Pl'nT.ISITED DT liOANOKBlI'uiltianiNG (3(1, -
C, V. w" Ausbow, Bcsihesb Majjageu.
Fort god. jj-oit' country, and for truth,
VOL. II.
NO. 43.
PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, MARCH-6, 1801.
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The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's. Sun.
nblecti The Gambling Evil."
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, Text "Let My people go tJiat they may
terre Me; for I will at this time send all My
Xlaaues.nEx. ix., 13, 14. . '
Last winter, In the museum at Cairo.
. Mgjpt, I saw the mummy or. embalmed
; body of Pharaoh, the oppressor of the an
cient Israelites. Visible are the very teeth
that " he gnashed .' against the Israelitish'
' rickmakerB,ftB tockets of the- merciless s
eyes with Which he" looked upon the overbur
dened people of God, the hair that floated in
the breeze off the Red Sea, the very lips with
which he commanded thorn .to make bricks
'"without straw . Thousands i :,of years ,
, after, . . when t the vfrappiugsi jot the i
mummy were unroUtid; ldv Pharaoh lifted
vphis arm as if in imploration, but his
skinny bones cannot again clutch his shat
tered scepter. It was to .compel that tyrant
to let the oppressed go free that the memora
: We tea plagues were sent; Sailing the Nile-1'
and .walking amid the ruins" of Egyptian
cities, I saw no remains of those jplagues
that smote the water or the air. None of
the frogs croaked In the one, none of the lo
custs Bounded their rattle in tho other, and
the cattle bore no sign of the murrain, and
. through the starry nights hovering about
the pyramids no destroying angel swept his
wing. But there are ten plagues still sting
ing and befouling and cursing our cities, and
like angels of wrath smiting 4notv only the
first bora but the last born; . ( ,': .' i
- Brooklyn, '' New York and Jersey City,
though called three, are practically one.
The bridge already fastening two of thenn
together will be followed by other bridges .
and by tunnels from both New Jersey and
Long Island shores, until what is true now
. will, as the years go by, become more .em
phatically true. - The average conditioijt of
public morals in this cluster of cities as -Rood
if not better than in any'other partof '
the world. Pride of city is natural to men
ia all times, If they live or have lived la" a
metropolis noted for' dignity or prowess.
Cresar boasted of his native Pome, Lycurgus
of .Sparta, Virgil of Andes, Demosthenes of
Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse, and Paul -of
Tarsus. I should 6uspect,taan of .base'
. heartedness who carried about with him no
feeling of complacency in regard to the
. - place of bis residence; who gloried not In its
arts or arms or behavior.; who looked..wita .
. no exultation upon its evidences of pros
perity, its artistic embellishments and scien
tific attainments. . v -
I have noticed that mn never like a placs
where they have-not behaved well... Men.
who havo free rides in prison vans never
' likes itho city that furnishes the vehicle.
When I sea in history Argos, Rhodes;, Smyr
na, Chios, Colophon and several Other-cities
claiming Homer. I conclude that Homer be- .-'
Laved well. Let us . not warj Against this i
, pride of city, nor expect to build upoursalves
by pulling others down. Let Boston have1
its commons, its Faneuil Hall and its magni-
:' flcent scientific and educational institutions.
Let Philadelphia tajk about its mint,, and In
dependence HalL and (Jivard CoUtege,,and its ;
old families, as virtuous as venerable When,
1 find a man living in-on a of those places who '
has nothing to say in avoKiOf them, I feel
like asking him, "What mean thing did you ,
do tbat you do not like your native city?"
New York is a goodly city, and when I say
that I mean the region between Spuyton
Duyvil Creek and Jamaica in one direction
and Newark flats in the other direction.
That which tends to elevate a part elevates
slL That which blasts part blasts all.. Sin '
is a giant, and.be comes tO;tho Ifudspn or
Connecticut, ftiver'ahd p'fisses'it 4s easily asy
we itepr across m figure in the carpet. The"
blessing of God is an angel, and when it
stretches out its two wings one of. them
hovers over that and the other ' over this. '
In infancy the great jnetroiolia was laid
down by the bank's of the Hudson. Its in
fancy was as feeble as that of Moses sleep
ing in the bulrushes ,by the Nile; and, like
Miriam, there our fathers stood and watched
it. The royal spirit of American commerce
came down to the water to bathe, and there.'
the found it. She took it in her arms, and
the child crew and waxed strong, and the
'. shiDS of for eien lands' brought cokl "and
, spices to its feet, and stretching itself-.up,y
into tne proportions oi a metropolis, it nas
looked up to the mountains and off upon.the
sea the mfghtfest df the energies of Ameri
can civilization, a i The character -of the
: founder of a city will be eeou for many years
in its inhabitants. Romulus impressed bis,,
life upon Rome. .The Pilgrims-relaxed not
, their hold upon the cities of New England'
William Penn has left Philadelphia an in
heritance of integrity and fair dealing,, and
on any day in that fcityryou may see in the
manners, customs and principles of its people
bis tastes, his coat, his hat, his wife's bonnet
and his plain meeting house. The Holland
ers still wield an influence over New York. .
Grand old New York!; What southern,
thoroughfare was ever smitten )y pestilence, '
when our physjcians did hot throw them '
selves upon the sacrifice I What distant land
has cried out in the agony of famine, and
our ships have not put out with breadstuff t
What street o Damascus or Beyrouth or
Madras that has not heard the step of 'our .
fnissionariesi- What struggle for national
- life in which our citizens have not poured
their blood into the trenches! What gallery
of exquisite art in which: our painters have
not hung their pictures 1 What department ;
of literature or science to which our scholars
. have not contributed! I neeS not speak of
pur public schools, wherd tbo children ofthe?
cordwainer and milkman and giassblower
Hand by the side of the fl&ttercd sons ', of
merchant princes; or of the Insane' asylums
on ail these islands where the who went
cutting themselves, among the 1 tombs, now
' sit, clothed and in thair right minds; or of
the Magdmleu ssymm3, where the lost one
of the street comes to bathe the Saviours
' feet with her tears, end wipe them with th
hairs of her headconfiding in the pardon o
Him who said: "Let him who is without m
cast tho first stone at her." il neeJ dob
ppeakof the institutions for the bljnd, tVj
lame, the deaf and toe dumb, for the incw
. ablet, the widow, tne orphan, and the out
cast; or of the thousand armed ; machinery ',
'. that ends streaming down from the reser-.
voirs tha clear, bright, sparkling, God given '
water that rushes through our aqueducts, ;
end dashes out of the hydrants, and , tosses
i up in our fountains, and hisses in our steam '.
engines, and4howws out the conflagration,
and sprinkles fronMe baptismal font of our,,
churches; find with silver note, and golden
sparkle, and crystalline" chime, says to hun
dreds of thous-ands of our population, in the
authentic words- of ilim who said: "I will;
: All this I pvonri.iein oxening this course of
sermons orvthe tn wluguea of these thres
cities, lest somestuuid roan migi.it siy i am
deorecating the plff of my residence. I
spck to you to-rt,r concerning the plague
of rambling.- Every man au I woman m
thi-liuuse ought to be interested ia this
tht-iiio. -,
pnrio yean n.T, when an association for
w tiupi.resmon f"u;ibiii'.-; i j 'rfi!ini"e i,
' n,i -'-..t, of tli!' ' '-' i!i l-j a pr'iii.
inenCC'itin nndsSrt.l I' tin ta patroniy.-i .the"
l I,...' ' ' If
est In such an organization. , I am in no wise
affected by that evil." . At that very time
his son, who was his partner in business, was
one of the heaviest players in Hearne's fa
mous gambling establishment. Another re
fused his patronage on, tha same ground, not
knowing that hig first bookkeopar, though re
ceivlng a salary of only a thousand dollars,
was losing from fifty to one hundred dollars
per night. The president of a railroad com
pany refused to patronize the institution,
.saying, "That society is good for the defense
of merchants, but the railroad people are not
injured by this evil;" not knowing that, at
that very time, two of his conductors were
spending three nights of each week at faro
tables in New York. Dirontly or indirectly,
this evil strikes at the whole world.
Oambling is the risking of something more
or less valuable In the hope of winning more
than you hazard. The instrument of gaming
inay differ but the principle is the same. The
shuffling and dealing cards, however lull of
temptation, is not gambling, unless stakes
are put up; while, on the other hand, gam
bling may be,, carriad on without cards or
dice, or .billiai'ds brf a ten pin alley. The
man, who bets on horses, on elections, on bst-ties---tbe
man wno deals in "fancy" stocks,
or conducts a business which hazards extra
capital, or goes into transactions without
foundation, but dependent upon what men
call "luck," is a gambler. W hatover you ex
pect to get from your neighbor " without of
fering an equivalent in money or time or
skill is either the product of theft or gaming.
Lottery tickets and lottery policies come into
the same category. Fairs for the founding
of hospitals, schools and churches, conducted
on the raffling system, come under the same
denomination. Do not, therefore, associata
gambling necessarily with any instrument,
or game, or time, or place, or think the prin
ciple depends upon w nether you play for a
glass of wine' or one, hundred shares of rail
road stock. Whether youptroniz? "auction
pools." "French mutuals" or "book-making,"
whether you employ faro or billiards, rondo
andkeno, sards or bagatelle, the very idea of
the. thing is dishonest, for it professes to be
stow upon you a good for which you give no
'equivalent.
It is estimated that every day In Chris
tendon eighty million dollars pass from
hand to hand through gambling practices,
and every year in Christendom one hun
dred and twenty-three billion one hundred
million dollars change hands in that way.
There are in this cluster of cities about
eisht hundred, confessed gambling estab
Isshments; There are about three thousand
five', hundred professional gamblers. Out
of the eight hundred gambling establish
ments how many of Hhem do you suppose
firof ess to be honest! Ten, These ten pro
ess to be honest because they are merely
the ante-chamber to the seven hundred
and ninety 'SliaJ; are acknowledged fraud
ulent. There fcre first class gambling estab
lishments. Yoii'go up the marble stairs.
You ring the bett. The livariei servant in
troduces you.CThe walls are lavender tinted.
The mantels are of Vermont marble. The
Bictures are' -"Jeohthah's Daughter" and
rore's VDantiYaiia. Virgil's Frozen Region
of HeU"tfTOOEfc appropriate selection, this
jast, for' the tlace. Thera ia the roulette
tablet the finest, the costliest, most exquisita
piece of f urnitur 3 in the United S tates. There
& the banqueting room, where, free, of charge
to the guests, you may find the plate and
viand8 and wines and cigars soptuous ,b43
tfdhd parallel;
- Then you come to the seconflss' gam
bling establishmrt. To it you are intro
"duced by a card through some "roper-in."
Having entered, you must either gamble or
fight. Sanded cards, dice loaded with quick
silver, poor drinks, will soon help you to get
rid of all your money to a tune in short
meter with staccato passages. You wanted
to see. You saw. The low villains of that
place watch you as you come in. Doe3 not
the panther, squat in the grass, know a calf
when he sees it? Wranirle not for your riehts
In that plaoe, or your body wi!ti qe thrown
bloody into cne streec, or aeaa into me iwtso
River. You go along a little further and find
the policy establishment. In that place you bet
on numbers. Betting on two numbers is called
a'Baddle," betting oh three numbers is called
a 'gig," betting bn four numbers is called a
"horse," and there are thousands of our
young men leaping into that "saddle" and
mounting the "gig," .and .behind - s that
"horse" riding to perdition. There is always
bne kind of sign on the - dpor -'Exchange,"
a most appropriate title for the door, for
there, in that rooin, a man exchanges health,
peace and heaven for loss of health, loss of
nqme, loss of family, loss of immortal soul.
Exchange sure enough and infinite enough,
. Men wishing to gamble will find places
Just suited to . their capacity, not only in
the underground oyster1 cellar, or at tha
table 'ba'ct of the curtain, covered with
greasy cards, or in the steamboat smoking
cabin,, where the bloated wretch with rings
in his ears Instead (0f his nose, deals the pact,
and winks in the unsuspecting traveler
providing free drinks all around but in
gilded parlors and amid gorgeous surround
ings. ' ' ' ' "'
-' Again,' this sin works ruin by killing indus
try. .A man used to reaping scores or hun
dreds or thousands of dollars from the gaming
table will not be content with slow work. He
wUlay:-'V,Wlat.is.the use of trying to make
these fifty dollars in my store when! can, get
five times that in.-half an hour down at
Silly's?1" ', You never knew - a confirmed
gambler who was lnaustrious. ine men
given to this viee spand their thus, not ac
tively engaged in. the ,game, in idleness or
4&taxic4tion or sleep, or in corrupting new
Victims This sin has dulled the carpenter's
saw and cut the band of the factory wheel,
sunk the cargo, broken the teeth of the
farmer's harrow and ssiit a strangi light
ning to shatter the battery of the philoso
pher, r The very first idea in gaming is at
war with all ihe industries of society.
; Thi crime is getting its lever under many
a mercantile housa iu our great cities, ana
before long down will come the great estab
lishment, crushing reputation, home, com
fort and immortal souls. How it diverts and
sinks capital may be inferred from some
authentic statement before us. The ten gam
ing" houses that once were authorized in Paris
passed through banks, yearly;' three hundred
and twenty-five millions of francs. - Where
does all the money come from4 The whole
jworld is robbe i ! What is most sad, there
are no consolations for the loss and Buffering
entailed by gaming. If men fail in lawful
business, Uod pities and society commiser
ates; but where in the Bible or in society is
there any consolation for thegamblefrf From
what tree of the forest oozes thare a balm that
can soothe the gamester's heart In that
bottle where (lod keeps the tears of His chil
dren are there any tears of the gam bier? Do
the winds that come to kiss the faded cheek
of sickness, and to cool , the heated brow of
the laborer, whisper hope and cheer to the
emaciated victim of the game of hazard?
When an honest man is in trouble he has
nympathv. . "Poor fellow !" they say. But
do gamblers come to weep at the agonies of
the gambler?
' In Northumberland was one of the finest
estates in-England. Mr. Porter owned it,
and in a year gambled it all away. Having
lost the last, acre of the estate, he came
down from the saloon and got into nis car
riage; went back, put up his horses and car
riage and town house and played. He threw
and lost. He started 1 home, and in a side
alley met a friend from whom he borrowed
t"n guineT?; v ntback to tn saloon an t - -:
r-j'a :riv-' ' ! hid w. s r -fy i1 - J
Mr. Porter? Who nspled htm on the loss
of his estate? ' What gambler subscribed to
put a stone over the poor man's grave? , Not
onel ... - ' " . . .. , :
Futhermore, this sin Is the source of an
counts! dishonesties. The game of hazard .
itseif is often a game of cheat. How many
tricks and deceptions ,fn the dealing of the
cards! The opponent's hand is ofttimes
found out by fraud. Cards are marked. so
that they may be designated from the back.
Expert gamesters have their accomplices,
and one wink may decide thegama. The dice
have been found loaded with ptatina, so that
"doublets" come up every time. These dice
are introduced by the gamblers, unobserved
by honest men who have come into play; and,
this accounts for the fact that ninety-nine
out of a hundred who gamble, however
wealthy they began, at the end are found to
be poor, miserable, ragged wretches, that
would not now be allowed to sit on the door
step of the house that they once owned. In
a gambling house in San Francisco a young
man having just come from the mines de-
posited a large sum upon the ace, and won
twenty-two tnousand dollar's. .- But the tide
turns. Intense excitement comes upon -the
countenances of all. Slowly the cards went
forth. Every eye is fixed. Not a sound is.
heard until the ace is revealed favorable to
the bank. There are shouts of "Foul!"
'FdulF butthe keepers of the table produce
their pistols, and the uproar is silenced and the
bank nas won ninety-five thousand dollars.
Do you call this a game of chance? There is '
no chance about ib ,
But these dishonesties in carrying on of
the game are nothing when compared with
the frauds whiichiaro committed in order to
got money to go on with the nefarious work.
Gambling with its greedy hand has snatched
away the widow's mite and the portion of
the orphans; has sold the daughter's virtue to
get the means to continue the game; has
written the counterfeit signature, emptied
the banker's money vault and wielded the
assausin's dagger. There is no depth of 'mean
ness to which it will not. stoop. There is no
cruelty at which it is appalled. There is no
warning of God that it will not dare. Merci
less, unappeasable, fiercer and wilder it
blinds,, it hardens, it rends, it blasts, it;
crushes, it damns. It has peopled our pris
ons and lunatic asylums. How many rail
road agents and cashiers and trustees
of . funds it has driven to dis
grace, -incarceration ' and ruicide! Wit
ness years ago a cashier of a railroad who,
stole one hundred and three thousand dol
lars to carry on his gaming practices. WJs
nesa forty thousand dollars stolen from a
Brooklyn bank within the memory, of many
of you, and the one hundred and eighty
thousand dollars taken from a Wall street
insurance company for the same purpose!
These are. only illustrations on a large scale
of the robberies every day committed for
tha purpose of carrying out the designs of
gamblers. Hundreds of thousands of dol
lars every year leak wit ' without observa
tion from the - merchant's till into the
gambling bell. A man in London keeping
one of these gambling houses boasted that
he had ruined a nobleman a day; but if all
the saloons of this land were to speak out
they might utter a more infamous boast,
for they have destroyed a thousand nobla
men a year. . ( . ,
Notice also the effect of tha crime upon
domestic happiness. It has sent its rnthloss
plowshare through hundreds of families, un
til the wife sat in racs, and; the daughters
were disgraced, and the sons grew up to ths
same infamous practices' or took a short cut
to destruction across the murderer's scaffold.
Home has lost all charms for the gambler.
How tame are the children's caresses and a
wife's devotion to the gambler! How drearily
the fire burr.g on the domestic hearth! There
must be louder laughter, and something- to
win and something to lose: an excitement to
drive the heart faster and .fillip, , the blood
and fire the imagination. No home, however
bright, can keep back the gamester. The
sweet call of love bounds back from bis iron
soul, and all the endearments are consumed
in the flames of his passion. The family
Bible will go after all other treasures are lost,
and if his crown in heaven were 1 into bis -hand
he would cry : "Here goes one more -,
game, my boys! On" this bne throw I
stake my crown in heaven." A young
man iu London, on coming, of ags,
received a fortune of one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars, and, through gam
bling, in three years was thrown on his
mother for support An only son went to a
southern city; he was rich, intellectual and
elegant in manners. His parents gave him
on liis departure from home their last bless
ing. The sharpers got hold of him. They
flattered him. They lured him to the gam
ing table, and let nim win almost every time
for a good while, and' patted him on the
back and said, "First rat player." Butful--ly
in their grasp they fleeced him, and his
thirty thousand dollars were lost. , Last of
all he put up his watch and lost that. Then'
he began to think of his home and his old
father atad mother, and wrote thus; . -
"My Beloved Parents You will doubtless
feel a momentary joy at the reception of this
lettsr from the child of your bosom, on
whom you have lavished all the favors of
your declining years...-. But should a feeling .
of joy for a moment spring up in your hearts
when you should have received this from
me, cnerish it, not, I have fallen deep--;
never to rise? Those gray ' hairs that I
should have nonbred and protected I shall
bring down with sorrow to the grave. I will
not curse my destroyer, but oh I may God
avenge the wrongs and impositions practised
n the unwary in a ay that shall best
Eise him. This, my dear parents, is the
letter you wih ever receive from mo. I
humbly pray your forgiveness. It is my
dying prayer. . Long before yon have re
ceived this letter from me the cold grave
will have closed upon me forever. Life to
me is insupportable. I cannot, nay, I will
not, suffer the shame of. bavins ruin3d you.
Forget and forgive is the dying prayer of
your unfortunate son."
The old father came to the postofSce, got
the letter and fell to the floor. They thought
ho was dead at first; hut they brushed back
the white hair from his brow and fanned
him. He hod only fainted. I wish he had
been dead, for what is life worth to a father
after bis son is destroyed? When things go
wrong at a gaming table they shout: "Foull
Foul !" Over all the gaming tables of the
world I cry out: "Foull foul! Infinitely
foul." .
ShaU I sketch the history of the gambler?
Lured by bad company ,bo- finds his way
into a place where honest. men ought never
to go. Ha sits down to his first game, but'
nly for pastime and the desire of being,
thought sociable. The players deal ontj
the cards. They uaaonsciously'play into
Satan's bands, who takes all the tricks and
both the players' souls for trumps he being
a sharper at any game. 1 A alight stake is
put up just to add interest to the play. Game
after game is played. Larger stakes and
still larger. They hegin to move nervously
on their chair Their brows lower and eyes
flash, until now thev who win and they who
lose, fired alike with passion, sis with set
jaws, and compressed lips, and clinched fists,
and eyes like fire balls that seem starting
from their sockets, to see the final turn be
fore it conies; if losing, pale with envy and
tremulous with unuttored oaths cast back
red hot upon the heart or, winning, with,
hystorio laugh "Ha, ha! I have it! I have
it."' - .f. '
A few years have pusl aDd ho iw only the
wm-u a ::ian. N - '. himsulf nt t i e namA
i -,ivth' J"'1 I I'urd, h" i't-h the
Ji-M- f tis wii'i-, .. 1 tnaiii'rr'.'c rinj
Tha game is lost, and staggering back in ex
haustion ha dreams. The bright hours of
the past mock his agony, and in his dreams
fiends with eyes of fire and tongue of flame
circle about nim with joined hands to dance
undsing their orgies with hellish cboruf,
chanting "Hail ! brother !" kissing his clammy
forehead until their loathsome locks, flowing
with serpents, crawl into his bosom and sink
their sharp fangs and suck up his life's
blood, and coiling around his heart pinch it
with chills and shudders unutterable.
Take warning ( You are no stronger than
tens of thousands who have by this practice
been overthrown ; No young man in our
cities can escape being tempted. Beware of
the first - beginnings! This road is a down
grade, and every instant increases the mo
mentum. Launch not upon this treacherous
sea. Split hulks strew the beach. Everlast
ing storms howl up and down, tossing un
wary crafts Into the Hellgate.. I speak oa
what I have seen with my own eyes. I hav
looked off into the abyss, and I have seen
the foaming, and the hissing, and the whirl
ing of the horrid deep in which the mangled
victims writhed, one upon another, and
struggled, strangled, blasphemed and died
the death stare of eternal despair upon their
countenances as. the water gurgled over
them.
To a gambler's deathbed there comes no
hope,; He will probably die alone. His for
mer associates come .not nigh his dwollin".
When the hour comes his miserable soul w3i
go out of a miserable lifo into a miserable
eternity. As his poor remains pass the bouse
where he was ruined, old companions may
lookout a moment and say "There goes the
old carcass dead at last," but they will not
get up from the table. . Let him down now
into his grave. Plant no tree to cast its shade
there, for the long, deep, eternal gloom that
settles there is shadow enough., , Plant no
' "forget-me-not" or eglantines around the'
: spot, for flowers were , not made to grow on
sucn a oiasiea neatn. . visit,t.not in the sun
shine, for that would be mockery, but in the
dismal night, when no stars are out and tha
spirits of darkness coma down hors3d on the
wind, then visit the grave of tho gambler I v
SHE STRUCK THE ROCKS.
Eighteen Men' Lost In the Wreck of Big
Ship-Off California.
The ship. Elizabeth, of New York, which
went ashore on the rocks nt North Head Cali
lornia, had twenty-six men. on board the
captain, two mates, the -cook and sixteen
snilors; also, the captain's, wife and two chil
dren. Three sailors, the -captain's wife and
children got oft in a small boat. TLe boat
capsized, uud the ocpupants were rescued by.
The captain aud seventeen sailors were
drowned. The'detsils of the wreck are. hard
la obtain, as the poin't where the ship went on
the rocks is inat uessiblo by sea, and, to reach
it , by land, a climb of several miles over the
mountains is necessary. The place is called
Tennessee Cove, and is four miles north of the
entrance to the harbor, on the Marine county
shore. The story of the wreek', as told by oue
of the survivors,- is ns follows: The vessel
was sighted at port and Captain Colcord
decided to sail in. The wind was blowing
turious gale from the southwest, and finally,
the tug 'Monarch; came- to the Elizabeth's!
assistance. The men sav assistance was re
fused because of the exorbitant charges askedj
uy the tug. lhe tug Alert then made 4ast t
the Elizabeth, but her hawser soon broke and
the ship drifted be.'ore the wind toward tha
shore.
Just as the second hawser was -made fast
she struck the roek.. Then Captain. Colcord
lowered the boat to take his wife and children
off. As the boat struck the water it capsized.
r throwing three sailors James Laken, George
iinnna ana orant Johnson into the water.
They clung to the bottom of the boat and were
picked up bythe tug. - The captain's family
were then lowered in unother boat and taken
to the tuir by the mate-and two seamen. The
boat returned -to the ship and its occupants J
perished with (he rest. of'.. ilie ship's rrew.J
i lie tugs were unable to get "ear the ship,
and Jute at night returned jto port leaving the
vessel to its firtev Earjy the next morning the
tug went to the seene of 'thfe-wreck, and iound
nothing was left of the Elizabeth.
Tne Elizabeth was a wooden ship built at
Newcastle, ;Mainj in-1881J, . and was -of 1,77a
tmis.1 She. was owned'. by Ai Hall; of New
York, and commanded by Captain Jauies Col
cord, and curried a crew of, twenty-six men.
SENATOR WILSON DEAD.
.The Kmlneiit .Miirylautler Expire Suil
? de'aly til Washington, i ;
Senator Ephraim K. Wilspn, of Maryland,
died suddenly at the Hamilton House, Wash
ington, at 10.10 o'clock, "T..M., of heart failure.
Although Senator Wilson had been ailing
for' some time, his critical illness" was very
sudden, and but few of his colleagues knew of
his condition.
Mr. Wilson hud had a 6evere attack of
t-holcru morbus, but-was much better, and hi:i
iilne.-'s wns not regalnded'as at air seriou. He
nail another attacfe.'however, which left him
.xtremely weak, and was 'seized with heart
1 i-'inble. '" ' -
Ir. Hammond. Lincoln and Bussey wera
v".i;imoneil, and held a consultation, at which
i was decided that he' could not live inore
iIi;ih two honrs. , "
Senator Wilson ilied nt 10.10 o'clock. He
conscious-up to the last Mrs. Wilson
.Viis overcome, and had to leave the room
'1 fire he died. His death came like sleep.
Around the bed were Dr. Hammond, Senators
Clray, of Delaware, Jones, of Arkansas, Repre
sentatives Stump and Gibson of Maryland.
Private Secretary Martin was in an aujouung
room. .
The Sereeant-at-Arms of the Senate was at
once notified, and took charge of the remains.
Deputy Sergeanf-at-Arms Reed notified the
rcsident and Vice-President. .x
Senator Wilson, was born in Snow Hill, ;
Maryland,. . December 22, 1821. lie was
graduated at "Jefferson College in 1841, 1
Mudied law, was admitted to the bar, and in '
1847 was1 elected to the Legislature. He
tablished hirofielf atSnow lliil and practiced
with success' in 4 the Maryland Courts nntil
1868. Inl852'hewa Presidential' elector on
the Democratic ticket and four years later he
was elected to the National House of Repre
sentatives, serving one term. He .was .Imlice
of fehe Maryland Circuit Court from 1878 till
l8S4,whcn he was' elected United States
Senator to succeed James B. Groonie, and
took his seat'March 4, 18S5. . liis prcetit
icrin of service weuld have expired Xmri-h 3,
IMH, but htt war re-'eleeted by the Mary and
Legislature at.it session last Winter for the
ii-rm ending in 1897. ,
MRS. E. a Dt'FFT, a young woman about
twenty years old, is one of the largest im-
' porters ot and dealers in wild animals in tin.
cnuntrv. She is the daughter ot a
ftrus''ist, and has a natural
business.
iikinj! tor t
Skvatou Sroos'KK is sa nl t:i have declined
nil oiler of tJV'l' ' a vea;' to ni;:Ue Chicamt hi
l',"i-ie and bf'.iv.f solicitor 1 'siernl for t!"1
THE NEWS.
An ice gorge caused the town of Schenetf
tady, N. Y., to be flooded. Fire , at Nash
ville, Tenn., causoil a loss of $25,000. Win.
Drncimey, a milk dealer at Cambridge, Mass.,
died of hydrophobia. left jams and over
flows were troublesome along the Mohawk
Valley. Fire caused u los of $162,000 at
Minneapolis. Colonel Chambers McKibbin
die I at Cliambersbur, P.i., nge.l ninety-two.
Wm. West was hanged at Washington,
Pa. -James T. Myers and George Iladley
were arrested nt Johnstown, Pa., for passint j
counterfeit standard dollars, and Benjamin
Reese for having such in his possession.
Chicago's -city councils ure considering
ordinance to reduce street-car fares to three
cents. A cold wave prevails throughout
the Sou tli. The first snew ot the seaso:i fell
iu Alabama. A northwesterly gale in Jack
sonville, Flu., blew fifty-six miles an hour,
and did considerable damage.
A little danghler ofC. A.PulIing was felon- 1
ioasly assaulted by a nero in Richmond, Va
Annie Dickinsou suffers greatly from in.
somnia. -The body of JobCooper was found
in a swamp near Pittsville, Del.
, The floods in South California and Arizona
were' more, disastrous than first reported
Miles of farm lands were inundated, whole
villages swept away and the courses of small
rivers changed by the tremendous overflow.
There are twenty-fi ve uukuown cases of
leprosy in New Orleans, and the City Council
has been Asked to provides place for their de
tention. The Dcp irtnieiit of .Superintend
ence, National E luxation. Asocialioo, iu ses
sion in Philadelphia, adopted resolutions de
claring for compulsory schoi! laws and the
pensioning of teachers after aserviceof thirty '
years. j
A miner at Wilkesharre fell one thousand
feet and was instantly killed. -Frank
Gabel, tax collector of Texas township, Pa,
has gone off, leaving a shortageof 122,000.
Thomas Hale, the inventor of the turbine
water wheel, was killed by a railroad train in
Rahway, N.J. P. Doddridge & Co., bank
ers of Corpus Christi, Tex., have made an as
signment! .The operatives of the Camden
Woolen Mills in Camden, N.. J., have stuck.
Dennis McCloskey, the Gloucester, Mass.
saloon-keeper, has been sent up for five years
ti-r attempting to wreck passenger trains.
In San Francisco a man broke a pawnbrok
er's window, and escaped with $3,500 worth of
diamonds. - During a county dance in
North Liberty, Ind., Frank Eldred t-hot Al
fred Wedel in the back. Chief Engineer
George 11. White, U. S. N died in Philade'-
phia, Negroes are flocking from Arkansas
to Oklahoma.
The white rquadron, Admiral Walker com
manding, has arrived at Pensacola. Gen
eral Robert McAllister, a distinguished volun
teer soldier, died at Belvidere, N. J. The
nnnnal meeting of the department of super
intendence of the National Education Asso
ciation was held in Philadelphia, and the sub
ject of compulsory education, and other
matters relating to public schools, were dis
cussed. -Archibald Nichols, aged twenty
five years, of New York, a member of the
largest cigar mannfactnringfirm of Key West,
committed suicide. James lousherty, the
insane lover of May Anderson, who shot nnd
killed Dr. Lloyd, the physician nt Flotbnsh
(N.Y.) Insane Asylum, was sentenced to 6ing
Sing State Prison for life. The North
River Lumber Company of New York made
au-assignment. Ploods in Lower Califor
nia are destroying houses and railroad bridges
Joseph Haraer, of Chicago, fatally shot
his wife, and dangerously wounded Mrs. May
IIomer, his mother-in-law.
: Oliver Reitly, who was tynciieu by a mob at
Sftlid,Col., was the innocent party, he having
killed Sullivan to save his own life. An
overflow of. the Missouri river carried awny
the house containing Frederick Warner, wife,
nnd three children. AH were .lost. -Johu
Doblcr, a Chicago mail carrier, who has been
stealing, has been adjudged insane. Two
rivals fought a duel with knives in a village
near Chicago. One was fatally hurt. CoL.
W. D. Crockett, a descendant of Davy
Crockett, died in Waukegan, 1.1. Sampson
Heidenheiraer, a leading merchant in Galves
ton, Tex., is dead;- The Clatendon, Okla
homa and St. Louis Railroad Company was
Organized in Clarendon, Mo. The capital
stock is one million dollars.- John A. Wil
liams, a notorious train robber, was sentenced
at Texarkana, Ark., to ninety-nine years' im-prisonment.-
Joe Reynolds, familiarly
known as "Diamond Joe," died at Prescott
Ariz. The body of Prof. Bancroft was found
iu a pond near Providence, R. I. -The
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has decided
that pigeon shooting is not cruelty to animals.
Sir Knight Dickerson, upon whose body
a foot square of skin was grafted, taken from
his brother knights, died at Chicago. Five
persons were injured in a smash-up on the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad at
Item in gton, Ohio. The Pennsylvania Rail
road employees held a conference at Pittsburg
to consider the wages question. The soap
manufacturers of the Southwestern tates
have formed a trust. Five of the men en-
tombed in the Jeanesville mine, near Ilazle
lou, Pa., have been gotten out alive after
being imprisoned in the dark mine for thirteen
days. The reception, tendered the Sons and
Daughters of the Revolution was a brilliant
affair. Mr, Harrison assisted the hostess, Mrs.
Cabell. It is proposed to have a grand
naval review in 1S93 in New York harbor.
The National Miners Convention, at their
recent session in Columbus, Ohio, decided to
consolidate the general and defense funds and
have a ner caDita tax ot 20 cents per mouth.
8U per cent ot which is to be used for defen
nive purpose? There U a provision ; also
j purpose? There U
1 'h,cn- ??lve?.0 8t.r,lct"
I disposition of theiunda tli
more riehts in the
than heretofore. The
the basis 01 ecreeneu coal ana me oiner on me
run 01 ine mine, anu wiey win ue ubwmku w
I the joint Convention of mvnersaod operators
ia April.
The as?- -od valuation of New York C!fy
property this year ia 1 1. 1'M.fcTJjOtS, m'i ia-
STATE OF TRADE. ..
A. Decrease in the Volume of Business.
One of the Features.
Large Shipments of Whtit-Fillurrt
the Week In the United fltatea Shew
railing OtC
The volume of general trade has tended to
4ecrease rather than the reverse during the
feek. Telegrams to BracUtreet't from Phils.
lelphia, Dulath, Omaha, and Chicago notably
?oint in that direction. Mild weathse and ''
jisposition on the part of jobbers to discrlmi
jate in the matter of credits re largely re
iponsible, though colder weather has appeared
it the West, stimulating the demand to some
txteut. Jobbing Ic dry goods has not im
proved, and the movement of staple groeeriea
s somewhat less than last week. Theohief
tctivity in dry goods is in cotton and wool"
JrcBS goods. Print cloths are firmer, but
rown nnd bleached cottons are quiet : 1
The demand for wool is limited by small
docks ot choice at leading markets, r ull
erk-es are pid for Australians, wmeh arf
ietive. Rsw cotton is 3-16c lower on beavy
srop movement and lack of a corresponding
increase in demand. Sugar is doll after last
aeek's activity. Receipt at New Orleans are
ihecked, as are those of cottoa and of rice.
Lumber is movingimore freely West than .
:ast. Anthracite coal is in slack demand,
with no sign ot prices or restriction . being
oiaintained. '
Business failures in the United States tntj ,
week number 243, against 260 last week, and
253 this week last year. The total January
1 to date is 2304, agust 2353 last year. '
Net railway earnings lor December show .
the influence on heavy operating expen
upon liberal gross receipts. The exhibit ia
slightly better than in November or October.
The heavy uecrtase or avaiiaoi
wheat on the Pacific coast lost week, 1,075,000 -bubhels,
was due no doubt to enormous clear
ances of wheat, which aggregated 838.111.
bushels from Sun Francisco, lli0,490 bnshels
from Taconia, and 283,000 bushels from Port
land Ore., or 1,239,611 lushels of wheat, ex
elusive of clearances of flour, aggregating
iroiu Portland and San Francisco about S0.08J
barrels. Heavy shipments to and from San .
Francisco point to the desire of holders to get
rid of wheat prior to March 11, when taxes
are assessed. x . .t'
Exports of wheat (and flour as wheat,) both,
coasts, this week, aggregate 2,096,879, bushels,
ajrainst 2,236,283 busheis last week, and 2,272,- ,
v?u h.Ki. in th liir week: 18!)J. Total ex
ports, United States (snd Montreal) July 1 to
date are 04.420,563 bushels, against as.oW.OOO
bushels in a like part Of 1889-90, 60,600,006
bushels in 1888 89, and 89,920,000 bushels in
1SS7-88. ,
liank clearings at fifty-six cities for the
week are $1,016,443,98, an increase over this
week last year of .l per cent New York
city's clearings, are 1.5 per cent less than for
the like period last year. At fifty-fl? otnei
cities, the gain in -4-tf per cent
FOSTER THE MAN. -
The Ex- Governor of Ohio Selected Msy
Wlndom'i Sncctor. ' .
The nomination of Ex-Goveruor Charles
Foster, of Ohio, to be Secretary of the Treav "
nry was sent to the Senate by President liar-:.
rison.
Althoagh Mr. Foster will be classed, as a
Western man, he will be to all intents and ,
purposes a representative of the E.-nt, ai li
views on the financial bituation are in har
mony with those held in the Eist In finan
cial matters Mr. Foster will probably follow t
in Mr. Wiudom's steps.
In itspnlitical aspect, Mr. Foster's appoint
ment will have8omesiguifio'ince. Mr. Foster '
is one of the shrewdest politicians In Oiiio. .
Mr. Foster has been twice elected gov
ernor, and has sjrved several terms in Con
gress, where he made a very good record. He .
was a member of the ways and means com
mittee aud other important committees while
in. Congress. Since his retirement from the
House of Representatives, about six years apo,
Mr. Foster has not held any public office. lis
Mceived the complimentary vote ot the mi
nority for United States Senator at the time
Colonel Brice was elected.
Last Fall he ran for Congressin htsdistrir .
which bad been changed into a Democratic
stronghold. He. cut down the democratic innA -jonty,
but not enough to get elected. He i
a rich man, and m ule his start as a dry goolt
merchant. Mr. Foster is classed as a million- .
Hire. ' ' '' .
M. Foster Notified.
Ex-Governor Foster was officially notified
of his appointment a Secretary of the Trean
ury by a dispitoh frum President Harrison.
The President wired thst he had just sent Mr.
Foster's name to the Senate, and he hoped Mr.
Foster would nnd it his duty to accept. The
President said he knew Mr. Foster's views
were in accord with those of his party, and
the President would do anythina in hipwer
to make it pleasant tor him. The President
hoped that Mr, Foter could come to Wash
ington at once.
DIDN'T MIND HANGING.
Min Who Murdered
Ills
Sweetheart. ,
.Harry Mar.h was hanged at the jail in Eb-
ensbnrg.tPa for the murder of his sweetheart,
Clara Swakeshaft, on July 5, 1890. Since his
conviction Marsh had exhibited the utmost
indifference to his fate, nnd declared that he
was ready to die. The seaflobl on which he
was executed wns erected the day before, but
the preparations did not appear to affect the
prisoner, who passed a part of the night in
drawing sketches, in which he wns quite
proficient. His spiritual advisers visited him
and found him quite cool and undisturbed by
apprehensions ot his doom. On the scaffold,
his air of sangfroid did not desert him, and '
he died without exhibiting the slightest fear.
. The erime lor which Marsh paid the pen
alty was committed' about a mil from Ual
Jitzin. On Saturday night, July 6, 190, h
had been with bis sweetheart, Clsra K hake
shaft, and had urged her to msrry him, but
she asked to have the event postponed, lit
was persistent, however, and would sot yield
to her wishes. The girl was employed as a
duinetticata hotel iu Uallitzia.and after they
had yisteda fair in progress in that place,
they found the hotel closed, and Clarn was
Unable to get in. '
. The couple then wandered about town, and
nlonii toward daylight started for the girl's
home, it was 011 tue'rond thither that the
crime was committed. Marsh hud secured
a coupling-pin, and with th.s he struck the
girl on -the head, rendering her insensible,
aiter which he cut her throat with a rrtor.
The girl did not ne until the folio"1
Tuesday, although she ne7er revhiiiwl con
seioimmm Alter th killing Marh ,wenJ
back to tiailiuut .'!, M'f'm; a roup"-'
men. told them i ' ! e h:i I l; . - Ftl'