Marshall County Independent, Volume 6, Number 35, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 August 1900 — Page 3

TALMA GE'S SERMON.

TALKS ABOUT ''THE ONLY TRUE RELIGION." Slakrshlftfl of Human Manufacture Are Uele Wl.on Measured by Gotl't I'tatub Line Religon Made to Suit Condition.". (Copyright, IjOO, by Loul Klopsch.J From Trondhjeni, Norway, where Dr. Talmage is now staying, he sends the following t'.iscuurse, in which he shows that the world ian never bj benefited by a region o human manufacture, which easily yields to on 's surroundings, but must haw1 a religion let down from heaven; text. Amos vii, 8: "And the i,ord said unto me, Amos, what est thou? And I said, A plumb line." The solid masonry of the world has for me a fascination. Walk about some of the triumphal arches and the cathedrals 4UU or COO years old, and see them stand as erect as when they were built, walls of srreat height, for centuries not bending a quarter of an inch this way or that, rfo greatly honored were the masons who builded these walls that they were fre. from taxation and called "free" masons. The trowel gets most of the credit for these buildings, and its clear ringing on stone and brick has sounded across the ages. But there is another implement of just as much importance as the trowel, and my text recognizes it. Bricklayers and stonemasons and carpenters, in the building of walls, use an Instrument made of a cord, at the end of which a lump of lead is fastened. They drop it over the side of the wall, an1, as the plummet naturally seeks the center of gravity in the earth, the workman discovers where the wall recedes and where it bulges out and just what is the per pendlcular. Our text rores?nts Go I as standing on the wall of character "which the Israelites had built and in that way testing it. "And the Lord said unto me. Amos, what seest thou? And I said. A plumb line." What the world wants is straight up and down religion. Much of the socalled piety of the day bends thl3 way and that to suit the times. It is oblique, with a low state of sentiment and morals. Wo have all been building a wall of character, and it is glaringly imperfect and needs reconstruction. How shall it be brought into perpendicular? Only by the divine measurement. "And the Ixrd said unto me. Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb line." The whole tendency of the times is to make tis act by th standard of what others do. We throw over the wall of our character the tangled plumb line of other lives and reject the infallible test which Amos saw. The question for me should not be what you think is right, but what God thinks is right. This perpetual reference to the Lehavier of others, as though it decide d anything but human fallibility, is a mistake wide as the world. There are 10,000 plumb line? In use. but only one is true and xaet. end that is the line of God's eternal right. There is a mighty attempt being made to ret onstruet and fix up the Ten Commandments. To many they reem too risid. The tower of Pisa leans over about 13 feet from the perpendicular, and people go thousands of miles to see its graceful inclination and to lenm how, by extra braces and various architectural contrivances, it 13 kept leaning from century to century. Why not have the ten granite blocks of Sinai set a little aslant? Why not have the pillar of truth 'a leaning tower? Why is not an ellipse as good as a square? Why is not an oblique as good as straight up and down? My friends, we must have a standard. Shall It be God's or man's? f5ocItr Utterly Askew. The divine plumb liue needs to be thrown over all merchandise. Thousands of years ao Solomon discovered the tendency of buyers to depreciate goods. He saw a man beating down an article lowr and lower and saying It was not worth the price asked, and when he had purchased at the lowest point he told everybody what a sharp bargain he had struck and Low he outwitted the merchant. "It is naught, salth the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth" (Proverbs xx, 14). Society is so utterly askew In this matter that you seldom find a seller asking the price that he expects to get; he puts on a higher value than he expects to receive, knowing that he will have to drop. And if he wants $30, h ask3 $7.". And if he wants $2,000. ho asks $2,300. "It is naught." saith the buyer. "The fabric Is defective; the style of goods is poor; I can gt elsewhere a better article at a smaller price. It is out of fashion; it is damaged; it will fade; It will not wear well." After awhile the merchant, from overpersuaslon or from desire to dispose of that particular stock of goo Is, says, "Well, take it at your own price," and the purchaser goes home with light step and calls into his private office his confidential friends and chuckles while he tells how for half price he got the goo is. In other words, he lied and was proud of It Nothing would make times so good and the earning of a livelihood so easy as tho universal adoption of the law of right. Suspicion strikes through all bargain making. Men who sell know not whether they will ever get the money. Purchasers know not whether the goods shipped will be according to the sample. And what, with the large number of clerks who are making false entries and then abeconding and the explosion of firms that fail for millions of dollars, honest men are at their wits' ends to make a living. He who stands up amid all the pressure and does right Is accomplishing something toward the establishment of a high commercial prosperity. I have deep sympathy for the laboring classes who toll with hand and foot. But we must not forget the business men who, without any complaint or bannered procession through the street, are enduring a tress of circumstances terrific. The fortunate people of to-day are those who are receiving daily wages or regular salaries. And the men most to Tb pitied are those who conduct a business while prices are falling and 7et try to pay their clerks and employes and are In such fearful straits

that they would quit business to-morrow if it were not for the wreck and ruin of others. When people tell me at what a ruinously low price they purchase 1 an article, it gives me more dismay than satisfaction. I know it means the bankruptcy and defalcation of men in many departments. The men who toil with the brain need full as much sympathy as those who toil with the hand. All business life is struck through with suspicion, and panics are the result of want of confidence. The pressure to do wrong is strong? er from the fact that in our day the large business houses are swallowing up the s nailer, the whales dining on bluefish and minnows. The large houses undersell the small ones, because th-y buy in greater quantities and at lower figures from the producer. Tl.ey can afford to make nothing, or actually lose, on some styles of goods, assured they can make It up on others. So, a great dry goods house goes outside of its regular line and sells hooks at cost or less than cost, and that swamps the booksellers; or the dry goods house sells bric-a-brac at lowest iigures. and that swamps the small dealer in bric-a-brac. And the same tiling goes on in other styles of merchandise, and the consequence is that all along the business streets of all oar cities there are merchants of small capital who are in terrific struggle to keep their heads above water. Th? or-ean liners run down the Newfoundland fishing smacks. This is iGtliing against the man who has the big store, for every man has as large a store and as great a business as lie can manage. Kt-ed of 1)1 Ine Siiirt. To feel right and do right under all this pressure requires martyr grace, requires divine support, requires celestial re-enforcement. Yet there are tens of thousands of such men getting splendidly through. They see others going up and themselves going down, but they keep their patience and their courage and their Christian corsisteency, and after awhile their success will come. There is generally retribution in some form for greediness. The owners of the big business will die, and their boys will get possession of the business, and with a cigar In their mouths, and full to the chins with the best liquor, and behind a pair of spanking bays, they will pass everything on the turnpike road to temporal and eternal perdition. Then the business will break up and the smaller, dealers will have fair opportunity. Or the spirit of contentment and right feeling will take possession of the large firm, as recently with a famous business house, and the firm will say: "We have enough money for all our needs and the needs of our children. Now let us dissolve business and make way for other men in the same line." Instead of being startled at a solitary instance of magnanimity, it will become a common thing. I know of scores of great business houses that have had their opportunity of vast accumulation and who ought to quit. But perhaps for all the days of this generation the struggle of small houses to keep alive under the overshadowing pressure of great houses will continue; therefore, taking things as they are, you will be wise to preserve your faith and throw over all the counters and shelves and casks the measuring line of divine right. "And the Lord said unto me. Amos, what seest thou? And "I said. A plumb lirn

Tbe Only Krlifflou. I want you to notice this fact, that when a man gives up the straight up and down religion of the Bible for any new fangled religion, it is generally to suit his sins. You first hear of his change of religion, and then you hear of some swindle he has practiced in a special mining stock, telling some one if he will put in $10.0ü0 he can take out $100,000; or he ha sacrificed his integrity or plunged into irremediable worldliness. His sins are so broad he has to broaden his religion, and he becomes as broad as temptation, as broad as the soul's darkness, as broad a3 hell. They want a religion that will allow them to keep their ius and then at death say to them, "Well done, good and fa'ihi'ul servant." and that tlU them, "All is well, for there is no hell." What a glorious heaven they hold before us: Come, let us go in and see it. There are Herod and all the babes he massacred. There are Charles Guiteau and Robespierre, the feeder of the French guillotine, and all the liars, thieves, house burners, garroters, pickpockets and libertines of all the centuries. They have all got crowns and thrones and harps and scepters, and when they chant they sing. "Thanksgiving and honor and glory and power to the broad religion that lets us all into heaven without repentance and without faith in thc.vt ' humiliating dogmas of ecclesiastical old fogyisai." My tc:;t gives me a grand opportunity of saying a useful word to all young men who are now forming habits for a lifetime. Of what use to a stonemason or a bricklayer is a plumb line? Why not build the wall by the unaided eye and hand? Because they are insufficient, because if there be a deflection in the wall it cannot further on be corrected. Because by the law of gravitation a wall must be straight In order to lj symmetrical and safe. A young man is in danger of getting a defect In his wall of character that may never be corrected. One of the be.t friends I ever had died of delirium tremens at CO years of age, though he had not since 21 years of age, before which he had been dissipated, touched intoxicating liquor until that particular carousal that took him off. Not feeling well in the street on a hot summer day he stepped into a drug store, just as you and I would have done, and r.skcd for a dose of some thing to make him feel better. And there was alcohol in the dose, and that one drop aroused the old appetite, and he entered the first liquor store and staid there until thoroughly under the power of rum. He entered his home a raving maniac, hi3 wife and daughters fleeing from his presence, and at first he was taken to the city hospital to die. The combustible material of early habit had lain quiet nearly 40 years, and that one spark ignited It. Fan Is TVboleiome. Remember that the wall may be 100

fet high, and yet a deflection ona foci ' fjom the foundations affects the entire j structure. And if you live 100 years 1 and do right the last SO years you may nevertheless do something at 20 years of age that will damage all your earthly existence. All you who have built houses for yourselves or for others, am I not right ia saying to these young i men, you cannot build a waU so high ' as to be independent of the character of its foundation? A man before 30 j year3 of age may commit enough sin j to last him a lifetime. Now, John, or ! George, or Henry, or whatever be your J Christian name or surname, say here j and now; "No wild oats for me, no ' cigars or cigarettes for me, no wine or ; beer for me. no nasty stories for me. no Sunday sprees for me. J am going ! to start right and keep on right. God i

help me, for I aui very weak. From the throne of eternal righteousness let down to me the principles by which I can be guided in building everything from foundation to capstone. Lord God, by the wounded hand of Christ, throw me a plumb line." "But." you say, "you shut us young folks out from all fun." Oh. no! I like fun. I believe in fun. I have had lots of it in my time. But I have not had to go into paths of sin to find it. No credit to me. but because of an extraordinary parental example and influence I was kept from outward transgressions, though my heart was bad enough and desperately wicked. I have had fun illimitable, though I never swore one oath and never gambled for j so much as the value of a pin, and ! never saw the inside of a haunt of sin save as when many years ago, with a commissioner of police and a detective and two elders of iay church, I explored New York and Brooklyn by midnight, not out of curiosity,, but that I might in pulpit discourse set before the people the poverty and the horrors of underground city life. Yet, though I was never intoxicated for an instant and never commuted one act of dissoluteness restrained only by the grace of God. without which re straint I would have gone headlong to i the bottom of infamy I have had so much fun that I don't believe there Is a man on the planet at the present time who has had more. Hear it, men and boys, women and girls, all the fun Is on the side of right. Sin may seem attractive, but it is deathful and like the manchineel, a tree whose dews are poisonous. The only genulno happiness is in a Christian life?. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. 31 an Wlut Lost UN I. Ife In KfTorta to Find Northwest I'aage. Sir John Franklin, although not the first of our Arctic explorers, may fairly be described as having opened for this century the chapter of systematic Arctic exploration. Franklin had rendered varied and brilliant service to his country as a seaman before he had any thought of setting out to discover the Northwest passage. When still a mere youth he had fought in the battle of Tl':l f ! iT-i r nnd crv- . 1 i n he bore a gallant part in the attack on New Orleans. From that time Frank- j lin may be said to have given himself ; up altogether to Arctic exploration, especially with a view to the discovery of the Northwest passage. That discovery will always be identified with his name. No chapter in modern history is more touching.more mysterious, more full of awe, than that which tells of Franklin's absolute disappearance from the eyes of the civilized world. Many of us can still well remember the untiring efforts made by Franklin's devoted wife for the recovery of himself and his comrades, how she refused to admit that efforts for his rescue were futile, how she hoped against hope, and persevered to the last. The writer of this article had the honor of meeting her, and of knowing well some cf the gallant explorers, Dr. Rae especially, who went out time after time to the j frozen regions even when they had no 1 Detter nope to Inspire them than the hope cf finding Franklin's remains. All that could be accomplished was accomplished in the end, and the world came to know how and where Franklin and J his comrades had perished. The Arc tic explorer has become one of the hemes of civilization, and is often, as in Franklin's case, one of Its martyrs. Montreal Star. Kept in Winter by Policemen. Most the worst cases of sunburn ever in the Pennsylvania Hospital were taken to that institution recently, says the Philadelphia Times. The victims are Thomas Heenan, IS years old, of No. 311 Race street; Frank Smith, 17 years old, of No. 424 North Eighth street, and Frank Mullen, of No. 422 Darlen street. When tho boj-s canio to the hospital they were in the greatest agony, and wero almost unable to walk. The back or each is burned a bright red, and big blisters, each the size of a grape, are on their arms and backs. It will bo several days before they will be able to leave tho hospital. According to the story told by the boys, they were in the water near Noble street wharf. ' They had been swimming for some time when a policeman put in an ap- ' pearance. They were afraid to come ! out for fear he would arrest them. Consequently they were compelled to stay in the water and under the 'hot sun for some time. 'VYhen they finally came out of the

water it was diilicult for them to put d to the state department, that if inon their clothes. The blisters had be- ferlor products are sent colonial houses

gun to form on their backs, and they almost fainted with pain. Through the kindness of a passing wagon driver they managed to ride to within a square of the hospital. Premium on Incenli:rUni. In a communlcatioln to tho New York city firo commissioners Chief Croker of the fire department says an unusual number of fires have taken place In May and June and he attributes this to the easy way In which insurance companies Issue policies. He has looked the matter up and finds that tenants of premises have had Z,T:TvLtZrTS. "S0 'nSUr: ance on household effects not worth more than $500, Mr. Croker also says ihn tMa r0.nlnm wii in. juvuuuiu ju mceiiuiansm Is "the same In the big business dlst H r t a net It ! amn-nr Y. a. houses " teueuiBU '

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Miss CieUfS Annoyed. Here is a "personal" advertisement published in a New York newspaper the other day: "Personal Young gentleman, 24, desires acquaintance of wealthy, refined lady; object, matrimony. Address American." Here is a letter received next day by John B. Behm, solicitor and collector, No. 493 Washington street, Newark, who inserted the "personal": "WTite fully -to Miss Clews, No. 9 East Thirty-fourth street, New York." Some one has been playing a trick on Behm, and Miss Elsie Clews, who is one of the most beautiful, the most Intellectual and th most sedate young ELSIE CLEWS, women In New York society, haa been made the victim. She i3 the only daughter of Henry Clews, the banker, who resides at No. 9 West Thlrtyfourtfh street But a few weeks ago her engagement to marry Herbert Parsons, the only son of John E. Parsons, h& distinguished lawyer, was announced. Believing or pretending to believe the answer to his "personal" was really from Mias Clews, Behm has Intensely annoyed her by writing tender letters to her. In these letters he has boldly given hie name and address, and told her of his hopes and aspirations. He has dared to ask her to meet him, to marry him. He ha3 ventured to twice call at her home, on Thirty-fourth street So persistent was Behm that Henry Clews engaged the services of detectives to locate him. Interesting Helicf. An Interesting collection of Etone implements has been obtained from the Nile valley by Mr. Seto-n-Karr. The material Is chiefly yellowish-brown or pearl-gray, opaque, earthy chert, and is but rarely of the translucent, chal-Seton-Karr. ctdonic variety as found in the chalky formation of England. The collection contains a large number of types, which may be classed as bracelets, ax-like tools, leaf-shaped flints, knife-like instruments, hoes or agricultural Implements, scrapers, cores and flakes. Our Meats Abroad. Consul Halstcad of Birmingham warns American meat packers and ex porters, in a communication forwardrill transplant American exporters In rupplying canned meata In Europe. Consul Halstead rorivf ys advices from South Africa thowlng that the British and colonial troops prefer Vmerican meat to that Imported from this country, and that large orders Lave recently been placed with colonial houses. The in Consul HaHead. formant claims that the American ex Vtm an interior comnioditynd Tv i j j i. . ttiaf Inw rri-n r? vnrwla rinva Kann cmnt n i iTbi.m,i u i''" Kl VyiUlUU that this policy 13 shortsighted on tho part of the American meat exporters, may resuU ,n sacrlflclng commer. dal opportunities.

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Along the roads of China are encountered great numbers of military po.sts at which small garrisons about ten or fift?en soldiers in time of peace are stationed. Close by is a look-out commanding an extensive prospect. The cones of brickwork and plaster are used to fire out a fierce combustible in time of alarm as a signal to the next post. They are also employed on all festive occasions. It is here that the Boxers now enroll themselves and are sworn in to form their semi-military corp.. A government official belonging to the army presides at the table.

She Hates lyings. Here is a portrait of Ernestina Crevella, the l'aterson. N. J., woman who has gained notoriety in connection with the so-called anarchistic plots to kill European rulers. She is a good looking young woman of 22 and in personal appearance is anything but what she proclaims herself to be. To a reporter she said: "It is not the hereditary kings we would abolish, because they are born such. It is an oppressor, be he president, czar or parent. Our oppressors here are the wealthy dictators, who tell us by wage commauds and poor pay how we must live. They pay u$3 a week. It is as though they said, "Live ca bread." They pay us $1G a week they say, "Live on meat and '.': l.-: V-P W wear clothes. What Is the ballot to me or any other woman? We outnum Miss Crevella. ber the men. We will never bo allowed to vote. If we did we would put the men where you belong. Most of you In the workhouse. You think women do no tasks at home. Stay there one day and sweep, dust and scrub; get meals, wash the dishes, dress the children. Bah! You men are sybarites. Even a boilermaker i a prince." To "Recoup Fortunes. The principal object of Maitro Labori's lecturing tour of the United States next winter, it is said, is to recuperate his fortunes, destroyed beyond despair in France by his connection with the Dreyfus case. Not only did his defense of the perse Maitre Labori. cuted captain bring him no return for his services, but lost for him his ex penses, his neglected clients anl any prospect of professional success in the future on account of the unpopularity of his success in the "grande af faire." Enemy of Italy's Queen. The Duchess of Litta is the renown cd beauty of Italy. She was at one time engaged to the Prince of Naples, the present king, but the match was broken off by royal decree. An intense THE DUCHESS OF LITTA. enmity has long existed between her and the princess. This has in no manner boen softened by the sad events which have terminated in the elevation of her old rival to the throne. DuKe of Jajce-Coburg. The duke of Sax e - CoburgGotha, news of wiiese death was cabled from Engiaiul last week, was stout, bald and very Teutonic in appearance. He was famed for his love of music and hfs parsimony. Ho was a skillful player of the violin. He was an admiral In the British navy, and was for a long time In active service. He was DC years old, but ago had not withered nor custom staled his sentimental nature. It was long considered by those who knew that he was rather more of a rake than the prince of Wales, but he was bo much less prominent and popular that he attracted little attention. The duko married a sister of the late czar of Russia and aunt of the present one. She la a very haughty and rather disagreeable princess. Accident, not search, discovers truth.

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Thc Ossified JXan. Edward W. Green, the ossified isan, ; whose home is in North Judson, Ind., ! is still alive and apparently healthy. Ossification began one year ago, and ! his case puzzles physicians every- j where. Though a man of ordinary size his weight has increased to nearly that of solid stor.e. He is 40 years old. ' Except his face, which is in normal ! condition, his body is as hard as bone, emits no perspiration, and pin3 driven into the flesh anywhere give him no . semblance of pain, and when extracted , leave the indenture. Mr. Green is !

EDWARD W. GREEN, gradually losing the use of his legs and arms. Some time ago Mr. Green placed himself under treatment of a physician at Leaf River, 111., and a letter just receive! by his wife says that there is but little change in his con dition since he left home. John Cln-K Hidpalh. John Clark Ridpath, the historian, who died in New York last week was born in Putnam county. Ind.. in April, 1841. He was g r ad u a t e t from Asbury (now De Pan w) univer sity in 1SG3, taking : rr-r honors. Alter .:,'.J' serving as principal of an academy , i at Thorn town. J- C- th. Ind.. and as superintendent of publls schools at Lawrenceburg he was called in to the chair of English liter ature at DePanw. He was transferred later to the chair of history and political philosophy. In 1S73 he published his first book, on "Acadamic History of the United States." In 187G he published his "Popular History of the United States," and afterward "The Life and Work of Garfield." His "Cyclopaedia of Universal History" was published In 1883. In 189.1 he published his "Life and Work of James G. Blaine," and in 1S94 his "Great Races of Mankind." He was engaged for ten years in preparing the material and four years in writing thin work. In 1S93 he published his "Life and Times of Gladstone," and a supplement to the "History of All Nations." He was for a time editor of the Arena magazine of Boston. In 1S?6 he ran for congress on the democratic ticket in his home district in Indiana and was defeated by a small majority. Married for Lo-dc. Lady Randolph Churchill has become Mrs. Cornwallis West. Much has been written about whether she would change her name or not. Lady Randolph in this matter took the sensible view that in marrying L'eut. George Cornwallis West she was not marrying a Smith, Jones or Robinson, buit the representative and heir of A family older than that of the MarlMR. AND MRS. WEST, boroughs. In any ease, she did not think for a moment of marrying and retaining a title which was merely one of courtesy. A Constitution for Cuba. An order has been issued by tho War Department for a general election In Cuba on the third Saturday of Sep tember. There will be elected on that day delegates whoso pleasing duty It will bo to prepare a constitution under which the reoplo of Cuba may gorern themselves, freo from American tutelage. They will meet in Havana on the first Monday In November. Gen. UlacK. for Chief. A movement Is under way among the Illinois posts of the Grand Army of the Republic to secure the election of Gen. John C. Black as the next commander in chief of that organization. The feeling ot tne Illinois Grand Army of the Republic men Is that General Black. no matter who Is put in nomination by any other state the Illinois candidate is practically sure of election. Leo Rassieur of St. Louis, past depart ment commander of Missouri, has been considered the strongest man for the place, and It Is said that when h withdrew from the race last year at Philadelphia in favor of Gen. Shaw t was tacitly understood that New York's vote would be cast for the St. Louis judge when the 1900 election came. This is by no means the situ ation, say the Illinois Grand Army of

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MOTHERS' MEETING ENDS,

An Address at the League' Pension. Closing The closin! ions of the League ot Amencau Mothers was held in the Prospect Avenue MethoM-t Episcopal church, Waiden, Iii. A: the morning session there were about forty women am two men The two men aftcii'in! pre-ea. ; were J. W. Stewart, an age.! resident of Ravenswood, and the Lor.gwood octogenarian, C. H. Smith. In the course of an address on kiu.''r;j;arten training Miss Elois? Camen.n Macfiregor said: "We aim in our traininig to bring the pupils in a do-- contact with domestic life and i.a:ur.-s materials as possible. The use ot p;imit:v materials gives the child the experience of having nature vi. UI to Mm, and thus tbe iower of overcoming nature i.s developed. It i a lamentable fact that children are not given more of the practical, evciy.iay experience in the home." l'erry-P.oat Strlk-i V!i;ile. ! Mariners in San rrancisco bay arj ', keeping a sharp lookout these days for j vagrant whales, as the harbor seenji : alive with the sponiv leviathans, j who do not respect the iiht of way i of ferry-boats and otin-r craft. Sine-? the wreck of the pilot-l.o.it iJ .iiita last ; week there have been ::.t;:y juke over : this fish story, and av.oug the skepti- ' cal was Ci.prain McKm.:;,. of the Sau- , salito ferry-boat San Rafael. McKenzie is no longer a douUt.-r. for Wo-lr.es-. day when the ferry-bo.it was at full j speed a whale rose directly in it '. course, not tw;ity ;e.-: away. Refo e i the engines could ! reversed or ! j wheel swung over the vess.-l struck 1 the whale fairly, and parsed clean over j it. As it came up astern it spouted, j and then di appeared. The fdiock wad , as though the ve.- I had ruu into a ; mud bank. Dynamite Oii.ts S ;atr. j Unable to get Jeru.oain Morns, an , old negro, to pay nut for the cabin ! and small bit of land which he has held for he last ten years, Chailcs Carew, the owner, took advantage of i Morris5 absence to blow up the cabin ' near Louisville, Ky.. with dynamite. ! Morris was an old slave and lived ; with his former ma.-t'T. near P.ran.U-n- : burg, until the lattcr's death in 1S30. i Then he got i.ito a ski ft and came up i the river on a prospecting tour. Uiudf ing" a piece of land that uited his j fancy he settled down as a squatter and built himself a little hut. This arrangement was satisfactory to the then owners of the laud, but when a year ago Carew came into possession he demanded that Morris pay rent. ThLj the old negro persistently refused to do. SpoiU a Tril We.Mir'jr. The elopement of John A. Anderson, just made known :;i Philadelphia, turned a triple w.-d-litig into a double one. It had been ail ti.-d that Anderson was to marry Luv Mattis, his son, Harry, to marry M r y Whitehead, and his daughter, Charlotte. Anthony Jester. The son and daughter were married, but the father aiino.m e 1 that h-t had been married since last Thursday. The father's haue-: kept Mh-nt oa th triple wedding subject until that day, when she said it would have to be then or never. It was then. They are housekeeping now, but their children have not called as ye.L They have not evpn recognized the existence of their new mother, and all is not serene in the family. Village SM at Auction. An unusual occurrence at Dovlestoa. j Pa., was the public sale at j which Sheriff Hoheneck put up at J auction at his cilice a whole village for i $100, subject to a lien, however, of i ?S,000, the Bucks County Trust cornI pany becoming the purchaser. It wa.i the real estate of Theodore M. Moyer ! in Tinicum township, sold in tow lots. ! comprising about ten acres and emj bracing the entire village cf UhlcisI town, which Moyer purchased Sora I time ago fron) the estate of Michael j Uhler, deceased, who, during his lifej time did a large easiness in milling. j rrin1o' ."..OOO I lt.it PSG. A dispatch received at the war office in London from Lord Roberts materially modifies the statement o! the surrender of r,ooo rebels under Gen. Prinsloo. It now appears that Gens. Prinsloo, Villiers and Crowthera surrenedered with l'M men. 1,432 I horses, 053 rides ami a Krupp nine- ! pounder. Some of the leaders in mora : distant parts of the hills hesitate to j come in. on the ph i that they are independent of Gen. Prinsloo. Lord Roberts adds that he has directal Gen. Hunter to resume hostilities forthwith ! and to listen to no excuses. r.anl.-rt Datierter KMl.-.I. Miss Clarrissa P.lake, daughter of S. l'arkmau Ulakc, a retired banker vi roum, was killed at New Rochelle. N. Y., Tuesday afternoon. She rode a horse to a hurdl-i and the animal rose to it, but as lu went over his hind hoofs struck tho top rail and Miss Wake was thrown. She struck on the back of her head at the neck Her spine was broken at the base of the braia and she was dal when picked up. NearlT I-viirli AnsnhUin. j The king and queen of Italy arrivel I at Monza Wednesday evening. In thn I midst of a touching demonstration of j welcome to King Victor Umanuel two strangers cried "Vive ranarchia." They were arretted and narrowly escaped lynching at tho hands of the furious crowd. An Ulbcrfeld dispatch announces the arrest there of Guiseppa Bernard!, accused of declaring that Emperor William's turn to be assassinated would come next. He denied the charge, but is believed to be an anarchist. ItritUli I ?. it Hie Ahlotntl. Major 11. It. Beddoes. wkh 400 men and two guns, started July 24 to lo cate the Ashanti's war camp. Th camp was found, tho w?rriors numbering 3,000 to 4.C0U men, three days' marching east of Pompoes si. Several hours fighting resulted in the defeat of the Ashantls. Major Beddoes" losses were heavy. He and Lieutenants Phillips and Swaby wera severely wounded. Thirty men also were wounded. More troops will be necessary before the campaign can b

' finished.