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PLYMOUTH,' N. 0., FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1891.
NO. 50.
THE NEWEL
Mrs. Mary Frances Halford, wife of E. W.
ITalford, private secretary of President Har
rison, died at her apartments nt the Elsmere,
Washington.- The President was enthusi
astlcally received and entertained at Chat-
tonooga and Atlanta and point along the
line to the latter city Lookout Mountain
, was visited, and other battle-fields were seen.
-- Fira did considerable damage in Albany,
N. Y. -The Hickory Ridge mine a Shamov
kin, Ph., resumed work.' Shad weighing
six pounds have been caught in the Upper
Delaware river. Arthur Zepp was given
two years in the West Virginia penitentiary
for burglaries along the line of the B. & 0,
Judge Fitzgerald (leniei a motion to quash
theindictraentsagainstWilliamH. M. Sistare
and , Harold Clemens, of New York, the
brokers who are charged with swindling a
Philadelphia broker. A mob near Barton,
W. Va., took from their home at midnight the
three daughters of Henry Church and a hired
man, beat' 'them 'unmercifully, .and then
burued down , the house.- The Carlisle
Presbytery : passed -: strong resolutions
against the teachings of Rev. Dr. Briggs, of
Union Theological Society, and also against
deaconesses. --The remains of General Spin
ola were take from Washington to New York,
where they will be buried. Indians in
Turtle Mountains are giving some trouble.
Dr. Arthur Yokes ' committed "' suicide at
Chicago.- Dr. Andrew D. White, ex-president
of Cornell, has been appointed to be non
resident nrofessor of history in the Stanford
' Unlversity.----lIana , Peterson J was robbed
and killed a Mason City, Iowa. 7-T. Mar--
' tin wns arrested at Dover, N. II., charged
with embezzling $50,000 worth of stock from
Adolph Meyers & Co., of Boston. Judge
Garrett S. Van Wagener died at St. Louis,
aged sixty-eight. Samuel Gompers spoke
on the eight-hour question at Pittsburg.
Spotted fever has caused a number of deaths'
at Mesqnite, Texas The wife of Congress-
: man John W. Chandler died atSl. Augustine,
ine nrst Western estates Commercial Con
, gress began at Kansas Cjty,' A letter was read
from President Harrison, in which he ex
pressed his yif ws very plainly on the money
question.- The shoddy mill of Raspert 4
Co., Camden, N. J.; was burned; loss, $5,000.
. -James II.' Arnold, a well-known citizen of
Vienna, 111., was Assassinated while walking
along the public road. JJurk Stanley and his
eon Edward have been arrested. In a quar
rel iollowfng a game of "freeze but" in A
snlbon in Cincinnati, Jos. Hughes, the bar
keeper, shot and killed Frank Bell, a former
uun ymjer, anu now a private policeman.
Darius Gofl's, proprietor of Goffs' braid mills,
and union wadding works nt Providence, R. I.
largely interested in business ' in Montreal
'and the South, is dead. Thelcottonseed oil
mill at Natcheloclies, La., was burned; loss
525,000. The Llano Iron and Coal fields, in
Texas, have been purchased by the wakefield
syndicate, of Chicago. , The cash considera
tion was $500,000. The company was capital
ized at a million. The Welland Canal will
k. ta.J ? -- ! il . A . . f t nn .
'.o vcii' u. lor navigation on Aprii zu. ah
'early morning fire in the East End of Pitts
burg destroyed three acres of sheds at the
Mock yards and cremated 137 head of cattle;
loss $40,000. -Miss Emma Xeete, aged
twenty-five ycr.rs, was trampled to death at
Uuiliord, Ct., by a vicious horse. The
Gould lines were not represented at the meet
ing, in Chicago', of t'.ie Western' traffic Asso-'
ciation, which will now likely be dissolved.
7--Otto Mears, president of the Rio Grande
Southern Railroad, and several members of
the Colorado State Senate,' have been indicted
for1 bribery. President McGrath, of the
Farmers' Alliance, Is urging, the Southern
alliances to desert the Democratic party, and
organize an independent partv. ,
Count Kefnhoirt A. Lewenimupt, who only
twelve days ago was married to Miss Ellen,
the youngest daughter of Hon. Thomas F.;
Bayard, died at their home, in Wilmington,'
Del.,'of typhoid Jever. General Green B.
Raum, United States Commissioner of Pen
sions, is ill in Chicago with the grip. The
alcon -keepers of Burlington, Iowa, revolted
against the prohibitory law, and a crowd of
them beat a, county constable who was serv
ing a warrant on one of their number. In
dians killed twounknowu white emigrants at
Black foot, Idaho. -Henry K. Peffer, pro-;
prie'tor of the Sentinel, published at Carlisle,
Pa., died at the age. of sixty-three years.
Minority- stockholders uf the Ear a Rubber,
Shoe Company, of Boston, havo petitioned for.
a receirer, alleging fraud and the insolvency
at the firm. The Interstate Commission de
cided i favor of the Delaware and Virginia
truckmen in their complaint against freight
charges by the ruilroads. -A priest named .
McGoven was suHncated in mud, at Newport,
,Ky. The Brooke Woolen M ill, at Pomefoy,
Pa., was destroyed by fire; loss, $30,000.-
The Franklin Lumber; Company's property,
at Norfolk, Va., was burned; loss, $2,000.
$250,000 worth of property in Elizabeth, N. J.,
was destroyed, by fire; -Ex-jfayor P. W.
Kenyon, died at Odelly HI. rOaoar Lee' was '
fatally hurt in a'rftt in St.'Louis. Two
military posts near San Antonia will be
abandoned. Fire .-' did $55,000 damage u
Pittburg. W. E. Brown, a fireman, wjs
hurt in a railroad accident near Yanport, Tjt.
Two other railroad men were slightly hurt
Bishop Richard Gilmour, of Cleveland,
Ohio, died in St. Angustine, Florida. Bos
ton painters ' have struck, lor $3 a day.
Five hoys of a party of twelve crossing the
river at St. Louis in a skiff, were drowned by
their frail bout, being caught in an eddy and
capsized.--A hail storm near Torreon,
Mexico, nearly wrecked a train. One Mexi
can was killed. By an explosion of a tank
on a steamer from Philadelphia for Havana
the first engineer and a watchman was killed.
Th Dominion Commisnioner denies the
charges that large quantities of sugar have
been smuggled into Canada.
The daughters of the Princess ofWales
are nd to be sitile to go into the kitohen and
cook a rjieal's victuals, bwt iher never do it,
SOUTHERN ITEMS. ,
IJfTKKESTING NEWS COMPILED
- FnOM MANY SOURCES.
The Mnsons of Snlera, Roanoke county, Va.,
will erect a temple to cost $10,000.
If is seid the Farmers' Alliance member
ship in West Virginia uow aggregate 27,000.
A bonrd of trade has been organized at
Sulem, V a., with W. B. Towels as president.
The commissioner of revenue of Roanoke,
Vn., estimates the population of that city at
,22,500. . ' ,
The Atlantic Land Company of South Nor
folk, Va., has purchased the Dodge farm for
160,000. . .." 1
The police commissioners of Roanoke, Va.,
found a policeman $60 for taking a drink of
whiskey whilst on duty.
The contract has been awarded for the con
struction, of a railroad from Fincastle to a
point on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad in
Virginia. V-' . - . ' .. ;
Miss Cora V. Diehl, who has been'elected
recorder of deeds for Logan county, Ala., is
twenty-one years old, and commenced making
greenback speeches at the age of sixteen.
Near Oneonta, Blount county, Ala., Ed
Strange, a farmer, while loading his rifle to
shoot hawks, accidently shot and killed his
wife, to whom he had been married only two
months. , v"-; j '.'ivU' V"
A wealthy citizen of Valley Falls, W Va.,'
William Carder, fell fainting into a grate fire
nt his residence and was cremated before the
family became aware of the accident. He
was eighty years old. -The
census of Shendun, Richingham county,
Va-, has just baei taken and shows a popula
tion of 7u9, of which 430 are males and 279
females. This is an increase of 100 per cent,
iu about five months.
W. R. Kersey, a yonng farmer, of Hanover
county, Ya.. accidently shot himself with a
shotgun. The load passed through his left
arm, between the elbow and shoulder. The
wound is considered serious. ,
A report from Florida says the' bloom on
the orange trees in nearly all the groves in the
State is very profuse this spring, and, with
lavorable conditions through the summer
and tall, the crops will be the heaviest ever
known.' ;.. ' -
Wesley Tomblin, of Lincoln county, W.Va.r
met death in a peculiar manner. He was
flourishing a revolver over his head, when
the weapon was discharged, the hammer
having struck a joist in the ceiling. The bull
passed through his brain. . ,
The dwelling of Joseph Wright, on the
"Bell" larni. near White Post, Clarke county,
Va., was burned to the ground' a few days
since. Mr.. Wright lost everything he had
and his wife wan compelled to walk a mile,
while thinly clad, to the house of a neighbor
for assistance. 1
A Clarksburg, (W. Va.) dispatch says:
"Italians are returning in squaOs from the
interior daily, eu route to Pittsburg. ; They
decline to explain why they are leaving their
work unfinished or what they expect to do at
Pittsbwg. Their movements are a mystery,
and contirra the reports that Italians are con
gregating in that city." ,
A meeting of veterans was held in Rich
mond, Va., at the private residence of Major
Louis Ginter, at which money was subscribed
to erect a monument to Gen. A. P. Hill. It is
to be erected at the junction of Hermitage
road and Laburnam . avenue, in Ufiirico
county. The monument is to be of granite,
3D feet high, surmounted by a bronze statue.
Miss Kate Braminer, ot Raleigh Court
House, W. Va., made a pJ ucky defense when the
house was attacked by burglars. One of the
party demanded admittance at the door, but
was refused by the lady, who wus alone. He
then raised a window and was climbing in,
when the plucky girl knocked him senseless
with an axe. The other thieves fled, and the
wounded man, earned Thompson, (was cap
tured. . -Hon.
George A. Bicknell died suddenly in
New Albany, Ky., of opoplexy. Ie was born
iu New York in 1814, and married in Phila
delphia in 1840. lie removed to Lexington,
Ina., and in 1851 was elected circuit judge. In
ISoz he went to New Albany and was circuit
judge there till 1878, when he was elected to
Congress and served two years. He was later
again elected circuit judge and resigned lost
October.
John Q. Levell, of Fairmont, W. Va., lost a
mule last week whose eventtui history runs
through nearly the length of a generation of
men. The mule was bought at a government
sale of condemned stock at Clarksburg during
the war, and was brought there and put to
work in the American mines during the war,
since which time she has been constantly en
gaged about mines, and literally died in the
harness. It is reckoned that she was thirty
six years old and her head become absolutely
gray with age ere she gave up the ghost.
QUIET AT WASHINGTON.
No One Bell.vca Italy Intends to Play a
dame of Blaster.
There are no new developments in the Italian
affair. The reviving interest taken in it on
account of the alleged intention on the part
of the Italian Government to signally display
its resentment by ceasing to have any further
diplomatic intercourse with the United Stales
unless this Government shall respond to the
communication of Premier Rudini within
such a period as the Italian Ministry is said
to consider as the utmo; limit which it can
allow the American Government for the
making of its answer, has lapsed into a dm
position to quietly await what the next two or
three days brings lorth u '
There are very few persons who believe
that anything startling will occur, and high
officials are certainly incredulous as respects
Italy's reported purpose to take such a step
as that of ordering Minister . Porter from
Rome.-
Even should such an-unusual and extra
ordinary movement be made, contrary to all
expectations, it is said that it would probably
not result in actual war, but only -111 an al
most complete severence of all rein t ions be
tween the two countries. It is regarded, how
ever, as almost eertain that it would result in
a feeling of indignation in this fountry,
which would seriously prejudice the prospects
of lavorable action for tuis country ou the
Italian suggestions for reparation and indem
nity. -
. The diplomatists though, would receive the
news of the severance ot diplomatic relations
with profound regret, for the reason that it
would for along time be a cause of vexation
and annoyance and would call lor the zer
oise of extreme discretion and fuct in a great
many matters of comparatively trifling im
portance.' v.- 1 ' v ' '
Were the .' Intercourse between the two
counties once sundered -by resentment, it
would render a reconciliation very difficult,
and only to be secured by the cumbersome
good offices of some intermediary, and might
result, as a similar breach - several years ago
between Great Britain and Venzuela resulted
in the official ignoring by each country of the
fact that the other existed, through a re In tance
on the part of either to make aU VRuesi after
the animosity engendered had vanished. '
But it is thougbt certain that these compli
cations will not occur and that the two coun
tries will again be on harmonious tenus with
out anything alarming having taken place.
REV. DR. IMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun
day Sermon. ,
', gvfcjeett "The Plague of Crime."
'. Tixt: "All the waters that were in the
river were turned to blood." Exodus vii..
20. . ' : .: ,
Among all the Egyptian plasues none could
have been worse than this. The Nile is the
wealth of Egypt. It fish the food, its waters
the irrigation ot garden and fields. Its con
dition decides the prvjsperiv or the doom ot
the empire. What happens to the Nil-happens
to all Egypt. And now in the text that
great river is incarnadined, - Itis a red gash
cross an empire. In poetic license we speak
of wars which turn the rivers into blood.
But my text is not a poetic license. It waa "
fact a great crimson, appalling condition'
described. The Nile rolling deep of blood.
Can you imagine a more awful plague? s
The modern plague which nearest corre-!
epondswith that is the plague of crime in'
all our cities. :. It baits not for bloodshed.
It shrinks from no carnage. It bruises and
cuts and strikes down and destroys. It re
t vete in the blood of body and soul, this plague
of crime rampant for ages, and never bolder
or more rampant than now. -t
The annual police reports of these cities as
I examine tbem are to me more suggestive!
than Dante's Inferno, and all Christian people
a swell as reformers need to awaken to spree-
ent and tremendous duty. If you want this 1
"Plague of Crime" to stop there are several)
kinds of perrons you need to consider. First, j
the public criminals. : You ought not to bej
surprised that these people make up a large,
portion in many communities.' The vastj
majority of the criminals who take ship from
Europe come into our own port, In 1869, of 1
the forty-nine thousand people who were in-"1
earcerated in the prisons of the country!
thirty-two thousand were of foreign birth.)
Many of them were the very desperadoes of
society, oozing into the slums of our city, 1
waiting for an opportunity to riot and steal'
and debauch, joining the large gang of
American thugs and cut-throats.
There are in this cluster of cities New:
York, Jersey City and - Brooklyn four)
thousand' people whose entire business in,
life is to commit suicide. That is as much
their business as jurisprudence or ' medicine '
or merchandise is your business. To it they'
bring all . their energies of body, mind and
eouL and they look upon the intervals which
they spend in prison as so much unfortunate,
loss of time, just as you look upon an attack;
of influenza and rheumatism which fastens
you in the houBe for a few days. It is their
Jiltime business to pick pockets and blow
up safes and shoplift and ply the panel game,
and they have as much pride of skill in their
business as you have in yours when you up
Eet the argument ot an opposing counsel, or
cure a gunshot fracture which other sur
geons hare given up, or foresee a turn in the
market as you buy gdods ust before they go
up twenty per cent. It is their business to
commit crime, and I do not suppose that
once in a year the thought of the immorality
strikesthem. '.
Added to these professional criminals,;
American and foreign, there are a large'
class of men who are more or less industrious'
in crime. In one year the police in this'
cluster of cities arrested ten thousand people;
for thoft, and ten thousand for assault and
battery and fifty thousand for intoxication.!
Drunkenness is responsible for much ot the:
theft, since it confuses a man's ideas of
property, and he gets hfs bands on things
that do not belong to him. Rum is responsi
ble for much of the assault and battery, in
spiring men to 6udden bravery, which they!
must demonstrate though it be on the face
of the next gentleman.
Ten million dollars' worth of property
stolen in this cluster of cities in one year I,
You cannot, as good citizens, be independent
of that fact. It will touch your pocket, stnce
I have to give you the fact that these three
cities pay about eight million dollars' worth
of taxes a year to arraign, try and support
the criminal population. You help to pay;
the board of every criminal, from the sneak,
thief that snatches a spool of cotton up to
some man who swamps a bank. More than,
that, it touches your heart in the moral de-j
pression of the community. You might as
well think to stand in a closely confined,
room where there are fifty people and yet!
not breathe the vitiated air, as to stand in
a community where there is such a great;
multitude 01 the depraved without some
what being contaminated. What is the fire
that burns your store down compared with
the conflagration which consumes your
morals? .What is the theft of the gold and.
silver from your money safe compared with
the theft of your children's virtuef 1
We are all ready to arraign criminals.
We shout at the top of our voice, "Stop,
thief 1' and when the police get on the track
we come out, fa a tl ess and in our slippers, and
assist in the arrest. We come around the
bawling ruffian and hustle him off to justice,!
and when he gets in prison what do we do for,
him? tfith great gusto we put on the hand
cuffs and the hopples; but what preparation
are we making for the day when the hand
cuffs and the hopples come off? Society,
seems to say to these criminals, ''Villain, go
in there and rot." when it ought to say,
"You are an offender against the law, but
we mean to give you an opportunity to re
pent; we mean to help you. Here are Bibles
and tracts and Christian influences. Christ
died for you. Look and live."
Vast improvements have been made by
introducing industries into the prison; but
we want something more than hammers
end shoe lasts to reclaim these people. Aye,
we want more than sermons on the Sabbath
day. Society must impress these men with
the fact that it does not enjoy their suf
fering, and that it is attempting to reform'
and elevate them. ; The majority of crimin
als suppose that society has a grudge against
them, and they in turn havea grudge against
society. . . . ,
They are harder in heart and more infuri
ate when they come out of jail than when
they went in. Many of the people who go
to prisen go again and again and again."
Some years ago, of fifteen hundred prisoners,
who during the year had been in Sing Sing,
four hundred had been there before. Jn a
bouse of correction in the country, where
during a certain reach of time there had(
been fire Jhojusandjpeople, more thanjlhree
thousand bad been there before. So, in one
case the prison, and in the other the bouse of
correction, left them just as bad as they were
The secretary of one of the benevolent
societies of New York says a lad fifteen years
of age had spent three years of hia life in
prison, and he said to the lad, "What have,
they done for you to make you better?"
""Well,' replied the lad,, the first time I
was brought Up before the judge be said,
'You ought to be ashamed of yourself.' And
then 1 committed a crime again, and I was
brought up before the same judge,, and he
eaid, Yoa rascal f And after a whde I
committed someother crime, and I was
brought before the same judge, and he said, '
You ought to be hanged.'" . That was alt !
they had done for him m the way of reforma
tion and salvation. "Oh,wyou say. hese
people are incorrigible." I suppose there
are hundreds of persons thisday lying in the
prison bunks .who would leap up ut the
prospect of reformation if society would
t-nly allow them a way into decenry and
rcfi-c;'. - '.'.ity. ,. ,
' "OV ybu say, T have no patience with 1
tnese rogues." -, 1 asic you iu repiy, now
much better would you have bsen under the
same circumstances? . Suppose your mother
had been a blasphemer and your father a
sot.' and you had started lite with a body
stuffed with evil proclivities, and you bad
spent much of your time in a cellar amid
obscenities and cursing, and if at ten years
of age yeu had been compelled to go out and
steal, battered and; banged at night if you
came in without any spoils, and suppose
your early manhood and womanhood bad
been covered with rags and filth, and decent
society had turned its back - upon you, and
left you to consort - with vagabonds and
wharf ratshow much better would you
have been? I have'no sympathy with that
executive clemency which would let crime
run loose, or which would sit in the gaUery
of a court room weeping because some hard
hearted wretch is brought to justice; but I
do say that the safety and life of the com
munity demand more potential influences in
behalf of public offenders. ,
In some of the city prisons the air is like
that ot the Black Hole of Calcutta. I have
visited prisons where, as the air swept
through the wicket, it almost knocked me
down. No sunlight. . Young men who had
committed their first , crime crowded in
am rag old offenders. ! I saw in one prison a
woman, with a child almost blind, who had
been arrested for the crime ot poverty, who
was waiting until the slow law could take
her to the almshouse, where she rightfully
belonged; but she was thrust in there with
her child amid the most abandoned wretches
of the town. Many of the offeuders in that
prison selpt on the floor, with nothing but a
1 1 vermin-covered blanket over them. A Those
half suffocated and infuriated. I said to the
men, "How do you stand it here?" "God
knows," said one man, "we have to stand it."
IOh,they will pay you when they get out. .
.Where they burned down one house they
(will burn three. They will strike deeper the
'assassin's knife. They are this minute plot
ting worse burglaries. . , . - '
Some of the city Jailj are the best places I
know of to manufacture footpads, vaga
jbonds and cutthroats. Yale College is not
so well calculated to make scholars, nor Har
vard so well calculated to make scientists,
Jnor Princeton so well calculated to make
theologians, as many of our jails are calcu
lated to make criminals. All that those men
do not know of crime after they have been
In that dungeon tor some time. Satanic
machination cannot teach them. - In the in
sufferable stench and sickening surroundings
,ot such places there is nothing but disease
for the body, idiocy for the mind, and death
fcfor the soul. Stifled air and darkness and
vermin never turned a thief into an honest
man.
We want men like John Howard and Sir
William Blackstone and women like Eliza
beth Fry to do for the prisons of the United
States what those people did in other days
for the prisons of England I thank God
tor what Isaac T. Hopper and Dr. Wines
and Mr. Harris and scores of others have
done in the way of prison reform, but we
wane sometning more radical oeiore will
come the blessing of him who said, I was in
prison, and ye came unto me."
Again, in your effort to arrest this churns
J of crime you need to consider untrustworthy
pmciais. -woe untotbee, (J land, when thy
king is a child, and thy princes drink in the
morning.". It is a great calamity to a city
when bad men get into public authority.
ftVhy was it that in New York there was
such unparalleled crime between I860 and
1871? It was because the judges ot police in
that city at that time for the most part were
as corrupt as the vagabonds that came before,
tk.i,, f,. M.I fri xi Jt i:v
iiiou. .ui wuu, iuuh wen ura uagQi mguf
carnival lor election frauds, assaannationi
and forgery. We bad all kinds ot rings.)
,There was one man during those year that
got one hundred and twenty-eight thouwinpy
dollars in one year for serving the public.
: It is no compliment to public authority
when we have in all the cities of the countrv.
walking abroad, men and women notorious
for criminality un whipped of justice. They
are pointed out to you in the street day by
day. There you find what are called the
i'fences," the men who stand between the
thief and the honest man, sheltering the
thief, and at a great price handing over the
goods to the owner to whom they belonged,
mere you win find laose who are called the
"skinners,", the men who hover around Wall
street, with great sleight of hand in bonds
and stocks. There you find the funeral
thieves, the people who go and sit down and
mourn with, families and pick their pockets.
And there you find the "confidence men,"
who, borrow money of you because they
have a dead child in the house and want to
bury it, when they never had a house or
family; or they want to go to England and
get a large property there, and they want
you to pay their way and they will send the
money back by the very next mail.
There are the "harbor : thieves," the
"shoplifters," the "pickpockets," famous
all over the cities. Hundreds of them with
their faces in the Rogues' Gallery, yet do
ing nothing for the last five or ten years
but defraud society and escape justice.
When these people go unarrested and un
punished it is putting " a high premium
upon vice and saying to the young crimin
als of this country, "What a safe thing it
is to be a great criminal!": Let the law
swoop upon them. Let it be known in
this country crime will have no quarter;
that the .detectives are .after it: that the
police club is being brandished; that the' iron
door of the prison is being opened; that the
iudge is ready to call on the case. Too great
eniency to criminals is too great severity to
society. ;
Again in your effort to arrest this plague
of crime, you need to consider the idle popu
lation. Of course I do not refer to people
who are getting old, or to the sick or to those
who cannot get work, but I ted you to look
out for those athletic men and : women who
wiU not work. When the French nobleman
was asked why he kept busy when he bad so
large aproperty, he said, "I keep on engrav
ing so I may not hang myself." I do not
care who the man is, you cannot afford to be
idle. It is from the idle classes that the
criminal classes are made up. Character,
like water, gets putrid if it stands still too
long. Who can wonder that in this world,
where there is so much to do, and all the
hosts of- earth and heaven and hell are
plunging into the conflict and angels are fly
log and God is at work and the universe is
a-quaka with the marching , and counter
marching, that God lets His indignation fall
upon a man who chooses idleness.
I have watched these do-nothings who
spend their time stroking their beard and
retouching their toilet and criticising in
dustrious people, and pass their days and
bights in barrooms and club houses, loung
ing and smoking and chewing and card
playing. They are not only useless, but
they are dangerous. How hard it is for
them to while away the hours! Alas, for
'them t If they do not know how to while
away an hour, what will they do when
they have all eternity on their hands?
These men for a wbUe smoke Use best cigars
and wear the best clothes and move in the
highest spheres, but I have noticed that
very soon they corns down to the prison, the
almshouse, or stop at the gallows.
v The police stations of this cluster of cities
furnish annually between two and three hun
dred thousand lodgings. For the most part
these two and three hundred thousand lodg
ings are furnished to able bodied men aud
women people as able to work fts you aud I
arc When they are receive 1 no longer at
cue polioe station because thny are "refeat
e i b" thf y p,q to some cAer station and eo
they keep moving around. They get their.,
food at house doors, stealing what they can
iay their hands on in the front basement
while the servant is spreading the bread in
the back basement. They will not work.
Time and again, id the country districts,
they have wanted hundreds and thousands
ot laborers. , These men will not got They
do not want to work. I have triad them. I
have set them to sawing wood in my cellar
to see whether they wanted to work.; I ot
tered to pay them well tor it. ' I have beard
the saw going for about three minutes, and
then I went down, and loi the wood, but no
sawl They are the pest of society, and they
stand In the way of the Lord's poor who
who ought to be helped, and must he helped,
and will be helped.
, While there are thousands of industrious
men who cannot get any work, these men
who do not want any work coma in and
make that plea. I am in favor of the res
toration of the old fashioned whipping post
for just this one class of men who will not
work sleeping at night at public ex
pense in the station bouse; during the day
getting their food at your doorstep. Im
prisonment does not i scare them.. They
would like it. Blaekwell's Island or Sing
Sing would be a comfortable home for them.
They would have no objection to the alms
house; for they like thin soup, it they can
not get mock turtle. '
I propose this for them: ... On one side of
them put some healthy work; on the other
side put a rawhide, and let tham take their
choice. I like for that class of people the
scant bill of fare that ; Paul wrote out for
the Thessalonian loafers, "If any work not,
neither should he eat." By what law of
God or man is it right that you and I should
toil day in and day out, until our hands are
blistered and our arms ache and our brain
gets numb, and then be called upon to sup
port what in the United States are about
two million loafers. They area very danger
ous class. Let the publia authorities keep
their eyes on them. . ,
Again, among the uprooting classes I placa
the oppressed poor. Poverty to a certain
extent is chastening, but after that, when it
drives a man to the wall, and he hears his
children cry in vain tor bread, It sometimes
'makes him desperate. I think that there ara
thousands of honest men lacerated into vaga
bondism. There are men crushed under
burdens for which they "are not half paid.
.While there is no excuse for criminality,
even in oppression, I state it as a simple fact
that much of the scoundrelism of thecom-
munity is consequent upon. Uljireatin en t
ioera are many men sua womoa uai e
and bruised and stung until the hour of de
spair has come, and they stand with the
ferocity of a wild beast which, pursued until
i can run no longer, turns round, foaming
and bleeding, to fight the hounds.
There is a vast underground New York
and Brooklyn life that , is appalling and
shameful. It wallows and steams with putre
faction. You go down the stairs, which are
wet and decayed wren mtn, ana at tne Bot
tom you find the poor victims on the floor,
cold. sick, three-fourths dead, slinking into a
still darker corner under the Eleam of the
lantern of the police. There has not been a
breath of fresh air in that room for five
years, literally. The broken sewer empties
its contents upon them, and they lie at night
in the swimming filth. There they are, men,
women, children; black, whites; Mary Mag
dalen without her repentance, and Lazarus
without his God. , These are "the dives" into
which the pickpockets and the thieves go. as
weU as a great many who would like a differ
ent life but cannot get it.
These places are the sores of the city,
which bleed perpetual corruption. They are
the underlying ' volcano . that threatens ns
with a Caraccas earthquake. It rolls and
roars and surges and heaves and rocks and
blasphemes and dies, and there are only two
outlets for it the police court and the Pot
tes field. In other words, they must either
goto prison or to helL Oh, you never saw
w, you say. You never will see It until on
the day when those staggering wretches
shall come up in the light of the judgment
throne, and while all hearts are being re
vealed, God will ask you what you did to
help them.
There ia another layer of poverty and des
titution not so squalid, but almost as help
less. You hear the incessant wailing for
bread and clothes and fire. Their eyes are
sunken. Their cheek bones stand out. Their
hands jura damn with slow, consumption.
Their flesh is puffed up with dropsies. Their
breath is like that of the charnel house.
They hear the roar of the wheels ot fashion
overhead and the gay laughter ot men and
maidens and wonder why God gave to others
so much and to them so little. Some of them
thrust into an infidelity like that ot the poor
German girl who, when told in the midst of
her wretchedness that God was good, said :
"No; no good God. Just look at me. No
good God."
In this cluster of cities whose cry of want
I interpret there are said to be, as far as I
can figure it no from the reports, about
three hundred thousand honest poor who are
dependent upon individual, city and State
charities. If all their voices could come up
at once it would be a groan that would shake
the foundations of the city and bring all
earth and heaven to the rescue. But for the
most part it suffers unexpressed.. It sits in
silence gnashing its teeth and sucking the
blood of its own arteries waiting for the
judgment day. Oh, I should not wonder if
on that day it would be found nut that some
of us bad some things that belonged to them,
some extra garment which might have made
them comfortable in cold days;, some bread
thrust into the ash barrel that might have ap
peased their hunger for a little while; some
wasted candle or gas jet that might have kin
dled up their darkness; some fresco on the
ceiling that would have given them a roof;
some jewel which, brought to that orphan
girl in time, might have kept her from being
crowded off the precipices to an unclean life;
some New Testament that would have told
them of Him who "came tosesk that which
was lost." . ...
Oh, this wave of vagrancy and hunger and
nakedness that dashes against our front
door step I If the roofs of all the houses of
destitution could be lifted so we could look
down into them just as God looks, whose
nerves would be strong enough to stand it?
And yet there they are. The fifty thousand
sewing women in these three cities, some of
tbem in hunger and cold, working night
after night, until sometimes the blood spurts
from nostril and lips.
How well their grief waa voiced bv that
despairing woman who stood by her invalid
husband and invalid child, and said to the
city missionary: . "I am down hearted.
Everything's against us; and then there are
other things." "Wbkt other things?' said
the city missionary. "Oh," she replied, "my
sin," "What do you mean by that?" "Well,"
she said, "I never hear or see anything good.
It's work from Monday morning till Satur
day night, and then when Sunday comes I
can't go out, and I walk the floor, and it
makes me tremble to think that I have got
to meet God. Oh, sir, it's so hard for us.
We have to work so, and then we have so
much trouble, and then we are getting along
so poorly; and see this wee little thing grow
ing weaker and weaker; and then ta think
we are not getting nearer to God, but float
in; away from Him. Oh, sir, 1 do wish I
was ready to die." ' '
I should not wondor if they had a good
deal better time than we in the future, to
make up for the fact that they had such a
bad time here. It would be just like J e-nis
to say: "Come up and take the highest scats.
You suffenv wirh Me on earth; now be
glorified wiUi Me ia heaven." Oh, thou
weoping One of Bethany 1 Oh, t'oa
dying One of the cross! Havemercy on thw(
utarvkie. freezlnr. homeless poor of tbew
great cities! - ' '
1 nave preacoeu hub aumuu ui iuui ..,
five practical reasons:. Because, I want yo ?
i,., w'.in arm t.hn unrootinsr classes o
society. Because I want you to be nioi a
aiscrmuii&tiug am j
I want yournearts open with generosity,
and your bands open with charity. 1! j
cause I want you to be made the sworn
friends of all city evangelization, and an
newsboys' lodging houses, and all children a
aid societies, and Dorcas societies, under the
skillful manipulation of wives and mothers
and sisters and daughters; let the spare gar
ments of your wardrobes be fitted to tua
limbs of the wan and shivering I should,
not wonder if that hat that you give should
come back a jeweled coronet, or it that gar
ment that you hand out from your wardroba
should mysteriously be whitened, and some
how wroueht into the Saviour's own robe,
so m the last day He would run His baii j
over it and say, "I was naked and ye clothed
Me." That would be putting your garment
!tolfutrmore than that, I have preached th
sermon because I thought in the contra
you would see how very kindly God bal
dealt with you, and I thought that thou
sands of you would go to your comfortable
homes and ait at your well-tilled tables and
at the warm registers, and look at the round
faces of your children, and that then ymi
would burst into tears at the review ot Uort
goodness to you, aud that jo would go to
your room and lock the door and kneel down
and say : ; .
' "O Lord. I have been aningrate; maite
me Thy child. O lord, there are so maor
hunrv and unclad and unsheltered to-day, 1
thank'Thee that all my life Thou bast taken
such good care of me. O, Lord, there are so
many sick and crippled children to-day, i
thank Thtia mine are well some ofthem oil
earth, someot them in heaven. Thy goo l
ness. O Lord, breaks me down. Take me
once and forever. Sprinkled as I was many
years ago at the altar, while my mother held
me, now I consecrate my soul to ihee ia a
;holier baptism ot repenting tears.
: .tMnnM TstrA TVinn rflfnt tO bleed.
And I'm a sinner vile indeed: .
Lord, I believe Thy grace m tree, : ,
O magiuiy that grauu to roe."
GENERAL SPIN0LA DEAD.
A Prominent Nvr York; Congreimi
Dies lu Washington.
Gen. Francis B.Spinola, Congressman from
the Tenth District of New York, died at 1.25
o'clock A. M. in Washington. He had been
ill since the adjournment of Congress. , .
Francis B.Spinola was born at Stony Brook,
Long Island, on March 19, 1821; was educated
at the Quaker Hill Academy in Dutches
county; was five times elected an alderman;
three times a supervisor; served six years as
member of the Assembly of the State of New
York, and four years as Senator; was ap
pointed brigadier-general of Volunteers on
October 2, 1862, Vior meritorious conduct in
recruiting aud organizing a brigade of four
regiments and accompanying them to the
field;" was honorably discharged from the
service in August, 18Sd, alter having been
twice wounded; was delegate to the Demo
cratic National Convention which met iu
Charleston in the spring of 1860, and was al
ternate to Daniel. Manning, who was a dele-gate-at-large
from the State of New York to
the Democratic National Convention of 1884;
was connected with a number of insurance
and banking institutions and engaged in the
manufacturing business; was elected to the
Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
10,847 votes against 10,320 votes for Bice, Re
publican. " ' '
General Spinola also served in the Fifty
first Congress, and played a very prominent
part in the debate on the location of the
World's Fair, being the leader of New York's
advftttnieN. He waa rn-elentwl tn th FifW.
second Congress. .
SHOT BY BURGLARS,
A Terrible Midnight Crime la ' Cecil
County, nd.
One of the most atrocious crimes in the
history of Cecil county, Md occurred at
nlr'niaht. at Porter's Bridge a small upttl.
ment about two miles east of Colora, that
county, in which Mrs. Elizabeth Richards,
wife of J. Granville lUchards, inspector iu
the Baltimore custom-house and ex-member
of the Maryland legislature was shot and
killed.
The couple had retired rather late and not
long atter they were in bed Mrs. Bichards
was startled by an unusual sound in the
house. She at once aroused her husband,
who sprang up in bed, and in a loud voice
called: "Who is this?", Receiving no reply,
he discharged a revolver which he obtained
from under his pillow and received a re
sponsive discharge from the unknown
persona . -
This latter shot lodged in the back of Mrs.
Richards' head, and the firing being repeated
the second Bhot lound lodgment id Mr.
Richards' side. He was then set npoa by the
intruders and badly beaten about tne iaoe.
The assailants, alter ransacking the house,
stealing.a gold watch and $50 fn money, made
their escape, and have not been apprehended.
; Mrs. Richards remained unconscious until
about 8 o'clock next morning, when be died.
Mr. Richards is in a precarious condition.
He will probably die, having two wounds in
his stomach.
The supposed object of the murder was
robbery. The murderers were suppposed to
have effected au entrance through a window
on the first floor.
Mr. Richards was brutally assaulted on the
publio highway iu the spring of 1S86, barely
escaping with his life. Mrs. Richards wai
the mother si five small children. -
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