Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 49, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 April 1896 — Page 6

•s COMMERCIAL REVIEW. to Appreciable Adwnoo la rttoa-SaUmd TraBc Heorj, bat Scot Kbrntop Not Improved and Mock* Oali-Oomntk Baclneea Saowc SUrbt Improvement. Nkw York, April 11.—&. G. Don Jfc Co., say to-day In their weekly review of trade: Failures for the past week have been 309 in the United States, against SOT last year, and 18 in Canada against 87 last year . The volume of business has not on Lhe whole increased, nor have prices appreciably advanced since April 1, when the range for all commodities was the lowest ever known in this country. Breadstuff* and iron products have risen slightly, but some other' articles have declined, and the root of the matter is that demand for consumption is atill below expectations. The injury done to winter wheat by storms and frosts at the west would appear from reports of the state offi■cers to have been considerable. But the reports are not more gloomy than a year ago, and the quantity of wheat which has come from farms since August has been 163.781,594 bushels, against 139,075,450 to the same date last year. . Stocks have been extremely dull, and yet railroad traffic is heavy. Reports of earnings have not improved. The March statement, covering practically all the roads usually reporting, shows an increase of 4.3 per cent, over Last year, but a decrease of 11.3 compared with 1893, and is less satisfactory than the returns of January or February. Domestic bus iuess reflected by clearinghouse exchanges is slightly better than last year. Foreign trade shows a decrease of nearly ten per cent, in exports for the week, while imports gain nearly ten per ten, though iu March the decrease was 14 per cent. The billet pool and other combinations have raised prices of pig iron and steel. Minor metals are dull, but lead weaker at 3.05 olhts on forced sales -west, Prices of boots and shoes do not -change,, though leather is lower. Hides are a little stronger at Chicago, receipts being small. Wool is weaker, with sales for the week the smallest for many years. Prices tend lower except for fine washed fleece, and manufacturers are rapidly re-luting production. .There is fair demand in the dress goods branch, but it is estimated that not 3:40 per cent;, of the men's wear machinery., is at work. There have also been cotton mills stopping, or reducing time this week. Further reduction an shirting prints to the lowest point ever reached failed to increase the demand noticeably. CROPS AND LIVE - STOCK. Condition, April I, ft* Shown by Agricultural Department t oinolidntetl Report*. Wasiuxotox, April 11.— The United '.States department of agricult<fj|§ yesterday afternootT issued a report ol the condition of winter grain and health of live stock Apgil 1. 1896,which says that consolidated reports from township, county and state correspondents show a condition of winter wheat in nine leading states as fob lows:

Pennsylvania 64, Ohio 56. Michigan 82, Indiana 77, Kentucky 70, Illinois St, Missouri 75, Kansas 88. California .*1; average for the entire country, 77.1: .Inst year. 81.4. and 86.7 in 1894. The condition of rye w|s, in New York, 91; in Pennsylvania.;7s>; in Wisconsin. 77; average for theVutire country. v-. Dry weather at seeding time, from which scarcely a county was ex tempt,1 largely retarded or prevented germination throughout the winter grhiuproduoing region and the winter fall of >now w ;o exceptiona iy scant. Kvo suffered in most states less than wheat. Drought in early winter and the alternate freezing and thawing afterward greatly injured the | crop east of the Mississippi. In Nebraska. Kansas and westward there was less winter killing than usual, ow:ng to the mil l season, and present conditions are reported fav.»ra-' bie. The liessiau fly is reported in a very few counties Along the Atlantic slope. Condition of horses, 97.6; of cattle, 98; of sheep, 98.3; of swine. 93.1 Last year's figures were 5*6.'.*. 5*4.6. 95.5 and 92. from which an improvement is shown in every cast*. Of horses two jh*> cen t. are reported as having died from disease duriug the year, while the losses rtf cattle were » 11 per cent.; of sheep 4.8 per cent., and of swine 12.7 per cent.; last year's percentage being 2.2. 4.15.5 pud 9.3. The lower mortality of sheep and cattle is explained by the mild winter; the percentage of deaths from exposure having fallen from last year's 2.9 •and 11 to 10 and 1. l. j The loss of swine wiast heaviest in the important Mississippi r:vi«r states, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri all reporting 20 per cent, dr over., DEATH OF 30HN A. COCKERILL Tta» Slajtr of Col. Aloaco stay bark Dio* ol Apoplexy la Egypt. Kxw York. April 11.—A special U the Evening Telegram from Cairc says: “CoL John A. Cocke rill, th« -well-known newspaper correspondent, died of apoplexy at 6:10 o’clock." ARBOR DAY IN PHILADELPHIA. An Ixtomtinj Ceremony Performed by (iov. Hwtlnp. Pmxjti>KLi*iHa. April 11.—Arbor day was fittingly celebrated hereyesterday notwithstanding the inclement wea* ther. The must important of the celebrations was the planting by liov. Hastings on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania of a shoot of the -old elm tree under which Wm. 1‘uun made a treaty with the Indiana Last night in the Drexel institute .addresses were made and a reception was tendered Got. Hastings

---nGEORGE TAYLOR FREE. A u< Bit Brother BUI tad Lee Canulntham Break tke Jell at Carrollton. Mo.—The Two Letter Keceptured Whlllt Sliding Down From tkk.Koer oo e Bah. | her More Greet (Excitement end Mol Pursuit. Cajbrolltox, Mo.. April 11.—Bill end George Taylor, murderers of the Meekt family, sentenced to hanged April 30, and Lee Cunningham, the latter also in jail for murder, made an attempt to break jail to-night. George succeeded in getting away, but Bill Taylor and Cunningham were captured. Night Watchman Shelton was in the jail at 6:20, and erery thing was all right.' He went out in the baclk yard, and was talking to a friend, when he heard a noise at the opposite corner of the jaiL He rushed round to that side, reaching there just in time to catch Cunningham as he slid down a hose to the ground. * Bill Taylor was half way down and when he saw Cunningham was caught he cried to the night watchman that he would give up and !for him not to shoot. He then slid on down to the ground into Shelton's arms. He tola Shelton that George was still on the roof. Shelton believed him and stood there to catch him as he came down. The alarm was gireu and Sheriff Stanley came out, handcuffed the two prisouers together and took them and locked them in their cells.' A search was made and ft was discovered that George was gone. It ill had evidently told the watchman that George xvaa still upstairs in order to give him a uhauue to get away. An examination of it he jaU revealed the fact that a bolt had been cut in the back of one of the cells and a bar ; knocked off. This gave the prisoners ; access to the corridor. Next they went ; tup on top of the cage.into the garret,cut tiirough the scuttle onto the roof. They took a 50-foot hose with them, fastened it on top pf * the roof, and George Taylor must have been thC first to go down, as no opportunity was given him to get down after th« watchman discovered their attempt to : escape. As soon as it was found that George j was gone a pair of hounds was se- j cured, and they were put on the trail. They followed it to the gate but made ! no progress beyond to amount to any- ' thing. A’oung Leonard, of Norbome. a brother-in-law of one of the Taylors, j had been here yesterday. After supper he took a teamjrom a livery stable J ami drove out of town, lie may have ■ stopped at the jail gate and taken } George in the buggy with him,°but this is all conjecture. At any rate a I telephone message from Norbome says a team arrived there at ten o'clock, “that hatTbeeu driveu very hard, but we can’t learn that the driver %vas j Leonard." Parties arc out looking for George and telegrams have Jt>een sent in every direction. A telegram just received from Browning says a special train from there will reach here before daylight with a large posse. ^Excitement is intense. The streets are still lined with people and all are anxious to see j Taylor recaptured. * So Trace of Taylor Discovered— : Hill Taylor May be Lynched. Carrol ton*. Mo.. April 12.—There j have been no new developments to- { day regarding the escape of George j ’laylor, the caudeijaned murderer of j the Meeks family. (Bloodhounds could j only trace him a short distance frou^, the jail. Large phases of men are scouring the country, but his capture is not expected. Fears are expressed that Bill Taylor, who was recaptured, may be lynched. PEACE AND WAR.

CouiiumUl VmmIi Hun* Into aud Dam* agr* a War Ship. f > cattle, Was!*,, April 13.—The Ttyrct .Sound and ; Central American j Cow's steamer Transit ran into the . Ci*asi defense vessel Monterey yesterday afternoon while the latter was anchored in Seattle harbor. The Monterey was crowded withjvisitors I !i.«i y^reat consternation followed the ,‘ollisiou. The Tlransit, which is a »t*>ut steamer, had Iher bow badly ^haterert and stove in. The Monterey was st ruck about forty feet astern, loosening one of her armor plates and snapping a few rivets. , l u r port side compartments were well j riled with water before the leak was stopped. She will be placed m the ; ucw government dlry dock at Port Ortrd for repairs. The damage tc | • «* -tu vessels is roughly estimated at ; .'t-TMKXA The Transit was moving at j lull speed and it is a miracle that mor* , erioat damage did not result. TAKEN FROM JAIL Uy k Mob of Mkikoi Men and Ilangvdf fot HD Crime. Seal. Ala., April 13.—Between mid- j night and daylight presterday morning j a mob of masked men took Reddick * Adams, colored, out of jail and hanged him. The mob aroused the jailer with the story that thejy had a prisoner tc j put in jail, and en his appearing he • was surrounded and his keys taken. ’ Adams was carried to a clump of trees , about 200 yards away and hanged, j Adams waylaid and shot R. T. Ren* j [’fro last November and. after shooting j : him. robbed his person, burglarised ! hi> store and set sire to his dwelling. j Adams had been on trial last week and after deliberating from Wednesday un ! til Saturday, the jury could not agree | and a mistrial was announced. * SELF-CONFESSED MURDERER | or it>« Stones Armlfnrd in Coart Fiead* “>'ot Guilty.” Akbox, 0., April 12*—John Smith. | die self-confessed murderer of th« l Stones, was arraigned :a. the north ! corridor of the jail here at one o’clock : yesterday afternoon by Judge* A. W. ! IlalL The formal affidavit charging him with murder in the first degree * as sworn to by Police Officer Me OnilleL Smith listened to the readihg of the paper with apparent uncon corn and entered a plea off “not gniilLr* in the sama offhand manner.

TALMAGE’S SERMON* The Story of Joseph's Bondage and Rise to Power. Ma Often Do Sot Summed In Life BoMaw Thor Are Jfot of SatBeteiat Import*nc« to be • Target for Abate. Rev. T. DeWitt Taim age took incidents in the career of Joseph as the subject for a recent sermon, biasing his remarks on the texts: They drear and lifted up Joseph out of the pit sad sold Joseph to the Ishmselltes for ■ twenty pieces of silver.—Genesis xxxvi, 28. He is governor over all the land of Egypt,— Genesis xlv., 20. Yon can not keep a good man down. God has decreed for him 4 certain point of elevation. He will bring him to that though it cost Him a thousand worlds. You sometimes find men fearful they will not be properly appreciated. Every man comes to be valued at just what he is worth. You can not write him up, and you can not write him down. These facts are powerfully illustrated by m3' subject. It would be an insult to suppose that you were not all familiar with the life of Joseph. How his jealous brothers threw him into a pit, but, seeing a caravan of Arabian merchants trudging along on their camels, with spices and gums that loaded the air with aroma, sold their brother to these merchants, who carried him down into Egypt; Joseph was there sold to Potiphar. a mau of influence and office. How by Joseph’s integrity he raised himself to high position in the realm, until under the false charge of a vile wretch he \yas hnrlgd into the penitentiary. How in prison lie commanded respect and confidence. How by J the interpretation of Pharaoh’s dream | he was freed and became the chief I inan in the realm, the Bismarck of his century. How in the time of famine Joseph had the control of a magnificent storehouse which he had filled during seven 3-ears of plenty. How when his j brothers, who had thrown him into the pit and sold him into captivity, applied for corn, he sent them home with the beasts of burden borne down under the heft of the corn sacks. IIow the sin against their brother which had so long been bidden came out at last and was returned by that brother's forgiveness and kindness—the only revenge he took. You see, iii the? first place, that the world is compelled to honor Christian character. Potiphar was only a mau of the world, yet Joseph rose in his estimation until all the affairs of that great hous£ were committed to his charge. From his servant no honor or confidence was withheld. When Joseph was in prison he soon won the heart of the keeper, and though placed there for being a scoundrel, he soon convinced the jailer that he was;an innocent and trustworthy man, and released from close confinement he became general superintendent of prison affairs. Wherever Joseph was placed, whether a servant in t he house of Potiphar, or a prisoner in the penitentiary, he became the first man everywhere, and is an illustration of the truth I lay down, that the world is compelled to honor Caiistian character. There are those who affect to despise a religious life. They speak of it as a system of phlebotomy by which man is bled of all his eourage and nobility. They saj- he has bemeaned himself* They pretend to have no more confidence in him since hi& conversion than before his conversion. But all this is hypocrisy. There is a great deal of hypocrisy in the church, and there is a great deal of hypocrisy outride the church. It is impossible for any man not to admire and confide in a man who shows that he has really become a child of God, and is what he professes to be. You can not despise a son of the Lord God A’might\\ Oi eourse we have no ad-' miration for the sham of religion.

I was at a place a few hours after the ruffians had gone into the rail train and demanded that the passengers throw up their arms, and then these ruffians took the pocket-books; and Satan comes and suggests to a man that he throw up his arms in hypocritical prayer and pretension, and then steals his soul. For the mere pre- J tension of religion we have abhor- j rence. Redwald, the king, after bap- j tisur, had an altar of Christian sacri- I fice and an altar for sacrifice to devils; and there are tnariy men now attempting the same thing—half a heart for God and half a heart for the world— and it i^ a dead! failure.^and it is a caricature of religion* and the only successful. assault ever made on Chris-j tianity is the inconsistency of its j professors. You may have a contempt for pretension to religion, but when you behold the excellency of Jesus Christ come out in the life of one of His disciples, all that there is j good and noble in your soul rises up j Into admiration, ahd yon can not help it. Though that man be as far be- J neath you in estate as the Egyptian I slave of whom we are discoursing was beneath his rulers, by an irrevocable law of your nature, Potiphar and Pharoh will always, esueem Joseph. When Eudoxia. the empress* threatened Chrysostom with death* be made the reply: ‘*Teil the empress 11 fear nothing but sin.” Such a scene as that compels the admiration of the world. There was something in Agrippa and Felix which demanded their respect for Paul, the rebel against government. I doubt not they would Willingly have yielded their office and dignity for a thousandth part of that true heroism which beamed in the eye and beat in the heart of that unconquerable apostle. Paul did not oower before Felix; Felix cowered be- j fore PauL The infidel and worldling | are compelled to hoimor in their heart, i although they may not eulogize with their lips, a Chilertiap firm in persecution, cheerful in poverty, trustful in losses, triumphant in death. * . 1 find Christian men in all professions and occupations, and 1 find them respected and honored and successful. John Frederick Oberlin allayiatuur

ignorance and distress; Howard passing from dungeon to lazoretto with healing for the body and soul; Elisabeth Fry going to the profligacy of New Gate prison to shake its obduracy as the angel came to the prison at Phiiiippi, driving open thd doors and1 snapping ’ lease the chain, as well as the lives of thousands of followers of Jesus, who have devoted themselves to the temporal and spiritual welfare of the race, are monuments of [.the, Christian religion tha# shall not crumble while the world lasts. A man said to me in the cars: “What is religion? Judging from the character of many professors of religion I do not admire religion.” I said: “Now;, suppose we went to an artist in the city of Rome and while in his gallery asked him, 'What is the art of painting?’ ” would he take us out in a low alley and show us a mere daub of a pretender at painting? or, would lip take us down into *the corridors and show us the Rubens, and the Raphaels, and the Michael Angelos? When we asked him: “What is the art of painting?” he would point to the, works of these great masters, and say: “That is painting^’ Now, you propose to find the mere caricature of religion, to seek after that which is the mere pretension of a holy life, and and you call that religion. I point yon to the splendid men and women whom this Gospel has blessed and lifted and crowned. Look at the master* pieces of Divine grace if you want to know what religion is.” . tYe learn also from this story of Joseph that the result of persecution is elevation. Had it not been for his being sold into Egyptian bondage by his malicious brothers, and his false imprisonment, Joseph never would have become a governor. Everybody accepts the promise: “Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness! sake, for theirs is tue kingdom of Heaven," but they do not realize the fact that this principle applies to worldly as- well as spiritual success. It is true in all departments. Men rise, to high official positions through misrepresentation. Publhfabuse is all that some;of our. public men have to rely upon fpr their elevation. It has brought td them what talent and executive force could not have achieved. Many of those Who are making great effort for place and power will never succeed, just because they are not of enough importance to be abused. It is the nature of men—that is, of all generous and reasonable men—to gather about those who are persecuted and defend them, and they are apt to forget the fault of those who are the subjects of attack while attempting to drive back the slanderers. Persecution is elevation. Helen Stirk, the Scotch martyr, standing with her husband at the place of execution, said: “Husband, let us rejoice to-day: we have lived together many happy years; this is the happiest time of all our life; you see we are to be happy together forever. Be brave now, be brave. I will not say "Good night" to you, for we shall soon be in the Kingdom of our Father together.” Persecution shows the heroes and heroines. 1 go into another department and I find that those great denominations of Christians which have been most abused hive spread the most rapidly. No good man waywer more violently maltreated than John Weal*'—belied, caricatured and pandered until one day he stood in a pulpit in London and a man arose in the audience and said. “You were drunk last night,” and John Wesley said, “Thank God, the whole catalogue is now complete. I have been charged with everything but that-”’ His followers were hooted at and maligned and called by every detesable name that infernal ingenuity could invent.

but the hotter the persecution the more rapidly they spread,, until you know what a great host they have'become add what a tremendous force for good and the triith they are wielding all the world over! It was persecution that gave Scotland to Presbyterianism. It was persecution that gave our land first to civil liberty and afterwards to religious freedom. Yea. I might go further back and say it was persecution that gave the world the great gyration of the j GospeL The ribald mockery. the hungering and thirsting, the unjust charge, the ignominious death, when all the force of hells fury was hurled against the cross, was the introduction of that religion which is yet to be the earth's deliverance andi our eternal salvation. The state sometimes said to the church: “Come, take jay hand and I will help you." What was the result? The church went back and it lost its estate of holiness. and it became ineffective. At other times the state said to the church: “I will crush you." What has. been the result? After the storms have spent their fury the church, so far from having lost any of its Eoree, has increased and is worth infinitely more after the assault than before. Read all history and you will find that true. The church is far Kicwre indebted to the apposition of civil government than to its approval. The fires of the stake have only been the torches which Christ held in His hand, by the light of which the church has marched to her present glorious position. In the sound of racks and implements of torture I hear the rumbling of the Gospel chariot. The scaffolds of martyrdom have been the stairs by which the church mounted. Learn also from our subject that sin will come to exposure. Long, long ago had those brothers sold Joseph into Egypt- They had made their old father believe that his favorite child was dead. They had suppressed thei crime, and it, was a profound secret well kept by the brothers; But suddenly tha secret is out. The old father bears that his son is in Egypt, having bean sold there by the malice of HU own brothers Bow their cheeks must have burned and their heartssunk I at the flaming out of this long-sup-pressed mime. The Smallest iniquity has a thousand tongues, and they will , blab out ear* sure. Saul was seat to

destroy the Canaanites, their sheep and their oxen; bat when he got down there among the pastures he saw some fine sheep and oxen too fat to kill, so he thought he would steal them. No* body would know it. He drove those stolen sheep and oxen toward home, but stopped to report to the prophet how he had executed his mission, when in the distance the sheep began to bleat and the oxen to bellow. The secret was out, and Samuel.said to the blushing and confused Saul: “What meaneth the bleating of the sheep that I hear and the bellowing of the cattle?” Ah! my hearer, you can not keep an iniquity still. At just the wrdng time the sheep will bleat and the oxen will bellow. Achan can not steal the Babylonish garment without being stoned to death, nor Arnold betray his country without having his neck stretched. Look over the police ar-‘ rests. These thieves, these burglars, these counterfeiters, these highwaymen, these assassins, they all thought they could bury their iniquity so deep down it would never come to resurrection, but there was some shoe that answered to the print in the soil, some false keys found in their possession, some bloody knife that whispered of j the death, and the public indignation j and the anathema of outraged law hurled them into the dungeon or hoisted them ou the gallows. Nothing in God's universe swings at ] loose ends. Accidents are only God’s j way of turning a leaf in the book of j His eternal decrees. From our cradle to our grave there is a path all marked i out. Each event in our life is con- j nected with every other event in our i life. Our losses may3 be the most J direct road to our gain. Our de- j feat and our victory are twin j brothers. The whole of our life was { changed by something which at i the time seemed to you trifling, while j some occurrence which seemed tre- j mendous affected you but little. God’s | plans are magnificent beyond all com- ! prehension. He molds us, and turns and directs us, and we know it not. J Thousands of year^ are to Him as the j flight of a shuttle. The most terrific ! occurrence doespot make God= tremble, j The most triumphant achievement i does not lift Him'' into rapture. That one great thought of God goes out i through the centuries, and nations j rise and fall, and eras pass, and the i world changes, but God still keeps the \ undivided mastery, linking event to j event and century to century. To God j tpeyare all one event, one history, one j plan, one’development, one system. I Great and marvelous are Thy works, ■ Lord God" Almighty! I was years I ago in New Orleans ’ at the ex- i position rooms,! when a telegram j was sent to thle president of the j United States at Washington, and we waited some 15 or 20 minutes, and then j the president's answer came back, and j then the presiding officer waived his j handkerchief aud the signal was sent \ to Washington that we were ready to j have the machinery of the exposition started, and thu president put j his finger on the electric button, ; and instantly the great Corliss whtatlC^began to move—rumbling, 1 rumbmig, rolling, rolling. It was overwhelming. and 15,000 people clapped and shouted. Just one finger at Washington started that vast ma- ■ chinery, hundreds and hundreds of miles away, and I thought then* as I think now, that men sometinys touch j influences that respond in the far dis- i tanee, 40 years from now, 50 years from j now, 1,000 years from now—one touch ; sounding through the ages. Now, there are two ways of laying up money. One of these is to put it in i sUxflc and dejx>sit it in bank, and in-.! vest it on bond ami mortgage. The other way to lay up money is giving j away. He is the safest who makes both of these investments. There are j in this house men who if they lose every dollar they have in the world j

would be millionaires lor eternity. . Thev made the spiritual investment; ; but the man who devotes none of his ! gains to the cause of Christ, and looks } only for his own comfort and luxury, j is not safe, I care not how the money j is invested. He acts as the rose if it j should say: “I will hold my breath. 1 and none shall have a snatch oi fragrance from me until next week: then I will set all the garden afloat with my aroma.” Of course the rose, ! refusing to breathe, died. But above j all. lay up treasures in Heaven. They ; never depreciate in value. They are never at a discount. They are always available. You may feel safe now with your $1,000 or $2,000 or $10,000 or $2#,000 income, but what will such an income by worth after yoti are dead? Others will s get it. Pethaps some of them will quarrel abodt it before you are buried. They will be so impatient to get hold of the will, they will think you should be buried one day sooner than you are buried. They will be right glad when you are dead. They are only waiting for * you to die. What then will all your earthly accumulations be worth? If you gathered it all in your bosom and walked up, with it to Heaven’s gate, it would not purchase your admission. Or, if allowed to enter, it could not buy you a crown or a robe, and the poorest saint in Heaven would look down at:you and say: “Where did that pauper come from?” May we all have treasures in Heaven. Ament The Bowl to Hell. You think it is a hard thing to be a Christian and get to Heaven. I think it is a harder thing to be a sinner and go to hell God made man for Heaven, and not for hell, and He has so crowded the pathway of life with sweet and helpful influences that a man in this Christian community can not easily crush all these things beneath his feet and go down into the hopeless night. Divine love, human love and self-love have all conspired to keep men out of hell. He who goes to the pit mnst go there in spite of all the united forces of this trinity of loves. Whis two discourse, if the ode's anger rise, the man who lets the contest fail U wise.—Plutarch.

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