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NO. 44. VOL. II. PLYMOUTH, N. C FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1891. M DR. TALHA6E. .. (The Eminent Brooklyn' Divine's Stui-- v . ;, day Sermon. Babjectl Tle KylU of Liquor Drinking. - Text: "Noah planted a vineyard, and h aranh of tha wine and wot drunJce."- Genesis ix., 20, 21. t ; v ; w ; - This Xoah did the best i and the worst thinj for the world. He built an ark against the deluge i of water, but intro duced a deluge, against which the human race has ever since beeu trying to build an ark the delugsof drunkenness. In my text we hear his staggering steps. ' Shera and aphet tried-to cover up tbe disgrace, but there lie is, drunk on wine at a time in the history of the world when, to say the least, there , was no Hck of water. Inebriation, having entered the world, has not retreated. . Abigail, the'fair and heroic wire, who saved the flocks of Nabal, her husband, from con fiscation by invaders, goes home at night and finds him so intoxicated she cannot tell him the story of his narrow escape. ' Uriah carao to sas David, and David got him' drunk and paved the way for the despolia tion of a household. Even the church bishops needed to be charged to be sober and not, given to too much wine, and so familiar were people of Bible times with the stagger ing and falling motion of the inebriate that Isaiah, whfln ha fnmn tn Hoarrihu thai final dislocation of the worlds, says, "The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard.",, 4 Ever since apples and grapes and wheat grew tbe world has been tempted to unhealthful stimulants. , But the intoxicants of the olden time were an innocent beverage, a harmless orangeade, a quiet syrup, a peaceful soda water as compared with the liquids of , mod ern inebriation, into wtiich a madness, and a fury, and a gloom, and a fire, and a suicide, and a retribution have mixed and mingled. Fermentation was always known, but it was not until a thousand years after Christ that distillation was invented. While we , mus i . confess that some of i the ancient, ; arts have been lost, the Christian era is superior to all others In j the bad eminence of whisky and rum and gin.' The modern drunk is a hundredfold worse than the ancient drunk. Noah in his -intoxication became imbecile, but the vie-' tims of modern alcoholism have to struggle , with whole menageries of wild beasts, and jungles of hissing serpents, and perditions of; of blaspheming demons. ' An arch fiend arrived in our world, and he built an invisible caldron of temptation. . He built that caldron strong and stout for, all ages and nations. : First he squeezed into; tbe caldron the juices of the forbidden fruit of Paradise. ' Then he gathered for it a dis tillation from . the harvest fields and the! orchards of the hemispheres. Then he poured Jnto this caldron capsicum and copperas and; logwood and deadly nightshade and assault i and battery and vitriol and opium and rum i and murder and sulpburio acid and theft and potash and cochineal and red carrot and poverty and death and hops. But it was a; dry compound and it must be moistened, and: it must be liquefied, and so the arch fiend; poured into that caldron the tears of ce&tu,' riea o" orphanage and widowhood, and he' poured in the blood of twenty thousand as sassinations. . " ; And then the arch ftencLtook a shovel that he bad brought up from the furnaces be-1 neatti, and he put tuat shovel into this great, rtaldron and began to stir, and the caldron! began to heave and rock and boil and sput-J ter and hiss and smoke, and the nations gath-, ered around it with cups and tankards and' demijohns and kegs, and there was enough! for all. and the arch fiend cried: "Aha I! champion fiend am 1 1 Who has done morei. than I have for coffins and graveyards and, prisons and insane asylums, and tbe populat ing of the lost world? And when this caldron; is emptied I'll fill it again and I'll stir it again, and it will smoto again, and that' emoke will join another smoke, the smoke oJ a torment that ascendeth for ever and ever. I drove fifty ships on the rocks of New foundland, arid the Skerries, and the Good wins. ' I have ruined more senators' than gather , this winter in the na-. tional councils. I have ruined more lords) than are now gathered in the houset of peers. Tbe cup out of which I ordinarily: drink is a bleached human skull, and the, upholstery of my palace is so rich a crimson, because it is dyed in human gore, and the mosaic of my floors is made np of the bones! of children dasnei to aeaui oy arunxen parents, and my favorite music sweeter than Te Deum or triumphal march mf favorite music is the cry of daughters turned out at midnight on tbe street because father1 . hnm. 1vrn frid iurnnu) 1 jtnH t.h A ju oa awu4w . wi . , Be veil hundred voiced shriek of the sinking steamer, because the captain was not him self when he put the ship on the wrong course. - Champion fiend am Ii I have kindled more fires, I have wrung out more, agonies, I fcave stretched out more mid night shadows, I have opened more Gol-e-nthaa. I have rolled more Juzeernants, I have damned more souls than any other, emissary of diaboUdin. Champion fiend, ami!" : y.. ;. Drunkenness is the greatest evil of this nation, and it takes no logical process to prove to this audience that a drunken nation' cannot long be a free nation. I call your at tention to the fact that-drunkenness is not subsiding, certainly that it is not at a stand still, but that it is on an onward march, and it is a double quick. There ia more rum; swallowed in this country, and of a worse kind than was ever swallowed since the first" distillery began its work of death. Where, there was one drunken home there are ten drunken homes. Where there was ona drunkard's grave there are twenty drunk ard's graves. It is on the increase. Talk ' about crooked whisky by.whieh men meant tbe whisky that does not, pay the tax to' gov-' ernmeof i ten you jau surong arwa-.Mj ' crooked. Crooked Otard, crooked Cognac.) crooked senna ppsj crooked beer, .crooked wine, crooked "-whisky because it makes a man's path crooked, and bis lite crooked, and his death crooked and his eternity crooked. If I could gather all the armies of the dead drunkards and have them come to resurrec tion, nnd then add to that host all the armies of living drunkards, flya and ten, abreaat, and then if I could have you mount a horse anl tide along that lfne for review you would ride that horse till he dropped from exhaustion, and you would mount another horse and ride until he fell from exhauption, and vou would take another and another, And "you would ride along hour after honr an 1 tiay after day. Great host, in regiment in brigade). Great armies of them. And t'ften if you had voice stentorian enough to make thanvall hear, and you could give the command, "'Forward, march F, their first tramp would make the earth tremble, " I do not care which way you look J tbe commun ity to dav the evil is increasing., call attention to the fact that there are thousands of people born with thirst for strong drtak-a fact too often ignored. Along some ancestral lines there runs the river of temptation. There are children wbew swaddling clothes are torn oft! the ehryr' of fictath. Many a father has made a will of this sort: "In the name of God, amen . I bequeath to my children my house?! and li"vi and estates; M-are en I abare shall thev j.iiktj. llore! j I a."., s my Laud v- r. i seal in the presence of witnesses." And yet per haps that very mau has made another will that the people have never read, and that has not been proved in the courts. That will put in writing would read something like this: "In the name of disease and appetite and death, amen. I bequeath to my children my evil habits, my tankards shall be theirs, ray wine cup shall be theirs, my destroyed reputation shall be theirs. Share and shart alike shall they in tbe infamy. Hereto I af fix my hand and seal in the presence of all the applauding harpies of helL" From the multitude of those who have the evil habit born with them this army is be ing augmented. And I am sorry to say that a great many of the drug stores are abetting this evil, and alcohol u sold under the name of bitters. , It is bitters for this and bitten for that and bitters for soma other tiling. and good men deceived, not knowing titer) is any thralldom of alcoholism coming from that source, are going down, and some day man sits with the bottle of black bitters on his table, and the cork flies out, and after it' flies a fiend and clutches the man by his throat and aays: "Aha! I have been after you for ten years. I have got you now. Down with vou, down with you?" Bitters I Ah 1 yes. They make a man's family bitter and his home bitter and bis disposition bitter and his death bitter and his hell bitter. Bit ters. A vast army all the time increas ing. : . ' It seems to me it is about time for the 17.- 000,000 professors of religion in America to take sides, it is going to be an out and out Vta ft 1a writ.H HminlrannaBa an1 avthtrfaf-wr Ka tween heaven and hell, between God and the devil. Take sides before there is anv further national decadence, take rides before your sons are sacrificed and the home of your daughter goes down under the alcoholism of an imbruted husband. Take sides while your voica, your pen, your prayer, your vote may have any Influence in arresting the despoliation of this nation. If the 17,000,000 prof essors of religion should take sides on this subject it would not be very long before the destiny of this nation would be decided In the right direction. Is drunkenness a state or national evilfl Does it belong to the North, or does it belong to the South? Does it belong to the East, or does it belong to the West? Ah, there is not an American river into which its tears have not fallen and into which its suicides have not plunged. What ruined that Southern plantation? every field a fortune, the pro prietor and his family once the most affluent supporters of summer watering places. What threw that New England farm into decay and turned the roseate cheeks that bloomed as the foot of the Green Mountains into the pallor of despair? What has smitten every street of every village, town and city of this continent with a moral pestilence? Strong drink. . To prove that this is a national evil I call up two States in opposite directions Maine and Georgia. Let them testify in regard to this. State of Maine says: "It is so great an evil np here we have anathematized it as a State.", State of Georgia says: "It is so great an evil down here that ninety counties of this State have made the sale of intoxica ting drink a criminality." So the word cornea up from all parts of the land. Either drunk enness will be destroyed in this country or the American Government will be destroyed. Drunkenness and free institutions are com ing into a death grapple. Gather up the money that the working classes have spent for rum during the last thirty years, and I will build for every work ingman a house, and lay out for him a gar den, and clothe his sons in broadcloth and his daughters in silks, and stand at his front door a prancing span of sorrels or bays, and secure him a policy of life insur ance so that the present home may be well maintained after he is dead. The most persistent, most overpowering enemy of the working classes is intoxicating liquor. It is 1 the anarchist of the centuries, and has boy cotted and is now boycotting the body and mind and soul of American labor. It an nually swindles industry out of a large per centage of its earnings. It holds out its blasting solicitations to the mechanic or operative on his way to work, and at the -noon spell and on his way home at even- j tide. On Saturday, when the waxes are paid, it snatches a large part of the money chat might come to the family and sacrifices It among the saloon keepers. Stand the saloons of this country side by side, and it is r carefully estimated that they would reach from New York to Chicago. This evil is pouring its vitriolio and dam nable liquors down the throats of hundreds of thousands of laborers, and while the ordinary strikes are ruinous, both to em ployers and employes, I proclaim a universal strike against strong drink, which strike, if kept np, will be the relief of the working classes and the salvation of tbe nation. I will undertake to say that there is not a healthy laborer in the United States whoy: within the next twenty years, if he will re fuse all intoxicating beverages and be sav ing, may not become a capitalist on a small' scales Oh, how many are waiting to see if soma-; thing cannot be done for the stopping of in- 1 temperance I Thousands of drun sards wait ing who cannot go ten minutes in any direc tion without having the temptation glaring before their yes or appealing to their nos-. trils, they fighting against it with enfeebled will and diseased appetite, conquering, then surrendering, conquering again and sur-' rendering again, and' crying, 'How" long, O Lord! how long before these infamous solicitations shall be gone!" And hon many mothers are waiting to see if this national curse cannot lift? Oh, is that the boy who had the honest breath who comes home with breath vitiated or dis guised? What a change I Bow quickly those habits of early comln j home have been ex-. changed for the rattling of the night key in , the door long after the last watchman has gone by and tried to see that everything was closed up for the night. , Oh 1 what a change for that young man, who we had hoped would do something in merchandise or in artisanship or in a profes sion that would do honor to the family name, long after mother's wrinkled hands are folded from the last toil! All that 'exchanged for startled look when the door bell rings, lest something has happened; and the wish that the scarlet fever twenty years ago had been fatal, for then he would have gone directly to the bosom of bis Saviour. But alasl poor old soul, she has lived to experience what Solomon said, "A foolish son is a heaviness to his mother." Oh I what a funeral it will be when that boy is brought home dead! And how moth er will sit there and say: "Is this my boy that I used to fondle, and that 1 walked tbe floor with in the night when he was sick? Is -this the boy that 1 neld to the baptismal t for hantinm? Is this the boy for whom I toiled until the blood burst from the tips of my Ongers, tnao ne ungnv uave a. ju oui and a good home? Lord, why hast Thou let me B ve to see this? Can it be that these swollen hands are the ones that used to wan der over my face when rocking him to sleep? Can it be that this swollen brow is that I onoa so rapturously kissed? Poor boy ! how tired he doss look. I wonder who struca: him that blow across the temple? I wonder if he uttered a dying prayer? Wake up, my sont don't you hear me? wake up I On I be can't hear me I Dead f dead 1 dead 1 'On, Absalom, my sou, my son,-would God that I bad died for thee, oh, Absalom,., my son, son!"' ... i am not much of a mathematicma ami I cars lot c-i imatd it, but is the anv onab- quick enough at figures to estimate how many mothers there are waiting for some thing to be done? Ay, there are many wives waiting . for domestic rescue. He promised something different from that when, after tne long acquaintance and the careful scrutiny of character, tbe hand and the heart were offered and accepted. What a hell on earth a woman lives in who has a drunken husband I O death, how lovely thou art to her, and how soft and warm thy skeleton band I The sepulcher at mid night in winter is a king's drawing-room compared with that woman's home. It is not so much the blow on the head that hurts as the blow on the heart. Tbe rum fiend came to the door of that beautiful home, and opened the door and fctooi there and said: "I curse this dwelling with an unrelenting curse. I curse that father into a maniac, I curse that mother into a pauper. ' I curse those sons into vaga bonds. I curse those daughters Into proflig acy. Cursed be bread tray and cradle. Cursed be couch and chair, and family Bible with record of marriages and births and deaths. Curse upon curse.! Oh, how many wives are there waiting to see if something cannot be done to shake these frosts of tha second death off the orange blossoms! Yea, God is watting, the God who works through human instrumentalities, waiting to tea whether this nation is going to overthrow this evil, and if it refuse to do so God will wipe out the nation as He did Phcenioia, as He did Rome, as He did Thebes, as He did Babylon; : Ay. He is waiting to see what the church of God will do. If the church does not da its work, then He will wipe it out as He did tbe church of Ephesus, church of Thyatira, church of Sardis. The Protestant and Ro man Catholic cburchs to-day stand side by side, with an impotent look, gazing on this evil, which cost this country more than a billion dollars a year to take care of the 300, 000 paupers, and the 815,000 criminals, and the 30,000 idiots, and to bury the . 75,000 drunkards. Protagoras boasted that out of the sixtv vears of his life forty years he had spent in ruining youth; but this evil may make the more infamous boast that all ita life it has been ruining the bodies, minds and souls of the human race. Put on your spectacles and take a candle and examine the platforms of the two lead ing political parties of this country, and see what they are doing for the arrest of this evil and for the overthrow of this abomina tion. Resolutions oh! yes, resolutions about Mormonism! It is safe to attack that or ganized nastiness two thousand miles away. But not one resolution against drunkenness, which would turn this entire nation into one bestial Salt Lake City. Resolutions against political corruption, but not one word about drunkenness, which would rot this nation from scalp to heel. . Resolutions about pro tection against competition with foreign in dustries, but not one word about protection of family and church and nation against the scalding, blasting, all consuming, damning tariff of strong drink put upon every finan cial, individual, spiritual, moral, . national interest. I look in another direction. The Church of God is the grandest and most glorious institu tion on earth. What has it in solid phalanx accomplished for the overthrow of drunken ness? Have its forces ever been marshaled? No, not in this direction. Not long ago a great ecclesiastical court assembled in New York, and resolutions arraigning strong drink were offered, and clergymen with strong drink on then tables and strong drink in their cellars defeated the resolu tions by threatening speeches. They could not bear to give up their own lusts. I tell this audience what many of you may never have thought of, that to-day not in the millennium, but to-day the church holds tbe balance of power in America; and if Christian people the men and the women who profess to love the Lord Jesus Christ and to love purity and to be the sworn ene mies of all uncleanness and debauchery and sin if all such would inarch side by aide and .shoulder to shoulder this evil would soon be overthrown. Think of three hundred thou sand churches and Sunday-schools in Chria- ftendom marching shoulder to shoulder I How very short a time it would take them to put down this evil, if all the churches of God, transatlantic and cisatlantic, were armed oa this subject? ' Young men of America pass over into the array of teetotaUsm. Whisky, good to preserve corpses, ought never to turn yon Into a corpse. Tens of thousands of young men have been dragged out of repectability and out of purity, and out of good char acter, and into darkness by this infernal stuff called strong drink. Do not touch it! Do not touch it! In the front door of our church . in Brook lyn, a few summers ago, this scene occurred! Sabbath morning a young man was entering for divine worship. A friend passing along the street said, "Joe, come along with me; am going down to Coney Island and we'll have a gay Sunday." ."liTo," replied Joe; "I have started to go here to church, and I am going to attend service here." "Oh, Joe," his friend said, you can go to church any time! The day is bright and we'll - go to Coney Island, and we'll have a splendid time." The temptation was too strong, and the twain went to tha beach, spent the day in arunxenness ana riot. The evening train started up from Brighton. The young men. were on it. Joe, In his intoxication, when the train was in full speed, tried to pass around from one seat to another and fell and was crushed. Under the lantern, as Joe lay bleeding his life away on the grass, he said to bis com rade: "John, that was a bad business, your taking me away from church; it was a very bad business. You ought not to have done that, John. I want you to tell the boys to morrow when you see them that rum and Sabbath breaking did this for me. And John, while vou are telling them I will . be in hell, and it will be your fault." Is it not time for me to pull out from the great organ of God's word, with many banks of keys, the tremolo stop? "Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup, for at last it biteta like a serpent and stingeth like an adder," But this evil will be arrested. Blucher cams up just before night and saved tha day at Waterloo. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon it looked very badly for the English. Generals Ponsonby and Pickton fallen. Sabers broken, , flags surrendered, Scots Grays annihilated. Only forty-two men left out of the German brigade. The English army falling back and falling back. Napoleon rubbed his bauds together and said: "Aha! aha! we'U teach that little Englishman a lesson. . Ninety chances out of a hundrod are in our favor. Magnificent 1 naagnfflcent!" He even tent messages to Paris to say he had won the day. But before sundown Blucher came up, and ha who had been the conqueror of Austerlits became the victim of Waterloo. The name which had shaken all Europe and filled even America with apprehension, that name went down, and Naooleon, muddy and hat lews, and crazed with his disasters, was found feeling for tbe, stirrup of a horse, that he might mount and resume tha conflict. v - ' Well, my friends, alcoholism is imperial, and it is a conqueror, and there are good people who say the night of national over throw it ooming, and that it is almost night. But before sundown the Conqueror of erh aul heaven will ride in on the whit ho! -- andAlcoholism, which has had it Aust . .. ).u of triumph, b!-U1 have its Water' ?o of d f. it. A ioobt-i hn 1 ' t Its i row?., the -ilj - 3 4c;- '.lb( iir vi- t i:-;:i l--Via craeecT with the disaster, will be found fa3C ing in vain for the stirrup in which to re mount its foaming chargor. "So, OLord, let Thine enemies perish f DEATH QF SENATOR HEARST. Beginning Life as a Miner and Conelnd. Ing U Worth Twenty Million. Senator George Hearst, of California, died at his residence in Washington, at 9.10 o'clock P. M. He had been ill lor a long time and in December last went to New York to eonsult with Dr. Charles S. Ward in regard to his condition. The physician found that be was afflicted with a complication of diseases re sulting primarily from a serious derangement efthe bowels. , r Acting upon the physician's 'advice he re turned to his family in this cityand yielded himuelf to medical treatment There was a change for tha worse in the Senator's condition a day of two since and lie grew weaker and weaker until about 7 o'clock when he passed into a state of coma and Mrs. Hearst was made aware that his end wa near, The Senator's hands were held by Mrs. Hearst and the physician, and so quietly and easily did he pa-s away fiat Mrs. Hearst did not know he was dead until so linloriuad bj Dr. Ward. He gave no indication whatever of pain and discomfort. The Senator's death was communicated by his private secretary to the sergeanl-at-arm of the Senate, and was subsequently com muni cated to that body. The President was also promptly, informed. The remains will be taken to San Francisco for interment and the funeral- services in Washington will be brief and simple- . SKETCH OF HIS CAREER. George Hearst was born in Franklin county, Mo., September 3, 1820. His father had goaj to that State from North Carolina in 1819. The son received only such a limited educa tion as the common schools afforded in that day. Ileworkedon his father's, farm until 1850, when he caught the gold fever and went to California. For several years he was a miner and pr. s peutor, aud subbequently, by location and purchase, he became the owner of valuable mining interests and alarge employer, having at one time as many as 2000 men at work in his mines alone, aud operating quartz milU that crushed 10UU tons ot ore per day. The increase of his wealth was steady and rapid and for some years past his income has been something like $1000 per day. lie had beeu lor a long time chief partner in the ex tensive miniug firm ot Hearst, llaggin, Lew Ik & Co. He owned above 40,000 acres of laud in San Lnis Obispo county. Cal., a ranch of 180,000 acres of grazing land in old Mexico, stocked with a very large herd f cattle, and a fine stable ot thoroughbred horses. He was interested in a large tract of land near Vera Cruz, and in railroad building in Mexico. His fortune at the time of his death was estimated at $20,01.0,000: Mr. Hearst's political life began in 18o, when he was elected to the California Legis lature and served one term.- In 1833 he was a candidate before the Democratic State conven tion at San Jose, Cel., for the nomination for Governor, but was deieated by Geu. George Stoneman. The latter was elected Governor, and when by the death of U. S. Senator John F. Miller, in 1883, the power of appointing a Senator was given to him, he appointed hik former opponent tor the Gubernatorial nomination, Mr. Hearst. The latter was re-elected IiW88; by the California Legislature, which whs then Democratic, and his term would bare ex aired in 1893. m STUDENTS TIRE OF LIE. Two Young Hebrews Commit Sntelde . In Cincinnati. A suicide of two young students of the Hebrew Union College occurred at 1 o'clock in the morning at Fourteenth and Race street", Cincinnati. The young men were Isadore II. Franenthal and Earnest Sallinger. They boarded in the house of Max Scholten feldt and occupied adjoining rooms. About 1 o'clock Mr. Scholteuteldt heard a heavy fall in their room, and soon after another, lining unable to open the dor, he got a police utiicer and broke in. They iound Fruueuthal had shot himself in the head. Saliimjer took the pistol and fired a ball into his chest . He was alive when found, but died in a few minute. Sal linger was able to speak when found, and said they had agreed lo die by their o n hand. Snlliuger'u diary had an entry saying he was going to end his never-ceasing pa'n. St. Locis, Mo. It is believed here that the cause or young Frauenthal's suicide at Cin cinnati is that the Philadelphia youn? man named Sallinger influenced him to the deed through hypnotic practice., which- buth bora were interested in and i n v rot iea tine. BARELY ESCAPED LYNCHING. A Drnnken PhjtalcUn Who Killed III Wife Seised by Mob. Dr. R. J. Matthews, the leading physician of Horse Creek, a mining village in Alabama, shot his wite, killing her instantly. The murder was committed in the presence of their five children, the youngest of' whom is only a year old. In thirty minutes after the tragedy occurred an angry mob surrounded Dr. Matthews and took him from the men who had him in charge. He fought like a wild beast, but was soon securely bound, and, with a rope around his neck, his captors dragged him to the nearest tree. . Just then two officers arrived, and, assisted by some of the older citizens, they succeeded' in savii.g Matthews' lite from the mob and placed him in jail. There is great excitement, and it is believed another attempt to lynch him will be made. . Drink was the caue of the murder. Mat thews wus on a spree and quarreled with his wile. - - -. -- ; EXODUS dFlIORMONS, I n j lnta With Their Wlvea and Pro perty Bound foe-' Meilee. A regular exodus of Mormons from Xjtth to Mexico is taking place, and within the next three months a large number of the Saints will bare left. -; The Mormons have a tract of land in the State of Chihuahua, 125 miles long and la wide, whioh they are settling on. A colony f ivtr trill leave 1'rovo earlv in ADril. All Wer the Territory the Saints are preparing to . ... ( - I I! i g i south to live fne.r reinrioo. ; - tianed are often ders against the law who would not submit to the rule of governmem established in ths United tetites and abandon tbeir plural wive. Tii. l.n,1 nt tha Plinrch la smd to be en roiirag ng this emigration, and is putting up funds lor t'Swho have none. It is estimt?d ihst si I. . JJ firaili? will abandon Utah thiaiy co to the new land ot Ca naan. ' ' THE NEWS - The elections in Canada were the closest and most exciting for years. The Conser vatives, the government party, will, have a fair working majority of from seventeen to twenty in Parliament. Robert Hackett, a notorious Philadelphia sneak thief, has been sent to state prison for twenty years 1 for rob bing dwellings. -The bursting of a three ton fly-wheel in Green & Fanton's hat factory at Danbury, Ct, caused a panic, in which two girls leaped out a window and were seriously hurt The steamboat City of Richmond, of the Hartford and New York Tran-portation Company, was burned at her New York wharf, and the watchman perished. Two young men were burned to death in a fire in tbe high school at Monroe, N. C. G. M. Steele, a druggist of AshlandWis., was shot through the heart by his brother-in-law, W. G. French, who claimed that Steele came be tween him and his family. In a snowslide in Ewey Gulch, Utah, two men were killed. The fruit preserving and canning estab lishment of the T. J. O. Shimmel Preserving Company, in Philadelphia, was destroyed by i fire.- Sister Anthony, of Cincinnati, says that General Sherman was baptized in the Catholic Church. The Savings Bank at Freeport, Pa , was broken into and robbed of money and valuable papers. Thos. Moore, of Franklin, Pa., in a fit of insanity, killed his wife. At Port Gibson, Mis., Dotlic Gibson killed her husband, Dave, in self-defence. Philip Lemhardt was arrested as.be was about to sail, for forgeries alleged to have been committed in Jersey City. In Sey mour, Ind., Charles Coryell killed hisbrother-in- law. Arthur Burdell. James Kives, a lawyer, of Macon, Miss., fa tally shot at that place Wm. Ford, of Boone villc, Miss. A number of train robbers have been arrested near Brownsville, Texas. The Otto Colliery, near Minersville, Pa. has been flooded. Edward H. Moore, of Macbiasport, Me., was gored by a bull , aud died.- The St. Louis sugar refinery will start April 1st. -The pontoon bridge over the Missouri river at St Charles, Mo., was carried away by the ice; loss $20,000. David J. Bryan, of Indianapolis, was robbed of $10,- 000 in a street car iu Cincinnati. The Nationalist party has made nominations for state officers in Rhode Inland. Trichinosis is spreading in Ida Grove, la. -James, George and Samuel McCombe were badly hurt by a boiler explosion at Albany, N. Y. tTwo Minneapolis census conspirators were fined. William P. Wells, a well known lawyer, dropped dead at Detroit -r-It is reported that valuable silver mines at Port Arthur, Ontario, have been bought by an an- glo American syndicate for $10,000,000. The Citizens' Rapid Transit Company, with a capital of $6,000,000, was incorporated in Chicago to construct and operate an elevated railroad. -C. A. Ueggelnod, president of the Second National Bank, ot McPhersou, , Kansas, who was mysteriously shot, and was supposed to have attempted suicide, makes a statement that he was fired upon by unknown parties. The bank examiner has taken charge of the bank, and its liabilities are about $250, 000. Rev. Robert F. Hopkins, for forty-six years active in the Methodi-t Episcopal Church work, died at his home in Sewickley, Pa. Aaron Schwenk, aged about eighty years, at Zeiglerville, Pa., wa found dead ly ing across a hot stove in his room, the flesh roasted to a crisp. He was a cripple, and 'it is supposed, fell on the stove and was unable to rise. Charles W. Croswell, aged thirty, son of ex-Governor Croswell, of Michigan, suicid ed with morphine in a room at a cheap hotel in Chicago, -Mrs. George R. Houghton, whose husband is a son ot a banker, tried to commitsuicide in Milwaukee by jumping in to the lake, General Sherman's eons ap plied for letters of administration upon his es tate, his personal estate not exceeding $2,500- Jonathan Scoville, ex-congressman and ex-mayor nf Buffalo, died in New York city. JIwo of the three men who held up a trais near Alila, Col., have been captured. Twc children of Hans Peter Jacobson, of Chicago, were suffocated by smoke in a burning house. Mrs. Fred. Neihausmyer, of Lima, O., drowned her babe and herself. Gambler George Hathaway, wbo killed ex-Alderran Whalen in Chicago, haa been sentenced to life imprisonment John Tucke, assistant paymaster of the Singer Sewing-Machine 'orapany, at Elizabeth, N. J., has been ar rested, charged with embezzlement. A ne- gress named Dayton, at Denver, Col, has confessed to the murder of James Wade. Rev. J. C. Fur man, D. D., one of the most prominent clergymen of the Baptist Church, and for many years president of the Furman University, in Greenville, S. C, died, aged eighty years. David Stern, auditor of tbe city and county of San Francisco, died sud denly at his residence from apoplexy. He was a California pioneer, and sixty-three years of age. A telegram was received in New York announcing the death of John H. Hall, the well-known railroad man, at Thomas ville, Ga, Mr. Hall went Sonth with Jay Gould a few weeks ago, but took ill and succumbed to an attack of pleurisy.- Tran sito Hurtarte, the widow of General Barrnh din, has filed a claim for one million dollars against this government for the loss of her husband's life. -A bill passed the . Penney U rania House of Representatives to tax , an. thracite coat lands for a relief .fund for injur ed miners. The South Dakota legislature has passed the Australian Ballot : law It now looks like the nine men on triad in New Orleans for the murder of Chief of Police Hennessy would all be convicted. The Secretary of State of Delaware has entered judgement against tha bond of ex-fcUate Treas urer Herbert. The securities are still missing The remains of Emma Abbott, the opera singer, were cremated in Pittfburg, and the ashes will be placed in a monument to be erected to her memory. ; 'Senator Spooked ' !I to have decline,! an offer f 2.1,h1. r , to f :ike CNiosso his home and becr-rue .ucitnr centra) for the C1-- '8go trl I- .'auk' Ila..i'tad. SCORES 1 LIVES LOST. The Whole Gila Valley In Arizen.. Under Water. Hundreds Were Drowned On t ef On Hundred sad Fifty Houses Only Fifty Are Left Standing. Yuma, Arizona, is a camp of distress. Out of 150 houses, composing the town, only 50 remain." ' The canals have been washed out, the ranches destroyed and the railroads are nmk r 'water. The loss in Yuma is half a million. . . The cemeteries are on high land and many people are camping in them. It is reported that a Mexican family, eight miles west, were drowned. One body, that of a man, floated past town. Tbe river is 14 miles wide. Many people are believed to be drowned jn the country, but no particulars have been re ceived. . . No word has been, received from farther than 10 miles from town, and it is feared thxt hundreds of lives have been lost up the Oilu Valley, whieh is 21)0 miles in length. Indian messengers have been sent out, but have not as yet returned. It is known that thousand of cattle, hoes and mules are drowned. The wires are all down east, and repairers could get only five miles east , Every house on the hills has been thrown open to receive the, homeless, and hundreds are quartered in tents aud the old govern ment buliuinirs. The merchants have opened tueir - goods on the streets in order to help the suf lerers. - The water is still high for 200 miles ent of Yuma, and as all of this must pas here many tear ithat the worst is yet to eoine, cepecinlly if there should beany further rain fall. The common loss has brought all classes of citizens together and all have worked with a wi.l, first iu trying to save the town by eon structing a rude levee, and, which eliort proved futile, in saving as much as possible iroin the ruius. A boat which has just arrived from Mohawk, CO miles up the Gila River, brings reports oi terrible loss of life, all the country being under water. The greatest sufferers are the poor Mexicans, whose entire possessions have been swept away and who have no reserves to tall back upon. There is yet a vast stretch ot territory to be heard lrom, and everyone iear that when the full returns are iu the loss ol life will prove an appalling magnitude. In Yuma the ruin has been most complete, the Cutuolic church being tbe only building left standing on the main street The convent aud adjoining school stood the wear of waves for many hours, but finally crumbled into ruins. . The Yuma Sentinel moved its office four times, and finally succeeded in getting oat on time. The Times was less fortunate, and its office and material went down in tne wreck. Fears were entertained that the fine railroad bridge would be carried away, but fortunately the piers stood the test, and unless some extra heavy wreckage should lodge on the super-tro-tnr and cause a jam it will not be mate, rially injured, . , j-ivik tne first intimation of danger every, jne .a ored with a will to save the town, even the luuians working as they never worked before. For hours they labored iu water waist deep on the levee, and when it was too late to save the town they followed wreckage and towed it to a place of safety. When it was evident that the main business potbn of me town must go, men, women and children busied themselves iu moving stocks of goods and household effects to the bill, where everything was left unguarded, the common danger rendering caution su pert uous. When tbe water rose so high as to cut off further access to houses and stores an effort was made to erect temporary shelters for the women and children. Dry guods boxes were looked upon as miniature cottages, and their possessors were deemed exceedingly fortunate, as most of those driven so hastily from their homes were obliged to content thenuelvs with mere wind-breakslmade of old blankets and carpets. In the rush ot tbe waters the steamer Motave was driven high and dry on the bank, and a dozen families have taken refuge, in her cabins. '; The officers of Fort Yuma have done every thing iu their power to assist the sufierersv and, fortunately, there was a good supply of tents on hand, aud these were at onee placed at the disposal of the homeless families and much su tiering thereby prevented. Should there be no further rainfall, it is hoped that there will be little further loss, aud that with the restoration of Communication with the West nufficient relief will be brought in from San Francisco and Los Angeles to preveut any serious trouble. The citizens of Yuma have already sub scribed over $2,500 to a relief fund, and Los Angeles has collected about $3,000 lor the same purpose. San Francisco merchants have subscribed liberally to the fund in that cay, and a dispatch from there states that a relief fund will be sent through as soon as the railroad is repaired. lUTY PERSONS KILLED. Two Express Trains Collide near Jlor hensk, In Rnsalsw . A horrible railway accident occurred near Morshansk, in the Government of Tambov. Two express trains eameintocollision, demol ishing tbe carriages of" both. Filly persons were killed outright and a larger number were seriously injured. The scenes about the wreck are described as sickening. 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