Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 September 1886 — Page 1

KNIGHT & BYNUM, Editors and Publishers. OFFICIAL FAFE±i OF THE COUNTY. OFFICE, over 0. E. MONTGOMERY’S Store, Main Street. VOLUME XVII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 1886. NUMBER IT.

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». m. posit. r ”-=»«OITAX, C*ROS. •f a HONITCOT*. * HONEYCUTT. ATTORNEYS at law > lad. ■roi^fe***1”'»»*>tlocoorta. All buginwu, tt- t J . A Notary UMblie coo- °*=* °''.r Frank* •P. RICHARDSON. A. H.TAYl,(^ 1HUHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt attention given to al ut>1t ‘instantly in the o»er Alains A hum's drug store. wm. r. TKwvsevn. •11 business. A office. Office MART KLKENKBL ^mUSKND & FLEENER, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG. IND. W ill practice in all the courts. Office, ov et •“«? Frank's store, special attention given k . „ Special attention given JlololledhMlfli, l*roJ>ate Business, Buying ami Scllmir i.anils, Examining Titles and Famishing Abstracts. It. A. KIT. 4. W. WiLSO*. ELY & WILSON, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. OrQfflim in the Rahij; Ruililins.-* j T. S. & E. SM1TJI, e (Successors to Doyle &1Thompson) Attorneys at Law. Real Estate, Loan&Insnrance Agts. fMiico, second llonr llauk Itundiug, Pet era burg, tnd. Th - b -st Fire and late Insurance f'ompa mics represented. Money to loan ott flwt tmortsa.it s at seven ami eight per cent. Prompt attention to collections, and ali business intrusted to us. R. R. K1MK, M, D., Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, TNG, Office, over ttarrett * Sin's store; rosideuce on seventh Street, three squares south ° Mam. I alls promptly attended to, day oi night. 1,

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NEWS IN MIEF. -- - C«B*Uwii from Various Sources., rKRSOSAl AND POLITICAL. Tnc commission of Thomas E. Benedict as Public Printer has been received at Washington, faring the President’s signature of date the 20th Of AOgiisb. it is understood that the new jPubllc Printer will relieve Mr, Bounds abou; the 15th inst. JundR Man ring, the new United States Minister to Mexico, can not get to his post immediately on account of ill health. Dan Vookhees, of Indiana, denies Oiit. phatically that he is a candidate tor the Vice-Presidency. Poi'K Leo has accepted France’s proposition regarding the papal nuncioship in China. On the 1st, in the single soul! race between Hanlan and Courtney at Jamah a Bay, Long Island, for a purse of $2,005, Hanlan won with ease by ten lengths Hanlan has cabled $5U0 forfeit to London for a match with Behcu on the Tyne.,,; Ths hatne Of Prince Alexander has been stricken from the Prussian army Toll. T^e Republicans of the First Iowa district nominated ex-Governor John H. G ear for Congress. On the 1st word was receive 1 from LawIon’s camp that Gwonisto and twentvseven lucks wwe In the hands of Lawton, who Was en l-oute to Bowie with them. Geronimo has his right arm broken and in a sling.

Preparations were in progress at Sofia for the joyful welcome of Alexander. He expected to reach there oh the Sd. The Illinois Republican State Convention nominated John R. Tanner, of Clay County, for state Treasure-, and Richard Edwards, of Bureau, fee Superintendent of Public Instruction. Prince Alexander of Hesse, father of Alexander of Bulgaria, declare;s that Bulgaria will resist any attempt of Russia to occupy the cou ntry. The New York Supreme Court lias granted an absolute divorce 'to Edwin Mayo, the actor-, from his wife Jennie, to whom he Was married February'"is, 1SS3. They separated in August, 1884. Mr. Mayo charges his wife with infidelity. She did not appear to defend the suit. Jitdok J. R. Stewart is the Democratic nominee for Congress in the Fif th Georgia (Hstriil On t,bf* W )Phili]ppojpolis was gaily decorated in honor of the return of Prince Alexander. The latter started the previous evening for Sofia, where he was warmly received. On the 2d the Indiana Rep utlican State convention met at Indianapolis, made nominations and adopted a platform. Hon. S. M. Stockslager, assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office, has. withdrawn from the congressional raee in Indiana. Andrew Carnegie has offered $1-25,000 for the establishment of a free library at Edinburgh, Scotland, on certain conditions. The Seventeenth Illinoisdistrict Republicans nominated Robert McWilliams for Congress. Postmaster Wilson of Savannah, Ga., who refuse i to give way to his successor, was forcibly ejected by a post-office inspector on the Md'. A yigorovs Home-Rule campaign is to l>e conducted during the parliamentary recess by prominent Radical members of the House of Commons, assisted by the Parnbllites. Prince Alexander of Bulgaria sent a eery submissive letter to the Caar,- upon resuming the government of Bulgaria, to w hieh he received an exceedingly eurtTwid menacing reply. There are said to be strong indications at Washington that the State Department is not pleased with the part Consul Porch took in the Sedgwick matter. Manager Frank Patterson, of the Asbury Park (N. J.) opera-house,who was convicted of torgery and has. been confined in the Monmonth Conuty jail for two years, was released on the 21 on t»,000 bail, it having been decided by the Supreme Court that the County Court,before which Patterson %as tried, was illegally constituted. , Acting Secretary Fairch ild has issued a circular calling the attention of nil officers aqd employes of the" Treasury Departim nt to the President’s ord er of J uly 11, lb8ti, warning the Federal officers against interference in ]>olities. The circular contains no instructions or orders, but simply calls attention to the order of the Presided'. which nr printed therein in full. A. G. Sedgwick, .United States Envoy to Mexico to investigate the tutting ease, is said to have tieen rather prominent in Washington under the Board ot Public Works’ regime. In 1870 he Wont to Washington at the suggestion of Sunset Cox, w hose influence procured him a position uuler Governor Shepherd, he became involved in a quarrel with a contractor, however, and resigned, going back to New York to practice law.

juintsTEK jiomkko nemos unat. Mexico wauts to sell any of her territory. The revolutionary regiments at Sofia have surrendered unconditional!)’ to Prince Alexander. It is reported that the Osar’s reply to Prince Alexander has paralysed the movement in tavor of the latter in Bulgaria. Phinck Alexander's letter to the Osar is generally conceded to he a mistake, and the opinion is expressed that hiis abdication most follow. William K. Kueep, of Kansas City, Mo., has sued Colonel E. H. Phelps for $85,000 damages for alleged defamation of character. A deputation of Irish ladies, headed the wife of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, will present to Gladstone a declaration in favor of home rule, signed by 500,000 Irish women. General B. F. Cheatham, the famous ex-Confederate general and postmaster, died at Nashville, Tenn., on the 3d. He was appointed {postmaster at Nashville by President Cleveland and had been confirmed by the Senate. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES, Henry Reedk, a farmer living two miles north of Davenport, la., drowned himself in a tank for watering stock on the night of thq SM;h. Henry Porter Todd, the son of PaulP. Trtdd, a wealthy New York lawyer heavily interested in real estate transactions, shot and killed himself on the 31st in his father’s house. Fire in Baltimore, Md., on the 31st entirely destroyed the large fo ur-story furniture factory of Jlrs.. Ueorga Beck, together with all its contents, stock an 1 machinery. The daraagois estimated lit $30,000, without insurance. The Chief of Police of Buffalo, N. Y., telegraphed Chicagoon the 1st,asking the arrest of four sailors on the schooner Halstead, wanted for murder. The city of Charleston, 11 C., suffered the most severely by the earthquake of the 31st and 1st, and the destruction of life tind property in that dty was appalling. Thousands of {people are'homeless ah-l many thousands more were afraid to reimter their homos by reason of their ins -

Eankoea, a Russian, and the leading spirit in the Bulgarian revolution, has been arrested at Sofia. Reports come that tho natives •< the Eastern part of the proviuce of Secbuen, China, and those of Cochin ChiuA have rls n against the Christians and are tnassacreing them and destroying pfojierty. On the 2d Six master builders were injured at Barcelona, Spain, by explosives placed under the tables where they were holding a meeting. On the 2d two men were killed in t, collision on a logging railroad, near C rayling, Mich. On the 2d a threshing-machine loiter explosion at North Greenbush, N. Y., killed two men and wounded several other person’s. Latest accounts show that tefi white and twenty-two colored persons were kilie'i by the earthquake at Charleston. The suffering and damage to property are even greater than at first reported. On the fd the whol esale stores of J. F. B. Garret, dealers in paper and printing materials at Syracuse, N. Y., were burned out. Loss, $SA,tKK>; well insured. On the 2d Jerome R. Hurd, a farmer living in Greene County, Mich., was killed by the accidental explosion of dynamite cartridges he was carrying in a basket. His limbs and neck Were broken and his body was horribly mutilated. A violent outbreak of cholera is reported near Naples. Seven Hungarians were burned to death in a shanty near Stonestown, Pa., on the night of the 2d. AN unsuccesstul attempt Was made to wreck the train which Conveyed 1’rihce Alexander to Sofia.

a. collision on tne New York Central railroad at Marcellas, N. Y., on the Sd, caused a loss of $150,000. A South Bend (Ind.) dispatch of the Sd says Mrs. finraj Molloy attempted to commit suicide at that place by drowning. Fire destroyed twelve houses at Moun Carmel, Fa., on the ski. One woman and a child am thought to have been burned, HoSert A. Todd, of Milwaukee, Wis., was viciously, and it is thought fatally, assaulted on the 3d by his son Robert, who is insane. Another earthquake shock was felt about eleven o'clock the hight of the 3d at Charleston, and created great consternation, It extended from Jacksonville, Fla., to Washington, D. C. Several houses already damag'd in Charleston collapsed, and one woman was killed. Mrs. Elizabeth Bunnell, of Pittsburgh, Fa., was arrested on the 3;d on a charge of administering poison to Edward S. Shaw, nephew of Mr. Shaw, the railroad magnate. Mrs. Bunnell strongly protests her innocance. John Walsh, aged ssventeen, was instantly killed in the Union Foundry and Machine Company’s works, Allegheny, Fa., shortly before noon on the 2d. He was caught in the belting and his body was terribly mangled, nearly every bone being broken. Parkotsville, in Cocke County, Tenn., is In wild State of excitement over a frightful epidemic which has made its appearance there. The disease, which in every case proves fatal, resembles; flux, except that the victims are attacked with severe pains in the head and at the same time with pains in the abdomen. The physicians are unable to cope with the disease, and those stricken with it succumb within a short time. Twenty-seven deaths had occurred up to the night of the 3d. ’ MISCELLANEOUS. In New South Wales the harvests are said to be very promising. The best yield since 1870 is expected. The National encampment of Sons of Veterans began at Buffalo, N. Y., on the 31st. The London Bank has bought concessions in the City of Mexico, which will place it on a firmer foundation than ever. Nichols & Farnsworth, shoe manufacturers’ goods, Boston, failed. Inabilities heavy. There was a general resumption of work by the green glass bottle factories of the West on the 1st. At about half-past nine o’clock on the night of the Slst a very perceptible earthquake shock was felt in St. Louis. Dispatches from all over the country show the experience was general. A COMPANY of English capitalists have secured possession of an old concession for the construction of a railway from Tuxaiupto, Mexico, to the City of Mexico. CoNtJRESS directed the publication in the records of the rebellion of a vast amount of material relating to the trial of Fit*-John Porter, and a supplementary edition of volume twelve will shortly be issued containing this matter. At a meeting of tho Philadelphia Lager Beer Brewers’ Association on the Slst, it was unanimously resolved that, beginning with that date, the association formally recognize the Knights of Labor, to the exclusion of all other labor organisations. The Comptroller of the Treasury has authorized the Deadwood National Bank of Dead wood. Dak., to begin business with n

capital of $100,000. The Highland Light, an American schooner, has lieen seised by the Canadian Government for Ashing within thB threemile limit. The new Ohio State fair grounds at Co* lumbus were formerly dedicated on the Slst in tho presence of a large concourse of people, which marked the opening of the thirty-seventh annual exhibition. Speeches of an appropriate character were made by Senator Sherman, Judge Allen (1. Thurman, Governor Foraker and others. A LARGE number of immigrants was landed at Castle Garden, New York, on the Slst. The steamer Devonia'frorn Glasgow brought 2»2; the Grecian Monarch, 156; the Elbe, 460; and the Wyoming, 576. Among those by the last-named, vessel were 401 Mormons, many of whom will be returned to Europe as persons likelly to be* come a burden on this oountry if allowed to remain. Russian newspapers declare that the Bulgarian nation must belong to the Russian party. Russian newspapers affect tohave great fears concerning the fate of Bulgaria. The Novae, Vremya declares that Vrince.Alexander must be prevented from returning to Sofia. The revolutionary troops at Sofia have surrendered to the loyalist troops and their officers have been placed ander arrest. On tha 1st the Cincinnati & Eastern railroad was sold by order of court for i 030,050, to Stephen Felke, George Brtger and Albert Netter, who oomposed a purchasing committee representing a majority of the bondholders. The Belfast police have resumed rtot duty along the Shank Hill road. A mountain on the Island of Galita in the Mediterranean is in a state of eruption. An artiole recently published in the North German Gazette stating that “Germany must always keep her eyes on France hecause France is making rapid preparations to fight,” has caused satfch excitement in France. ! A lockout of plumbers is in progress at New York, Hi* not their season, any

Ok the 1st one of the most extensive parades evertseen in Cincinnati was witnessed by 200,Oqp people. It was on the occasion of the opening of the exposition. The procession was made dp of military, civil societies and industrial exhibits. It rhi quired nearly three hOui-s to pass a given point. During August the reduction of the public debt was $1,910,699.02, The small reduction is attributed to the heavy extraordinary payments authorised by Congress, but Oh the other hand the receipts have exceeded the average for August by nearly $5,000,000. Ok the 1st the annual convention of the National Tanners’ and Hide and Leather Pealers’ Association opened at Bstort. James £, Mooney, of Chicago, presided. , Thi conference for the protection Of literary property will reassemble at Berne, Switzerland, September 6. The bi-centennial anniversary of the retaking of that city from the Turks by the Austrians was celebrated at Pesth, on the 2d, in magnificent style. The Bo« silver certificate will be ready for issue by the Government on the 1st of next month. On the 2d a battle between revolutionists and loyalist troops at Radomir* in BasterU Koumt'lia, resulted in the defeat of the revolutionists with heavy loss. On the 1st earthquake shocks were felt at Malaga and other points in Spain. A shortage in the supply of natural gas on the south side of Pittsburgh, Pa.* was noticed on the 2d, and several factories suspended operations. Some people attribute the decrease in the flow to the earthquake, and officials of the company

are investigating. An official of the coast survey has been sent to Charleston to make soundings of the harbor and adjacent coast in order to see whether any remarkable depressions or elevations of the bottom of the ocean have been caused by the earthquake. On the 2d a rumor reached Tombstone* Ariz., that Mexicican troops had demanded of American troops the release of Geronirao. The latter refused, and a fight ensued, in which five Mexicans were kilted and two Americans wounded; Geronimd escaped during the melee. There were no means of verifying the facts, as the wires were down. The counsel for the Government in the telephone suit are busily engaged in preparing an answer to the demurrer filed by the Bell Telephone Company in the Columbus case, and their brief is practically completed. The arrangements will begin on the 20th of September, and the Government’s case will be presented by Messrs. Thurman, Lowery and Chandler. The Hudson river sea serpent is reported to have again been seen near Bearen island. At Washington the authorities discredit the story telegraphed from Arizona of Geronimo’s escape and a collision with Mexican troops. Lexington, Mo., is making great preparations for the coming celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle there. There were ITS failures in the United States for the seven days ended the 3d, against 150 for the preceding like period and 169 in 1885, Canada had 27, against 26 the preceding week and 17 in 1885. The will of the late Joseph T. Temple, of Philadelphia, probated on the 3d, bequeaths over $200,000 to public institutions. The Standard Oil Company will build a large refinery at Lima, O., where it has struck both oil and gas. The works will be on the line of the New York, Laka Erie & Western railway. 'The importation of dry goods at the port of New York for the week ending. September 2,1886, were 11,025 packages, valued at $2,937,036, against 9,508 packages valued at $2,857,789, for the preceding week. An agreement was reached at Wilmington, Del., qn the 3d, by which the striking morocco-workers, formerly in the employ of W. J. McClary, will be taken back as they are needed, at an advance of about fifty rants per week in wages. The average advance struck for was about thirty! four per cent. There is trouble threatened among tha Baltimore & Ohio miners. The difficulty is that there is no uniformity in the wages paid, each operator fixing a scale for himself. Secret meetings were in progress on the 3d, and arrangements making for a mass-c invention. They will probably insist on the Columbus scale. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Another slight shock of earthquake was felt at Charleston, & C., on the night of the 4th. The shock was also felt at Columbia, S. C., and at Savanuah and Augusta, Ga. There was another shock also on the night of the 5th. The sensation of the day at Charleston, S. C., on the 4th,was showers of pebbles in the lower part of the city. Where they came from is au unexplained mystery. The first volume of General John C Fremont’s memoirs is to be published

uhs wees in >v asmugton. it is saw mat that fifty thousand sets of the work hare been engaged in advance. Subscription lists have been opened in all the principal cities of the country for funds to aid the homeless and needy sufferers by the Charleston earthquake, and the responses are generally quite liberal. Reports from Philadelphia are to the effect that Hon. Samuel J. Randall is very ill at his country residence near Paoli, Pa. It is his old enemy, the gout. In a letter received from ex-President Arthur by a friend in Washington," he t says his health has very much improved since his sojourn in New London, Conn. The one hundred and twelfth anniversary of the meeting of the first American Congress was celebrated by the American Protestant Association in Reading, Pa., on the 4th. Prince Alexander of Bulgaria has abdicated. He told his officers he could not remain iu Bulgaria, because the Czar would not permit him to do so. Sir Edward Thornton, British Ambassador to Turkey, has been recalled, and he has been succeeded by Sir William White, late minister at Bucharest. The Government of Peru has decreed that Chinese residents may enjoy the same rights aud privileges as other colonists. The German Compositors’ Society, one of the strongest uuions in Germany, has just secured a concession from the Prankfort employers of an increase in wages aud a reduction of hours of labor to tea hours daily. A vert heavy lumber and mill fire occurred at Zilwaukee, Mich., on the 4th. The loss was very heavy, uearly twenty acres of mills and lumber and shingle piles being swept away. The exhibition of South American pro* ducts, which will be opened in Berlin on the 15th, promises to be of great interest. The Argentine Republic, Chili, Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay and Bolivia will be represented. The venerable W. C. Corcoran, of Washington, 1). C., sent his individual check for (5,1X10 to aid the Charleston earthquake tufferers. A decree has been issued by Prince Alexander summoning the Bulgarian National Assqjjibly to meet oil the 11th ipsb

TALMAGE’S SERMON. A. Discourse on the Inevitable Sequences of Good and Bvil Deeds. Circles m the Type of Perfection—All Things Moving In Orttla, a Departure front Which Means Kuln—The Nemesis of Sin. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, in a recent sermon at “The Hamptons” chose for his subject “The Sequences of Good and Evil Deeds,”taking forhis text: It,ls he that Sittettj «nttB Hie circle of the earth.—Ijtatah il., a. While yet people thought that the worid was flat, and thousands of years before they found out that it was round, Isaiah in my text intimated the shape of it, God sitting npou the circle of the earth. The most beautiful figure in all geometry is the circle. God made the universe on the plan of a circle. There are in the natural world straight lines, angles, parallelograms, diagonals, quadrangles;*but these evidently are hot God’s favorites; Almost every where where you find him geometriaing you find the circle donjiinant, and if not the circle then the curve, which is a circle that died young. If it had lived long enough it would have heen a full orb; a periphery; Ah ellipse is a circle pressed only a little too hard at the sides. Giant’s Causeway in Ireland shows what God thinks of mathematics. There are over thirty-pve thousand columns of rocks—octagonal, hexagonal.

pentagonal, these rocks seem to have been made by rule ami by compass. Every artist has his molding-room where he may make fifty shapes, bathe chooses one shape as preferable to all others. I will not say that the Giant's Causeway was the world’s moldin';-room, blit i do-say out of a great many figures God seems to have selected the circle as the best. It Is He that sitteth on thje circle of the earth. The stars in a circle, the moon in a circle, the sun in a circle, the universe in a circle, and the throne of God the center of that circle. When men build churches they ought to imitate the idea of the great Architect and put the audience in a circle, knowing that the tides of emotion roll more easily that way than in straight lines. Six thousand years ago God flung this world out of his right hand; but He did not throw it out in a straight tine but curvilinear, with a lease of love holding it so as to bring it back again. The world started from His hand pure and Edenie. It has been rolling on through regions of moral ice and distemper. How long it will roll God only knows; hut it will in due time make complete circuit and come back to the place where it started—the hand of God, pure and Edenie. The history of the world goes on in a circle. Why is it the shipping in our day is improving so rapidly? It Is because men are imitating the old model of Noah’s art. A ship carpenter gives that as his opinion. Although so much derided by small wits, that ship of Noah’s time beat the Etruria and the Germanic, of which we boast so much. Where is the ship on the sea to-day that could outride adeluge lu which the heaven and the earfth were wrecked, landing all the passengers in safety, two of each kind of living creatures, thousands of species? Pomology will go on with its achievements until after many centuries the world will have plums and pears equal to the Paradisaical. The art of gardening will grow for centuries, aud after the Downing* and Mitchells of the world have done their best, in the far future -the art of gardening will come up to the arborescene of the year 1. If the makers of colored glass go on improving they may in some centuries be able to make something equal to the east window of Yorkminster, which was built in 12110. We are six centuries behind those artists, but the world must keep on toiling until it shall make the complete circuit and come up to the skill of those very men. If the world continues to improve in masonry we shall have after awhile, perhaps after the advance of centuries, mortar equal to that which I saw in the wall of an exhumed English city, built in the time of the Komans, 1,000 years ago-— that mortar to-day as good as the day in which it was made, having outlasted the brick and the st me. 1 say, after hundreds of years, masonry may advance to that point. If the world stands long enough we may have a eity as large as they had in old times. Babylon, five times the size of London. You go into the potteries of Eugland and you find them making cu|>s and vases after the style of the cups and vases exhumed from Pompeii. The world is not going back. Oh, no! but it is swinging in a circle and will come back to the styles of pottery known so long ago as the days of Pompeii. The world must keep on progressin ; until it

makes the complete circuit. The curve is in the right direction. The curve will keep on until it becomes a.circle. Well, now, my friends, what is true in the materia] universe is true, in God's moral government and spiritual arrangement. That is the meaning of Ezekiel’s wheel. All commentators agree in saying that the whee&pteans God’s providenoe. But a wheel is of no use unless it turn, and if it turn around it moves in a circle. What then! Are we parts of a great iron machine whirled around whether we will or not, the victims of inexorable fate! So far fiorn that I shall show you that we ourselves start the circle of good or bad actions, and that it will surely come around again to us, unless by divine intervention it be hindered. Those bad or good actions may make the circuit of many years; but come back to us they will ascertainly as that God sits on the circle of the earth. Jezebel, the worst woman of the Bible, slew Naboth because she wanted his vineyards. While the dogs were eating the body of Naboth, Elisha, the prophet, put down his compass and marked a circle from those dogs clear around to the dogs that should eat the hody of Jezebel, the murderess. “Impossible!” the people said, “that will never happen.” Who is that being flung out of the palace window? Jezebel. A few hours after they came around, hoping to bury her. They find only the palms other hands and the skull. The dogs that devoured Jezebel, and the dogs that devoured Naboth I Oh, what a swift, what an awful circuit 1 But it is sometimes the case that this, circle sweeps through many centuries. The world started with a theocracy for government; that is, God was President and Emperor of the world. People got tired of a theocracy. They said; “We don’t want God directly interfering with the affairs of the world; give us a monarchy.” The world had a monarchy. Frofcft a monarchy it is going to have a liiaM&d monarchy. After awhile the lin\it*fl monarchy will be given up, and tjie’republican form of government will, be everywhere dominant and recognised. Then the world will get tired of the/republican form of government, and yt Web is uu sever it will have an anarchy, at at (til. Audtitea,

all nations finding out that man la not capable of righteously governing man, will cry out again for a theocracy, and sayi - — “Let God Come bach and conduct the af* fairs of the Worlds” Every step-'monarchy; limited monarchy, republicanism; anarchy; otily different steps between the first theocracy and the last theocracy, or segments of the great circle of the earth oh which God sits. But do not become impatient because you can not see the curve of events, and therefore conclude that God’s government is going to break down. H istory tells us that in the making of the pyramids it took two thousand men two years to drag one great stone from the quarry and put it into the pyramids. Well, now, if men, short-lived, can afford td Work so slowly as that, can not dod iri the building Of the eternities afford to wait? What thotfgh God should take fen thousand years to draw a circle? Shall we take our little watch, which we have to wind up every night lest it run down, and hold it up beside the clock of eternal ages? If, according to the Bible, 1,000 years are in God’s sight as one day, then, according to that calculation, the 6,000 years of the world’s existence has been only to God as from Monday to Saturday. But it ii often the case that the rebound is quicker; and the circle is sooner completed. Tou resolve that yott will do what good you can. In one week you put a word of counsel in the heart Of a Sabbathschool child. During that same week you give a letter of introduction to a young man struggling in business. During the same week you made an exhortation in a prayer-meeting. It is all gone; you will never hear of it, perhaps, you think. A

few years after a man comes up to you and says: “You don’t know me, do you?” You say: “No; t don’t remember ever to have seen you.” ■ • “Why)’’ he says, “I was in the Sabbath* school class over which you Were the teacher. One Sunday yott invited me to Christ. I accepted the offer.- You see that church with two towers yonder?” “Yes.” you say. He says: “That is where 1 preach.” Or: “Do you see that Governor’s house? That is where I live.” Ovie day a man comes to. you, and says, “Good morning.” 9 You look at him and say, “Why, you have the advantage of me; 1 can not place you.™ He says: “Don’t you remember, thirty years ago, giving a letter of introduction to a young man—a letter of introduction to a prominent merchant?” “Yes, yes, I do.” ' He says:.- “1 am the man. That was my first step toward a fortune; but I have retired from business now, and am giving my time to philanthropies and public interests. Come up to my country place and see me.” Or a man comes to you, and says; “I want to introduce myself to vou. 1 went into a prayer-meeting some years ago. 1 sat back near the door. Yon arose to nfake an exhortation. That talk changed the course of my life, and if I ever get, to heaven, under God, 1 will owe my salvation to you.” * In only ten, twenty, or thirty years, the circle swept out and swept back again to yonr own grateful heart. But sometimes it is a wider circle and does not return for a great while. I saw a bill of expense for burning Latimer and Ridley. The bill of expense says: One load of fir fagots...........,3s 4d Cartage of four loads of woods...as Item, a post...laid Item, two chains.....3s 4d Kent two staples... 6d Item, four laborers....2s 8d Tint was cheap fire, considering all the circumstances; but it kindled a light which shone all around the world and around the martyr spirit; and out from that burning of Latimer and Ridley rolled the circle, wider and wider, starting other circles, convolutiug, overrunning, circumscribing, overarching all Heaven—a cirele. But what is true of the good is just as true of the bad. You utter a slander against your neighbor. It has gone forth from your teeth. It will never come back, you think. You have done the man all the mischief you can. You rejoice to see him wince. You sajr: “Didn’t I give it to him?” , That word has gone out, that slanderous ward, on its poisonous and blasted way. You think it will never do you any harm. Bnt I am watching that word, and I see it beginning to curve, and it curves around, and it is aiming at your heart. ' You bad better dodge it. You can not dodge it. It rolls into your bosom, and after it rolls in a word of an old look, which says: With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. You maltreat an aged parent. You begrudge him the room in your house. You are impatient of his whimsicalities and garrulty. It makes you mad to hear him tell the same story twice. You give him food he can not masticate. You wish he was away. You wonder if he is going to

live rorever. ne wui oe gone very soon. His steps are shorter and shorter. He is going to stop. Bnt God has an account to settle with you on that subject. After awhilo your eye will be dim and your gait will halt, and the sound of the grinding will be slow, and yon will tell the same story twice, and your children will wonder if you are going to live forever, and wonder if you will never he taken away. They called you “father” once; now they call you “the old man.” If you live a few years longer they will call you “the old chap." What are those rough words with which your children are accosting you! They are the echo of the very words you used in the ear of your old father forty years ago. What is that which you are trying to chew, but find it unmasticable, and your jaws ache as you surrender the attempt? Perhaps it may be the gristle which you gave to your father for his breakfast forty years ago. A gentleman passing along the street saw a son dragging his father into the street by the hair of his head. The gentleman, outraged at this brutal conduct, was about to punish the offender, when the old man arose and said: “Don’t hurt him: it’s all right; forty years ago this morning 1 dragged out my father by the hair of his head.” It is a circle. My father lived into the eighties, and he had a very wide experience, and be said that maltreatment of parents was always punished in this world. Other sins may be adjourned to the next world, but maltreatment of parents is punished in this world. The circle turns quickly, very quickly. Oh, what a stupendous thought that the good and evil we start come back to us! Do you know that the judgment day will be only the points at which the circles join—the good and the bad we have done coming back|fc>a$, unless divine intervention coming back to us, weloome of djtfight or curse of condemnation? "‘oh, I would like to see Paul, the invalid missionary, at the moment when his influence comes to full orb—his influence rolling out through Antioch, through Cyprus, through l.ystra, through Corinth, through Athens, through Asia, through Gurope, through America, through the first century, through five centuries, through twenty centuries, through all the

succeeding centuries, througb ean:B, ■ through Heaven, and, at last, the wave of influence having made full circuit, strik ;es his great soul! No one can tell the wide 9V«’p of the circle of his influence, save the One who is seated on the circle of the earth, — t should not want to se9 the countenance of Voltaire when his influence comes to full orb, When the fatal hemorrhage seized hiinjjt eighty-three years of age his influence aid not cease. The most brilliant man of his century, he had used all his faculties for assaulting Christianity; his bad influence widening through France, widening - out through Germany, widening through all' Europe, widening through America, wide n« ing through the 101 years that have gone by since he died, widening through, belli until at last the accumulated influence of his bad life in fiery surge of omnipotent wrath will beat against his destroyed spirit, and at that moment it will be enough to make the black hatr ed eternal darkness turn white with the horror. No one cah tell how that bad man’s influence girdled the earth; save the One who is seated on tbpyircle of the earth—the-Lord Almighty. “Well, now,” fay people in this audience, “this in satire respects is a very gl ad theory, and in others a very sad one; we wouldJifee-'io have all the good we have ever done come - back to us, but the thought that all the sins we have ever committed wilt come back to ns'fills us with affright.” My brother, I ha»e to tell you God can break that circle and will do so at ypur call. I can bring twenty passages of

ocnprare to prove tone wuen Upa u?r Christ’s sake forgav e man. tke sins of bis past life never Come back. The wheel may roll on and roll on, but you take your J.;j «i< tlon behind the cross, and the wheel strikes the cross and it is shattered forever. The sins fly off from the circle .into the perpendicular, falling af right angles with complete oblivion. Forgiven! forgteen! The meanest thing a man . can do Is, after some difficulty has been settled, to bring it Up again; and God will not be so mean as that. God’s memory is mighty enough to hold all the events of the agesj but there is one thitfg that is sure to slip his memory, one thing he is sure to forget, and that is pardoned transgression. U n* do I know it? I will prove it. Their sins and iniquities will 1 remember no more. Come into that state this morning, tuy dear brother, my dear sister. Blessed Is the one whose transgressions are forgiven. But do not make the mistake of thinking that this doctrine of the circle stops with this life; it rolls on through heaven. ’If on might quote in opposition to me what St. John says about the city of Heaven. -He says it “lieth four square.” That ijoes seem to mitigate against this i lea, but vou know there is many a square house that has a family circle facing each other and in a circle moving, and I can prove that this is so in regard to heaven. Kt. John [ s»yst k ' 1 heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beast and the eiders. * ’ And again he says: 4 There was a rainbow round about the throne. The two former instances a circle: the last either a circle or a semi-circle. The seats facing each other, the angels facing each other, the men facing each other; Heaven an amphitheater of glory. 'Circumference of patriarch, ami prophet, and apostle. Circumference of Scotch covenanters, and Theban legion, and Albigenses. Circumference of the good of all ages. Periphery of splendor uuimagined and indescribable. A circle! A circle f f But every circumference must have a center, and what is the center of this Heavenly circumference? Christ. His all the glory, His all the praise. His ■ H the crowns. AH Heaven wreathed into agarland round about Him. Take off ^he imperial sandal from His foot, and behold the scar of the spike. Lift the coronft of dominion from His brow, and see where was the lacerations of the briars. Come closer, all Heavens Narrow the circle around His great heart. O Christ, the Saviour! O Christ, the maul O Christ, the Godt Keep Thy throne forever, seated on the circle of the earth, seated on tin circle of the heaven! On Christ, the solid rock, I stand; All other ground is shifting sand. A GIRL’S HEROISM. Saving Her Father from living II rled Over the Lachine Kapids. I Montreal Dispatch. | 1 The St. Lawrence river in the vicinity of Lachine, a fashionable suburb of Montreal, was on Friday night the seem of a thrilling yachting adventure, marks <1 by great heroism and presence of mind on the part of a Montreal girl. The details reached here yesterday and awakened great interest and admiration. George A. Greene, of the firm of Greene & Sons, resides during the summer months at Dor

vai, a country place on- me st. Lawrence, about fourteen miles from Montreal, lie owns a tine steam yacht in whii li'hi has been cruising about the Thousand Islands for two weeks. Mr. Greene, accompanied by his daughter left BrockviUe on Tnursday evening on board the yacht, and gave directions to the engineer, the only other person on board, to make for Lach die, where they intended to attend the annual regatta of Canadian amateur oarsmen. The trip was an uneventful one until late in the night, when the party seemed to have lost their bearings, and narrowly escaped running over the Laehine inputs. Before they knew where they word t hey had passed Laehine and were ruin ing with full head of steam direct on the rapids. At about midnight they were startled by the craft coming into collision with one of the scows used in the construction of the St. Lawrence bridge, now being erected for the Canadian Pacific railway over the river. From the scow tho yacht sheered againstone of the piers, keeled oye and sank. The three occupants of the boat were left struggling in the fierce current which runs past the bridge into the rapids. The engineer struck out for ono of the piers and was saved hv tho men at work. Miss Greene, who is a strong swimmer, divested herselj of the life-preserver she had on and, knowing her father to t o a poor swimmer, handed it to him. She then struck out for the shore. She had not gone lar when she heard her father c all tor assistance. The brave girt then returned to her father, swam by his sic e nd bore him up. By this time the swift current had carried them far cl n n the river in dangerous proximity to the rapids. Fortunately the men engaged on the works had become aware of the accident. A boat attached to one cf the Sirrs was manned, and after a hard row iss Greene anil her father were flicked up, the latter very much exhausted, but the young lady was perfectly cool, ». vor having lost her nerve for a minute. The current was carrying both father and daughter right on to the rapids, but yet the-girl, with nil her clothes to encumber her, swam courageously alongside of her father, holding his head above water ni' h one hand while she struck out wish the other. Had they not struck the bridge, both in a few minutes would have been hurled over the rapids. The young heroine, Flora Greene, is only eighteen years of age, but a girl of fine physique and dauntless courage. The general fe l. W>R here i* that she has nobly gained the Rojr»l fleiuaue Society’s medal,

the Earthquake. (Hstresslug Scene* Among Keturnlng Charlestonians—“The Handiwork of the Lord** — Scientific Theories — SarteyiiiK the Wreck—The Injured ratient^Thr Death List—Another Shock and Another Victim. Charleston*, 8. C., Sept. 4.—Distressing scenes have been witnessed alt along the railroads leading into Charleston during the last twenty-four hours. Many of the best-to-do citizens were in the North at the time of the shocks, spending the heated term. Being unable to receive auy definite Information as to j the extent of the loss of either life or property, they started on their return. At every stop of the tram they rushed pell-mell into ■' telegraph-offices, called for and sent messages, and gave the people along the way a tinge of the excitement. They could learn nothing. Telegrams were banked ep tn the offices here and were not delivered. In many instances the messages' were not sent. As the returning citizens neared Charleston, they learned less ami less of the true condition of affairs, and their suspense became agonizing. They Could not sleep and paced the floors 0* the coaches wringing their hands and evincing painful alarm. Evefl the out-going passengers who wereflmlled by those incoming could give no accurate or osefnl information. Only the most courageous' of the citizens returned to the city. Many stopped at suburban places amt opened up unsatisfactory communication by telephone or telegraph.

u p iu yesseruay u was >vnn rmpcutty that the railroads could run trains in the city, owing to the fact that employes, ami especially the colored ones, feared. to enter the city. An old colored porter, when informed at one of the cities above Charleston thalr he had been ordered on a run, turned pate as death and stammered to his superintendent: “ ’Sense jme, capting, but I doan wants to go to Charleston.” When informed that he must, he took off his cap, laid it doWlb and, bow-, iug with deference, said: “Then I resigns, sah; I doan go clown tint." to be killed by the quakes, sah.” Huddled about one of the parks were a lot of colored men and woman yesterday afternoon discussing the future probabilities. When asked if he knew what caused the earthquake, one of the brightest of the crowd turned up his eyes and replied: - “it is the handiwork of the Lord. We are not to know whence it Cometh or whither it goeth.” Prof. W. J. McGee, of tice United States Geological Survey, arrived yesterday morning from Washington. “I came,” said he to a United Press reporter, “to ascertain the origin of the earthquake. The effect of it is of little moment to science. The origin is of great interest to the entire scientific world. People want to know the condition of the earth under which earthquakes occur. It seems to be a settling of the earth.” r ^ Prof. McGee, as well as local scientists, discredits all statements about atmospheric* pressure of any character, and boiling water or sulphuric discoveries at points where Assures appear in the earth. It was reported yesterday afternoon that at one place in the city hpt water had gushed from the ground, scalding people, who were compelled to.rush through it. There is but one theory advanced by scientists as to the cause of the phenomenon, and that is some kind of settlement in the earth. There were tnjo upheavals at all in places where surface indications of trouble are visible. The earth is sunken for several mites immediately outside of the city. This sinking was so positive that the railroad t; racks were thrown out of level, and section hands have been at work putting in new railroad ties, raising old ones and reballssting the road. In a number of instances culverts and bridge's were tlirown out of kclter and had to be repaired. At a special meeting of the City Council yesterday the mayor and aldermen were constituted a committee to investigate the condition of buildings in their respective wards, aud to oikler „any unsafe walls or buildings to be taken down. They continued their work far into the night. It is estimated that over live hundred buildings will be condemned. A prominent real estate agent says that while some of the wooden buildings are habitable under fatr circumstances, most of them are badly wrecked, and that there is scarcely a state brick building hi the city. The same gentleman estimates the toss and damage of real and personal property in the city at from §!0,tH>0,nmT to $ 15,000,000. Yesterday morning the patients were all moved from the City hospital to the Agricultural hall, where they are being made as comfortable as possible. No more deaths.or new cases Were reported at the hospital during the morning. At present the re. a re in the hospital IIP patients, 100 <ff whom are suffering from injuries sustained Tuesday night. About half of them were bruised by falling buildings, and the others are prostrated by the excitement. The bulk of the earthquake sufferers are being cared for at their homes. There is considerable ill

ness among children, resulting from exposure and sleeping ont at night. “Karthquakeana” is . the name suggested from a little girl brought into the -world four hours before the gieat.upheaval. Mother, and ehilt|, it may be said, are doing well, notwithstanding the fact that they are quartered in Washington square. The deaths from injuries by the earthquake up to ten o’clock last night increased the list to twenty-two. Most of them are colored people. Yesterday afternoon the Charleston Cotton and l’roduce exchanges Issued an address to the commercial men of the country, setting forth that Charleston Is fully equipped for business. They also ask Congress to loan the citizens $15,1)00,000 with which to rebuild. One hundred tents are expected to arrive from the War Department to-day, but will fall live hundred short of the requirement. The Secretary of War Is requested to send Government engineers to insjiec* buildings and ascertain the needs. A Superstitious Notion. ' Charleston, S. C., Sept. 4.—Through some superstious notion alt of the tower clocks, which stopped at the first shock on Tuesday ntght at six minutes to ten o’clock, have been permitted to stand at that hour. Not a single clock has beefi started and nearly every tower in the city has a clock in it. Some of the inhabitants believe that If the clocks were put in operation again anot her shock would occur. Iu hotels, globes _ of west side chandeliers were displaced. In nearly every private residence the same result followed Tuesday night's shocks Friday Night's -Shocks. Washington, Sept. 4.—At 11:08 o’clock last night a heavy shock of earthquake was reported simultaneously from Columbia, S. C., Charleston, S. C., Augusta, Ga., and Charlotte, N. C. Charleston reports it the heaviest experienced since Tuesday night. Occupants of buddings are again pouring iido-the streets at Charleston, the printers leaving the news paper offices and the Southern Telegraphy Company’s operators leaving work, - fearlug that the building they are iu, which is badly shattered, may fail on them. Telegraphic communication with Charleston is again cut off, and reliable news cat hot be obtained.