Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Mondav 3,761 emigrants were landed at Castle Garden. A ten-year old boy is accused of mailrobbery,at Beloit, Wis. Snow fell to the depth of two inches at Hope, Dak., on the 14th. Horace Greely is to have a statute in City Hall dark to cost $25,000. Southern fanners are organizing against high prizes for jute bagging. A deposit of tin has been discovered about twenty miles from Topeka, Kan.j Seventeen year locusts have made their appearance in Middle Tennessee. The Merchants’ Exchange at St. Louis has opened war on bucket-shop gambling. Seventeen-year locusts have made their appearance in Highland county, Ohio. Three to five inches of snow fell in northern Michigan and Wisconsin, Thursday. The Constitution a 1 Convention of Montana will be Democratic by about five majority. - The boom for the Sioux reservation continues and will soon equal the Oklahoma craze. Se« era! people were killed and others injur ed in a cable road accident at Seattle, Wash., Ter. The . funeral services of the late Allen Thorndike Rice, minister to Rusvia, were held at New York Sunday. “Cyclone Bill” and W. E. Cunningham have been arrested for the robbery of Paymaster Wham, at Rocky Gorge Arizona. . I Chief of the Cherokee Nation, refuses to convene the. Legislature to vote on the sale of the Strip to the gov ernment, .-. The postmaster at Coshocton, N. Y. has been arrested for withholding official communication from his successor in office. John Archibald Comp is a swindler who has been working Cincinnati, Chicago and other people on a scheme for making good whisky out of bad. Mrs. C. F. Nygeen, of Star Lake, Dakota, yawned Wednesday and dislocated her lower jaw, necessitating a ride of twenty-three miles to town to set it. The theater at Worcester, Mass., was totally destroyed by fire, Thursday morning, including the costumes and accessories of Louis Morrison’s “Faust” company. , and a cousin all named Barnard, have been sentenced to hang at Sneedville, Tenn., July 12. Their crime was a murder of the most brutal description. Relatives of twenty-three miners who were killed in an explosion in the mines at Nevada, Mo., March 29, 1888, have brought suit for $100,090 against the company. Frank Jasinski, a Chicago boy, aged sixteen, who has been reading Wild West literature, Friday, deliberately shot two other lads, acquaintances, one fatally. The murderer escaped. In a speech at the dedication of a monument to dead soldiers at Charleston, 8. C., General Wade Hampton said the Confederate dead should be regarded as martyrs, and not traitors. Rev. Edward C. Towne, late of Cambridge, but now of New York, threatens to sue Chauncey Depew for $1,500 for preparing material to be used by Mr. Depew in his Centennial speech. Mind-reader W. Irving Bishop, died at New York, Tuesday, while in a cataleptic fit, superinduced by the intense nervous excitement incident to the performance of his mind-reading feats. A gang of men surrounded the house of a farmer named Tom Phelton, at Rogersville, Ky., and attempted to take him out. Phelton opened fire on the gang, killing two of them. The others Father J. G. Boyle, a Catholic priest, arrested last Saturday at Raleigh, N. 0., on a charge of a criminal assault on a young woman, was, Monday, arraigned, bound over to court and committed to jail. Boyd M. Miller, who shed the New York, Lake Erie A Western Railroad Company for injuries sustained while employed by the company as an engineer, got a verdict, at Mansfield, 0., for $30,000. A heavy thunder and rain storm prevailed all day, Friday, in the territory surrounding Kansas City. Great damage was done to railroad bridges and property. An immense fall of water flooded the streams to overflowing. Fireman Charles Lappan was pinned under an engine in a wreck near Denver, Col., and was slowly roasted to death. In his last moments, however, he dictated his will, leaving $15,000 to brothers in San Francisco. Mrs. Langtry will sell all her stage properties May 28, at auction, and this is regarded by her friends as an indication that she will not again appear on the American stage. She sails for Europe at the end of the month. A special Paris cable gave an interesting comparison between American and foreign productions, drawing the conclusion that America excels in articles of utility, while the older nations bear off the palm in decoration. Great excitement prevails at North Baltimore, 0., over an oil well drilled in the town, which filled an 800-barrel tank in an hour. It is undoubtedly, the largest oil well in Ohio, and lota in the town have advanced from $125 to SI,OOO. At Buffalo, N." Y„ Tuesday. William Kemmler was sentenced “to the punishment of death to be inflicted by the application of electricity,” within the week commencing June 24. This is the first death sentence under the nejv law. He had murdered his mistress. Andrew and Ole Ericson, brothers, aged eight and ten years, respectively, were drowned in the river at Crockston, Minn., late Saturday afternoon; They fell off some logs on which they were playing, and their father nearly loet his life in an attempt to rescue them. The wife of Washington Irving Bishop, the mind reader, now declares that her husband was sacrificed to science, and that he was not dead, but in a state of cataleptic coma, when the surgeons exposed his brain in order to determine whether tbeir diagnosis was correct. Henry Hoffman, a blacksmith, was killed by lightning at Red Bluff, M. T., a few days ago. He and four others stood near a wire fence when the storm broke.

Lightning struck the fence, knocking down all five. Four soon recovered, but the shock killed Hoffman outright. The will of Elizabeth Taber, who lived at Marion, Mass., in which she left $400,000 to various Congregational churches and missions, and which was contested on the ground that she was of unsound mind, has been declared valid. A dispatch from Galena, 111., says: Louisa Lehrman, a widow of this city, aged seventy years, brought suit yesterday in the Daviess County Circuit Court against Samuel Cunningham, a wealthy and eccentric old bachelor, also of Galena. to recover damages in the sum of SIO,OOO for.breach of promise of marriage. A Washington ipecial says that United States Consul J. L. Doty, at Tahita, has married Princess Polona, of Tahita. The Princess is a daughter of Lord and Lady Darcy, the former a British nobleman, and the latter a ■native princess. The bride was educated in Europe and is heiress to the largest estate in Tahiti. Five tramps attacked James Bui ns, a farmer, on the mountains in the outskirts of Altoona, Pa., Tuesday morning, and robbed him of S3O. They also stripped off his clothing, and left him for dead at the side of the railroad. A terrific fight took place in a railroad cut between the city policemen and the tramps, and four of the gang were captured, manacled and taken to the citv jail. The strike at the National tube-works, McKeesport, Pa., which involved 2,000 men and caused a suspension of work in a number of departments of that extensive plant, was settled Friday evening by the company conceding the strikers’ demands fojra restoration of last year’s wages. This means an increase of 10 to 15 per cent, in the wages of the skilled workmen, and 5 per emit to the laborers. The recent count of money at the New York sub-treasury revealed a discrepancy of $35 out out of a total sum of $184,000,000 to be accounted for. The shortage resulted from the acceptance of a few counterfeit notes in the hurry of business and the loss of a few pieces of silver. The deficiency was promptly made good and a receipt in full given to ex-Treasurer Hyatt, who was responsible under his bond for the entire amount. A terrible accident occurred at the Michigan Car Works, Detroit, Tuesday noon, by which one man lost his life outright and three more were fatally hurt. A gang of laborers wers loading a car load of iron when some part of the brace holding the' load broke and several tons of iron fell on the men, completely burying them. When the victims were liberated, Joe Bonscotte was dead and his three companions mortally injured. All are German and leave large families. The Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor in session at Indianapolis. Thursday, elected the following officers: Supreme Dictator, A. R. Savage, Lewiston, Me.; Supreme Vice Dictator, Samuel Klotz, Newark, N. J.; Supreme Assistant Dictator, Hon. Marsden Bellamy, Wilmington, N. C.; Supreme Reporter, D. F. Nelson, St. Louis; Supreme Treasurer, J. W. Branch, St. Louis, and Supreme Trustees, F. A. Pennington, Judge Okey Johnson, of West Virginia, and Edmund R. Bacon, Easton, S. 0. Gen. S. C. Lawrence Post No. 66, G. A. R., of Medford, Mass., has adopted resolutions instructing the adjutant to return to Rev. J. P. Abbott his application for membership as a contributory member, with its accompanying fee. Mr. Abbott, on Easter Sunday, in the course of a sermon,reflected very severely upon Grand Army veterans, and made the assertion that “more men owed their disabilities to whisky from the sutler’s tent than to shot ana shell.” He also referred to them as “whiskyscarred and maimed veterans.” H. J. Cook, formerly of Allegheny City, Pa., has been arrested in London, Ont., for robbing the Porterville Savings Bank, in Mercer county, Pa., of $2,000, two weeks ago. Cook was formerly employed in the building in which was located the bank. He was an inveterate smoker, and had a habit of chewing the end of his cigar. The morning after the robbery a stump of a cigar was found on the floor of the bank, and it gave evidence of having been in Cook’s mouth from the peculiarity mentioned. He was arrested, Thursday, and, the telegram states, made a confession implicating a number of others. The resolution passed by the board of directors of the Chicago Board of Trade, that the public quotation service be withdrawn at the close of this month, is the subject of much comment, and there is a marked divergence of opinion as to whether the result will be beneficial to the board. The so-called “bucket shop” firms claim to have the right to receive the quotations Which have been sustained by a permanent injunction granted by the Supreme Court to one of their number. They threaten legal proceedings against the Board of Trade if deprived of its quotations, and the prospects seem good for a tremendous legal fight. A dispatch irom Yankton Indian agency says that the Sioux Indians at that place are preparing to negotiate with the government for the sale of about seven townships of the north part of their reservation. Engineers are now at work surveying the agency, and the Indians are selecting their land in severalty. The reason assigned for selling this land is that their treaty with the United States only allowed $15,000 per annum, and the present treaty will soon expire. The tract embraces some of the finest land in South Dakota, and a rush of settlers is expected to follow its opening to homesteaders, which will probably be within thirty days. These lands will furnish homes for 1,000 families, allowing each 160 acres. Laurens county, Ga., is intensely excited over the discovery of spirits of turpentine in a well on Peacock’s farm. A peculiar gas has been observed coming from the well ever since it was dug two years ago. More than a month ago the water became so impregnated with turpentine that it could not be used for drinking purposes. A few days ago a bucket of colored turpentine was hauled out An investigation was made, and fourteen barrels were drawn off. In a few hours the spirits had risen to some height. A barrel of it reached Savannah Friday morning, and experts pro nounce it the pure article. It is not believed that tne well has been salted and the mystery is so far inexplicable. While Mrs. Ixfuise Palmer was oook- * ing supper in her home at Rockdale,

I Tex., she dropped a lighted lamp and was immediately enveloped in flames. She ran frem the kitchen through a bed room in which her two little boys, aged three and four years, were sleeping, out into the yard where her husband was. The latter attempted to extinguish the flames, but did not succeed until hia wife was fatally burned. He then discovered that the house was en fire, and it and the two children were, consumed. Mr. Palmer was also very badly burned. There died at Weston, W. Va„ Thursday morning, a man whose case has been a puzzle to the local medical authorities; his name was John Ryan and about six years ago his physicians told , him that he was suffering from locomotor ataxia. He staggered in his walk at first, and finally his fingers and toes began to mortify. Joint by joint they fell off until only the bare stumps of his limbs were left. The disease did not stop here, but his whole body seemed to be subject to the decaying process. Large pieces of his flesh loosened and fell from him without pain. His nerves were deadened and his body was practically senseless. His six years’ living death ended Thursday morning, Mr. Ryan was a well known man, and universally esteemed. FOREIGN Fresh stories of Ireland’s destitution are sent out. Captain G: neral Salamanca, of Cuba, has been authorized to draw on the Spanish Treasury for the sum of $830,000. It is stated that Gen. Boulanger’s second daughter is betrothed to the son of the Countess of Bari, sister-in-law of the ex-King of Naples. . The Saltan’s presents to Emperor William exceed $200,000 in value. The Sultan sends to the empress a necklace valued at $150,000. French papers unanimously compliment Miss Bybel Sanderson, the American primadonna, upon her success in Massenet’s new opera, Wednesday evening. Shanghai advives are that the claims for damages growing out of the Chee Foo riots have been settled. The English and American flags have been again hoisted, and the Chinese troops have saluted them. Over 90,000 miners are now out in the German mining districts. A council of the Prussian Ministry was held, Emperor William taking part. It was decided that recourse must be had to arbitration at once. Riots have occurred in Lombardy on account of an agitation over disputed rights in land, and it is said that the trouble is being fomented by Anarchists. Houses have been ransacked by mobs in some instances. Troops are buelling the outbreak. Five brigands were hanged in the court yard of the prison at Sofia, Thursday. A mob broke through the cordon surrounding the jail, and the gendaimes had great difficulty in keeping them away from the scaffold. The Austrian Emperor, Wednesday, gave audience to Mr. Lawton, the retiring United States Minister, who presented his letters of recall. Afterward the Emperor received Colonel F. D. Grant, the new Minister, who presented his credentials. An Anarchist Republican conspiracy has been discovered at Sueca near Valencia. At Sueca the conspirators, all peasants, planned to take the town and to sack the houses of the wealthy. The police and soldiers arrested many persons haying in their possession fire-arms and passports from South America. The Shalf of Persia, in his journeying from Teheran to Sts Petersburg, met with a grand reception in Russia. At Erwan the streets through which he passed were lined with troops, and at several points there were triumphal arches bearing the inscription. “To the Shah’s Sacred Person.” The entire town was brilliantly illuminated upon the evening of the day on which the Shah arrived. General Boulanger is credited with preparing a new surprise for the world. According to good authority, he now intends, since the Senate is likely to abandon his prosecution, to return to Paris. The report says that his followers have been communicated with, and the most elaborate preparations are making for hia triumphant return to the French capital. The General ip disgusted at his treatment in London, and has declared to a friend that he would rather trust to the tender mercies of his own nation, and the defense of his friends, than to longer trespass on the • cool courtesy of the English, with whom he has gained neither fame nor position. The General complains especially of his treatment by the newspapers, many of which have derided him. It is owing, no doubt, for the most part,to the papers that Boulanger has been practically boycotted In England. He commenced nis London career more like a showman than a statesman, and has selected as his companions a certain class of public men who are not usually accepted as the aides-de-camp of society.

In a Feather Bed.

A Horton (Kan.) special say: Joseph Pels,an Austrian, in, the restaurant business, was taken from his home by 200 men Thursday night, carried a half mile south of town and given seventy-five lashes on his bare back. Pelz had brutally beaten his step-daughter, thirteen years old, to compel her to sign over te him certain property which belonged to her. Pelz was under bond to answer to the authorities for the eflense. Pelz’s wife, fearing that a mok’ would take him before morning, had sewed him up in a feather tick, covered it over with a heavy mattress, and then laid down on the bed and feigned sickness. The couple feueht the mediators like tigers while the old man was being pulled out of his feathery nest. Pelz was warned to leave the town at once.

Death of Thorndyke Bice.

Allen Thorndyke Rice, the newly appointed Minister to Russia, died suddenly at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, early Thursday morning. Mr. Rice had been troubled with tonsiTitis for several days, and would have sailed for Europe Wednesday had his condition permitted of it He was not considered at all dangerously sick until 11 o'clock Wednesday night. He died at 3:30 in the morning. He was born in 1853. lie connected himself with the North America Review in 1876, and. under his management it became a very valuable Sroperty. Mr. Rice was appointed sinister to Russia only a few weeks ago ' by President Harrison.

“NEW SPRINGS OF JOY.”

THE SUNNY SIDE OF .UFB OF A CdHISTIANt' .Weil-Springs of Joy for the True Believer and a Satisfaction to all Who Work Uniter God’s Guidance. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn tabernacle last Sunday. Subject: “New Springs of Joy.” Text: Joshua xvi., 19. He said: The city of Debir was the Boston of antiquity—a great place for brain and books. Caleb wanted it, and he offered his daughter Achsah as a prize to any ohe who would capture that city. It was a strange thing for Caleb to do, and yet the man that could take that could take that city would have, at any rate, two elements of manhood—bravery and patriotism. With Caleb’s daughter as prize to fight for, General Othniel rode into the battle. The gates of Debir were thundered into the dust, and the city of booxs lay at the feet of the conquerors. The work done, Othniel comes back to «laim his bride. Having conquered the city, it is no Kt job for him to conquer the girl’s t; Tor however faint hearted a woman herself may be, she always loves courage in a man. I never saw an exception to that. The weddinz festivities having gone by, Othniel and Achsah are about to go to their new home. However loudly the cymbals may clash and the laughter ring, parents are always sad when a fondly cherished daughter goes off to stay; and Achsah, the daughter of Caleo, knows that now is the time to ask almost anything she wants of her father. It seems that Caleb, the good hearted old man, had given as a wedding present to his daughter a “piece of ißndthatwas mountainous and sloping southward toward the deserts of Arabia, swept with some very high winds. It was called a “south land.”. But Achsah wants an addition Of property; she wants a piece of land that is well watered and fertile. Now, it is no wonder that Caleb, standing amid the bridal party, his eyes so full of tears because she was going away that he could hardly see her at all, gives her more than she asks. She said to him: “Thou hast given me ,a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.” What a suggestive passage! The fact is, that as Caleb, the father, gave Achsah, the daughter, a south land, so God gives to us his world. I am very thankful he has given it to us. But I am like Achsah in the fact that I want a larger portion. Trees, and flowers, and grass, and blue skies are very well in their places, but he who has nothing but this world for a portion has no portion at al). It is a mountainous land, sloping off toward the desert of sorrow, swept by fiery siroccos; it is “a south land,” a poor portion for any man that tries to put his trust in it What has been your experience? What has been the experience of every man, of every woman that has tried this world for a portion? Queen Elizabeth, amidst the surroundings of pomp, is unhappy because the painter sketches to minutely the wrinkles on her face, and she indignantly cries out: “You must strike off my likeness without any shadows!” Hogarth, at the very height of his artistic triumph, is stung almost to death with chagrin because the painting he had dedicated to the King does not seem to be acceptable; for George 11. cries out, “Whoin this Hogarth? Take his trumpery out of my presence.” Brinsley Sheridan thrilled the earth with his eloquence, but had for his last words, I am absolutely undone.” Pick me out ten successful worldlings —without any religion, and you know what I mean by successful worldlings—pick me out ten successful worldlings, and you can not find more than one that looks happy, care drags him across the bridge; care drags him back. Take your stand at 2 o’clock at the corner of Nassau and Wall streets, or at the corner of Canal and Broadway, and see the agonized physiognomies. Your bankers, your insurance men, your importers, your wholesalers,and your retailers, as a class—as a class, are they happy? No. Care dogs their steps; and, making no appeal to God for help or comfort, they are tossed every wither. How has it been with you, my hearer? Are you more contented in the house of fourteen rooms than you were in the two rcoms you had in a house when you started? Have you not had more care and worriment since you wonthat $50,000 than you did before? Some of the poorest men I have ever known have been those of great fortune. A man of small means may be put in great business straits, but the ghastliest of all embarrassments is that oi the man who has large estates. The men who commit suicide, because of monetary losses are those who can not bear the burden any more, because they have only SIOO,OOO left Blessed be God! We have more advantages given us than we can really appreciate. We have spiritual blessings offered us in this world which I shall call the nether springs, and glories in the world to come which I shall call the upper springs. Where shall I find words enough threaded with light to set forth the beauties of religion? David, unable to describe it in words.played it on sharp. Mrs. Hernans, not finding enough power in prose, sings that praise in a canto. Christopher Wren, unable to describe it in language, sprung it from the arches of St. Paul’s. John Bunyan, unable to present it in ordinary phraseology, takes all the fascination of allegory. Handel, with ordinary music unable to reach the height of the theme, rouses it up in an oratorio. Oh, there is no life on earth so happy as a really Christian life. Ido not mean a sham Christian life, but a real Christian life. Where there is a thorn there is a whole garland of roses. Where there is one groan there are three aoxologies. Where there is one day of cloud there is a whole season of sunshine. Take the humblest Christian man that you know —angels of God canopy him with their white wings; the lightnings of heaven are his armed allies; the Lord is his Shepherd, picking out for him green pastures by still waters; if he walk forth, heaven is his body guard; if he .lie down to sleep, ladders of light, angel blossoming, are let into hia dreams; if he be thirsty the potentates of heaven are his cup bearers; if he sit down te food, his plain table blooms into the King’s banquet. Men say: “Look at that old fellow with the worn eat coat;” the angels of God cry: “Lift

up your heads, ye everlasting gates,and let him come in!” Fastidious people cry: “Get off my front steps;” the doorkeepers of heaven cry: “Come, yon blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom!” When he comes to die. though he may be carried out in a pine box to the potter’s field. WthJJt potter’s fleld“ the chariots, of Christ will come down, and the cavalcade will crowd all the boulevards of heaven. . I bless Christ for the present satisfaction of religion. It makes a man all right with reference to the past; it makes a man all right with reference to the future. Oh! these nether springs of comfort! They arg perennial The foundation of God standeth sure having this seal. “The Lord knbweth them that are His.” “The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed,” saith the Lord, who hath mercy upon them. Oh, cluster of diamonds set in burnished gold! Oh, nether springs of comfort bursting through all the valleys of trial and tribulation! When you see, you of the world, what satisfaction there is en earth in religion, do you not thirst after it as the daughter of Caleb thirsted after the water springs? It is no stagnant pond, scummed over with malaria, but springs of water leaping from the Rock of Ages! Take up one cup of that spring water, and across the top of the chalice will float tne delicate shadows of the heavenly wall, the yellow of jasper, the green of emerald, tne blue of sardonyx, the fire of jacinth. I wish I could make you understand the joy religion is to , some of us. It makes a man happy while he lives, and glad when he dies. With two feet upon a chair and bursting with dropdes. I heard an old man in the poor house cry out: “Bless the Lord, oh my soul!” I looked around and said “What nas this man gut to thank God foi?” But I have something better tot el I you, suggested by this text It seems that old father Caleb, on the wedding day of his daughter, wanted to make her just as happy as possible. Though Othniel was taking her away, and his heart was almost broken because she was going, yet he gives her a “south land, not only that but the nether springs; not only that, but the upper springs. O, God, my Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast given me a “south land” in this world, and the nether springs of spiritual comfort in thia world; but, more than t»H, I thank Thee for the upper springs in heaven. It is very fortunate we can not see heaven until we get into it. Oh! Christian man, if you could see what a place it is we would never get you back again to the office or si ore or shop, and the duties you ought to perform would go neglected. I am glad I shall not see that world until I enter it. Suppose we were allowed to go on an excursion into that good land with the idea of returning. When we got there and heard the song, and looked at their raptured faces, ana mingled in the supernal society, we would cry outi “Let us stay! We are coming here anyhow. Why take the trouble ofgoing back again to that old world? We are here now; let us stav.” And it would take angelic violence’td put us out of that wond if once we got there. But as people who can not afford to pay for an entertainment sometimes come around it and look through the door ajar or through the openings iu the fence, so we come and look through the crevices in that good land which God has provide ! for us. 'We can just catch a glimpse of it. We come near enough to hear the rumbling of the eternal orchestra. Though not near enough to hear who blows the cornet or fingers the harp. My soul spreads out both wings and claps them m triumph at the thought of those upper spriaga. One of them breaks from beneath the throne; another breaks forth from beneath the altar of the temple; another at the doer of “the house of many mansions.” Upper springs of gladness! Upper springs of light! Upper springs of love! It is no fancy of mine “The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water.” Oh, Savior divine, roll in upon our souls one o f those anticipated raptureral Pour around the roots of the parched tongue one drop of that life. Toss before our vision those fountains oi God, rainbowed with eternal victory. Hear it! They are never sick there; not so much as a headache, or twinge rheumatic, or thrust neuralgic. The inhabitant never says: “I am sick.” They are never tired there. Flight to furthest world is only the play of a holiday. They never sin there. It is as easy for them to be holy as it for us to sin. They never die there. You might go through all the outskirts of the great city ana find not one place where the ground was broken for a grave. The eyesight of the redeemed is never blurred with tears. There is health in every cheek. There is spring in every foot. There is majesty on every brow. There is joy in every heart. There is hosanna on every lip. Unforgiven man, unpardoned man, will you not to-day make a choice between these two portions, between the “south land” of this world, whichelopes to the desert, and this glorious land which thy Father offers thee, running with eternal water-courses? Why let your tongue be consumed with thirst when there are the nether springs and the upper springs, comfort here and glory- hereafter? Let me tell you, my dear brother, that the silliest and wickedest thing a man ever does is to reject Jesus Christ. The loss of the soul is a mistake that can not be corrected. It is a downfall that knows no alleviation; it is a ruin that is remediless; it is a sickness that has no medicant; it is a grave into which a man goes but never comes out. Therefore, putting rayhand on your shoulder as one brother puts his hand upon the shoulder of a brother, I say this day be manly and surrender your heart to UhnsL You have been long enough, serving the world; now begin to serve the Lord who bought you. You have tried long enough to carry these burdens; let Jesus Christ put his shoulder under> your burden. Do I hear any one in the audience say, “I mean to attend to that after awhile: it is not just the time.” It is the time, for the simple reason that you are sure of no other, and God sends Jon here this morning, and He sent me ere to confront you with this message; and you must hear now that Christ died to save your soul, and that if you want to be saved you can be saved. “Whosoever will, let him come.” You will never find any more convenient season than this. Some of you have been waiting ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty and sixty years. On some 'of you the snow has fallen. I see jt on your

brew, and yet you have not attmded to those duties which belong to the very springtime of life. Itb September with you now, it fa October with you, ft fa Decernher with you. lam no alarmist. I simply know thi* if a man does not repent in this world he never repents at alfand that now fa the accepted time, and now is the day of salvation. Oh, put off this matter no longer. .To not turn your backs on Jesus Christ, who comes to save you, fast you should lose yourwul. On Monday morning a friend of mine started from New York to celebrate her birthday with her daughter in Virginia. On Saturday of the same week, lust after sunrise, I stood at the gate of Greenwood, waiting for her silent form to come in. It is a long journey to take in one week—from New York to Philadelphia, from Philadelphia to Baltimore, from Baltimore tn Washington, from Washington to from Virginia into the great eternity. “What thy band findeth to do. oo it ”

THIS IS A GREAT SCHEME.

Pneumatic Tube Time to be Made by Electrical Transportation. A new scheme of transportation is to be introduced between New York and Boston, whereby, it is said, large packages of mail and even cars containing passengers can be whisked from one place to another a distance of 230 miles in less than an hour. This would be equal to a .• peed of four milea per rqinute. An experiment with the new machine was held in Boston in the prerence of many scientists, including Professor A. £. Dolbear, bf Tuft’s College, who announced that he was thoroughly satisfied of the success of the system. The inventor, John G. Williams, is a resident of New York. This machine rriiisistß ut a magnetic’ car, hanging from a single rail, where it follows a streak of electricity. With one-horse power it is said that one ton can be thus transferred a distance of 1.440 miles a day at a cost of 30 cents. This, in mail matter, would represent some 2,880,000 letters, and by this system packages of mail could be sent every five minutes, if necessary, thus preventing large accumulations. The single track is to be carried on tripods some distance above the ground, and the car will pass through coils of insulated wire at intervals. In the experiments, Thursday, the carriage exhibited was mounted on a wooden tracks on posts about three feet high, with an ascent of six inches in fifty feet, and it ran on one wheel at each end. The scientific principle involved is said to be that by which a hollow coil of insulated wire will draw a magnet into itself and into the aerial railway; the car, passing through such a coil, cuts off the current, which goes on to the one ahead.

U.S.SUPREME COURT.

The Myra Clark Gaines case, which has been in the courts since 1834. was decided by the United States Supreme Court, Tuesday. The court awarded the executors of the will the sum of 1576.000 against the city of New Orleans for the use of property sold by the city, but recovered by Mrs. Gaines after long litigation. The judgment of the lower court awarding the executors >1,300,000 for the use of the unimproved property sold by the city was not concurred in.. An other important decision was in affirming the power of Congress to exclude objectionable aliens from the country in the suit of Chae Chang Ping; appellant, vs. the Collector of the Port of San Francisco. It was a suit to test the constitutionality of the ScottChinese exclusion act. Shortly after the Scott exclusion act went into effect Chae Chang Ping returned to the United States from China and endeavored to secure entrance at the Port of San Francisco. He had left this country armed with a certificate entitling him to return, but the certificate was declared invalid by the Scott act The Collector refused him admittance and suit was then brought in the United States Court for the District of California to test the constitutionality of the Scott act, in accordance with the provisions of which the collector acted. The California court upheld the constitutionality of the act; and from this decision the case came up on appeal. The court affirms that judgment. It holds that Congress has the power to abrogate a treaty, and in support of that view cites the authorities of the courts, holding that the propriety of such action is not a matter for judicial cognizance, but that it is a matter for the political department. Congress, it says, has powerto exclude aliens from the country whose presence is deemed inimical to our interests.

A Murderous Brute.

Robert Day, of near Loveland, Ohio, Friday returned home intoxicated from a circus. He drew two revolvers, on reaching the house and gave notice of his intention of “cleaning out the ranch.” His aged father was the last to leave the roqm. The son, taking deliberate aim, fired, sending a ball through the old man’s body and fatally injuring him. He then went to an adjoining farm and fatally shot his divorced wife. He also set fire to the barn, and kept the neighbors at a distance by firing at them, The marshal finally overpowered the brute and he is in jail.

THE MARKETS.

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