Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 51, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 April 1886 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONA!, AND POLITICAL Ths Treasury Department has received a certificate of $35,000 in the case of George Q. Cannon, of Utah, who was held in that amount of bail and which was forfeited by reason of his failure to appear for trial. The bond of William L. Trenholm as Comptroller of the Currency was approved by the acting Secretary and the Solicitor of the Treasury on the 19th,' and he subsequently qualified and entered upon the duties of that office. The bond is for $100,000. Ih a published letter, ^Joseph Chamberlain explains the difference between his plan of British federation and Gladstone’s Home-rule poliey. Charles Mitchell, father of Maggie Mitchell, the actress, died at Troy, S. Y., on the 20th, aged eighty-three years. In a speech on the 20th Mr. Sullivan, Lord Mayor of Dublin, said that while Gladstone’s Home-rule bill is not equal to the ideal of the Nationalists, yet it is a measure that Ireland will honorably accept.

u!» me ™ secretary Lamar returned to Washington from his Southern trip, much improved in health, and attended the Cabinet meeting at noon. On the 19th Captain Thomas Kerr, a boat-builder for forty years, and well known along the river from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, died at his home in Freedom, Pa., aged'seventy-eight years. Collector Barnum, of St. Louis, and Hasbrook, of Kansas City, have been confirmed. Acting Secretary Fairchild has received a full report from Collector Hagar at San Francisco in regard to the reception of the new Chinese Minister at that port. It does not differ, excepting in length, from reports previously received. President Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific Railroad Company was severely injured by being thrown from his road wagon in New York on the 20th. On the 21st the jury in the case of General Shaler, on trial in New York for bribery, failed to agree and were discharged. It is understood they stood eight for acquittal and four for conviction. On the 21st William G. McDowell testified before the Congression al committee on the Southwest strike in Washington. Jay Gould and his son George left New York on t he same day for Washing ton to appear before the committee. The San Francisco' Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution at a meeting on the 2lst strongly indorsing Collector Hager. * ,

Ex-President Arthur it not so seriousouslv ill as reported. Minister McLane will leave France in May for America. Lieutenant-Governor Morehead of Missouri refused to honor the Illinois requisition for the deputy sheriffs in the St. Louis jail un||l the killing of Thompson on the bridge has been adjudicated. On the 21st the remains of the Bishop of Madrid, who was shot by a priest on the 18th, were buried with imposing ceremonies. Turkey has intrusted . her cause in the Grecian dispute to Lord Rosebery, British Minister of Foreign Affaii-s. The Marquis of Salisbury is convinced' that the nation will indignantly reject Gladstone’s “desperate scheme” for the government of Ireland. On the 21st, in a speech at Glasgow, the Duke of Argyle admitted the sincerity of Gladstone, but believed the Premier was misled by the Parnell ites. The Senate confirmed Hon. Wm, L. West on the 21st as Governor of Utah to succeed Governor Murra;|r. On the 22d Jay Gould appeared before the select Congressional committee at Washington and detailed the status of affairs on the Southwestern roads and the causes leading to the strike, from his standpoint. Among the nominations confirmed by the Senate on the 22d were those of Chas. E. Gloss, to be Governor of New Mexico, and W. S. Roseerans, Register off the Treasury. On the 22d a great Liberal mass-meet-ing, presided over by Labouchere, was held at St. James Hall, London, at which resolutions indorsing Gladstone’s Irish policy were adopted. Father Abram J. Ryan, the “poet priest of the South,” is lying critically ill! with brain fever at St. Boniface Church in Louisville, Ky. On the 22d the African Society at Naples gave a banquet to Ijeury M. Stanley, the African explorer. On the 22d Chang Ten Won, the new Chinese Minister and his suite, arrived in Washington. The minister and his party were met at the depot by the retiring minister and the attaches of the legation and were escorted to the embassy in carriages, after which the ex-minister and his suite returned to the hotel. The sixty-fourth anniversary of the hirth of General Grant will be celebrated at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington on Tuesday evening, April 27. Chief-Justice Waitie will preside, and addresses will he made by Senators Brown, Sherman, Logan and Evarts and many other distinguished gen

unueu. Hon. Wm. WhitetY, Associate Judge of the Superior Court of Delaware, diet] on the 23d of hemorrhage of the stomach after a lingering illness. It is reported that ex-Freaident Arthur is rapidly convalescing, and that he is very much better than at. any time since the commencement of his indisposition. Lord Selbocrnb publishes a letter, in which he attacks certain features of Gladstone’s Home-Rule bill and pronounces the measure hopelessly faulty. Dr. Frisch, the Austrian delegate sent to Paris to investigate Pasteur’s hydrophobic treatment, advises the medical profession of Austria to adopt the Frenchman’s method. Stephen D. Whit* has applied for a mandamus on Secretary Bayard to compel him to pay to the relator, as a ssignee, the tenth instalment of an award made by the Mexican claims commission, amounting to about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The regatta committee at Quebec has chosen George Hosmer, of Boston, to meet Hanlan for a three-mile sculling race on Lake St. Joseph on the 2ith of June, for a purse of $1,500. AND CASUALTIES. Oh the 30th Francis: M. Wilson, a young lawyer, shot Emma Adams and himself at Hew York* Both will probably die. John Craio and John Laurie, two prisoner*, lost their iivos by the burning of the Jail at Cornwall, Out , on the 21st. Miners John Welch and Wgi. Stokes were seriously injured by a fall of slate at the Crab-tree coal mines, near Latrobe, w wa8 thought,

Fisk destroyed the works of the Paterson (R. J.) Dyeing and Finishing Company at Riverside, a suburb of Paterson, on the 21st. The loss is $*>0,000, almost covered by insurance. The fire was of accidental origin. On the 21st James Townsend, of Corinth, R. Y., Hiram Davis and a boy named Jones wore drowned while attempting to cross the river at Hadley, Saratoga County, Their boat wa'Sscaught by floating logs and carried over a dam. Thk merchant-bar mill of the Pennsylvania Steel Works, at Harrisburg, Pa., was entirely destroyed by fire on the 21st, caused by the explosion of a lamp. The mill was valued at $130,000, on which there was an insurance of $10,000, which will cover the loss. At Wiggan’s colliery, Shenandoah, Pa., on the 21st, John , Shamousky and his brother and two Hungarians, names unknown, were working a gangway when a blast exploded prematurely, killing Shamousky and fatally injuring his brother. The other two men are seriously but not iVtally injured. On the 21st Mrs. Henry Agnew was arrested in Philadelphia on a charge of arson, her residence, in which the furniture was heavily insured, being recently discovered on fire ten times within four hours.

Jesse & Darlington's large barn, three miles from West Chester, Pa., was burned on the 21st. Forty cows and three horses perished in the flames. The contents of the barn, including hay, grain and implements, were entirely consumed. The loss is very heavy with only a partial insurance. State Prison Keeper La vertv of New Jersey was found guilty of one of the charges against him, and he has been dismissed from office and disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust or profit in the State hereafter. Cvstom-hoose officials at Odessa, Russia, are said to have been defrauding the government for years. "The amount embezzled is placed at several million rubles. On the 22d Edward T. Shaw, who for twelve years has carried the mail between the local post-office at Beverly, Mass., and the railway station, was arrested. He confessed to having systematically robbed the mails for several years, taking between S,000 and 5,000 letters and obtaining upward of $1,500. An emigrant named Uranskv fell from a train at Antelope station, on the Missouri Pacific railroad, forty miles east of Cheyenne, on the 22d. Both his legs were cut off, and he died in a few minutes. He was bound for Butte, M. T. Mrs. Fanny Smith, who lived near Keyport, N. J,, in a fit of mania on the 23d, killed one of her children and seriously wounded three others with an axe. Frederick Hillkrman, wife and two children were drowned while fishing in the Auglaize river at Defiance, O., on the 23d. Robert Fowler was hanged according to programme at Morganfieid, Ky., on the 23d. Mary Johnson, a Philadelphia colored woman, was killed on the 23d by Wm. Bush, a former lover. A skiff capsized in the river at Moline, 111., on the 23d, with three y oung men, and Chas. IV. Schaeffer was drowned. At New Orleans on the 28d William C. Nessen, aged sixty-two, attempted to kill his wife and then shot and killed himself. Jennie Thompson, fifteen years old, committed suicide at Delavan, 111., on the 23d, by throwing herself under a tiain.

MISCSltANEOCS. On the 30th another of the wolf-bitten Russians, under treatment by Pasteur, died of hydrophobia in Paris. All hope of recovering the bodies of the Nanticoke miners has been given up, and the search has been abandoned. v The court of inquiry into the Oregon disaster rendered judgment in favor of the owners and officers of the vessel. The Powers have sent an ultimatum to Greece fixing a time within which that nation must disarm; otherwise steps would be taken to enforce the demands. The correct list of the victims, of the flood at East Lee, Mass., is as follows: A. N. White, aged forty-eight; Mrs. White, aged forty-seven; Ida May White, aged ten; Alice I. White, aged eight; Simon Dowd, Mrs. T. King and and Mrs. Charles King. The bodies of Mr. Dowd and Ida White had not been found up to the 21st. Hostilities have begun between Turkey and Greece by a vigorous little fight between outposts, in which the Turks were inglorionsly put to flight. The President, in a message to Congress on the 33d, recommended the appointment of three commissioners to act as a board of arbitration in labor troubles. Avstkalia will send a rifle team to Wimbledon. It is semi-offlcially stated that Prance will refuse to join the powers in the plan of coercing Greece into disarming. Following the introduction of natural gas into Pittsburgh, Pa., the outputs of the mills and factories have been increased twenty per cent., a large number of new plants have been erected and nearly ten thousand additional men have been given employment. On the 23d the Irish Land-Purchase bill was issued. It covers thirty-six pages. The United States district attorney at San Francisco, Cal., has been instructed by the Solicitor of the Treasury to bring suit against the Sierra Lumber Company to recover about $2,218,000 damages, arising from the conversion of timber and lumber taken from public lands. The clergy of Cleveland, O., headed by Bishop Bedell of the Episcopal Church are preparing to boycott: the Sunday secular newspapers. Confidential circulars have been issued to clergymen, and all have been urged to join the movement and denounce Sunday papers from their pulpits on May 2. Independent coke manufacturers, operating nearly eight hundred ovens in the McConnellsville region in Pennsylvania, and employing 6,000 men, have followed the example of the coke syndicate and advanced wages from five to ten per cent., to take effect May I. A large number of leading business men of New Tark have signed a call for a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, with a view to taking action relative to the labor disturbances now in existence there. Tbs Spanish sanitary counoil has authorised the practice of inoculation for cholera. An attempt to blow up the church of San Lius at Madrid, on the 28d, was partly successful. The labor investigating committeecMfed Its sitting in Washington on the SaMhnd the members intended to leave for 8t. Louis on the 37th. A fight took place in East Flanders on the 23d between gendarmes and striking watchmakers, in which the rioters were routed and several wei e arrested. The total imports of dry goods at the port of New York during the seven days ended the 83d were sralued at $3,369,608, sndthe amount thrown on the market £2,392,310. The Municipal Council of Stry, Galaeia, lias been dissolved by imperial order on sccount of culpable negligence in failing » provide the tpwn w|th lire engines.

I Tax last stone in the pedestal on Bedloe-s Island, on which will stand Bartholdi’s colossal statue “Liberty Enlightening tha : orld,” was laid on the 23d. The statue will be unveiled September 8. A socialistic mass-meeting of German workingmen was held in Sew York on the night of the 23d to denounce “the capitalists and the police who were endeavoring to crush Herr Most and his workingmen.’* It is now understood that France will j join the Powers in an ultimatum to Greece* insisting on disarmament, but will refuse to join in any naval demonstration intended as coercion. A sensation has been created in Ireland by an offer of the trustees of the Symes estate to turn over the lands to the tenants at a sum equal to twelve years’ rent. Orders have been issued by the Treasury Department for the fitting out of the revenue steamer Bear at San Francisco for I a cruise to Alaska. She is to proceed as far north as possible and to make a thorough search for the crew of the wrecked whaler Amethyst. The visihle supply of wheat in the United States and Canada, with the quantity afloat for Europe, on the 23d amounted to 61,608,483 bushels, against 74,860,981 bushels one year ago, and of corn 19,235,026 bushels, against 13,327,195 bushels last •! ; Attachments amounting to $45,000 have been placed on the Bennington (Vt.) mills and the mills have shut down. This is the largest milling property in Vermont. The collections of internal revenue for the first nine months of the fiscal year ending June 30,18S6, were as follows: From spirits, $50,591,795; from tobacco* $20,130,918; from fermented quors, $13,662,750; from miscellaneous items, $179,788; making a total of $84,571,252, or an increase of $2,974,94$ over the collections for the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. The total value of exports during tha twelve months ended March 31, 1886, were $665,966^20,. and during the preceding twelve months, $743,791,013, a decrease of 77,834,093, The value of the imports for the same period were $614,778,670, and for the preceding twelve months, $596,202,055, an increase of $185,76,015. There were 194 failures in the United States and Canada during the seven days ended the 23d, compared with 182 the preceding week and 215 the week previous to

congressional proceedings. In the Senate on the 19tb the Mil was passed for the erection of a Are-proof hall of records at Washington. The Weil-L’Abra Mexican treaty was discussed lor three hours.In the House a bill was tntioduced lor a military exploration of Alaska; to establish a sub-treasury at Galveston; to provide for transportation of foreign malls. Mr. Dockery’s bill to extend the immediate postal-delivery system to packages waa passed. lx the Senate on the 2€th a communication from the Interior Department containing detailed information concerning Northern Pacific lands was laid before the Senate. Mr. Logan reintroduced his Army bill in a new form The rest of the day was given to executive business._...In the House a large number of bills were reported from committees, among them one fixing United States’ district judges’ salaries at JS.00©; also a bill to regulate commercial travelers; also a bill to create the offlee of Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs; also for the relief of Wrn. McUarrahan. A number of public building bills were reported favorably. lx the Senate on the fist a number of private pension bills were passed; also a bill to authorize the Secretary of War to settle the claim of Uev. s. \v. Marten, of St. Louis; also a House bill to protect homestead settlers within railroad limits..In the House among the bills reported from committees was one limiting the jurisdiction of .the United States courts lu patent cases; also to erect a monument over the grave of General Daniel Morgan In committee of the whole the River and Harbor bill was taken up. In the Senate on the Sid a bill contributing $15,000 for aiding in the erection of n National monument at Ply month. Mass., passed. The bill was reported to Indemnify the Chinese tor the Wyoming outrages. Several bridge bills, already passed by the House, were favorably reported. After some debate on the Land-Grant Tax bill, the Inter-State Commerce hill waa taken up and discussed.In the Uouse the Indian Appropriation bill was reported with Senate amendments, aud a conference committee appointed. Several bills of minor importance from the judiciary committee were passed, after which the River and Harbor bill was taken up in committee of the whole. Tax Senate was not in session on the 33d....In the House the committee of the whole (continuation of Thursday’s session) considered the River and Harbor bill for an hour. Friday’s session then began with the reading of the President’s message on the labor troubles. Debate ensued ou the question of reference, which finally ended by the message being seut to the labor committee. .The private calendar was then taken up in committee of the whole. CONDENSED *TELEGRAMS. Hkavt undervaluations of German cloths, buttons and braid have been discovered at New York. The total number of lives lost In the great fire at Stry, in Galicia, was 128. Six Italian lnborers were burned to death and three others badly injured in a sleeping shanty at Alton, Pa., on the 24th. It is not thought probable that Congress will be nble to ndjourn before the 1st of A in mief

A derutatioh of British medical scientists are at Paris study ing Pasteur’s system. A reisn at terror exists in Grant County, Wis., owing to the lawless acts of a gang of tramps and horse-thieves. Edward Hanlan proposes to hold an international regatta at Toronto bay June Sand A Senator Call, of Florida, is credited with a sentence containing three hundred and eighty-six words, the longest on record in Congress. Hrkrt V. Smith, a prominent Michigan farmer,while drunk, attempted to enter the house of a merchant at Port Huron, and' was shot and killed by the latter. A bot named Terry O’Donald was fatally shot at Danville, Ind., on the 31th by a sixteen-year-old normal student named J. R. Miller. Great damage has been done to lighthouses along the St. Lawrence in Canada by ice-jams and floods. Hrkrt Frter, a gate-keeper at Druid Hill park, Baltimore, Md., was found dead on the 34th, hanging head down from a tree, on which he had been training a wild rose vine. A loyalist meeting was held at Glasgow on the 34th, and the usual collisions took place between Catholics and Orangemen. Groror Dowket, assaulted with an axe by John A. Erskins at Bennet, Neb., a few days ago, has died from his injuries. Am iron tower, 964 feet high, is to be erected on the grounds of the coming international exposition at Paris. The rumor that St. Louis parties are to be summoned as witnesses in the PanElectric investigation is again renewed: A Russian woman who was bitten by a mad wolf and went to Paris to be treated by Pasteur, died of hydrophobia on the 25th. Forest L. Pusket, editor and proprietor of the Oakdale (Neb.) Jowntaly has been held for trial an a charge of infanticide. The ignorant Galicia peasantry are dangerously excited over a rumor that the government intends to restore the forced ' labor laws and that the aristocrats are ! organising to massacre the Polish peasants. Numerous iron-clads are congregating ;

THE PRESIDENTS' MESSAGE *» Concrcw Recommending Legislation To* the Formation at a National Labor Commission to Take Cognizance of Differences Arising Between Employer and Employe. Washington, April 23.—The President to-dsj sent the following message to Congress upon the subject of the labor troubles: To rts Senate and House of Representatives; The constitution tmposeson the President the duty of recommending to the consideration of Congress from time to time such measures as he shall Judge necessary and expedient. I am so deeply impressed with the Importauce or immediately and thoroughly meetmg the problem which recent events and a present condition have thrust upon us, Involving the settlement of disputes rising between ttje laboring men and their employers, that 1 am constrained to recommend to Congress legislation upon this serious and pressing subject. Under our form of government, the value of labor as au element of National prosperity shoutd be distinctly reeogniaed, and the welfare of the tabortag man should be regarded as especially entitled to legislative care. In a country which offers to all Us citizens the highest attainment of social and political distinction, its workingmen can not justly or safely be considered as irrevocably consigned to the limits of a class and entitled to no attention and allowed no protest against neglect. The laboring man. bearing in his hand an Indispensable contribution to our growth and progress, may well insist, with manly courage and as a ri ht, upon the same recognition from those who make our laws as is accorded to any other citizen hav lng a valuable interest in eha> ge; and his reasonable demand should be met in such a, spirit ot appreciation and fairness as to induce a contented and patriotic co-operation in the achievement of a grand National destiny. While the real interests of labor are not promoted by a resort to threats and violent manifestations, and while ttfose who, under the pretext of an advocacy of the claims of laoor, wantonly attack the rights of capital, and for that selfish purpose or the love of disorder sow seeds of violence and discon-tent.-should neither be encouraged nor conciliated, all legislation on the subject should be calmly and deliberately undertaken, with no purpose ot satisfying unreasonable demands or gaining partisan advantage The present condition of the relations between labor and capital are far from satisfactory. The discontent of the employed Is due In a large degree to the grasping and needless exactions of employers, and the alleged discrimination in favor of capital is »h object of Governmental attention. It must also be coneede l that the laboring men are not always careful to avoid causeless and unjustifiable disturbances. Though the importance of a better accord between these interests is apparent, it must be borne in mind that any effort in that direction by the Federal Government must be greatly limited by constitutional restrictions. There are many grievances which legislation by Congress can not redress, and many conditions which can not by such means be reformed.

1 am saltsfled, however, that some things may be done under Federal authorityto prevent the disturbances which so often arise trom disputes between employers and the employed, and which at times seriously threaten the business interests of the country; and In my opinion the proper theory upon which to proceed Is that of voluntary arbitration as the means of settling these difficulties. But l suggest that instead of arbitrators ehoson in the heat conflicting claims, and after each dispute shall arise, there be created a commission of labor, consist ing of three members, who shall be regular officers of the Government, charged, among other duties, with the consideration and settlement, when possible, of all controversies between labor and capital. A commission thus organ-z -d would have the advantage of being a stable body, and Its members, as they gained experience, would constantly Improve in their ability to deal intelligently ami usefully with the Questions which might be submitted to them. It arbitrators arc chosen for temporary service as each case of dispute arises, experience and familiarity with much that is Involved in the Question will be lacking, extreme partisanship and bias will be the qualifications sought on either side, and freqheut complaints of unfairness ami partiality will be inev table. The Imposition upon a Federal Court of a duty foreign to the judicial function, as the selection oi an arbitrator in sneh cases, is at least of doubtful propriety. The establishment bv Federal authority of sueh a bureau would be a Just and sensible recognition of the value of labor, and of Its right to he represented in the departments of the Government. So far as Us conciliatory offices shal I have relation to disturbances which interlere with transit and commerce between the States Its existence would be Justified under the provlslonsof the Constitution which gives to Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States. And in the frequeut disputes between the laboring men and their employers, of less extent and the consequences ot which are confined within State limits, aud threaten domestic violence, the Interposition of such a commssion might be tendered. upon the application of the Legislature or Executive ot a State, under the constitutional provision which require* the General Government to “protect" each State “against domestic violence.” If such a commission were fairly organised. the risk of a loss of popular support and sympathy resulting from a refusal to submit to so peaceful an Instrumentality would constrain both parties to such disputes to Invoke Its interference and abide by Its decisions There would also be good reason to hopb that the very existence of sueh an agency would invite application to It tor advice and counsel, frequently result Ing In the avoidance of contention and misunderstanding. If the usetulness of sneh a commission Is doubtful, because It migut lack power to enforce Its decisions, much encouragement Is derived from the conceded good that has been accomplished by the railroad commissions which have been organized In many of the States, which, having but little more than advisory- power, have exerted a most salutary influence in the settlement of disputes between conflicting interests. In July. I SSI, by a law of Congress, a Bureau of Labor waa established and placed in charge of a commissioner of labor, who is required to “collect Information upon the subject ot labor. Its relations with capital, the houis of labor, and the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means ot promoting their material, social, intellectual and moral prosperity." The commission which I suggest could easily be engrafted upon the bureau thus already organized by the addition of twomore commissioners, and by supplementing the duties now imposed upon it by such other powers and functions as would permit the eommlsstoneis to aet as arbitrators when necessary between labor and capital, under sneb limitations and upon such occasions as should be deemed proper and useful. Bower should also be distinctly conferred upon this bureau to investigate the causes of all disputes as they occur, whether submitted for arbitration or not, so that information may always be at hand to aid legislation on toe subject when necessary and desirable. _ Grover Clevklanb. Executive Mansion, April fa, loss.

A High-HudMl Measure. Berlin, April 88.—The Reichstag having refused the demand of the government lor a grant to establish a headquarters ol the inspection of the Landwehr in Berlin, the Minister of War ordered the execution of the scheme upon his own responsibility, taking the funds necessary tor salaries, etc., from moneys appropriated for other purposes. An excited discussion is in progress over the question of the right of the minister to take such action. A ban Wreck. Trot, N. T., April 84.—The Saratoga special, due In this city at 8:10 p. m., and running at the rate of forty miles aii hour, struck a loaded freight on Green Island yesterday afternoon. It cut seven cars and their contents into kindling wood and badly crushed several others. Fireman McGooty escaped by leaping from die train. Engineer Bradshaw, of Whitetaall, also leaped, after setting the airbrakes, but was caught in the timbers of the freight and so badly injured that it is believed that he must die. He was taken to the hospital iu this city. Cheap at Twice the Money. Toms River, N. J., April 8S.—Louie Blackman, the pretty schoolmistress who created a sensation a few weeks ago at Jollier’s Mills, in this county, by entering i public school meeting and thrashing with a birch switch ex-Seuator Eptiraij P. Emerson, the social, political inancial autocrat of the fegion, licted by the grand jury this week, upf!i L complaint of Mr. Emerson, for as ind battery. She pleaded guilty, am lned fifty dollars, which was p bUgf* She says it was cheap at t >rice, and threatens to give Mr. ' mother dose U he ever again ihln* againsther,

TALMAGE’S SERMON. & Sprlncr-Tide Theme — The Laughter of the Bible." The Various Phases of Cachinnates? Indulgence, Which are Pleasing or Displeasing to the Lord According to the Spirit Which Induces It. Rev. T. DsWitt Talmage, in a recent Sunday morning sermon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, took for his subject “The “Laughter of the Bible,” taking for his texts the following : Then was onr mouth ttlled with laughter. —Psalms, xxvi. t He that sltteth In the heavens shall laugh. —Psalms. I, 4.

Dr. Talmage said: Thirty-eight times does the Bible make reference to this configuration of the features and quick expulsion of the breath which we call laughter. Sometimes it is born of the sunshine and sometimes of the midnight. Sometimes it stirs the sympathies of angels and sometimes the cachinnation of devils. All healthy people laugh. Whether it pleases the Lord or displeases Him, that depends upon when we laugh and at what we laugh. Mr theme this morning is the laughter of the Bible, namely—Sarah's laugh, or that of skepticism; David's laugh, or that of spiritual exultation; the fool’s laugh, or1 that of sinful merriment; God's laugh, or that of infinite condemnation; Heaven’s laugh, or that of eternal triumph. Scene: An oriental tent; the occupants, old Abraham and Sarah, perhaps wrinkled and decrepit. Their three guests are three angels—the Lord Almighty one of them. In return for the hospitality shown hv the old people God promises Sarah that she shall become the ancestress of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sarah laughs in the face ef God; she does not believe it. She is affrighted at what she has done. She denies it. She says: “I didn’t laugh." Then God retorted with an emphasis that silenced all disputation: "But thou didst laugh." My friends, the laugh of skepticism in all ages is only the echo of Sarah’s laughter. God says he will accomplish a tiling, and men say it can not be done. A great multitude laugh at the miracles. They say they are contrary to the laws of nature. What is a law of nature? It is God’s way of doing a thing. You ordinarily cross the river by the bridge. To-morrow you change for one day and you go across Wall street ferry. You made the rule. Have you not the right to change it! I ordinarily come in at that door (pointing to a side entrance of the church). Suppose next Sabbath I should come in at the other door? It is a habit I have. Have I not a right to change my habit? A law of nature is God’s habit— his way of doing things. If he makes the law has he not a right to change it at aStytime he wants to change it? Alas for the folly of those who laugh at God when he\ says: “I will do a thing,” they responding, “You can’t do it.” God says that the Bible is true—it is all true. Bishop Colenso laughs, Herbert Spencer laughs, John Stuart Milt laughs, great German universities laugh, Harvard laughs—softly; a great many,' of the learned institutions of this country, with long rows of professors seated on the fence between Christianity and infidelity, laugh softly. They say: “We didn’t laugh.” That was Sarah’s trick. God thunders from the heavens: “But thou didst laugh.” The Garden of Eden was onlr a fable. There never was any ark built—it was too small to have two of every kind. The pillar of fire by night was only the Northern lights. The ten plagues of Egypt only a brilliant specimen of jugglery. The sea parted because the wind blew violently a great whila from one direction. The sun and moon did not put themselves out of the way for Joshua. Jacob's lazier was only horizontal and picturesque clouds. The destroying angel smiting the first born in Egypt was only cholera infantum become epidemic. The gullet of the whale by positive measurement is too small to swallow a prophet. The lame, the dumb, the blind, the halt, cured by mere human surgery. Tfee resurrection of Christ’s friend only a beautiful tableau, Christ and Lazarus and Mary and Martha acting their parts well. My friends, there is not a doctrine or statement in God’s Holy Word that has not been derided by the skepticism of the day. I take up this book of King James’ translation. 1 consider it a perfect Bible, but here are skeptics who want it torn to pieces. And now, with this Bible in my hand, let me tear out all tho e portions which the skepticism of the day demands shall be torn out. What shall go first? “Well,” says some in the audience, “take out all that about the creation and about the first settlement of the world.” Away goes Genesis. “Now,” says some oue, “take out all that about the miraculous guidance of the children of Israel in the wilderness.” Away goes Exodus. “Now," says some one else in the audience, “there are things in Deuteronomy and Kings that are not fit to be read.” Away goes Deuteronomy and the Kings. “Now,” says some one, “the book of Job is a fable that ought to come out.” Away goes the book of Job. “Now,” says some one.

those passages m the New Testament which imply the divinity ot Jesus Christ out to come out.” Away go the Rvangelists. “Now,” says some one, “the Book of Revelation—preposterous! it represents a man with a moon under his feet and a sharp sword in his hand.” Away goes the Book of Revelation. Now there are a fejy places left. Whit shall we do with them? “Oh,” says some man in the audience, “I don’t believe a word in the Bible from one end to the other.” Well, it is all gone. NoW you have pat out the last light for the nations. Now it is the pitch darkness of eternal midnight. How do you like it? But I think, my friends, we had better keep the Bible a Uttle longer intact. It has done pretty well for a good many years. Then there are old people who find it a comfort to have it on their laps, and children like the stories in it. Let us keep it for a curiosity anyhow. If the Bible is to be thrown nut of the school and out of the courtroom, so that men no mure swear by1 it, and it is to he put in a dark corner of the city library, the Koran on one side and the writings of Confucius on the other, then let ns each sue keep a copy for himself, for we might have trouble and we would want to be under the delusion of its consolations; and we might die, and we would want the delusion of the exalted residence at Clod’s right hand which it mentions. Oh, what an awful thing it is to laugh in Bod’s face and hurl his revelation back at him! After awhile the day will come when they will seythey did not laugh, rhea all the hypercrigci?ms, aH the cansutures and fl the learned sneers in the quarterly reviews will be brought to judgment; and amid the rocking of everything beneath and amid the flaming of everything above, God will thunder: “But thou didst laugh.” *1 think the most fascinating aughter at Christianity I ever remember of GfMteodore Parker’s. He made the word •* h®ty>gdiculous, and he laughe| ^*

and then b# raid: “My life has been ft failure—a failure domestically, 1 have no children; a failure socially, for I am treated in the streets like a pirate; a failure professionally. because I know but one ministry who has adopted my sentiments.** For a quarter of a century he laughed at Chrstianity, and ever since Christianity has been laughing at him,. Now, it is a mean thing to go into a man’s house and steal his goods, but, I tell you, the most gigantic burglary ever invented is the proposition to steal these treasures of our holy religion. The meanest laughter ever uttered is the laughter of the skeptic. The next laughter mentioned in the Bible is David’s laughter, or the laughter of spiritual exultation: “Then was our mouth filled with laughter.” He got very much down sometimes, but there are other chapters where four or five times he calls upon the people to praise and exult. It was not a mere twitch of the lips, it was a demonstration that took hold of his whole physical nature. “Then was our mouth fitted with laughter.” My friends, this world will never be converted to Sod until Christians cry less and laugh and sing more. The horrors are poor bait- If people are to be persuaded to adopt our holy religion, it will be because they have made up their minds it is happy religion. They don’t like a morbid Christianity. £- know there are morbid people who enjoy a funeral. They come early to seethe friends take leave of the corpse, and they steal a ride to the cemetery; but all healthy people enjoy a wedding better than they do a burial. Now, you make the religion of Christ sepulchral and hearse-like and you make it repulsive.

l say, plant the rose of Sharon along the church walks, and Columbia* to clamber OTer the church wall; and hare a smile on the lip, and hare the mouth filled with holy water. There is no man in the world except the Christian that ha* a right to fe*l an untrammeled glee. He is promised everything is to be for the best here, and he is on the way to a delight which will take all the processions with palm branches, and aH the orchestras, harped and cymbaled and trumpled, to express. “Oh,” you say, “I have so much trouble 1” Have you more trouble than Paul had? What does he say? “Sorrowful, yet alwtays rejoicing. Poor, yet making many rich. Having nothing, yet possessing all things.” The next laughter mentioned in the Bible that I shall speak of, is the fool’s laughter, or the expression of sinful merriment. Solomon was very quick at simile; when he makes a comparison we all eatch k. What is the laugbter of a fool like? He says: “It is the crackling of thorns under a pot.” The kettle is swung, a bunch of brambles is put under it, and the torch is applied to it and there is h great noise and a big Maze and a sputter and a quick extinguishment ; then it is darker than it was before. Fool’s laughter. The most miserable thing on earth is a bad man’s fun. There they are—ten men in'? a barroom; they have at home wives, mothers, daughters. The impure jest farts at one corner of a barn and crackle, er» ';le, crackle k goes around. In five hundred such guffaws .there is not one item of happiness. They all fee) beraeaned if they have any conscience left. Have nothing to do with men or women who tell immoral stories. I have uo confidence either in their Christian character or their morality. So, all merriment that springs out of tho defects of others—caricature of a lame foot or a curved spine of a blind eye or a deaf ear—will be met with the judgments of God either upon you or your children. Twenty years ago in this eity I knew n man who was particularly skillful in imitating the lameness of a neighbor. Hot long ago a son of the skillful mimic had his leg amputated for the very defect which his father had mimicked years bofore. I do not say it was a judgment of God; I leave you to make your own inference. So, all merriment born of dissipation, that which starts at the counters of the drinking restaurant, or from the wino glass ip the home circle, the maudlin simper, the meaningless joke, the saturnalian gibberish, the paroxysm of mirth about nothing that you sometimes see in the fashionable club-room or iu the exquisite parlor at twelve o'clock - at night, are the crackling of thor’l*’ under n pot. Such laughter aud such sin end in death. When I was a lad a book came out, entitled, “Don Jour’s Patent Sermons.” It made a great stir, a very wide laugh, ail over the country, that book did. It was a caricature of the Christian ministry, and of the word of God and of tho Day of Judgment. Oh, we had a great laugh! The commentary on the whole thing is that not long ago ths a: th >r of that book died in poverty, shame, debauchery, kicked out of society and cursed of Almighty God. The laugh**; of such men is the echo of their own dar^na ion. The next laughter that 1 shall mention as being in the Bihle is the laugh of God’s condemnation: “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.” Again: “The Lord will laugh at him-” Again: “I will laugh at his calamity." With such demonstration will God greet every kind of great sin and wickedness. But men build np villainies higher and higher. Good men almost pity God because He is so tchemed against by men. Suddenly a pin drops out of the machinery of wickedness, or n secret is revealed, and the foundation begins to rock, and finally the whole thing is demolished. What is the matter? I will tell you what the matter is. The crash of ruin is only ths reverberation of God's laughter.

On WsH street there are a great many good men and a great many fraudulent men. A fraudulent man, there says: UI mean to hare my million.” He goes to work, reckless of honesty, and he gets his first one hundred thousand dollars. He gets after awhile his two hundred thousand dollars. After awhile he gets his flee hundred thousand dollars. “How,” he says, “I hare only one more move to make and I shall have my million.” He gathers up all his resources; he makes that one last grand move; he fail* and loses ait, and he has not enough money laft to pay the cost of the car to his home. People can not understand this spasmodic revulsion. Some said it was a sudden turn in Erie Railway stock, or in Western Union, or in Illinois Central; some said It was Jay Gould; some said it was ona spec* nlator, some said it was aaother. They all guessed wrong, I will tell you what it was: “He that sitteth in the heavens” laughed. A man in Hew York said ha would be the richest mao in the city. He left hie honest work of chairmaking and got into the city conncils some way, and ia tea years stole fifteen million dollars from the city government. Fifteen million dollars. He held the Legislature of the State at Hew York ia the grip of his right band. Suspicions were aroused. The grand jury presented indictments. The whole land stocd aghast. The man who expected to put half the city in his vest pocks* goes to Black wall's Island, goes to Ludlowstreet prison and gess across the see, Ss roarrested and (bought hack | *nd again remanded to Jail and diad there. Why. “He that sitteth, in the [ bear*®** laughed. ‘ was a great empire; she had Hor- ' •ee and Yirigl among bar poate; she had Augustus and Constantine among her ssnmutt vvB9tctu«iDQ (uUQU^ Her But what mtat the defaced Pan- *

theon and ft* Forum turned into a cattle market and the broken-walled Coliseum and the architectural skeleton of her great aqueduct; What eras that thunder? “Oh," you say, “that was the roar of the battering rams against her walls." No. What was that quiver? “Oh," gen say, “that was the tramp of hostile legions." Now The quiver and the roar were the outburst of Omnipotent laughter from the defied and insulted heavens. Rome defied God and He laughed her down. Babylon defied Sod and He laughed her down. . 1 There is a great difference between God’s laugh and His smile. His smile is eternal beatitude. He smiled when David sang and Miriam dapped the cymbals and Hannah made garments for her son and Paul preached and John kindled with Apocalyptic vision, and when any man haa anything to da and dees it welt. His smile; Why, it it the 13th of May, the apple orchards in full doom; it is Heaven at high noon; all the bells beating the marriage peal. But his laughter—may it never fall en us! It Is a condemnation for our sin; it is a wasting away. We may let the satirist laugh at us and all our companions may laugh at us, and we may he the target for the merriment of earth and hell; but God forbid that we should ever come to the fulfillment ef the prophecy against the rejectors of the truth: “I will laugh at your calamity." But, my friends, all of us who reject Christ and the pardon of the Gospel must come under that tremendous bombardment. God wants us all to repent. He counsels. He coaxes. Ho importunes, and he dies for us. He cornea down out of Heaven. He puts all the world’s tim on one shoulder. He puts all the world’s sorrow on the other shoulder, and then with that Alp on one side and that Himalaya on the other, he starts up the hill back of Jerusalem te achieve our salvation. He puts the palm of his right foot ■*1 on one long spike, and he puts the palm of his left foot on another long spike, and then, with' hands spotted with hts own blood, he gesticulates, staying: “Leokt look and live; with the crimson veil of my sacrifice I will cover up all your sine; with my dying groaa I will swallow up all your groans. Look, liTe!" But some of you this morning turn your hack on that, and then this voice of invitation turns to a tens divinely ominous that sobs like a simoon through the first chapter of Proverbs: “Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at naught all my counsel and would none of my reproof; 1 also will laugh at your calamity.” Oh, what a laugh that is! a deep laugh; a long reverberating laugh; an overwhelming laugh. God grant we may never hear It! but in this day of merciful visitation yield your heart to Christ that you may spend all your life on earth under hie smile and esrape forever the thunder ef the leugh ef God’s indignation. The other laughter mentioned in the Bible, the only one I shall speak of is heaven’s laughter or the expression of eternal triumph. Christ said fo his disciples: “Blessed are ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh." That makes me know positively that we are not to spend our days in heaven singing long-meter psalms. The formalistic and stiff notions of heaven that some people have would make me miserable. I am glad to know that the heaven of the Bible is not only a place of holy worship but of magnificent sociability. “What,” say you, “will the ringing laugh go around the circle* of the saved?" I say yes; pure'laughter; cheering laughter; holy laughter. It will be a laugh of congratulation. When we meet a friend who has suddenly come to a fortune or who has got over some dire sickness, da we not shake handsfdo we not laugh with him? And when we get to henven and see our friends there, some of them having com# up out of great tribulations, why, we will any to one ef them: “The last time I saw you, you had been smfering for six weeks under a low, intermittent fever;" or, to another we will sav; “You for ten years were limping with the rheuraa- „• tism, and you ware full ef complaints when we saw you last. I congratulate you on this eternal recovery.” We shall laugh—yes, we shall congratulate all those who have come up out of great financial embarrassments in this world because they have become millionaires in heaven. Yeshall laugh. It shall be a laugh ok reassociatiooi. It is juet at natural for as to laugh when we meet a friend we have not seen for ten years as any thing is possible to he natural. When we meet our friends from whom we have been parted ten, twenty er thirty yean, win it not be with infinite congratulation? Our perception quickened, our knowledge improved, we will know each ether at a flash. We will have to talk over all that has happened since we have been separated, the one that has been ten yean in heaven telling us all that has happened in - the ten years of his heavenly residence.

ana wo toning nun m return an happened during the ten years of his al> senee from earth. —_ Te shall laugh. 1 think George Whtt* field and John Wesley will have a laugh of contempt for their earthly coki^ions; and Toplady and Charles Wesley villW* a laugh of contempt for their earthly mis>pnderstandings; and the farmers who were in a lawsuit all their days will hare a laugh of contempt over their earthly die* turbances abouva line-fence. Exemption from all annoyance. Immersion ia all gladness. Te shall laugh. Christ says an, Te shall laugh. Tes, it will be a laugh of triumph. Oh, what a pleasant thing it will be tostand on the wall of Heaven and look down at Satan and hurl at him defiance and sea him caged and chained and we forever free from his clutches! Tes, it will be a laugh of' royal greeting. Tou know how the Frenchmen cheered when Napoleon came back from Elba; you know how tha English cheered when Wellington came back from Waterloo; you know how Americans cheered when Kossuth arrived from Hungary; you remember how Roma chewed whem Pompey came back victer over nine hundred cities. Every cheer was a laugh. But oh, the mightier greeting, the gladder greeting, when the snow-white cavalry troop of Heaven shall go through the streets and, according to the book ol Revelation, Christ, in the red coat, in tha crimson coat, on a white horse and in all tha armies of Heaven following on white horses! Oh, when we see and hear that cavalcade are shall cheer, we shall laugh. Does not your heart beat qaicHy thie morning at the thought of the great jubitae upon which.we are aoon to enter? I^pn^y God that when we get through __ world anil are going out of it we may hove e such vision as the dyiag Chr>t|a<a . when he saw writtem all over the ‘ i in the sky the letter “W;” and they him, standing by his sids, what h* _ it that letter “W” meant. “Oh.” ha said, “that stands for ‘welcome.’» And sssa; fes.;r night sea what a mean thing is ths J if skepticism; what a bright thing U neat; what an awful thing is the laugh i •ondemnatioa: what a radiant, ru” thing is the Wgh of eternal tri Avoid the ill; choose the right. B< forted. Be comforted. thatweap now ye shall laugh?15 i ■