Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1896 — Page 3

TALMA GETS SERMON.

HE PREACHES ON THE RETURN 1 OF THE PRODIGAL. ! V ■ ■' ;■ ’ r > ■ H - New Lights on a Familiar Story—The Richest King Evar Flashed on the Vision Is That Which Our Father Ruts on a Forgiven Soul. ' -L: A Ring on His Hand. ' In his sermon Sunday Rev. Dr. Tainuige for his subject. the return _ the prodigal son. The.text chosen wits •Luke xv.. 22, “Put a ring on his baud.” I will not rehearse the familiar-story of the fast young*man of the parable. You know what a splendid home he loft. You know what a hard time he had. And you remember how after that season of vagabondage and prodigality he resolved to go and weep out hjs sorrows on the bosom of parental forgiveness. Well, there is great excitement one day iu front of the door of the a o!d farmhouse. The servants come rushing up apd say: “What’s the mat* ter? What matter?” But before they quite arrive the old man cries out: “Put a ring on hi#- hand.” What a seeming absurdity! Wliat cpn such „a wretched mendicant as this-fellow that is tramping on toward the house want withja ring? Oh, he is the prodigal soli. No more tending of the swine trough! No more longing for the pods of the carob tree! No more blistered feet! Off with thmrags! On with the tolie! Out with the ring! Even so.does (led receive every one of.us when we come back. There are gold ‘ rings, and pearl rings, and emerald lings, and diamond ring V-but the richest ling that ever flashed oa the vision is that which.pur Father puts.upon a forgiven soul. - •—’ I .know that the impression is abroad • among some people that religion bemeans and belittles a man; that it takes all the sparkle out of his soul; that he has to exchange a roistering- independence for an ecclesiastical straitjaeket. Not so. When a man becomes a Christian, Jie docs not go down; lie starts upward. Religion . IfflltUMfTliiC h y 10.000. \ny, the multiplier is in infinity. If is not a blotting out; it is a polishing, it is an arbofescence, it is an efflorescence, it is n:i irradiation. Wfien a man comes into the kingdom of (Sod. lie is not sent into a menial service, bntjho Lord God Almighty from the palaces of heaven calls upon the messenger angels (hut wait upon the throne to fly and “put a ring on his hand.” In Cln-ist are the largest liberty, and brightest joy, and highest honor, and richest adornment. “Put a ring on his hand.” I A King of Adoption. I remark, iu the first place, that when Christ receives a soul into his love he puts upon him the ring of adoption. While in my church in, Philadelphia there came the representative of the Howard mission of New York. He brought with him eight or ten children of the street that he had picked up, and he was trying to lind for them Christian homes, and as the little ones stood on the pulpit and sang our lieaffs melted within us. At the close of the services a great-hearted wealthy man came up arid said, “I’ll take this little bright-eyed girl, and I’ll adopt her as one of my own children,” And he took her by the hand, lifted her into his carriage and went away. , . The next day, while we were in the church gathering up garments for the poor of New York, this little child came buck with ft bundle under her arm, and she said: “There’s my old dress. Perhaps some of the. poor children Would like tb have It," while she herself was in bright and beautiful array, and those who more immediately examined her -said she -had -a ring on her hand. It was a ring of adoi>tion.

There are a great many persons who pride themselves oirTlieir ancestry, and they glory over the royal blood that pours through their arteries. In their line there was a lord, or a duke, or a prime minister, or a king. But when the Lord, our Father, puts upon us the ring of his adoption we become the children of the Ruler of all nations. “Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called tho sons of God.” It matters not how poor our garmeuts may be- in this world, or how scant our bread, or how mean the hut we live in, if we have that ring of Christ’s adoption upon our hand, we are assured of eternal defenses. Adopted! Why. then, we are brothers ami sisters to all the good of earth and heaven! We have the family name, the family dress, the family keys, the family wardrobe. The Father looks after us, robes us, defends us, blesses us. We have royal blood in our veins, aud there are crowns in our line. If we are his children, then princes and princesses. It is only u question of time whetywe get our coronet. Adopted! Then we have the family secrets. “The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him.” Adopted! Then we have the family inheritance, and iu the day when our Father shu!l divide tho riches of heaven we shall take our share Of the mansions and palaces and temples. Henceforth let us boast lid more of an earthly ancestry. The insignia of eternal glory is our coat of arms. This ring of adoption puts upon us all honor and ail privilege. Now we can take the words of Charles Wesley, that priuee of hymnmakers, und sing: “Come, let us join our friends above AY ho have obtained the prize, Apd on the eagle wings of love To joy celestial rise “Let all the saints terrestrial sing With those to glory gone, For all the servants of our King In'hoaveu aud eaith are one,” I have been told that when any of the members of hny of tho great secret societies of this eouutry are in a distant city and are in any kind of trouble and are set % upon by enemies they hnve only to give a certain signal, and the members of that organization will'flock arouud fordcfcnsc. Aud when any man belongs to this great Christian brotherhood, if he gets.in trouble. in trial, in persecution, in temptation,, he lias only to show this ring of Christ’s adoption, nnd all the armed cohorts of heaven will gome to his rescue. A Marriage King. Still further, when Christ takes a - soul Into his love, Tie puts upon it a marriage ‘ring. Now, thnt Is not a whim of mine —llosea 11,49, “1 will betroth thee unto wilt iictrrfftrf hee-nutv me in righteousness, and in-judgment, and in loving kindness, and iu mercies.” At the wedding altar the btidegawom puts a ring upon the hnnd of the Wrido, signifying love and faithfulness. Trouble niny come upon the household, nnd the carpets may go, the pictures may go, the piano may go—everything else diny go. The Inst thing that goes is thnt marriage ring, for f*, is considered sacred. In the burial hour 11 is withdrawn from the hnnd and kept

in t capket, and sometimes the box fa opened on atf-atiuiversqry day, and as you look at that ring you see under its arch a long procession of precious memories. Within thte golden ciroly of that ring there is room for a thousand sweet recollections ,to revolve, and.you think.of the gteat contrast between the hour when, at the close of the “Wedding-Marci),” under tbedashing lights and amid the aroma of orange blossoms, you set that ring on the round finger of the. plump hand, and that hmir when, at the close of the exhaustive watching, when you knew that the soul had fled,* you took from.the hand, which gave hack no resffonsibe clasp, from that emaciated finger, the ring that she had worn-so long qpd'so well. ~ On some aniversary day. you take tip -that ring, and you repolish It until alt the old-luster comes back, and you can see in it the flash of eyes thrt’t long ugo ceased to weep. Oh, it is not an unmeaning thing wiien I tel! you that when Christ receives a soul ..into his keeping, he puts on it a marriage ring! Ho endows you from that moment with all his wealth. You are one —Christ and the soul—one in sympathy, one in affection, oue in hope. There is no power on hell to effect a divorcement after Christ and the soul are united. Other kings have turned out their companions when they got weary of them and sent them adrift.from the palace gate. 1 Ahasuerus banished Vashti, Napoleon forsook Josephine, but Christ is the husband that is ..true forever. Having loved you once? he loves yon to the end. Did they not try to divorce Margaret,.* the Scotch girl, from Jesus? They said: “You must give up your religion.” -She said: “I can’t-give up my religion.” And so they took her down to (he bench of the sea, and they drove in a stake at low water mark, and they fastened her to if, expecting that as the tide came up her faith would fall. The tide began to rise, and came up higher and Lighter, and to the girdle, and to the lip, and in the last moment, just as the wave was washing her soul into glory, she shouted the praises of Jesus, Oh, no, you eanont separate a soul from Christ! It is an everlasting marriage. Buttle and storm und darkness cannot do it. It is tao much exultation for a man, who is but dust and ashes like myself, to cry out this moment,’“l am persuaded that neither height nor depth nor principalities nor powers nor things present, nor things to"come, nor any other creature shall separate me fromthe love of God which is in Christ Jesus, my Loi,d!• ’ Glory be to God thnt when Christ and the soul are married they are bound by a chain,- a golden chain, if I might say sot—a chain with one link, and that one link the golden ring of. God’s everlasting love. A Ivina of Festivity. I go a step further and tell you that when Christ receives a soul into his love_ he puts on him the ring of festivity. You know that it lias been the custom in all ages to bestow rings oh very happy occasions. There is nothing more appropriate for it birthday gift than a ring You delight to bestow such a gift upon your children at such a time. It means joy. hilarity, festivity. Well, When this old man of the (ext wanted to tell how glad lie was that his boy had got back, he expressed it in this way. Actually, before he ordex - ed sandals to be put 'ou his bare feet, before he ordered the fatted calf to be killed to appease the boy’s hunger, he commanded, “Put a ring on his baud.” Oh, it is a merry time when Christ and the soul are united! Joy of forgiveness! What a splendid thing it is to feel that all is right between my God and myself. What a glorious thing it is to have God just take up all the sins of my life nnd put them in one bundle, and then fling them into the depths of the sen, never to rise again, never to be talked of again. Pollution all gone; darknos all iiluniiued; God reconciled; the prodigal home! “Put a ring on his hand!” ’ Every day I find happy Christian pcople. I find some of them with no second coat, some of them in huts-and tenement houses, not one earthly comfort afforded fneup and yet they are as happy as happy can he. They sing “Rock of Ages” as no ' other" people-in the world sing jt. They never wore any jewelry in their life but one gold ring, and that was the ring of God's undying affection. Oh. how happy religion makes us! Did it make- you gloomy and sad? Did you go with your ' head cast down? I do not think you got religion, my brother. That is not the effect Of religion. True religion is a joy. “Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are pence.” Why, religion lightens all our burdens; it smooths all our way; it interprets all our sorrows; it changes the jar of earthly discord for the peal of festal bells. In front of the flaming furnace ol' trial it setathe forge on which scepters are hammered out. Would you not like lliis hour to come ui> from the swine feeding aud try this religion. All the joys of heaven would come out and meet you, nnd God would cr.v fwtw.JJhg,throae^Js*. a ring, on his hand!” Uncertainty for Assurance, You are not happy. I see it. There is no peace, and sometimes yon laugh when you feel a great deal mare like crying. The world is a client. It first wears you down with its follies; then it kicks you out into darkness. It comes back from the massacre of 1,00t>,000 souls to attempt the destruction of your soul to-day. No peace out of God. but here is the fountain that can shake the thirst. Here is the liarbqr where you can drop safe anchorage. Would you not dike, I ask you—not perfunctorily, but ns one brother might talk to another- would yon not like to have a pillow of rest to put your head on? And would you not like, when you retire at night, to feel that nil is well, whether you wake up to-morrow morning at G o’clock or sleep she sleep that knows no waking?’ Would you not like to exchange this awful uncertainty about the future for u glorious assurance of heaven? Accept pf the Lord JestiH-td-day and alt is well. If on you way home some peril should cross the street and dash your life but, it would not hurt you. You would rise, up im mediately. You would stand In (he celestial streets. You would be amid the great throng Unit forever worship and are forever happy. If this night some sudden disease should come upouyou, it would not frighten you. If you knew you were going, you could give a calin farewell to your beautiful homo on earth and know that you are going right into the companionship us those who have already got beyoud the toiling ..and the weeping.— —— Yon feel on Saturday- night different from the way you feel any other night of •theobme home From she bank, or the store, or the office and you say. “Well, now my week's work is done,' and to-morrow is Sunday.” It is a pleasant thought. Therein re refreshments aud reconstruction in the very idea. Oh, how pleasant it will be if, when we get through the day of life, nnd we go and lie down iu our bed of dust, we can realize, “Well,

now the work Is nil done, and to-morrotl is Sunday—an everlasting Sunday.” 1 “Oh, when, thou city of my God, , " Shall I thy courts ascend, Where tqngrgafions ne’er break up And Sabbaths have no end?” There are people in this house to-day who are very near the eternal world.* If you are Christians, I bid you be of goodcheer. Bear with you our congratulations to the bright city. Aged men,. who will soon be gone, take jvitu you ourlpve for our kindred ip the better lain!, and When you see them tell them tliai we are- soon coming. Only a few more sermons to preach aud hear; ‘only a,few more heartaches; oniy a few more toils; only a few 'more-fears-. And then—what an entranceing spectacle will open before ns! “Beautiful heaven, where all is light; Beautiful angels, clothed in white; Beautiful r trains that never tire. Beautiful harps through bli the choir; There shall I join the chorus sweet, Worshiping at the Savior’s feet 1 .” And so I approach you now with a general invitation, not picking out here and there a man, or hero and there a woman, or here and lhere , ’a child, but giving you an unlimited invitation, saying. “Come, for all things are now ready.” We invite you to the warm heart of Christ aud the inclosure of the Christian Church. I know a great many think that the church does not amount to much; that it is obsolete; that it did its work and is gone now, so far as all usefulness is concerned. It is the happiest place I have ever been-in-except my own home. The One Test. I know there are some people who say they are Christians who seem to get along - without-any-belp from others, and who culture solitary piety. They do not want any ordinances. I do not belong to that class. I cannot get along without them. There are so many things in this world that take my attention from God and Christ and heaven that I want all the helps of all the symbols' and of all the Christian associations, and I want around about me a solid phalanx of men who love God and keep-his commandments. Are there any here who would like to enter into that association? Then by a simple, childlike faith, apply for admission into the visible church, and you will he received. No questions asked about your past history or present surroundings. Only one test—do you love Jesus? Baptism does not amount to anything, say a great many people, but the Lord Jesus declared, “He that believetli and is baptized shall be saved,” putting baptism and faith side by side, And au apostle declares, “Repent and be baptized every one of you.” Ldo not stickle for any particular mode of baptism, hurt I put. great emphasis on the fmjprijjht you ought to be baptized, yet no mareeniphasis than the Lord Jesus Christ, the great Head of the church, puts upon it^ Some of you have been thinking on this subject year after year. You have found out that this world is a poor portion. You want to be Christians. You have, come almost into the kingdom of God, but there you stop, forgetful of the fact that to be almost saved is not to be saved at all. Oh, my brother, after having come so near to the door of mercy, if you turn bac-k, you will neFfiL.com e at all. After all you have heard of the goodness of God, if you turn away and die, it will not be because you did not have a good offer. “God’s Rpirit will not always strive With hardened, self-destroying man. Ye who persist his love to grieve May never, hear his voice again.” May God Almighty this hour move upon your soul and bring you back from the husks of the wilderness to the Father's house, and set you at the banquet, and “put a ring on your hand. - ”

Family Pride.

The following story is told of the visit of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, to the West when he was a lad. The royal party of tourists were entertained by Mr. Blank on Ids ranch. He was naturally anxious that they should fully enjoy the sport of t lie neighborhood. A fishing excursion was arranged for one day, and a gruff old fanner promised that his nepheiV would provide bait for “the i:nglisiimcn,” of whose rank he was ignorant. Mr. Blank, it is said, sent for him the previous evening, anil anxiously inquired: “litis your nephew brought the bait?” “No.” “Wo want it by daylight.” “You’ll faev it,” calmly replied the old man. “This is a matter of great importance. Are you sure that we shall have it?” "Didn’t Jabez give you ills word?” “But how do I know he’ll keep it?” said the uneasy host. Eritawgj|ggjßWjlbilftM thC"if«rM4cr,-i sternly. “Because he’s a Pratt. None of the Pratts ever was known to tell a lie, an’ I reckon Jabez isn’t rt-goln’ to break the record,” and he tramped off. “Yoii must-pardon the old man, your Grace,” Mr. Blank said, turning to the Duke of Newcastle, who was standing near by. “He docs not know who you are.” ‘Tnrdon him? I call that very fine! Why ,should not the Pratts be proud of tlieir honest blood, as well as the Pel-hajn-Cliptons?” (ids own family). The daylight brought Jabez and the bait. Iu one of the noble houses of England a delicate glass vase, called “tire Luck of Edcn-liall,” has been preserved will* scrupulous care for centuries in consequence of a legend that when it is broken the family to which it belongs will perish also from among men. If every American family cherished, like the Pratts, a faith In the trufhrnr honesty, or piety of tlieir ancestor with a resolve like Jabez. “never to break the record,” what a- lightening and uplifting of our'social life would follow! Descendants of Dante. A descendant of the famous poc\ Dante, Count Dante Serego-Alighiero, the mayor of Venice, died recently at his villa Gargagnano, near Verona. Hi* family descends from the author of “La ''Dfvl^T , 6nTeVllft''‘birHie oh~ ly. l Tito last male descendant of Dante, Pietro di Dante, died iu the year 1547, His daughter was married to a Count Serego, of Verona, and lie obtained the right to add his family name to thnt of his wlfe v ihe family of Serego-Alig-hleri Is very mi morons and wealthy, and most of its members live iu the prov? luce of Venezia.

BOND CALL IS ISSUED.

% LONG-EXPECTED ACTION TAJCEN BY CARLISLE. tented Bids to Be KeceiFed at His Office Feb. s—lnterest Fixed at 4 percent. — —'New Securities to Bear the Date Ot Feb,' 1, 1895. A montit Is C’100,000,000. Speculation concerning the amount and character of the new' bond issue was set at rest when Secretary Carlisle made public a circular on the subject. The lo;lu. will be a “popular” one, apd the circular gives notice that the Government Will sell $100,000,900 thirty-year 4 per cent “coupon or registered bonds dated Feb. 1, 1895, for which purchasers will be required .to pay in gold coin or gold certificates. This IS the first issue by the presen(.administration of such a large amount of bonds at <’ne time, all the previous issue* having been for 850,000,000 each. Th<} circular also contains an intimation of a possible further issue of bonds should the issue or sale of nil additional or different form of bond for the maintenance of the gold reserve be authorized by the law before Feu. 5. The circular is as follow*: ’’Treasury Department. Office of the, Eeeretary, M ash-ington, *D. C.- —-Noticc-is hereby given that sealed proposals will be rec.rived at (he office of 1 lie Secretary of tho Treasury, at Washington, D. C„ until 12 o’clock in. on Wednesday, the sth day of : fhrhr.uary. lS9i;. lor. the purchase of one hundred .million dollars <SIOO,ODD,OOOI of United Stflles 4 per c-ent conpoiFtir rcg*~ istered bonds in denominations of fifty dollars (SSO) and multiples of that sum as may be desired by bidders. “The right to reject any or All bids is reserved, “ 1 he.bom?* will be dated ou tlie Ist day of February. 1595, and be payable in coin thirty years after that dale",'and will bear internsf at 4 per centum per annum, payable quarterly in win, but all coupons maturing on a idbcforo the Ist day of Feh-

THE HISTORIC GROUND SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE.

—The historic Yorkshire estate, situated on Bull Run, the first battlefield of the Avar, was recently sold at public auction at Fairfax court house, Virginia. Six hundred acres in all. situated on both sides-of Bull Rim, iu lVineo Williinn and Fairfax Counties, were sold. The land lying on the Prince William side brought on an average $0 nn acre, the other about $3. The prices ranged from $3 to $25. The part of the battlefield on the Prince

ruary. 1890, will be detached aud purchasers will be required to pay in United States gold coin or gold certificates for the bonds awarded them, and all interest accrued thereon after tho Ist day of February, 1 SIMS, up to the time of application for delivery;“Payments for the bonds must bo made at the treasury of the United. States at Washington, 1). C., or at the United States sub-treasuries at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis or New Orleans, or they maybe made at San Francisco, with exchange on New York, and all bids must state what denominations of bonds are desired, and whether co.upon or registered, and at what place they wHLbo paid for. “Payments may be made by installments, as follows: Twenty .per cent upon receipt of notice of acceptauce of bids aud 20 per cent at tiie end of each ten days thereafter; but till accepted bidders may pay the whole amount at llie date of tiie first installment ami all those who have paid all installments previously maturing may pay the Whole amount of their bids at any time, not laier tjtiau the maturity of the last installment. “Ti*e bonds will be ready for delivery on or before the 15th day of February, 1890. “Notice is. further hereby given that if the issue nnd sale of nn additional or different form of bond for the maintenance of the gold reserve shall be authorized by law before the sth day of February, 1890, sealed proposals for the purchase of such bonds will also be received at the same time and place, and up to tiie same date, and upon the same terms and conditions herein set forth, and such bids will be considered as well as the bids for the 4 per cent bonds herein mentioned. “J. CARLISLE. “Secretary of the Treasury."

CORTEGE CUT IN TWO.

St. Paul KipreM Train Kuos Down a Funeral Carriasc in Chicago. Without a signal of warning, an express train of the (phicago, Milwaukee ami- St. Paul Road cut through a funeral procession at the’ Paulina street crossing in Chicago. Five persons were buried under the ruins qf a mourning carriage, and two women, were so badly injured-that they may die. The occupants of two other carriages narrowly escaped tiie same fate, the horses being pulled- up witliin _a fijw feet of the outbound train. Part of TKe : Timer ST" "process 1o n “\VSuT on~Tff(i' mourners being unconscious of (he fact that some of their number had been nearly killed. Whether the flagman or the engineer of the passenger train was to blame was not learned. The flagman declares he flagged tiie train, but the witnesses of the accident tell another story. The engineef, the police say, Was at fault in Wot slowing up in response to the flag man’* signal.

Klaborate Ceremonies Celebrating Ad* ( i mission tq thOyUnlon. After 1 years of trials and tribulations of various kind£, Utah emerges from her swaddling., clothes nnd becomes a new member of the great galaxy of the States in the Union, to be represented by a fortyfifth star upon the• national, flag. The formal celebration of the event and the inauguration of the State officers took place Monday in Salt I.ake City. On receipt of the ndws that the President's proclamation had been issued, guns wore fired and the citizens gave themselves over to a season .of jollification. Monday was a general holiday and thousands of people from all over the new State joined with the citizens of Salt Lake in celebrating the close of Utah’s forty years of probation. The inaugura l exercises proper, began at 8 o’clock, when the cannon at Fort Douglass. the guns qf the First Regiment,

Utah Rational Guard, every whistle in the State and all the other instruments -o f, not se available lief a hied the. beginning of the day’s festivities. The parade formed at 11 o'clock; led-by the Sixteenth Regiment. United States Infantry, 500 strong, and its bands. Following came the carriages containing the Btate officials and invited guests, with the Utah National Guard, the Grand Army veterans and all -the civic societies of tho city as an escort. The exercises at tho tabernacle wero very simple. They opened with music by the band from Fort Douglass, then a prayer by Wilfortf Woodruff, president of the Mormon church; “The Stur-Span-

BATTLEFIELD OF BULL RUN.

AViitmm side wa* gold ftr Dr. C. M. BenHiett, of Washington, .His name does not appear in the .Washington directory and he is not known to real estate men. The remainder of the estate was sold to differ--eirt—indtvtdua is. No bodyhas - any idea - for what purpose it was bought. The land lias been in litigation for many years, and this sale was made by order of the court. Three years ago: there -was a spasmodic attempt .to buy it for purposes of a park.

glbd Banner” by the tabernacle choir, the reading of tiie President’s proclamation, administration of the oath of office, GoV. Wells’ inaugural address, “America” by tiie audience and the benediction. Tiie Legislature was called in special session at 2 p; m. to fix a time for the regular session, the constitution failing to provide tho time foe convening regularly.

Whole Island, Excepting the City of Havana, Is in’ Their Hands. In effect, tho whole island of Cuba, outside of the city of Havana, is now- in the -hands of the insurgents.- They have not annihilated the Spanish forces, nor have they "routed the whole army in any single pitched battle. Yet the situation is completely in their hands, nnd so completely have’ they outgeneraled the Spanish that, to all appearances, Martinez de Campos’ army might ns well be in Spain for any check it puts upon tiie movements to and fro of Maximo Gomez’s army. The latter’s progress has been accompanied with continual accessions to his forces by volunteers, and he has captured enough horses, rifles and artillery to add immensely to the effective strength of his men. , He has practically carried his base , of operation with him, and lias usually conntermarc-hcd over a wholly different route from Jhiit of his advance, apparently counting with con lid cnee,.upon living upon the country as he wenL There is little doubt' really felt In Havana that he will get as much or more sympathy in Pinar del Rio than he did in Santa Clara and Matauzas, and the general fear is now that, after sweeping ovqr Pinar del Rio, he will come upon Havana from the west, co-operating in an attack with the forces of the insurgents which have been east of. Havana for several days past. The advance of Gomez boyoud BaUrbano lias cut tlic line Of telegraph and cable communication with the eastern part of the island upon which Campos principally relied for directing his forces in Santiago de Cuba, Puerto Prim cipe and Santa Clara. The authorities no longer make the slightest concealment of the serious view they take of the situation, and there are some who do not hesitate to rail at the Spanish generals nnd tiie troops and make bitter crittrigmz of them. There hag been, great fear that the light and water snp--piyncrf-tinr city- mrutth bu ouircrfr br a ‘Bfl dden raid of the insurgent forces. Tho idea of the city being left in total darkness for the miseeu working of plots and seditions is Itself enough tt> work a panic In tiie nervous condition of the public mind. All possible recruits have been enlisted for the defense of the city, and the available ground about'tne city has been filled with, batteries of artillery, which aj*o manned night and day.

UTAH IS NOW A STATE.

THE CHEAT TABERNACLK.

CUBANS IN CONTROL.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.'

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THIt PAStIWEEK. i ' Primary Teachers of Mancie Get Themselves in Hot Water—The Murder of Hesigr Curtis a Most Mysterious Affair. v. t . Children Lose Faith in Santa. Prof. .W. It. Snyder, .Superintendent of Public Schools at Muncie, finds himself in the unenviable) position of arbitrator, of a peculiar trouble between (he tenebers and the parents of the school children. It is a custom for the various classes to hold Christmas exercises each year just before she holidays. This year, just after the exercises closed, the teachers in tho lower grades informed the children that their enterprising papas and mammas had been imposing on them by making them believe there is a Santa Ola as, whereas he is only a mythical creation. The children went home with aching hearts and with tears in their eyes, feeling that Christmas had lost its charm for them. A few were so gloomy and despondent they refused to haye anything to do with their presents. The parents, arose in their indignation in a body v . They went to Supt. Snyder, and, after fxpiaining the situation to. him, demanded that the “heartless” pedagogues be dismissed. The Superintendent is perplexed as to what to do. The teachers intimate that a strike is not improbable should ho dismiss. the_nffenders. - Ou the other band, if he does not the parents say they will compel the-School Board, through public sentiment, to discharge them. The Casa of Hester Curtis. Thcre-is the material for a cause celebra in the mystery surrounding the murder of Hester Curtis at Lafavetre. The murder, which was discovered Sunday, is,thought to have been committed on the Friday or Saturday previous, and the circumstantial evidence thus far unearthed gives absolutely no clew to the murderer nave Ahat his motive was evidently robbery. Mrs. Curtis, who was known to be in possession of money derived from the sale of some property, lived in an isolated cottage in an obscure street. Her body, when discovered Sunday, was sitting upright in a chair, tfte head being beaten in with the blows of some sharp instrument. In the woman’s hand was Clutched her bank-book opened at the. page where her last deposit had been recorded. The theory is that the woman, iu trying to prove to the murderer that 'she had no money, with her, was showing her bank-book to him attlietimeThe fatal blow"fell". The facts certainly lend color to this view. There was silverware in the cottage, but the murderer, who had evidently ransacked the place, left it untouched. He was looking for money. The «ldfet plausible explanation is that the woman and her unwelcome visitor had an angry discussion in which she refused to comply with his demands for her money. Possibly there was also a slight scuffle when the robber started to make a search of the house for himself. As a proof that no money was iiv her possession she then got out her bank-book and sat down to show its pagqs to the thief. • While doing so tho thief, either because he feared further interference with his hunt of the house ,br because of baffled rnge, seized a weapon and killed her. It is in every way a most singular case, and one- winch may be expected to attract considerable attention. The manner of the murder, tho story told by the bank-book, the woman’s natural posture,, the length of time claps- _ ing between the murder and its discovery, together with the successful flight of tho murderer, combine to make it one of those cases whieh beeome, famous in the annals of an entire neighborhood. -» AU Over the State. The family of Amos Fry, near Boston, is in a terrible condition ns a result of impure vaccination. Mr. Fry determined to vaccinate his four children from virus taken from the arm of the neighbor. Tho children were taken violently ill and eruptions appeared over their entire bodies. Amy, 17 years of age, was compelled to have her arm amputated, and she probably cannot recover. All the children nro suffering from blood poisoning of a severe type and all of them may die. Physicians say that the virus’has permeated tlieir entire system and even should they recover they will bo physical wrecks. At Fletcher, a village in Fulton County, the wedding of Arthur Matthews and Miss Gertrude Ilecd was to havC taken place Tuesday evening. A number of guests had been Invited and an elaborato wedding feast prepared, but Tuesday morning,- when Mr. lined had prepared to accompany tu« pTryepecKve sou-in-law after the license, Mr. Matthews, the father of the groom-to-be, arrived and explained .that the ceremony could not be performed because Arthur the night before had, without bidding his relatives good-by, packed his clothing and left home, his destination being unknown. Miss Reed is heartbroken over the affair,-and both families denounce the perfidy of Matthews. W. C. Denny was arrested at Richmond recently by an officer from Manistee, ; Mich., on a charge of having obtained a loan of SIO,OOO from the Manistee na-. tional bank by false representations. The transaction took place-two --years ago,-’ when Denny was cashier of the First National Bank at Little Rock, Ark. Ho negotiated the loan for his bank on bonds of a Little Rock street railway. Tho bank and railway company both failed, aud it was alleged that Denny had represented them to have been solvent concerns. When Denny was nrreated his Richmond friends tendered both sympathy and financial aid, and prominent attorneys at both Manistee and Richmond were employed to look after tho case. Word was received from Manisfco that the motiofi to quash the indictment had been granted nnd tho ekse is at an end. Mr. Denny’s attorneys say that a heavy damage suit will be Instituted against the Manistee National Bank for unjust arrest. David Oliver Allen, of Ruskville, aged 77, who was sick with grip, grieved so hard when his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Osborne, aged 80, died as to cause heart lelliar e, aniTJ«r3ie3"a few bburs'aff«r lieik The funerals were held together. , - At Bristow Willie, tho 5-year-old son of Thomas McCnrrol, diet with a singular accident which will probably result in his death. The boy went tfc the pantry Iu search of a piece of pi* and being too small to reach it, fell against tbs door and closed it. The little fellow attacked by rats and the physicalug fang hydrophobia will result. . J