Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. ' The Arizona Legislature is in a deadlock. White Caps have appeared in Michigan. .-w Minnesota proposes to enact a prohibiting prize fights. Heavy snow storms are reported throughout the Northwest. Three wolves were captured in a hunt at Carthage. 111., Saturday. Unionville, Mo., was almost totally destroyed by fire. Loss SBO,OOO. The capital of Arizona is to be removed from Prescott to Phmnix. Richard Coke was Wednesday reelected United rtates Senator for Texas. Many persons in Seward copnty, Kansas, are reported to be on the verge of starvation. A strike is threatened among tbe’l4,000 coke workers of the Connellsville, Pa., region. —: - T 'y The principal cashier of the National Bank Agency at Bologna has absconded. He embezzled SIBO,IOO. Two men were killed at Cincinnati,on the 24th, the walls of a building they were tearing down falling upon them. Billy Kurtz, claimed to be the heaviest man in Ohio, weighing 465 pounds, died at Massillon, Thursday, of dropsy. Allen Bousetree, a wealthy farmer of Emanuel county, Georgia, was robbed of $2,871, Wednesday, by four masked men. The contract for fire-works to be used at Wash’ngtou on the night of inauguration day has been awarded. The cost will be SII,OOO. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll was blackballed by the newly established Players Club, at New York, because of his antireligious views. Mrs. Gen. Harrison and daughter, accompanied by the latter’s husband, left Indianapolis Thursday morning on a trip to New York. Train wreckers opened a switch near Mizah, N. C., on the 28th. A freighttrain was dera led and the fireman and brakeman were killedWestinghouse electric stock dropped $275 per share Thursday, as a result of a decision of the Supreme Court favoring the Edison Company: James Harkins has obtained a verdict for $35,000 against the Boston & Providence Railroad Company Io T injuries to his head and side in the Roelindale disaster. The New York Pennsylvania & Ohio Road had another bad wreck near Galion, 0., Sunday. Five train men were seriously hurt and much property destroyed.’ Late developments show that Joseph A. Moore, the Indianapolis real estate and insurance agent, is short sl,o< o,oon to the Connecticut Mutual Insurance Company. - Unitse States Senators were formally elected, w ednesday, for the following States: Minneso*a, W. D. Washburn; New Jersey, McPherson; Oregon. Dolphi, Kansas, Plumb. Mrs. W. B. Starbird, the wife of a well known lawyer and editor of Milan, 0.. and daughter of the Mayor, has eloned with Dr. Storcb, a physician of prominence and family. The Grand Opera House at Duluth, Miun., was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 28th. The building cost . $112,0€0 and the contents will make the loss reach $200,000. All the buildings on the northside of the public square in Unionville, Mo., were burned early Tuesday morning. The losses amount to nearly sßo,o„o,with about $30,00.1 insurance. The printers ot the West Publishing Company, St. Paul, 100 in number, haVe gone on a strike owing to the discharge of the Father of the Chapel, who asked for higher wages for them. At the Reimblican legislative caucus at Lincoln, Neb., it was decided to support the resolution for the submission of a prohibition amendment to the constitution to the voters of the State. s Congressman James N. Burns, of Missouri, stricken with paralysis at Washington Wednesday and died the same evening. The House adjourned Thursday in respect to his memory. It is proposed to forma defense for New York harbor by a device which will cover the sea with petroleum,which be igni'ed, making a sea of fire, "“through which hostile ships could not pass. In the Arkansas Assembly G. M. Norwood filled a petition contesting the election of James P. Eagle as Governor. Norwood was the Union Labor candidate, supported generally by Republicans. Joseph A. Moore, a prominent real estate and insurance agent at Indianapolis, is a defaulter to the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company to an amount estimated at $500,0U0. He speculated. Saturday Cincinnati was enshrouded in darkness during the qntire day. Lights were kept horning in street and stores, and it was impossible to see a block-away. The streets were almost deserted. An assassin. Saturday night, fired tiiree times into the house occupied by Christian Stockal, a Polander, near Lansing, Mich. /.The wife was killed, a granddaughter fatally hurt and Stockal Slightly wounded. Henry 8. Ives and Geo. H. Staynor were arrested at New York on the charge of defrauding the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad company out of $2, i'oo. Bail was fixed in each case at $250,000. The Pullman Palace Car Company, Friday, acquired full -control of all the palace cars in this country, with the one exception of the Wagner Company, which is oonfined exclusively to The Vanderbilt By stem. ; - Tfee total production of pig-iron in 1888, the largest in our history, was 6,490,739 gross tons, against 6,417,148 S tons in 1887. The increased proon of pig-iron in the Southern States in 1888 Over 1887 was over 203,000 net tons. Dr. H. A. Ebrie, of Kansas City, was arrested i& Fredonia, Kas., Thursday, on a charge of swindling. His method was to request notes from his patients, which were not to be paid until a cure was affected. It is thought that he has realized about $45,C00 by his operations. A large quantity of counterfeit silver dollars are afloat in Reading. Pa. They

are well executed. Reports have been received that the bogus dollars were distributed at Norristown, Phoenixville, Spottstown, and other Sahuylkill valley points. They are supposed to come from Philadelphia. Hon John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia called at Indianapr lie, Wednesday on a visit to Gen. Harrison. It is currently believed that he will be made Secretarv of the Navy or Postmaster General. Other callers were L. B. Mizner of California, and J. P. Gallaway of Denver, Colorado. Senators Allison, of lowa, and Cullom, of Illinois, called en Gen. Harrison,Sunday, coming from Washington for the express purpose. This gives color to the rumor that Allison is to be Secretary of-the Treasury. Neither of the Senators would be interviewed on political subjects. V Wolves are ravaging flocks and herds near Fort Conrad, Mont. They at first confined their depredations to calves, colts and vearlings, but now attack and destroy full grown, fat and healthy steers. They go about in packs of a dozen or more and ranchmen are afraid to travel alone for fear of being attacked by them. A dispatch from Lansing, Mich., says: There are eighteen cases of small pox in Milan Township, Mobroe county. The disease has got beyond the control of the local authorities. The residents are unable to meet the heavy daily expenses, and have asked the Government for aid. An allowance will be made from the State Treasury. 1 > Dr. Charles Bliss and Mias Clara Hubbel, prominent New York people, were the defendant and plaintiff respectively in a breach of promise suit. The case was called Thursday and both sidea by their attorneys announc d that they were ready to oroceed. Almost at the 3ame instant that answer was made Dr. Vies was called before a higher court. Two houreTbefore at his home he was precipitated down a stairway by toe giving way of a step, and he soon after expired from the injuries received. The plaintiff wanted $20,000. / FOREIGN. John Bright is in a critical condition. Minister and Mrs. Phelps dined with Queen Victoria Monday night A dispatch from Zanzibar states that an American sailing vessel from Zanzibar ior Madagascar ports, had been fired into and disabled by a German war ship. Boulanger was elected from the department of the Seine, Sunday, by a plurality exceeding 81,(100. The Government had put forth extraordinary efforts t> defeat him. The excitement ran high during the entire day and night and many melees yere' reported. Boulanger’s friends now confidently predict the early fall of the Floquet government. News comes from Zanzibar that Rev. Mr. Brooks, an English missionary and sixteen assistants and servants belonging to the Mission have been murdered by the Arabs and blacks under their command. The Mission was located at Taadani, opposite that island, at a place which had been bombarded by German ships. It is thought the massacre was in revenge for that act. It has created an immense sensation. The Lord Mayor of London gave a dinner, Thursday night, in honor of American Minister Phelps. There were 259 guests, including Lord Rosebury, Lord Salisbury, Lord Coleridge, and many literary and scientific celebrities. The speeches «ere very complimentary to Mr. Phelps. Lord Salisbury said the gathering was as distinguished a company as he had ever seen. The London papers all published leading .editor-als relative to the occasion. A great sea monster has appeared near Matauxas, Cuba. The Daily El Corro De Matanzas, referring to it, says: Intelligent persons who saw it calculate' 'hat the monster measures about 150 feet long by forty feet wide. |t is a dark gray color, with white spots the size of dinner plates allover the back. -Its immense head, fins and tail are identical with those of a Shark. It was roaming around the entrance of Matanza Bay for three days and was the terror of fishermen, who declared they had never seen anything to compare with it. This monster is supposed to be the great tiger shark seen several years ago in the Indian Oeean.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Ligonier wants electric light. Winchester has a band again. Lagrange has a building boom. Floyd county wheat looks well. Ladoga will muzzle or kill its dogs. Peru lost but $4,200 worth of property by fire last year. Peru Methodists have been having a successful revival. _ Over 2,500 Muncieites have signed the Murphy pledge. A general slaughter of Montgomery county dogs is imminent. Catherine Kavanaugh, aged 107,-died at Madison, Wednesday. A Good Templar Lodge with sixty-five members has been instituted at Linden. An oil well with a capacity of 400 barrels a day is the lateßt wonder at Portland. ' John Glass, of Evansville, fell thirty feet from a smoke- stack, kiut will recover. W. W. Boatright, of Sullivan, was arrested while manufacturing conterfeit silver dollars. —° . A specialist in South Bend has bees warned by White Caps that he must leave the State. Three young men of Martinsville are said to have been warned by White Caps to leave that section. The building boom at Anderson is awful. Sometimes ,the demand is so great that they run out of sand, f Martin Houseman; of Elkhart, attempted to hasten a fire with gasoline. His wife aud himßelf were frightully burned. % The police raided the gambling rooms of Marion, Saturday night, capturing SI,OO ) worth of “utensils” and about a dozen players. Mrs. Themas Sbeerin, mother of Hon. S. P. Sheerin, Secretary of the National Democratic Committee, died at Logansport, Wednesday. * ' TLe broom vs. the dish rag. was vigorously debated by the young ladies of a Crawfordsville colored club. Thank fortune, the broom won. r Mancie wants parks, lakes, monu-

meats and popular resorts. Good. But why not ask for mountains, oceans and a slice off the moon as well? r ■ Vtola Neealer brought suit against the Methodist church at Hartford City for s6oo for services as organist for the past six years. The jury disagreed. The Barber Match Co., of Akron, 0., will remove to Wabash. A plant costing $300,< 00 will be erected and 200 men jFill be employed. Natural gas did it. Tom Denny, an Anderson sport, has vpagered s2otbat he can eat four pounds Of hog liver every evening between 6 and 7 o’clock for-forty consecutive days. e A marriage license was issued at Peru to James Sas-sa-fras and and Susanna Goodtboo, both Indians. The groom is seventy years of age and the woman fifty-two. »' The Terre Haute mad stone is in great demand. Geo. Bannan, of *New Mayswas the latest tolapply it. It adhered for fourteen hours and then fbr four hours. JohnD. Critchfield, a lawyer of Mt. Vernon, began a suit in the courts Wednesday against his mother-in-law. for SIOO,OOO damages. He claims that she deprived him of his wif’e affections. The Indiana Civil Service Reform Association held its annual meeting at Indianapolis, Wednesday. Lucien B. Swift, of Indianapolis, was elected President. Various papers were discussed. 1 ; . Dr. F. Flaeger, a prominent dentist of Evansville, suicided on the 2 th by cutting his throat with a pen knife. He waß 63 years old. The loss of bis property and failing health prompted the awful deed. The post office at Milltown, a station on the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis R. R., was robbed Tuesday night. Eight registered letters, a large quantity of stamps, copper cents and three gold ripgß were stolen. The excitement over hydrophobia has nearly run its course at Annapolis, there being only one well developed case with the live stock the past week. The residents felicitate themselves that “the disease can not last much longer, as We are about out of dogs.” The Jersey Cattle Breeders Association, the Indiana Wool Growers Assoriation and the Indiana Trotting and Pacing Horse Breeding Association were among the organizations which held annual meetings at Indianapolis on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. For robbing and setting fire to the store of Richard Nash, at Bethlehem, Ind., last week, Mrs. Mack Jefferß and Mrs. Ed. Powell and their four children, the families of the men who committed the crime, were taken into custody near that town on Satnrday. They were found in shanty-boats, and had in their possession sst 0 of the stolen goods. The men made their escape as the arresting party came up. Mrs. JeflerS met the officers with a hatchet, but finally surrendered without a fight. The Commissioner of Agriculture has just issued a report on the crops of the past year, from which the following, relating to farm products in Indiana, is taken: “Heavy rains during the early part of November caused serious damage to corn remaining on river bottoms and low, flat lands. The loss was neaviest in the southeastern part of the State. The weather remaining cool and damp delayed the gathering of the crop, and a very large per cent, of the corn in shock yet remains in the fields.” Concerning the condition of winter grain in Indiana, the report says: “The usual winter grain acreage will be fully maintained, with possibly a slight increase in the area of wheat. The past month has been favorable to the growth of wheat, and the plants are vigorous and appear to be well rooted.”

RIOTING IN IRELAND.

The trial of Mr. William O’Brien on the charge or conspiracy began Thursday at Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. The government had issued a proclamation forbidding any demonstration welcoming Mr. O’Brien, but, despite this action, 20J00 persons gathered around the courthouse. Six hundred policemen charged the crowd, using their batons freely, but were unable to disperse the gathering. While Mr. O’Brien was striding to pass through the crowd to enter the courthouse he was seized by a police inspector aud dragged from the court-yard. The people were maddened by this treatment of Mr. O’Brien and pressed forward to rescue him from the bauds of the inspector. The police, however, repulsed the crowd. Mr. Timothy Healy, who had stepped forward to aid Mr. O’Brien, was met by a bayonet leveled at his breast, but he was not injured. A number of reporters were maltreated. Mr. O’Brien, complained to the magistrate that the police were trying to incite a riot. Mr. O’Brien’s counsel applied to the court for subpoenas for Lord Salisbury and Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, whose speeches, he said, were similar to Mr. O’Brien’s. The application was refused by the magistrate. The people in the court room then began to murmur, and the galleries were ordered to be cleared. The court officers proceeded to carry out this order. When Mr. O’Brien cried, “I clear out,'too,” and started for the door. The magistrate shouted, “Stop him.” Then ensued a fierce struggle. A constable grabbed Mr. O'Brien and the people flocked to aid him. Finally,after a prolonged fight. Mr. O’Brien, by the people’s aid, reached the street, after his coat had nearly been torn from his back. An immense crowd thereupon escorted him through the town in triumph. The police made a savage charge upon the people escorting Mr. O’Brien, batoning them mercilessly. The crowd returned the attack with a fusillade of stones, and used their sticks freely. Mr. O’Brien was wounded in the breast by a rifle stock, and scores of people were injured. The court hastily issued a warrant for Mr. O’Brien’s arrest, and then adjourned. The police, with fixed Jaayopets, patrolled the streets until a late hour. Twenty persons received wounds from bayonets and at least forty were clubbed by the police. Some of the bayonet Wounds are dangerou i. A social observer criticises what he calls the “stupid silence” ot moat Americans when dining in hotels and restaurants. “It looks.” he says, “as though every one had been quarreling. Instead of a cheery, quick interchange of opinion, men and women sit so emn and sorrowful at the table as though they were in a school.” For this reason be thinks that the general übc of light table wines would be a good thing, as it would promote sociability.

SLANDERS AGAINST GOD.

THE DOCTRINES OP THE CHURCH BELITTLED AND MaLIGN,ED. But the Truth Still Prevails and the Gospel Will Survive—Dr. Talmage Hits Hard at Scoffers. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn tabernacle last Sunday. Subject: “Slanders Against Religion Answered” Text: Rev. x,: 10, 11, He Baid: All intelligent people have creeds—that is, favorite theories which they have adopted. Political creeds—that is, theories about tariff, about finance, about civil service, about government. Social creeds—that is, theories about manners and customs and good neighborhood. vEithetical creeds—that is, theories about tapestry, about brie abrac, about styles of ornamentation. Religiouscreeds—that i«, theories about the Deity, about the soul, about the great future. The only being who has no creed about any thing is the idiot. This Bcoffing against creeds is always a sign of profound ignorance on the part of the scoffer, for he has himself a hundred creeds in regard to other things. In our time the beliefs of evangelistic churches are under a fusillade of caricature and misrepresentation. Men set up what they call orthodox faith, and then they rake it with the musketry of their denunciation. They falsify what the Christian churches believe. They take evangelical doctrines and set them in a harsh and repulsive way, and. nut them out of the association with other truths. They are like a mad anatomist, who, desiring to tell what a man is, dissects a human body and hangs up in one place the heart, and in another place the two lungs, and in another place an ankle bone, and says that is a man. They are only fragments of a man wrenched out of their God appointed places. Evangelical religion is a symmetrical, well-jointed, roseate, bounding life, and like the scalpel and the dißßecting-knife of the infidel or the atheist can not tell you what it iis. Evangelical religion is as different from what it is represented to be by those 'enemies as the scare crow which the farmer puts in the cornfield to keep off the ravens is different from the farmer himself. . , For instance, the enemies of Evangelism say that the Presbyterian Church believes that God is a savage S vereign, and that He made some men just to oamn them, and that there are infants in hell a span long. These old slanders come down from generation to generation. The Presbyterian Church believes no such thiDg. The Presbyterian Church believes that God is a lbv.ng and just Sovereign, and that we are free agents. “No, no! that can not be,” say these men who have chewed up the creed and have the consequent stomachs. “That is impossible: if God is a Sovereign we can’t be free agents." Why, my friends, we admit this in every other direction. I, DeWitt Talmage, am a free citizen of - Brooklyn. I go when I please and I come when I please, butl haVeat least four Sovereigns. The Church Court of our denomination; that is my ecclesiastical* Sovereign. The Mayor of this city; he is my municipal Sovereign, The Governor of New York; he is my State Sovereign. The President of the United States; he is my National Sovereign. Four Sovereigns have I, and yet in every faculty of body, mind and soul I am a free man. So, you see, it is possible that the doctrines go side by side, and there is a common-sense way ot presenting it, and there is a way that is repulsive. If you have the two doctrines in a worldly direction, why not in a religious direction? If I choose tomorrow raorniDg to walk into the Mercantile Library and improve my mind, or to go through the conservatory of my friend at Jamaica, who has flowers from all lands growing under the arches of glass, and who has an aquarium, all asquirm with trout and gold fish, and there are trees bearing oranges and bananas—ff I want to go there I could, lam free to go. If I want to go over to Hoboken and leap into a furnace of an oil factory, if I want to jump|from the platform of the Philadelphia express train, if I want to leap from Brooklyn Bridge, I may. But suppose I should go to-morrow and leap into the furnace a* Hoboken, who would be to blame? That is all there is about sovereignty and free agency. God rules and reigns, and he has conservatories and blast furnaces. Ifyouwantto walk in the gardens, walk there. If you want to leap in the furnace, you may. ■ Suppose now a man had a charmed key with which he could open all the jails, and he should open Raymond street Jail and the New York Tombs and all, the prisons on th'e 'continent. In three weeks what kind of a country would this be? all the inmates turned out of those prisons and penitentiaries Suppose all the reprobates, the bad spirits, the outrageous spirits, should be turned into the new Jerusalem. Why. the next morning the gates of pearl would be found off hinge, the linchpin wouid be gone out of the chariot wheels, the “house of many mansions,” wouid be burglarized. Aseaiilt and battery, arson, libertinism and assassination would reside in the capital of theskies. Angels of God would be insulted on the streets. Heaven would be a dead failure if there were no great lock up. If all people without regard to their character when they leave this world go right into glory, I wonder if in the temple of the skies Charles Guiteau and John Wilkes Booth occupy the same pew. Your common sense demands two destinies! AncJ then as the Presbyterian Church believing there are infants in perdition; if you will bring me a Presbyterian of good morals and sound mind who will sav that he believes there ever was a baby in the lost world, or ever will be, I will make him a deed to the house I live in and he can take possession to-morrow. So the Episcopalian Church is misrepresented by the enemies of evangelism. They say that church substitute*, forms and ceremonies for heart religion, and it is ail a matter of liturgy and genuflexion False again. All Ephcopa'ians will tell you that the formß and creeds of their church are nothing unless the heart go with them,' r , Soalso the Baptist Church has been misrepresented. The enemies of Evangelism say the Baptist Church believes that unless a man is immersed he will never get into heaven. False again. All the Baptists, close communion and open communion, believe that if a man ac-

cept the Lord Jesus Christ he will be saved, whether he be " baptized by one drop of water on the foremad, or be plunged into the Ohio or Susquehanna, although immersion is the only gate by which one enters their earthly commnnion. . The enemies of Evangelism also misrepresent the Methodist Church. Tney say the Methodist Chnrch believes that a man can convert himself, and that conversion in that church, is a temporary, emotion and that all a man has to do is to kneel down at the altar and feel bad, and then the minister pats him on the back and says: ' “It is all right,” and that is all there is of it False again, the Methodist Chnrch believes that the Holy Ghost alone can convert a heart and in the church conversion is an earthquake of conversion and a sunburst of pardon. And as a mere “temporary emotion,” I wish we all had more of the “temporary emotion” which lasted Bisbop James and Matthew Simpson for a half century, keeping them on fire for God until their holy enthusiasm consumed their bodies. . So all the evangelical denominations are misrepresented. And then these enemies of evangelism go on and hold up the great doctrines of Christian Churches as absurd, dry and inexplicable technicalities. “There is your doctrine of the Trinity,” they eav, “absurd beyond all bounds. The idea that there is a God in three persons. Impossible. If it is one God He can’t be in three, and if there are three, they be o ne. At th& Bame time all of us —they with us — acknowledge trinities all around us. Trinity is our own make-up-body, mind, soul. Body with which we move, mind with which we think, eoul with which we love. Three, yet one man. Trinity in the air—light, heat, moisture —yet one atmosphere. Trinity in the court-room—three judges on the bench, but one court. Trinities all around about us, in earthly government and in nature. Of course, ail the illustrations are defective, for the reason that the natural can not fully illustrate the spiritual. But suppose an ignorant man should, come up to a chemist and say: “I deny what you say about the water and about the air; they are not made of different parts. The air is one; I breathe it every day. The water is one; I drink it every day. You can’t deceive me about the elements that go to make up the air and the water.” The chemist would say. “You conae up into my laboratory and I will demonstrate this whole thirig to you.” The ignorant man goes into the chemist’s laboratory, and sees for himself. He learns that the water is one and the air is one, but they are mude up of different parts. So here is a man who says: “I can’t understand the doctrine of the Trinity.” God says: “You come up here into the laboratory after your death, and you will see—you wili see it explained, you will see it demonstrated.” The ignorant man can not understand the chemistry of the water and the air until he goes into the laboratory, and we will never understand the Trinity until we go into heaven. The ignorance of the man who can not understand the: c> emistry of the air and water does not change,the fact in regard to the composition of air and water. Because we can not understand the Trinity, does that change the fact? “And there is your absurd doctrine about justification by faith,” say these antagonists who have chewed up the little book of Evangelism and have the consequent embittered stomach. “Justification by faith—you can’t explain it.” I can explain it. It is simply this: When a man takes the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior from sin God lets theoffemer off. Just as you have a difference with some one—he has injured you; he apologizes, or he makes reparation; you say: “Now, that’s all right; that’s ail right.” Justification by faith is this: A man takes Je us Christ as his Savior,and God t-ays to the man; “Now, it was all wrong before, but it is all right now;itiß all right.” That was what made Martin Luther what he was. Justification by faith, it is going to conquer all nations. “Theije is your absurd doctrine about regeneration,” 4 those antagonists of evangelism say. What is regeneration? Why, regeneration is reconstruction. Any body can understand that. Have you not seen people who are all made over again by some wonderful influence? In othej words, they are just different from what they used to be as possible. “There is your absurd doctrine of vicarious sacrifice,” say these men who have chewed up the little book of creeds, and have the consequent embittered stomach. Vicarious sacrifice! Let every man suffer for hiinselE Why do I want Christ to suffer ior me? I’ll suffer for myself and cairy my own burdens.” They scoff at the idea of vicarious sacrifice, while the“y admire it everywhere else fexcept ip Christ. People see its beauty when a mother suffers ior her chi ld. People see its beauty »hen a patriot suffers for his country. People see its beauty when a man denies himself for a friend. They can see the beauty of vicarious sacrifice in everyone but Christ. Be it ours to admire and adore these doctrines at which others jeer. Oh, the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge Of God! How unsearchable is His wisdom, and His ways are past finding out! Oh, the height, the depth, the length, the breadth, the infinity, the immensity, the eternity of that lovel Let our earnest piayers go out in behalf of all those who scoff at These doctrines of grace. <■: When the London plague was raging in 1665, there was a hotel near the chief burial place that excited much comment, England was in fright and bereavement The dead carts went through the streets day and night, and the cry: “Bring* out your dead!” was answered by the bringing out of the forme of the loved ones, and they were put twenty or thirty in a cart, and the wagons drove en to the cemetery, and > those dead were not buried in graves, but in great trenches, in great pita—in one pit eleven hundred and Jourteen burials! The carts would come up with their great burden of twenty or thirty to the mouth of the pit, and the front of the cart was lifted and the dead shot into the pit. All the churches in London were open for prayers day and night, and England was in great anguish/ At that very time at a hotel—at a w°yside inn—near the chief burial place, there was a group of hardened men, who sat day sifter day and night after night blaspheming God and imitating the grief-struck who went by to the burial place. These men sat there day after day and night after night, and they scoffed at men,and they scoffed at women, and they scoffed at God. But after a while one of them was struck

with the plague, and in two wfeeks all of the group were do «m in the trench from the margin of which they had ottered their ribaldry. My friends, a greater plagne is abroad in the world. Millions have died from it. Millions are smitten with it now. Plague of sin, plague of gorrow, plague of wretchedness, plague of woe, and consecrated women and men from all Christendom are going out trying to stay the plague and alleviate the .anguish, and there is a group of meq in this country base enough to sit ana deride the work. They scoff at tqe Bible, and they scoft at evangelism, and they Bcoff at Jeans Christ, aud they scoff at God. If these words shall reach them, either while they are sitting here to-day, or through the printing press, let me tell them to remember the fate of that grouD in The wayside inn while the plague spread its two black wings over the doomed city of London. Oh, instead of being scoffers let us be disciples! “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful!”

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The prospects for consideration by the Senate of the territorial admission bills seem a little brighter. A meeting of Dakota people, attended by Senatorelect M< odv Delegate Gifford and Dele-gate-elect Matthews, Chief justice Tripp aud Justice Spencer,.was held in Senator Davis’s committee-room Wednesday, at the close es which the Dakotans adjourned to the room of the. Senate committee on Territories and had a conference with Senators Platt and Manderson, of the committee. During their meeting the Dakotans ratified a number of amendments to the omniDiis bill, which will make it more satisfactory. These amendments were drawn by Judge Moody, and propose among other,things, to do away with the' vote on division provided for. in the Springer bill. It is desired that Congress should provide arbitrarily for divisions of the Territory, without further campaigning upon the subject. Another amendment provides for the adoption of the Sioux Falls constitution without holding another constitutional convention. It is the purpose of Dakotans' to let the provisions in relation to a new election of officers, and on the question of locating the temporary seat of government stand as they are in the omnibus bill. It was decided, Wednesday, by Senators Platt and Manderson, aiter their conference with the Dakota people* to call a meeting of the Senate Committee on Territories the latter 1 part of the week or the first of next,and kllow them to explain their proposed amendments and then decide upon the line of action to be adopted. The fight for the speakership of the next House is dividing public attention at Washington with Cabinet gossip. The candidates mentioned are Reed, of Maine; McKinley, of Ohio; Burrows, of Michigan; Cannon, of Illinois, and Henderson, of lowa, with the chances that the ultimate struggle is likely to occur between the two last-named gentjemen. The New York Herald says that the belief is general that the coming Senate debate on American lights in Samoa will reveal the wishes of the Presidentelect in the matter, and that Senator Sherman will he authorized to give expression to General Harrison’s view. Notwithstanding the protest of Republicans, the House has referred the Senate tariff bill to the committee on ways and means, thereby making it almost an impossibility to have it properly considered at this session. A number of prominent citizens of New Mexico have sent to Congress a protest against the admission of the Territory as a State, because a majority of the population are unfit for selfgovernment. The time for thedelivery of (he electoral votes from the various States expired at midnight, Monday. No messenger from Florida has reached the President pro tempore of the Senate, with the vote of that State.

OUTRAGEOUS MURDER.

A stableman named Henry Adams was killed by the Brooklyn street car strikers Saturday night. Adams was murdered in a most outrageous manner, i Ad tins was sleeping on a blanket in one of the bins. Two of four strikers took hold of the ends of the blanket, carried him to a door and threw him out to the street below, killing him instantly. ’ A general strike of all street car men in New York and Brooklyn is almost inevitable. 1' '

BOILERS EXPLODE.

A boiler in Harvey’s mill at Scranton, exploded on the 20th and two men were killed and three others hurt. A saw mill boiler at Poplar Bluff, Mo., exploded on the same date killing three men and injuring three others. _ . Col. Wm. P. Dennis, of Richmond, was Thursday appointed State Fish f Commissioner by Governor Hovey, in place of Enos B. Reed.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, Jan. 29, 1888. GRAIN. r Wheat— Corn — T N 0.2 Red 99 No. 1 White...... 36 N 0.3 Red.. 96 No. 2 Yellow 33 Oats, White 29 LIVE STOCK. Cattle— Good to choice..,. 1 [email protected] Choice heifers ..3.0i @3.25 Common to medium cows 2 [email protected] Good to choice cows, [email protected] Hops—Heavy [email protected] Light 6.2 @5.1(1 Mixed „ 4 [email protected] Pigs.... ;..... [email protected] Sheep—Good to choice [email protected] Fair to medium;. [email protected] EGGS, BUTTER, POULTRY. Eggs i4c | Hens per fi> 7Jc Butter,creamery22c I Roosters.,.,,, Fancy country- 12c | Turkeys „.9c Choice eountry..lOc | MISCELLANEOUS. _ \ f Wool—Fine merino, washed 33@35 unwashed med 20@22 very coarse. 17@18 Hay, timothy..l4.oo [ Sugar cured ham Iff Bran 11.75 Bacon clear side 12 Ciover seed... 4.25 Feather, goose 35 Chicago. Wheat (Jan.)....95 P0rk.....*.......12.20 Corn “...........34 Lard ....6 92 Oats 25 Cincinnati —Wheat, 98; corn, 35; oats 27J; rye, 55; pork, 13.75; eggs, 16. 4 Toledo—Wheat, 98; cord. 39J; oats, 27; clover seed, 5.20. _ f :