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VOL.. II.'.
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; BUY. DR. MliGE. . ;
Tb s Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun
; ', day Sermon.
Subject:1 'fTh Brilliancy of Itellgton.y
V Jib XXViii., 7, . , . , ,
. Hoy of the precious stones of the Bflble
. ' Ve come prompt recognition. ' But for
v the present I take up the less valuable crys
; til. Job, iu tny text, compares savinz wig
- com with a specimen of topa. An "infidel
chemiBfi or mineralogist would pronounce
. the latter worth more than the former, but
, Job mltes an intelligent comparison, looks
,,,,. at religion and then looks at the crystal and
. Ironounces the former as of superior value
0 the latter, exclaiming, in the words of my
, taxt, "The crystal cannot equal it."
Now, it is not a part of ray sermonid de
. pigu to i denreoiafe the crystal, whether it be
T .oixl in Cornish mine or Bartz mountain or
, .faummnth Cave or tinkling among the ' pen-
. fiaiito i r the clianuoaera of a palace. The
-", -crystal is the star of the mountain: it is the
V .ueeiiof the cave; it is the eardrop of the
. litlis; it finds its heaven in . the diamond.
, Among all the pages of natural history there
- jo iiu i-'bkb more interesting to me tban the
.' page erystallographic. But I want to show
" you that Job was right when, taking religion
in one hand and the crystal in the other, he
lecJnred that the former is of far more value
..... and beauty than the latter, recommending it
To all the peoplo and to all the ages, deciar
, in ."The crystal cannot equal it."
4 In the first place, I remark that religion is
sjiporior to the (crystal, in exactness. That
tfaiipdess mass of crystal against4 which you
accidentally dashed your foot is laid out
; -, JiCh more exactness than any earthly city.
; ; ijiere are six styles of crystallisation, and all
of them divinely ordained..' Every crystal
ha3 mathematical precision. God's geometry
reaches through it, and it is a square, or it is
18 a rectangle, or it is a rhomboid, or in some
, -way 11 nam a mathematical figure, i Now,
religion beats that in :the simple fact that
spiritual accuracy is more beautiful than
Jrntitenal accuracy, God's attributes are
pxact God's law exact. ; God's decrees exact
;Goii's mauagemont of the world exact never
: counting wrong, though He couuts the grass
blades, and the stars, and the sands, and the
cycles, Ilis- providences never dealing with us
( jp-i twuu viumy mien moseprovjaencesougni;
v to be oblique nor lateral when they ought to
wwcai.'.c.verytninginottr lire arranged
,:: -without any possibility of mistake. Each
life a six sided prism. Born at the right time,
, dying at the right time. There are no "banf
V nnn ti-v't" in mir. kanl. . ft T n, il:.
vas a slipshod universe I would go crazy.
- ' muu,. vu uw.' . ua , viw oy Lit-
i y iireuiiiion, aperiecc square, a perfect
'. rectanele. a nprfffc. t-hnmhriiri narttu.
tie, vThe edge of God's robe of government
. never frays out. There are no loose screws
: In ... -1 ... L. : J; 1 - - t
ju nuitus uiaviuiiitu J , x Ulu not J USE
,r happen that Napoleon was attacked with in
; digestion at Borodino so that ha became in
. competent for the day: .It did not Just hap
reii that John Thomas, the missionary, on a
heathen island, waiting fpr an outfit and
1 . orders for another missionary tour, received
. that outfit and those orders in a box that
floated, ashore, while the ship and the crew
that carried the box were never heard of .
tells us, led to a line of events which brought
him from the army into the Christian min
, is.try, where ha served God with world re
nowned usefulness. It did not tnerelv liap-
fen so., I believe in a particular providence,
believe God's geometry may be Been in all
our life more beautifully than in crystallog
raphy Job was right. "The crystal cannot
equalit." .
' Again l remark that religion is superior
' to the crystal in' transparency. We know
not when or by whom glass, was first dis
' covered. Beads of it have been found in the
voiud oi viexanaer oeverus. vases 01 it are
; brought up from the ruins of Herculaneum.
Mhere were female adornments made out
of it three thousand years ago those adorn-
ments found now attached to the mum
mies of Egypt. A great many commen
tators believes that my text means glass.
What would we do without the crystal?
- 'A'he crystal in the window to keep out the
storm and let in the day; the crystal over
yet allowing us to see the hour; thecrvstal
of the telescope, by which the astronomer
brings distant worlds so near he can inspect
vthcra.- Ob ' the triumphs of the crystals
in the celebrated windows of Rouen and
Salisbury) . . '
. . But there is nothing so transparent In a
.crystal as in our holy religion. It is a trans
: parent religion. - You put it to your eye and
; you see man his sin. nia fouI, bis destiny.
You look at God and ytu see something of
the grandeur of His character. It is a trans
parent religion. . Infidels tell us it is opaque?
. 1)0 you know why they tell us it is opaque?
It Is because they are blind. ' The natural
i'man receiveth not the things of God because
, they are spiritually discerned. There is no
, trouble with the crystfl 1 ; the trouble is with
, the eyes which try to look through it. We
... pray for wisdom, Lord, that our eyes might
be opened. When the eye salve cures our
- blindness then we flai that religion is trans-
. parent. :..:.r".-.- '.. .. ' ;
It is a trariKruirpftt Rihlp All fha
tains of the Bible come out Sinai, themoun--
, tain Of the lawr.Pis!?h fhn Tn.-innt.nin nf
' , prospect; Olivet, the mountain of instruc-
tmn. Palvimr tUt rnmmtm.. . la a 11
; the rivers of the Bible come out Hidekel, or
the river of paradisaical boautj'f Jordan, or
the. river of holy corisw Cberith, or the
.driver of prophetic 6upply; Nile, or the river
- of palaces, and the pure river of life from'
under the throne, ch ar as crystal. Whil
i reading tWs Bible after our eyes have been,
- touched by grace we End, it alP transparent,
and the earth rocks, now with J crucifixion
a?ony and now wt'i jwl-rmentf terror, and
ChriHt appears in s?ue at Ilis two hundred
an1 fifty-six title?, tit far a.; I ca count them
the bread, the Totk, the t ttiain. the com
mander, the couqu'iTjr, thastar, and on an I
bsyond any capacity of min9 to rehearsa
thm. Transparent religion !
The providence.,thnt seemed dark before
becomes pellucid. - Now you find God is not
trying t j put you do wa. Nofw , you irtler-'
uunti why you lost that chtid, anil whjt you
lostyoiir proparty;-ft waa to prepare yoa
- for eternal trsasures. And wf . slukness
came, it being the precursor of immortal
ju Senescence. And now you understand
why they lied about you and tried to drive
' you either and thither., It wai to put you
in the glorious company of such men as
Ignatius, who, when he want out to be de
stroyed by the lions, said: "I am tho wheat,
and the teeth of the wild beasts must first
jrnnd me beforn I can become pure bread for
Jesus Christ;". or the company of such men as
'1'oivcirp, who, when Btandio" in the midst
of the anipliitnuatre waiting for the lions; to
come out of tlmir cave and destroy him. and
tin peonlo in th galleries jawing and shouc
ii!';: ' f !h lions f or I'olycarp," rt-plied: "Let
thrtiii co:ne on, "and then Btoone l down to
Wftrd the cave where the wild beasts wer
ri'irin" to get out: "Let them come on."
Ah, ve, it is persecution to put you in glo
rl'vw comriany; and while there are many
t Lilies tb.it vo'u will have to postpone to the
future worli tor explanation, I t'.dl you that
i: is the whr-le t'-nd'.ry of your relics. 'n to
rKv.l inrl -lTilai:t and l.lte!:Ifct K' ' il-
-? A
lumino and irradiate. Job was right. It is a
glorious transparency. "The crystal cannot
equal It." . v.- '" .
I remark again that religion surpasses the
crystal in ifc beauty. That luqop of crystal
is put under the magnifying glass of tho
. crystallographer; and he sees in it indescrib
able beauty snowdrift and splinter of hoar
frost and corals and wreaths and stars and
crowns and . castellations of conspicuous
beauty. The fact is that crystal is so beau
tiful that 1 can think of but one thing in all
the universe that is so beautiful, and that is
the religion of the Bible. No wonder this
Bible represents that religion as the day
break, as the apple blossoms, as the glitter
of a king's banquet It is the ioy of the
whole earth. -
f People talk, too much about their cross and
not enough about their crown. Do you know
the Bible mentions a cross but twenty-sevea
times, while it mentions a crown eighty
times? Ask that bid man what he thinks of
religion. He has been a close observer. He
has been culturing an afsthetio tastai Heha3
seen the sunrises of half a centnry. He has
been an early riser. He has been an ad
mirer of cameos and corals aud aU kinds of
beautiful things. Ask him what he thinks of
religion, aad he will tell you. "It is the most
beautiful thing I ever saw." "The crystal
cannot equal it." . ' -
Beautiful in it3 symmetry. When it pre
sents God's character it does not present Him
as having love like a great protuberance
on one Bide of His nature, but makes that
love in ' harmony with His justice a love
cnac win accept all tnosa who come to Him,
and a : justice that will by no means clear
ttie guilty. Baautiful religion in the senti
ment it implants? Beautiful religion In the
hope it kindles! Beautiful religion in the
fact that it proposes to garland and enthrone
and imparadise an immortal spirit. Solomon
says it is a lily, Paul says it is a crown.
The Apocalypse says it Is a fountain kissed
of ' the sun. Ezekiel says 1 it is a foliaged
cedar; ' Christ says it is a bridegroom come
to fetch home a bride. . While Job in the
text takes up a whole vase of precious stones
the topaz, and the sapphire, and the
chrysoprasus and he takes out of this beau
tiful vase just one crystal,, and holds it up
until it gleams in tha warm light of the east
ern sky, and he exclaims, ''The crystal can--not
equal it." . .
Oh, it is not a stale religion, it is not a
stupid religion, it is not a toothless hag, as
some seem to have represented it; it is not a
Meg Merrilea with shriveled arm come to
scare the world. It is the fairest daughter,
of God, heiress of all His wealth. Her cheek
the morning sky; her voice the music of the
south wind; her step the dance of the sea.
come ana woo ner. xne spirit and tne bride
say come, and whosoever wilL let him come.
Do you agree with Solomon and say it is a
lily? Then pluck it and wear it over your
heart. Do you agree with Paul and say it is
a crown? Then let this hour be your coro
nation. , Do you agree with the Apocalypse
and say it is a springing fountain? Then
come and slack the thirst of your soul. Do
you believe with - Ezekiel ' and say; it is a
foliaged cedar? Then come under its shadow.
Do you believe with Christ and say it is a
bridegroom come to fetch home a bride?
Then strike bands with your Lord the King;
while I pronounce you everlastingly one. Or
if you think with Job that it is a jewel, then
Imt it on your hand like a ring, on your neck
ike a bead, on your forehead like a Rtar,
while lookinginto the mirror of God's Word
you acknowledge "the crystal cannot equal
Aain, religion is superior to the crystal
In its transformation?.' The diamond is only
a crystallisation of csal. Carbonate of lime
rise? till it bestrne; cilcit or aragouite. Red
oxide of copper crystallizes into cubes and
ociohe irons.,.. Thois crystals which adorn
our persons and our noma and our museums
hve only bsen rasurre3t3 1 from forms that
ware far from lustrous. Scientists fora'ge3
hivd been examining these wonderful trans
formation?. Bub I tell you in the gospel of
the Son of Goi there is a more wonderful
transformation. Over souls by reason of sin
black as coal a il hard as iron God by His
comforting gracs stoops and says, "They
shall b9 Mine in the day when I make up My
jewels." , ,
- What.' say you, "will God wear jewel
ryF ' If lie wanted ' He could make the
Stirs of heaven His belt anl have the even
In? cloud for the sandals of His feat, but He
does not want that adornment. He will hot
have thit jewelry. When God wants jewel
ry He comes dowc and digs it out of the
depths and darkness of sin. These souls are
all crystallizations of mercy. He puts them'
on, and H9 wears them in the presence of the
holy universe, tie wears tnem on tne nana
that was nailed, over the heart that was
piercad, on the- temples that were stung.
"iuey snail he Mine," sattn tne iora. 'm
the day when I make up My jewels." Won-,
derf ul transformation ! ''The crystal cannot
equal it." There she is, a waif of the
street, but ehe shall be a sister of charity.'
There he is, a sot in the ditch, but he shall
preach the gospel, There, behind the bar.
of a prison. lut he shall reign with Christ
forever, .When siu , abouuded ' grace shall
much more abound. The carbon becomes,
the solitaire. "The crystal cannot equalit."
Now, I have no likiug .for those people
who are always enlarging in Christian meet-;
ings about thair early dissipation. Do
not go into the particulars, my brothers.
Slniply say you were v sick, but make
no display of your ulcers. ' The 'chief
stock iu trade of soine ministers and Chris
tian workers seems to be their early crimes
and dissipations. The number of pockets you
picked aud the number of chickens you stole
make very poor prayer meeting rhetoric.
Besides tua it discourages other Christian
people who never got drunk or stole anything.
But it is pleasant to know that thoss who
were farthest down have been brought high
est uo. Out of internal serfdom into eternal
liberty., Ont of darkness into light. From
coal to the solitaire, "f he crystal cannot
equalit." ' ' .
But, my friends, the chief transforming
power of the gospel will not be seen in this ,
wori, and not until heaven breaks upon the
soul When that light falls upon the soul
then you will see the crystals. Oh, what a
magnificent setting for these jewels of etern-
Ity ! I sometimes hear people representing
heaven in a way that is far from attractive
to me. It 9eems almost a vulcar heaven as
they represent it. with great , blotches of
color and bands of music making a deafening
racket. John represents heaven as exquisite
ly beautiful. Three crystals, In one place
he says. "Her ligtit was like a precious stone,
clear as crystal.". In another place he says,
"I saw a pure river from under tho throne,
clear as crystal." . .
In another place he says. "Before the
throne there was a sea of glass clear as crys-
tal " Three crystals 1 John says crystal at
mosphere. That means healta. Balm of
eternal June. What weather after the
world's east wind ! No rack of storm clouds.
One breath of that air will cure the worst .,
tubercle. Crystal light pn all the leaves. -Crystal
light shimmering on the topaz of the
temples. Crystal light tossing in the plumes
of the equestrians of heaven on white horses.
But "the crystal cannot equal it.' ; John
says crystal river That means joy. Deep
and ever rolling. Not ona drop of the
Thames or the Hudson or the Rhine to soil
it. Not one tear of human sorrow to iniluc
ter it. Crystal, the rain out of which it wa
va-.t, Wtinrri'tare, lla'ture
! ma if. Crystal, the bed over winch it snail roil
and ripple. Crystal, its infinite surface. But
"the crystal caimot equal it." John says.
crv'lP1. Ti.it tn -ans multhu linou iy
stas-' ?
sea, deep as the ssa, strong as the sea, ever ,
cnunging as tne sea, ' JJUiows or ltg&t. Bil
lows of beauty, - blue with skies that were
never clouded and green with depths that
were never fathomed . Arctics and Antarc
tica and Mediterraneans and Atlantics and
Pacifies in crystalline magnificence. Three
crystals crystal light falling on a crystal
river; crystal river rolling into a crystal
sea. But "the crystal cannot equal it."
"Oh," says someone, putting bis hand
over his eyes, "can it be that I who have
been in so much sin and trouble will ever
come to those crystals?" Yes, it may be
lt will be. ' Heaven we must have, whatever
else we have or have not, and we come here
to get it. "How much must I pay for it?"
you say. . You will pay for it just as much
as the coal pays to become the diamond.
In other words, nothing. The same Almighty
power that makes the crystals in the mount
ains will change your heart which is harder
than stone, for the promise is, "I will take
away your stony heart and I will give you a
heart of flesh."1
"Oh," says some one, "it is just the doc'
trine I want. God is to do everything, and
I am to do nothing." My brother, it is not
the doctrine yon want. The coal makes no
resistance. . It hears the resurrection voice
in the mountain, and it comss from crystal
lization, but your heart resists.. Tha trouble
with you, my brother, is the coal wants to '
stay coal. . x do not want you to throw
open the door and let Christ in. I only ask
that you stop bolting it and baring it. Oh,
my friends, we will have to get rid of our
sins. What will we do with our sins among
the three crystals? The crystal atmosphere
would dfaolav our pollution. The crystal
river would be befouled by our touch. The
crystal sea would whelm us with its glisten
in? surge. . Transformation now or no trans
formation at all. - ... '
Give sin a full chance in your heart and
the transformation will be downward in
stead of upward. Instead of a crystal it
will be a cinder. . In the days of Carthage a
Christian girl was condemned fo die for her
faith, and a boat was bedaubed with tar and
pitch and filled with combuitibles and set on,
fire, aud the Christian girl was placed in the
boat, and the wind was off shore and the
boat floated away with its precious treasure.
No one can doubt that boat landed at the
shore of heaven. . : 1 .
Sin wants to put you in a fiery boat and
shove you off in an opposite direction off
from peace, off from God, off from heaven,
everlastingly off; and the port toward which
you would sail would be a port of darkness,
and the guns that would greet you would be
the guns of despair, and the flags that would
wave at your arrival would be the black flags
of death, O, my brother, you must either
kill sin or sin will kill you. - It is no wild
exaggeration when I say that any man or
woman that wants to be saved may be saved.
Tremendous choice! A thousand people are
choosing this moment between salvation and
destruction, between light and darkness, be
tween heaven and helL Datween charred ruin
and glorious crystallization.
TRANSFORMED INTO A STATUE.
A Case of Complete Petrification of a
Human Body in an Ohio Cemetery.
A remarkable story of petrification of human
remains comes from Youngstown, Ohio. Mrs.
John Cregan died there March 15, 1888, and
her body was buried in the village cemetery.
Her husband, wishing to remove the body to
another grave, caused it to be exhumed last
week. On reaching the outer box eontaining
the coflin the diggers found it filled with water.
The coflin was intact, but they were surprised
at its enormous weight. They concluded to
lift it to the surface before opening it, though
it required the united efforts of six men to
hoist it. ' -
The lid being removed, the features of Mrs.
Cregan were disclosed and there was scarcely
aiiv Rign of decomposition. There was a slight
discoloration of the flesh, but this could be
readily washed away. The eyes were closed,
the month was firmly shut and the hands lay
across the breast, just as when the body was
placed in the grave. The clothing had de
cayed, b the body was completely petrified.
fc!o perfectly had the process gone forward that
it had molded in nature's fashion a statue in
perfect resemblance of Mrs. Cregan. A scapu
Inr which she had worn about her neck was
diHtinctly reproduced and the letters "I. U.S."
thereon could bu plainly read. '
The soil of this buryin-ground seems to be
peculiarly aoapieu to peiriiynigorj,Tiui; uinun,
a number of cases being reported in which
bodies buried in it have been found covered
1V putrescent matter, but this is the most ex
traordinary of all. , It is a case of absolutely
complete and perfect petrification.
s '
A DUELJO THE DEATE
The Trespassing of Cattle Lead to a
J , Fatal Feud In California.
Silvtste Triado and Francisco Olives fought
a duel at Cantua Canyon, eighty miles from
Fresno, Cal.' Olives was killed and Triado
has been arrested and brought to Fresno.
The men owned adjoining sections of land
and had had numerous disputes about trespass
ing cnttle nud finally agreed that the next
time they would fight it out Both, were
armed with revolvers and commenced firing
at each other at a distance of forty yards.
They closed in at twenty yards. Triado sent
a bullet through Olives' neck. . , ' :
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THE NEWS,
By decision of the Illinois Supreme Court
the Illinois . Central Railroad . Company has
been put in possession of the freight-house
and grounds occupied by ' the Baltimore and
Ohio. Antone Schindler, in prison atUtica,
N. Y., for beating his wife, threw himself over
the balcony, breaking his neck. The car
strikers in Detroit again prevented the running
of cars, and the police had considerable diffi
culty In subduing the mob. When the
sheriff attempted an" eviction of a striker's
family in the Connellsville coke regions, both
men and women attacked him and his depu
ties, and women and himself were wounded.
Many Sioux Indians have enlisted in the
Sixth Cavalry. Gen. Greely, of the Signal
Service office, is' inspecting at Sau Francisco.
It is proposed to provide a fund for Gen.
Banks. Some of the rivers in Arkansas
and Texas are rising. Miss Gabrielle Greeley
and Rev. Frank M. Clcndennin were married
at Pleasant vi 11c, N. Y. Mrs. Isabella
Smith Cooper, the oldest gipsy in the United
States, died, at South Hadley Falls, Mass.,
aged ninety-five. Major Peyton Randolph,
third vice-president of the Richmond and Dan
ville Railroad Company, died in Washington.
The steamer Advance fromthc West In- :,
dies brought yellow fever to New Yov'k: ; ,
The British forces advancing upon Manipur,
Iadia, had an engagement with a large num
ber of the rebels and routed them. The
Jews have been ordered to leave St Peters-.
burg by May 3. The Third Battalion of
the famous Grenadier Guards of England,
quartered at Chelsea Barracks, London, have
followed the example of the Second Battalion,
xnd revolted against the excessive drills and
other treatment to which, they have been sub
jected. A number of the mutineers were
placcAunder arrest. Tho natives of Portu
guese Guinea have revolted aud massacred
the Portuguese officers and soldiers. A jury
at Fairfield, la., acquitted Lawwn J. Baldwin
of the murder of Mattie RodabaUgh. The
story telegraphed from New York that Ann
O'Delia Diss De. Bar, the notorious "spook
medium," was going to California under the
patronage of Senator Stanford is indignantly
denied by both Senator Stanford and his wife.
The Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, of
. Clarksville.Tcnn., is the first national bank of
America to resume after once having passed
into the hands of a receiver. Fire in the
St. Louis Smelting - and Refining Company's
carbon warehouse did $50,000 damage.-
Captain Daniel T. Foster, Republican, was
elected maypr of Bloomington, 111., by 45
plurality oyer D. S. Dyson, Democrat, and TJ.
O. Andrus, Prohibitionist. --Prof. B. W.
Evermann, of the State Normal School at
Terre Haute, goes to Washington, where he
will he assistant chief of the division of ex
ploration of lake and river basins in the
united States Fish Commission. A cyclone
etruck Pittsburg, Tex., destroying two Resi
dences and killing one woman. -The fcet
weather ia Eastern Kansas has rnibed the eats
and potatoes, but the wheat looksvwell.f :
The Edgar Thomson Steel Works at Prtsurg
resumed operations after ten weeks of idleness,
giving employment to two thousand men.
The National Republican League adopted
resolutions endorsing President Harrison,
denouncing the oppression of monopolies,
and recommending changes in' the immigra
tion laws. General John -S. Clarkson was
elected president, and Secretary Humphrey
re-elected.- Max Hunger, aged thirty-five
years, shot his former sweetheart andjiimself
at Newark, N. J. -In a fight between a
sheriff's posse and Hungarians at an eviction
in the coke regions, a girl was shot and killed
it is said, accidentally by her lover. Dr. E.
H. Smith, who was surgeon of Chimborazo
Hospital, in Richmond, Vs., during the war,
died in that city. The first annual meeting
of the New York State Farmers' Alliance took
place in Hornellsville. The Alliance num
bers 25,000 members in that state. A ver
dict $96,000 was rendered at Cincinnati
against the Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway,
Company for bad handling of power cars.; -Edward
Green, of Columbus, O., a drummer,
falally cut his wife at Zanesville, O., jealousy.
George Whitinore, of Ncphi, Utah, was
buncoed out of $o',U00 by gold-brick swindlers.
One epileptic patient killed another at
the Willard Hospital, at Auburn, N. Y.
Vire at Rome, N. Y.. did $.30,000 damage.
John Reissinger, abrakeman,' was killed in a
wreck on the Pennsylvania "Road, near Kin
ser's, Fa.' Twenty-five ' freight cars were
wrecked. Mrs. Frank V. Emerson was
thrown into the Mascoma (N. H.) river by a
wild horse and drowned. Ex-Secretary
Whitney, has been sued by George F. Ormsby,
an officer in the navy, for false arrest.
Professors Ira Remsen and II- II. Rowland,
of the John Hopkins University, read papers
before the National Academy of Sciences, at
Washington.
AWFUL CRIME OF A MADMAN.
lie Murders His little Brother and at
' I'arts of Ills Body.
News has been received in Havana of a
.horrible affair -which recently happened at
Mpcagun, Cuba.
s A madman, in one of his most frenzied mo
ments, attacked lis little brother with a knife,
cutting olf his head and otherwise mutilating
him in the most terrilile manner
He then proceeded to eat portions of the -body,
and had devoured the fingers, liver,
heart sud eyes whn discovered.
In reply to questions as to why he bad com
mitted tne horrible deed, the madman declared
thut his brother hnd died and that he was
waking an autopsy on the boy's body,
A SEWER'S DEADLY WORK.
five Men Die After Prinking Water from
a Poisoned Well.
Laborers at the Gilbert Hedge -A Co.,
lumberyards, in Burlington, la., drank freely
cf water drawn from sn old well in the vicinity
nnd as a result of poison from scvage, five of
ihem are deed ami sevfial others ftie not
expected to live. " . - "
111 PERSONS KM. .
Frightful Wreck on the Lake Shore
. Railroad Near Cleveland. ;
The list of the Dead Includes Two En-
Clneers, Six Postal Clerks and a
. Fireman-is Passengers Hurt.
A frightful wreck occurred on the : Lake
Shore railroad at Kipton Station, about 40
miles west of Cleveland, Ohio, early the other
evening in which six "postal clerks and two
engineers were killed. . ...
The Fast Mail, No. 14, bound east, collided
with No. 21, the Toledo express, just as the
latter train was about to pull on the siding to
let the fast mail pass.
' The fast mail was running at full speed, and
the force of the collision was so great that both
engines, three mail cars and one baggage car
were completely wrecked. .
; HOW IT HAPPENED. ' .
It was the custom for these two trains to pass
at Kipton, the Toledo express taking the side-'
track for the fast mail, which usually went
through Kipton without slackening its speed.
The Toledo express was a few minutes late,
and had just come to a stop when the fast mail
came in sight.
. There is scarcely any curve dt the station,
but on one side of the track was a line oi
freight cars and on the other the station.
These might have obstructed the vision of the
engineer of the fast mail. He applied the air
brakes when he saw that a collision was en
evitable, but the speed of the train was not
checked materially. '
The engine of the Toledo express was
knocked squarely across the track, and that of
the fast mail reared in the air, resting on the
top of the other. The fast mail consisted of
three mail cars and two parlor cars, and the
Toledo express of five coaches and two bag
gage cars. The first and 1 second mail cars
were telescoped and smashed to kindling wood,
and the thira crashed into the first two and
rolled over on the station platform, breaking
the windows of the building. The bagttage
cars of the Toledo express were knocked from
the track, but did not turn over.
The force of the collision was bo great that
of the 64 revolving chairs in the two parlor
cars only four remained attached to the floors,
all the others being broken and hurled about
in confusion. The passengers were thrown to
the floors and badly shaken; but none were
seriously hurt
The passengers of the two trains at once
began ,
' THE WORK OF RESCCK, ,.
and with a corps of physicians from the town
ministered for the few who were injured. All
but one of the dead were beyond human assist
ance as soon as the collision occurred.
The bodies were horribly crushed and
mutilated, arms and leers beinir torn off. and
the corpses were almost beyond recognition.
Charles Tupton, the engineer of the fast
mail, remained bravely at nis post, and was
found with his hand on the throttle, dead.
His hands and face were so badly scalded that
the blackened flesh dropped from the bones
when his body was taken out. Fireman Star
key, of the fast mail, lumped from the train
ana escaped with a broken leg and dislocated
shoulder. The doctors said he would recover. '
The poor postal clerks had not a chance to
escape. They were caged like rats, and the
telescoping of the cars crushed the life out of
them without a moments warning. '
It is difficult to locate the blame for the ac
cident, as both the engineers are dead. It is
said, however, that No. 21, was ordered to stop
at Oberlin, but went on to Kipton, which is
six miles farther west, and had not sufficient
time to make the side track.
IRON AND STEEL
Best Kecord In Production Last Tear
Ever Made.
The annual statistical report of the Ameri
can Iron and Steel Association has just been
published. This week's Bulletin of the Asso
ciation says;
We now present the exact record, as shown
by 'our animal report, of the production of
leading articles of iron and steel in tho United
States in 1800, in which year we made the best
record in the production of iron and steel that
has ever been made by any country. Not
even Great-Britain has ever achieved such
remarkable results in the production of iron
and steel in one year as were accomplished in
this country in 1800; and, to show how mar
velous was our own growth in production in
that year, we give in comparison the statistics
of 1889, which was regarded at its close as a
remarkably active year. Our statistics are in
net tons.
Net tons of 2,000 lbs.
(Except nails.) 18S9. 1890.
Pig Iron, including
Spiegel 8,516,079 10,307,028
Spiegeleisen 8."),82.1 14,12
Bessemer steel ingots 3,2H1,820 4,131,5
Bessemer steel rails......... l,ti!U,2?4 2,(W1,!178
Open hearth steel insrots.. 419,48 574,82()
Open hearth steel rails 3,340 4,018
Crucible steel ingots. Bi,'M 7;t,716
Rolled iron (except rails) 2,57B,127 2,804,829
Rolled steel (except rails) l,SK4,.1t4 1,829,247
Iron rails - .'. " H',2.58 15,04$
Pig, Scrap and ore blooms 3ii,l(i0 8u,783
Kegs of iron cut nails...... l,77S,OS2 1, 806,1 w
Kegs of steel cut nails 4,0;W,67t 8,834,816
Kegs of wire naile 2,435,000 3,145,111-
Iron and steel wire rods... 407,513 611,51)1
POISONED BY A CENTIPEDE.
A Firefly of Five Campers Die in Terrible
Convulsions. " f
Newj has just reached : Little Rock from
Baxter bounty, Ark., that a family of five
campers, named Baldwin, from Tipton county,
Tenn., en route for Texas, died in awful con
vulsions. The citizens suspected that a band
of 8yP8iefl wno hftd Dren lo!souing cuttle in
adjoining counties, had puisoned tne npnng
near which the family Had camped, lynching
of the bund has been imminent.
The remains of u large centipede was found
in the cottee pot out of which tne cumpers had
drank, and mis deadly . poison undoubtedly
caused their death. .
, . A DOUBLE SUICIDE.
Unrequited Affliction Brings Death to
Two Susceptible Ohloan.
.A white man and a colored man committed
suicide in a sensational manner in Findlay,
Ohio, because the woman they loved refused
their attention. Frederick Jackson, the
colored man, - inflicted thirteen cuts in his
head with a hatchet, from .which lie shortly
afterward died.,)
Adulj.h Mihuf.lehergcr, the white man, first
put a bullet into his hmid, then cut his throat
with a rawr, ari l ended the tiht with li.to by
throwing hjinst 1 1' into the river,
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLH
Rev. F. B. Meter, of England, a preach--r
who has succewNfully labored among the vers ing
people of London, is coming aurona j.o aid
Mr. Moody this summer. - .
Mrs. Fbank Leslie won fame as e. writer
before she married her late husband. It wan
as a contributor to his periodicals that s'lft be
came personally acquainted with Mr. Leslie,
Lord Randolph CHrnemix, findias th;;t
there is no scope just now for his super-abundant
abilities as a St atesman, is off to Mashon
aland and other parts of Africa, for the, pur
pose of studying the natives on the spot.
Sis Provo 'William Parry Wallis, the
"father of the royal navy," is 100 yeors li.
It was he who won the famous victory overt!;
brave Captain Lawrence; of the Aiiiericaii
navy, whose last words were:. "Don't fcive
the ship!" ;
The late King Kalakaua held a $5,0GC mem
bership in an American life insurance frater
nal order, and many a lodge member through
out Ohio and other States, therefore, received
official notice of the monarch's demise. The
notice gave his occupation as "Kmg" and hi
residence as Honolulu. ,
Oaptaih Hoke thinks an ineorrect impres
sion exists with regard to Tippu Tib, the great
Arub lender in Central Africa. He says that
Tippu Tib never has been a large slave raider,
but that on accoant of his power andlnfiaenco
many natives have voluntarily placed them
selves under his care, and are voluntarily km
servants. ;
The' elder two of Emperor William's som
show, as yet, very little of their imperii!
father's cold and domineering dispteition. In
their friendliness they much more 'resemble
their gentle grandfather, the la.te Emperor
Frederick. They are ready to make a comrade
of any lad they meet, especially if he shows a
lively and dashing spirit.
Mks,. Longshore Ptts was lecturing in
Cleveland some eveninsrs ago. aud, finally.
asked the gentleman in her audience to show
by a standing vote whether they opposed the
wearing of corsets by their sisters, their cou
sins and their . aunts, and all the men in the
hall arose at once. : Mrs. Potts did not dare
risk a vote by the gentler part of her audience.
The late Gen. Albert Pike conducted deep .
researches into ancient Aryan literature in
?ureuit of hints of early Masonic practices. "
he seventeen quarto volumes of translation
which are the fruit of his labor are in manu
script, written in an elegant manner upon fine
nailer TherA ia nnf n hint nr flu 0iaaitt.p fWim
one end to the other, and the- writinsr, done '
' with a quill pen of the old-fashioned kink, is ,
like copper-plate. Each volume numbers 1000
pages. ' " '
The Shereef of Wazan, head of Islamism
in Morocco, has taken to drink, and hs sepa
rated from the English lady to whom he wan
married some years ago. Hie favorite, tipple
is chnmnHnn. and there in no scandal in his
drinking it, because, as he is careful to explain
to the laithful: "True, the champngnc in the
bottle is intoxicating, but whmi poured into
the glass in my hand it becomes as simple as
water. ' .. . !
Tolstoi has foand a few fanatical followers
principally ladies of high rank in Russia
to join his Vishnevolotski colony, and to live
like the simple peasants by whom they are
surrounded. It may be taken for granted that
t Vi ooa Inrliasi TtAtYflft Koon nurioaxwl tit lWA F m va
uuvoif siterv .'i.vu .' vvtovv su av v v -". "
economizing for the seaside season. Ladies of .
high birth don't mingle with flea-bitten mou
iiks, or drink tea from cast-iron samovars, un
less there is some serious cause for self-abnegation.-
. 4 : . ' . , ' ,-. . . " .'v"
The Grand puke Michael, who has, by
marrying the woman he wanted, offended the
Czar, is thirty years of age. He was sent to
England in lfc87 with a hope that ho would
fancy a daughter of the Prince of Wales, and :
Tnakn n. nifltsh. A a ennn nm it. nan riiscrivfrrjvl
in St. Petersburg that he had no such inten
tion he fell into disfavor. The mother of his
bride was a Russian woman, and before mor
ganatieally marrying Duke Nicholas of Nas
sau, secured a divorce from her first husband.
iMISS GREELEY MARRIED.
The Old Editor's Daughter Weds an Epls
. copal Minister. ,
Miss Gabrielle Greeley, daughter of the late
Horace Greeley, founder of the 'New Tork
Tribune, was married at 10 o'clock' the other
rooming to the Rev. Frank Montrose Clcnden
nin in St. John's P. E. Church, rieasantville,
N, Y. The Rev. B. T. Hall, the rector of the
church, officiated. ' ' - .
The church was crowded with well-known
people from New Yorkand other cities, as well
residents of Pleasant ville, Chappaqua (Horace
Greeley's old home), and the surrounding vil
lages. All are warm friends of Miss Greeley
and her sincere well-wishers. .
There is probably no woman in Westchester
eoimty, young or old, who is more highly es
teemed than the bride. She has led a quiet
and unostentatious life since the death or her
father. Much of her time has been devoted
to doing good among all who needed her aid.
aud she has won the very appropriate title of
the "Lady Abbess." She has been the patron
sahit of tne sick and poor of Chappaqua.
After the bridal trip the bride and groom
will reside at the rectory of St. Peter's Church
in Westchester village, where Mrs. Clenden
nin will continue her good work among the
people of the church. The rectory has been
thorouchlv overhauled, repaired and refurn
ished, lor the occupaney ot the bridal couple.
It is the intention of Mr. and Mrs. Clenacn
nin to reopen the old home at Chappaqua. It
is understood that the big barn that Mr; Wree-"
ley built at a cost of $6,000 is to be made into
8 dwelling-house. . .: .
OUTLAWS RUN TO EARTH.
Six Mexican Desperadoes Attack a Ranch
and Kill an American.
A special despatch from Ban Antonio, Tex.,
gives the particulars of the capture of the band
of six outlaws who have been terrorizing the
bordff near what is known as the Peninsula.
These are the outlaws who rna lo a raid two
.weeks since on the ranch of VHoriano TTr
nandez, in Presidio county, Teres. Thfy
rt-ivwl at the Ilernandiiz ranch int.f.tidin .T tV
i kill the propriutor and assault lus wife
. . I A ... .... .
tnree tisugnurs. An American, r raiiK iu;t ,,
who happened to be then , was killed by the
first fusiladc, and Ilminii. wnundc.1 so ' -L
he died later. The bandits m ere beni- n oil t
a son of the ranchman, who wounded two ef
them. One of the prisoners has eoniessfd and
the gang will be tried in Chibimhuasand ha
shot or sent to the salt mines,
' CnAZED BY FEAR.
Serlon lUsuIts of Boys Vi httera;plng a
I Companion. - ,.
! At Northeast, Pa., a party of 12-year-old.
hoys decided towhitecsp a certain boysgahi'-t
whom they had a grudge. They tied hand
Lerrhkfs o ,-rr their faces, caught the (Icon"-!
hoy, and isking hnn to the pm X gar!'d him,
and tied him to a tioe and left him to his tale. '
M 1k-i liberated at dMyliclit. it witu found
that thronch fri. Vit and" exhausti-m he Jut i
become dcmi'iited. Ihe pcrrctrtoro wen
orror-strivKew.