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THE GOLDEN CALF. 1^3^

Jr. Talmage Finds Many Lessons in A a in

rft« Mad Worship of Gold haa Caused Millions to Suffer in Aaron's Time U: Jk'.i. and Now.

•$ The Rev. Dr. Talmage preached in Brooklyn last Sunday. Text: Exodus xxxii, 20.

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People will have a god of some kind and they prefer one of their own making. Here come the Israelites, breaking off their golden ear rings, the m6n a$ well as the women, for in thpsfe times they were masculine as well as feminine decorations. Where did they get these beautiful goid ear rings, coming as they did from the |ggert? Oh, they "borrowed" them friifl the Egyptians when they left Egypt.' These car rings are piled up into a pyramid of glittering beauty. "Any more ear rings to bring?" says Aaron. None. Fire is kindled, the ear rings are melted and poured into a mold, not of an eagle or a war charger, but of a calf the gold cools pff, the mold is taken away, and the \dol is set upon its four legs.

An altar is built in front of the shining calf. Then the people throw up their arms and gyrate and shriek and dance mightily and worship. Moses has been six weeks on Mount Sinai, and he comes back and hears the howling and sees the dancing of •'the golden calf fanatics, and he loses his patience, and he takes the two plates of stone on which were written -. the Ten Commandments and flings 7 them so hard against a rock that they split ail to pieces. When a man gets mad he is very apt to break all the Ten Commandments.

Moses rushes in and takes this calf god and throws it into a hot fire until it is melted all out of shape and then pulverizes it—not by the modern appliance of nitro-muriatic acid, but toy the ancient appliance of niter or by the old fashioned file. He makes for the people a most nauseating draft. He takes this pulverized golden calf and throws it in the only brook which is accessible, and the ^people are compelled to drink of that brook or not drink at all. But they did net drink all the glittering stuff thrown on the surface. Some of it flows on down the surface of the brook to the river, and then flows on down the river to the sea. and the sea takes it up and bears it to the mouth of all the rivers, and when the tides set back the remains of this golden calf are carried up into the Hudson, and the East river, and the Thames and the Clyde, and the

Tiber, and men go out and they skim the glittering surface, and they bring it ashore, and they make an- .. other golden calf, and California and 7 Australia break off their golden earto augment the pile, and in res of financial excitement and jle all these things are melted and while we stand looking __ ndering what will come of it, lo! we find that the golden calf of

Iraelitish worship has become the golden calf of European and American worship.

I shall describe to you the god spoken of in the text, his temple, his altar of sacrifice, the music that is made in his temple, and then the final breaking up of the whole congregation of idolaters.

Put aside this curtain, and you see

the golden calf of modern idolatry. It is not, like other idols, made of stocks or stones, but it has an ear so sensitive that it can hear the whispers on Wall street and Third

street and State street, and the footfalls in the Bank of England, and the flutter of a Frenchman's heart on the Bourse. It has an eye so keen that it can see the rust on the farm of Michigan wheat, and the insect in the Maryland peach orchard, and the trampled grain under the hoof of the Russian war charger.

It is so mighty that it swings any way it will the world's shipping. It lias its foot on all the merchantmen and the steamers. It started the American civil war, and under God stopped it, and it decided the TurkoRussian contest. One broker in September, 1869. shouted "One hundred and sixty for a million!" and the whole continent shivered. This golden calf of the text has its right front foot in New York, its left front foot in Chicago, its right back foot in Charleston, its left back foot in New Orleans, and when it shakes itself it shakes the world. Oh. this is a mighty God—the golden calf of the world's worship!

But every God must have its temple, and this golden calf of the temple is no exception. Its temple is vaster than St. Paul's of the English, and St. Peter's of the Italians, and the Alhambra of the Spaniards, and the Parthenon of the Greeks, and the Taj Mahal of the Hindoos, and all the other cathedrals put together. Its pillars are grooved and fluted with gold, and its ribbed arches are hovering gold, and its chandeliers are descending gold, and its floors are tesselated gold, and its vaults are crowded heaps of gold, and its spires and domes are soaring gold, and its organ pipes are resounding gold, and its pedals are tramping gold, and its stops pulled out are flashing gold, while standing at the head of the temple, as the presiding deity, are the hoofs and shoulders and'eyes and ears and nostrils of the calf of gold.

Further, every god must have not only its temple, but its altar of sacrifice, and this golden calf of the

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text is itaexception. ade out ot stone, as other altars. ut out of cokpting room desks ana ptifne grinding to pieces the golden eproof safe^nfid it is a broad, a

a high altaB^Thp victims sacTfcoerable. What

care about the groans the victims before

it! WithTcoldL metallic eye it looks on and yet lets them suffer. Oh, heaven and ejtrth, what an altar What a sacrifice of body, mind and soul! The physical health of a great multitude is flung on this sacrificial altar! They can not sleep, and they take chloral*and morphine and intoxicants.

Sofae of them struggle in a nightmare of stocks, and at one o'clock in the morning suddenly rise up shouting, "A thousand shares of railroad stock—one hundred and eight and a half take it! until the whole family is affrighted, and the speculators fall back on their pillows and sleep until they are awakened again by a "corner" or a sudden "rise" in something else. Their nerves gone, their digestion gone, their brain gone—they die. The clergyman comes in and reads the funeral service, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." Mistake. The did not "die in the Lord"—the golden calf kicked them!

The trouble is when men sacrifice themselves on this alter suggested in the text they not only sacrifice themselves, but they sacrifice their families. If a man by an ill course is determined to go to perdition, I suppose you have to let him go but he puts his wife and children in an equipage that is the amazement of the avenues, and the driver lashes the horses into two whirlwinds, and the spokes flash in the sun, and the golden headgear of the harness gleams, until Black Calamity takes the bits of the horses and stops them, and shouts to the luxurious occupants of the equipage, "Get out!" They get out. They get down. That husband and father flung his family so hard they never got up again. There was the mark on them for life—the mark of a split hoof—the death dealing mark of the golden calf.

Solomon offered in one sacrifice, on one occasion, twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep, but that was a tame sacrifice compared with the multitude of men who are sacrificing themselves on this alter of the golden calf, and sacrificing their families with them.

Still the degrading worship goes on, and the devotees kneel and kiss the dust, and count their golden beads, and cross themselves with the blood of their own sacrifice. The music roils on.under the arches it is made of clinking silver and clinking gold and the rattling specie of the banks and brokers' shops and the voices of all the exchanges. The soprano of the worship is carried by the timid voices of men who have just begun to speculate, while the deep bass rolls out from those who for ten years of iniquity have been doubly damned. Chorus of voices re oicing over what they have made. Chorus of voices wailing over what they have lost.

The temple of which I speak stands open day and night, and there is the glittering god with his four feet on broken hearts, and there is the smoking altar of sacrifice, new victims every moment on it, and there are the kneeling devotees, and the doxology of the worship rolls on, while death stands with moldy and skeleton arm beating time for the chorus—"More! more! more!''

But my text suggests that this worship must be broken up, as the behavior of Moses in my text indicated. There are those who say that this golden calf spoken of in my text was hollow, and merely plated with gold otherwise, they say, Moses could not have carried it. do not kuow that, but somehow, perhaps by the assistance of his friends, he takes up this golden calf, which is an insult to God and man, and casts it into the fire, and it is melted, and then it comes out and is cooled off, and by some chemical appliance, or by an old-fashioned file, it is pulverized and thrown into the brook, and as a punishment the people are compelled to drink the nauseating stuff.

So, my hearers, vou may depend upon it that God will burn and he will grind to pieces the golden calf of modern idolatry, aud he will compel the people in their agony tp drink it. If not before, it will be"soon the last day. I know not where the lire will begin, whether at the Battery or Central Park, whether at Brooklyn bridge or at Bushwick, whether "at Shoreditch, London or West End, but it will be a very hot blaze. All the Government securities of the United States and Great Britain will curl up in the first blast. All the moneysafes and depositing vaults will melt under the first touch. The sea will burn like tinder, and the shipping will be abandoned forever. The melted gold in the broker's window will burst through the melted window glass and into the street, but the flying population will not stop to bcoop it up.

The cry of 'Fire!' from the mountain will be answered by the cry of •Fire!' in the plain. The conflagration will burn out from the continent toward the sea, and then burn in from the sea toward the land. New York and London with one out of the red scythe of destruction will go down. Twenty-five thousand miles of conflagration! The earth will wrap itself round and round in shroud of flame and lie down to perish. What then will become of your golden calf? Who then so poor as to worship it? Melted or between the upper and the nether millstone of falling mountains ground to powder. Dagon down. Moloch down. Juggernaut down. Golden calf down" jBut, my friends, every day is a d|y of judgment, and God is all the

calf. "Merchants "of Brooklyn and New YorJc^ ULondon, what is the chartollL \his time in which

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we live Bad," you say. Professional men, what is the characteristic of the times in which we live? "Bad, "you say. Though I should be in a minority of one, I venture the opinion that these are the best times we have had, for tha reason that God is teaching the world as never before that old fashioned honesty is the only thing that will stand. We have learned, as never before that forgeries will not pay that the spending of fifty thousand dollars on country seats and a palatial''city residence, when there are only thirty thousand dollars income, will not pay that the appropriation of trust t'uuds to our own private speculation will not pay.

The golden calf of our day, like the one of the text, is very apt to be made out of borrowed gold! Those Israelites of the text borrowed the ear rings ofv the Egyptians and then melted them into a god. That is tty way the golden calf is made nowa days. A great many housekeepers, not paying for the articles they get.borrow of the groser, and the baker and the butcher, and the dry goods seller. Then the retailer borrows the wholesale dealer. Then th wholesale dealer borrows of the cap italist, and we borrow and borrow and borrow until the community if divided into two classes—those who borrow and those who are borrowed of—and after awhile the capitalist wants his money and he rushes upon the wholesale dealer, and the wholesale dealer wants his money and'herushes upon the retailer, and the retailer wants his money and.lie rushes upon the consumer, and we all go down together.

There is many a man in this day who rides in a carriage and owes the blacksmith for the tire, and the wheelwright for the wheel, and the trimmer for the curtain, and the driver for unpaid wages, and the harness maker for the bridle, and the furrier for the robe, while from the tip of the carriage tongue clear back to the tip of the shawl fluttering out of the back of the vehicle everywhere is paid for by notes that have been three times renewed.

It is this temptation to borrow and borrow and borrow that keeps the people everlastingly praying to the golden calf for help, and just at the minute they expect the help the golden calf treads on them. The judgments of God, like Moses in the text, will rush in and break up this worship and 1 say, let the work go on until every man shall learn to speak truth with his neighbor, and those who* make engagements shall feel themselves bound to keep them, and when a man who will not repent of his business iniquity, but goes on wishing to satiate his cannibal appetite by devouring widows' houses, shall by the law of the land be compelled to exchange his mansion for Sing Sing. -Let the golden calf perish.

CONDIMENTS.

She—How do you like my hat? He—It makes your face very long. She—It made papa's face very long when he paid for it.—Truth. "They say she is very tender hearted." "Tender hearted! Why that woman would rather die of ennui than to kill time.—New York Press.

It would probably be hard to convince a bantam rooster that his crowing .does n't have a good deal to1 do with inakink the sun rise.—Ram's Horn.

Lady—Where's my trunk? Baggageman—I couldn't find any trunk, mum, but I've got the handle with the check on.

She—You would be surprised if I were to tell you that I am past 25, wouldn't you? He—I would be surprised at your telling me.—Indianapolis Journal.

It was in the School of Design. Professor—What you have just drawn there looks more like a cow than a horse. Pupil—It is a cow.

Edith—Why did you dismiss Mr. Goodheart? Blanche—Oh, he got so he'd rather sit at home and hold my hand than take me the the theatre. "Bring me a punch," said the rounder. "I want something to make me sleep." "Yes, sir," said the intelligent waiter. "Beverage, sir, or London literature?" "Why did you break your engagement Miss Hinton?" '"it had to be the engagement or me and I'm too fond of good living to go into bankruptcy."

The ballroom ceiling cracked during a dance in a private house at Newport. "Gracious!" said one ol the girls, "that must be the mortgage." "Could you lend me an X?" "My boy," replied Charley Cashgo, "ever since my school days when I studied algebra has stood with me for an unknown quantity."

Jones—Smith is about your closest friend, isn't he? Borrowit -Yes, confound him! It's almost impossible to borrow a cent from him. "This is an I-aealhand," remarked the gambler under his breath as his dealt himself four aces and the other fellow a quartet of monarchs.

A Chicago Proposal—Wabash McHenry—Mrs. Lakeside- Lobeliawill j'ou be mine? Mrs. Lakeside^--How much alimony do you pay?

There's plenty of room at the top, but you shouldn't tell an ambitious artist so just as he is on the point of sending his picture to the exhibition.

Professor—You seem to be very dull. W)hen Aloxander the Grea£ Was yopr age he had already con-', quered/the" world. Studentr--Woll, you sab, he had

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INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Eiwood has two banks and will have another. Sheep-klllini dogs worry Parke county farmers.

William Deeritig,'of Warsaw, was found dead in bed. Mrs. Luciuda Swift, of Yorktown, was found dead in bed. JfY

Fruit tree agents are delivering goods to the enterprising Hoosier farmer,' J, J. Noel, a lifo tinier in the prison north, has fallen hoir to $12,000, the estate of his first wife. '.J

John Wilburn, a farmqr living near Elwood, was found dead in a cornfield, where he had gone to feed his cattle. 1 John Reinhart.living rn Jackson count.yi while out hunting, fell and discharged his pun into his neck, dying instantly.

A Chicago syndicato" has purchased 1,000 acres of laud at Orestes, a small village near Alexandria, and will boom the place.

The Crawfordsville Water and Light Company has announced it will commence to manufacture water gas on Jan. 1 for both light and fuel.

The largo stock barn of William Mid* dlcton, of West Middleton,Howard county, burned on the 11th, with ail its coutents, including four valuable horses. Loss, f3,0'J0 partial insurance.

Messrs. Levi Scott and Edward Caldwell, officers of the Fairmount canning works, have concluded to purchase a large farm near Crawfordsville and erect a canning factory with a capacity of 65,000 cans per day.

The power of the press demonstrated itself oddly at Pendleton. A bundle of newspapers thrown from the fast mail struck Levi Rogers, an old citizen, in the breast, knocking him down. The forco of the blow rendered him unconscious. Ho may no recover.

In a farm house of John Lowry, near Idaville, was burned at an early, hour Wednesday. Tho roof fell in on the sleeping family. Gracie, a seven-year-old daughter, was burned to death, and Mr. Lowry and another daughter badly injured. The remains of the dead girl when recovered were horribly blackened. All the personal effects of the family, including money savings, were dostroyed.

Jesse Sykes, an aged fanner residing a short distance west of Newport, met with a horrible fate about 5 o'clock Sunday evening. He went out to feed his hogs when he fell in apileptic, fit. The hungry swine seeing him lying there pounced on him and began devouring him. They tore tho flesh from his thighs and hips, aud ate out his entrails. When found by a member of his family ho was disemboweled and died in a few minutes, lie was seventy-fivo years old.

THE STATE A T.T/TAXCK.

The State Farmers' Alliauceheld its annual session at Indianapolis Friday. There were about sixty delegates, some of whom were women, present, The following officers were elected:

President—WHson Cory. Anderson. Vice President—Mrs. L«u Snyder, Mt. Summit.

Secretary and 'Treasurer—A. C. Jones Kokomo. Chaiiman of tho Executive Committee— A. N. Webster, Cicero.

The following resolutions were adopted: We demand an immediate revision of tho State tax law of Indiana, to the end that the burdens now being heaped upon the producers of tho State beyond the limits of equity and justico may bo partly borne by the wealthy capitalists that pay little or no taxes.

Wo demand the passage of a law to take effect immediately, placing tho salaries of public officers on a level with the compensation that similar service will command in the opeu market.

We demand tho passage of a law requiring the holders of all notes, mortgages or securities to allow all such securities to be stamped by the assessor, and no security not so stamped shall be collectable.

We denounce the system of extravagant legislation enacted in 18M, which fastened upon the people of tiie State more than one hundred new otticors, at an increased cost or too,000, or 100,000 bushels of wheat.

We demand the reneal of the law which increased the State debt $1,400,000 in the year 1891, requiring the State to pay the annual interest thereon of $42,0JO or 70,COD bushels'of wheat.

Wo demand the total abolition of the free pass svstem on railways in Indiana. Wo demand the suppression of tho liquor traffic.

We demand the enactment, of a law that will prevent tho wholesale robbery of the State school fund, as now practiced by a system of false enumeration.

Resolved, That we herewith ro-exnress out faith in the principles of tho Fanners' Alliance and Industrial Union, and pledge ourselves, individually and collectively, never to relax our efforts until these principles are exacted into law.

Resolved, Thit we unequivocally indorse the St. Louis platform.

AN INTERNATIONAL QUESTION.

Tlie Stearner Philadelphia Refused Clcarnnce Papers By Venezuela.

A special from La Gnayra, Venoznlela, to the New York Herald on tho 11 th says: Tho red lino steamer Philadelphia sails from hero to-night with only consular clearance papers, the Venezuelan government having refused to cloar the ship. Among the passengers on the Philadelphia when she sailed from here was Senor Mijaris, who had been Governor of Caracas undei the Continuists regime. The government authorities demanded that he be surrendered on a charge that while Governor of Caracas he had stolen cattle. The c&Dtain of the Philadelphia refused to give him up, and when the police attempted to board the ship and search for Mijaris they wero resisted. The Philadelphia then left her dock and anchored in tho stream, while the question was referred to United States Minister Scruggs. Ho upheld the captain in refusing to give Mijaris up on-the ground that there was no extradition treaty between Venezuela and tho United States. The goyornment then decided to refuse clearance to the Philadelphia, and she sailed without tho regular papers.

MURDERS FROM POLITICS.

Men Killed In »n Electlon-Day Affray in South ^Carolina,

Details of tta« election affVaT at Holland's store precinct, Andarson county,

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killedXnd several wounded, all whites. It appears that R. G. Carter, the Republican supervisor, and James W. Earle, a Democrat, became involved in a political quarrel just outside of the house in which the voting was going on. Carter pulled his pistol and fired at Earle, but missed him and hit Cdlumbus Green, the Democratic manager, who came to the door to see what tee trouble was. Green was instantly killed, the ball passing through the .heart. Earle then began tiring, and both he and Caiter emptied their weapons. Both men went behind the store to reloadEarle ran through the liouso and picked up a shotgun and poured the contents into Carter.

During tho fusilado three bystanders were wounded, but not seriously. Carter was terribly wounded and died a few hours afterward. Ho came to Anderson from Georgia several years ago. Ho was a desoerato character, and had killed a man onco before. A dispatch from Anderson says that Earle died Weduesday night.

A BLOODY ELECTION RIOT,

Four Men Killed and Twenty Wounded in

North Carolina.^

News Is received of a bloody election fight at Big Rock, Mitchell county, North Carolina, twenty-five miles south of JohnSoil City, Tenii., between Republican fac' tions. George K. Pritchard, tho Republican nominee for Sheriff, was opposed by Isaac McKinney. an independent Republican, who was defeated for tho nomination by a small majority. The race wa3 remarkably bitter and bloodshed was expected. A fight was precipitated by one of McKinney's followers knocking down his opponent. Immediately tho whole crowd of fifty took sides. A desperate bat tie ensued. Stones, knives and pistols were used with terriblo effect. Twenty men are wounded, four of whom will probably die. The community is noted for its desperate acts. Tho whole population is in ai'uis, and more bloodshed is imminent-

BURNED IN THE WRECK.

Four People Lose Thoir Lives in a Collision on the C., M. & St, Paul Road.

A fearful catastrophe occurred on tho Chica'go, Milwaukco & St, Paul road Wednesday night at Highland Center" Iowa. A froight train dashed into the caboose of a local freight standing on the track, telescoping tho caboose and four cars. Tho caboose caught fire, and tho scene which followed was awful. Four people were burned alive and a number of others had a narrow escape. The caboose split into by a car of grain, wedged in four people, on tho right side. A incst pitiful sight was Miss Lizzio Butler, of Ottumwa, who got hor head out of the window and piteously pleaded with those about to save her. Mrs. Jones, also of the same city, tried to escapo through the window, but being an unusually largo woman, she could not get through. Tho other victims were two unknown men. The injured are: Mrs. Clyde Millisack and Mrs. Pickett, of Ottumwa, and Mis Lizzio Corey. Theso wero badly burned but not fatally. A curious incident, was that one passenger was disguised, and in the crash his disguise came off, revealing a noted crook. He quickly disappeared in the excitement.

Richard Carter, of Colembus, City treasurer, while walking homeward, was footpadded and robbed of $400.

THE IUIARKET3.

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All Quotations forluiltuu^poli^ wUeu ajt GXJAIN.

Wheat—-No. 3 rod, GTc No. 3 red, G2c wagon wheat, o7c. Corn—.N o. 1 to,40cl^ No. 2 t,o.40} white mixed, 40c No. a white, 40^40 c, No. 2 yollow, 40c No. 3 yellow, 3'J^c No. 2 mixed, 40c No. 3 mixed, 39£c: ear, 40c.

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33c No. 2 mixod. 31c rejected, 2JC. Hay— limothy, choice, $11.00 No. 1. $10.20 No. 2. $8.f»0 No. 1 prairie,$7.00 No 2, $6.00 mixed hay, $7.50 clover, $8.00.

Bran $11.00 per ton. Wheat. Corn. Oats. lire-

Cliicaeo 2rM5» 41 I Cineiiiiiuli.••• 2 r'l 5 43 SJ St. Louis i-'ii '5 it. 54 8 New Vorl£.... Sr'd 73U 4Baltimore ....I 7 *8 3» Philadelphia'i-*

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Clovar Seed. 5 70

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Detroit. ttIi 71 *4 3'V4 Miunoitpois..l CATTLE. Export grades $* 25(35 Co Uood to choice shippers 3 7:@l 15 Fair to medium shippers 3 2 (u)3 5J Common shippers 2 50.^3 -JS btockcrs. common to good 0U(£2 75 Uood to choice heifers 3 4(j!3 0j Fair to rnedinm heifers 2 5 5) Common, tbiW heifers 1 25(93 115 Good to choice cows 0J Fair to medium cows ^7 2 5 Common old cows.. 1 00^1 75 Veals, good to choice 3 ())ta4 5 Bulls, common to medium 1 r.0(?2 ro Milkers, good to choico... Of)^lfoo Milkers, common to medium.. 1-00(32 -00

HOGS.

Heavy packing aud snipping. $5 4o@5 75 lights 5 5(«!5 7.1 Mixed 5 40(tgr ,-(i Heavy roughs.110(4)5 25 bUi£Ei'. Good to choice $4 00(94 40 ii'air LO iifuuiuiii .. 3 ..(g, 5^ Common to medium 2 50,g 1 05 Lambs, good to choico 4 0 «g5 50 rouL,rnv and oriiEi i'koduck.

Pou»fci---^iuua, -c ii» young chlckons, .ctf to turkeys, fat choice hous. IOC iducks, 7c lb gueso, $o.it0 6.^-iOi' choice.

Eggs—shippers paying lf@2Jc. $ 1 1 ter—Ch 01 ce co try but tor, 12@13c common, S^lOc creamery, retailing from store at 2ac.

Cheese—New York full cream, ll@i2cj skims, 5($7c B. fobbing prices.) leathers—^Priino geese -0j tt mixed

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Wool—New clip hue menuo, ltic coarse wool, 17(«il8c medium, 20c black, burry, cotts, choffly aud broken, 15@17c.

HIDES, TALLOW, ETC.

Horse Hides—[email protected]. Tallow—No. 1, 4c No, 2, 3^c. Ureaso—White, 4c yellow, 3^c brown,

^C* FRUITS AND VEGETALE3. a Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, $?.50

Lemons—Choice, $6.50. 9 box fancy! $7.00 Pears—Klefer. $2 bushel.

Onions—$3 bri Spahttk, 81.50 ptfl crate. 1 *tb»ge-4Iemo grown,Vlfcdfettal

A HOMESTEAD RIOT.

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Strikers and Negro Non-Union-ists Engage in a Bloody Street

Ucn, Women and Children 3Zixed Up in the light Wbicli Resulted in llalfa Score Being Wounded.

This was taken cup, and the cries of "Hang them!" wero heard on all sides, The officers went in to arrest tho colored men and found them huddled in one room* territied and expecting to be killed. One man, however, was not afraid and said he would be tho first to leave, As ho was taken out a woman hit him with a frying pan,cutting his hoad. The deputies tried in vain to keep tho crowd away as they took the man to tho lockup, but ho was hi^ several times. Stones wero also hurl and deputy Montgomery was struck. The officers then drew their revolvers and announced that if any more stones were thrown they would have to open fire. A Slav throw a rock which crashed through a window. He was arrested, but tho authorities seemed powerless, for by this time over two thousand persons were gathered. Several other colored men were beaten 011 the way to the lockup.

Peter McFaden, who first engaged the colored men in the fight, was shot through Itlie left arm and cut on the head. James Jones, his friend, who came to his assist auce in the attack, had a narrow escape from death. He had clinched with one of the colored men and struck him. As he did so the negro shoved his revolver in his assailant's faco and fired. The ball hit Jones on th forehead above the eyes and glanced off, cutting a bloody furrow over the left eye. Jones and McFaden were arrested Sunday night. Mrs. Jones tried to^shieid hor husband and attacked the olljcers, but was withheld.

Of tho eleven colored men locked up soven had cuts on their heads, whore they wero struck with missiles or clubs. John Lewis and Baser Ford were so badly beaten that a physicla was summoned to dress their wounds. Guards are 011 duty attho lock up and non-union boarding houses to prevent an attack. ..

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The period of comparative quietness which has prevailed in Homestead, Pa., since the militia left died out Sunday, aud tho pent up feelings of the strikers broke out afresh in which at least fifty shots were fuel, but no person was killed, thoughscore were hit by flying bullets A party of soven colored non-union men were 011 their way to their boarding house about 4:45 o'clock Sunday afternoon* when a man, supposed to be a striker, attaclccd two of the negroes, Charles Carroll I and Fred Lewis. Lewis was knocked down. This was a signal for a large crowd to gather at tho sceno of trouleLewis's companion carno to his rescue,and 1 a trriblo riot took place between the col-. orod men on ono side, and tho crowd, sup". posed to bo all strikers, on the other.

The two sides fought desperately and fired their re vol rots and slashed each ot.br er with their knives at closo quarters for several minutes, when tho negroes made a I dash through the crowd for their boarding house. They were followed by the hooting, bloodthirsty crowd, which by fi this time numbered at least two thousand men, including many women and chiidron. Tho crowd fired and threw stones at the fleeing negroes, and they in turn returned the Gro on tho crowd, and how so many escaped instant death is a wonder.

When tho colored men reached their |5 house they ran in and barred tho door. In a minute the house was surrounded by an infuriated crowd, who soon tore down the fence and shattered every window with stones. When tho deputies arrived some persons were suggesting that they leavti the house, aud some began to yell: "Let's I lynch tho nigger black sheep.

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About this time anotheraHrs&Srtg-.'% was circulated through the crowd. It to the offectthat the colored non-unioni' •iving on "Shanty Hill," hearing of the assault on their colored brothren, were about to come down to rescue them. Over fifty of the colored men were ready tomake an onslaught at a moment's notice,, and the coal and iron police had much difficulty in restraining them. Marion Conrad, another non-unionist, owns a house above Ann street, 011 Fourth avenue. During tho shooting a large crowd gathered in ront of his uso, and when he appeared began to threaten him. Conrad is sworn in as a deputy sheriff, and he stood in his door with two revolvers and said ho would hoot the first man who entered the gate. Several deputies then arrived, thus keeping tho crowd back for an hour, when It dispersed. After all the colored men had been removed from tho boarding house the excitement subsided rapidly.

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Du Chaillu haa forgotten or neglected the evidence of language, writes Professor F. A. Marsh in the Epoch. We have abundant written documents in what is now called Anglo-Saxon, biff books of all sorts which are certainly known to have been written by natives of England in their native tongue. They reach iclc to an earlier date than any manuscripts of the Northmen. This native old English is as plainly not Norse or other Scandinavian as the present English, and it is as plainly German Saxon as the Big-

low papers are English. It is incred* I ible chat those who spoke it should not he mainly of Gorman Saxon descent.

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Doubtless notable traits of tho Viking are to be seen in tho English speaking

peoples. Bnt these are easily explained from the well-known mixture of Danish and of Norm in blood in tho tatter periods. We do not need to I deny or forget 'our Saxon blood to feel the liveliest interest in our cousins of the North.

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