Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 4 March 1896 — Page 4

KLL MEN ARE ASTRAY

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IMPRESSIVE SERMON DR. TALMAGE.

The Liberty of the Gospel.

BY REV.

launtDH Throngs Hear the Eminent Dlvine—Why Men Drift Away From Jesna, Seeking That Which They Never Find.

I WASHINGTON, March 1.—The gospel ds out its gladdest sound in tbia on from the nation's capital. Imense throngs pack and overflow the urch to which Dr. Talmage preaches ice cach Sabbath. His text this mornig was Isaiah liii, 6: "All we, like p, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own'way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of ns all." I Once more I ring the old gospel bell. iThe first half of wy next text is an inaictment. All we, like sheep, have gone astray. Some one says: "Can't •on drop that first word? That is too eral that sweeps too great a circle." ime man rises in the andience, and he 9 over on the opposite side of the and says: "There is a blasphemer,

I understand how he has gone y. And there in another part of the is a defaulter, and he has gone y. And there is an impure person, he has gone astray." Sit down, my her, and look at home. My text ua all in. It starts behind the puljpit, sweeps the circuit of the room, and BOmes back to the point where it startAd. when it says, All we, like sheep, Dave gone astray.

I can very easily understand why $Iartin Luther threw up his hands after tie had found the Bible and cried out, "Oh, my sins, my sins!" and why the frablican. according to the custom to this day in the east, when they have any great grief, began to beat himself and cry, as ho smote upon his breast, "God he merciful to me, a sinner." I was, like many of you, brought up in the country, and I know some of the habits of sheep, and how they get astray and •what X'-ij U' ::c mean.? when it says, "All We, lilro sheep, have gone astray." Sheep e! astray in two ways—either by trying to get into other pasture, or from bclr.^ seaved by the dogs. In the former way some of ns got astray. We thought the religion of Jesus Christ put us cn chort commons. We thought there Was better pasturage somewhere else. "We if wo could only lie down on the Lui:l:g of a distant stream, or un•er great cats on the other side of some Siill, we might be better fed. We wanted other pasturage than that which God, through Jesus Christ, gave our soul, and •we wandered on and we wandered on i»nd we were lost. We wanted bread, iand wo found garbage. The farther we •wandered, instead of finding rich pasitnrage, wo found blasted heath and sharper reeks and more stinging nettles. "No pasture. How was it in the clubliouse when you lost your child? Did they come around and help you very Snucb? PM your worldly associates console ye. v„--y much? Did not the plain Christian vian who came into your house and sat up with your darling child give you more comfort than all worldly associates? Did all the convivial songs you €ver heard comfort you in that day cf tereav.- irent tso much as the song they Bang to you—perhaps the very song that Tvaa by your little child tho last -Sabba.-h afternoon cf her life.

TLoro is a happy land Far, far av.-:iy, W.-.rT? faints in-mortal reign

Drislit-, bright as day. God's Masterpiece.

Did your business associates, in that sday of darkness and trouble give you *ny especial condolence? Business exasTjerated you, business wore you out, Sjusiness left you limp as a rag, business made you mad. You got dollars, but yon got no peace. God have mercy on the man who has nothing but business to

comfort him! The world afforded yon no luxuriant pasturage. A famous English actor stood on the stage imperdonating, and thunders of applause came down from the galleries, and many thought it was the proudest moof all his life, but there was a asleep just in front of bim, and the fact that that man was indifferent oad somnolent spoiled all the occasion to him, and be cried, "Wake up, wake npl" So one little annoyance in life 3ns been more pervading to your mind Ifcan all the brilliant congratulations *sd success. Poor pasturage for yonr mml youfind in this world. The world lui cheated yon, the world has belied joo, the world bas misinterpreted yon, She world has persecuted yon. It never •comforted yon. Oh, this world is a good ^rack from which a horse may piok hiB lood. It is a good trough from which the swine may crunch their mess, bnt It gives but little food to a sonl blood bought ami immortal. What is a soul? It is a bono high as the throne of God. What is a man? You say, "It is only a man." It is only a man gone overboard in sin. It is only a man gone overboard in business life. What is a man? The battleground of three worlds, with his Jbands taking hold of destinies of light «r darkness. A man 1 No line can meas- I ure him. No limit can bound him. The archangel before tho throne cannot outJive bim. The stars shall die, but he will watch their extinguishment. The -world will burn, but he will gaze at the conflagration. Endless ages will march on. lie will watch the procession. A man Tho masterpiece of God Almighly. Yet you say, "It is only a man C".m nature like that be fed on Jrasks of tl:o wilderness?

Substantial comforts will not grow On nature's barren soil All we can boast till Christ we know

Is vanity und toil. The Son! That Sinneth.

Some of yai got astray .by looking for totter pastumgo others by being scared "by the dogs. The bound gets over into •tbe pasture fioli. The poor things fly in ievery direct, jn. In a few moments they jure torn of tbe hedges and they are splashed of

4he

ditch, and the lost sheep

-jiover gets unless the farmer goes

after it. There is nothing so thoroughly lost as a lost Bheep. It may have been in 1857, during tfajje financial panic, or during the financial stress in the fall of 1878 when yon got astray. Yon almost became an atheist. Yon said, "Where is God that honest mien go down and thieves prosper?" You were dogged of creditors, yon were dogged of tbe banks, yon were dogged of worldly disaster, and some of yon went into misanthropy and some of yon took to strong drink and others of yon fled out of Christian association, and yon got astray. Ob, man, that was the last time when yon ought to have forsaken God. Standing amid the foundering of your early failures, how could you get along withont a God tooomfort you and a God to deliver you and a God to help yon and a God to save you? Yon tell me you have been through enough business tronble almost to kill yon. I know it. I cannot understand how the boat oould live one hour in that chopped sea. But I do not know by what process you got astray some in one way and some in another, and if

you could really see the position some of yon occupy before God your 60ul would burst into an agony of tears and yon would pelt the heavens with tbe cry, "God have mercy!" Sinai's batteries have been unlimbered above your soul, and at times yon have heard it thunder, "The wages of sin is death." "All have sinned and come short of tbe glory of God." "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." "The sonl that sinneth, it 6hall die." When Sevastopol was being bombarded, two Russian frigates burned all night in the harbor, throwing a glare upon the trembling fortress, and some of yon, from what you have told me yourselves, some of you are standing in the night of your sonl's tronble, the cannonade, and the conflagration, and the multiplication, and the multitude of your sorrows and troubles I think must make the wings of God's hovering angles shiver to the tip.

Melody From Heaven.

But the last part of my text opens a door wide enough to let us all out and to let all heaven in. Sound it on the organ with all the stops out. Thrum it on the harps with all the strings atune. With all the melody possible let the heavens sound it to the earth and let the earth tell it to the heavens. "The Lord hath laid ou him the iniquity of us all. I am glad that the prophet did not stop to explain whom he meant by "him." Him of the manger, him of the bloody sweat, him of the resurrection throne, him of tho crucifixion agony. "On him the Lord bath laid the iniquity of us all. "Oh!" says some man, "that isn't generous that isn't fair. Let every man carry his own burden and pay his own debts." That sounds reasonable. If I have an obligation, and I have tbe means to meet it, and I come to you and ask you to settle that obligation, you rightly say, "Pay your own debts." If ycu and I, walking down the street —both hale, hearty and well—I ask you to carry mo, you say rightly, "Walk on your own feet!" Bnt suppose you and I were in a regiment, and I was wounded in the battle, and I fell unconscious at your feet with gunshot fractures and dislocations, what would you do? You would call to your comrades, saying: "Come and help this man is helpless:. Bring the ambulance. Let us take him to tho hospital," and I would be a dead lift in your arms, and you would lift me from the ground where I had fallen, and put me in the ambulance, and take me to the hospital, and have all kindness shown me. Would there be anything bemeaning in my accepting that kindness? Oh, no. You would be mean not to do it. That is what Christ does. If wo could pay our debts, then it would be better to go up and pay them, saying: "Here, Lord, here is my obligation. Here are the means with which I mean to settle that obligation. Now give me a receipt. Cross it all out." The debt is paid.

But the fact? is we have fallen in tbe battle, we have gone down under the hot fire of our transgressions, we have been wounded by the sabers of sin, we are helpless, we are undone. Christ oomes. The loud clang heard in the sky on that Christmas night was only the bell, the resounding bell of the ambulance. Clear the way for the Son of God. He comes down to bind up the wounds, and to scatter the darkness, and to save, the lost. Clear the Way for the Son of God 1 Christ comes down to ns, and we area dead lift. He does not lift us with tbe tips of his fingers. He does not lift us with one arm. He comes down upon his knee, and then with a dead lift bo raises us to honor and glory and immortality. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." Why, then, will a man carry his sins? You cannot carry successfully the smallest sin you ever committed. You might as well put the Apennines on one shoulder and the Alps on the other. How much less can you carry all tbe sins of your lifetime? Christ comes and looks down, in your face and says: "I have come through all the lacerations of these days, and through all the tempests of these nights. I have come to bear your burdens, and to pardon your sins, and to pay your debts. Put them on my shoulder, put them on my heart." "On bim the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all." Sin has almost pestered the life out of 6ome of you. At times it has made you cross and unreasonable, and it bas spoiled the brightness of your days and the peace of your nights. There are m6n who have been riddled of sin. The world gives them no solace. Gossamery and volatile the world, while eternity, as they look forward to it, is black as midnight. They writhe under the stings of a conscience which proposes to give no rest here and no rest hereafter, and yet they do not repent, they do not pray, they do not weep. They do not realize that just the position they occupy is the position occupied by scores, hundreds and thousands of men who a ever found any hope.

Take God to Youjr Heart.

If this meeting should be thrown open «nd the people who are here could give

Ibeir testimony, what"thd91ing expertmm™

liant surroundings J1 half btwt education that one fef &is collegiate institutions of this cdunfry could give and I observed all tbe moralities of life, and I was self righteous, and I tbonghtlwas all right before God as I am all right before man, but the Holy Spirit came to me one day and said,

maltreatment, I Woked Vr°7nto the

street. I know all the bruises and all the

terrors of a drunkard's woe. I went on farther and farther from God nntil one day I got a letter, saying: "Mr DEAR HUSBAND—Ihave tried every way, done everything and prayed earnestly and fervently for yoor reformation, bat it seem* of no avail. Since onr little Henry died, with the exception of those few happy weeks when you remained sober, my life had been one of sorrow. Many of the nights I have sat by the window, with my face bathed in tears, watch* lng for your coming. I am broken hearted, I am sick. Mother and father have been here frequently and begged me to come home, bnt my love for you and my hope for brighter days have alwayB made me refuse them. That hope seems now beyond realization, and I have returned to them. It is bard, and I battled long before doing it. May God bless and preserve you, and take from you that accursed appetite,

prayer, knowing that he has said, 'Come unto

This man receives poor sinners still.

"And I dropped right there where I was, and I said, 'God have mercy!' and he had mercy on me. My home is restored, my wife sings all day long during work, my children come out along way to greet me home, and my household is a little heaven. I will tell you what did all this for me. It was the truth that this day you proclaim, 'On him tho Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all.' Yonder is a woman who would say, 'I wandered off from my father's house, I heard the storm that pelts on a lost soul. My feet were blistered on the hot rocks. I went on and on, thinking that no one cared for my soul, when one night Jesus met me, and he said, 'Poor thing, go home! Your father is waiting for you, your mother is waiting for you. G-o home, poor thing!' And, sir, I was too wreak to pray, and I was too weak to repent, but I just cried out—I sobbed out my sins and my sorrows on the shoulders of him of whom it is said, 'tho Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.'

Human Sympathy.

There is a young man who would say:' "I had a Christian bringing up Icame from the country to city life I started well I had a good position—a good commercial position—but one night at the theater I met some young men who did me no good. They dragged me all through the sewers of iniquity, and I lost my morals, and I lost my position, and I was shabby and wretched. I was going down the street, thinkiug that no one cared for me, when a young man tapped me on the shoulder and said: 'George, come with me, and I will do yon good.' I looked at him to see whether he was joking or not. I saw he was in earnest, and I said, 'What do you mean, sir?' 'Well,' he replied, 'I mean that if you will come to the meeting tonight I will be very glad to introduce you. I will meet you at the door. Will you come?' Said I, 'I will.' I went to the place where I was tarrying. I fixed myself up as well as I conld. I buttoned my coat over a ragged vest, and I went to the door of the church, and the young man met me, and we went in, And as I went in I heard an old man praying and he looked so mnc^. like niy father I sobbed right out, anjd, they were all around, sokind and so sympathetic, that I just there gave my heart to Odd, and I know that what yon (fay'is true I know it in my own experience." "On bim the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all." Oh, my brother, without stepping to look whether your hand trembles or not, without stopping to lqok tvhetber your hand is bloated with sin or not, put it in my hand and let me give you one warm, brotherly, Christian grip and invite you right- up to the heart, to the compassion, to the sympathy, to the pardon of him on whom the Lord hath laid tbe iniquity of us all. Throw away your sins. Carry them no longer. I proclaim emancipation to all who are bound, pardon for all sin and Eternal life for all the dead. "I Came From Calvary."

Some one comes here today and I stand aside. He comes up three steps. He comes to this place. I must stand aside. Taking that place ho spreads abroad his hands, and they were nailed. You see bis feet they were bruised. He pulls aside the robe and shows you his wounded heart. I say, "Art thou weary?" "Yes," he says, "weary with the world's woe." I say, 'Whence comest thou?" Be says, "I came from Calvary." I say, "Who comes with thee?" He says, "No one I have trodden the winepress alone." I say, "Why comest thou here?" "Oh," he says, "Icame here to carry all the sins and Borrows of the people And he kneels. Ho says, "Put on my shoulders all tbe sorrows and all tl^e sins." And, conscious of my own sins first, I tako them

Mdkttro .U .IdMl Tbere !"d A. rtwniaw. o« tk. l..m«DWbo*ok« Ml- I

men,

any

You are a sin

ner the Holy Spirit persuaded me of the fact. While I had escaped the sins against tbe law of the land, I had really committed the worst sin a man ever oommits, the driving back of the Son of God from my heart's affections, and I saw that my hands were red with the blood of the Son of God, and I began to pray, and peace came to my heart and I know by experience that what yon say is true." "On him the Lord hath laid tbe iniquity of us all I" Yonder is a man who would say, "I was tbe worst drunkard in the city I went from bad to worse I destroyed myself I destroyed my home my children cowered when I entered the house when they put np their lip to be kissed, I struck them when my wife protected against the

Iutthem

1 own

and hasten the day when we shall be again liv- The man jumps off, he jumps off. It is ing happily together. This will be my daily 8nioide_SOul

'Come unto

me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.' From your loving wife, "MARY. "And so I wandered on and wandered on," says that man, "until one night I passed a Methodist meeting house, and I said to myself, 'I'll go in and seo what they are doing,' and I got to the door, and they were singing: "All may come, whoover will—

tho?.Sear

O Christ?" He says, "Yes,

more." And I gather np the sins of all those who serve at these altars, the officers of the church of Jesus Christ—I gather np all their sins and I put them on Ghrist's shoulders, and I say, "Canst thon bear anymore?" He says, "Yes, more." Then I gather np all the sins of a hundred people in this house and I

on the shoulders of Christ, and

say, "Canst thou bear more?" He •ays, "Yea, more." And I gather np all the sins of this assembly and put them on the shoulders of the Son of God, and I say, "Canst thou bear them?" "Yea," be says, "more." But he is departing. Clear the way for him, the Son of God. Open the door and let him pass out. He is carrying our sins and bearing them away. We shall never see them again. He throws them down into the abysm, and you hear the long reverberating echo of their fall. "On bim the Lord hath laid the iniqnity of ns all." Will you let him take your sins today? or, do you say, "I will take charge of them myself, I will fight my

battles, I will risk eternity on my

own

account? I know not how near some of you have come to crossing the

line. A clergyman said in his pulpit one Sabbath, "Before next Saturday night one of this audience will have passed ont of life." A gentleman said to another seated next to him: "I don't believe it. I mean to watch, and if it doesn't come true by next Saturday night I shall tell that clergyman his falsehood." The man seated next to him said, "Perhaps it will be yourself." "Oh, no," tbe other replied. "I shall live to be an old man." That night he breathed his last. Today the Saviour calls. All may come. God never pushes a man off. God never destroys anybody,

suicide-if the man per-

lsbes, for the invitation is, whosoever

will, let him come," whosoever, whosoever, whosoever! While God invites, how blest the day,

How sweet the gospel's charming sound! Come, sinner, haste, oh, haste away While yet a pardoning God is found.

In this day of merciful visitation, while many are coming into the kingdom of God, join the procession heavenward.

Seated in my church was a man who came in who said, "I don't know that there is any God." That was on Fridaynight. I said, "We will kneel down and find out whether there is any God." And in the second seat from the pulpit we knelt. He said: "I have found him. There is a God, a pardoning God. I feel him here." He knelt in tho darkness of sin. He arose two minutes afterward in the liberty of the gospel. While another sitting under the gallery on Friday night said: "My opportunity is gone. Last week I might have been saved. Not now. The door is shut." "Behold the Lamb of God who taketh aWay the sin of the world." "Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation." "It is appointed unto all men once to die, and after that the judgment!"

Brice and tho Cabbies.

Every man with a plug bat and a heavy beard who leaves the capitol, on the east side, after the adjournment of the senate, creates a regular scramble among the "cabbies" who stand on that •side

the boildirg,

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just at that-

timo they are looking for Senator Brice, who invariably rides home in one of these vehicles and who never gives less than a dollar for a very short ride, and not infrequently considerably more, which fact makes the senator a very desirable passenger, and hence the unusual scramble of the "cabbies."

The senator seems to enjoy it, however, and usually takes the first vehicle that reaches him, whether it be a hack, a cab, a hansom or a coupe.

The other evening the senator, together with a friend, was leaving tbe capitol at the usual exit, and when the "cabbies" saw him the usual scramble ensued, and the senator had hardly walked ten yards before he was surrounded by no less than a dozen vehicles of every description. But tbe senator did not seem to take the rush in his usual smiling way on this day, and walking over near the cab stand he and his friend jumped into the only vehicle that did not make a dart to secure him.

Tho driver did not recover from bis astonishment for about a minute, but when he did he whipped up, and going past his brother "cabbies" be nearly'fell oft' bis seat laughing, while the senator looked '6nt*of the window and smiled.— Washington Star.

Story of Titled Spendthrift.

In Vienna a man has just been buried ivho, though he lived in great poverty, tvas closely connected with the royal liouse of Wurttemberg. This was Count tSberhard von Wurttemberg, grandson of Duke William of Wurttemberg and the Baroness Tunderfeld. In his youth he made himself so disagreeable to the reigning house liy his eccentricities that he was kept a pri oner in the Ulm fortress. His escffpo was a romantic affair, tin swam across the Danube and fled to Austria, never to leave it again until death. lie had few wants and succeeded in living on next to nothing until the king i' Wurttemberg gave him an annuity, ir.f ho regularly spoilt the wbolo of it nviiig the first half of the month aiul -:id noihiig to live on during tho rest, -art of his su!.':ll income was spent pen his daughter, who survives hiui. r"! Fberhard composed music, and .} (sue j:?y in life was to hear military !'is play his compositions, of v,hirh

AiexvJtd'-v, Te.'-elthoff and Emj'evor ii! m»: ro si.il] on their roper His was empty, as u.sr,:i, h's tinco days'illness, and thvv«f the king ex. WurMembag ijhy.'iqre'L-'sd noblehearivs'. -.-d• tfiiwrai and no Uiomyfrii 'icept. Ins poor landlady, lie reached M,, of and had lived 40 yciiiis -iu. Vi?*'.a—London *•$,

NEBRASKA SUFFERERS. ...

No 0»« in Need of Assistance and No Aid Is Needed. OMAHA, March 4.—Frequent- reports are received from the eastern and central states that persons are soliciting aid for Nebraska's sufferers, and making deplorable statements about existing want and destitution. These representations are untrue, and the solicitors are, almost without an exception, impostors, and are acting without proper authority.

The secretary of the state board of agriculture has made exhaustive inquiries throughout the state and ascertained that no relief is needed. The failure of crops in the western part of the state in 1894 left that newly settled district in a prostrate condition and it was necessary to give assistance, which was freely furnished from within and without the state. Taking the state of Nebraska as a whole the crop of 1895 w-as an average one, but it was not well distributed—some portions raising the largest crop ever harvested. Fortunately the portions which wTere short are in the most prosperous district, and they are able to stand the loss without suffering.

Large quanti ses of livestock are being fed in the state heavy shipments of Nebraska hay are being marketed in Ohio and Indiana business is reviving, and the outlook is reassuring. Over 1,000,000 acres of land in the western part of Nebraska—a section where rainfall has always been light, and where the lands are only fit for grazing purposes—will be farmed under irrigation in 1896.

IT MEANS ITALY'S RUIN.

A Demand That the Abyssinian War Be Stopped at Once. NEW YOKE, March 4.—A dispatch to

The Herald from Rome says: A violent article published by the Frankfurter Zeitung calling on the powers to intervene for the purpose of putting an end to the Italian campaign in Abyssinia has caused a profound sensation in diplomatic circles here.

The article qualifies the enterprise as criminal and disastrous, and declares that it is bound to lead to the ruin of Italy. The writer calls upon Europe to show its sympathy for the Abyssinia ns.

No confirmation has been received of tlie reported (Acieat of Italian forces at G-unde. Tlio situation is still extremely serious, espfn.-ialiy in view of tiie possibility that the xNegus may take the uefensive and attack the Italians.

General Baidissora has arrived at Massowali. According to the Faufulla, General Baratieii is still unaware that he has been superseded, all telegrams informing him of the fact having been stopped.

Treasury Statement.

WASHINGTON, March 4.—The treasury yesterday lost §43,500 iu gold coin and §48,200 in bars, leaving the true amount of the reserve $124,397,292. The records of the treasury department show the withdrawals of gold from the subtreasury at New York from Jan. to date have been $3(5,681,528, of which only $9,924,133 was for export, the remaining $20,757,395 being largely used iu payment of bonds. The deposits of gold on account of bond purchases to date aggregate $96.773,18.2. Of this amount $86,995,100 is principal, $9,0(30,140 premium and $J 11,94: interest.

Kansas Cir.y Assi^iimi'iit.

KANSAS CITY, March 4.—The Brown Boole and Stationery company has made an assignment for the benefit- of creditors. The liabilities are said to be about $30,000 assQts £50,000. The principal cieuitor is the National Bank of Commerce of this city. The other creditors are merchants in the east. Bad business and slow collections are the causes.

Yellow rf-Vvcr IiK-rcii.sing in J?razil. NEW YORK, March 4.—A dispatch to The Herald froui Buenos Ayres says: The epidemic of yellow fever is increasing at Rio Janeiro. Homeward bound steamers will stop touching at Brazilian ports. Private reports, The Herald correspondent in Rio Janeiro says, indicate that the total number of deaths from yellow fever daily is 60.

Kansas Temperanceites.

TOPEKA, March 4.—The State Temperance union is holding its annual convention in this city. Each church and temperance society in the state is entitled to three delegates in the convention. iA.n effort has been made to bring 2,500 temperance workers together on this occasion.

Died of Paralysis.

TRENTON, March 4.—Judge Clifford Stanley Sims of the New Jersey court of errors died here yesterday of paralysis. He was stricken while waiting for a train at the Pennsylvania railroad depot, from which he was taken to a hotel. There he died a few hours later.

'Durafit Gets a Stay of Execution. SAN FRANCISCO, March 4.—A stay of

execution has been granted W. H. T. Durant, this time until March 13. Intlicitrious.

Fair weather with diminishing cloudiness slightly colder northerly winds.

THE MARKETS.

Review of the Grain and kirestock Markets For March 4.

I'ittgburg.

Cattle—Prime, $4 25i«i4 40 good, $4 00 @4 20 good burciiors, $ (5Uct§4 c0 bulla, suigs-and cows, $1 75^3 oU rough taC, 0u@3 75 fre.-h cows and spongers, 615v« 4o. llogs—Prime light, $4 30®4 85,be ivy. £4 K.^si4 I.J common lo fair 00 (t-3 7*5. sluvp—Kxtra, $3 (i5@3 80, good, I *3 5u(t§3 jii common, 0U, spring liimbs, 13 5 t5 veal calvus, 8b 00@ (j 50.

Cincinnati.

Wheat. Corn— 30@3!e. Cattle— Sheeted' buiulKTS, S3 75 oO: fair to medium. 13 00(^3 05 common, $2 5.® 2 W. HOITS—Selocred and pi'inie butchers, S4 U5@4 i0, packing. $.i I 00 common to rough. ?3 50«83 85. sheep (1 50

(0,3

05 Lambs—$3 5U(&4 05. Chicago. How—•Seb'icted buleiiors,' $3 80@4 00, mixed, £3 b5wi3 95. Cattle Poor to choice' sieefti, $-J 75v(t4 50 others, $3 40®. 4 :5' .viv.-s ansl lull -. !?l 7fi@3 75. Sheep—: 05: le mh50((t4 50.

York.

('•ai

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6U. Sheep—85@4 25 'j

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1896 MABCH. 1896

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CONDITION OF OUR FiNANCES.

Monthly Statement as Issned From the Treasury Department. WASHINGTON, March 4.—The month

ly statement of the piiblic debt issued at the treasury yesterday showns the public debt at the close of business on Feb. 29, less cash in the treasury, to have been $937,067,473, a decrease for the month of $15,978,764.

The interest bearing bonded debt,however, has been increased during thfe month by $75,252,350. This seeming inconsistency is explained by the fact that the payments on account of bond purchases during the month was about $16,000,000 in excess of the bonds delivered. The increase in the cash last month was $91,115,228.

The debt is classified as follows: Interest bearing debt, $822,615,170 debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,667,630 debt bearing no interest, $375,491,679 total, $1,199,775,479.

This amount, however, does not include $558,551,273 in certificates and treasury notes outstanding, which are offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury.

DOES MORTON REBEL?

Seed liesolution Being Ignored by the Secretary of Agriculture. WASHINGTON, March 4. Secretary

Morton said yesterday that in no event will the government be put to the expense of hiring unskilled labor to pack seeds when the latter can be bought already put up by skilled labor at a much less price. A number of senators and members of congress have been mr.king requests for positions in the seed division. tieeretary Morton says: "The seed room has not- been re-estab-lished up to date for the reason that no seeds have been purchased for disfc.ioption during the curren fiscal year. The law may be amended so as to compel the promiscuous and gratuitous distribution of seed by the government during the next fiscal year. If it is so amended proposals to furnish seed already put up in packets and labeled will be advertised."

GASOLINE TANK EXPLODES.

Several Persons .Seriously Kurned, Though Js'one ataily. RACINK, Wis., March 4.—By the ex

plosion of a gasoline tank in the engine department of the Racine Hardware company, at Racine Junction, yesterday afternoon, a tire was started that wiped out that part of the factory ami caused a loss of $125,000. The workmen barely had time to escape and many saved themselves by jumping from windows.

George Nichols was seriously burned about the head, hands and face V/. J. 'Fitch, foreman S. A. King, engineer

L. Stratton were bauly, but not lutaLy, burned. The insurance ou the property destroyed was §37,000. Physicians ut first pronounced the wounds of tne injured men fatal, and it was believed that several others had lost their lives, but all the missing were soon accounted for.

Death of Sirs. Johnston.

SPKIN"GFIKI/D, O., March 4.—Mrs, Elizabeth Johnston, wife of John Johnston, and stepmother of Mariollus D. Johnston and Chase Johnston, all ol Johnston & Sons, cigarmakers, died very suddenly of acute rheumatism at her" residence, 354 South Limestone street. Deceased was a pioneer citizen of Clarke county, and wras a leading member of Central M. E. Church. The funeral will be held Thursday. Interment at New Carlisle, her former home.

A Railroad Deal.

CLEVELAND, March 4.—Hon. S. T. Everett, as trustee of the Lake Shore railroad, transferred yesterday $287,000 worth of property to the Valley railroad. When the Valley road was buill it did not extend to the Lake Shore tracks on the lake front, and later the Lake Shore company advanced the money fcfr' the purpose. In the Valley reorganization this matter was provided for and the money paid, yesterday's transfer following.

Ilia Last Words.

NEW ALBANY, Ind., March 4.—Mrs. Joseph Linthioum has been placed under arrest charged with murdering hen husband. The man's last words were an accusation against the woman who, he said, had cut his throat. Arthur Withers, her brother, is also under arrest as an accessory to the crime. The couple had quarreled frequently,

Children Cremated.

MONROE, Mich., March 8.—New was received here of the cremation of a boy aged 4 and two girls aged 2 years and 10 months respectively, in Bedford township, last Saturday. They were chiluren of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Iiose, whose home containing the little ones, was burned while the parents had gone away, leaving the doors locked.

A Woman Falls to lier Death.

UTICA, N. Y., March 4.—The Genesee flats, an immeuso tenement building, burned yesterday. Mrs. David Hughes was killed by falling from a fire escape, and Mrs. John Wood is missing.

Cracked His Kival's Sconce. WEST UNION, O., March 4.—A fight

between Joseph Ogle and Clay Moore resulted in the latter getting his skull badly fractured. They quarreled over love affair.

Died iu the Keetory.

'STAMFORD, Coun., March 4.—The. liev. William Tatloek, D. D., rector of St.. John's Episcopal church, archdeacon of Fairfield and ex-secretary of tjje Anier