Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — Page 3

THE WIDE OPEN DOOR.

A DOOR THROUGH WHICH ALL _______ ; All Mysteries Unveiled by a Glance Througblts Portals—No Latch for Even Deatn to Obstruct tbe Way— Dr. Tatmage’s Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject, “The Wideopen Door.” Text, Rev. iv:l. He said: * John had been the pastor of a church in Ephesus. He had been driven from his position in that city by an indignant I>bpulace. The preaching of a pure and earnest gospel had made an excitement dangerous to every form of “iniquity. This will often be the result of pointed preaching. Men will flinch under the sword strokes of truth. You ought not to. be surprised that the blind man makes an outcry of pain when the surgeon removes the cataract from bis eye. It is a good sign when you see men uneasy in the church pew and exhibiting impatience at some plain utterance of truth which smites a pet sis ihat they are hugging to their hearts. After the patient has been so low that for weeks he said nothing, it is thought to be a good sign when he begins to be a little cross. And so I notice that spiritual invalids are in a fair way for recovery when they bebome somewhat irascible and choleric under the treatment of the truth. But John had so mightily inculpated public iniquity that he had been banished from his church, and sent to Patmos, a desolate island, only a mile in breadth, against whose rocky coasts the sea rose and mingled its voice with the prayers and hymnings of the heroic exile. You can not but contrast the condition of this banished apostle with that of another famous exile. Look at the apostle on Patmous and the great Frenchman on St. Helena. Both were suffering among desolation and barrenness because of offenses committed. Both had passed through lives eventful and thrilling. Both had been honored and despised. Both were imperial .natures. Both had been turned off to die. Yet mark the infinite difference: one had fought for the perishable crown of worldly authority, the other for one eternally lustrous. The One had marked his path with the bleached skulls of his followers, the other had introduced peace and good will among men. The one had lived chiefly for self-aggrandizement, and the other for the glory of Christ. The successes of the one were achieved amid the breaking of thousands of hearts and the acute, heaven-rending cry of orphanage and widowhood, while the triumphs of the other made joy in heave® among the aDgels of God. - The heart of one exile was filled with iremorse and despair, while the other was lighted up with thanksgiving and inextinguishable hope. Over St. Helena gathered the 1 blackness of dari&aess, clouds lighted up by no sunrising, but rent and fringed and heaving with the' lightning of a wrathful God. " What a dull spot upon which to stand and have such a glorious vision? Had Patmoß been some tropical island arbored with the luxuriance of perpetual summer and drowsy with the: breath of cinnamon and cassia, and tesselated with long aisles of geranium and cactus, we would not have been surprised at the splendor of the vision. But the last place you would go to if you wanted to find beautiful visions would be the island of Patmos. Yet it is around such gloomy spots that. God. makes the moat wonderful revelations. It was looking through the awful shadows of a prison that John Banyan saw the gate of the celestial city. God thero divided the light from the darkness. In that gloomy abode, on scraps of old paper picked up about his room, the great dream was written. It was while John Calvin was a refugee from bloody persecution and was hid in a house at Angouleme. that he conceived the idea of writing his immortal “Institutes.” Again: The announcement of such an opened entrance suggests the truth that God is looking down upon the earth and observant of all occurrences. If we would gain a wide prospect we climb up into a tower or mountain. The higher up we are - the broader the landscape we behold. Yet our most comprehensive view is limited to only a few leagues—here a river and there a lake and yonder a mountain peak. But what must be the glory of the earth in the eye of Him who, from the door of heaven, beholds at one glance all mountains and lakes and prairies and oceans, lands besprinkled with tropical gorgeousness and arctic regions white with everlasting snows. Lebanon, majestic with cedars, and American wilds solemn with unbroken forests of pine; African deserts of glistening sand, and wildernesses of water unbroken by ship's keel; continents covered with harvests of wheat ■dne^the^ho^Vrld heaven is opened that there is f entrance for jour prayers and t seeni that 6nr weak wfee has 1 strongih enough to climb - up to God’s ear. Shall hot our prayer ba lost in the wouds? words wings? The truth is plain. Heaven’s door is wide up with the strength W stout lungs? . Must it not be a loud ealL such as dsowiilng mm utter, o* like the shout ’of some chieftain in the battle? No; a whisker. U as good a* And Jfct mere Wlshbf the eOtfl hi jfrofouad net|i jt

rises just as high and accomplishes just as much. But ought not prayer to be made up of golden words if it is to enter, such a spienflid door and iive beside seraphim and archangel? Ought not every phrase to be rounded into perfection, ought not the language be musical, and dassic, and poetic, and rhetorical? No, the most illeterate outcry, the unjointed petition, the clumsy phrase, the sentence breaking into grammatical blunders, an unworded groan, is just as effectual, if it be the utterance of the soul’s want. A heart all covered up with garlands of thought would be no attraction to God, but a heart broken and contrite, that is the acceptable sacrifice. ‘‘l know that my Redeemer liveth,” rising up in the mighty harmony of a musical academy, may overpower our ear and heart, bdt it will not reach the ear of God like the broken-voiced hymn of some sufferer amid rags and dosolation looking up trustfully to a Savior’s compassion, singing amid tears and pangs. “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” I suppose that there was more rhetoric and classic elegance in the prayers of the Pharisee than of the publican, but you know which was successful. You may kneel with complete elegance on some soft cushion at an altar of alabaster, and utter a prayer of Moltonic sublimity, ..but neither your graceful posture nor the roll of your blank verse will attract heavenly attention, while over 6ome dark cellar, in which a Christian pauperis prostrate in the straw, angels bend from their thrones and cry one to another: “Behold, he prays! ” Through this open door of heaven what a long procession of prayers is continually passing! What thanksgiving! What confessions! What intercessions! What beseechings! “And behold a door was opened in heaven.” Again: The door of heaven is opened to allow us the opportunity of looking in. Christ when He came from heaven to Bethlehem, left it open, and no one since has dared to shut it. Matthew threw it still wider open when he came to write, and Paul pushed the door further back when he spoke of the glory to be revealed, and John in Revelation actually points us to the harps and the waters, and the crowns, and the thrones. There are profound mysteries about that blessed place that we can not solve. But look through this wide open door of heaven and see what you can see. God means us to look and catch up now something of the rapture, and attune our hearts to its worship. It is wide open enough to see Christ. Behold Him, the chief among ten thousand, all the bannered pomp of heaven at hfs feet. With your enkindled Jaith look up along these ranks of glory. Watch how their palms wave and hear how their voices ring. Floods clapping their hands, streets gleaming with gold; uncounted multitudes ever accumulating in number and ever rising up into glad-Hasannas. If you can not stand to look upon that joy for at least one hour how could you endure to dwell among it forever? You would wish yourself out of it in three days, and choose the earth again or any other place where it was not always Sunday. • My hearer in worldly prosperity, affluent, honored, healthy and happy, look in upon that company of redeemed and see how the poor soul in heaven is better off than you are, brighter in apparel, richer in estate, higher in power. Hearers afflicted and tried, look in through that open door that you may see to what gladness and glory you are coming, to what life, to what richness, to what royalty. Hearers pleased to fascination with this world, gather up your souls for an appi&ciatLve look upon riches that never fly away, upon health that never sickens, upon sceptres that never break. upon expectations that are never disappointed. Look in and see if there are not enough crowns 4o pay us lotall our battles, enough rest to relieve all our fatigues, enough living fountains to quench all our thirst, enough glory to dash out forever and ever all earthly sighing and restlessness and darkness. Battles ended, tears wiped away, thorns plucked from the bosoms, stabs healed, the tomb riven—what a spectacle to look upon! Again: The door of heaven stands open for the Christian’s final entrance. Death to the righteous is not climbings tfigh' walls Of fording- deep rivers, but it is entering an open door. If you ever visit the old homestead where you were born and while your father and mother are yet alive, as you go up the lane in front of the farm house and you put your hand on the door and raise the latch, do you shudder with fear? No; you are glad to enter. So your last sickness will be only the lane In your Father’s house, and from which you can hear the voice of singing before you reach the door. And death, that is the lifting of the latch before you enter the greetings and embraces of the innumerable family of the righteous. Nay, there is no latch, for John says the door is already open. What a company of spirits have already opened those portals, bright and shining. Souls released from the earthly prison house, how they shoutad as they went through! Spirits that sped up to the flames of martyrdom making heaven richer as they went In, pouring their notes into the celestial harmony. And that door has not begun to shut If redeemed by grace, we shall enter it. This side of it we have wept hut on the other side of It we shall never weep. On this side we may have grown sick with weariness, but on .the other side we shall be without fatigue. On this side we bleed with the warriors wounds, bn the other side we shall have'the victor’s palm. When you think of dying what makes your tfrow contract what makes you breathe so deep and sigh? What makes you gloomy in passing's graveyard? Follower of Christ* yon have

b en thinking that death is something terrible, the, measuring of lances with a powerful Antagonist, the closing in of a conflict which may be your everlasting defeat You do not want much to think of dying. The step beyond this life seems so mysterious you dread the taking of it Why, who taught you this lesson of horrors? Heaven’s, door is wide open, and you step out of your Sick room into these portals. Not as long as a minute will elapse between your departure and your arrival there. Not half as long as the twinkling of an eye. Not the millionth part of an instant. There is no stumbling into' darkness. There is no plunging down into mysterious depths. The door is open. The instant you are here, the next you are there. When a vessel struck the rocks of the French coast, while the crew were clambering up the beach, a cage of birds in the ship’s cabin, awakened, began to sing most sweetly, and when the last man left the vessel they were singing yet. Even so’ in the last hour of desolution, when driven on the coast of the other world, disembarkation from this rough, tossing life be amid the enternal singingof a thousand promises and deliverance and victory. For all repenting and believing souls the doer is now wide open, the door of merey, the door of comfort, for th© poorest as well as the wealthiest, for the outlaw as well as for the moralist, for Chinese coolie as well as his Emperor, for the Russian poor, as well as the Czar, for the Turk as well as the Sultan. Richer than all wealth, more fresher than all fountains,- deeper than all depths, heigherthan all heights and broader than all breadths in the salvation of Jesus Christ which I press upon your consideration- Come all ye travelers of the desert under these palm trees. Oh, if I could gather before you that tremendous future upon which you are invited to enter —dominions and principalities, day without night, martyrs under the throne and the four and twenty elders falling before it, streatching off in great distances the hundred and forty and four thousand, and thousands of thousands, host beside host, rank beyond rank, in infinite distance, nations of the saved beyond nations of the saved, until angelic visions cease to catch anything more than the faint outline of whole empires yet outstreaching beyond the capacity of any vision save the eye of God Almighty. Then after I had finished the sketch, I would like to ask you if that place is not grand enough, and high enough, and if anything could be added, any purity to the whiteness of the robes, any power to the acclaiming thunders of its worship.. And all that may be yours. ij

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE:

It is proposed to hold in Philadalphia at an early date a social reunion of Methodist preachers’ sons. The Rev. Dr. J. B. Dales has just celebrated the completion of his fiftieth year as pastor of the Second United Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia, Pa. Dwight L. Moody announces that gifts amounting to SIIO,OOO have been received by his Mount Hermon and Northfield Seminary schools, SIO,OOO to com® from O. H. Greenleaf, of Springefild, Mass.; $50,000 promised by Frederick Billings, of Woodstock. Vt., and $50,000 willed by the late D. M. Weston. The closing consecration meeting in connection with the recent international Christian Endeavor convention at St. Louis will never be forgotten by those present. Nearly seven thousand people were present. The utmost solemnity prevailed, and the spirit of eager desire for better service on the part of the throngs of young people could be (pit. Many State delegations unitedly pledged themselves to ChristV work. : —— The Rev. B. Fay Mills began a ser’*B of union revival meetings in Springfield, Ili., June 16. Fifteen> churches united in the movement, including the Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Congregationalists, Baptists, Disciples and the Church of God. Mr. Mills always makes it a condition when he •receives a call to work ?n a small tow* or city, that all the evangelical denominations shall unite in the services. AH his time is now engaged for more thamayear- inadvanee.— JT

Cigarette Habit.

A 1 Davis, in Globe*Democrat. The cigarette habit is unwittingly acquired. I know of no appetite that is so insidious. There was a time when I was brutal and contemptuous in my remarks in the presence of cigarette smokers. I smoked good, honest cigars, and a cigarette, to my notion, was the most shadowy pretense of a smoke. I associated with some young pen all of whom smoked cigarettes. We would sit around a table quaffing lager, and gradually I got into the habit of taking a cigarette from one of them and puffing at it for a few minutes, because I was tired of smoking cigars. Before long I found myself buying cigarettes, and I, who had denounced the use of the curled darlings in tones of bitterest raillery, woke one day to a realization of the fact that I was a fiend. A cigar did not go to the spot; 1 craved cigarettes. I knew they were harmful, but to break myself of the habit was the severest struggle of my life. I have gradually got back to cigars, through the use of all-tobacco cigarettes, of which there sue now several varieties. Master Gussie Easterly is said to be the youngest of this year's crop 61 boy preachers. He is five years old,- and Conducts revival exercises, harking touching prayers and preaching eloquent sermons. He can not read, but lately opened the Bible upside down at Proverbs, and announced as his text, “Suffer little children." • >•

MR. BLAINE ON SUGAR.

Hli Well-Known Views on Reciprocity Presented in Another Letter. Senator Frye Friday received the follow ing letter from Secretary Blaine: “Dear Mr. Frye—l have your reply U :my letter, and am glad that the essential jpart of it has been given to the press. You ;ask me what assurance I haveas to Spain’t willingness to enter in reciprocal arrange ments of trade with (he United States. Your question surprises me, for you can 'not have forgotten that only six years age jthe Prime Minister of Spain,in his anxiety 'to secure free admission >toour markets Tor the sugar of Cnba and Porto Rico, agreed to a very extensive treaty of rocity with Mr. John W. Foster, then our minister at Madrid. A year before—in 1833—a very admirable treaty of reciprocity was negotiated by General Grant and iMr. William H. Trescot, as United States commissioners, with the republic of Mexico—a treaty well considered in all its parts and all its details -whose results Would, I believe, have proved highly advantageous to both countries. In view of the pending discussion it is a somewhat singular circumstance that both these treaties of reciprocity failed to secure the approval of Congress, and failed for the express reason that both provided for the free admission of sugar. Congress would not then allow a single pound of sugar to come in free of duty under any circumstances whatever. And now the proposition is to open our ports free to everybody’s sugar, and to do it with such rapidity tnat we are not to have a. moment’s time to see if we cannot make a bettor trade—a trade by which we may pay for at least a part of the sugar in the pro*, ducts of American farms and shops. “Our change of opinion has certainly been remarkable in so brief a period - . In-, deed, the only danger of Our not securing advantageous treaties of reciprocity now is the possible belief on the part of those countries that we are so anxious for free sugar that, by patient waiting, they can secure all they desire without money and without price. Fearing that result, I sought an interview with the eight Republican members of the committee on ways and means more than five months ago—to be exact, on the 10th day of last February. I endeavored to convince them that it would be expedient andwisetoleaveto the President, as the treaty-making power, an opportunity to see what advantageous arrangements of reciprooal trade could be effected. I was unable to persuade the committee to take my view. I mention this circumstance now because it has been, charged in many quarters that the suggestion for reciprocity came too late. In fact, my effort was made before tbe tariff bill 1 was reported to the House or even framed in committee. “It is, I think, a very grave mistake to oppose this reciprocal proposition touching sugar from the fear that it may conflict, in some way, with the policy of protection. The danger is, I think, wholly in the opposite direction. Let us see what is proposed. Our government has heretofore collected a heavy duty from sugar, amounting one year, in the aggregate, to $58,000,000, and averaging fifty millions per annum for a considerable period. We wish now to cheapen sugar by removing the duty. The value of the sugar we annually consume is enormous. Shall we pay for it all in cash, or shall we seek a reciprocal arrangement by which a large part of it may be paid for iu pork, and beef, and flour: in lumber,and salt, and iron; in shoes, and calico, and furniture, and a thousand other things? In short, shall we pay for it all in cash, or try friendly barter in part? I think the latter mode the highest form of protection, and the best way to promote trade. “I address this note to you, as I did my first, because you have taken an active and most intelligent interest in the increase of our trade with South America. When shall we enlarge our commercial intercourse with that great continent if we do not now make a beginning? If we now give away the duty on sugar, as we have already given away the duties on coffee, and hides, and rubber, and get nothing in exchange which shall be profitable to the farm or factory in the United States, what shall be our justification for the policy? You have recently received congratula tions, in which I cordially join, on carry* ing the shipping bill through the Senate. Do you not think that a line of ships generously aided by the government will have a better prospect for profit and for permanence if we can give to them outward cargoes from tbe United States, and not confine them to inward cargoes from Latin America? lam sincerely yours,

Postmaster General Wanamnker has had several conferences of late with President Harrison, at which the Louisiana Lottery has been the subject of conversation, and it is said that it has been about decided by the administration that something must be done to put an effectual stop to tbe operation of that corporation. The President and Postmaster General concede that the present statutes designed to reach the lottery schemes are totally inadequate, and it is largely due to the influence of the administration that tbe Senate Committee has started in to prepare a bill making the mail for lotteries of every kind unavailable. This would have the result of retlieving the Postmaster General of the necessity of exercising his discretion. It is also probable that the provisions of the law applicable to individuals conducting lotteries will be extended to their agents, and to all agencies acting for them, and by this plan the letter will be excluded from the right to receive registered letters mnd money order letters the same as their principals. The bill will be reported at once.

The two census supervisors for Colorado have so far completed their work as to be able to announce that the population of the State will be very close to 400,000. The three largest cities In the State, ontside of Denver, are as follows: Pneblo, 27,455; Leadville, 18,865; Colorado Springs, 11,200. Democrats at Kansu (Sty passed resolutions in opposition to the Federal election MIL ■ ■-

JAMES G. BLAINE."

THE BEHRING SEA QUESTION.

Th* Frnldrat Transmits to Congress jthe Correspondence on tbe Matter, The correspondence - between the gomriPcent of the United States and that of Great Britain in regard to the Behring Sea difficulty, laid before Congress yesterday by the President, includes thirty separate papers, beginning with a tetter from Mr. Edwards, first Secretary of Legation and Charge d’Affairs after Minister West’s recall, dated August 24,1889, and closing with one from Secretary Blaine to Sir Julian Paunoefoto, the British Minister, dated July 11. The first letter, dated August 24, 1889, is from Mr. Edwards to Mr. Blaine, and evidently asks for information in regard to the rumored seizure of tho English fishing vessels by American revenue cruisers outside the three-mile limit. Mr. Blaine’s reply was noncommittal, and stated that the same rumors had reached the American State Department* September 12 a further request for information was made. Mr. Blaine, September 14, replied that be had supposed Her Majesty’s government was satisfied of the President’s earnest desire to come to a friendly agreement, and that official instructions to Sir, Julian Paunceforte, the new British Minister, to proceed immediately after his arrival in October to a full discussion of the ques tion, removed all necessity for preliminary correspondence touching its merits. Referring to Mr. Edwards’s question, he says: “A categorical response would have been and still is impracticable—unjust to this government and misleading to the government of Her Majesty. It was therefore the judgment of the President that the whole subject could be more wisely remanded to the formal discussion sq near at hand, which Her Majesty’s government had proposed, and to which the government of the United States had cordially assented. It is proper, however, to add that any instructions sent to Behring Sea at the time of your original request on tbe 24th of August would have failed to reach these waters before the departure of the vessels Of the United States.” Not until the advent of Sir Julian Pauncefote did the correspondence develop concrete qualities, Messrs. Edwards and Blaine having merely parried the question. In his first letter to Sir Julian, January 22, of this year, Mr. Blaine goes over the whole question and says it is the opiaion of the President that the vessela arrested were engaged in a pursuit that was in itself contra bonos mores. Mr. Blaine maintained that Russia had always asserted its claim over Behring Sea, and that it had been internationally recognized; when the United States purs chased Alaska it continued to maintain the claim. He thought England would insist on this policy if an attempt were made to Interfere with her Ceylon pearl fisheries, which extend more than twenty miles beyond the shoreline. February 22d the British minister contended that the catching of seals by British vessels was not contra bonos mores, and that the seizure of British vessels was unjustifiableSeals did hot become property until they were caught, and until American fishermen caught ’em they weren’t entitled to 'em. i Tho British Minister notified Mr. Blaine,) May 23, of a formal protest against the! course of the United States in seizing the British sealers. Three days later Mr. Blaine protested against the encourage mentby the British Government of seal piracy. He asked that sealing by English vessels be prohibited until a settlement could be determined. Under date of June 14, Sir Julian made another protest against tbe seize policy, or any interference with the English sealers. A question of facts takes up a cocsiderable part of the corres*. pondence, beingas to John Quincy Adams’s Interpretation of Federal rigbts in the sea, and whether he conceded Russia’s excln* sive right. The last letter was written by Mr. Blaine from Bor Harbor, last Sunday, and urges any Mieement or understanding with Mr. Phelps can not be recurred to now,- as it was not brought up before or after the change of administrations.

CONVERTED INDIANA

Th* Biptlim of Geronlmo’s Wife and Child—A Dying Squaw, Geronimo's squaw and papoose were baptised at St. Thomas Church, Mount Vernon, Ala., recently. He brought them himself to the priest for that purpose, accompanied by one of the Indians who speaks very good English, to express his wishes. The squaw was instructed by Rev. H. O’Grady, pastor, for the Holy Sacrament of Baptism, through the interpreter, and was received ISIoTEe Caffionc CfiurchTand is Maria; the child’s name is Frances, Prins cess of the Apaches. They were dressed becomingly for the occasion. Geronimo watched intently every movement of the priest, and seemed to fully appreciate every word that was uttered, kneeling during the ceremony. Later in the evening the priest administered the last sacrament to a dying squaw that he discovered by accident during his visit to the campSeeing her on her bed of suffering, wasted and dying of consumption, be spoke to her and showed her the crucifix. The language she could not understand, but when she saw the crucifix .she smiled and reached for it. By this he knew she was a Catholic. He then drove back and returned prepared to annoint her. She seemed,rejoiced in her dying moments and grasped the crucifix with firm bold and muttered a prayer in her own lauguage, and the crucifix was with difficulty taken from her. The other Indians knelt around the dying woma*» with respect and devotion and the sacra* meat was administered beneath the sheltered oaks of old Mount Vernon. Bhe died that night. There will not be as many candidates be fore the Republican State convention aa usual. Those so far announced are: O. Z. Hubbell, Elkhart, Secretary of State; Cpl. I. N. Walker, Indianapolis, and William Hazen, Wabash, Auditor of State; If. 8. Byram, Indianapolis, and James R. Henry, Gosport, Treasurer of Stato;M. W. Fields, Princeton; J. W. Lovett, Anderson, and Jacob D. Early. Terre Haute, Attorney General; James H. Henry. Marti ns nUe, and J. W. Barnes, Kokomo, Superintendent ot Public Instruction; William T. Noble, Richmond, Clerk es the Supreme Court, ' J -SJ'dqsnw *

WAR.

San Sal vador aad Guatemala hare com* to hostilities. Report* up to the 22d were meager, but indicated success for the arms of San Salvador. Private telegrams from Saa Salvador say that the Sen Salvadorians captured the Guatemalan artillery in the battle which took place on Thursday. The new confidential agent of the proviso ional government of San Salvador Sen or Geronimo Pou, arrived a* the City of Mexico on the night of the 20th from San Salvador, and for his cons, try Senor Pen claims the first victory. “Before I left San Salvador,” said Senor Pou, “war was threatened with Gnate. mala, and that it baa come as soon as it has should not be a surprise to one who understands the political situation of tbe two Republics. San Salvador has stood upon the defensive. Guatemala has chosen to interfere in our domestic politics by try* ing to put into power a President not of our own free choice. We sent forces to the frontier to repel any attempted invasion of San Salvador, and it appears by my telegrams that they were needed there. On the sth inst. we had 9,000 well equipped men along the Rio Paz, but I believe thero are now fully 16,000 along the frontier. I understand that the Guatemalan forces number 20,000.” Senor Pou has telegrams from General Ezeta which in substance are as follows: “The Guatemala forces, under command of General Villavicencio, invaded Salva-i dor territory near Elcora to-day, and were repulsed by us! “The enemy, 9,000 strong, yesterday invaded San Salvador. Our forces bravelyj repulsed them, causing their complete! rout. Many pieces of artillery, target quantities of ammunition and hundreds otf stacks of arms were captured by us. X have given orders to advance into GuataV mala.” . Senor Pqu says that General Villavi-' cencio was born in San Salvador, but hlsf services have been purchased by Guate-j mala for $20,000. Tbe Salvadoran army is. armed with Remington rifle*., machine; guns and mountain batteries, and ts gen*< erally well equipped with plenty of money*; The San Salvador forces are inferior in’ number to those of Guatemala, but Senor - Pon says that he has received advices that disaffection has occurred in the army ofi Guatemala, and two battalions have re*! fused to proceed to the frontier, which hej thinks will have the effect of equalizing! matters. General Ezeta is commanding: the movement of tbe Salvadorans. j

FIREMAN MURDERS HIS ENGINEER.

The truth of the alleged assault by an alleged unknown man on the fireman and engineer on an engine near Van Wert, 0., last week, is learned through the confession of the fireman. A dispatch of the 22d says: Fireman Roadhouse to-night con* fessed murdering Engineer Vandervander. He said that Vandervander had been quarreling with him all along the trip, and among things accused him of reporting him for drunkenness. When the train neared Van Wert the engineer rushed at Roadhouse with a curse, saying that he would fix him. With that he dealt him a blow on the face, knocking him down and cutting his head. When Roadhouse recovered he picked tip the hammer and rained several blows on his head, knocking him insensible. Roadhouse controlled the engine so that he could have checked ft at the railroad crossing had any train been in the way. Just before running to the switch engine, Roadhouse said Vandevauder raised up and he dealt him another blow, which killed him. Roadhouse was placed in jail. It is feared he will bei l ynched, threats being made to that effect very freely to-night. An explosion of a can of powder in the: grocery of Horn & Carroll, at Redkey,} Ind., on the 21st, injured the following! seriously: Dan Welt, Matthew Atkinson, J. F. Carroll, Harry Maynard, John Lake,! James Blakely and John TaylorT Carroll} cannot live twenty-four hours. Welt*a ) condition is very serious. The explosion; was caused by Maynard thoughtlessly light'] Inga firecracxer, sparks from which ig-j nited the powder. A telephone messagej was sent to Portland for physicians. Five j responded. They found the store a massj of rains. Welt’s throat was cut from fly-, ing glass. Others were struck with flying missiles of every description. The roof fell in on the unfortunate victims, and then, as if bent on completing the wreck, the building took fire. By the heroic work of the citizens the building was saved and the unfortunate men rescueK~"~^r~—•=== By far the most disastrous freight eollL sion In its history befell the Monon Road, at a point a few miles north of Greeneastla Sunday evening. Fortunately it was un. attended by loss of life, the crews of both trains seeing the danger in time to avert it by jumping. James Dillard injured his, ankle. The two trains came together with tremendous force, both engines were demolished and a dozen or more freight care piled on top each other and then horned.; The cars were loaded with lumber and merchandise of every description, include ing two car loads of coal, which added fnei to the flames and rendered it'the more difficult to extinguish the mischief. .■ r 1 The joint canvass between Governor James P. Eagle and Rev. N. B. Fixer, tha Gubernatorial nominees on the Dsinocratio and Union Labor tickets respectively, In Arkansas, is one of the most unique features of Up present campaign. Two preachers are pitted against each other, Governor Eagle being a Baptist, sad Bar! Mr. Fixer a Method i*i. They are now; holding joint debates in all the important towns of Northwest Arkansas. .As a result of the rumors that forests near toe nostoern boundary Of Minnesota are being robbed for timber by toe Cana dians, Secretary Noble has organized aa expedition, clothed with toe iat&erity ot TJ. S. Marshals and empowered to make seizures of timber if necessary, and to ins vestigato the dappedaiiMtA The, sxpedU tion was decided on by tbs thw aid Interior Departments afW the examination of a report made by a spootal ageatatbo made , ..3/ati of juuit Jo Jaiioo