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PrBLISHED BT KOANOKB FCBLISHING Co.
C. V. W Acsbon, Busisisa Manager.
"FOR GOD. JJ'OR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.
. VOL. II.
PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1891.
NO. 40.
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PLEASURE'S FATAL COP.
Dr. Talmage Points Out the Peril
; , of Fatal indulgences.
. Subject ' " Baleful Ammementi."
,T.EX,T? the. youna intm. now arise
and play before us." II Samuel, 11., 14. .
-J Tbere.aro two armies encamped bv the
Too' of GtbeoD. The time hangs heavily on
1 their hands. One army proposes a came of
.r'fucine. Nothing could be more
, healthful and innocent. The other army ac
. cepts the-challenge. Twelve men against
. twelve men, tho .tport opens. But something
went adversely. Perhaps one of the swords
en got an unlncky clip, or in some way had
his ire aroused, ami that which opened , in
j sportfulnes ended in violence, each one tak
ing his contestant by the hair, and then with
the sword thrusting him in the side, so that
that which opened in innocent fun ended in
the massacre ofall the twenty-four sporte
. meif. Was there ever a better Illustration
of what was true then, and is true now, tha
that wbi;h is innocent may be mads de
: Btruotive? .;.
What of a worldly nature is mora im
portant and strengthening and innocent than
amusement, and yet what has counted more
, victims? I have no sympathy with a straight
jacket religion. TUia is a very bright world
to me, and I propose to do all I can to make
it bright for others.
I never could keep step to a dead march.
A book years ago issued says that' a Chris
tian man bas a right to some amusements.
For instance, if becomes home at night
. weary from his work, and feeling In need of
recreation, puts on his slippers, and goes into
his garret and walks lively round the floor
several times there can be no harm in it. I
believe the church of God has made a tre-
v , mendons mistake in trying to suppress the
Bportfu'ness of youth and drive out from
' men their love of amusement. If God ever
Implanted anything 'in ns he implanted this
! desire. . , ...,v- :f'V
. But instead of providing for this' demand
of our nature, the church of God has, for the
main part, ignored it. As in a riot, the
; mayor plants a battery at the end of the
. street, and has it fired off so that everything j
, is cut down that happens to stand in the --
range, the good as well as the bad, so there
.are men in the church who plant their bat
teries of condemnation and fire away indis- .
criminately. Everything is condemned.'
But my Bible commends those who use the
world without abusing it, and in the natural
world God has done everything to please and.'
amuse us. r In poetio figures we sometimes'
. epeak of natural objects as being in pain, '
. but it is a tnere fancy. Poets say the clouds
weep, but they never yet . shed a tear; and
, , the winds eight but they never did have
any trouble; and that the storm howls, but
, it never lost its tenipar. The world is a
rose, and the universe a garland. "I. -
'.. I am glad to know that in all onr cities
'there are plenty of places where we may find
elevated, moral entertainment. But all
honest men and good women will agree with
me in the statement that one of the worst
plagues of these cities is corrupt amusement.
Multitudes have gone down under the blast
ing influence never to rise. If we may judge -of
what is going on in many of the places of
amusement by the Sodomio pictures on'
board fences and ; in many of the show
windows, there is not a much lower depth of
profligacy to reach. At Naples, Italy, they
keep such , pictures locked up from indis
criminate inspection. These pictures were
' ' exhumed from Pompeii and are not fit for.
. public gaze. If the effrontery of bad places
of amusement in handing out improper ad
vertisements of what they are doing night
' by. night grows worse in the same propor-
two, in fifty years New York and Brooklyn
1 will beat not only Pompeii, but Sodom.
To help stay the plague now raging I pro-'
. ject certain principles by which you may .
judge in reeard to any amusement or re-
. creation, finding out for yourself whether it I
is right or whether it is wrong. A
L remark: in the cret place tnac you can
judge of tho moral character of any.amuse-
. ment by its healthful result or by its baleful
reaction. There are people who seem made
up of bard fact3. They are a combination of
s multiplication tables and statistics. If you
show them an exquisite picture they will be
gin to discuss the pigments Involved in the
coloring. If you show them a beautiful roso
they will submit it to a botanical analysis,
. which is only the post-mortem examination
of a flower. They have no rebound in their
naturo. They never .do apythingmore than
. smu'e, i There are no great tides of feeling ,
surging op from the depths of their soul in
billow alter billow of reverberating laugh-
ter. They seem as if nature had built them
by contract and made a bungling job of it ,
But, blessed be God, there are people in the
world who have bright faces, and whose life
is a song, an anthem a peean of victory.
Even their troubles are like the vines that
crawl up the side of a great tower.on the top
of which the sunlight sits, and the sott air
of summer hold perpetual carnival. 1 They
are the. people you like toiave come to your
house; they are the people I like to have
come to my house. If you but touch the
hem of their garments' you-are healed.
Now it is these exhilarant and sympathe-
tic and warm hearted people that are most
tempted to pernicious amusements. In pro
portion as a ship is swift it wants a strong
helmsman; in proportion as a horse is gay,
it wants a stout driver; and these people of
exuberant nature will do well to look at the
reaction of all . their amusements. If an
. . amusement sends you home at night nervous
so that you cannot sleep, and you rise up in
the morning, not because you are slept out,
but because your duty drags you from your
slumbers, you have been where you ought
not to have been. There ere amusements
, That send atuannext day to his work blood
6hoV yawning, 'Wubr&liausfiated; and they
.' are wrong kinds of amusement. . They are
entertainments that give a man disgust with,
the drudgery of life, with tcVls because they.
k are not swords, with WBrkingHprons because
they are notjrobes, with cattje because they '
are not infuriated bull.? of the arena,
If any amusement sends you home longing
for a life of romance and thrilling adventure,
love that, takes poisou and shoots itrelf,
moonlight adventures and hair breadth
Oj.pes, you may depend upoa it tliat you tfre
the racriflced victim of unsanctifled pleasure.
Our recreations are intended to tbuild hp, ,
, aud if they pull ns down as to our mojal or
as to our physical strength you may come to
tho conclusion that tboy are obnoxious, x
There is nothing more depraving than at
tendance uponjinwuseinents that are full of
inuaendo and low suggestion. ' The young
man eaters. At first he sits far back, with
bis bat on and his coat collar up, fearful that
fcoinebody there may know him. Several
night ptasson. He takej off his hat earlier
and puts bis coat collar down. The blush
that first came into bis cheek when anything
indecent was enacted cones no fcnore to his
cheek. Farewell, yourin iman! You have
probably started on tl9 long road which
ends in, cqBfcumivate destruction." ; The
stars of hope will po out one by one,
until you will be left in utter rtarknesa. Hear
you not the rush of the maelstrom, in whose
outer circle your boat now dances, making.
merry with the whirling waters? But you
are behiz drawn in, nwd the gentle motion
wil I ewrre terrific agitation. You cry lor
ht'ly. luvaiaj You ull at hs oar to put
back, but the straggle will not avail! You
will be tossed and dashed and shipwrecked
and swallowed in the whirlpool that has al
ready crushed in' its wrath ten thousand
hulks. . ; . .
, : Young men who have just come from
country residence to city residence will do
well to be on guard and let no one induce
you to places of improper amusement It
is mightily alluring when a young man.
long a citizen, offers to show a new comer all
around. .
Still further. Those amusements are wrong
which lead you into expenditure beyond your
means. Money spent in recreation is not
thrown away. It is all folly for us to come
from a place of amusement l'eeling that we
have wasted our money and time. You may
' by it have mads an investment worth more
than the transactions that yielded you hun-
orerts or thousands of dollars. But how many
properties have been riddled by costly
amusements. .
Tho first time I ever saw the city It was
the city of Philadelphia I was a mire lad. 1
stopped at a hotel, end I remember in the
eventide one of these men plied me with his
infernal art He saw I was green. He wautd
to show me the sight of the town. He
painted the path of sin until it looked Jike
emerald; but I was afraid of him. I shoved
back from the basilisk I made up my mind
he was a basilisk. I remember how he wheeled
his chair round in front of me, and with a
concentrated and diabolical effort attempted
iso destroy my soul; but there were good
angels in the air that night It was no good
resolution on my part, but it was the all en
compassing graco of a good God that deliv
ered me. Beware 1 beware! oh, young man.
"There is a way that seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof is death.".
The table has been robbed to pay the club.
The champagne has cheated the children's
wardrobe. The carousing party has burned
up the boy's primer. The tablecloth in the
corner saloon is in debt to the wife's faded
dress. Excursions that in a day make a tour
around a whole month's wages; ladies whose
lifetime business it is to "go shopping;"
large bets on horses have their counterpart
in uneducated children, bankruptcies that
shock the money market and appall the
church, and that send drunkenness stagger
ing across the richly figured carpet of the
mansion and dashing into the mirror and
drowning out the carol of musio with the
whopping of bloated sons como home to
break their old mother's heart
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XI saw a beautiful home, where the bell
rang violently late at night. The son had
been off in -sinful indulgencies. His com
rades ware bringing him home. They car
ried him to the door. They rang the bell at
1 o'clock in the morning. Father and mother
came down. They were waiting for the
wandering son, and then the comrades, as
soon as the door was opened, threw the
prodigal headlong into the doorway, crying:
"There be is, drunk as'-a fool. Ha, haP'
When men go into e-mueemonts they cannot
afford they first borrow what they' cannot
earn and then they steal what they cannot
borrow., First they go into embarrassment
and then into lying and then into theft;
and when a man gets as far on as that he
does not stop short of the penitentiary.
There is not a prison in the land where there
are not victims of unsanctifled amusements.
Merchants of Brooklyn or New York, it
there a disarrangement in yotir accounts?
Is there-a leakage in your money drawer?
Did not the last account come out right last
night? I will tell you. There is a young
man in your store wandering off into bad
amusements. The salary you give him may
meet lawful expenditures, but not the sinful
indulgences in which he has entered, and he
takes by theft that which you do not give
him in lawful salary.
How brightly the path of unrestrained
amusement opens. The young man says:
"Now I am off for a good time. Never mmd
economy. I'll get money somehow. What
a fine road! what a beautiful day for a
ride! Crack the whip, and over the turn
pike! Come, boys, fill high your glasses.
Drink! Lonj; life, health, plenty of rides just
like this I Hard working men hear the clat-,
tap nt thn hoof and look ud and sav. " Whv,
1 wonder where thoso fellows get their
money from? We have to toil and drudge,
l'V. An. nnfhlnir Tn thoM trav ITintl lif
All? uiruuiMp,' w " r- J
is a thrill aud an excitement. 1 hey stare at
other people, and in turn are stared at The
watch chain jingles. The cup . foams.
The cheeks flush. Their eyes flash.
The . midnight ' hears - their guffaw.
They swagger. They jostle decent . men
off the sidewalk. They take the name
of God in vain. They parody the hymn they
learned at their mother's knee; and to all
fiictures .of coming disaster . they .cry out,
'Who cares f and to the counsel- of some
Christian friend, "Who areyou?"
Passing along the street some night you
bear a shriek in a grog -shop, the rattle of
the watchman's club, the rush of the police.
What is the matter now? Ob, this reckless
young man has been killed in a grogshop
right Carry bim home to his father's house.
Parents will come down and wash his
wounds and close his eyes In death. - They
forgive bim all he ever did, although he can
not in his silence ask it. The prodigal has
got home at last Mother will go to her
little garden and get the sweetest flowers,
and twist them into a chaplet for the silent
heart of the wayward boy and push back
from the bloated brow the long locks that
were once her pride, and the air will be rent
with the agony. The great dramatist says:
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to
have a thankless child." ' ,
I go further, and say these are unchristian
amusements which become the chief business
of a man's life. ' Life is an earnest thing.
Whether we were born in a palace or hovel,
whether we are affluent or pinched, we have
to work. If you do not sweat with toil, you
will sweat with disease. Yon have a eoul
that is to be transfigured amid tha pomp of
a judgment day; and after the sea has sung
its last chant and the mountain shall have
come down in an avalanche of a rock, you
will live and think and act, high on a throne
where seraphs sing, or deep in a dungeon
where demons bowl. In a world where there
is so much to do for yourselves, and so much
to do for others, God pity that man who has
nothing to do. .
Your sports are merely means to an end.
They are alleviations and helps. Tho arm of
toil is the only arm strong enough to bring
up the bucket out of tha deep well of pleas
ure. Amusement is only the bower where
business and philanthropy rest while on thair
way to stirring achievements. Amusoments
are merely the vines that grow about the
anvil of toil and the blossoming of the hann
mers. Alas for the man who spends his life
in laboriously doing nothing, his days iu
hunting up lounging places and loungers,
bis nights in seeking out some gas lighted
foolery! The man who always has on his
,sporting jacket, ready to hunt for game in
the mountain or fish in the brook, with no
itirae to pray or work or read, is not no well
!off as the greyhound that runs by his side, or
the fly bait with which le whips the stream. y
i A man who does not work does not know
bow to play. If God had intended us to dor
Inothing but laugh He would not have given
us shoulders with which to lift and hands
Iwith which to work, and brains wiih which
;to think. The amusements of life are mere
ly the orchestra playing while the great
I Infancy, childhood, -manhood, old age and
'death. Then exit the last earthly opportun
ity. Enter the overwhelming realities of an
ieiernal world J
itrageay or auepiunges icrousu uo tw
I I go further, and say that aU those amuse
ments are wrong which lead Into bad oom-
Eany. If you go to any place where you
ave to associate with the intemperate, with
the unclean, with the abandoned, however
well they may be dressed, in the name of
God quit it TheywiU despoil your nature.
They will undermine your moral character.
They will drop you when you are destroyed.
They will give not one cent to support your
children when you are dead. They will weep
;not one tear at your burial. They will
chuckle over your damnation.
I I had a friend at the west a rare friend.
He was one of the first to welcome me to his
new home.. To fine personal appearance be
added a generosity, frankness and ardor of
nature that made me love him like a brother.
But I saw evil people gathering around him.
They came up from the saloons, from the
gambling bells. They plied him with a thou
sand arts. They raized upon his social na
ture, and he could not stand the charm.
They drove him on the rocks, like a ship full
winged, shivering on the breakers. I used
to admonish him. I would say, "Now I
wish you would quit these bad habits and
become a Christian ." "Oh," he would reply,
"I would like to. I would like to, but I have
gone so far I don't think there is any way
back." In his moments of repentance he
would go home and take his little girl of
eight years, and embrace her convulsively,
and cover her with adornments and strew
around ber pictures and toys and every thing
that could make her happy; and then, ai
though bounded by an ovil spirit, he would
go out to the enflaming cup and the house ol
shame, like a fool to the correction of th
stocks. .
I was summoned : to his deathbed . J
hastened. 1 entered the room. I found him
to my surprise, lying In full every day dress
on the top of the clothes. I put out my hand.
He grasped it excitedly and said, "Sit down,
Mr. Talmasre, right here." I sat down. He
said: "Last night I saw my mother, who has
been dead twenty years, and she sat just
where you sit now. It was no dream. I was
wideawake. There was no delusion in the
matter. I saw her just as plainly as I see
you. Wife, I wish you would take thosa
strings off of me. There are strings spun
all around my body. I wish you would
take them off of me." I saw it was de
lirium. . .
"Oh," replied his wife, "my dear, there fa
nothing there,' there in notbi g there." He
went on, and said : "Just wtere you sit, Mr.
Talmage, my mother sat She said: 'Henry,
I do wish you would do better.' I got out or
bed, put my arms around her, and said,
'Mother, I want to do better. . I have been
trying to do better. Won't you help me to
do better? You used! to help me.' No mis
take about it. No delusion. I saw her the
cap, and the apron, and the spectacles, just
as she used to look twenty years ago; but I
do wish you would take these things away.
They annoy me so. I can hardly talk.
Won't you take them awayf ' X knelt down
and prayed, conscious of the fact that he did
not realize what I was saying. I got up. I
said. "Good-by; I hope your will be better
soon." He said, "Good-by, good-by."
That night his soul went to the God who
gave it ; Arrangements were made for the
obsequies. Some said, "Don't bring him in
the church; he was too dissolute." "Oh," I
said, "bring him. He was a good friend
of mine while he was alive, and I shall stand
by him now that he Is dead. "Bring him to
the church."
As I sat in the pulpit and saw his body
coming up through the aisle I felt as if I
could weep tears of blood. . I told the people
that day: "This man had bis virtues, and a
good many of them. He had his faults, and
a good many of them, but if there is any man
in this audience who is without sin let him
cast the first stone at this coffin lid." On one
side the pulpit sat that little child, rosy,
sweet faced, as beautiful as any little child
that sat at your table this morning,
I warrant you. She looked up wist
fully, not Knowing the full sorrows
of an orphan child. Oh, ber coun
tenance haunts me to-day like some sweet
face looking upon us through a horrid dream.
On the other side of the pulpit were the men
who had destroyed him. . There they sat,
hard visaged, some of them pale from ex
hausting disease, sotneof them flushed until
it seemed as if the fires of iniquity flamed
through the cheeks and crackled the lips.
They were the men who had done the work.
They were the men who had bound him band
and foot. They had kindled the fires. They
had pourod the wormwood and gall into that
orphan's cup. Did they weep? No. Did
they6igh repentingly? No. Did they say:
"What a pity that Buch a brave man should
be slain?" No, so: not one bloated band was
lifted to wipe a tear from a bloated cheek.
They sat and looked at the coffin like vul
tures gazin? at the carcass of a lamb whose
heart they had ripped out ! ; I cried in their
ears as plainly as I could: "There is a God
and a judgment day!" Did they tremble?
Oh, no, no. They went back from the house
of God, and that night, though their victim
lay in Oak wood Cemetery, I was told that
they blasphemed, and they drank, and they
gambled, and there was not one less
customer in all the houses of iniquity. This
destroyed man was a Samson in physical
strength, "but. Delilah sheared him, and the
Philistines of evil companionship dug his
eyes out and threw him . into the prison of
evil habits. But in the hour of his death he
rose up and took hold of the two pillared
curses of God against drunkenness and un
cleanness, and threw himself forward, until
down upon .him and his companions there
came the thunders of an eternal catastrophe.
Again, any amusement that gives you a
distaste for domestic life is bad. How many
bright domestic circles have been broken up
by sinful amusements ! The father went off,
the mother went off, the child Went off.
There are to-day the fragments before me of
blasted households. Oh, if you have wan
dered away, I would like to charm you back
by the sound of that one word, "home." Do
you not know that you have but little more
time to give to domestic welfare? Do you
not see, father, that your children are soon
to go out into the world, and all the influence
for good you are to have over them you must
have now ? Death will break in on your con
jugal relations, and, alas! if you have to
stand over the grave of one who perished
from your neglect! :
I saw a wayward husband standing at the
deathbed of his Christian wife, and I saw her
point to a ring on her finger, and heard her
say to her husband, "Do you see that ring?"
He replied, "Yes. 1 see it." "Well," said
she, "do you remember who put it there?"
"Yes," said he, "I put it there," and all the
past seemed to rush upon him. By the mem
ory of that day when, in the presence of men
and angels, yoti promised to be faithful in
joy and sorrow, and in sickness and in health ;
by the memory of those pleasant hours when
you sat together in your new home talking
of a bright future; by the cradle and the
joyful hour when our life was spared and
another Riven; by that sick bed, when the
little one lifted up the voice and called for
help, and you knew be must die, he put one
arm around each of your necks and brought
you very near together in that dying kiss; by
the little grave in Greenwood that you never
think of 'without a rush of tears; by the
family, Bible, where, amidst rtones of
heavenly love, is the brief but expressive
record of births and deaths; by the neglects
of the past and by the agonies of the future:
bv a judgment day, when husbands ana
vjves, parents and children, in immortal
groups, will stand to be caught up in sb icing
array or to shrink down into dm knes; by
all that, I beg you to give to home your best
affections.
Ah, my friends, there is an hour coming
when our past life will probably pass before
us in review. It will be our last hour. . If
from our death pillow we have to look back
and see a life spent in sinful amusement
there will be a dart that will strike through
our soul sharper than the dagger with which
Virginius slew his child. The iniquities and
rioting through which we have passed will
come upon us, weird and skeleton as Meg
Merrilies. Death, the old Shylosk, will de
mand and take the remaining pound of
flesh, and the remaining drop of blood, and
upon our last opportunity for repentance,
and our last chance for heaven the curtain
' wiU forever drop.
APPROPRIATIONS COMPARED.
The Expenditures of Fiftieth and Fifty,
flrat Congresses Fat Side Iy Side. '
Before the Fifty-first Congress adjourned
authority was given Senator Allison and Mr.
Cannon, chairmen respectively of the Senate
and House committees on appropriations, to
prepare statements for insertion in the Record
showing the amounts appropriated by the
last Congress and the increases and decreases
of appropriation compared with the Fiftieth
Congres. ' . , '
These statements have been carefully pre
pared, and show indetajl how ,'the public
money has been expended. i '
" The statement prepared by Mr. Cannon
shows the amount appropriated during the
Fiftieth and Fifty-firi.t Congrees under the
several bills to have been ns follows:
Title.
50th Congress.
1st Congrens.
f4.827.253 50
48,820,000 98
Agricultural
Army - -
3,3S.5,780 K)
4S,"i7,915 73
Diplomatic
. niiu consul
ar Dist. of Col
umbia -"
Fortification
Indian -
LeL'ilnturetc
3,408,493 CO
. 10,728,820 23
fi,20o,olU (K)
16,341,154 IS
'41,601,793 88
1.217,810 50
41,635,345 62
3,367,740 CO
11,366,669 33
8,1)07,738 00
23,648,300 88
43,058,427 00
'' 837,360 75
5,677,690 31
Military Acad
emy - -Navy
- -Pennions
(in
eluding de
ficietieies) r
Posttoniee
175,01 7.4SO 00
127,465,678 02
288,320,751 69
150,133,921 60
25,136,285 00
r 67,148,648 21
lllvcr and
1 vr
imroor -Sundry
Civil
22,397,616 90
51,618,143 49
Deficiencies!.
(exclusiveofi
pensions)
Miscellaneous
Perm n nen tan
nujil appro
priations 24,333.901 &V.
20,426,657 84
22,667,636 94
.11,267,436 37
224,331.864 65
224,115,261 00
Total -
$S17,963,859 80 l$9S8,4 10,129 55
Net apparent increase, $170,446,269 75.
Mr: Cannon in an appendix to this table,
says that there should be added to the appro
priation of the Fiftieth Con gr ess and deducted
from the appropi intions of the Fifty-first Con
gri'rs the sum of $25,321,907 to meettheknown
deficiency lor payment of pensions in theap.
proprintions made by the former congress.
Chairman Allison in . his statement gives
fomewlmt in detail the reasons which oper
ated in the several appropriation acta to in-,
crense expenditures authorized by the present
Congress over those of its predecessor.
f ELTON WINS THE FIQT.
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He Will Succeed the Late Senator Hearst,
of California.
j A despatch from Sacramento, Cal, says:
The ballot on which Charles N. FeJton was
elected V. S. Senator was the eighth taken in
joint convention of the legislature.' The
(ballot on the first roll-call stood: Estee, 40;
.Felton, 40; Johnson, 4; Hancock, 4; Blanchard,
1. Twenty-three Democrat votes were cast
Jfor White. Before the vote was announced a
number of changes were made to Felton, and j
finally it became a stampede, which, when
once begun, was complete, and the ballot was
announced as follows: Estee, '15, Felton, 73;
Johnston, 1; Hancock, 4; White (Dem.,) 24.
The conventUn then adjourned sine die.
Hon. Charles N. Felton was born in Erie
county, N. Y., in 1832. Before he had a
chance to complete his eduoation be took the
California gold lever, and in 1849, when only
seventeen years of age. made bin way to the
hi Dorado, aud worked lor a time at mining
nt Marysville. He soon went into politics,
becoming under sheriff of Yuba county in
18:6. The next year he was elected tax
collector of the same county, and was then
sent to the lower house of the legislature, in
whi.h he served two terms. - Subsequently he
was appointed nssistaut treasurer of the
United States mint at San Franeisco, and was
dually promoted to the treasorership of that
institution, with which he was connected
altogether for six years. Ic 1884 he was made
the Republican candidate lor Congress in the
Filth district, embracing part of the city of
San Francisco, and the three adjacent coun
ties to the kouth. He was elected by 1,300 j
iimjority over F. J. Sullivan, Democrat, and
in 1886 was re-elected over the same opponent
by the narrow plurality of 119 votes. He re
tired from the House in March, 1889, not
having received the nomination tor a third
term, aud a Democrat was eisjQsd his suc
cessor by 51 plurality.',
TORTURED BY WHITECAPS.
A Farmer and His Son Tied to a Fence
In the Cold. ,
David Handy, a farmer . living with his
sons, near Piper, a small station sixteen miles
northwest of Kansas City, Mo., came before
County Attorney McGrew, . of Wyandotte
county, and related a startling tale of a visit
from "Wbitecaps." He said that four men
chopped down the door of. his house, seized
himself and his eldest son, bound them to a
fence in their night clothes and then wrecked
the house. They tore oil the root of the house,
smashed in the windows, broke off the door
and destroyed the furniture.
Having completed their work they left
Handy and hie eldest son tied to the fence,
notwithstanding the night was bitter cold,
and taking the youngest boy, made him walk
in the snow with bare feet to a point half a
mile distant, where they set him. free. The
hoy rrturued home, and released his father
and brother. -
Handy iiys he identified the men S. S.
Barker, T, Casbman, F. Overton and T.J.
Swallow, all prominent farmers of Piper and
Emmett, which is near Piper, who have been
arrestee. Handy says he knows of no cause
tor the outrage, except that he has been iu
litigation over a larm lease for some time. .
GRAST first held the rank of general. The
title wa never conferred on Washington,
though Congrtss atone time voted to oiler it
to him.
THE NEWa
rY5sT3nt Magulre, James Hughes, chair
man of the executive committee, and Walter
8. Westbi'jok,' secretary of the Clothing
Cutters' Union, have been arrested on the
charge of extorting mouey from clothing
firms, a sample letter written to L. Adler,
Bros. & Co., of Rochester, N. Y., showing their
methods.- The cotton receipts ol Savannah
for t he present season have reached one
million bales. Secretary of War Proctor,
Attorney General Miller,' General Scbofield
and other government officials were enter
tained by Admiral Walker on board the
cruiser Chicago ad Tampa. The extensive
works of the Elizabethport Cordage Company,
at Elizabctb, N. J., were burned. Loss
$700,000, and 600 employes thrown out of
work. Incendiaries fired a tenement house
in New York, and three persons were burned
to death and a number injured. Celestine
Kaltencack, the oldest postmaster in the
United States, died in Dubuque, la. Spread
ing rails caused a serious wreck on the Little
llock and Fort Smith Railroad, near Ozark,
Mo., in which a number of passengers were
injured. -An epidemic of diphtheria pre
vails among childreu in Heckscherville
Valley, Pa.,' and fifteen deaths have already
occurred. -A locomotive drawing affreight
train on the Norfolk and Western Railroad
exploded, killing the fireman. Michael
Mullen was arrested in Philadelphia on the
charge ot inflicting fatal injuries upon his
wife. Hatiie Juent, a nurse girl in the
employ of the family of Albert J. Snell, Chi-
cago, is under arrest, a suspicious white
powder having been discovered in Mrs. Snell 's
medicine and some of the ladies property
found in the girl's trunk.-- Italians in Cali- j
Jornia-and Chicago are aroused about the
New Orleans murder. Levi M. Eberhardt,
tax cjllevtor at Lockhat en, Pa., was arrested
in Chicago for using $1,000 of the town's
money. The Brotherhood of Carpenters, in
Chicago, threaten to strike April L J. A.'
Simpkinson & Co., a shoe firm in Cincinnati,
f tiled; liabilities $400,000; assets $300,000.
A blust, fired at Lookout Mountain, Tenn.,
destroyed two hundred yards of a railroad
track. The latest despatches (rom Gibraltar
state that 576 lives were lost in the finking of
the steamship Utopia in Gibraltar Bay. The
steamer went down five minutes after the
British ironclad's sharp ram pierced her side.
When the Utopia left Naples she had 880
souls on board, including1 passengers and
crew, only 304 of whom were saved. The
Anchor Line Steamship Company's agents in
New York, have advices which fput the loss
of lile at about oue hundred less that the
(Gibraltar despatches. t "
Henry Abeling, an actor, committed sui
cide iu New York. Gowan, the Salvation.
Army pedestrian, was seized with a fit of in
sanity while walking in Madison Square Gar
den. Chicago is in the grasp of, the grip.
The Royal Adelphi, a beneficial organisa
tionwill have its affairs wouud up by a re
ceiver.' George Scbwartx & Co., private
bankers, of Louisville, have failed. Barnes
who was arrested for Tascott, in South Dakota,
has been discharged. George Sims, a des
perate character, was killed in Pite Bloff,
Ark. Bridget Ryan was beaten to death by
her husband, James, in Boston.- Louis Mc
Pherson, wanted for grand larceny in Ohio,
was captured in Chicago.- After eating
of some meat, James , N. Nolen, of Pittsburg,
died of what appeared to be arsenical poisoning.-
Several working men in Braddock.Pa.,
were set upon by strikers and severely hurt.
-William J. P. White, postmaster under
President Taylor's administration, died in
Philadelphia. Dr. S. S. Rathoon, state en-
tomologistof Pennsylvania,isdead. James
Dobbs, of Chattanooga, Tenn., shot and killed
his son-in-law, Bud Gossett. A seven-year-old
ron of William E. Ridout, of Bordentown,
N. J., was killed by drinking a tumblerful
of whiskey. . -t- .
A. Minor Grlswold. editor of Texas Sittings
ind well-known as a humorist, died at Sbe
ooygan Falls, Wis. Chicago Republicans
Dominated Hempstead Washbourne, son . of
Minister Washburne, for mayor. Several
blocks of valuable buildings in Syracuse, N.
Y., were burned, entailing heavy lotses. One
nan perished and the occupants of the Van
ierbilt House and a large apartment house
made narrow escapes. The United States
iteamship Galena and the United States tug
Nina went ashore during the gale off Vine
yard Haven. Two thousand indignant citi-
cens ot New Orleans broke into the foil and
lynched eleven of the nineteen Italians of the
Mafia Society who had been indicted for "the
issassination of Chief Hennessey. The Ital
ian Minister at Washington, under cabled in
ductions from his government, called on '
Secretary Blaine and protested against the
killing of his icounfrymen, and demanded
protection for other Italians in New Orleans.
Mr. Blaine immediately telegraphed Govern
r Nichols, of Louisiana, to take steps to have
ihe Italians in New Orleans protected.
Michael Thill, a German tailor, of Washing
ton, died from a dose of carbolic acid. -Secretary
Proctor visited St. Francis "Bar
racks, at St Augustine, Fia. Laura Pur
nell, a middle-aged woman, was found dead
with a babe lying near . her body, crying.
There are suspicions of foul play. A mail
train on the Atlantis coast line was derailed,
near Richmond, Va., but none of the passen
gers seriously hurt -Idaho has appropriated.
20,000 for the World's Fair. Dr. Flood's
brick block, in Chicago was burned; Ices
$50,000. The Cincinnati Iron , and Steel
Company made an assignment; assets $50,000;
liabilities $65,000, The Lippineott Lamp
Chimney Company's glass factory, atFindlay.
O, was burned; loss $40,000. Henry Nohru
was killed and Charles Krueger seriously
hurt by a boiler explosion near Green Bay,
Wis. Wm. H. Crawford was hanged at the
Macon county (111.) jail.
Gkorgb Vandiebilt's castle in North
Caroline will require ten years of labor and
Sheexpenditure olfromfSOoO,(X)Oto$10,lHK).'AC
Mere it is completed,
TBADE OF THE WEEK.
A Brighter Outlook Generally 0 r
the Entire Country.
Blast Furnaces Torn Ont a Itcdaced
Amount The Steel Rail Combina
tion and Its Effect en Prices.
The movement of general trade throughout
the country has been somewhat irregular, as
reported to Eradstreet't. The roost striking
gain is noted iu pig iron, production of which,
owing to strikes, heavy rail rate and a de
clining demand, has been curtailed 50,000 tons,
weekly, as compared with the output three
months ago. At Western centers the late re
vival ia the demand continues, and there is
increased strength at Philadelphia and New
York. No special advance appears likely in
the near future after the enormous output of
189J, and with prospect for only moderate
mil way extension.
Steel, rails are firmer now that the milt
which refused to combine on prices has hvett
consolidated with its principal competitor.
The industrial situation is quiet, especially
in coal mining, though fewer miners are idle
than last week. ,
15 THE OTHER TRADES.
The building trade outlook is less favorable
at Chicago, Philadelphia and Milwaukee. A
contest is promised in the clothing trade
Rochester. '
Leather and hides are firmer at Boston, and
the latter are higher. Lumber, too, is more
active, and rubber prices teud upward. At
Philadelphia woolen spinners report an im
provement in the demand. At New Orleans
the movement ot staples has been active not
withstanding high water, threatened floods,
and washouts of railways throughout Louisi-
ana. Kansas City reports a brisk movement
iu wholesale lines, while Omaha merchnnti
are evidently cautious to prevent overstock
ing by their customers. Hog products have
been in active request and pib-rs are higher.
At Wefteru live stock markets, cattle ari
10c and hogs 12o higher. Refined sugar is off
ic, duty paid, being in lets active demand,
v Business failures in the United States this
week number 200, against 23L last week, and
2i9 this week last year. The total, January
1st, to date, is 2V53, against 2967 last year.
BANK CLEARINGS.. . :
Bank clearing at fifty-six cities for the
week are (999,767,548, a decrease from thii
week last year of 10-6 per cent New York
city's clearings, are 16.1 per cent less than for
the like period last year. At fifty-five other
cities, the loss is 7.10 of 1 per cent .
There is no activity, but aA better feeling
regarding the financial situation and the
favorable outlook in regard to the crops and
railroad earnings tends to sustain values.
Money generally throughout the country is
moderately active, with rates not materially
chauged from last year. vy
Reports to Bradslreet'i from twelve chief
wheat producing States east of the Rocky
Mountains, and three on the Pacific coast,
indicate a probable total of wheat ia fanners
hands two weeks ago of about 104,000,000
bushels. This points to smaller stocks of
visible and invisible, 6,000,000 bushels less
than on March I in any of the preceding
seven years. It i ulso calculated that.only
37,000,000 bushels of wheat remained lor ex
port and reserves, both coasts, on March 1.
alter allowing 118,000,000 bushels lor home
requirements to July 1 next
, GAIN IS RAILWAY EARNINGS. -
Gross railway earnings for February show
a 'gain over February last year in spite of
reduced traffic on the trunk lines, smaller
eereal crop movement, and floods on several
central Western roads. All Pacific roads but
one show gains and account for oU per cent of
total gaiu. . v s s
EXPORTS OF WHEAT. y ;
' Export of wheat have fallen off on ; the
Pacific Coast, but are larger in the aggregate,
2,091,684 bushels (wheat and flour as wheat,)
both coasts, against 3,007,030 bushels exported
in the like week last year. Shipments from
the United States ports only, from July 1 to
March 12, equal 6.5,26 1,235, against 77,296,691
iu a like share of 1889-90. - .
There is a demand for Pacific Coast bread
stuffs .from the wet coast ot iSouth America
and at San Francisco, where wheat is now
firm at 90o per bushel. ; .
CHICAGO HAS THE GRIP.
The Hospitals, Crowded With Patients.
Every Line of On tineas Suffers, .
Chicago is in the grasp of the grip. The
disease seems to be more prevalent than it
was any time last year. It strikes all classes
6f society. The residents of, the fashionable
avenues aud the denizens in the tenements of
the poor alike suffer from its ravages. It is
felt in every line of business. Five hundred
men employed on the West . Side street car
system are laid off with the epidemic, and
the company is badly handicapped for help.
The South Side Company hus 125 men on the
sick-list The North Side Company has
about 75 men out, white many of those nt
work are suffering Irom the disease in a mild
form. The large downtown stores are having
a like experience. In one store, employing
150 clerks 40 are sick. Ten per cent, of the
police force is laid up, and 60 men in the fire
department are off. Fiity ont or 150 mail
carriers in the postofllce are suffering. All of
the hospitals are overcrowded. About fifty
snfferers applied for admission to the County
Hospital yesterday, and nearly ,as many the
day before. This institution is full and many
of the patienta are compelled to accept ac
commodations on the floor. There is scarcely
a boardiog-house in this eity, it is said, but
has from one to five persons laid up with the
disease. It has invaded the hotels, and fully
on.-thrd of the guest are ill. To make mat
ters vdrse for them, many of the managers
and hotel employees are alsd sufferers, and
there is such a dearth of help that ome of
the guests, by their own request, have been
sent to the hospitals. There are large num
bers of grip sutterers in private houses all
over the city, and the doctors are kept busy,
night and day.
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Awful Pats of Two Miners at Gtrat-4.
viU, P. '
A premature explosion of powder occurred
at the Beiulie coliiery, (iinmlriHe, instantly
killing William Mulnern and Riclwrd Crad
dock and seriously injuring Hoiuo Belfeaand
Owen Martin.
Mu'hern aud CradJock wert blown to
atoms.
The men had drilled a h'ile. ;iied it!)
powder and were Migiued in tamping if, vUm
it spark flw otfthedrdl, ifcfiiiiu tiiejwftf'T
no-i CiUM'Jif the eiplodju.