Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 24, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 October 1886 — Page 1

PIKE GOUHTT DEMOCRAT For on™™*8 WB8CWW1WI. For sixmonthi'.'"'**”””*. g FOrthroe month*.;.. * f lMVAItlABLY IN ADVANOr AI>V*RTf8lNQ RATES i SMssKnajs;1*'™".. » t*M tor tSml^."1 *dvcr“scmen». «M» b. J. L. MOUNT, Proprietor. * VOLUME XVII. Pike County Democrat OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. OFFICE, 0Ter 0. E. MONTGOMERY’S Store, Main Street PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1886. NUMBER 24. PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT -. A ... _■ JOB WORK OF ALL KINDS Weatly S3c.e0u.t0cS. SEASONABLE BATES. NOTICK! Pertons «-o«ivinsr» copy of this paper with this notice crossed in lend pencil arc notified tbat the time of their aubecnptkm has expired*

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Tartan Baartea. PERSONAL ANI* POLITICAL Minister Cox intimates that whether or not he returns to Turkey depends on his nomination for Congress. Private advices received at Berlin from Baden are to the effect that Emperor William is subject to daily attacks of syncope and drowsiness, and It is feared that it will be impossible to preserve his life for more than a few months longer. Daniel \V. Stout, a well-known character seen on the streets of Columbus, Did., every day, led by a little girl, received notice on (he 19th that he had been allowed one of the largest pensions on record, amounting to «10,426.66 arrears and seventy-two dollars per month. C Eugene Howe, who edits the Augusta (Mich.) IVeeAty Review, was rottenogged and driven from the village on the evening of the 18th for Improper conduct. He is a married roan with a family. His office has been closed up by a mortgage foreclosure. Tbe cabinet meeting on the )9th was hW tended by all the members except Secretaries Lamar aud Whitney. The Treasury Department was represents 1 by Secretary Mauning for the first time since he was taken sick in May last. The Canadian fisheries complications, and the scope and the poll y of the Preindent's annual message to Congress, weisi the principle topics considered. Dr. Prentice, of Norw alk, O., has sued the Lake Shore road for 500,093 for malicious prosecution. General Lord Wouselet, in a circular, rebukes the officers oft the English army for their inefficiency, which, he says, has been observed by the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-In-Chief, In the Vermont Legislature on the 19th the Senate gave Geo. F. E bounds 29 votes for United States Senator and W. H. H. Bingham 1. The vote of the House stood: Edmunds, 199; Bingham, 97, and W. G. Yeasev, 8. Hon. Arram S. Dewitt, Democratic candidate for mayor of New York, has written an open letter to Henry George, Labor candidate for t:he same office, in which he declines the latter's challenge to a public discussion of the issues between them. On the 20th the royal Japanese visitors arrived at San Francisco, en route to Europe. Robert G. Ingersoll’s throat trouble is pronounced by his physicians as inourable. The will of the late Samuel J. Tildeu was probated at White Plains, N. Y., on the 20th, without opposition. Major-General McPherson, commander of tbe Brittsii army of occupation in Burmah, died recently of fever, after two days’ illness. Secretary Endicoit has ordered that Geronimo and thirteeu bucks of his band be sent to Ft. Pickens, Fla., to be kept in close confinement, the balance of the band lo be sent to Ft. Marion, Fla. It is announced that! the Caar has made an agreement with tho Porti by which he has obtained permission to fortify the Dardanelles and to occupy Bulgaria and Roumelia with Russian troops. The people of South Carolina tried very hard to persuade the President to exten d his trip from Richmond to Charleston, bat the latest advioes Indicated there was no probability whatever of his complying with their desires. Judge Goebel, of the Cincinnati Pro - bate Court, has accepted the offer of Judge lloadly to pay the trustees of the estate of Archbishop Purcell $tti,390 in full satisfaction of his liability as bondsmau for J. B. Mannix, defaulting assignee. Attornet-Generai. Garland has given an opinion in regard, to construction of section 2 of the Oleomargariue Act, whioh is in effect that oils or simples used in the manufacture of oleomargarine are not subject to tax, unless made in imitation or seiublande of butter.

c>«ffK5a7-TtHd James Wheeler, who was /ramming thecbar prebident Cleveland contributed one hundred dollars (or the relief of the Sabine Pass sufferers. Emperor William returned to Berlin on the 31st, John Bright ha* declined an invitation to attend the presentation to Mr. Bchnadhorst at Birmingham, England. M. W Addington, French ambassador at London, has protested'! on behalf of France against British occupation of Egypt. General Gourko, military oommander at Warsaw, has been summoned to 8t Petersburg to receive instructions preparatory to replacing General Kaulbars in Bulgaria. Judoe Durham, Fimt Comptroller of the Treasury, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury, makes an earnest recommendation for n revision of the law in reference to the compensation of United States commissioners. J. J. Geaghan, assistant State Dairy and Food Commissioner of Ohio, has sworn out warrants for the smst of several prominent grocers at Dayton whom he caught selling butterine for creamery butter. "While firings salute in honor of the President at Fredericksburg, Va., on the 21st, a cannon was prematurely disamming the dharge, was terribly burned and mutilated, and is eipeotel to die of tis injuries. Geronimo and bis band started on the $d from San Antonio for Florida. Gadban ErfENDi'ii recent note to the Sgarian ministry is said to have been in form of personal (advice and was unofficial. Jueutenant Schwatka has returned from Alaska, and claims that his discovery is the only original and genuine Jon'ts river. Ea^ERon William's health Is aald to be impi^vlng. He will attend the cutting of >t sod of the Baltic & North Saa in November. kret, French Mlnliter of ComIndustry, has Informed the guarantee committee of the proposed exhibition that the necessary capital of 22,S00,000.Wanes haa been obtained. It is fought proba ble that the Duke of Connaught will snooted General McPherson, dec^sed, as commander of the Madras army. 8. R. Hibbard, principal keeper of the life-savia( «tation at, Fire island, N. Y., who is ehirged with accreting goods from the wreck mif the stesmiihlp Oregon, hai teudored lie resignation to the Secretary of tb* ft-aAmry. WasbincTon’s National drill it now assured bfyotd any chance of accident. The sum of*42,8T0 bus been actually subscribed and 9,000 moiie is reported as in sight. At aWeeting of the committee 925,000 was filed as tile amount to ba distributed ill prkes. CRIMES AMD CASUALTIES. Ahtonio Cm.iARi, nn Italian, was killed at New York on the 90th by his wife, whom he tad shamefully abused. W. H; M.'COhEeiGii, a wealthy farmer, aged seventy-tMee, wae killed nine miles south of East 8ajjna*w, Mich. The wind blew a heavy gatf on bins. Ho struggled desperately but ded before help came to remove the gate, He leaves till* find tw# MOIt

I S. H. Fixkell, Chas. Houghtby and family and a man named Taylor, ten per* sons 1c all, were poisoned on the 18th at Adrian, Mleh. Prompt medical aid saved their lives, although a few of them were reporte 1 very low. It is thought to have resulted from drinking swest cider eon* taining arsenic. A destructive fire occurred on the night of the 18th in New York. Six factory buildings owned by ex-Alderman Kerher were destroyed, besides the fivestory brick workshop of K>rher*s Ameri- , can Desk Manufacturing Company. The ' buildings were occupied by ll Oitman ft Co., table manufacturers, and by Steinberg & Unger, cigar-box makers. Loss, $300,000. Firs at Troy, N. Y., on the 19th, destroyed property valued at $135,000, A max named Holmes and two sons were drowne 1 near Leavenworth, Kas., on the 19th. Ax American named Harris, with numerous aliases, has been arrested at London, charged with defrauding bankers by means of forged letters of credit. A cage in one of the shaft/ of the N ew York aqueduct fell a distance of fifty feet on the 19th, killing one man an l badly injuring three others. Auiert Korxitsky, alias “Bismarck,” has made a written confession of the Haddock murder at 8ioux City, la. A family at Baco, Me.,'was poisoned by drinking new cider from a cask which formerly contained ombalming fluid. Ox the 30th fifteen persons died from cholera in Pesth and two in Trieste, Hunr gary, and thirty-two new cases were reported in the former place and nine in the latter. A womax died in Roosevelt Hospital, New York, on the 31st, from ether administered for purposes of an operation. Tbs trial of ex-Alderman MoCabe was commenced at New York on the 31st and a plea of insanity was entered. While firing the twelve-inch mortar at 8andy Hook, N. J., on the 31st a shell exploded, killing a soldier named James King and First Lieutenant Metcalfe, superintendent of the work. Several others were injured. George T. Setter, late clerk of the defunct Cincinnati Board of Public Works, gave bond in the sum of $51,500 on the 31s t in answer to a charge of making out false vouchers to the extent of $1,700. He is under bail for a similar offense. Toe United States Circuit Court grand jury at Boston reported four new indictments on the 31st containing 100 counts, charging embeszlenasnt, making false entries and fraudulent withdrawal of funds against Richmond J. Lane, ex-president of the Addington National Bank. A special from Green Bay, Wis., states that the propeller W. L. Brown with a full cargo of coal for Depree, sprung a leak and sunk in seventy-six feet of water off Peshtigo. Bhe was valued at $33,000. Chioago agents hold insurance on the hull and cargo. The propeller Orcela, of the Red Line, Lake Superior, running lietween Dhluth and Buffalo, caught fire on the 31st at Duluth, and had to be scuttled. Bhe was partially loaded with railroad iron and lime. Loss on boat, $15,000 to $31X000; loss on cargo, $3^000. While David Evans, aged fifty years, and his son William, aged fourteen, of Millport, PE., employed at the Sterling slate quarry near Slatington, were crossing a tunnel on the 31st it caved in, carrying them down one hundred feet and burying them under a mountain of earth. It will take months to recover their bodies. Dr. A. B. Bloan committed suicide at Greenville, Miss., on the3:id. The British dispaitch boat* Imogens is reported wrecked aM3alllpolis in a fog. A Bohemiax named Martin Soukup killed two women with an axe and burned the barn and dwelling oil his employer near Cedar Rapids, la., on tho night of the 31st.

Fir* destroyed tbe works of the Ctnsda Paper Company at Windsor, Ont., on the 22d. Hon. Joseph B. Clark, s. prominent cltlien of Manchester, N. H., committed suicide on the 22d. Tn agent of the American Express Company at VermontTilile, Mich., was bound and gagged by robbens on the night of the 21st, who secured $800 from the safe and got away. A SCBOOLHOV8* in West Clare, Ireland, to which children ofbojoottad citisens were admitted, was wrecked on the 52d by unknown parties. Schriedt & Millkr’ii foundry, at Mansfield, O., burned on the 22d. Loss, about $80,000; insurance, $18,000. Jambs Craft and Mrs. Kina Brass were arrested late in July near Cadillac, Mich., tor the murder of the woman’s husband, who disappeared June IS last. They confessed the murder, and on the 23d pleaded guilty and were sentenced to State prison i for life. \ A frightful accident happened -near Kenton, Ky., on the 221 A steam mill being operated by Handly & Moss Hoffman blew up, killing Handly instantly and scalding Hoffman so there is little hope of his reoovery. Both were married and had large families. A spbcial from Hew Iberia, La., of the 33d says: Information was received here fo-day that during the storm ‘ of the 12th OTer a thousand head of cattle were drowned and two fishing smacks were driven ashore on the Islands of Cheniere au Tigre and Cheniere a la Croix. Ho lives were lost. MISCELLANEOUS. Much alarm is felt at Sofia over tbe massing of troops on the Bulgarian fron- 1 tier. Citizens of Dallas, Tex., have subscribed over $1,009 for the relief of the Sabine Pass sufferers. Thb American Missionary Association began its annual meeting ut Hew Haven, Conn., on the 30th. Thb Bulgarian Government has informed Gadban Effendi that it will no more brook Turkish interfereme than it will that of Russia. On the 30th an international convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers began its session at Hear York. A BY n dioats of American capitalists have organised a Canadian anthrncite mining company with a capital of halt a million dollars. A Paris newspaper in a violent article addressed to General BouJIanger says it is high time that France was prepared to reconquer her lost provinces. On the 30th, telegrams from Biloxi, MiSm, reported the sick as all doing well. There had been do nqw oases and no serious or alarming Base* under treatment. Thb Government revenues up to the 21st of this month had overage! over $1,000,096 a day. Haval officers In Washington are quite indignant Over theaeisure at Hewport of goods alleged to have been smuggled by naval officers. They claim that it is only the old dispute as to what goods a naval officer is entitled to bring home with him. Thb directors of the Wbstern Onion Telegraph Company at their meeting in Hew York on the 20th re-elected the old officers and executive oommlttee, but the vacancy caused by the death of Harrison Durkes, the second vice-president, replains unfilled, t . , , • f, I

The Johur ordeal has airain been pat into practice In a Bengal village. Several National banks have notified the Comptroller of the Treasury that their Inability to replace the three per cent, bon is called in with more expensive bonds would compel them to withdraw from tho National hanking system. On the 50th the annual encampment of. the Commander-in-Chiet of the military order ot the Loyal Legion commenced at Philadelphia, ex-Fresident Rutherford B. Hayes presiding. It devolves upon this session to elect a successor of General Hancock. Sikck September 1,1885, twenty vessels belonging to the Gloucester (Mass.) district fleet, aggregating 1,781,030 tons, valued at $161,003 and insured for $118,463, hare been lost. The lives of 104 men have been lost, leaving twenty-two widows and fifty fatherless children. United Ireland urges tenants to organise and by combined action resist the collection of rents. The Protestant Episcopal convention at Chicago voted against eliminating the words “Protestant Episcopal” from the prayer-book. Commiss ioner Sparks reports extensive depredations of Government timber along the Northern Pacific, and recommends prosecutions. Insructions have been sent to papal nuncios urging them to cultivate good relations with the different governments. A St. Lovis syndicate is goihg to try to resuscitate the 8t Louis, Springfield & Jerseyville railroad. The Journal fit Ml. Prtersbourg says all the Powers recognise Russia’s rights in Bulgaria, and that the peace will not be disturbed. Preliminary steps have been taken to former syndicate ot window-glass manufacturers, the object being to advance and maintain prices. A perpetual injunction was issued by Justice Porter at New York on the 31st restraining the Musical Union from punishing its members tor playing in company with non-unionists. The Duke of Devonshire’s Limerick tenants have now all paid their rents.; Some of them held out, hoping for a greater reduction than the twenty per cent, offered them, but they paid up when he threatened them with ejectment. Bitter feeling has been created in the British garrison at Halifax, N. 8., owing to the refusal of the Catholic chaplain to read the services of the church over a soldier who died while drunk. An Immense exodus of men toward Wankaringo, in South Australia, is in progress, in consequehoeof the discovery of alluvial gold there. There were one hundred and eightytwo failures in the U nited States during the seven days ended on the 23d. Tnj^Belfast police are to be reorganised on the Dublin model. The Austrian budget estimates show a deficit of 16,(TO,000 florins. The Louisville tt Nashville switchmen at Louisville, Ky., are on a strike for more pay. The National Convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union began Hesessions at Minneapolis, Minn., on the 22d. Mangus, the hostile Indian, and bis party have been captured and taken into Fort Apache, Aria. Severe earthquake shocks were felt on the 231 in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, at Washington and Cincinnati. It has been decided to sell the Inman Steamship Company’s property for the benefit ot its creditors; A sensational publication of secret war history, in which the inside facts regarding the “Northwestern conspiracy” and the attempt to release Southern prisoners in the North, will be brought to light, is about to be made at Louisville. Ky.

Fourteen persons died of cholera in Pesth on the 23d and two In Trieste. Thirty nsw cases were reported in the former city and twenty-four in the latter. It is estimated at the Treasury that the ultimate issue of the new one and two dollar silver certificates may aggregate $50,000,000 and of five-doltar silver certificates $W),000,000. The biennial convention of the Phi Delta college fraternity, which closed its session in New York on the 92d, has decided upon Bloomington, 111., as the place of holding the next convention. The general council will fix the day. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. TUX loss by tne u.o a. Farmington, ate., on the night of the Sid, is estimated at $800,000. Tux Londonderry (Ireland)^contested election oaae has been decided in favor ol Justin McCarthy. Firk destroyed the Chicago Glass Manufscturing works at Chicago on the 23d. Princi Alexander has requested the Sobranje to ignore him as a candidate for the throne of Bulgaria. Hot*. 8, 8. Cox, United States Ministei to Turkey, has formally resigned. Turret has contracted with a German firm for twelve torpedo boats, to cost $1,800,000. A trotting race at Denver, between Harry Wilkes, Arab and Charlie Hilton, on the 38d, was won by Wilkes in three straight heats. Two Germans who were making plans of French forts and routes have been arrested, charged with being spies. Robert W. Alston, of Atlanta, Ga., a clerk in the Sixth Auditor’s office, Washington, committed suicide on the 33d by shooting himself through the head. Tux Cnnadian Court of Appeals has decided that beating a drum on the Sabbath for calling people to worship is not unlawful. Asa result of the earthquake shocks on the 33d seventy-five chimneys will have to be taken down at Summerville, N. C. It took ten Innings to decide the final game of base ball for the world’s championship at St. Louis on the 33d, but the Browns won the game. The score was: Browns, 4; Chicagos, 3. Kaulbars again demands that the meeting of the Sobranje be postponed and the Bulgarian government refuses to accede thereto. Secretary Lamar decides that the marriage of a woman who has made a homestead entry does not defeat her right to complete the title. Lord Randolph Churchill’s recent trip tokhe Continent was to confer With Bismarck and Kalnoky on Bulgarian affairs, hnt his mission was# failure. - Mrs. Gsouse Giiss died of small-pox at Detroit, Mich., on the 84th. Tux Sultan of Turkey has commanded the admiralty to expend $7,000,000 on man-of-war. The steam barge Rudolph caught fire on Lake St. Clair on the 24th and was totally destroyed. — - Twenty million head of sheep died during the recent drought in Buenos Ayres. The loss is estimated at 5,000,000 pounds sterling. Hxnry Villard, ex-president of the Northern Pacific railropd, arrived at New y»rk on the 24tt»,

STATE INTELLIGENCE. W. H. Harris, colored, who was sentenced to the penitentiary tor life from Lebanon committed suicide on the train while on route to the prison. John U. Lee was convicted ot bigamy at Indianapolis, and sentenced to fire years in the penitentiary. James Dickens, an Ohio crook, was captured at Marion while in the actot robbing Henry Beshore’s store. Two children named Neptune, at Columbus, were poisoned by eating jimsonweed. One will recorer, the other will die. A company has been formed at Terre Haute, to bore for natural gas. Wm. Bain sues Edward Young, at Huntington, for 910,000 for false imprisonment. Frederick Mott, of Richmond, died the other day from the effects of a blank cartridge discharged so near his face as to oause concussion of the brain. ■ The north-bound express on the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad, was wrecked near Ingles, the other morning. Fortunately no one was hurt. Dan. W. Stout, ot Columbus, blind from service in the late war, was the other day granted a pension of 973 per month, dating back to his discharge, amounting to 910,' 468 06*j. This is the |largest pension ever granted in that section. S. G. Whittaker, of Boston, rode 800 miles on a bicycle at CrawfordsviUe, in 33 hours and 46 minutes 16 3-5 seconds, beating the world’s record over forty miles. Jacob Brock, a farmer residing near Muncie, dropped dead in church the other day of apoplexy. The Grand Council Tof Royal and Select, Masons of the State began its annual session at Indianapolis on the 19th, with an attendance of about fifty delegates. The address of Grand Master Sinks showed a healthy increase of the Order during the past year. The report of the Recorder shows that, there are forty-one Councils |in the State, with a membership of 1 850. The receipts for the year were 93,055 33 and the disbursements 91,083 03. The Edwards Electric Light Company, of Richmond, was organized there the other evening with a capital stock of 93,000,000, divided into shares ot 950 each. The object of the company is to manufacture an electric headlight for locomotives. The first of the company’s headlights left Cincinnati on the30th on a Little Miami engine. W ill Carter, who shot an inoffensive colored man at Shelbyville, was fined 95 and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. A post-office has been established at Clabbertown, Allen County, and B. W. Piatt commissioned postmaster. Accordino to the report ot the commissioners of the new Indiana State House the cost of the structure to date has been 91,784,730.34. The legislative halls will be ready for occupancy by the time the General Assembly meets. The daisy trains between New Albany and Louisville are doing an immense business. - Quails are not fully grown, and hunters Complain that, though numerous, they aro too small to be shot at present. George Taebl, a conriot who was sent up from Evansville to serve ui.se years for larceny, was pardoned from the Southern prison a few days ago by Governor Gray. He has a wife, two children and an aged mother who are in destitute circumstances, and the Governor issued the pardon through charity. Fowler was injured by fire a few day a ago to the amount ot 915,000. Lucy Cross, aged fifteen years, who lives on the farm of her parents near 8ellersburg, Clarke County, was bitten on the arm by a spider a few days ago. Her arm has swollen to twice its former size, and at last accounts her condition was serious. At Richmond, a lot of the Knights ot Pythias participating in instituting a new lodge were poisoned and rendered very sick by the arsenic in the newly-papered, tightly-closed room poisoning the atmosphere. They were taken very sick, with extreme vomiting and high fever. At first

it was supposed that the boys were sickened by something that they had eaten, but physicians who were called pronounced it a case of arsenical poisoning. George Bhort, John Thomas and Harry Geppart, of Richmond, and the Grand Keeper of Records and Seals, of Indianapolis, were made very sick, and eight or nine others were more or less affected, but none so severe as those mentioned. At Roann, Wabash County, the annual soup and feet-washing meeting of the Dunkards of that section of the State was held. One thousand members of the Church were in attendance, and about two thousand people of other denominations were present. Sermons were preached morning, noon, and night, and all the members participated in the feet-washing ceremony. Immense quantities of soup supplied to all comers were consumed. The gathering was one of the largest religious assemblies ever held in that vicinity. J. F. Clous ft Co., of Hew York City, have brought suit at Columbus, against the Pennsylvania railroad Company for $5,000 for running over and destroying a trunk carried by one of their traveling men, full of samples, destroying them, and compelling their traveler to be called in. The damage demanded is for the trunk, samples and loss of time and business. Thb south wing of the German Orphan Asylum at Indianapolis, took fire at one o’clock the other-mOrning, causing damages to the extent of $10,000. All the children were safely removed, except one, Albert Vogt, aged nine years, who was suffocated. Cooper Jay was arrested at Earlham College and taken to Indianapolis to answer the charge of using canceled postage stamps. Jay resides at Marion. He bad a hearing and was discharged,- as it was proved that some careless post-office clerk had failed to cancel them. —A young man who suffered pretty regularly three times a week with severe attacks of neuralgic headache was relieved by discontinuing meats or adopting a/purely vegetable diet. Meats when not thoroughly digested as they arc apt not to be in oases of torpid stomach and liver, develop poisonous compounds which favor rheumatic and neuralgic affections. — Health Monthly. —“A Successful Operator” has kindly written a book telling us how to win in Wall street. 0? course the writer knows the way, and wrote the book for amusement only.—N. Y. Graphic. — A Cincinnati monkey is valued at $2,000- It is nearly as large as a Newfoundland dog and has the strength of a gorilla, and is well trained. ' —It is a remarkable peculiarity with debts, that their expanding power continues . to increase as one contracts them. —It was once a superstition that unusual mirth was a forerunner of adversify. ' . * ■/'. ' .. ' c~ i

A FINISHED WORK, Sermon by Rev. T. ©e Witt Talma*®, D. D. Christ's Karthly Misslon-The Stupendous Difficulties Which Ue Had to Meet and Overcome—His Triumph Over Nat. . are, the Crave and Death. Brooklyn, Oct. 84—Rev. Dr. Talmage preached this morning at the Tabernacle from the text (John 17:4): “I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do.” The eloquent divine said: There is a profound satisfaction in the completion of anything we have undertaken. We lift the capstone with exultation, while, on the other hand, there is nothing more disappointing than, after having toiled in a certain direction, to find that our time is wasted and our investment profitless. Christ came to throw up a highway on which the whole world might, if it chose, mount into Heaven. He did it. The foulmouthed orew who attempted to tread on Him could not extinguish the sublime satisfaction which He expressed .when He said: “I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do.” Alexander the Great was wounded, and the doctors could not medicate his wounds, and he seemed to be dying, and in his dream the sick man saw a plant with a peculiar flower, and he dreamed that that plant was put upon his wound, and that immediately it was cured. And Alexander, waking from his dream, told this to the physician, and the physician wandered out until he found just the kind of plant which the sick man had described, brought it to him, and the wound was healed. Well, the human race had been hurt with the ghastliest of all wounds—that of sin. It was the business of Christ to bring a balm for that wound—the balm of Divine restoration. In carrying this business to a successful issue the difficulties were stupendous. In many of our plans we have our friends to help us; some to draw a sketch of the plan, others to help us in the execution. But Christ fought every inch of His way against bitter hostility, and amid circumstances all calculated to depress and defeat. In the first place, His worldly occupation was against Him. I find that He earned His livelihood by the carpenter’s trade—an occupation always to be highly regarded and respected. But you know as well as I do, that in order to succeed in any employment, one must give his entire time to it, and I have to declare that the fatigues of carpentry were unfavorable to the execution of a mission which required all mental and physical faculties. Through high, hard, dry, husky, insensate Judaism, to hew a way for a new and glorious dispensation was a stupendous undertaking that was enough to demand all the concentrated energies even of Christ. We have a great many romantic stories about what men with physical toil have accomplished in intellectual departments; but you know that after a man has been toiling all day with adze and saw and hammer, plane and axe, about all ho can do is to rest. A weary body is an unfavorable adjunct to a toiling mind. You whose upbuilding of a kingdom, or the proclamation of a new code of morals, or the starting of a revolution which should upturn all nations, could get some idea of the incoherence of Christ’s worldly occupation with His Heavenly mission. In His father’s shop no more intercouse was necessary than is ordinarily necessary in bargaining with men that have work to do; yet Christ, with hard from touch of tools of trade, was called forth to become a public speaker, to preach in the face of mobs, while some wept, and some shook their fists, and some gnashed upon him with their teeth, and many wanted Him out of their way. To address orderly and respectful assemblages is not so easy as it may seem, but it requires more energy and more force, and more concentration to address an exasperated mob. The village of Nazareth heard the pounding of His hammer, but all the wide reaches of eternity were to hear the stroke of His spiritual upbuilding. | So, also, his habits of dress and of diet were against Him. The mighty men of Christ’s time did not appear in apparel without trinkets and adornments. None of the C’scsars would have appeared in citizens* apparel. Yet here was a man, here was a pretended King, who always wore the same

coat, indeed it was lar lrom shabby, lor after he had worn it a long while the gamblers thought it worth raffling about, but it still was far from being an imperial robe. It was a coat that any ordinary man might have worn on any ordinary occasion. Neither was there any pretension in His diet. No cup-bearer with golden chalice brought Him wine to drink. On the seashore He ate fish, first having broiled it Himself. No one fetched Him water to drink, but bending over the well in Samaria He begged a drink. He sat at only one banquet, and that not at all sumptuous, for, to relieve the awkwardness of the host, one of the guests had to prepare wine for the company. Other Kings ride in a chariot; He walked. Other Kings as they advance have heralds ahead, and applauding subjects behind; Christ’s retinue was made up of sunburned fishermen. Other Kings sleep under embroidered canopy; this one on a shelterless hill. Riding but once, as far as I now remember—on a colt, and that borrowed. Again, His poverty was against Him. It requires money to build great enterprises. Men of means are afraid of a penniless projector, lest a loan be demanded. It requires money to print books, build institutions, to pay instructors. No wonder the wise men of Christ’s time laughed at this penniless Christ. “Why,” they said, “who is to pay for this new religion? Who is to charter the ships to cany the missionaries? Who is to pay the salaries of the teachers! Shall wealthy Judaism be discomfited by a peuniless Christ?” • The consequence was that most of the people |hat followed Christ had nothing to lose. T^ealthy Joseph, of Arimathea, buried Christ, but he risked no social position in doing that. It is always safe to bury a dead man. Zaccheus risked no wealth or* social position in following Christ, but took a position in a tree to look down as He passed. Nicodemus, wealthy Nicodemus, risked nothing of social position in following Christ, for he skulked by night to find Him. ▲11 this was against Christ. So the fact that He was not regularly graduated was against Him. If a man comes with the diplomas of colleges and schools and theological seminaries, and he has been through foreign travel, the world is disposed to listen. There was a man who had graduated at no college, had not in any academy by ordinary means learned the alphabet of the language he spoke, and yet he proposed to talk, to instruct in subjects which had confounded the mightiest intellects. John says: “The Jews marveled, saying, how hath this man letters, having never learned?” We in our day have found out that a man without a diploma mar know as much as a man with one, and that a college can not transform a sluggard into a philosopher or a theological seminary teach a man to preach. An empty head after the laying on of hands of the presbytery is empty still. But it shocked all existing prejudices in those olden times for a man with no scholastic pretension and no graduation from a learned institution to set himself up for a teacher. It was all against Him. So also the brevity of His life was against Him. He had not come to what we call midlife. But very few men do any thing before thirty-three years pf age, and yet that was the point at which Christ's life terminated. The first fifteen you take in nursery and school. Then it will take you at least six years to get into yodr occupation or profession. That will bring you to twenty-one years. Then it will take you («• years, at least, W get established in

your life work, correcting the mistakes you have made. If any man, at thirtythree years of age, gets established in his life work he is the exception. Yet that is the point at which Christ’s life terminated. Men in military life have done their most wonderful deeds before thirty-three years of age. There may be exceptions to it, but the most wonderful exploits in military prowess have occurred before thirty-three years of age. But as a legislator—no man become a legislator until he has hal loug years of experience. And yet the graybearded scribes were expected to bow down in Silence before this young legislator, who arraigned sanhedrims and accused governments. Aristotle was old; Lycurgus was*,old; Seneca was old. The great legislators of the world have been old. Christ was young. All this was against Him. If a child, twelve years oCage, should get up in your presence to discuss great questions of metaphysics, or ethics, or politics, or government, you would not be more contemptuous than these gray-bearded scribes in the presence of this young Christ. Popular opinion declared in those days: “ Blessed is the merchant who has a castle down on the hanks of Lake Tiberias.” This young man said: “Blessed are the poor,” Popular opinionSaid in those days: "Blessed are those who live amid statuVrv. and fountains, and gardens, and congratulations, and all kinds of festivity.” This young man responded: “Blessed are they that mourn.” Public opinion in those days staid: “Blessed is the Roman eagle, the tlap af whose wings startles nations, and the phinge of whose iron beak inflicts cruelty upou^ts enemies.” This young man responded: "Blessed are the merciful.” Popular opinion said: “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” In other words, if a man knocks your eye out, knock his out. If a man breaks your tooth, break his. Retort for retort: sarcasm for sarcasm; irony for irony; persecution for persecution; wound for wound. Christ said: “Pray for them that despitefully use you.” They looked at His eye, it was like any other man’s eye, except fierhaps more speaking. They felt His hand, made of hone and muscle and nerves and flesh, just like any other hand. Yet what bold treatment of subjects, what supernatural demands, what strange doctrine. They felt the solid earth .under them, and yet Christ said: “I bear up the pillars of this world.” They looked at the moon, He said: “I will turn it into blood.” They looked at the sea. He said: “I will hush it.” They looked at the stars. Ho said: “I will shake them down like untimely flgs.” Did ever one sc young say things so bold! It was all against Him. After the battle of Antietam. when • General rode along the lines, although the soldiers were lying down exhausted, they rose with great enthusiasm and huzzaed. As Napoleon returned from his captivity, his first step on the Wharf shook all kingdoms, and two hundred and fifty thousand men flocked to his standard. It took three thousand troops to watch him in his exile. So there have been men of wonderful magnetism of person. But hear me when I tell you of a poor young man who came up from Nazareth to produce a thrill which has never been excited by any other. Napoleon had around him the memories of Marengo, and Austerlitz, and Jena; but here was a man who had fought no battles, who wore no epaulets, who braudished no sword. He had, probably, never seen a prince, or shaken hands with a nobleman. I imagine Christ one day standing in the streets of Jerusalem. A man descended from high lineage is standing beside Him and says: “My father was a merchant prince, hehao a castle on Galilee. Who was your father?” Christanswers: “Joseph, the carpenter.” A man from Athens is standing there unfolding hfs parchment of graduation and says to Christ: “Where did you go to schoolf” Christ answers: “I never graduated-” Aha! tho idea of such an unheralded young man attempting to command the attention ‘ of the world. As Well some little Ashing village on Long Island shore attempt to arraign New York. Yet no sooner does He set His foot in the towns or cities of Judea than every thing is in commotion. The people, go out on a picnic, taking only food enough for a day, yet are so fascinated with Christ that, at the risk of starving, they follow Him into the wilderness. A nobleman falls down flat before Him and says: “My daughter is dead." A beggar tries to rub tho dimness from his eyes, and says: “Lord, that my eyes may be opened.” A poor, sick, panting woman presses through the crowd and savs:

“I must touch the hem of his garment.” Children who love their mother better than any one else struggle to get into His Arms, to kiss His cheek, and to run their fingers through His hair, and for all time putting Jesus so in love with the little ones that there is hardly a nursery in Christendom from which He does not'take one, saying: ‘‘I must have them, I will fill Heaven with these; for every cedar that I plaut in Heaven I will have fifty white lilies. In the hour when I was a poor man in Judea they were not ashamed of Me, and now I have come to a throne I do not despise them. Hold it not back, O weeping mother. Lay it on My warm heart. Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Again, I remark, there was no organization in His behalf, and that was against Him. When men propose any great work they band * together, they write let ters of agreement, they take oaths of fealty; and the more and complete the organization the more and complete the success. Here was one who went forth without any organization and alone. If men had a mind to join in His company, all right; if they had a mind not to join in His company, all well. If they came they were greeted with no/ loud salutation; if they went away the/ were sent with no bitter anathema. Peter departed, and Christ turned and looked at him. That was all. All this was against Him. Did any one ever undertake such an enterprise amidst such infinite embarrassments and by such modes! And yet I am here to say it ended in a complete triumph. Notwithstanding His wordly occupation. His poverty, His plain face, His unpretending garb, the fact that He was schoolless, the fact that He had a brief life, the fact that He was not accompanied by any visible organization —notwithstanding all that, in an exhilaration which shall be prolonged in everlasting chorals: “ I have finished the work Thou gavest me to do.” See Him victorious over the forces of nature. The sea is a crystal sepulcher. It swallowed the Central American, the President, the Spanish armada as easily as any fly that ever floated on it. Tho inland lakes are fully as terrible in their wrath. Recent travelers tell us that Galilee when aroused in a storm is overwhelming, and yet that sea crouched in His presence, and licked His feet. He knew all the- waves and the wind. When He beckoned, they came. When He frowned, they fled. The heel of His foot made no indentation on the solidified water. Medical science has wrought great changes in rheumatic limbs and diseased blood, but when the muscles are entirely withered, no human power can restore them, and when a limb is once dead it is dead. But here is a paralytic—his hand is lifeless. Christ says to him: “Stretch forth thy hand,” and he'stretches it forth. In the eye infirmary, how many diseasos of that delicate organ have been cured? But Jesus says to one blind: “Be open,” and the light of Heaven rushes through gates that- have never before been opened. The frost of an axe may kill a tree, but Jesus smites one dead with a word. Chemistry can do many wonderful things, but what chemist at a wedding, when the wine gave out, could change a pail of water into a cask of wine! _ What human voice could command a school of fish? Yet here is a voice that marshals the scaly tribes, until, in a place where thoy had let down the net and raised it up with no fish in it, they let it down again. and |he disciples lay hold and begin

to pull, when, by reason of the multitude of Boh, the net broke Mature is His servant. The flowers—He twisted them into His sertnous; the winds —they were His lullaby when He slept in the boat; the ram—it hung glitteringly on the thick foliage of the parables; the star of Bethlehem—it sang a Christmas carol over his birth; the rocks—they beat a dirge at His death. Behold His victory over the grave! The hinges of the family vault become very rusty, because they are never opened except to take another in. There is a knob on the outside of the door of the sepulcher, but none on the inside. Here comes .the conqueror of death. He enters that realm and says; “Daughter of Jairus. sit up;” ami she sits up. To Lazarus: “Come forth.'* and he came forth. To the widow's son Ho said: “Get up from that bier;’’ and he goes home with bis mother. Then Jesus snatched up the keys of death and hung them to His girdle, and cried until all the graveyards of the earth heard him; "O death. I will be thy plague. O, grave, I will bo thy destruction.” Mo man could go through all the obstacles I have described, yon say, without having nature adjoined that was supernatural. That arm—amid its muscles, and nerves, and bones, were intertwisted the energies of omnipotence. In the syllables of that voice there was the emphasis of the eternal Ged. That foot that walked the deck of the ship in Gennosearet shall stamp kingdoms of darkness into demolition. This' poverty-struck ^Christ owned Augustus, owned the Sanhedrim, owned Tiberias, owned all the castles on its beach and all tho skies that looked down into its waters; owned all the earth and all the heavens. To Him of the plain coat belonged the robes of celestial royalty. He who walked the road to Bmmaus—the lightnings were tho fire-shod steed* to His chariot. Yet there are those who look on and see God tore water into 'vine, and they say: Sleight of hand And thn^see Christ rais* the dead to life and the\ say: Easily explained; not really dead; playing dead. And they see Christ giv eg sight to tho blind man, and they sav. ( \alrvoyut.\ doctor. O, what shall they do on the >lav when Christ rises up in judgment, and hills shall rock, and the trumpets shall call, peal on peali In the time of Theodosius the Great there was a great assault made upon the divinity of Jesus Christ, and during that time Theo. dosius tho Great called his own son to’sit on the throne with him, and he a co-partner in the government of tho empire; and one day the old Bishop tame and bowed down before Theodosius the Emperor,’and passed out of the room, and the Emperor was offended, saying to the old Bishop; “Why did you not pay the same honor to my son who shares with me in the government!’* Then the old Bishop turned to the young man and said: “The Lord bless thee, my young man,’’ but still paid him no such honor as he had paid to the Emperor. And the Emperor was still offended and dis. pleased, when the Bishop turned to Theodosius the Great and said to him: “You are offended with me because I don’t pay the saute honor to your son, whom you have made'^-partner in the government of this empire, the same honor I pay to you, and yet yon encourage multitudes of people in your realm to deny the Son of God equal’ authority, equal power with God the Father.” My subject also reassures us of the fact that in all our struggles we have a sympathizer. You can not tell Christ any thing new about hardship. Ido not think that Wide ages of eternity will take the scars from His punctured sido, and His lacerated temples, and His sore hands. You will neverhavo a burden weighing so many tXPHids as that burden Christ carried up the hiooSjTjtitt- 1 Yoirwiti nww lt«v i any ^ suffering worse than He endured when, with tongue hot, and cracked nnd inflamed, and swollen, He moaned: “I thirst,” You will never be surrounded with worse hostility than that which stood around Christ’s feet, foaming, reviling, livid with rage, howling dotyn His prayers, and snuffing up the smell of Blood. Oh, ye faint hearted! oh, ye troubled! oh, yo persecuted one! here is a heart that can sympathize with you. Again, and lastly, I learn from all that has been said this morning that Christ was awfully in earnest. If it had not been a momentous mission He would have turned back from it disgusted and discouraged. He saw you in a captivity from which Ho was resolved to extricate you though it cost Him all sweat, all tears, all blood. Ho came a great way to save you. He came from Bethlehem here, through the place of skulls, through the charnel house, through banishment. TheWtfas not among all tho ranks of celestials one being who would do as much for you. I lay His crushed heart at your feet to-day.

' Let it not be.told in Heaven that yon deliberately put your foot on it. While it will take all the apes of eternity to celebrate Christ’s triumph, 1 am here to make the startling announcement that because of _ the rejection of this mission on the pariTof some of you, all that magnificent work of garden, and cross, and grave is, so |,ar us you are concerned, a failure. Helena, the Empress, went to the Holy Land to find tho cross of Christ. Getting to the Holy Land there were three crosses excavated, and tho question was which of the three crosses was Christ’s cross. They took a dead body, tradition says, and put it upon one of the crosses, and thero was no life; and they ■ took the dead body and put it upon another cross, and there was no life. But tradition says that when the dead body wits put up against the third cross it sprang into life. The dead man lived again. Oh, that the life-giving power of the Son of God might start your dead soul into eternal life, beginning this day. “Awake thou that sleopest, and nse from the dead, and Christ shall give thee life.” S - A Source of Vexation. I have at length learned by my own experience (for not one in twenty profits in the experience of others) that ono great source of vexation proceeds from our indulging too sanguine hopes of enjoyment from the blessings we expect, and too much indifference for those we possess. Wo scorn a thousand sources of satisfaction wo might have had in the interim, and permit our comfort to be disturbed, and our time to pass unenjoyed, from impatience foe some imagined pleasure at a distance, which we may, perhaps, never obtain, or which, when obtained, may change its nature, and be no longer pleasure.—Dr. Mvore. Character. It is not said that character will develop in all its fullness here. That were a timo too short for an evolution so magnificent. In this world only the, eornless ear is seen; sometimes^eniy the small yet prophetio . blade. The sneer at the godly man for his imperfections is ill-judged. A blade is a small thing. At first it grows very near the qgrth. It is often soiled and crushed and dowu-trodden. But it is a living thing. That great dead stone beside it is nioro imposing, only it will never be any thing else than a stone. But this small blade—it doth not yet appear what it shall be.—/Vq/1 Drummond. A Family Bible. A missionary writes from TinneveRy, British India; “Passing up the main street of Palamcotta, we noticed the neat houses of the native Christians; over the door of one were the words; 1 Welcome; peace bo with you all.’ We accepted the general invitation and entered the house, and saw a respectable, happy family. On the table was the family Bible, in which we noticed several slips of paper as markers. We were told one marked the portion for family prayer; another was the husband’s mark for private reading, anothor tho wife’s, and another the children’s. It was a family Bible, indeed)’* •’ The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men •nek for it in what is difficult. Jfwmf