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I't'nLIBBSD BT KSAKOKB fCBLISmKO Co. . '.-FOR GOD. I'OR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. VOL. III. PLYMOUTH, N. C , FRIDAY, MAY 15, 18,91. . DR.. TALMAGB. ' -The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun day Sermon. . Subject: "Ilnrudrum Abolished." ' Text : "OF Svieea great abundance, neither tea there any ntc Spice as the Queen, of Sheba save King Solomon,nU Chronicles, ix.t 0. . . .-.,, "What ts tbnt building out yonder gl i tier ing in the sun? Have von nor, hpn1 It. ' the houst of the forest of Lebanon. King Solomon las just taken to it his bride, the , Princess of Egypt. You see the pillars of . the portico an4 a great tower, adorned with one thousand shields of gold, hung on tba utide of the towerfive hundred of these 6hielils of gold manufactured at Solomon's order, five hundred were captured by David, his father, in battle. See how thev blaze in me noon aay sum Solomon goer up the ivory Hairs of his , throne between twelve Hons In statuarv, and rits down on the bac of the golden bull, the bead of the bronzs bo'tst turned toward the people, lhe family and attendants of the king are so many that the caterers of the place have to provide every day one hundred sheep and thirteen oxen, besides the birds and the venison. I hear the stamping and pawing of four thousand fine horses in the royal stables. There were important officials who bad charge of the work of gathering the straw and the barley for these horses. King Solomon was an early riser, tradition says, and used to take a ride out at daybreak: and when in his white apparel, behind the Rwiftest horses of all tlim by mounted archers in purple, as the caval , cade dashed through the streuts of Jerusalem I suppose it was something worth gett-iig up at five o'clock in the morning to look at. Solomon was not like some of the kings of the present day erowned imbecility. All the splendor of his palace and retinue was eclipsed by bis intellectual power. Why, he leemed to know everything. He was the first great naturalist the world ever saw. Pea cocks from India strutted the basaltic walk, and apes chatted in the trees and deer stalked the parks, and there were aquariums with loieign nsnana aviar:es with loreign birds, and tradition says these birds were so well tamed that Solomon might walk clear across the city under the shadow of their wings as they hovered and flitt jd about him. More than this, he bad a great reputation for the conundrums and riddles that he made ..and guessed. He and Kiug Hiram, his neighbor, used to sit by the hour and ask ridalee, each one paying in money if he could not answer or guess the riddle. , .The Solo monic navy visited all the world, and the sailor, of course, talked about; the wealth of ' their king, and about the riddles and engimas that be made and solved, and the news tpread until Queen Balkis, away off south, heard of it, and sent messengers with a few . riddle that she would like to have Solomon eolve and a few puzzles which she would like uj nave mm una out. cne sent among other things to King Solomon a diamond with a ' hole so small that a needle could not pene trate it, asking him to thread that diamond. And Solomon took a worm and put it at the opening in the diamond, and the worm crawled through, leaving the thread in the diamond. , The queen also sent a goblet to Solomon, csking bim to fill it with water that did not pour from the sky, and that did notTush out from the earth, a nd 1 immediately Solomn put slave on the back of a swift horse and galloped him around and around the park until the horse was nigh exhausted, and from t he perspiration of the horse the goblet was filled. She also sent King Solomon five tiunrtrorl Vwive in yiflc' rl.occ- wA ki... dred girls in boys' dress, wondering if he . vould be cute enough to find out the decep tion. Immediately Solomon, when he saw them wash their faces, knew from the way tby applied the water that it was all a cheat. Queen Balkis was 60 pleased with the cuteness of Solomon that she said, I'll just go and see him for myself." Yonder it ,omes the cavalcade horses and dromeda ries, chariots and charioteers, jingling har ness and clattering hoofs, and blazing hield. and flying ensigns, and clapping cymbals. The placets saturated with the ; erf ume. She brings cinnamon and saffron nd calamus and frankincense and all man- )brough the gate the armed guard inhale the roma . "Halt f" cry the charioteers, as the J heels grinds the gravel in front of the pil fcired portico of the king. Queen Balkis slights in an atmosphere bewitched with per .Aime. . As the drdmedaries are driven up to iba king's store-houses, an 1 the bundles of jernpbor are unloaded, and the sacks of cin eamon, and the boxes of spices are opened, he purveyors of the palace discover what piy text announces, "Of spices, great abun dance; neither was there any such spices as Abe Queen oi Sheba gave to King Solomon." Well, my friend?, you know that all the ologians agree in mailing Solomon a type of bi ifct, and making the Queen of Sheba a Jype of every truth seeker, and I shall take the responsibility of faying that all the spikenard and cassia and frankincense which (lie Queen of Sheba brought to King Solo mon are mightily suggebtive of the sweet jpicee-of our holy religion,. Christianity is xot a collection of ebarp technicalities and jugular facts and chronological tables and dry statistics. Our religion is compared to frankincense and to cassia, but never 'to nifhtfrbarie. It is a bundle ot royrrb. It is a dsMi of holy light. It is a sparkle of cool fountains. It is an opening of opaline gates. It is a collection of spices. Would God that we were as wise in taking spices to our Di vine King as Queen Balkis was wise in tak- ing the spices to the earthly Soiomon I . What many of us most need, is to have the hum arum driven out of our life and the hum drum out of our religion. The American and English chuion will die of humdrum unless there be a change. An editor from San Francisco a few weeks npo wrote me sayin; he was getting up for bis paper a symposium from many jclt'i'gy rreti, cWusm'mjj among other things, "Wny tlo not f t opic jo to church?" and ho wanted bit opinion, tind I gave it in one sentence, 'I'tople do not fro to church because they cannot btaivi the humdrum.', lhe fact is that mot pt'oj lu have k much humdrum in thf ir worl'Hv Milima; tlmt they do not want to have added 'lie l.umw.'iini ot religion. We r.wJ in all our erii.'BSi:.iJ exhortations and .jrs and prayers more of went Qiieen lial fris brought to Solonon -rmmi-.'ly, more Pplce. The fact is that he duties and circs of this life, coining tans from Ume to time, are ttupid otten and inane and intolerable I'-re are men who have been bartering and db cr-'iatiiir, climbing, pounding, bar-im -'j for twenty year?, lorty year, liity yi .ire. Oiip c.ratloug drudgery has tticir life le-n. "1 . r fnee anxious, thci." feel! .mii--i I, tr.er dava monotonous. Wbut is nce.-.ry to brisMen up that man's life, and to iwee!n tht aciii (1l!'i:'.)hitH'ii, an'i to ruis,.arj.n3 i.mo the man's ppirit.? Th3 f-picei-y of our holy . ' ion. W l'V, if l--:twr- n tlv; los-of litu r (Hi -iie-l II gl' n or nn e rnal gaiu; it he ti f" fTi m? the p f Ci ' t; IOU1..1 ). the lill s in i iutf trieadj .-.in t j :. i fr ons inspiration, penrfulumlng between calm satisfaction and high rapture. How any woman keeps house without the religion ot Christ to help her id a mystery to me. To have to spend tiie greater part of one's life, as many women do, in pfanuiug for tho meais, in stitching garments that will soon be rent again, and deplorln? breakages and supervising tardy subordinates and driving off dust that soon aaiu will settle, end doing the same thing day in and day out, and year in and year out, until their bair silvers,; and the back stoops, and the spectacles crawl to the eyes, and the grave breaks open, under the thin sole of the shoe- oh, it is a long monotony t But when Christ comes to the drawing room, and comes to the kitchen, and conies to the nursery, and comes in the dwelling, then how cherry be comes all womanly duties. She is never lona now- Martha gets through fretting and joins Alary at the feet of Jesus. ; All day long Deborah is happy because he can help Lapidoth; Hannah, because she can make a coat for youn? Samuel; Miriam, because she can watch her infant brother; Rachel because she can help her father water the stock; the widow of Sarept b ' cause the crusa of oil is. be!ng replenished., O woman! having in your pantry a nest of boxes containing all kinds of condiments..' why have you not tried in your heart and life 1 the spicery of our holy religion? "Martha! Martha 1 thou art careful an.l troubled about many things; but one thiuz is needful, and Marv bath chosen tha t srood part which shall not be taken away from her."';.,.' ' .'...... - , . . I must confess that a great deal of the re ligion xt this day ia utterly iusipid. Tuare , is nothing piquant or elevating about it. ilen and women go around humming psalms in a minor key, ana cujtunng melancholy, and their w orship bas in it more sighi than rapture. We do uot doubt their piety. Oa, no. But they are sitting at a feast where the cook has forgotten to season the food. Everything is flat in their experience and In their conversation. Emancipated from sin and death and hell, and on their way to a magnificent heaven, they act as thouzhthey were trudging on toward an everlastin g Botany Bay. Religion does not seen to agree with them. It seems to cat A in the windpipe and become a tight strangulation Instead of an exhilaration. t ' ; AH the infidel books that have been writ-: ten, from Voltaire down to Herbert Spen cer, have not done so much damage to our Christianity as lugubrious Christians. , Who wants a re"" a woven out of the shadow of the night? Why go growling on your way to celestial enthronement? Coma out of that cave and sit down in the warm light o( the Sun of Righteousness. Away with your odes to melancholy and Ilervey's "Medita tions Among the Tombs." Then let onr songs abonnd, And every tear be dry; We're marctiifig throngti Hmmaaael'i ground To fairer world's on hlgo. I have to say. also, that we need to put more spice and enlivenment in our religious teaching, whether it be in the prayer meet ing, or in the Sabbath school, or in the church. We ministers need more fresh air and sunshine in our lungs and our heart and our head. Do you wonder that the world is so far from being converted when you find so - little vivacity in the pulpit and in the pew? We want, like the Lord, to plant in nr sermons and exhortations more lilies of the field. We want fewer rhetorical elabora tions and fewer sesquipedalian words; and when we talk about shadows, we do not want to say adumbration; and when we mean queerness, we do not want to talk about idiosyncrasies: or if a stitch in tho back, we do not want to talk about lumbago, but in the plain vernacular. preach that gospel wnicn proposes to make ail men nappy, non est victorious and free. . In other words, we want "more cinnamon and less gristle. Let this be so in all the different departments of work to which the . Lord calls us. Let us be plain. Let m be earnest. Let us be common senslcal. When we talk to the people in a vernacular thy can understand they will be very glad to come and receive the truth we present. Would to- God that Queen Balkis would drive her spice laden dromedaries into all our sermons and prayer-meeting exhor tations. More than that, we wont more life and spice In onr Christian work. The poor do not want so much to be groaned over as sung to. With the bread ana medicines and the garments you give them, let there be an ac companiment of smile3 and brisk encourage ment. Do not stand and talk to them about the wretchedness of their abode,, and the hunger of their looks, and the hardness f f their lot. Ah! they know it better than you :an tell them. Show them the bright side jf the thing, if there be any bright side. Tell them good times will come. 'ieU them that for the children of God there is im mortal rescue. Wake them up out of their' itolidity by an inspiring laugh, and while you. sond in help, liKe the Queen of Sheba, Uso send in the spices. . ' , There are two ways of meeting the poor.' One is to come into their house with e nose ale vated in disgust, as much as to say. "I ion't see how you live here in this neighbor hood. It actually make3 me sick. There is that bundle; take it, you poor, miserable wretch, and make the most of it." Another way is to go into the abode of the poor in a manner which seems to say: "The blessed Lord sent me. He was poof himself. It is not more for the good I am going to try to do you than it is for the good you can do me.? Coming in that spirit the gift will be as aro matic as the spikenard on the feet of Christ, and all the hovels in that alley will be fra grant with the spioe. ; - . We need more spica and enlivenment in . our church music. Churches sit discussinsr whether they shall have choirs, or precen tors, or organs, or bass viols, or cornets. H I soy, take that which will bring out the most Inspiring music. If we had half as much zeal and spirit in our cbutches as we have in" the songs of our Sabbath schools it would not be long before the whole earth would quake with the coming God. Why, in most churches nine'tenths of the people do not shig, or they sing so feebly that the people at their elbows do not know they are sing i0tr. People mouth and mumble the- praises ofGod; but there ia not more than one out of a hundred who makes "a 'joyful noise!' unto the t Rock of Our Salvation. Some times, when the congregation forgets ,'tself, and is all absorbed in the goodness of God or the glories of heaven, I get an iny&aation of what church music will be a huiidred years f pom now. when the coming generation shall wnkAnntoitsdutr. - I promise a high , spiritual ble.fiin to any one who -will mag in church, anrt who will sing so heartily that the peoploj all around cannot help but sing. Wakahipl all the churches from Bangor to San Francisco and Christendom. It is not al matter of preference, it is a matterjpf reMious duty. Obvf or fifty times r moraivoluoi of sound, r -. inn choraii in .ern n litmus sur r,nm us,-and - yet Germany vfehs &Teeehred iiotaing at the- hand of God florpftmd with' America,; and eugtifc the aeclaimiio Berlin be louder than that ia i Brooklyn Soft, Imz drawn out wvmc is appropriate ihr toe draw i n g room mnd appropnata for ,th concert, but St. John rives an idea of tm nonaroui and resonant ccmirttratiqual os;Qg approJ primte for .churches when, in lIitMng to the temple service-of heaven, he mjsi ' I hmrd a grwat voice, tha voie of a, gf eat molti tude. and ftsthe voire of many f-aterb, -and a the Toive of Uiigtty tliB?;uarii! fcy. Halle lujah for the Lord God omnipotent refgn etu." , :, ' . . .' ,." Join with me in a crusade, giving me not only your hearts, but the mighty uplifting of your voices, and I believe we can, through Christ's grace, sing fifty thousand souls into the kingdom of Christ. An argument they can laugh at, a sermon they can talk down, bat a vast audience joining in one anthem ia irresistible. Would that Queen Balkis would drive all her spice leaden domedaries into our church music. "Neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon." . ,4 Now, I want to impress this audience with the fact that religion is sweetness and per fume and spikenard and saffron and cinna mon and cassia and frankincense, and alt sweet spices together. "Oh," you say. "I have not looked at it as sucb. I thought it was a nuisance; it had for me a repulsion; I held my breath as though it were malodor; I have been appalled at its advance. I have said, if I have any religion at all, I want to have just as little of it as is possible to get through with.". Oh, what a mistake your have made, my brorlier. The religion of Christ is a present and everlasting redolence. It counteracts all trouble. Just put it on the stand beside the pillow of sickness. It catches in the curtains 'and perfumes the stifling air. - It sweetens the cup of bitter medicine, and throws a glow on the gloom of the turned lattice. It it a balm for the aching side, and a soft bandage for the tem ple stung with pain. Why did you look so sad to-day when you came in? Alas! for the loneliness and the heartbreak, and the load that is never lifted front your soul. Soma of you go about feet Ing like Macaulay when he wrote: "It I had another month of such days as I have been spendin?, I would be impatient to get down into my little narrow crib in the ground like, a weary factory child." , And there have been times in your life when vou wished you could get outer this life, iou nave said, "Oh, how swet to my lips would be toe dust, of the! valley," and wish you could pull over you iin your last slumber the coverlet of green grass and daisies. .You have said: "Oh, how beautifully quiet it must be in the tomb. ., I wish I was there." 1 see all around about me widowhood and orphanage and childlessness; sadness, disappointment, per plexity. If I could ask ail those to rise in this audience who have felt no sorrow and b?en buffeted by no disappointment if I could ask ail such to rise, how many would rise? Not one.- - - A widowad mother with her little child went West, hoping to get better wages there, and she was taken sick and died; The over seer of the poor got her body and put it in a box, and put it in a wagon, and started down the street toward the cemetery at full trot. The little child the only child ran after it through the streets, bareheaded, crying "Bring me back my mother! bring me back my motherF And it was said , that as the people looked on and saw h9r crying after that which lay in the box in the wagon all she loved on earth it is said the whole vil lage was in tears. And that is what a graat many- of you are doing chasing the dead. Dear Lord, w there no appeasement for all this sorrow that I see about me? Yes, the thought of resurrection and reunion far be yond this scene of strangle and tears. "They snail nunger no more, neitaer tiuirsu auj more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." , t .- '- Across the couches of your sick and across the graves of your dead I fling this shower of sweet spices. Queen Balkis, driving up to the pillared portico of the house of cedar, carried no such pungency of perfume as ex-, hales to-day from tha Lord's garden. It is peace. It is sweetness. It is comfort, Itis infinite satisfaction, this Gospel I commend to you.1 Some one could not understand why an old German Christian scholar used to be always so calm and .happy and hbpetul when he had so many trials and sicknesses and ailments. .A man secreted . himself in the bouse. He said "I mean to watci this old scholar and Christian;'" and he saw the old Christian man go to his room and sit down on the. cbair beside the stand and open tha Bible and begin , to read. Ha read on and on, chapter alter chapter, hour after hour, until his face was all aglow with the tid ings from heaven, and when the' c.locic struck twelve he arose and shut his Bible, and said: "Blessed Lord, wo are on the same old terms , yet. Good night. Good night." ..'.' -V V ' ' Oh. you eiu parched and you trouble pounded, here is comfort, here is satisfaction, W ill you coma and get it? 1 1 cannot tell you what the iiora oners you nereaiier w wen as I can tell you now. "It doth not yet ap pear what we shall be." Have you read of the Taj Mahal in India, in some respects the most majestic building on irto? - Twenty thousand men were twenty years in building it. It oost about sixteen millions of dollars. The walls are of marble, inland with carne Uan from Bagdad, and turquois from Thibet, and jasper from the Ponjaub, and amethysts from Persia, and all - manner of precious stones. A traveler says that it seems to him like the shining of an . enchanted castle of burnished silver. The walls are two hun dred and forty-five feet high, and from tha top 6f these springs a dome thirty more feet high, that aome containing' wie mosc wua derf ul echo the world bas ever known, so that ever and anon travelers standing below with flutes and drums and harps are testing that echo, and the sounds from below strike up, and then come down, as it were, . the; voices of ange'js all around about the building. There is around it a garden of tamarind and banyan and palm and all the floral glories of the ransacked earth. ; ' - But that is only a tomb of.a dead empress, and it is tame compared with the grandeurs which God has builded for your living and Immortal spirit. Oh, home of the blessed! Foundations of gold! Arches of victory! Capstones of pra'.sa! And a dome in which, there are echoing and re-echoing the hallelu jahs pt the ages. ' And around about that mansion is a garden the garden of God and all the springing fountains are the.bot--tlei tears of too church in the wilderness, and all the crimson of flowers is the deep hue that was caught iid from the carnage of earthly martyrdoms, and the fragranca is the prayer of all the saints, and the aroma puts into utter forgetfulness tha casnia, and the spikenard, and the f rankincsnse, and the world renowned spices which tho Queen Balkis, of Abyssinia, flung at the feet of King Solomon. When ahall these eyes thy heaven built walls And pearly C.alt butioid. ,, Thy bulwarks, -wiiii salvation strong, ' And sweets of shining cold? --- Through . obduracy on our part, , and through the rejection of that Cunsc who makes heaven possible, 1 wonder if any of us will miss that specrfcncle? I fearl I fear! The queen of the south will rise up in jud? mcrAagainst this generation and condemn it, because . ho caoia from tuts uttermost parte of the earth try hear the wisdom of Sol-, otnou, and behold a rent-T tin Solomon is herel May God grant that t'..ruu' h your ownpractical experience you may ii.-v.l that religion's ways are v ays t-J plo i-'int ;,,-?, r.ii that alt her piths ara pa: i: of p '-tc. ih it is perfume- now anJ perfume forever. - 1 there waa en . " Unimex "f r -e; ":i-.' -f ws there an.1' s-uc!i ' - '"3o:: Lt SueUgave t -m-- . :i." " EOBIXSOM day, t'tit lie THE NEWS, Burglars following a circus traelin? through Wisconsin are committing numerous robberies. .""The safe ' of the Marinette Iron Works was broken open and $7,000. stolen. The Ancient and Illustrious Order of the Knights of Malta met, in annual convocation in Wilmington, "Del.- The New Jersey au thorities hav begun an investigation of the short-term beneficial societies with a view to breaking them up in that state. The frosts in Sussex county, Del., are reported to have destroyed the middle variety of peachei, but the early and Jate varieties are uninjured. -Charles Miller, a butcher, was burned to death in Philadelphia. Fire did $100,000 damage in Winona, Minn. The dwelling of farmer John Klein near Virginsville, Pa., was de stroyed by fire with its contents. - Believed to a be the work of burglars. Four miners were killed by an explosion of fire-damp near Clarksburg, W." Va. There is considerable trouble in getting a jury for the Garrison trial at Wheeling. Traffic Manager Leeds, of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, was found guilty! by the Western Traffic Associar tion of cutting rates on sugar, and Jay Goutw, discharged I him. Sam Small has resigned the presidency af the Utah Methodist University.- The Caldwell-Wilcox Company's foundry and machine works at Newburg, N. Y., were burned: loss, $33,000.- The tobacco warehouse of F.W. Dorhman ife Son, in Cov ington, Ky., was burned. Lois, $28,000. A Chicago policeman, thought to be mentally un balanced, shot his daughter twice. J5he may die. -Charles E. Wilcox, a billiard-table maker, was thrown from his sulky at Milwau kee and killed. r ' "- The schooner Atlanta was lost off" Sable Bank. Two of the crew were saved. 'Cash ier J. K. Brantley, of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Road, is short in his accounts. Fire caused $23,000 damage at Brockton, Mass. The Lake Shore and the Nickel Plate roads made more money last year than ever before. Sister Eulalie Pierce died at Wheel ing, aged seventy-two. George ; Ring was suffocated by fire at Buffalo.- -Fire destroyed the shops of the American1 Wheel Company at Sidney, O., causing a loss of 100,000. At a foundry in Bellows Falls, Vt, a ladle holding two tons of molten iron capsized and seriously burned four workingmen. --A crazy man, giving the name of Charles J. Dixon, was ar rested in New '. York, having confided to'Jay Gould's physician a plot to extort money from the millionaire under threats of taking his life. Thomas B. Pope, the landscape pain ter, of Newburg, N. Y., was struck by an ex press train and instantly killed. -The twenty-ninth international 'convention of the Young Men's Christian Association opened in Kansas City. Dr. Roland P. Faulkner has been elected professor of statistics in the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. Mayor Dun can, of Burlington, Ia, has - been asked to resign on account of collusion with gamblers, and is threatened with impeach ment if he refuses. The Schneidwend & Lee Electroryping and Printing Press Com pany, of Chicago, "confessed judgments aggre gating $47,323. The assets are about $150,000, and liabilities $100,000.- The blast furnace of the Troy (N. Y.) Steel and Iron Company, on Breaker Island, was damaged by fire, and other property was destroyed. Loss about $400,000.- -Ex-Governor Thomas Crittenden, of Missouri, who was stricken with paralysis, is much better.- The United States Circuit Court at S . Louis has annulled the naturaliza tion papers of seventy persons, on the ground ihat they were obtained by fraud. Dr. W. H. Rollins, one bf the most prominent physicians in the South, and dean of the University of Louisville, is dead, aged fifty-one. Albert II. Lennox, the Haytien and Greek Consul at Philadelphia, and Samuel D. Croft, supreme officers of the Girard Beneficial Association, has given bail for a hearing on the charge of obtaining money by false pretenses.- The grand jury of New Orleans, in a report of the Hennessy case, exposes a shocking condition of affairs. It shows that by O'Malley De tective Agency, aided the politicians, con trolled the jury machinery of the courts; that three or more of the jurymen who tried the as sassins of Chief or. Police Hennessy were bribed, and that deputy sheriffs and other officers were under the influence of the O'Mal ley gang. O'Malley and five of his crowd were ihiucwju. joun voouioru, apea sis- teen years, of Logan county, W. V.. accideny tally shot and killed himself while hunting. : The Polish societies of the Pennsylvania mining towns celebrated the one hnndreith anniversary of the arrival of the first Po,li',k immigrants to America.- Asheville, Nt- C, voted $625,000 for town improvement1, ud elected Charles D. Blanton, Democrat, ;tnayor. At a railroad camp orithe Chattanooga Southern" Railroad, four negro labor Ws were burned to death, in a drunken etnpovi in. a box car. -The third annual conven'ion of the National Association of Machinists opened in Pittsburg John McReynolds tVom Scran- ton, Ta., while walking on t he street at rat terson, N. J., with his mietrw, Mrs. Annie llobson, was struck down froro' behind by an unknown party, aud died from his injuries. fJideon W. Marsh and Charts Lawrence, who were president and cashier, respectively, of the suspended Keystone Naii"ial Hunk, Phila delphia, were arrested, charged with conspir-. injto make false reports- Mendofa, 111., is tiiiflt'ringfrom infoivliary tires. Dr. Merg er, of MiutrsvilK Wis-, slt and killed Wm. "bob! during a quurr 1 ;vi r a dog. All the biesseriger hoy in Portland, Maine, arc on a strike. David V--'H' Mnneryand eurnVr hhopiipar Anvil"., I4-1-. burned with con tents; low ;! ''"'. pni;..il!y .isurcd. Judge M. H. 0.v-l.v died at Lancaster, Ky. Charles it, vi prfhidfut of the M-arjilard OilOinpj'.iy, d'lfd in ":w York. A lw: t v'ljrui' fuel. try .-with (t daily capacity of fvur I--in h-t-d tors v'- 1 ert.'-t.-l at" U-s-h;-lIto' IS BBPLY. He Announces that Italy, Will , Longer Continue the Controversy Kg The Italian Premier Turns Over the United States :to the Mercy'of Tublic Opin ionThe Case Abandoned. ;' ' ' -i - ' : v v ryt i " --ft- " -?tr' - . - ! : i 't1; y r" A despatch from Rome, Italy, 'says: The Green Book on the. New Orleans lynching comprises twenty-four despatches dated from March 14 to April 28. Itshov-- that the Italian government from the common cement p tsc vcred in asking that criminal proceedings be taken against the lynchers, and that an in demnity be paid to the families of the victims. The expression "brought to jus-lice" recurs in the official despatches, as well as in Baron t Faya's private letters. The principal rom- munications have already been published. I After Mr, Blaine's note of April 14, the vol ume concludes with the, telegram from the ; Marquis di Rudini to the Marquis Imperiali, j the text of which is as follows: ' .' j I have now before me a note addressed to , you by Secretary Blaine April 14. Its perusal produces a most painful impression upon me. I I will not stop to lay stress upon the lack of conformity with diplomatic usages displayed ; ip making use, as Jar. Blaine did not hesitate to do, of a portion of a telegram of mine cotn- mumcated to him in strict confidence, in or ' der to get rid of.a qu estion clearly defined in .! our ofbcial documents, which alone possess a diplomatic value. Nor will I stop to point actualiv signified onlv that prosecution ought to be commenced in order that the individuals recognized as guilty should not escape punish ment. .'.."'-..--- .'::'.".','..' ' ' .. . For above all astute arguments remains the fact that henceforward the federal govern ment declares itself conscious of what we have constantly asked, and yet it does not grant our legitimate demands.' . i : . Mr. Blaine is right when he makes the pay , ment of indemnity to the families of the vic tims dependent upon proof of the violation of the treaty; but we shrink from thinking that he considers that the fact of such violation still needs proof. Italian subjects, acquitted by American juries, were massacred in prisons of the state without measures being taken to defend them. What other proofs does the federal government expect of a violation of a treaty wherein constant protection and secur ity of subjects of the contracting parties is ex- dence that we have never asked anything else but the opening of regular proceeding. in re- gard to thi6, Baron 1; ava's first note, dated March 15, contained even the formula of the telegram addressed on the same day by Mr. Blaine, under the order of President Harrison to the governor of Louisiana Now, however, in the note of April 14. Mr. Blaine is silent on the subject which is, for us, the main point of controversy. .- . . We are under the sad necessity of conclud ing that, what to every other" government would anne&r to be the accomplishment of strict civil duty, is impossible to the federal envernment. It u time to DreaK on tms dooi- less controversy. Public opinion, the sove reign judge, will know how to indicate an equitable solution of this grave problem. We have affirmed, and we again aflirm, our right. Let the federal government reflect upon its , side, 1f it is expedient to leave to the mercy of I eacn siaieti ine cnion, irrespousioje w ior eign countries the eflSciency of treaties, pled ging its faith anu L?rw to entire nations. The present despatch is addrotoel to yon exclusive, ly, not to the federal gof ernmeit. Your duties henceforward are soieiw restricieu.r aeaung with current business, Mr. Blaine's Cab egrara to Mr. Porter.. The following der was sent to Minister Porter by Sccretar Blaine: "Departmfnt off State, Washington, May 4, 1891. Porter, Aishencan Minister, Home: A series of statements addressed to the Marquis Imperiali by tlie Marquis Rudini was tele graphed from litome yesterday and was pub . lished by the jiifisociawa rress oi tne unirea Btates today. The only part of the Marquis I Rudini 's communication which ithis govern- raent desires to iiotiue is the one here quoted, namely: 't have now before me a note , ad dressed toffou by Secretary Blaine April 144 Its perusajf produces a most painful impression upon me. I will not stop to lay stress upon the lack hi conformity with diplomatic usages displayed Jn making -use, as Mr. Blaine uid not hesitate to do, of a portion of a telegram of mine commurucated to him in strict confidence in order to get rid of a question clearly defined in oiio" efficia! documents, which alone possess a diji'lomatiflJvalue.' "rlhe telegram ;of March 24,' concerning whose public use the Marquis di Rupini com- is tne ioiiowing, which was quoted in mil in my note of Aprri 14 to .Marquis I raper- yali, charge oi Italy at this capital: "Our re quests , to tne leaerai government are very win pls. Some Italian subjects acquitted by ' the American magistrates have been murdered in prison while under the immediate protec tion of the authorities. Our right, therefore, to demand and obtain the punishment of the . murderers, and an indemnity for the victims is unquestionable. I wish to add that the pub lit! opinion in Italy is iustly impatient, and if l concrete provisions were not at once taken I linoiua nna myscil in the pamtiu necefpity oi showing openly on r dissatisfaction byrecalling the minister of bis Majesty from a country where he is unable to obtain justice. (Signed ) Ihidini.' "The intimation of the Marquis Rudini that the telegram in question was delivered in strict confidence is a total, error. As the tele gram expret-sed the demand of the Italian government, it was impossible tliia Marquis Rudini could transmit" it in strict confidence. As 1 have already stated, it wascommunicatd to me in person by Baron Fava, . written- in Knglfah in his own handwriting, without a RtigKtFtion of privacy, find the telegram ilwlf ha not a single mark upon it oennting a con j fldential character. 1 have caused n number of copies of the telegram to be forwarded to you today in fae-simile. The usual murk for italio . printing was nsed by me under four lines ami they appear in the copies..- You wilVuse the. fnc-sirniles in such manner a) will niwt eflVc- vi twally provu the error into which the Marquis i Ilndini has fallen. ; BT.AmE.' Jamks A. BAtucr, the managing partner of th Barnum ifv Bailey snow, is a n oiva Detroit and forty-four years of a;;. lis first experience in the show hnRiue:s was s a paste boiler, in the billpo.itins; tlnp o Kol)inson Lite's Circa.", UJ war: He -was also a tutlor' ch-' , c! : war ft t per month. ; rttnei r.) t Pr."I mMAP S!i" !!'' " Hwir the x t ! I .tci 1 t. ..Id . it ' i i out the reference, in this telegram ot mine ot March 24, that the words "punishment of the guilty," in brevity of telecraphic language V. .l T ... . era -. Tiff . tJL: ':!:. ... ! Itiac.-'i---' IV bob j rr: , i j 5 ' of.", tl - -tl i i: ---Tiir4E-i:irao;ie a;ii nu . ,i. Vji, n, ., tr j.: ..-s , VS., fell l:lto3 '-Veil It is rei-"'r:' ' iuat i ont of every : ::i v:i Howard cow... , iL.t., r - I v - jtmk tb- is John .Vv"all"-rt xt'till ' county, was niTi over and by the cannon-ball tram o Western Road. - ' cr tt Pestiferous curshr I ipla 1 wj mi various i.iuv&s in nu:ri ' '"""' their destruction. ' , lne wotk on the big jowcier works ai i.r logg, Wayne county, S . Va., is beinsr Uniil-.-' nTit i t n 4 wnrtrfl -un 1 1 Tirnn ni w r it- i: ti t the middle of this month. Judge SheJor, ot 1'atncK coTinty, n., n upon th-petition of citizens of Stuart, l cotmryseat, declined to grant licem:- ir !' sale of liquor in that town. A Tt affijvtnfinn Vinn Vtn rtrm!Hl';fl fit. . . folk, Va having for its object the erc:l' . a monument in that city w ihe menu;; v r lata Capf. James Barron Hope, f Jahn Bowie Strange Camp, -vOt I Ycterans, of Chariot icsviil",VM.. has ilc; resolution urcintf the removal of the re:uu. of Gen. Joseph L. Johnson, totr.ichn,ioiid. XMV WilQU UkULVU Ml IHIf.va- i w i ..... i - ton, Va.; to" a point on the yt ViigiUv uatrai uauroaa near . i,-.-yrjy, v. being agitated, and money is lobe raised 1 Stoionton for a nreliminar y sur vey. A frcightwrt'pk ocurred on ihc Cli'psr"'"1 and Ohio- ltnird about two mucs l Lynchburg, Va. The roupling broke afl i ' front and rear sections of the train coll badJby wrecking eight cars. -. No one was l Asuuena isia, va., me in-.yyi-iia' - preparing to commence the erection tf ft ; OiW church, their present house brir? i . quate for the purpose. Th'Mefhouisr: f already engaged in building their newchi . Governor Fleming, of West Yiitnia,, ' appointed C Jr. Moore, ot jrocanonnvs ro?; agent to represent the State of Wes-t Vir ia all marten pertaining to the Sou5 i Interstaie Exposition, to be hddatllal i tj..v Samuel Anderson, a well-to-do -far living near Shreveport, La., was snot kille3 while plowing in his field by? concealed in a fence corner. J. A. v whose divorced wife Anderson mar. . . -four months ago, was amsted. ' Samuel Barrentine and Wrs-ley -colored, chari'ed vith citerr tinj Capt. Menry Barrentine at t -.'iur,1 -confessed the crime, and alji i-P' -poisoned Mr. Harry A,. West, n, pr.) ;i wealthy farmer, who died suddenly t ago. .. , .- - ' During tho parade of Torej Martinsburg, W. Va., a hw- . side of the street became fr ; -.; elephants, and, jumping to tyTiis wdr, cni. woman to be knocked over :. w - l' had a child in, her rin, ana ik.U.. t killed it. At Walnut Hills Va.. two not'." l laws named Jackson and. CrHbtr.-., t ' whom an old quarrel existed, met i'i t!i j drew revolvers, fired multJin-?ou!Jr, vA died instantly. Jacksoa w a5 'l.nt t heart and Crabtree through i.'.i' Itu .i. One hundred bales of cc- n v f t : consumed by fire, about th'ee v ?Alp?trh N. C. on the vUntt.( i ot uMr, Thr waa.no ineuraricw an 1 t coVLwas a total loss, aniovin.n: :. It is Exposed to have cuv-, i, -a-irom a raload engine. ; , Tho Wheeling Terminal C- ,i.pi...y i KniWinim hmiJsome union station in i July at the latest. Judge Wallace, cf the Cotrv:" ' ' FredenckshurK, va., hgrn the Chfincellorsville Battleliei The object of the association is k improve and beautify the historic i i the famous Chancellorville lmttlr-..-J. twelve miies uoiu ikui'mi-ebuuii;., -.-sell and dispose of such port inns oi f? as they ma 'dak proper for carrj : objects of : asso'iation. ' At the di ...;tors meeting of the . -lina Midland Railroad Company m horo' N. C-, it wus decided to bui! 1 -line from Danvilic, Va.,to Mooreev ' arotob issued covering th wh. tho road, and the building will Ih: as arrangements can be compK" building of this road will mak Salem the central -Uy on the b'a: i from Atlanta, Charlotte, Danville. -! etc., to Washington. A terrible tro.Ta iy has jnsl Wheelers, Va. . i'rom what can t e-cms that betweeu Jiri Cs i: Jackson, both disreputable 'i-r grudge existed. They met. Lor; cuns. and .wkTioiu sr-eakins a i menced the dea'!'" vc-rk. After ceased, Crabtree '. s ifi.id i ".d and jRckson, with a bui'ft abdomen linfereti Ii'iir arid d,-. The West End JmproveiU' S t IJagerstown, Md., has contra '.'!'' i of gentlemen from Noi nun location on the i romny of Company of a wrought jvoii , ; will fiM-fl' 000, trnd r . under way one hundred Is : templatcd to start with fifty ; persons engaged I-. ing - - i.l plant will cover ti ve acre o! : iocAted opposite . p.s : i; building will col. . i-n. , t , i During a thurmer . V- I., a large trc r ti r. -i ruck and tplint-red ni. v tree a eats 1 rod. lhe electric c r -Bjd shattered the in ' ruck 5 :.e "".oft1 1 r-e p e v.'i I : fll .() 1!. v. 'ie I urn, ; : 1 ;'rar - ;u ffiRe( H ing, W. Va-, but as it nuiu i. wun to finish an eliiXrate l.-nLsm, a hm aetcjTnineu to put u n'r;' ; . which will be-ready f ve byi:c u. t
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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