Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1887 — Page 6

glepnbliran. Gao. E. Marshall, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

Dems Krahnky lacks of being a Jowl. He Bays iua recent address: “Work= ingtnen, you dan not benefit ' your fconditlon by listening to madmen or parading behind red flags. To elevate yourselves yon must become. American citizens and barricade yourselves behind the American ballot.’ -.

- Naw York, still continuing to be an. object of great interest in connection with the next national election, the course of the prohibition cause there becomes a salient feature. In . the as! ten years the prohibition vote has been as follows:

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It is none of our business, perhaps, but it seems to us that the congregation of the late Henry Ward Beecher might* have found a clergyman worthy of their pulpit without sending to England for one. They are not likely to find a man equal to Mr. Beecher anywhere, but if such a person is living he is more apt to in America than England. Mr. Beecher was an American in brain, vein and tissue; he made b.s church the most distinctively American organization of its* kind on the continent, an 1 his spirit will hardly be pleased to see the place which he made famous occupied by the Rev. Charles H. Berry from England.

Thk Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, who is delegated by Great Britain to represent her interests in the fisheries question, madean excellent speech at the annual dinner of the New York Chamber of Commerce. He said that the United States has carried to the highest development the science of the production of wealth. , That, however, was but. one step in a nation’s progress; and if be did not mistake the signs of the times, sooner rather than later other important problems must be solved in America. The safeguard in those days would be the innate reverence for law, which, is the guiding idea of Ameriaans: the people should make the laws, the people should enforce the laws, and the people should respect the laws. A greater Englishman than Mr. Chamberlain expected tlie perpetuation of free institutions as long ss the people respected the staff of the constable as the symbol of the Government’s power. A lack of that respect was exactly the beginning of the anarchist troubles at Chicago.

There is such a thing as being too enterprising. The steamship lines that are inducing Italian immigration and cholera in order that they may make money are too-progressive entirely. It has al ways been contended that cholera travels around the world with periodical reguJantyp and itrwflF doubtless get ~| here soon enough without..any art ificial assistance. That quarantine measures are the only preventives of tl plagues has been fully Remonstrat' d by the history of the yellow fever epidemics. The time was when it was thoyght that the rigid enforcement of quarantine was'paying too dearly for the public health. But the great epidemic of 1873 taught a different policy, and it L now I pretty well demonstrated that br fhi.l i unyielding quarantine our southern' coast can be kept measurably free from 1 fever. Cholera should be more easily I handled than yellow fever.becan«e tb e>e ] are rio circumstances in thii country j which can combine to germinate it; whereas itis more- than suspected tnat yellow fever is indigenous to certain southern localities in the United States.

Changes in Congress.

Indianapoj- Sews. The tout ensemble oi tn ’ senate will be good deal changed this winter. Of the senate ton years ago there will appear only Allison* Dawes. Sherman, Ed-' mumis, Morriil. Saulsbury, Joyes of Nevada, Cock reli ■ and Ransom—ten i■ all. Of those who were in the senate; ten years ago Logan is dead, Bayard isin the Cabinet, Jones of Florida is gone daft, McMillan has been retired, Maxey has given away to Judge Reagan, and' Cameron of Wisconsin retired to give place to Spooner. The Republicans have seven Senators who have been p the Senate for ten years, and the D. mo J ..........Cn^Jmt--ttoee.-----<YmsHleFHig—thoima; ■~* Senators 1 term is for six years, changes occur rapidly there. In the House Um proponion of old stagers is still SB). Her. Holman, Randall, Ketchams Bland, Kel-: ley, Harmor, Mills of Texas, Blount of Georgia, Sunset Cox and Charlie o’Nei’ are the only membe-s who were t ; • ten years ago. Out of 325 member Rut ten’thus remain. It is kdme.wl at inter©sting to note that in this list t ]r ■- - tection State of Pennsylvania has retain ed four Judge Kellry is ca’led tin father of the House, for he htoser vr-d the h-n.-—• contfiatjo - tefi niemb*-r. hayjng been first • 1861. Kilbs-t Cox has been a Congrej-.- two years longer Ran-.Mr, Kelie’. • it did-not serve coht i-i there l -.’ i g a fejhfflX Dt ~ t 2j he lefi G-oo and reacto fig .n? m New Y v'i’y. end ahc v.lmn.Li ctmeM Dter’to Turkey. K t New Y nt, has served eighteen yegrfe, Ey and in aj. that time Inn- n-v, r made-a speech.

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THIRST IN A CAVERN.

Water in the Well of Bethlehem. IDrlnkufK aud Obtain Krerlaallug Life I Thorn i» Nothing That Can Sink"- the Thtm: l.ikrTlmitir it Comc-t f . ih ihe I ouutaiu at the Gate til® Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject, “Thirst in a Cavern.” Text, “Oh, ; that one would give mca drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which jis by the gate! '—L Samuel, xxilL,' Ml lie said: I A text is of no use to me unless lean ! find Christ in it; and upless 1 can bring I a Gospel .put of these words that will' ' arouee and comfort and bless I shall wish j that I had never seen them; for your i time would t>e wasted, and against my’ soul the dark record would lie made that thia day I stood before a great audience of sinning, suffering and dying men. and told them of no rescue. By the Cross of the Son of God, by the throne of the eternal judgment, that shall,not be. May the Lord Jesus help j me to tell you the truth to-day 1 ft is not-an unusual thing to see peo- | pie gather around a well in the summr J time, rhe husbandman puts down his ctadle at the well curbj the builder puts I down his trowel; the traveler puts down his pack. Then one draws the water for all th’e rest, himself taking the, very last. The cup is passed around, anil the fires of thirst are put out; the J traveler starts on his journey, and the workman takes up his burden. My friends, we come to-day around the Gospel well. We put down our pack of-burdens and pur implements of toil. One man nnist draw the water for those who have gathered around the Well. I will try and draw the water today: and if,after I have poured out from this living fountain for your soul, I just

taste of it myself, you will not begrudge me a “drink from the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate.” This Gospel well, like the well spoken of in the text, is a well of Bethlehem. Davjd had known hundreds of wells of water, Hut be wait: ed to drink from that particular one, and he thought nothing could slake tris thirst like that. And unie.-s your soul and mine can get access to the Fountain open for sin and unclean finess,we must die. That fountain is the well of Bethlehem. It was dug by tl e light of a lantern—the star that; hung down over the manger. It was dug, riot at the gate of C«>-ar’s. oalacefc-not iii the park of a Jerusalem bargain maker. It was dug in a barn. The camels lifted their weary heads to listen as the work went on. The shepherds, unable to sleep because the heavens were tilled with banda of music, came down to tee the opening of the well. The angels of God, at the first gush ol the.living water, clipped their chalices of joy into it and drank to the health of earth and heaven as they cried: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace.” Sometimes in our modern barns the water is brought through the pipes of the city to the very nostrils of the horses or cattle; but this. _wgll in the Bethlehem.. 'mucSYorTKe beasts that perish as for onr race, thirst-smitten, desert-traveled and simoon-stm k. Oh, my soul, weary, with sin, stoop down and drink today out of that BethiyEeni well, Again, this Gospel well, like.the one spoken of in the text, is a capinrefTwell. David remembered the time when that good water of Bethlehem was in the pos session of his -ancestors.—H : s h;h*-r drank there, Iris mother drank there. He remembered how the water tasted when he was a boy, and came up there from play. We never forget the uUL well we used to drink out bi wlieuwe were boys or girls. There was something in it that blessed the 'ips and refreshed theJ row better than any tiling we found since As we think of that dear old well the memories oi the pas .flow into each ol her like cry st ail it; e drops, -s un-gli nte d, and al Itheinor ea • iwe remember that the hands that used. ■ [to hold the rope, and the hearts that | beat the wel'-etvb are still now. ; We never get over these.reminiscences < George P- Morris, the great song-writer , I of this country, once-said to me that his; “Woodman,-{Spare I’lc-'. Tree,"v.as i ' enfig in a great concert-ball, and the | Unemories of early life were so w rougin the audif’ine by that s.mg tii.t’, ■ after the singing was done, an aged man ianse in the audience, overwhelmed wrtli emotion, and said: “S;r, will you pleasa tp-tell me whether i4te--woednran-really spared that tree?’ -We never forget the tree under which we play.rd-. -We never for-te: the fQr.niai n at which we drank. Alas for the man who has no early memories.!—i———

Davit! I ho tight of that hood well, and Ire wanted a drink, oi it, but he remtmbereti ’ffiaf'tl.e Philistines had captured it. When those thrtei meu trietl to come up to tlo- well’in be-1 !i..'’ »,t .D.tvi I they saw swonls gienmiug. krona I about it. And this is true of this ■ Gospel well. Tbe Phijjstiues have at ; times captured it. When we come to | take a full, qld fashicne I crink of ; don aio’ cm tort, do not ’h -Ir v.r.vjs of ; i indignation and sarcasm fi ? sh? Why .the . skeptics tell ns that we can net .come to | that fountain!..They say th- watei is iiot t tit to drink anyhow. “If you are really . thirsty now. there is the. welhol philoSb- [ phy, there is the well qt art, there is the Fwri+;-of--se*e n ee,’h Gil - s tt’s-.0. i-.-'ead ci cur I- --yt.<laith.

a dern mix ure. Tmy stv a great 'many -5 au inn this g.- about the: Is •uuand they/fry tofee I'our imuportal l [hanger on rose leaves, and mix a mint- ; julep of w r dly stimulates when nothing will satisfy us but “a drinzef water jof the We iof Bethlehem,v iiicii is at the gate. ’ They try to starve us oh husks, ; w hen the Father s banquet is ready, and tbediest ring is tak<n from the casket, ■ 'an i the PWeefesiTiarp is s’ruck for the music, and the swiftest foot is alreadyJ . ce They patronise heaven anil' alio ish bell, and try to b.< a.-ure e-f, -lity vith their -hourglass; 'tifd.Xfie*r; r- ne "of the -great -God with '• ,- r t:,?; uu ld J a’-tipri*. yot: tbebtd'Gcspei well is a well. 1 ■ pfa<G -d -:h.< there may he some where .tn the-eh thre«-.-.ft-.ointe.d-men. twi-h A-nrsjgg ehotlith to so forth in the ■ -with 1 t -f-l'toZ. C t!at, to liew th< ■ . • 'v ‘ ‘.-t Old well. 1 ’,xi- i. t 1,-T- is tm-neirgami. .that the. rt io take Its plsch again in thru—ily, end in toen&iverity,-.and in t.c I. -sir..-. tUi' i».te-4TW.L hworfdty ~ybilosoph teg, and ha ye found cut that they d<s not give any comfort.

and that they drop An arctic .midnight upon ttie death pillow.' They fail when there i»a de th chin in the house; and x when the sovrl comes to leap into the fathomless opean of eternity they giv to the man Hot sb much As a broken spar to cling to. \ Depend upon it, that wel wijl come into our possession again, though it has bijen captured. If there j be not three aiwinteibmen in the Ix>r<l’s host with enough consecration to do the ; work, then tbe swords will leap from I Jehovah’s buck lei-,and the eternal three will descend—God the Father, G-od the Son, God ttie Holy Ghost—conquering for our dying race the way back again .to “the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is bv the gate.” <‘lf Go<. be for us who can be against us?" “It God I spared not his Own Son, but freely gave , him up for us,all, how shall He not with ’ Him also freely give us all things?” | “For 1 am purstiaded that neither height, nor depth, nor angels, nor prin-, i ci panties, nor powers nor things present, I nor things to cAme,” shall take from us 'into final captivity, the Gospel of my l blessed [Lord t'brist. ■ i Again, the Gospel well, dike the one 'spoken of in my text, is a Well at the gate. The traveler stops the camel today and gets down and dips out of thevaliey of the East some very beautiful, clear, bright Water, and that, is out of the yery well that David longed for, | Do you know that that w-elj was at the gate, so that nobody coiild go into Bethlehem without going right past it? And so it is with this gospel well—it is at the ! gate. It is. in tbe first place, at the i gate of purification. We cm not wash I away our sins unless with that water, I take the responsibility of saving that their is no man, worn n or child in this ; house to day that has escaped sinful defilement. Do you say it is outrageous* 5 and ungallant forme to make such a charge? Do you say, “I have never stolen —I have never blasphemed—l have never committed unchastitv—l have never been guilty of murder?” I reply, you have committed a sin WOFB® than blasphemy, worse than nnchastity, worse than theft, worse than murder. We

have all committed it. We have by our sin recrucified the Lord, and that is decided. And if there be who dare “ttUpTead “-Dot guilty ’ r to the ind ictment, then the hosts of heaven will be impanelled as a jury to render a. unanimous verdict against us; guilty one, guilty all. With what a slashing stroke tnat s one passage cuts us away from all our pretensions: “There is none that doeth good—no, not one,” says some one, “All we want, all the race wants, is development.” Now! want to tell you that the race develops without the gospel into a Sodom, a Five Points, a Great Salt Lake City. It always develops downward and never upward, except as the grace of God lays hold of it. What, then, is to become of our soul without Christ? Banishment. Disaster. But I bless my Lord Jfesns Christ that there is a well at the gate of purification. For great sin, great pardon. For eighty years of transgression, an eternity of forgiveness For crime deep as hell, an atonement high as heaj en; that where sin abounded,so grace may miichl inotfe abound; that as sin reigned unto death, even’ so may grace reign throughout righteousness unto eternal irfe by Jesus Christ onr Lord. Angel of th_e.-C.O.vehant, dip iby wing into this living fountain today. and wave it over this solemn assemblage,’that our semis may be washed in “rhe water of the well of Bethlehem, which,is by the gate.” Further, 1 remark that this well of tlie Gospel is at the gate Of comfort. Db y.,,:; know, where David was when he uttered the words of the text? He .Was.inXhe cave-of A-dnllam. That is where some oFyou are now. Has the world al ways gone smoothly with yon'.’ Has it never pursued you with slandei? I;- your heal ‘h al ways good? Have your fortiuies never perished? Is there one dead lamb in the fold? Are you ignorant of the way to, the cemetery? Have yon ever 1 eard ihe heli toll when it seem, d aS if tv<-rysioke of the iron claopt-r beat your heart?. Are the skies as bright whi n vou look into tlii-in as they used to be when other eyes, now glpßg.il,. used to .look, into them? Is there BGin4 trunk or drawer in your iiouse that you go. to only on sary days, when there comes beating agiir st your soul the surf of a great ocean of agony? .It is the eave cf Adul’hr ! The gay#- In ILttc' Some David hebe" wh< se fallferly heart wayward Absolam has l::o Is there'son e Abraham here who is lonely because Sarah is dead in tiieffamily plot of Machpelah? The world can not c> > fort you. What can it bring yen?' Nothing. Nothing. The salve they try to put on your wounds wili net stick. They can not wiih their bun.ilimr sur very nwj.d the broken bones. Again, the Gospel well is at ibe . g ite' of heaven. I have not hemd yp- tjne siiigle in,t eiiigej.it account of ihe. iniure ' world from anv body who does not be- • lieve injthe Bible. They throw such al fog aboi}t the subject that I do not want , to go to the skeptic’s heavin', to the ' transcfiblt nialisl’s heaven. I would; not'enehange the poorestyxcom in your house for the finest heaven that Hujxley [or Stuart Mill or Darwin .ever dreapied of. Their heaven has no Christ in it. : and a heaven without Christ, though you e uld sweep the whole universe [ into it,’ would be a hell! Oh, they tell ' us there are no .songs there; there are '.nd coronations in heaven—that is all ' They tpll us we will do ' there about what we db here, only on a larger- scale—geometrize wi'h the ; m-r ihtellt ct. and with alpenstock go I caliijbering up over the icebergs in an etei nal vacation. Rather than that, 1 | turn to my Bible, and I find John's ; picture o>. that good land—that heaven i which was your lullaby in infanev, t.hal I heaven which our children in the Sab- ; I bath-school will sing about this after- j noon, that heaven which has a ’ “well at [ tijeaate!” I » • . - Jl. _ . .1 1 I

1 do not bare whether cherub, or seraph or my own departed friendsin that Li seed land place to my lips the cup, i the touch of that cup will be life, will be heaven. I was reading of how the 1 ancients sought for the fountain of peri etm.il .youth. They though if they could only find and drink but of that welt, the old would become young vveuld be cured, and evvty Body would havp eternal juveneseerree. Of course, they couldTitjrfind it. Eu *» k-ab Ihave f>n nd ft—‘fl he w au-r <4 ■ to in. W'd-'h'¥ T.y ‘ne > • I efeink we I 'afFhetter n■ake ala r £ ipri ■ . 7 . g ’7'7 ■ ; th'b - ■ rid iron tin e tqjanfe.gs to- where iwe aid meer"-tbeu-. Traveled parting ini a place of meeiing They eay: I “We wihLzneetat Rome, or we will meet

lat Stockholm or Vienna ot Jerusalem, jor Bethlehem.” Now, *h>-n We come t tn.-stand at...the death-pillow' of those who are .eaving us for the far land,do not let us weep as though we rsee them again, but let cs, there stand' ing. appoint a place whereVwe will meet. Where shall it he? <*Shall it be on the hanks of the river? A No; the ' I'Mtiks tire too loiig. Shall it be in the ; temple? No, not There is such a host ' there—teh 'thousand times ten thousand. 'Where shall we meet our loved ones? let us make an appointment to meet at ’’the well by the gate. Oh, heaven! Sweet [heaven!- Hear heaven! Heaven where ■ Jesus is! Heaven! Heaven! I But lam glad to know that you may I come yet. The well is here—the well of heaven, Come: I do not care how I feeble you are. Let me take hold of your arm and steady you up to the 'well-curb." “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come.” I would rather win one 1 soul to Christ this morning than wear 't he crown of the world’s dominion. Do not te 7 any man go away and say I did j not invite him Oh, if you could only i just look at my Lord once; if you could [ just see Hirn fillt in the face; ay, if you I could on ly do as that did whom ; I read about at the beginning of the r-ei vii es—just come up behind Him and i touch His feet—methinks would live. ■ln Northern New Jersey, one winter, ' three little children wandered off- from i home in a snow-storm. Night came on. 1 Fattier and mother said: “Where are the children?” They could not be I found. They started out in haste, and tEe news ran to the neighbors, and be- ; fore morning it was said that there were hundredscf men hinting the mountains for these three children, but found them not. After a while a man imagined there was a place, that had not been looked at, and he went and saw the three children. He examined their bodies. He found that the older boy had taken off his coat and wrapped it around the younger one, the baby, and then taken off his vest and put it around the other one; and there they all died, lie probably the first, for he had no coat or vest. Oh, it was a touching scene when thatwasi brought to light. I was on the ground a little while after, and it -brought the whole scene to my mind, and I thought to myself of a more melting scene than that It is that Jesus, our older brother, took off the robe of His royalty, and laid aside the last garment of earthly comfort, that He might wrap our poor souls from the blast. Oh, the height, and the depth, and the length, and the breadth oi the love ot Christ!

ANARCHISTS GROWING BOLD.

The Chicago Disturbsts I<*ue a Circular in Which “Fight” Is Advocated. The,following extracts from an article in the Sunday issue of the Arbeiter Zutung of Chicago are interesting at the present, juncture as there, has been some question if a celebration such as the Central Labor Union and a number of singing and turning societies of Chicago intend to have, Dec. 10, Would lead to any trouble. Referring to the attempt to prevent any at such a meet■ffig'The paper says: The committee that has rented Battery p IJairior-tlie grand celebration in December is < ciiipelied to light this insidious mob. which, in the free consciousness of its guilt, dare not approach its honest opponents openly, but only tries to obstruct their way- by trickery. _ It is s«i<Tthat such things can happen, but it is eleyatftig that uiijriilay evening the delegates of. the nine turnjng.soeie.lies deelared ns. one man: •It isbur duty as Turners to protect freedom of speech as thirty years ago our brotHers c>f. ..the.. ■TnncinnhTi Tufhgeminde considered it their sacred duty to protect the' noble Wendell. Phillips with iheir b-nlies against il mob that had a majority bht was governed by stupidity and villainy. As they were ready to give up blood and Jife tor the eoiistitutkm-and-lhe liberty of speech .gtmrauUed..by-it-: thus -we—wiU stnmi fast -and trite when John Glay steps on the platform and speaks to the working people of the past, present and future.” Tho.-e. were - true Turners that spoke in that strain, and we entertain the linn .liope. that those are— in--a hiiitdrity in lie so-called, conservative societies, will be sound on this question: that they will also know where their place is, if anybody. Whoever it may Ik*', should make a frivolous, treasonable attempt—an attempt deserving of death — to outrage thi- rights of the people. But it will ::6, come to this-' . The article gfics on to say tnat the Citizens’ Association -will, not let it C.UJO to this'for lack of courage,, end that that organization would not., to soon after.the 11th day of November- “ Provoke ’a not, the termination of Atl.ich wc.u.'d be, at least, d.H.ibtful.” -The anarchists of this city have prepare.', a r.ib- | ■‘trt•cireul r for iiis ribution among tl'ieyworkiogn.i n licre. It ; s head ,d with the single word, I ■■ i iaht ” The circular denounces the ana ehists’ triiil'rtttd-cxventtoir; nnd declarer'that nothilTg i biU'force wilt win.. It urges • ju-epAratjon” fqr the “revolution.” •■Whoever joins Us,” says tile cireulsr. •■m*’>t tidie ailytpnseqymnees HpoaJtnfc Wni aiidmiist be ready to . sacrifice everything for the cause, even should it be hislife.',’ I'.-iu' Wolf is in the same kind of n fix as Herr sb>ti »ndii!Tfbr ; rW’-ing the same doctrine . and making thr<;u<. Wolf is a fine looking and j 1 iehly educated German! about thirty-five years. I oh't. He -peal s four languages, and is employed I by a nrnp publishing eompahv. Oa Friday night. when perfectly sober, he went to a sivoon at [-Twenty tr th and Hanover streets, where he pn .iclh dai :ir<-hy a'd foretold the violent death ’ (.ijStates-attofney Grinnell. Judge Gary and all the jurors in the anarchist trial. The utterances reached th police, and Monday night Wolf war arrested and charged with disorderly conduet and making threat s - »

Lord Salisbury, at the Conservative conference at Oxford, Wednesday night, said he would, not discuss the i matter of home rille for Ireland, the ' author of trie . .measure to secure the [WK? having withdrawn his ; It was impossible, however, to produce a scheme that would be satisfactory for instance, to both Mr. Trevelyan and Mr. D-ivitt. The coming session of Parliament. - Be-said, would be devoted 'to to the pressing needs of England. It was not intended, until a manifest change bad been accomplished, to pro pose increased powers of local government for Ireland. The government i would, however, propose local government. reforms for England, including i reforms in the liquor traffic, which would be allowed full liberty as fax as ■ may ber consis ent with social order, and would also remove reforms in parliamentary procedure which would prevent waste of time. Lord Salisbury expressed himselt as strongly opposed ' to the disestablishment ot tiib church in England,-Scotland ai d Wales, but promist <1 th:7 whatever evils existed woul<‘( be removed, beginning: with .a for the abolition of tithes. ’The stale of agriculture lh'England was deplorable,, aud any measure for relieving the depraSston receiving general consent wotfld be unhesitatingly considered by the government.

ATLANTA GOES “WET."

The Antf-ProhlblrioiiUtH Carry the «ity by 1,200 Majority. J I i After the most heated contest on record'in the State of Georgia, Atlanta Saturday, .voted against prohibition. The fight has been a peculiarly hitter one. For over a month the citizens have been engaged in the contest. Meetings were held almost every night and* local speakers and foreign statesmen stumped the county from almost every curbstone in the city and every cross-roads in the county. Early in the campaign the Prohibitionists leased the largest warehouse in the city and fitted it up with tp seat; ing capacity for 8,000 people. Almost nightly that building has been filled,and such scenes of wild enthusiasm are rarely witnessed. Almost every minister in the city preached prohibition from his pulpit Sunday after Sunday. Both sides had full campaign funds, and managed their respective caucuses for all they were worth. The negro vote was the. bone of contention, and was the balance of power. Each side made the most strenuous endeavors to secure it in every way possible. The’ negroes were considerably divided on the subject.thougb the majority of them voted with the anti-prohibition’sts. One of the features of the contest has been the active part taken by many women of the city. Several of the churches organized committees from among their female members, who took an active part in the campaign. They organized the women of the colored churcheainto societies, and met with them and prayed with them day after day. The result of their work was shown by the appearance of large numbers of women at the polls with blue badges. They served hot eoffee and sandwiches at every polling place, and conducted prayer meetings and singing crusades in the open air. Fulton county, in which Atlanta is situated, voted, two years ago, on the same question, and went for prohibition by a rfiajority of 228 out of about 8,000 votes. The registration this time exceeded that of the last election by 2,000 votes. The principal fight made on prohibition during the campaign was that it did not prohibit, and that intoxicating drinks could be openly purchased in anumberof places throughout the city which paid taxes to the United States Government for the sale of whisky. Thousands of gallons have been sent in each month from cities around Atlanta, from which it was almost as easy to get a jug as it was at bars in the city. The antis claimed that prohibition injured the city, which was a- year for whisky licenses without decreasing in the slightest the amount of whisky sold in the city. The Prohibitionists, on the other hand, claimed that Atlanta has never had prohibition; that while it was so voted, two years ago, the licenses then existing did not expire, some of tEem, until almost a year ago, and that since that time the domestic wine clause in the local option bill allowed many places nF~the' city by which the ’aw could be easily evaded. This was, however remedied by the last Legislature, which put a license of SIO,OOO on all wine-rooms, which license will go into effect, after Jan. 1. The city has gone “wet” by probably 1.200 majority.

ANOTHER HUSH ROW.

Police at Eimerick Assault an Assembly in Hnnovof Mariyrs. An attempt was made in Limerick, Iriand,Sunday, io hold a demonstration in honor of the Manchester martyrs, Allen, Larkin and O’Brien, and was Suppressed by the police. The unveiling of a statue to commemorate the hanging pf the men was set down as a portion of the. programme. Fearing in-, erference with the statue, a guard surrounded it during the night. Mr. McInerney, of New York, who was chosen to preside at the demonstration, was on the ground and addressed theI'* 1 '* people.The people then drew their batons and made an onslaught upon the crowd. This was answered by stone throwing. The crowd was dispersed subsequently. Wherever groups were found assembling,the police charged upon them and seized the flags. In these encounters a number of people were hurt. Troops now occupy the thoroughfares. The Mayor and other municipal officers are actively engaged in quieting the people. ' ■ - i-b-. . ’. ..... The police used their batons in dis-. ’crimina'ely, clubbing men, women and small boys. They even pursued the fleeing people into their’houses. The organist of a Ca'holic church w’as clubbed on the head while leaving the building. During the disturbance one shop was complete ly wrecked, and the windows of the county .club were smashed. ‘ A serious disturbance occurred at night. . The crowd 'stoned and nooted the police who tried to clear the streets with batons and bayonets, but with great resistance. Many civilians and I Constables were injured. The wounded men were conveyed to the hospital. The police acted in a reckless manner. The windows of the hotels on th*streetft where the trouble occurred were tilled with op-lookers. M.my of these persons taunted the pblic- 1 , whh replied by throwing sta.ffe_ and st ones, breaking a Targe number of win- < i"do wa. Thirty nelsons had. their wounds I dressed at the hospital.

THE POSTAL DBPARTMENT.

Rrvfiuiieii and K<p Aniiituro *—-Figure* and Sw jyeationn. • • 'i' ■ ' * . ‘ ’ i Therenortof the Third Ass slant Post- : Mas er General for the last fiscal year ' has been made public. It shows that the i total postal revenue ot the year was $48,■118,273. The revenue-Jrom the money order business was 1717,336. which i should be added to the above. I'he total expenditures of the year were $53,138,252. The total cost of the service over its revenue, was $5,482,670. The receipts of the year were 11 1 per cent, greater than for the previous year, w tile the rati r of expenditures was at a ratio of but 3 4 per cent'. It is estimated that within the next year the receipts and exp«nditures'‘‘Will nearly balance. It is recommended that an investigation of the pneumatic tube system in use in the large cities of Europe be made with a view of introducing them here. The j total value ts ah stamped paper issued i by the department during the year was $46,619,680, which is an increase over the previous year of nearly 7 percent. The postage collected on second class matter during the year was $1,262,348, which represents a weight of over 63,C00 tons. This is an increase of nearly 15 per cent, over the previous year, ftecommendat'on is made that in all cases where oaths are required .in the transaction of postal business, postmasters be authorized to administer them. It is also recommend- d that all postage on second-class matter shall be paid by the attachment of adhesive stamps, as is required for all other mail matter; anil (2) that certain periodicals, now 7 enjoying second-class rates, be required "to pay third-class rates. By this is meant the so-called libraries of etc. The special delivery system has increased about 21 per cent-, during the year,and ie. growing in favor. First Ass’t Posmaster General Stevenson’s report shows that 3,043 postoffices were established during the year The whole number of postoffiees in operation June 30, was 55,157. Appointments of postmasters were made during the year as follow : On resignations and commissions expired 6 868; on removals and suspensions, 2,584; on deaths of postmasters, 589; on establishment of new offices. 3,043. The. largest increase in the number of offices in any of the States and TeTritortes'diirifig the year was as follows: Pennsylvania, 118; Georgia, 92; Texas, 77; and Virginia, 74. There was a decrease fn the number of offices in but one State—eight in Nevada. There were seven States which on_June.3oth.,coataiaftdjnanilhah.2j)oo---offices each, as follows: Pennsylvania, 4,119; New York, 3,248; Onio. 2,833; Virginia, 2,355; Illino-s, 2,266; Missouri, 2,117, and North Carolina,2,lll). Among the principal contract articles consum_ ed by-tire~po3r,al service were about 383 tons of wrapping twine, over 193,000, 000. facing s' ips, over 6100-1,000 blanks, and 7,000,000 letter heads. The following recommendations were made: That—the deposit of 50 cents for each postoffice box-key be reduced to 25 -cents; that authority be granted and the necessary appropriations be made by • Congress for paying the rent of third class postoffiees-

PUBLIC OPINION.

The new American party pronoses to establish an o-gan in New York, and claims to have the money to do it. It has already established an office and headquarters is giving »ighß of considerable vitality. The managers say the party will thoroughly organize the State and hold a Stive convention in April, with a national convention later on—perhaps in June,when they will nominate a presidential ticke . There does not seem to be any urgent necessity of more political, parties, but possiblv ‘ht may be a long hit want wh.iu we do not perceive, Ther» is always ro-nn at the. top.— Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Jacob Sharpe, the New York -boodler, is to havr his case, if possible, taken to the Supreme Court of the • United States. It seems that Mr. Sharpe, when before a legislative committee, made statements which were used in convicting him, but the Constitution of the United States in Article V. of an amendment says: “No person * * shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.’’ Old Jake took in roput $1,500,000 of boodle, and W’th that amount of cash in hand law will be found to keep him o out of the penitentiary. When there is plenty of cash there is usually to be found plenty of law of the right^ort.—lndianapolis Sentinel. ■.- . 4 V The Presbyterian Synod of Colorado indorsed Indian Commiaatoner Atkin s order prohibiting the teaching of any other than the English language in Indian schools. The Synod of Indiana denounced it, and petitioned the President and the Interior Department for it■ revocation. Fhe Colorado eldersand ministers may be presumed to know 1 something about tr c matter, while those in Indiana may not know so much. As a nuie, tin** who know the <-t upon th- -ttbj- ■ p-wiicall'-,. are tboee whohavejUie m-o-t profound views • on tin' <iiffe r enl pL.t-ms dt Tndian q uestion.—lmliattap: »i is Jon rnal. -- —■— s A married man can always ® ‘nmk imue easily than a He gets hie wife to do it for him.