25 (cn26c. Tobacco, Leaf Interior, 1$1,60, Good Common, 4$5.00, Middling, 6w$8.00, Good to fine red. txa$11.00. Fancy 12(l13.0O. Nbw YORK. Flour Southern Good to ehmce extra, 4.25$5.85. Wheat No. 1 White 1(M105. Kye-State 6860c Corn South ern Yellow, 60it0io. Oats White, State 62j52ic. Rutter State, 25($26c. Cheese State, 79Sc. Eggs 2828ic Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania fancy, 4.25("$4 M, Wheat, Pennsylvania and j routnern j.teu, i.ui(g)i.U2. itye-rennsylva-nia, 5t;(q57c. Corn Southern Yellow, 60(3 r!Hc Oats 51f5;504 Butter State, 2728c, heese New ork Factory, 10104c Eggs State, 27(2&3. CATTLE. ' BAt.TiMor.it Beef 4.504.75. " Eheep- S.?50to$4.75. lloss 3.50(;$$3.7$. N i:w Yoek Beef fi.(M)r.,$7.00. Eheep .ftofof&eo. Hogs 3.40 M. io. EaVt Li betity Eeef 4.40$4.70. Sheep tOOCi$5.21X Hogs 3.70Q3iHX . THE NEWS In a collision on the Lackawanna Railroad, near Mount Morris, N. YM Jas; Powers, of Buffalo, an engineer, and Albert Engelhart a fireman, were killed. El jah Pound, father of ex-Governor Thsddeus C. Pound, of Wis consin, died near Chippewa Falls, aged ninety. Ethelinda Belding fatally shot Mrs. Snrah Rigley near Sumner, 111. It is reported that the Great Northern Railway Company has secured control of the Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railway. Police Officer James B. Cavanaugh shot and killed James May in San Francisco. Adolph A.IIogman andAllred E. Fummett, s.lk manufacturers, ot Paterson, N. J, assigned. George Favis, a Hungarian, was acquitted at Carlisle, Pa., of causing the death of a boy by giving him liquor. John II. Ionian, of the Richmond Terminal Company, says his line will be able to reach New York and Chicago, and po.tsibly go to Norfolk. It is reported that Calvin S. Brice has control of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Road, which will be a part of the Terminal's connection. The First National and North Middlesex Savings Banks, at Aycr, Mass., are closed, and Spauld ing, cashier of both, is missing. The banks are solvent. -The Virginia Nail and Iron Works Company, near Lynchburg, Vs., as signed; liabilities $125,000. Work was be gun at Jackson Park on the World's Fair. Henry M. Hedden, a wealthy butcher, was found murdered near Dover, N. J. Hia skull had been fractured with some blunt instrument. Mrs. John Larkin, wife of a' river man, and Mrs. Elizabeth Marquis, wife of a city fireman, of St. Louis, clain to be heir to a f ortune of $4,000,000 left by Lord Ratcliffe, of England. The sfeimer Chiswick struck a sand bank oft the Stilly Tslands and sank, the captain and ten seamen were drowned. An alliance has been formed between Guatemala and Honduras against San Salvador. A pastoral letter was read in the Catholic churches of Ireland condemning Parnell's conduct Hon. James Phelan, member of Congress, from Memphis, Tenn., died at Nassau of con sumption. Thomas Sharp, of Springfield, Ohio, who left a large fortune to adopted children a son and a daughter stipulated that they should marry. Major W. A. Wil liams, a prominent citizen of Greenville, S. C, was shot through the heart by J. li. Wil liams, a saloon keeper, over a g.imc of cards. At a meeting of the Virginia and North Carolina Construction Company, at Winston N. C, the contrrct was awarded for building the last division of the road from Winston to Roanoke. The steamer Simon Dumois is reported to have gone down while on a voyage from New York to Cuba. Eleven prisoners were lashed and two required to stand in the pillory, at New Castle, Del. During the past year damages to the amount of $35,000 has been done to buildings in Ashland, Pa., by settling of the surface caused by tho re moval of pillars of coal in the tunnel colliery underneath. By an explosion of g:s in the new shaft, at the Simpson and Watkins mine, at Wyoming, Pa., two men were instantly killed and two fatally hurt. George D. Fisher, the oldest resident born citizen ot Richmond, Va., died, aged eighty-seven years. Lloyd McKee, a farmer of Clark county, Mo., was fatally stabbed by a discharged employee. Col. J. C. Nixon, who wss editor and proprietor for many years of the New Orleans Crescent, died at the age of sixty-nine years. The saloons in North Dakota are closed by a recent decision of the State Supreme Court The Muscatine, Rock Island and Peoria (111.) Railroad Company, was' incorporated with a capital stock ot $2,000,000. Robbers attempted to rob a train near Delano, Cal., but were beaten off. The Internationai Monetary Conference haa adjourned until March 23. The name of Congressman llitt, of Illinois, is mentioned in connection with the Treasury portfolio. Miss Susan Cai berry Lay and Hon. Wra. F. Wharton, Assistant Secretary of Sfate, were married. By the breaking of a rail r.iH the Burlington and Northern Railroad, near Maynurd, la., a train wns thrown down an embankment, and three persons fatally and a dozen seriously injured. Bishop Hare has resigned his charge in South Dakota and accepted charge of tbe Japanese misisons. Abrara Wright died at Stockbridge, Mas., aged one hundred and seven years. The wife of William Dutcher committed suicide at her home in Dubuque, la,, because at a ball the husband's attention to other women caused her to complain, when he sent her home. Miss Denim ie Mennett, of Findlay, Ohio, eloped with J. L. McClintock, and then committed suicide because her parents would not forgive her. James McCord, a farmer of Mauson, Ind., committed suicide. A pic ture valued at $15,000 was stolen from the Art Museum in Detroit Waco, Tex., is infested with incendiaries, who are endeavoring to rob and burn the city. MURDER OVER CARDS. A Cowardly Shooting Affair In a South Carolina Town. Major W. A. Williams, a prominent and popular citizen of Greenville, was shot through the heart and instantly killed soon after midnight by J. B. Williams. The two men were playing cards In a private room, only a colored attendant being present A dispute arose and Major Williams drew a knife; J, B. Williams said he was unarmed, whereupon Major Williams shut his kmle, threw it on tie table and pulled oil his coat, apparently iutendintr to fight. Both men are well known as being unusually powerful and athletic, J. H. Williams suddenly drew a re volver and fired. Major Williams fell on his face, dead. The murderer rushed out into the dark ncss and has disappeared, but several posses are in pursuit, lie is thought tu have Kne over the mountains in North Carolina. .Major Williams was a lawyer, prominent in military, political and social circles, widely known and popular. J. li. WiMiams is a srtloon keeper, J he affair causes the deepest yarrow and t'ie strongest indignation Wi ihe fjiumuiiity, and tho general leelins is that the kuliug is a brutal and cowardly murder. ESCAPED A LIVING TOMB. Wonderful Rescue of the Tlireo Buried Miners. .: .. For Nearly Five Day Tliy Clnngto a Croat-beam In th Snhmergetl Sllno Their Thrilling Ji-iprvlcncc. -, Intense joy and excitement prevailed in the little hamlet of Grand Tunnel, Pa., over the rescue of the three entombed miners who were imprisoned by water rushing into the gang ways and breasts of the Susquehnini Coal Company's colliery at that place, after the firing of a blast Since the men were lost ex perienced miners declared their rescue alive an impossibility, and they were practically Civen up. The whole community was in mourning over their sad fate. The names of the men are Michael Shelank, Wm. Craget and John Rineer, all well-known miners. They were found alive in the upper work ings, near the outcrop, the water being unable to reach them after tney managed to get out ot its swirl when it was rushing through the mine. The company's employes hare exerted -very effort to get the water out, and by press ing into service tbe mammoth pumps, were Able to lower the water snlliciently to let a rescuing party in. The men were fonnd in an almost exhausted condition from their 115 hours' imprisonment and will require care to bring them through. Their sufterings Lave been intense, but they were buoyed by the hope of being rescned, and tue outcrop work ings being lairly well-ventilated, they were abie to secure enough pure air to keep them nn ve. . The work of reaching the imprisoned miners was daringly accomplished by George Bender, who, when he found his progres stopped by low timbers, dipped his aft un der them, following by diving. He lost his hat and miners' lamp, but Wm. Bowen, who' was swimming the gangway, passed his lamp through a break over the timbers, and Ben der went on w)th his search. As he went along the brattice,' he heard Rineer's voice: "For God's sake, hurry up end get us ontof here. We are yet alive." This was the message that Bender sent back over the murky waters to the ether rescuers. He could not reach them without going over brattice one hundred feet and wading in water two and three feet deep. . . When he found itineer, Cragel and Shilling thev were ud in the cross-headinc. perched ou a "legging," and at the highest poiut they could get iu the mine. 'This was but a trifle more than six feet above the elevation reached, by the flood, and hero they were without food for nearly five days, hearing the throbbing of the pulse, and knowing that efforts were be iDg made to rescue them. At hall-past five the water was down enough to let tbe men bt taken out This was done by floating them one at a time on the raft across the flooded gangway, their imprison ment making them too weak to risk the danger of the water. ,, They reached the pumps safely and were rroniwiH nn In hlfln1.'t havinrv firat . l-uin gi veu some milk iu light quantities ss nourish ment " t They were then taken to their homes, where they received the congratulations ot their friends and acquaintances. The scene was most thrilling and inspiring, the stoutest heart being overcome. Tbe change wrought , was remarkable. They came from the mouth of their Jiving graves as from a sepulchre, and amid the shouts and cries of joy, were orried to their families and friends. The rescuers were Anthony Jones, J. C Hopkins, George Bender and Willi ui Bowen. under the direction of Foreman Reese and Joel Warne. Shilling and Kineer have wives and three children each, while Cragel is un married. The physician in attendance says the men must subsist on beet tea Jor a num ber of days, and that they will be ail right iu a short time, except, possibly Rineer, who is slichllv tioiHoned in his feet trom the anlnhur water of the mine. CENSUS OF FARM ANIMALS. The Ilorsaa, Cattle, Sheep antt Swlns on American Farm. , . The estimates of numbers and values ot farm animals, made at the end' of each year and returnable in January to the Department of Agriculture, have been consolidated.- There appears to have been little change in numbers, except on the Pacific coast and in certain por tions of the Rocky Mountains, where the winter of 1889-90 was unusually severe Losses are especially heavy on the Pacific slope. The number of horses on filrms, as reported is 14,056,750. Average price of all ages, S67, a decline from Jast year of $1.84. The number of moles is 2,296,.i32, having an average value of $77.88, a decline irotn last year of 37 cents. ' The number of milch cows is 16,019,591, an increase of 66,708 from last year. The average ' value per head is 21.63, which is less by o'2 . esnts than last year's average. There is a tendency to increase of dairying in the Sonth, especially in tbe mountain region, which offers inducements of cheap lands and abundant grasses. Other cattle aggregate 36,875,018, including those on ranches. The highest value is $28,64, in Connecticut; the lowest $3.46, in Arkansas. In Texas i8 W. The estimated number of sheep are 43,431,-1 136. The average, $2.51, an increase of 24 cent, or more than ten per cent. ' All other kind! of farm animals have dclined slightly , in price. A tendency to increase of numbers is seen in most of the states, though the heavy losses from the severe winter of last year on the Pacific slope have decreased the aggregate. The aggregate number of swine is 50,625, 1C6, showing a decline of nearly two per ceut. The average value is $4.15, a decrease of 57 cents per head. The scarcity of corn caused a e'.r nghter of stock hogs in poor condition; tending to vlut the market, and reduce the price temporarily. CYCLONE IN ALABAMA, Ilfilana Wlnil-SusDt Tclrcrtnh Polta Twisted oft litke Pipe Stems. A cyclone struck Helena, Alii., at 4 o'clock P.M. A dull, roaring sound was heard, and the people just had time to get to their doors when they saw a black whirling cloud skim over the top of the hotel in the sorthern part of the village. It next cnconnteid the telegraph pole, twisting them off like pipe stems. Coming down the railroad track it laid the station building fiat on the platform and then crowed the track diagonally and leveled the store of Thomas Daviilsoo. C. C end Jnnies David son were in the store, and both were lurt about the head, and P.D.Lee w;iu bruised about the body. The cyclone thin lifted, and, p-ssin; overs three-story building, struck ths Helena roll ing mill, about 2tx yards from the tiui"n, taking the roof off both the inii! nnd rt. house. 1 becloud passed on iu iuoutl:Mst. direction. .