Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — Page 7

AGGRESSIVENESS

Is the Christian Church’s Great Modem Need. The World Wants No More of Half and Half Christians—Modern Piety is too 'Exclusive—Rev. Dr. CL Talmage’s Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Monona Lake, Wis., Sunday. Text, Esther iv., 14. He said: In the first place, in order to meet the special demand of the age; you need to be an unmistakably aggressive Christian. Of half and half Christians we do not want any more. The Church of Jesus Christ will be better without 10,000 of them. They are the chief obstacle to the Church's advancement. lam speaking of another kind of Christian. All the appliances for your becoming an earnest Christian are at your hand, and there is a straight path for you into fclfe broad daylight of God’s forgiveness. You may have come here today the bondsmen of the world, and yet before you go out of these doors you may become the Princes of the Lord God Almighty. You know what excitement there is in this country when a foreign prince comes to our shores. Whv? Because it is expected that some day he will sit upon a throne. But what is all that honor compared with the honor to which God calls you—to be sons and daughters of the "Lord Almighty; yea, to be Queens and Kings unto God? “They shall reign with him forever and forever.”' But, my friends, you need to be aggressive Christians, and not like those persons who spend their lives in hugging their Christian graces and wondering why they do not make any progress. How much robustness of health would a man have if he hid himself in a dark closet? A great deal of piety of the day is too exclusive, It hides itself. It needs more fresh air, more out-door exercise. There are many Christians who are giving their entire time to self-examination. They are feeling their pulses to see what is the condition of their spiritual health. How long would a man have robust physical health if he kept all the days and weeks and months and years of his life feeling his pulse instead of going out into active, earnest, everv-day work? I was once amid the wonderful, bewitching cactus growths of Noidh Carolina. I never was more bewildered with the beauty of flowers, and yet when I would take up one of the cactuses and pull the leaves apart the beauty was all gone. You eould hardly tell that it ever had been a flower. And there are a great many Christian people in this day just pulling apart their Christian experience to see what there is in them, and there is nothing attractive left This style of self-examination is a damage instead of an advantage to their Christian character. I remember when I was a boy I used to' have a small piece in the garden that I called my own and I planted corn there and every few days I would pull it up to see how fast it was growing, Now, there are a great many Christian people in this day whose selfexamination merely amounts to the pulling up of that which they only yesterday or the day before planted. Oh, my , friends, if you want to have a stalwart Christian character plant it right out of doors in the great field qf Christian usefulness, ■ and though storms may come upon it, and though the hot sun of trial may try to consume it, it will thrive until it becomes a greattree,in which the fowls of heaven may have their habitation. I have no patience with these flower-pot Christians. They keep themselves under shelter and all their Christian experience in a small, exclusive circle, when they of the Lord, so that the whol#atmospliere could be aromatic witk their Christian usefulness. What we want in the Church of God is more brawn of piety.

The century plant is wonderfully suggestive and wonderfully beautiful, but I never look at it without thinking of its parsimony. It lets whole generations go by before it puts forth one blossom; so I have really more heartfelt admiration when I see the dewy tears in the blue eyes of the violets, for they come every spring. My Christian friends, time is going by so rapidly that we can not afford to be idle. A recent statistician says that human life now has an average of only thirty-two years. From these thirty-two years you must substract all the time you take for sleep and the taking of food and recreation; that wiil leave you about sixteen years. From those sixteen years you must subtract all the time you were necessarily engaged in tne earning of a livelihood; that will leave you about eight years. From these eight years you must take all the days and weeks and months—all the length of time that is passed in childhood and sickness, leaving you about one year in which to work for God. Oh, my soul, wake up! How darest thou sleep in harvest time, and with so few hours in which to reap? So that I state it as a simple fact that all the time that the vast majority of you •will have for the exclusive service of God will be less than one year! “But,” says sometnan, “I liberally support the gospel, and the church is open and the gospel is preached; all the spiritual advantages are spread before men, and if they want to be saved,! let them come and be saved; I have discharged all my re-, sponsibilitv.” Ah! is that the Master’s spirit? Is there not an old Book somewhere that commands us to go out into the highways and hedges and compel the people to come in? What would have beeom •

of-you and me if Christ had not come off the hills of heaven, and if He had not come through the door of the Bethlehem caravansary, and if He had not with the crushed hand of the crucifixion knocked at the iron gate of the sepulcher of our spiritual death,crying, “Lazarus, come forth?” Oh, my Christian friends, this no time for inertia, when all the forces, of darkness seem to be in full blast; when steam printing press are publishing infidel tracts; when express railroad trains are carrying passensengers of sin; when fast clippers are laden with opium and rum: when the night air of our cities is polluted with laughter that breaks up from the 10,000 saloons and dissipation and abandoment: when the fires of the second death already are kindled in the cheeks of some who, only a little while ago, were incorrupt. Never since the curse fell upon the earth has there been a time when it was such an uuwise, such a cruel, such an awful thing for the Church -to sleep! aThe great audiences are not gathered in the Christian Churches the great audiences are gathered in temples of sin—tears are unutterable woe- their baptism, the blood of crushed hearts the awful wine of

their sacrament, blasphemies their litany, and the groans of the lost world the organ dirge of their worship, again, if you want to be qualified to meet the duties which this age demands of you, you must on one hand avoid reckless iconoelasm. and on the other hand not stick too much to things because they are old. The air is full of new plans, new projects, new theories of government, new theolgies; and lam amazed, to see how many Christians want only novelty in order to reccommend a thing to their confidence: and so they vacillate and swing to and fro and they are useless, and they are unhappy. New plans —secular, ethical, philosophically, religious, cisatlantic, transatlantic. Ah, my brother, do mot adopt a thing merely because it is new. Try it by the realities of a Judgment Day. But, on the other hand, do not adhere to any thing merely because it Is old. There is not a single enterprise of the church or the world but has sometimes been scoffed at. There was a time when men derived even Bible Societies: and when a few young men met near a hay-stack in Massachusetts and organized the first missionary society ever organized in this country, there went laughter and ridicule all around the Christian Church. They said the undertaking was preposterous. And so also the word of Jesus Christ was assailed. People cried out, “Who ever heard of such theories of ethics and government? Who ever noticed such a style of preaching as Jesus has? Ezekiel had talked of mysterious wings and wheels. Here came a man from Capernaum and Gennesaret, and he drew his illustrations from the lakes, from the sand, from the ravine, from the lilies, from the cornstalks. How the Pharisees scoffed! How Herod derided! How Caiaphas hissed! And this Jesus they plucked by the beard, and they spat in. His face, and they called Him “this fellow!”All the great enterprises in and out of the church have at times been scoffed at, and thei’e have been a great multitude who have thought that the chariot of God’s truth would fall to pieces if it once got out of the old rut.

And so there are those who have no patience with any \hing like improvement in church architecture, or with anything like good, hearty, earnest church and they deride any form of religious discussion which goes~dowTr vvalkiug - among-every-day men rather than that which makes an excursion on rhetorical stilts, Oh, that the Church of God would wake up to an adaptability o£- work! We must admit the simple fact that the churches of Jesus Christ in this day do not reach the great masses. There are 50,000 people in Edinburgh who never hear the Gospel. There are 1,000,000 people in London who never hear the Gospel. There are at least 300,000 souls in the city of Brooklyn who come not under the immediate ministrations of Christ’s truth. And the Church of God in this day, instead of being a place full of living epistles, read and known of all men, is more like a “dead-letter” postoffice. “But,” say the people, “the world is going to be converted: you must be patient: the kingdoms of the world are to become the kingdoms of Christ.” Never, unless the Church of Jesus Christ puts on more speed and energy. Instead of the church converting the world, the world is converting the church. Here is a great fortress. How shall it be taken? An army comes and sits around about it, cuts off the supplies, and says: “Now we will just wait until from exhaustion and starvation they will have to give up.” Weeks and months and perhaps a year pass along and finally the fortress surrenders through that starvation and exhaustion. But, my friends, the fortresses of sin are never to be taken in that way. If they are taken for God it will be by storm: you will have to bring up the great siege guns of, the Gospel to the very wall and wheel the flying artillery into line, and when the armed infantry of heaven shall confront the battlements you have to give the quick command. “Forward! Charge!’ f Ah, my friends, there is work for you to do in order to this grand accomplishment! Here is a pulpit, and a clergyman preaches in it. Your pulpitis the bank. Your pulpit is the store. Your pulpit is the editorial chair. Your pulpit isfthe anvil. Your pulpit is the home scaffolding Your pulpit is the mechanic’s shop, I may stand in this place, and, through cowardice, or through Seif-

seeking, may keep back the word I' ought to utter; while you, with! sleeve rolled up and brow besweated with toil, may utter the word that will jar the foundation of heaven with the-- sboutnf a great victory. Oh, that to-day this whole audience might feel that the Lord Almighty is putting upon them the hands of ordination. Every one, go forth and preach this Gospel. You have as much right to preach as I have, or as any man has. Only find out the pulpit where God will have you preach, and there preach;I again remark that in order to be qualified to meet your duty in this particular age you want unbounded faith in the triumph of the truth and the overthrow of wickedness. How "dare the Christain Church ever get' discouraged? Have we not the Lord Almighty on our side? How long did it take God to slay the hosts of Sennacherib or burn Sodom or shake down Jericho? How long will it take God, when Be once arises in His strength, to overthrow all the forces of iniquity? Between this time and that there may be long seasons of darkness—the chariot wheels of God’s gospel may seem to drag heavily, but here is the promiseand yonder is the throne; and when Omniscience has lost its eyesight, and Omnipotence falls back impotent, and Jehovah is driven from His throne, then the Church of Jesus,Christ can afford to be despondent, but never until then. Despots may plan and armies may march, and the congresses of the nations may seem to think that they are adjusting all the affairs of the world, but the mighty men of the earth are only the dust of the chariot wheels of God s providence.

I think that before the sun of this century shall set the last tyranny may fall, and with a splendor of demonstration that shall be the astonishment of the universe. God will set forth the brightness and pomp and glory and perpetuity of his eternal government. Out of the starry flags and the emblazoned insignia Of this world, God will make a path for His own triumph, and, returning from universal conquest, He will sit down, the grandest, highest throne of earth His foot-stool.

I preach this sermon because I want to encourage all Christian workers in every possible department, Hosts of the living God, march on! march on! His Spirit will bless you. His shield will defend you. His sword will strike for you. March on! march on! The last despotism will fall, and paganism will burn its idols, and Mohammedanism will give up its false prophet, and the great walls of superstition will come down in thunder and wreck at the long, loud blast of the Gosoel trumpet. March on! march on! The besiegement will soon be ended! Only a few more steps on the long way; only a few more sturdy blows; only a fdw more battle-cries; then God will put the laurel upon vour brow, and from the living fountains of heaven will bathe off the sweat and the heat and the dust of the conflict. March on! march on! For you the time of work will soon be passed, and amid the outflashings of the judgment throne, and the trumpetings of resurrection angels, and the upheaving of a world of graves, and the hosanna of the saved and the groaning of the lost, we shall be rewarded for our faithfulness or punished for our stupidity. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting, and let the whole world be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen.

MIXED LOT.

A new government tax of one mark on all cats kept as house pets has been imposed at Dresden, Germany. Thousands of the animals have been destroyed,by owners desirous of avoiding the “cat tax.” The fungus which is used by Chancellor Snow of the Kansas University, for exterminating chinch bugs is being utilized by Professor Forbes of the University of Illinois for killing cabbage worms. When the projectors of the improvements at the Sault Ste. Marie have all their machinery in place they expect to obtain 230,000 norso power from the waters of Lake Superior, all of which is now running to waste.

Mrs. Logan has left the general’s library just as it was when he last occupied it, untouched, except by the dust-brush, and unchanged. His arm-chair still retains its customary position, and hardly a paper has been moved from his desk. Good feeding and good care of an animal or a tree is the best safeguard against inseels. I t helps both greatly to do their own fighting. It is the the ill-fed calf that has the hardest time with lice. The time of giving water should be carefully studied. At rest the horse should receive water at least three times a day; when at work more frequently. The rule here should be to in small quantities and often. There is a popular fallacy that if a horse is warm he should not be allow ed to drink, many claiming that the first swallow of water founders the animal or produces colic. This is erroneous. No matter how warm a horse may be it is always entirely safe to allow; him six to ten swallow:of water. If this is given cn goiuc into the stable he should be given at once a pound or two of haj r and al lowed to rest about an hour before feeding. If water be now offered him it will in many cases be refused, or at least he will drink but sparingly. The danger, then, is not in the first swallow of water, but is due to the excessive quantity that the animal will take when warm if not re strained.

THE INTERNAL REVENGE.

Facts About the Extent of Thai Branch of Government. Classification ol Tradesman Haw tbs Business of Tobacco ManuTfcotaring and Distilling Is Divided. •a A Washington special to the Indianapolis News on the 20th says: There areß9,127 people who have to interview the Internal revenue collector before they can do business. In other words, these parties are engaged In those lines of trade which the law has covered with a special tax. These tradesmen come under the following heads: Rectifiers 14, retail liquor dealers 0,914, wholesale liquor dealers 64, manufacturer of stills 1, manufacturerers of cigars *3OB, dealers in leaf tobacoo 63, dealers In leal tobacco not exceeding 29,000 pounds, 44; dealers in manufactured tobacco 20,925, manufacturers of tobacco 18, peddlers ol tobacco 24, brewers 59, retail dealers In malt liquors 264, wholesale dealers in malt liquors 134, manufacturers of oleomargerIne 1, retail dealers In oleomargerine 40, wholesale dealers In oleomargerine 4. There are bntseveh~Statea, It mtght bs said In passing, that have a larger number of liquor sellers than Indiana. As may be imagined this army of special taxpayers contribute a handsome fortune each year to the cash-box of the treasury The amount paid by each particular branch can be seen from the following:

Rectifiers, 81,375; retail liquor dealers, 1152,413.99; wholesale liquor dealers, 86,005.35; manufacturers of stiffs, 828.34; manufacturers of cigars, 83,150.50; dealers in leaf tobacco, 8510.42; dealers In leaf tobacco not exceeding 25.0C0 pounds, 8149.43; dealers in manufactured tobacco, 842,782.40; manufacturers of tobacco, 894.50; peddlers of tobacco, 8167.40; brewers, 84,379.17; retail dealers In malt liquors, 86,451.80; wholesale dealers In malt liquors, $4,470.93; retail dealers In oleomargarine, 81,316; wholesale dealers in oleomargarine, $1,920. The total amount paid by citizens of Indiana as special taxes Is 1224,148.21. Indiana is not very heavily engaged in the manufacture of tobacco, the total output last year being but 34,163 pounds. Of this there were 468 poands of plug and twist, 1,152 pounds of fine-cut chewing tobacco, 5,2T2 pounds of smoking totacco, and 27,371 pounds of snuff. A better showing is made in the production of liquors. There are fourteen grain and forty-six fruit distilleries in the State, The first named establishments used the following quantities of grain In the production of distilled spirits: Malt, 139,536 fcushelf; rye, 94,399 bushels; corn, 1,179,537 bushels; oats, 16,673 bushels; mill feed, 13,530 bushels and other material 98 bushels, making in all 1,433,873 bushels. From this grain there was produced 5,380,933 taxable gallons of spirituous liquors of the following kinds: Bourbon whisky, 224,440 gallons; rye whisky, 241,107 gallons; alcohol, 1,731,186 gallons; gin, 15,950 gallons; high wines, 199,254 gallons; pure neutral or cologne spirits, 62,318 gallons; miscellaneous, 4,444,607 gallons. The liquor termed miscellaneous was spirits ind whisky. The fruit distilleries did not produce so much, the entire quantity having been >4,561 gallons, of which 53.984 were apple brandy, 394 peach brandy and 183 grape brandy.

The production of spirituous liquors has greatly fallen off in thelast ten years. Indeed, last year the quantity made was Several million gallons less than was manufactured in 1881, the year of the largest production within the past decade. Rut as whisky has declined beer has ;ome up in the market. Indiana, like all the States, shows a wonderful increase in the production of fermented liquors In the last tea years, and H proves that in the States, as well as in the country, beer has become the popular drink. In 1880 the brewers of Indiana produced 260,912 barrels of fermented liquors. Now more than double this quantity is made. Altogether beer bids fair to supersede whisky as the national beverage. ' ™

QUIETLY LYNCHED.

Sheriff Johnson, of Spencer, Ind„ was called early Sunday morning by some unknown persons outside the jail.and throwing up the window he asked what was wanted. Two men stood below, with a third between them, and one of the formor replied that they had a prisoner whom they wished to place in jail. Descending in his night-shirt, the Sheriff opened the door,and immediately forty or fifty men rushed upon him, threw a blanket over his head, and In a moment had him securely bound and gagged. They then demanded and secured the keys to the various cells and began a search, evidently looking for Frank Dice, who had been in jail for several days awaiting trial on a charge of murdering a man named Chaney. Not a word was said by any of the men till Dice's cell was reached. The prisoner had been aroused by the heavy tread of the mob and was crouching in one corner of the cell. As the door swung open he at tcrod a low groan, as if conscious of what was coming, and a moment later he wa s brought out Into the corridor In front of his cell.

Dice was then told that his hoor had come and was asked if he had anything to say. While still trying to talk a member of the mob threw a small cord around his neck and he was drawn np to one ol the cross-beams in front of his cell. Tbs mob tarried a few moments till satisfied that life was extinct, and then qnletly left the jail and passed out of town.

Dempster Beatty, of St. Joseph county, thirty-four years ago employed Senatoi Peffer, of Kansas, to cut cordwood, and when Peffer left Indiana for the West hi owed Beaty *56, for which be gave hit note. The collection of the note was outlawed years ago, but recently Beatty wrote to Peffer concerning it, and received assurances that the indebtedness would bs liquidated in the fullness of time,

MURDERED AND BURNED.

Frightful Crime to Hide a Crime Near Flora, Illinois. Four Grown People and a Child Brained and Burned. A dispatch of the 21st says: The entire James family, consisting of four grown persons and an infant, were burned within two miles of Flora, 111., Sunday night The house was an ordinary log structureThe family consisted of Henry James, aged forty-five years; his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth James, aged forty-three; one son, Dean James, aged eighteen, and a marrlsd daughter, Minnie Chaney, aged twentyfour, and her six-months old babe. The discovery of the tragedy was made on the 20th by some one who happened to be passing the place. In the north bed-room of the shed were discovered the charred remains of the babe, with its little head burned almost entirely off and only the crumbling white bones to tell where the little arms and feet.had been attached to the body. With one stride to the left the cooking body of the infant’s mother came into gharraH hodiftg, annnnsari to be those Ol the father and mother, appeared. There were positively no features left of these for Identification, only the ghastly outlines of two forms left by the incinerated bones. By one wa9 fbund a ring of keys with a tab marked “Mrs. James.” Near the rear an empty revolver and three pieces [of silver money. Near the middle of the reception-room-wero the unrecognizable remains of another body, supposed to be that of the son. The authorities were notified, and the coroner Impaneled a jury. A post-mortem examination revealed the fact that the young mother had been that and the babe’s skull crushed in. The author of and the motive for the erhne are unknown. The marriage of the daughter some two years ago caused trouble In the family which seems to have Increased and spread. Mr: and Mrs. James finally slept apart. Two or three months ago the laughter left her husband and returned to her parents. The father and son often quarreled, and the elder James made frequent threats to kill himself, and sometimes the son also, and rumor has it that the entire family were at times included In the threat. [The neighbors considered him as laboring under an aberration of the mind for the last two or three years.

QUAY WILL QUIT.

At Least Mr. Clarkson Says the Chairman Will Retire. Hon. John S. Clarkson has been shown the dispatch purporting to quote Senator Quay’s words, stating that he had decided to resign the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee immediately ifter the election. Mr. Clarkson said: “I im able to state that this is true. Immediately after the election Senator Quay informed hjs colleagues of the executive iommittee that he desired to resign as shairman; that he did not desire to do the detail work and have the detail correspondence of a political committee, and itill more that he felt that a United States Senator ought not to be the chairman of a national committee, or any political com mlttee. His colleagnes on the committee resisted this and persuaded him not to reilgn. He renewed the wish three or fonr months afterward, and about the time of (he Inauguration insisted upon it with a treat deal off determination. The judgment of the committee was opposed to it. and the members were unanimous in the Jeslre that the organisation which had tone through a great struggle, and which had uerformed a great work maintaining absolutely harmonious relations, and the members becoming endeared to each other thereby, should remain unbroken until replaced by the new national committee treated by the next national convention of the party.

MONUMENT TO STONEWALL JACKSON.

A magnificent bronze statue of Stonewall Jackson was unveiled at Lexington, Va., on the 21st. There were Immense throngs of people present, and many prominent participants in the Rebellion occupied places of honor. The parade was very imposing. The speech was made by Oen. Jubal Early. The statue is if bronze, nine feet in hight, and reprelents General Jackson in full uniform, his toat buttoned tightly around him, and bis Sword unstrung. His cavalry boots reach above the knees, the body rests on the loft leg, the right being slightly bended, with the foot forward. The body is erect, aith the head uncovered, the eyes as if looking in the distance. The left hand is gloved and resting on the sword, which is planted firmly on the base. The right hand is bare and grasps a field-glass. The face is takea from the dead mask and is an excellent likeness, while the clothes were molded from the garments and equipments of the deceased General. The hilt of the sword shows in large letters U U- 8.” This has created considerable comment. The pedestal is of Virginia granite,plainly dressed but beautiful in design. The statue faces the South; on the front is the Inscription, “Jackson, 1824-1863.” On the rear of the pedestal, the simple word “Stonewall.” Edward Valentine, of Richmond, Va., Is the sculptor. Beneath the plinth is the crypt in which repose there* mains of Gen. Jackson, his baby daughter and Julia Jackson Chilstian. The remains of Gen. Jackson were removed at 5 o’clock on the morning of June 25 from the grave .n the city cemetery,where it was interred at the time of his death, and placed lu tLe vault, the latter then being sealed up permanently.

Two hundred Portuguese cork-workers, thrown out of work through the opera>ion of the American tariff law. visited .he cork factories and engaged in a riotous demonstration, demanding work. They were dispersed by the police.

RAILROAD WRECKS.

V f AiUV'l&U* -A_. A Disaster in France by Which - Fifty Lives Were Lost And More Than a Hundred Injured—Three Killed Near Cincinnati on the C. 11. « D. A Paris cable of the 26th says: A terri-’ ble railway accident occurred to-day near the village of Saint Mande, in the department of the-Seine. Two excursion trains collided, owing to soroo error on the part of the driver of one of the trains. Both were loaded with people out for a holiday. The collision was followed by a scene of frightful confusion. Three carriages were utterly demolished, and many persons were crushed and injured in the ruins. The second train crashed into the preceding train before the latter had left the St. Mande station. The guards’ van and the three rear carriages of the fast train were wreck and caught lire. The injured occupants were shrieking in despair, and the other passengers hurriedly-left the train and assisted in extricating the victims. Soldiers also aided the fire brigade ln qucncliing tbe fire aniirescuiDg thepassengers. The rescue of the injured was carried on by torch light. Later reports make fifty persons killed instead of simply injured. A dispatch from St. Mande, dated 1 o’clock this morning says that sixty persons were injured and fifteen dead bodies have been thus far recovered, including those of twochlldren that were mangled beyond recognition. Mostofthe dead victims are legless, their limbs having been crushed off through the jamming together of the seats. Fully twenty thousand onlookers are at the scene. Many relatives of the victims are assembled at the railway station and heart rending scenes are witnessed as the victims are extricated from the wreck. The driver and fireman of the second train were burned alive. It is reported that the station master has gone mad and decamped. • _ v ' A late dispatch says that the search iu wrec and that thirty bodies have been recovered. Later—lt is now known that forty-nine have been killed and one hundred injured.

ox thk c. n. * ». A frightful wreck occured on night of the 35th at Middletown, Ohio on the C. H. &D. An excursion train returning to Cincinnati stopped at Middletown to make repairs. A freight train following crashed into the rear coaches, killing three persons outright and injuring forty others, several of whom will die. The scene following the accident was as follows: The excursion train was pulling out on to the main track, and all but the two hind coaches had left the siding when the mogul engine, with the heavy train behind it, went plowing through. The two rear cars and their human freight wer* hurled into the ditch, and the next coach was struck fairly in the end, and the locomotive, pushing under, elevated it to an angle of forty-five degrees. There it stood, filled with shrieking people. This car caught fire, but engineer Sehwind and his fireman were able to extinguish the blaze by use of hose from the locomotive. Two cars lay crushed in the diteh with a mass of maimed and mangled people moaning in agony, pleading for help. The rescurers set at work at c nee to extricate them. Legs, arms, and heads conld be seen through broken Windows, or pinned under the wreck. Moans of the helples s sufferers and the moans of the dying, mingled with the frantic cries of mothers, seeking husbands and children. Many had been cut by glass and timbers in the rush to escape and bloody faces and hands bore testimony to the great number who were injured.

EVANSVILLE SHOCKED.

An Earthquake Gives the Pocket a Shaking Up. People Rash Panic Stricken from tbe Chnrchee, Fearful that the Laet Day Had Come. A dispatch from Evansville on the 30th says. The most distinot shock of earthquake aver felt here occured at 8:28 this evening. It was preceded by a rumbliug noise resembling distant thunder. A moment later violent quaking occurred, lasting several seconds. The motion was lateral, apparently from north to south. Windows rattled and buildings swayed perceptibly. The populace fled in affright into the streets. Every upon store in the business center and private residences were emptied of their occupants. Congregations at ail the churches rushed pell mell into the streets without waiting for the benediction. Serious panics occured at several churches. At the First Baptist a number of children fell down the steps and were hurt: none, however, dangerously. No fatalitit • have yet been reported. It was at first supposed that the powder magazines, four miles from the c tv. had exploded, but telephone inquiry from the vicinity proved this groundlesr Theshock then* was as forcible as in the city. It was undoubtedly an earthquake and the worst one ever experienced in this vicinity. The motion was from southwest to northeast, and lasted nearly five seconds. It was a succession of shocks so close together a 9 tomake it resemble a collapse of heavy buildings. Reports are coming inconstantly to the newspaper offices of prevalent fear throughout the city, and it I, safe to say there will not be much slueping done to-night. The quake was also fell at Mt. Vernon and Henderson. Reports received from surrounding town? show that the earthquake was local. I* was felt at Dekoven and Henderson, Ky.. and at various places eighty miles up the Ohio river. Mormon missionaries in southernCallfornla have made several notable converslo ns to polygamy.