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VOL. XXIV.-NO. 17.
BOLIVAR, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1888.
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
CONGRESSIONAL I'RUCCKDtNGS.
Upon tne re-assemlllng of Conpress, on the
8d, the principal feature of the day' proceed
ings Jn both Houses was the reading of the
President's annual message. In tbe Senate,
resolution was adopted instructing tbe clerk to
inform the House that the Senate was in ses
sion. Messrs. Morrill anil Sauisbury were ap
pointed members, on the part of the Senate, of
committee to wait on the President with the
Information that Congress was in session, after
which the Scnato took a recess from 12:47 p. m.
to half-past one o'clock, when the Prelrtenfs
message was presented. Tlio reading occupied
an hour and twenty minutes. At its conclusion
the messes was laid on the table nn.1 ordered
printed, and tho Senate, at 2:53 p. m., ad
journed, after a notilicaiion by Mr. Frye thut
he would call up the Union Pacific Settlement
bill on the 4th; by Mr. ChanHerf that he would
ask for action on his resolution to Investigate
tho Louisiana election of April last, and by
Mr. Allison, thnt he would ali the Senate to
proceed with tho Tariff Mil, and would even
if the discussion became too protracted)
call It up during the morning hours of the ses
sion In the House, prayer was delivered
by Chaplain Milburn, and tho clerk railed the
roll, at the conclusion of which a resolution
was adopted instructing the olerk to Inform the
Senate that tlio House was in session. The
Speaker appointed Messrs. Ho'.m-m, of In
diana; Turner, of lleorrtln, and O'Neill, of
Pennsylvania, as a committee to Join u similar
eommittee appointed by tho Senate to wait
tpon the President and inform him that Con
gress was ready to receive anv communication
he mtpht desire to transmit. The House then,
at half-past twelve o'clock, took a recess for an
hour, when tho annual mes:i?e was receivod
and read by the clerk. When the reading was
completed Mr. Mills offered a resolution, which
was ngrcod to, referring the message to the
committee of the whole and providins for its
printing, and the House adjourned.
Is the Senate, on the 4th, various nnnual re
ports, including that of the Secretary of the
Treasury, were presented and appropriately re
ferred. Mr. Frye made an unsuccessful at
tempt to huve the Union l'ac tic Railroad bill
considered. The Tariff bill was then taken up,
but its consideration was postponed until the
6th In the House, the Speaker presented
the annual reports of the Secretary of the
Treasury and the. Comptroller of tho Currency,
which wore referred. Mr. MuDonuld. of Min
nesota, presented a petiilon of citizens it
North D.tUnta for the Immediate nJm Psion
Into the Union of South li.il.ota and Montana.
In the Semite, on the Mb, t verul rosolut ons
of inquiry were offered and adopted. The
Senate Tcnil bill was tiikeu up, and of the
various amendments offered a few were adopt
ed and many were rejected. The Union Pacific
Funding bill received brief consideration. The
Turiff bill was then a-;aln taken up, and after
disposing of thirty pupes of tho bill, the
Senate went into secret session, and ut
3:'U) p. m. adjourned In tho House a
number of bills were Introduced and ap
propriately referred. Tho hill to adjust
accounts under tlio K-iht Hour law was
brouKht up and discussed, and the bill to Quiet
titles of settlers upon the lies Moines river
lands In Iowa, was considered and passed, and
tbe House at 4:30 p. ui. udjourin d.
IN the Senate, on the 6th, Mr. Sherman
raised tho question of the constitutionality of
the law of Congress under wh ch secretaries oT
State oro required to forward to hlh bouses
certified copies of the credentials of presi
dential elector! chosen in their respective
States. Consideration of tho Tariff bill wus
resumed, eight pages being reviewed. A joint
resolution prnpos ti a constitutional amend
ment extending the presidential term of office
to six years wus introduced and laid on the
table In the House, discussion of tho Dl-
recl-Tax bill was begun. An effort was made
to reach some agreement touching the offering
and pendency of amendments to the bill, but il
proved futile. The District or Columbia Ap
propriation bill wus reported and referred.
Tub Senate whs not in session on the 7th
lu the House, the InvalUV Pension Appropita
Hon bill was reported. Majority and nitnotit)
reports on the Klliott-Smalls contested dee
t on case was received and placed on tho cul
endar. The remaindcrof theduy wus taken up.
In committee of the whole, in consideration ol
the Senate bill t Incorporate the Nicaiamia
Canal Company. Several amendments to the
bill were udopted. A brief evening session
wus held, at the close of which tbo House uJ
iurned until tho loth.
PKKSON.U. AMI POLITICAL.
O.v the 7th tin sub-committee of tho
House committee on appropriations, hnv
ing completed the regular Pension Appro
priation lull, reported it to the- full com
mittee,. Tho hill appropriate ,7ti7,.Vy,
which 1m H,-'-X les than last year's ap
propriation, the redii-tiou being made iu
rent of building.
(J.N the .Mil President-elect Harrison loft
Indianapolis for pin ts undesignated, for a
two day' hunt.
HovniNiip. Jackson- of Maryland o
lected lYbnmry '2!, as the date of
hanging the murderer Isaac Koeuan, but
foro'ivious reasons, changed it, substi
tuting instead March 1. He consulted an
1KNK calendar.
Mr. A. H. Moss, president of tin Mum
National Hank of Sandusky, O., died on
the tlh. lb was generally known raid re
spected iimnnj,' bankers throughout tho
I'nited States, and for tunny years was
one of the most prominent laymen of the
Protestant Kuw.-opal ( huroH.
At Wmlv Haifa, Kgypt, reports have
been receive. 1 that the White Pasha is ad
vancing northward.
V. H. W It t:t -.i.)i K, w ho played with the
Boston ltase-ltall Club in is7 uud with
the Worcester club last season, has
digued with the 1 lotroit -c.
On the Mil Hugo Kritohe, Austrian ('nil
sill, who had been ill for norm time, was
In u critical condition, and hope or bis re
coverv w as abandoned.
Ai.ttx. McPiifrsiiv. formerly general
book-keeper of the Merchants' Batik of
lUiffnlo. N. V.. has been missing for some
time. His accounts were found to bi
badly mixed, but he is not thought to be a
defaulter. His disamenranee is said to
be th" result of heavy betting ou the pres
idential election and a fondness for cards
It is reported that Israel Lucas, ft-
treasurer of Auglaio County. O., who fled
to Canada about t wo years ago with !S,-
4X10 of tltf county's funds, is dying with
consumption in Toronto.
It is reported that the Czar aud King
George of (Ire ' have agreed that the
inarriaire of (.rand Puke Paul of ltussia
and Princess Alexandria of Greece shall
not take place until October next.
l).x the nth the funeral services over the
remains of the late Hn-vct-Ilritradic r Gen
41 al K. H. A;, res, were held at Fort Hamil
Ion, N. Y.
O.N the 7tli Josiah Sibley, a prominent
retired niercluuit of Augusta, Me., died.
need eii-htv-one. He leaves an estate
valued, at about half a million.
Kot.l.oWlN.i is the official count of the
Vote nt the late election in Colorado: Har
lison, :.7i'o; Cleveland, :'.7..'i li ; Prohibi
tion, 2.1X': Labor, 1, '-''.". Harrison's plu
rality. 1X174.
C)N the nth Keprcsentalive l'. irrows, of
Michigan, was formally nnnonnced as a
candidate for the Speakership of tho
House.
Os the tith an injunction was issued iu
the Chancery Court at Nashville, for
bidding l.overnor Tnylor ( Tennessee to
JsMie a certilh ute to 11. Clay Kvnns, the
llepulili'-nn Comrt'esman-clect from the
Third distri. t.
O.N the 7th t he crtch-a--cnt h-ean con
test at Horanton, l'a., betw een Tom Con
tion and Antonio Pierre, was won by the
lfttU-r, who secured two out of three falls.
It was a splendid exhibition of stri-uh
end skill.
CIUMTS AM tsUtl.TILS.
On th 3d one mnu was killed and cijrht
eriou!y injured by au vplo-biti in tlo
Midland mine, at lleaver. Col. Scverul
of the wounded ill ii".
K. I. t' AMHKKXAIN. tl.e llllll il' t'CI' lif
Ida VV itt. ul'Ci , . .iii.rii'Hed i-UKlde lu Lo-
guiisprt ( li.d. ) jail on the ;;d.
NfcAU Hye, V., tvo 1: .lian lih..rer
v.h, wcid tonplaycJ on ti e Now liaren
ra.'.ro;t.l ti ' k. were -iti ' O ' I V n eprjj-i
L-aisi. ou :.ljf lUi. ul istaatly tilled.
On the Cth Henry Murphy, a drug clerk,
of Fall Uiver, Mass., wa-s burned to death
by tho explosion of some chemicals which
he was mixiufr.
O.N the Cth James A. Ginuity, a young
man well knowa to the sporting fraterni
ty, was lodjed in jail at Washington
charged with forging the names of several
well-knowa citizens to checks for Email
amounts.
On tho 7th William Van Tassell, of the
well-known auction firm of Van Tassell &
Kearney, was killed by falling through an
elevator shaft at the warehouse of the
firm, Sob. 130 and 132 East Thirtieth street,
New York City.
Dr. McBrien, druggist, of Oshawa, Ont.,
has absconded, leaving liabilities to the
amount of fully $.V),000, and assets practi
cally nominal.
On the Cth Frank W. Adams, a clerk in
the Washington City post-offlce, was ar
rested, charged with opening letters. He
confessed the crime, but said he had not
found any money in the letters, and that
this was hU first oflense.
MISCELLANEOUS.
O.N the !th Judge Hach gave a decree for
.t7.")O,0i)0 with interent upainst tho North
Montana Cattle t'nmpnny, in the fore
closure suit brought at Helena, Mont., by
the Farmer's Loan fc Trust Company of
New York, as trustees for the bondhold
ers. The working hours of the twenty-five
thousand employes of the Philadelphia
Heading Railroad Company's shops
were reduced from ten to eight, with a
corresponding reduction in wages, on tho
Cth.
O.v the 5th the House committee on
printing reported a resolution which was
adopted, authorizing the printing of 2o,0C0
copies of the President's message.
O.n the oth the House committee on rivers
and harbors spent several hours on the
River and Harbor bill. They decided to
limit the appropriation to 10,)tNJ,'X)0. It
is probable that the bill will bo completed
before the Christmas holidays.
O the ftth a meeting of tho National
Board of Promotion of the "Three-Americas"
Exposition was held in Washington.
It was well attended and composed of
notable characters, who all spoke enthu
siastically of the projxised celebration.
Thk Constantinople correspondent of
the London Time telegraphs he is author
ized to deny that Germany has formally
iuvitcd the Porte to assist in the Zanzibar
blockade.
Thk Cincinnati Prire. Current reports
that there has been a heavy falling oil in
tho number of hogs (slaughtered in the
West this fall, the decrease for November
aud tho first five days of December
amounting to Mo.OiK).
A Zanzibar dispatch btates that the
German war vessel Carola has captured a
dhow, uad adds that the rebelion on the
coast is increasing.
O.n the !th, at a meeting of the execu
tive committee of the directors of the
Missouri Pacific railroad, held in New
York City, it was decided to immediately
restore rates to a remunerative basis, aud
the agents of that company were directed
by telegraph to advance rates.
Thk inhabitants of Dutabad, Persia,
have been forbidden to sell grain to the
Russians, and tho Vienna press states
that Southern Persia is now under En
glish control.
The most elaborate preparations are
being made for the celebration of the cen
tennial of Georgetown (D. C.) College.
The President aud other high officials will
be present.
All arrangement have been made for
an international scullingcontest in Queens
land, Australia. The first prize will be
."00. Reach, Kemp, Searle, Matterson,
Stausbury, Nielsou and VcClar will com
pete. O.n the 7th twenty-five head of glandered
Texas cattle were killed by the local meat
inspector at Rochester, N. Y., and a strict
quarantine was ordered.
On the 7th a slight shock of earthquake
was felt throughout the province of Que
bec Cauada.
On the Cth sixty druggists of Pittsburgh
ami Allegheny City, Pa., met and ap
pointed a committee to petition the Penn
sylvania Legislature to repeal tho Rlue
laws (referring to the transaction of busi
ness on Sunday), so as to allow the sale of
non-intoxicating beverage on that day.
It is reported that the Window-Glass
Manufacturers' Renetlcial Association of
riltsbuTKh, l'a., is to be reorganized
shortly, w ith a view not only to control
prices, but to limit production when nec
essary. The board of trade of Great Falls,
Mont., has appointed a special com
mittee on statehood, with a view to de
termining the best course of action for the
people to pursue under the present cir
cumstances. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
Hii.i., Fontaine & Co., of Memphis'
place tbe cotton crop of the present year
at ti,7tii,(H0 bales. This Is 0110,000 less than
the popular estimate.
Theuk re fifty-three persons in the
Kansas iStnte penitentiary under sentence
of death for murder.
The bid granting a pension of ;k")00 per
year to Irene Rucker fcdieridau, widow of
the late (Sen. Sheridan, bns been favorably
l epoited to the House.
F. R. A. Dan forth, a prominent farmer
residing near Lafayette, Ala., was found
dead and buried in a swamp on the 10th.
A negro named Wes Chcsolm, who was
living with him, is accused of the murder.
Tiik bncs'K trust, about which so much
has been written, will po out of business
with the close of the current month.
Ont. firm In Fnyettville, Tenn., has
haudlnd 4'0o0 worth of turkeys, chickens,
egps and butter in the lost twelve months.
Tiik committee having charge of the ar
rangements for the inaugural ball have de
cided to fix the price of tickets for admis
sion at Jo each.
Thomas Axworthy-, defaulting City
Treasurer of Cleveland, Ohio, who is now
in IiOnuon, has made a proposition tore
turn idtiil.oOt) to the city ami iu two years
ta repay his bondsmen if prosecution is
dropped aud he is permitted to return to
A inericn.
Thk Poardof Aldermen cf Canton, Miss.,
on the Clli appropriated iM'TiH.) more for the
completion of tb artesian well. A depth
of nearly 7'H" feet has been reached, and
the contractors say they expect a bold
((ream of water with 100 feet m.ire.
A fihk on the night of the Cth destroyed
a stabl on the farm of V. L. Kirniau, near
Nashville, Tenn. Thirty -eight registered
Jersey inws aud two pomes perished in
the fl nines. Loss, i7,o
The entire town of Jeff erson, Texas, was
out on the nisht of the ".lh in a torchlight
procession and t a public mass-meeting
Most of the dwellings and a great number
of the business houses were illuminated m
celebration of JelT. rsoti acquiring the
largest iron furnace in the South, with a
carnhorl foundry ami b xcar factory con
nected, the work to begin in thirty days.
Tiik joi ng phvsician. Dr. N. R. ( setter,
who arcoinpeub'd R.dirrt Garrett on tho
rip be made nroun 1 tho world before his
mental tn ul les assumed so seiious a foiin;
has entered suit for j:So,N.) lor professional
services tendered.
The ci nsoliduted bodies of farmers in
ii-oiui at Meridian, Mis'., on the f-th,
changed their nuine from the Alliance,
Wheel and Co-Operative Union of America
to tl.e lai inert' mid Ilsneis' Cuion of
jAmerh'n. 'll.esixt meeting viil bv held
i Li St. 1. ii, ou Hist Tuurs iay in Lie-
re nil er, lisVJ,
THE MESSAGE.
President Claveland's Final Reg
ular Message to Congres3.
A. Review of the Condition of Affairs as
they Kxlst with Suggested Rem
edies The People the Gov
ernmeut's First Care.
Washinqtox, Dec. 3. After the prelim
inary proceedings in Congress to-day the
President's annual message was received
and read, in substance as follows:
TO TUB CoNORKSSOP THE UNITED STATES
As you assemble for the discharge of the du
ties you have assumaU as the representatives
of a free and generous people, your meeting is
marked by an interesting und impressive inci
deat. With thS expiration of the present ses
sion of the Conprress the first century of our
constitutional existence as a Nation will be
completed. Our survival for one hundred years
Is not suflleieni to assure us that we no longer
have dangers to fear in the maintenance, with
all Ha promised blessings, of a government
founded upon the freedom of tho people. The
time rather admonishes us to soberly rnquire
whether in the past we have always closely
kept In tho course of safety and whether we
have before us a way plain and clear which
leans to happiness and perpetuity. When the ex
periment of our Government was undertaken
the chart adopted for our guidance was the
Constitution. Departure from the lines there
laid down is failure. It is only by a
strict adherence to the direction they indicate
and by restraint within the limitations they
tlx that we can furnish proof to the world of
the American people's fitness for self-xovern-ment.
Tbe equal anil exact justice ot which
we boast as the underlying pnnciplo of our in
stitutions should not be contincd to the rela
tions of our c-.tizensto each other. Tho Govern
ment itself is under bond to the American peo-
Prfs'(lnt CUvfland.
pie that in the exercise of its functions and
powers it will ileal with the body of our citi
KSiis in a manner scrupulously honest and fair
and absolutely just. It has agreed that Ameri
can citizei-ship shall be the only credential nec
essary to justify the claim of equality
before the law, and that no con
dition In life shall give rise to
discrimination in the treatment of the peo
ple by their Government. The citizen of
our Republic in its early days rigidly insist
ed upon full compliance with the letter of this
bond, and saw stretchinjr out before him a
clear field for individual endeavor. His tribute
to the support of his Government was meas
ured by the cost of its economical mainte
nance, and he was secure in the enjoyment
of the recompense of his steady tribute and
contonted in it. In those days the frugality
of the people was stamped upon their Govern
ment, and wus enforced by the free, thoughtful
and Intelligent suffrage of the citizen. Combina
tions, monopolies and aggregations of capital
were either avoided or sternly regu'.atod and
restrained. Tlio pomp and glittor of govern
ments less free offered no temptation and pre
sented no doluslon to tho plain people who.
side by side in frienily competition, wrought
for the ennoblernont and dignity of man, for
tbe solution of the problem of free government
and for tho achievement of the grand destiny
awaiting the land which God had given them.
private vs. public interests.
A century has passed, our cities are the abid
ing places of wealth and luxury; our manu
factories yield fortune never dreamed of by
the fathers of tho Republic; our business
men are madly striving iu tho race for riches,
and immense aggregations of capital outrun
the imagination iu tbe magnitude of their un
dertakings. We view with pride and satisfac
tion this bright picture of our country's growth
and prosperity, while only a closer scrutiny de
velops a somber shading. Upon mora careful
inspection we Mud the wealth and luxury of
our cit.es mingled with poverty and wretched
ness and uaremunerativo toil. A crowded and
constantly increasing urban population sug
gests the impoverishment of rural soi tious and
discontent witU agricultural pursuits. The
farmer's son, not satislied with his fathers
simple aud laborious life, joins the eager chase
for easily-acquired wealth. We discover that
the fortunes realized by our manufacturers are
no longer solely the reward of sturdy industry
and enlightened foresight, but that they result
from the discriminating favor of the Govern
ment, ana are largely bunt upon un
due exact. ons from the musses of our
people. The gulf between the employer and
tho employed is constantly widening, and
classes are rapidly forming, one comprising
the very rich and powerful, whde in another
are found the toiling poor. While we view the
achievements of aggregated capital, we discover
the existence of trusts, combinations and mo
nopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in
tho real, or is trampled to death beneath an
iron tied. Corporations which should be tho
carefully-restrained creatures of the law and
the servants of the people, are fast becoming
the people's masters. Ht ll congratulating
ourselves upon the wealth and prosperity of
our country, and complacently contemplating
every incident or change inseparable rrom inese
conditions, it is our duty as patriotic citizens
to inquire, at the present stage of our progress.
how the bond of the Government made with
the people has been kept an I performed. In
stead of limiting tho tribute drawn from our
citizens to the necessities of Its economical ad
ministration, the Government still persists in
exacting from the substance of the people
millions which, unapplied, are useless and lie
dormant in its treasury. This flagrant injustice
and this breach of faith and obligation add ex
tortion to the danger attending the diversion of
the currency- of the country from the legit tinato
channels of business. Under the same laws by
which these results are produced the Govern
ment permits many millions more to be
added to the cost of living of
our people, and to bo taken from
our consumers, which unreasonably swell the
profits of a small but powerful minority. The
people must still be taxed for the support of
tho Government under tho operation of tariff
laws. Hut to the extent that the mass of our
citizens are inordinately burdened beyond any
useful public purpose and for the benefit of a
favored few, the Government, under pretext of
an exercise of its taxing power, enters gratuit
ously into partnership with these favorites
to their advantage and to the
iurv of a vast majority of our
people. This is riot equality be
fore the law. The existing situation is in
jurious to the health of our entire body politic.
It stifles lu those for whose benefit it is per
mitted all patriotic love of country and substi
tutes in ius place selll.sh greed and grasping
avarice.
Devotion to American citizenship tor its own
sake, and for what it should accomplish as a
motive to our Nation's advancement and the
happiness of all our people, is displaced by tho
assumption that the Government, instead of
being the embodiment of equality, is but an in
striinientiilitv through which especial und
Individual advantage are to tie gained
The arrogance of this assumption Is
unconcealed. It appears in the sordid dis
regard of ll but personal Interests in the re
fusal to abate for the benefit of others one iota
of fpltish advantage, und in combinations to
perpetuate surta advantages through efforts to
c Mrol legislation and ImprojxTly influence the
suffrages of th" people. The grievances of
those not included within the circle of these
beneficiaries, when fully realized, will surely
arouse irritation and discontent. Our farm
ers. long suffering and patient, struggling
in the race of life with the hardest and most
unremitting toil, will not fad to see, in spite of
misrepresentations and misleading fallacies
that they are obliged tr accept such p rices for
their products as are fixed in foreign markets
where thev compete with the farmers of
the world: that their lauds are declining in
value, while their debts increase, ant that
without compensating favor they are forced bv
the anion of tip Government to pay for the
benefit of ethers surli enhanced prices fur the
thimrs they need that the scanty returns of
their latsir fail to tarnish their support, or
leave no margin for accumulation.
Our workmgmen. enfranchised from ail delu
aion and no longer frightened b.- the cry that
their wages arc i n lan-ered. 1 y a just revision
of our tat'tiT l.iv.s, w.ll reasonably demand,
through such division, steadier einoloy tnent,
cheaper means of I ving in I he, r holm s. free
dom for themselves and their children irum the
aoiun of pcrpelmil servitude, unit nu op"0 deor
to iidvam-einent bt yond the limits of a la
bor ng class. Others of our citizens whose
rouifiiKs und expe tnht;ies are measured by
niodtrtte sular.es and fixed incomes u ill iusi-t
upon the laiTncss and justice of cln -apeuiu
Ihe co-t of lien ssiu.cs for themeles and
Ifielr f uiiili. . When to the (H-lf.siinm
f tl.f bei.en. tari. s cf enjust uiseriii na
tion ur.Jn on tiiere sl-u'.l If
r.dct d the li s. .ii. tc:. t . i those ho sofler from
null dci anir.iit'i.n. w e will realize the fait
t !i..t tin ttchetii uil p iiiH.?,e of .air Li'irern m-i ;
dependent iiion the p.itrlMiti ana jvaten
tweov ol out pcijvie aio cadd&ica.
t Vv-s " j
Communism is a hateful thlntr, and a menao
to peace and organized government. But the
communism of combined wealth and capital.
the outgrowth, of overweamng cupidity
and selfishness, which insiduously under
mines the justice and integrity of free
Institutions, is not less dangerous than
the commun'sm of oppressed poverty and toil
which, exasperated by injustice and discontent,
attacks with wild dis. rder the citadel of rule.
He mocks the people wlio proposes that the
Government shall, protect the rich and that
they in turn will care for tne laooring poor.
Any intermediary between the people and their
Government, or the least delegation ol tne eare
and protection our Government owes to tho
humblest citizen in the land,makesthe boast ol
free institutions a elittering delusion ana tne
pretended boon of American citizenship s
shameless imposition.
TARIFF REVISION.
A lust and sensible revision of our tariff laws
should be made for the relief ot those of our
countrymen who suffer under present condi
tions, iiucn a revision snouiu receive wa sup
port of all who love that justice and equality
due to American citizenship: of all who realize
that in this justice and equality our Govern
ment finds its strength and its power to protect
the cit zen and his property: of all who believe
that the contented competence and comfort of
many accord better with the spirit of our insti
tutions than colossal fortunes unfairly gathered
In the hands of a few; of all who appreciate
that the forbearance and fraternity amons
our people which recognize the value of every
American interest, are the surest guaranty
of c ur National progress, and of all who desire
to see the products of American skill and In
genuity In every market of the world with a re
sulting restoration of American commerce.
THE REVENUE.
The necessity of the reduction of our revenue
is so apparent us to be generally oonceded.
But the means bv which this end shall be ac
complished, and the sum of direct benefit
which shall result to our citizens, present a
controversey of the utmost importance. There
should be no scheme accepted as satisiactory
bv which the burdens of the peoplo are only
apparently removed. Extravagant appropria
tions of public money, with all their demoraliz
ing consequences, should not bo tolerated,
either as a means of relieving the treasury of
its present surplus, or us furnishing pretexts
for resisting a proper reduction in tariff rates.
Kxisting evils aud injustice should
be honestly recognized, boldly met
and effectually remedied. There should be
no cessation of the struggle until a plan is per
fected, fair and conservative, toward existing
industries, but which will reduce the cost to
consumers of the necessaries of life, while It
provides for our manufacturers the advantages
of freer raw material and permits no injury to
the interest of American labor. The cause for
which the battle is waged is comprised within
lines clearly and distinctly defined. It should
never be compromised. It is the people's
cause.
It can not be denied that the selfish
and private interests which are so persistently
heard, when efforts are made to deal in a just
and comprehensive manner with our tariff
laws, are related to, if they arc
not responsible for, the sentiment
largely prevailing among the people that the
general Government isthe fouutain of individ
ual and private aid; that it may be expected
to relieve with paternal care the distress of
citizens and communities, and that from the
fullness of its treasury It should, upon the
slightest possible pretext of promoting the
general good, apply public funds to the benefit
of localities and individuals. Nor can
It be denied that there is a growing
assumption that, as against the Government
and in favor of private claims and interests,
the usual rules and limitations of business
principles and just dealing 6hould be waived.
These ideas have been unhappily much en
couraged by Iftffislativejacquiescence. Relief
from contracts made with the Government is
too-easily accorded in favor of the citizen, as
the failure to support claims against the Gov
ernment by proof is often supplied by no bet
ter consideration than tho wealth of the Gov
ernment aud the poverty of the claimant.
Gratuities In form of pensions are granted
on no other rual ground than the
needy condition of the applicant, or for reasons
less valid; and large sums are expended for
public buildings and other improvements upon
representations scarcely claimed to be related
to public needs and necessities. The extent to
which the consideration of such matters subor
dinate and postpone action upon subjects of
great public importance, but involving no spe
cial, private or partisan interest, should arrest
attention aud lead t4-reformatlon.
NEEDED LEGISLATION.
A few of the numerous illustrations of this
condition may be stated. The crowded condi
tion of the calendar of the Supreme Court, and
the delay to suitors and denial of justice result
ing therefrom, has been strongly urged upon the
attention of the Congress, with a plan for the
reliet of the situation approved by those well
able to judge of its merits. While this subject
remains without effective consideration, many
laws have been passed providing for the hold
ing of terms of inferior courts at places to suit
the convenience ot localities, or to lay tho
foundation of an application for the erection
of a new public building.
Repeated recommendations have been sub
mitted for the amendment and change of
the laws relating to our public lands, so that
their spoliation and diversion to other uses
than as homes for honest settlers might be pre
vented. While a measure to meet this con
ceded necessity of reform remains awaiting the
action of tho Congress, many claims to the
lands and applications for their donation id
favor of Stales and individuals have been al
lowed. A plan in aid of Indian management recom
mended by those well informed, as containing
valuable features in furtherance of the solu
tion of the Indian problem, has thus far failed
of legislative sanction, while grants of doubt
ful expediency to railroad corporations, per
mitting them to pass through Indian reserva
tions, have greatly multiplied.
The propriety and necessity of the erection of
one or more prisons for confinement of United
States convicts, and a post-otlice building in
the National capital, are not disputed. But
these needs yet remain unanswered, wh le
scores of public buildings have been erected
where their necessity for public purposes is not
apparc n l.
A revision of our pension laws could easily
be made, which would rest upon just principles
and provide for every worthy applicant. Hut
while our general pension laws remain con
fused and imperfect, hundreds of private
pension laws are annually passed, which are.
the sources ot unjust discrimination and popu
lar demoralization
Appropriation bills for the support of the
Government are defaced by items and
piov.s.ons to me t private ends, and
it is freely asserted by responsi
ble and experienced parties that a bill
appropriating money for public internal fin
provement would fail to meet with favor unless
it contained more for local and private advant
age than for public benefit. These statements
can be much emphasized by an ascertainment
oflhe proportion of federal legislation which
either bears upon its face its private character,
or which, upon examination, develops such a mo
tive power. And yet the people wait and expect
from their chosen representatives such patriot
ic action as will advanoe the welfare of the en
tire country; and this expectation can only be
answered by the performance of public duty
with unseilish purpose. Our mission among
the nations of the earth, and our success In ac
complishing the work God has given the Amer
ican people to do, require of those intrusted
w th the making and execution of our laws per
fect devotion, above all other things, tothe pub
lic good. This devotion will lead us to strongly
resist all Impatience of constitutional limita
tions of Federal power, and to persistently
check the increasing tendency to extend the
scope of Federal legislation into the domain of
State and local Jurisdiction, upon the plea of
subserving the public welfare. The preserva
tion of the partitions between proper subjects
of Federal and local care and regulation is of
such importance under the Constitution
which is the law of our very existence
that to consideration ot expediency or
sentiment should tempt us to enter
upon doubtful ground. We have undertaken
to discover and proclaim the richest blessings
of a free government, with the Constitution us
our guide. Let us follow the way it points ont.
It will not mislead us. And surely no one who
has taken upon himself the solemn obligation
to support and preserve the Constitution can
find justification or solace for disloyalty in the
excuse that he wandered and disobeyed in
search of n better way to reach the public wel
fare than the Constitution offered. nod
Wh it tins been said is deemed not inappro
priate at a time when, from a century's height,
we view the way already trod by the American
people, and attempt to discover their future
path. The seventh President of the
United States the soldier and statesman,
and at all times the firm and brave friend of
the people in vindication of his course
as the protector of tho popular rights
and the champion of true American citizen
ship, declared: "The ambition which leads
me on Is au anxious desire and a
fixed determination to restore to
the people un.mpa'red the sacred trust they
have confided to my care, to heal the wounds
of the Constitution and to prevent its vio
lation : to persuade my countrymen, so far as I
may. that ills not in a splen lid government,
.support. d by powerful monopolies and aristo
cratic establishments, that tliey will find hap
piness or their lioerties protected, but. in a
plum system, vo1.! of pomp, protecting all and
granting favors to none, dispensing its bless
ings hue t ie dew of Heaven, unseen and unfeit
sae in the freshness ami beauty they con
tribute Id produce. It is such a government
that the gen us of our people requires such a
otic oi.lv under which our States may re mala
for aes to come united, prosperous and fice."
Ol'lt rOUKKiS RELATIONS.
It. pursuance of a constitutional provision
requiring the President from time to time
to give to the Congress Information of tbe
state of the Union, I have the sHtisfnct icn to
miTiounct that the cloteof the year finds the
(iiiited States in tne enjoyment of dom'-stio
tranquility and at peace w.th all tne nations.
S.nce my ni.-t annual message our fore gn relation-
have been strengthened and improved by
prfoi ukuicc of int. ri. '.l i-mal good i lll.-es and
by new and received treaties cf tiiuity, tcm
meric, au 1 reciprocal ( it.aiition cf crirn
ir.ji'. Thu'c intcri. atrr.nl! ijiiesfor.s V- hu u still
j.-.iit e? tU-n.eiit ur. ,-'.i i.i-..uut'iV v.-.tli-u the
litUili.U. Of U'ii.eaLle le-l...t tttiQl.. i'l.-i tl.e'-. ' o
ICO'lfl'Ibf J - i'- tf -i
BLOODY 'BIRMINGHAM.
Latent Devrlopnic nil In the Hawes
Itliirder An Outraged "Populace
Demand Vengeance The Slieritnfa
Posse Fire Into a Crowd of Citizen,
Killing Nine and Wouudinj; Thirty
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 9. A few min
aes after 12 o'clock this morning about 300
citizens Of Birmingham witnessed the most
terrible tragedy the South, has knowa for
years past. Kine men were killed- and
thirty others wounded. Tbe past week has
been a season of sensation in Birmingham.
On Tuesday morning the body of May
Hawes was taken from the waters of East
Lake, and on Wednesday tbe remains
were identified and the father was arrested,
charged with the murder of bis -child. On
Thursday aud Friday the coroner's inquest
developed some very sensational facts,
and lynching was freely talked of. Yes
terday the dead body of Mrs. Hawes was
fished out of the lake at Lakeview. As it
lay upon the bauk, the crowd of
CURIOUS AND INDIGNANT SPECTATORS
wbich crowded around the lake was mo
mentarily increased until it swelled into a
surging multitude. The feeling of horror,
indiguation and rage increased with each
moment, until it threatened to become a
frenzy. Men almost cried In tiie intensity
of their excitement. Nothing approaching
it has ever been witnessed in the .State.
Tbe skull wns broken aud the head crushed
fearfully. Heavy weights were attached
to her neck, waist aud feet. Her skin had
been wrinkled aud bleached by the water,
and it is evident that she has been under
water for several days. Her features had
not been obliterated, however, and sh bas
been identified! as Mrs. Hawes, wife of R.
It. Hawes". (Shortly before the body of tbe
woman was dragged from the lake, an
other party, searching around tbe bouse,
found secretly hid beneath the front door
steps a tightly wrapped bundle of bloody
clothes, about the dimensions o those worn
by tbe youngest child. They were evi
dently worn by the little oue when she was
so cruelly murdered. The evidence against
Hawes is complete. He killed his wife and
two children aud married a young lady of
Columbus, Miss., all within a week. Mrs.
Hawes' body was taken from the lake
ab,out noon yesterday. After that hour
public indignation continued to increase
intensely, until at midnight the crowd was
mad with rage. At that hour 3W people
had gathered around the jail. They were
screaming and yelling like madmen, and
all appeared anxious to make the attack,
but
NO LEADER DEVELOPED.
The'SherifT bad drawu a dead line, and
said that when cny body crossed that line
he would give the guards in tho jail the
command to lire. By degrees the crowd
came nearer and nearer the line, and when
they reached it they stopped. For some
time no lurtbtr movement was made, and
some of those in the rear of the mob com
menced to depait. At this juncture, some
drunken men who were in the front ranks
of the mob, thoughtlessly, without intent,
it is claimed, overstepped the dead line.
The Sheriff shouted out to the mob that he
would count five and when he had done so,
unless the crow d bad retreated, he would
OKDER THE GUARD TO FIRE.
He counted five but the mob did not
move. Then rang out the command "fire,"
and a perfect fusilade of leaden rain fol
lowed aud no less than forty men fell to
the ground, nine of them fatally wounded
and many of the rest seriously so. The
mob broke at once, its constituents sep
arating in all directions. The dead and
wounded were picked up and carried where
the latler could be civen medical atten
tion, at the drug stores, physicians' oiliees,
at the hospital and undertaking rooms.
Heart-rending scenes were witnessed.
Strong men in the agonies of death groaned
aloud, while skillful physicians did all that
could be done to relieve their sufferings.
Men who had just been roused from sleep
by the news of the terrible affair crowded
around operating chairs
SEARCUIXG FOR FRIENDS
or relatives. All night large crowds of
peojde remained on the streets and talked
of nothing but the terrible event of the
evening. Alter the appeurance of the
military at the jail and the removal of all
the killed and wounded, tbe crowd which
bad again assembled iu the vicinity began
to disperse, but soon cougregated ugaiu at
a point further dowu town.
At 10 o'clock this morning the Second
Alabama Regiment, composed of thirteen
companies, reached the city, ami is com
manded by Col. Thomas E. Jones. The
presence of the soldiers seems only to
AUGMENT THE K AGE
of the mob. At 3 o'clock this afternoon
about l.OOd men assembled two squares
from the jail. Their ranks were rapidly
swelling when the military marched in on
the congregation and at the point of the
bayonet dispersed them for the time. It
is unders.ood that they ore again assem
bling on the eastern outskirts ot the city
late this evediug.
A warrant was sworn out by some of the
rioters charging Sheriff tSniith, Chief of
Police Pit-kurd anil two lieutenants, John
O diiiini and Joe JN'i.x, of the police force
with murder. Tbo Coroner bas served the
warrants. The officers are all in jail. A
strong cordon of troops are around the
prison and nil of tbe ttreets in that part of
the city nre closely guarded by the mili
tary. The mob appears to be more anx
ious now
TO SECUR'? THE SHERIFF
and other officers than the wife and child
murderer. The prisoner, Hawes, is the
most composed and deliberate man in tho
city. He claims to be innoceut, and sim
ply smiles when he is told of the actions
of tbo mob. He says be can prove Lis
innocence.
The following is a complete list of those
killed:
Maurice B. Throckmorton, postninsJtT
of Hirmiuxhani, was shot in tho storaacu.
Hedied within two hours.
J. II. McCoy, a brickmason, was shot
through the brain.
A. B. Tarrant, a school-boy, was sbot in
the back and killed instantly.
W. A. Bird, a mechanic, was shot
through the chestand died this nfternoon.
Frank Cbilder, a merchant, was shot in
tbe stomach ami killed instantly.
An unknown negro was shot through
the heart.
A. 1. Brynnt, book-keeper, died tbft
morning from a bullet in bis right
shoulder.
Charles Biiley, from Boston, was killed
by a rifle bullet'throuh his stomach.
"Brundon, the Deputy United States
Marshal, was wounded in the thigh and
stomach and died this afternoon.
f.nter Information lias just reached tbe
city that the mob is preparing to advance
from the western limit. The military is
pri pared for them, and an attack means
great blocdsiied.
Birmingham, Ala., T)ec. 10, 12:40 a.m.
The reported mob in the westei n part of
the city failed to materaliz. Everything
appears calm and tranquil, and if the
rioters are doing any work they are actiug
very stealthily.
m
A Ooiiflasratlon With a Tragic Scqnel
Ciiattanoooa, Tenn., Dec. 0. The little
city of Dayton, Tenn., was visited by a fire
this morning, which destroyed two cot
tages. After the blaze bad ended some
one, iu kicking around in the ashes, dis
covered the charred remains of a woman,
only the headless trunk remaining. Tbe
body was finally identified as that of Mrs.
Tom Uaun. She attended a ball the night
before with her husband, and is thought to
have been murdered, as bo bad msde
threats agaiiist her, and is supposed to
have fired the house to hide his crime. The
coroner's jury shared the opiuioa, ae an ax
was lying near the corps'.
.Tlnrdered by Carl TolUvcr.
Bruin, Kt., Dee. 0. The Toliiver blood
will not clown. H reached tailing point
to-day, aud in consequence David Conley
bas Rone to bis loug home bile at work iu
a snwniiH in this (Elliott) county t j-doy.
Carl Toliiver cot in a quarrel with Couley,
aud seizing a broadax split bis bead wide
open down to his neck. Cnrl Toliiver is a
cousin of the once famous craig i- uiver.
When that king Kentucky outlaws was,
ith a number of his followers, sbot to
death bv outraged citizens in Morehead a
venr ago Carl Toliiver v. as with him and
f. UL'bt l.ke a fieud against tlie biz o tds
When Cratr fell Carl crawled in tho b'Udi.
wounde 1, here he was found, but bis life
was snared ou p.cronut of his extreme
jrc-utLi, La 1-eia.j tusn t ut llycai of a;?.
TALMAGE'S SEK3I0N.
An Eloquent Discourse on " The
Fragrance of the Qo3pel."
The Robes of Christ Redolent of Sweet
and Lasting Perfumes that Pene
trate the Innermost Recesses
of the Christian Life.
In a recent sermon at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle Rev. T. De Witt Talmage took
for his subject "The Fragrance of the
Gospel." His text was :
All Tny garments smell of myrrh, and aloes,
and cassia out of the ivory palaces. Psalms
xlv.. 8.
Among the grand adornments of the
City of Paris is the Church of Notre Dame,
with its great towers, and elaborated rose
windows, and sculpturing of the last judg
ment; with its trumpeting angels and ris
ing dead; its battlements of quarter foil;
its sacristy, with ribbed ceiling and stat
ues of saints. But there was nothing in
all that building which more vividly ap
pealed to my plain republican tastes than
the costly vestments which laid in oaken
presses robes that had been embroidered
with gold and been worn by Popes and
Archbishops on great occasions. There
was a robe that had been worn by Pius
VII. at the crowning of the first Napo
leon. There was also a vestment that had
been worn at the baptism of Napoleon II.
As our guide opened the oaken presses
and brought out these vestments of fabu
lous cost and lifted them up, the fra
grance of the pungent aromatics in which
they had been preserved filled the place
with a sweetness that was almost op
pressive. Nothing that had been done
in stone more vividly impressed me
than these things that had been done in
eloth, and embroidery, and perfume.
But to-rday I open the drawer of this text,
and I look upon the kingly robes of Christ,
and as I lift them, flashing with eteirnal
jewels, the whole house is filled with the
aroma of these garments, which "smell of
myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the
ivory palaces."
In my text the King steps forth. His
robes rustle and blaze as he advances.
His pomp, and power, and glory overmas
ter the spectator. More brilliant is He
than Queen Vashti, moving amid the Per
sian Princes; than Marie Antoinette on
the day when Louis XVI. put upon her the
necklace of eight hundred diamonds ; than
Anne Boleyn the day when Henry VIII.
welcomed her to his palace; all beauty
and all pomp forgotten, while we stand in
the presence of this imperial glory.
King of Zion, King of earth, King of
Heaven, King forever ! His garments not
worn out, not dust-bedraggled; but ra
diant, and jeweled, and redolent. It
seems as if they must have been pressed a
hundred years amid the flowers of Heav
en. The wardrobes from which they have
been taken must have been sweet with
clusters of camphire, and frankincense,
and all manner of precious wood. Do you
not inhale the odors? Ay, ay. They
smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out
of the ivory palaces.
Your first curiosity is to know why the
robes of Christ are odorous with myrrh.
This was a bright-leafed Abyssinian
plant. It was trifoliated. The Greeks,
Egyptians, Romans and Jews bought and.
sold it at a high price. The first present
that was ever given to Christ was a sprig
of myrrh, thrown on His infant bed in
Bethlehem, and the last gift that Christ
ever had was myrrh pressed into the cup
of His crucifixion. The natives would
take a stone and bruise the tree, and then
it would exude a gum that would saturate
all the ground beneath. This gum was
jsed for purposes of merchandise. One
piece of it, no larger than a chestnut,
would whelm a whole room with odors.
It was put in closets, in chests, in drawers,
in rooms, and its perfume adhered almost
interminably to any thing that was any
where near it. So when in my text I read
that Christ's garments smell of myrrh, I
immediately conclude the exquisite sweet
ness of Jesus. I know that to many He is
only like any historical person, another
John Howard, another philanthropic
Oberlin, another Confucius, a grand
subject for painting, a heroic
theme for a poem, a beautiful form
for a statue, but to those who have heard
His voice, and felt His pardon, and
received His benediction, He is music, and
light, and warmth, and thrill, and eternal
fragrance. Sweet as a friend sticking to
you when all else betray. Lifting you up
while others try to push you down. Not
eo much like morning glories, that bloom
only when the sun is coming up, nor like
"four o'clock's," that blcom only when
tho sun is going down, but like myrrh,
perpetually aromatic; the same morning,
noon and night yesterday, to-day, for
ever. It seems as if we can not wear Him
out. We put on Him all our burdens, and
afflict Him with our griefs, and set Him
foremost in all our battles, and yet He is
ready to lift, and to sympathize and to
help. We have so imposed upon Him that
one would think in eternal affront He
would quit our soul; and yet to-day He ad
dresses us with the same tenderness,
dawns upon us with the same smile, pities
us with the same compassion.
There is no name like His for us. It is
more imperial than Ciesar's, more musical
than Beethoven's, more conquering than
Charlemagne's, more eloquent than
Cicero's. It throbs with all life. It weeps
with all pathos. It groans with all pain.
It stoop with all condescension. It
breathes with all perfume. Who like
Jesus to set a broken bone, to pity a home
less orphan, to nurse a sick man, to take a
prodigal back without any scolding, to
illumine a cemetery all plowed with
graves, to make a queen unto God out of
the lost woman of the street, to catch the
tears of human sorrow in a lachrymatory
that shall never be broken? Who has such,
an eye to ste our need, such a lip to kiss
away our Morrow, such a hand to snatch
us out of tbe fire, such a foot to trample
our enemieu, such a heart to embrace all
our necessities? I struggle for some
metaphor with which to express Him.
He is not like the bursting forth of a full
orchestra; that is too loud. He is ot
like the sea when la-shed to rage
by the tempest; that is too boisterous.
He is not like the mountain, its brow
wreathed with the lightnings; that is too
solitary. Giv m a softer type, a gentler
comparison. We have seemed to see Him
with our eyes, and to hear Him with our
ears, and to touch Him with our hand.
Oh, that to-day He might appear to some
one of our fiva senses! Ay, tbe nostril
ishall discover His presence. Ho comes
upon us like spice gales from Heaven.
Yea, His garments smell of pungent, last
ing and all-pervasive myrrb.
Oh, that you all knew His sweetness.
How soon you would turn from your
novels. If the philosopher leaped out of
his bath in a frenzy of joy, and clapped
his hands, and rushed through the streets,
because be bad found the solution or a
mathematical problem, how will you feel
leaping from the fountain of a .Saviour's
mercy and pardon, washed clean, and
made white as snow, when the question
has been solved: "How ran my noul be
saved?" Naked, frost-bitten, i-dorm-lashed
Mal, b-t Jesus this hour throw
around thee the '"garments that t.rnell of
myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the
ivory places. "
Your sec ond curiosity is to know why
the robes of Jesus are odorous with aloes
There is some diiTereuo of opinion about
whwe these uloes grow, what is the color
of tbe flower, what i.i tfca partu uljr ap
year&nce of the beib, KuttHe it foe you
and tne to l:uow ttil ulon tc au i biMtr-
j:es the world over, and when Christ
comes with .armeut bte-rmg that partic
ular odor, they suggest to me the bitter
ness of a Saviour's sufferings. Were
there ever such nights as Jesus lived
through nights on the mountains, nights
on the sea, nights In the desert? Whoever
had such a hard reception as Jesus had?
A hostelry the first, an unjust trial in
oyer and terminer another, a foul
mouthed, yelling mob the last. Was there
a space on His back as wide as your two
fingers where he was not whipped? Was
there a space on His brow an inch square
where He was not cut of the briars? When
the spike struck at the instep, did it not
go clear through to the hollow of the foot?
Oh, long, deep, bitter pilgrimage. Aloes !
Aloes t
John leaned his head on Christ, but who
did Christ lean on? Five thousand men
fed by the Saviour; who fed Jesus? The
sympathy of a Saviour's heart going out
to the leper and the adulteress ; but who
soothed Christ? Denied both cradle and
death-bed, He had a fit place neither to be
born or to die. A poor babe! A poor
lad ! A poor young man ! Not so much as
a taper to cheer His dying hours. Even
the candle of the sun snuffed out. Oh, was
it not all aloes? All our sins, sorrows,
bereavements, losses, and all the agonies
of earth and hell picked np as in one clus
ter and squeezed into one cup, and that
pressed to His lips until the acrid, nauseat
ing, bitter draught was swallowed with
a distorted countenance, and a shudder
from head to foot, and a gurgling
strangulation. Aloes! aloes! nothing but
aloes. All this for Himself? All this to
get the fame in the world of being a
martyr? All this in a spirit ef stubborn
ness because He did not like Ciesar? No!
no ! All this because He wanted to pluck
you and me from hell. Because He want
ed to raise you and me to Heaven. Be
cause we were lost and He wanted us
found. Because we were blind and He
wanted us to see. Because we were serfs
and He wanted us manumitted. Oh, ye in
whose cup of life the saccharine has pre
dominated; oh, ye who have had bright
and sparkling beverages, how do you feel
toward Him who in your stead, and to
purchase your disenthralment, took the
aloes, the unsavory aloes, the bitter aloes?
Your third curiosity is to know why
these garments of Christ are odorous with
cassia. This was a plant that grew in In
dia and the adjoining islands. You do not
care to hear what kind of a flower it had
or what kind of a stalk. It is enough for
me to tell you that it was used medicinal
ly. In that land and in that age, where
they knew little about pharmacy, cassia
was used to arrest many forms of disease.
So, when in my text we find Christ coming
with garments that smell of cassia, it sug
gests to me the healing and curative power
of the Son of God. "Oh," you say, "now
you have a superfluous idea. We are not
sick. Why do we want cassia? We are
athletic. Our respiration is perfect.
Our limbs are lithe, and In theso
cool days we feel that we could
bound like the roe." I beg
to differ, my brotber, from you. None
of you can be better in physical health
than I am, and yet I must say we are all
sick. I have taken the diagnosis of your
case, and have examined all the best au
thorities on the subject, and I have come
now to tell you that you are full of wounds,
and bruises, and putrefying sores which
have not yet been bound up, or mollified
with ointment. The marasmus of sin is
on us the palsy, the dropsy, the leprosy.
The man that is expiring to-nignt on Ful
ton street the allopathic and homceo
pathic doctors having given him up, and
his friends now standing around to take
his last words is no more certainly dying
as to his body than you are dying, unless
we have taken the medicine from God's
apothecary. All the leaves of this Bible
are only so many prescriptions from the
Divine physician, written, not in Latin,
like the prescriptions of earthly physi
cians, but written in plain English, so
that a man, though a fool, may not err
therein. Thank God that the Saviour's gar
ments smell of cassia.
Suppose a man were sick, and there was a
phial on his mantelpiece with medicine he
knew would cure him, and he refused to
take it, what would you say to him? He
is a suicide. Aud what do you say of him
who, sick in sin, has the healing medi
cine of God's grace offered to him, and re
fuses to take it? If he dies he is a suicide.
People talk as though Ood took a man and
led him out to darkness and death as
though He brought him up to the cliffs
and then pushed him off. Oh, no. When
a man is lost it is not because God pushes
him off; it is because he jumps off. In
the olden times a suicide was buried at
the crossroads, and the people were ac
customed to throw stones upon his grave.
So it seems to me, there may be in this
house a man who is destroying his own
soul, and as though the angels of God
were here to bury him at the point where
the roads of life and death cross each
other, throwingupon tbe grave the broken
law and a great pile of misapproved priv
ilege, so that those going may look at the
fearful mound, and learn what a suicide
it is when an immortal soul, for which
Jesus died, puts itself out of the way.
When Christ trod this planet with foot
f flesh, the people rushed after Him
people who were sick, and those who,
being so sick they could not walk, were
brought by their friends. Here I see a
mother holding up her little child, and
saying: "Cure this croup, Iord Jesus;
cure this scarlet fever." And others say
ing: "Cure this ophthalmia. (Jive ease
and rest to this spinal distress. Straighten
this club-foot." Chris-t made every house
where He stopped a dispensary. I do not
believe that in the nineteen centuries that
have gone by since His heart lias got
hard. I feel that we can come now with
all our wounds of soul and jjet His
benediction. O Jesus, here we are. We
want healing. We want sight. We want
health. We want life. The whole need
not a physician, but they that are sick.
Blessed bo God that Jesus Christ comes
through this assemblage now, His "gar
ments smelling of myrrh" that means
fragance "and aloes" they mean bitter
sacrificial memories "and cassia" that
means medicine and cure ; and according
to my text. He comes "out of the ivory
palaces."
You know, or if you do not know I will
tell you now, that some of tbe palaces of
the olden time were adorned with ivory.
Ahab and Solomon had their homes fur
nished with it. The tusks of African and
Asiatic elephants were twisted into all
manners of shapes, and there were stairs
of ivory and chairs of ivory and tables of
ivory and floors of ivory and pillars of
ivory and windows of ivory, and fountains
that dropped into basins of ivory, and
rooms that had ceilings of ivory. Oh,
white and overmastering beauty! Green
tree branches sweeping the white curbs.
Tapestry trailing the Hupwy floors. Brack
ets of light flashing on the lustrous sur
roundings. Silvery music rippling to the
beach of the arches. The mere thought
of it almost stuns my brain, and you say:
"Oh, if I could only have walked over
such floors! If I could have thrown my
self in such a chair! If I could have heard
the drip and dash of those fountains:"
You shall have something better than
that if you only let Christ introduce you.
From that place He came, and to that
place He proposes to trenport you. for
His "garments smell of myrrh and aloes
and c-assia out of ivory palaces."
OU, what a pbve Heaven must be! The
Tui'eries of the French, the Windsor
Castle of the English, tbeSpauUb Alham
bra, tbe Kussiau Kremlin, dungfons com
pared with it! Not so many-a-tles on
fcitber ide the Rhine as ou both m.W of
tbe liver of God, tl.e ivwry paU.. One
for th arijfe, Ju.tfn raJdy bt Vt.t, itiv,'"
fii, liie-rjr.l; t.:7iipi -.:-i !jji loted: ou for
fhe martyrs, '!;ii blood-ic 1 robes, fi-iii
uilvr tbe alUr; oae Te the Kiug, t'.e
steps of His palace, the crowns of the
church militant ; one for the singers, who
lead the one hundred and forty and four
thousand; one for you ransomed from
sin; one for me, plucked from the burn
ing. Oh, tae ivory palaces!
To-day it seems to me as if the windows
of those palaces were illumined for some
great victory, and I look and see climbing
the 6tair oil ivory aud walking on floors of
ivory, and looking from windows of ivory,
some whoji we knew and loved on earth.
Yes, I know them. They are father and
mother, net eighty-two atrd seventy-nine
years, as when they left us, but blithe and
young as when on their marriage day, and
there are brothers and sisters, merrier
than when we used to romp across the
meadows together. The cough gone. The
cancer cured. The erysipelas healed. The
heartbreak over. Oh, how fair they
are in the ivory palaces! And your
dear little children that went out from
you Christ did not let one of thejn drop
as He lifted them. He did not wrench one
of them from you. No. They went as
from one they loved well to One whom
they loved better. If I should take your
little child and press its soft face against
my rough cheek, I might koep it a little
while; but when you the mother, came
along it would struggle to go with you.
And so you stood holding your dying child
when Jesus passed by in the room, and
the little one sprang out to greet Him.
That is all. Your Christian dead did not
go down into the dust and the gravel and
mud. Though it rained all that funeral
day, and the water came up to tho wheel's
hub as you drove out to the cemetery, it
made no difference tot them, for they
stepped from the home here to the horoa
there, right into the ivory palaces. All 1
well with them. All is well.
It is not a dead weight that you lift when
you carry a Christian out. Jesus makes
the bed up soft with velvet promises, and
He says: "Put her down here very gently.
Put that head, which will never ache
again, on this pillow of hallelujahs. Ben"!
up word that the procession is comintf.
Ring the bells. Ring! Open your gates,
ye ivory palaces !" And so your loved
ones are there. They are just as certain
ly there, having died in Jesus, as that yon
are here. There is only one thing more
they want. Indeed, there is one thing ia
Heaven they have not got. They want it;
what is it? Your company. But, oh, my
brother, unless you change your track you
can not reach that harbor. You might M
well take tho Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
expecting ia that-direction to reach Toron
to, as to go on in the way some of you af
going, and yet you expect to reach th
ivory palaces. Your loved ones are,
looking out of the windows of Hoavea
now, aud yet you scorn to turn your bad
upen them. You do not seem to kno'
the sound of their voices as well as yon
used to, or to.be moved by the sight oi
the:ir dear faces. Call louder, ye de
parted ones. Call louder from the ivory
palaces. When I think of that place, auo
think of my entering it, I feel awkward; I
feel as sometimes when I have been ex
posed to the weather, and my shoes have
been bemired, and my coat is soiled, aad
my hair is disheveled, and I stop in front
of some fine residence where I have an
errand. I feel not fit to go in as I am and
sit among polished guests. Bo some of us
feel about Heaven. We need to bo washed,
we need to be rehabilitated before we go
into the ivory palaces. Eternal God, lct
the surges of Thy pardoning mercy roll
over us. I want not only to wash njy
hands and my feet, but, like some skilled
diver standing on the pierhead, who leaps
into the wave aud comes up at a far-distant
point from where he went in, so I
want to go down and so I want to come
up. Oh, Jesus, wash me in the waves ot
Thy salvation.
And here I ask you to solve a mystery
that has been oppressing me for thirty
years. I have asked of doctors of divinity
who have been studying theology half a
century, and they have given me no satis
factory answer. I have turned over all
the books in my library, but got no solu
tion to the question, aud to-day I come
and ask you for an explanation. By what
logic was Christ induced to exchauge tho
ivory palaces of Heaven for tho crucifix
ion agonies of earth? I shall take the
first thousand million years in Heaven to
study out that problem. Meanwhile and
now, taking it as the tenderest and might
iest of all facts that Christ did come, that
He came with spikes in His feet, catne
with thorns in His brow, came with spears
in His heart, to save you and to save me.
"God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Hon, that whosoever be
lieveth in Him should not perish, but have
everlasting life." O, Christ, whelm this
audience with Thy compassion. Mow
them down like summer graiu with the
harvesting sickle of Thy grace. Ride
through to-day the conqueror, Thy gar
ments smelling "of murrh, and aloes, and
cassia, out of the ivory palaces."
O, sinner, fling every thing else awny
and take Christ! Take Him now, not to
morrow. During the night following this
very day there may be an excitement in
your dwelling, and a tremulous pouring
out of drops from an unsteady aud af
frighted hand, and before to-morrow
morning your chance may be gone.
ABUSING THE BRAIN.
Peculiar Afflictions Cauind by Overwork
ing; tbe Mental Vaeaf tlea.
A recent medical journal gives tho ro
port of a cose of singular loss of memory
in a young girl residing In New York. Hit
ting in her own room one day she took up a
package of letters which she intended to
answer, and was amazed to find that tihe
could not remember tho names or appear
ance of any of the writers, all of whom
were her own personal friends. Hhe was
calm and sane, except upon this one point;
her memory of persons seemed to lie sud
denly and wholly obliterated. Hhe hastily
descended tothe room where the family
was gathered for dinner, and found tnat
she could not remember a single name or
face, except that of her mother. Her fath
er, sisters and brothers appeared to her as
strangers, nor was it pofcsiblo to recall
them to her. The faculty of memory of
persons apixrared to be paralyzed. It was
found by the physicians that this singular
effect was produced by tho Iodft-mcnt of a
clot of blood upon a certain part of tho
brain.
Another well-known mental disorder,
which produces forgttfulness of woods,
results from abnormal pressure, or soften
ing, in another part of the bra n. The pa
tient frequently takes one word, such as
Yes," or "Water." and repeats it a thou
sand times, imaffinlntr that hois con vers
ing with fluency and ea
Our object In citing these painful cases
Is to remind our young readers of a fact
which they are apt to forget; that this
brain Is a physical orun the
eye or hand, and, like them, can be, if they
choose, overworked, damaged and wounded
to the death. The lad at school would to
regarded as a fool or madman If he should,
every day. t ut a tendon of his arm or In
ject a poisonous fluid Into his eye, until
tho strength of one and tho sight of the
other should be deitroyed Yet his daily
cigarette and tipple of wine and whisky
are actinif slowly and surely upon the
tissues cf the brain, paralyzing and crip
pling his rncntai strength.
Tliis warning may se.m a needless plati
tude to adult reai'em, but there are many
young eop a who forget, or who do not
know, tfiBt tbe vigor ot intellectual life de
C:k1s upon physical as well as spiritual
conditions. The mindofeuch human beinif
is a captive in'hm body; ba can, if he will,
bv drinking, bv overeat rjf, or by debauch
ery, blind and cripple it, as did tbe I'billf
ttie their prisoner Hutnion. Or lie can
tralu arid u--.it tl.e fi actiuns of bis bji'y a
V. slave uu j icj!i. tirid o oi iky of it
royal guest, at Ivf jy.:iiv;U rule. IVnUi's
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