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7 e-, ~-HC L.V1 ANiNG S. (. WED-NS)Y NOEBR- 1890 NO 49. 1)11. T A A GFS J0t 1NEY. WONDEf.FUL ITINERARY OF CHRIST'S WALK TO NAZARETH. Bethel aud the Sea of Galliee-Farewell to the lilstoric Mountains Arocud Jeru salem....wfr.1 Tragedies of the Olden Times. BRoOKLYX, Nov. 9.-To-day Dr. Tal mage preached the seventh of his course of sermons on his recent tour in Pales tine. The following is the sermon from the text. "So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north" (Ezekiel viii, 5:) At 1 o'clock on a December after noon through Damascus gate we are passing out of Jerusalem for a journey northward. Ho ! for Bethel, with its stairs, the botton step of which was a stone pillow; and Jacob's well, with its immortal colloquy; and Nazareth, with Its divine boy in his father's carpenter shop, and the most glorious lake that ever rippled or 11ashed Blue Galliee, sweet Galliee, The lake where Jesus loved to be; and Damascus, with its crooked street called Straight. andl a hundred places charged and surcharged with apostolic, evangelistic, prophetic. patriarchal, kingly and Christly reminiscences. In traveling along the roads of Pal estine I am impressed, as I could not otherwise have been, with the fact that Christ for the most part went afoot. We find him occasionally on a boat, and once riding in a triumphal proces sion, as it is sometimes called, although it seemi to me that the hosannas of the crowd could not have made a ride on a stubborn, unimpressive and funny creature like that which pattered with him into Jerusalem very much of a triumph. But we are made to under stand that generally he walked. How much that means only those know who have gone over the distance traversed by Christ. We are accustomed to read that Bethany is two miles from Jerusalem. Well, any man in ordinary health can walk two miles without fatigue. But not more than one man out of a thous and can walk from Bethany to Jeru salem without exhaustion. It Is over the Mount of Olives, and you must climb up among the rolling stones and descend where exertion is necessary to keep you from falling prostrate. I, who am accustomed to walk fifteen or twen ty miles without lassitude, tried part of this road over the Mount of Olives, and confess I would not want to try it often, such demand does it make upon one's physical energies. Yet Christ walked it twice a day-in the morning from Bethany to J er usalem, and in the evening from Jerusalem to Bethany. VIEW FROM MOUNT SCOPUS. Likewise it seemed a small thing that Christ walkea from Jerusalem toNaza reth. But it will take us four days of hard horseback riding, sometimes on a trot and sometimes on a gallop, to do it this week. The way is mountainous iu the extreme. To thosa who went up to the Tip Top house on Mount Wash ington before the railroad was laid I will say that this journey from Jeru salem to Nazareth is like seven such American johrneys. So all up and down and across and recrossing Pales tine, Jesus walked. Ahab rode. David rode. Solomon rode. Herod rode. An tony rode. But Jesus walked. With swollen ankles and sore muscles of the legs, and bru.sed heel and stiff joints and panting lungs and faint head, along the roads and where there were no roads at all Jesus walked. We tried to get a new horse other than that on which we had ridden on the journey to the Dead sea, for he had faults which our close acquaintance-I ship had developed. But after some experimenting with other quadrupeds of that species, and finding that all horses, like their riders, have faults Kwe concluded to choose a saddle ,on that beast whose faults we were most prepared to pity or resist. We rode down through the valley and then up on Mount Scopus and, as our dragoman tells us that this is the last opportun ity we shall have of looking at . eru salem, we turn our horse's head toward the city and take a long, sad and thrill ing look at the religious capital of our planet. This is the most impressive view of the most tremendous city of all time. On and around this hill the armies of the crusaders at the first sight of the city threw themselves on their faces in worship. Here most of the besieging armies encamped the night before open Cing their volleys of death against Jeru salem. Our last look ! Farewell, Mount Zion, Mount Moriah, Mount of Olives, Mount Calvary ! Will we never see them again? Never. The world is so large and time is so short, and there are so many things we have never seen at all, that we cannot afford to duplicate visitss or see anything more than once. Farewell, yonder thrones of gray rock, and the three thousand years of architecture and battlefields. Farewell, sacred, sanguinary, triumph ant. humiliated Jerusalem i! Across this valley of the Kedron with my right hand I throw thee a kiss of vale di~ctorv. Our last look, like our first .look, 'an agitation of body, mind and soul indescribable.I THlE CORP'SE CUT I NTO) TwELvE IECEs. And now, like Ezekiel in my text, I lift up mine eyes the way toward the north. Near here was one of the worst tragedies of the ages mentioned in the Bible. A hospitable old man coming home at eventide from his work in the fields finds two strangers, a husband and wife, proposing to lodge in the street because no shelter is offered them. and invites them to come in and spend the night in his home. During the night the ruffians of the neighbor hood conspired together, and surround ed the house, and left the woman dead on the doorstep, and the husband, to rally in revenge the twelve tribes, cut the corpse of the woman into twelve parts an:J sent a twelfth of it to each tribe, and the fury of the nation was roused, and a peremptory demand was made for the surrender of the assas sins, and, the demand refused, in one day twenty thousand people were left dead on the field and the next day eighteen thousand. Wherever our horse to-day plants his foot in those ancient times a corpse lay, and the roads were crossed by red rivulets of carnage. Now we pass on to where seven youths were put to death and their bodies gibbeted or hung in chains, not for anything they had themselves done. but as a reparation for what their father and grandfather. Saul, had done. Burial was denied these youths from May until November. Rizpah, the mother of two of these dead boys, ap points herself as sentinel to guard the seven corp'ses from break of raven and tooth of wolfe and paw of lion. She pitches a black tent on the rock close by the gibbets. Rizpah by day sits on the ground~ in front of her tent, and when a vulture begins to lower out of the noonday sky seeking its prey among the gibbets Riizpah rises, her long hair dlying in the wimd, and swing-i ing her si ms wildly about shoos away, the bird of prey until it retreats to its eyrie. At night she rests under the shadow of her tent, and sometimes falls into a drowsiness or half sleep. I But tLe step of a jackl among the dry leaves or the panting of a hveua arouses her, and with the fury of a maniae she rushes out upon the rock crying, "Away ! Away !" and then, examining the gibbets to see that they still keep their burden, returns again to her tcnt till scme swooping wing from the midnight sZy or some growl ing monster on the rock again wakes her. TiIE GIBBETS IN A31ERICA. A mother watching her dead chil dren through May, June, July, August, September and October! What a vigil: Painters have tried to put upon canvass the scene, and they succeeded in sketching the hawks in the sky and the panthers crawling out from the jungle, but they fail to give the wan ness, the supernatural courage, the in finite self sacrifice of Rizpah, the moth er. A mother in the quiet home watch ing by the casket of a dead child for one night exerts the artist to his ut most, but who is sufficient to put upon canvass a mother for six months of midnights guarding her whole family, dead and gibbeted upon the moun tains? Go home. Rizpah! You must be aw fully tired. You are sacrificing your reason and your life for 'those whom you can never bring back again to your bosom. As I say that from the darkest midnight of the century Riz pah turns upon rue and cries: "How dare you tell me to go home ? I am a mother. I am not tired. You might as well expect God to get tired as for a mother to get tired. I cared for those boys when they lay on my breast in in fancy. and I will not forsake them now that they are dead. Interrupt me not. There stoops an eagle that I must drive back with my agonized cry. There is a panther I must beat back with my nlub." Do you know what that scene by our roadside in Palestine makes me think of? It is no unusual scene. Right ere in these three cities by the Ameri ,an sea coast there are a thousand cases this moment worse than that. Moth ers watching boys that the rum saloon, that annex of hell, has gibbeted in a living death. Boys hung in chains of vil habit they cannot break. The father may go to sleep after waiting ntil 12 o'clock at night for the ruined boy to come home and, giving it up, he may say. "Mother, come to bed; there's ao use sitting up any longer." But mother will not go to bed. It is 1 'clock in the morning. It is half-past L. It is 2 o'clock. It is half-past 2 when he comes staggering through the aall. Do you say that young man Is yet live? No; he is dead. Dead to his rather's entreaties. Dead to his moth er's prayers. Dead to the family altar where he was reared. Dead to all the oble ambitions that once insplred aim. Twice dead. Only a corpse of what he once was. Gibbeted before 3od and man and angels and devils. Chained In a death that will not loosen ts cold grasp. His fathe: is asleep, his brothers are asleep, his sisters are isleep; but his mother is watching him in the night. After he has gone up to ed and fallen Into a drunken sleep his mother will go up to his room and see hat he Is properly covered, and before ;be turns out the light will put a kiss ipon his bloated lips. "Mother, why lon't you go to led ?" "Ah! she says, 'I cannot go to bed. I am Rizpah watching the slain!" But I must spur on our Arab steed, and here we come in sight of Beeroth, ;aid to be the place where Joseph and ,1ary missed the boy Jesus on the way from Jerusalem to Nazareth, going iome now from a great national festi val. "Where is my child, Jesus?~" says MIary. Where is my child, Jesus ?" says Joseph. Among the thousands that are returning from Jerusalem they thought that certainly he was walking on in the crowd. They described him, saying. "He is 12 years old, and of ight complexion and blue eyes. A lost child!" Great excitement in all the crowd. Nothing so stirs folks as the news that a child is lost. ,I shall not forget the scene when, in a great out door meeting, I was preaching, and some one stepped on the platform and said that a child was lost. We went on with the religious service, but all our minds were on the lost child. After a while a man brought on the platform a beautiful little tot that looked like a piece of heaven dropped down, and said, "Here is that child." And I forgot all that I was preaching about, and lifted the child to my shoul der and said, "Here is the lost child, and the ntother will come and get her right away, or I will take her home and add her to my own brood!" And Eome cried and some shouted, and amid all that crowd I instantly detected the mother. Everybody had to get out of her way or be walked over. Hats were nothing and shoulders were noth ing and heads were nothing in her pathway, and I realized something of what must have been Mlary's anxiety w~hen she lost Jesus, arid what her gladness when shie found her boy in the temple of'Jerusalum taiking with those old1 misters of .religion, Sham mai. Ililitel and Betirah. A CUR IIST IAN WOMAN's PRAYER. Out on the western prairies, was a happy but isolated home. Father, mother and child. By the sale of cat tie quite a large sumn of money was one zight In that esbln, and the father was away. A robber who had heard of the money one nirht looked in at the win dow, and the wife and mother of that home saw him and she wa helpless. Her child by her side, she knelt down and prayed among other things for all prodigals who were wandering up and down the world. The robber heard her prayer and was overwhelmed and en tered the cabin and knelt beside her and began to pray. ie had came to rob that house, but the prayer of that woman for the prodigals reminded him of his mother and her prayers before he became a vagabound, and from that hour he began a new life. Years after that woman was in a city in a great audience, andl the orator who chtme on the platform and plead gloriously for righteousness and God was the man who many years before had looked into the cabin on the prairies as a robber. The speaker and the auditor immedi ately recognized each other. After so long a time a mother's prayers answer ed. But we must hurry on for the mul eteers and baggage men have been or dered to pitch our tents for to-night at Bethel. It is already getting so dark that we have to give up all idea of guiding the horses, and leave them to their own sagacity. We ride down amid mud cabins and into ravines, where the horses leap from depth to depth, rocks below rocks, rocks under rocks. Whoa: Whoa! We dismc'unt in this place, memorable for 'many things in Bible history, the two nmore prominent a theological seminary, where of old they made ministers, an'l for JTacob's dream. The students of this Bethel Theological seminary were called "sons of the prophets." IHere the young men were fittedl for the min istry, and those of us who ever had the advantage of such institutions will evelhstingly be grateful, and in the calendar of saints, which I read with especial affection, are the doctors of divinity who blessed me with their AN(ELS AENDING AN!D [DESCEND But most distinguished was Bethel for that famous dream which Jacob had, his head on a collection of stones. Ie had no trouble in this rocky region in finding a rocky pillow. There is hardly anything else but stone. Yet the people of those lands have a way of drawing their outer garment up over their head and face, and such a pillow I suppose Jacob had under his bead. The plural was used in the Bible story. and you find it was not a pillow of stone, I suppose, so that if one proved to be of uneven surface he would turn over in the night and take another stone, for with such a hard bolster he would often change in the night. Well that night God built in Jacob's dream 1J a long splendid ladder, the feet of it on either sIde of the tired pilgrim's pillo w, I aid the top of it mortised in the sky. And bright immortals came out from the castles of amber and gold and put their shining feet on the shining rungs of the ladder, and they kept coming down and going up, a procession botht ways. I suppose they had wings. for the I Bible almost always reports thetm as: having wings, but this was a ladder on which they used hanas and teet to encourage all those of us who have no wings to climb, and encouraging us to believe that if we will use what we I have God will provide a way, and if we will employ the hana and the foot he will furnish the ladder. Young man. do not wait for wings. Those angels I folded theirs to show you wings are not necessary, Let all the people who have I hard pillows-hard for sickness, or hard 1 for poverty, or hard for persistence- I know that a hard pillow is the landing It place for angeis. They seldom descend i on pillows of eiderdown. They seldom I build dreams in the brain of the one who sleeps easy. The greatest dream of all time was t that of St. John. with his head on the I rocks Patmos, and in that vision he! heard the seven trumpets sounded, and I saw all the pomp of heaven in proces- t sion cherubic, seraphic, archangelic. t The next most memorable and glorious t dream was that of John Bunyan, his I pillow the cold stone of the floor of Bed ford jail, from which he saw the celes- : tial city, and so many entering it he cried out in his dream, "I wish myseif t among them." I notice that those angels, either in I coming downor going up on Jacob's lad der, took it rung by rung. They did not s leap to the bottom nor jump to the top. So you are to rise. Faith added to faith, good deed to good dwed, industry C to industry, consecration to consecra- c tion, until you reach the top, rung Z Gradual going up from a block of d granite to pillar of throne. That night at Bethel I stood in front 1 of my tent and looked up, and the t heavens were full of ladders, erst a ladder of clouds. then a ladder of stars, 1 and all up and down the heavens were I angels of beauty. angels of consolation, angels of God, ascending and descend- I ing. "Surely, God is in this place," said IF Jacob, "and I knew it not." But to-it night God is in this place and I know S it. COUNTERFEIT MONEY. Look Well to Your Pockct Change-You, May Get Some of It. LorISVILLE, Ky., Nov. .-The start ling announcement has reached this city from the chief of the United States t secret service, that this city was t thought to be flooded with counterfeit S2 silver certificates, so perfect in mark that it was almost impossible for an I expert to detec:t the difference betweent them and a real one. The letter wvas received by Capt. Baurer, who is at thee head ot the department in this district. 1 Acting in accordance with the letter, 1: Capt. Bauer began at once to work onc the case, and in two hours he had a found two of the bills, both of which g had been accepted as legal currency.f One of the certificates had been receiv ed by an official at the postoflice, whilea the other iWas accepted by a prominent a merchant. t The imitation is so complete that t nothing short of the most careful scru- h tiny on the part of an expert can de- t tect th 3 difference. The discovery is t very important. for since two of the bills were found so soon after the search was begun, it is probable that the city is already flooded with the worthless -money. The very fact of one t having passed through the hands of a e postoflice official without detection, is e sufficent evidence of the cleverness of I the work, and Capt. Bauxer pronounces I the counterfeit far superior to anye work that was ever done by Miles Ogle,v the "King of Counterfeiters." He warns every one to observe the great-n est precaution in receiving and paying out $2 silver certificates. In the letter received by Capt. Bauter, the following is said of the counter- t feit money : "The bill has a small,f round, pink seal, and the signatures,e 'W. S. Riosecrans,' register of the treas- s urv, C. N. Jordan, treasurer. upon the face. No closer imitation of the geniu-s ie bill has been distributed in this f country for years. It has no silk thread. ' but they have been so pressed as to prne- e sent the appearance of having onea when held to the light. In the wordb 'register' the '1' is not dlotted; neitherr is there a period after 'treasurer.' asd there is in the original. So d:uneerous It is its character Jhat the uttmost carep must be taken in receiving S2 silvero certificates." The counterfeit bills have been tioat- b ing in eastern cities for several weeks, I but not until recently was it known t that they were in circulation here. k Capt. Bauer is exerting every effort on the case, and he has specially detailed i several of his men to work on it. It is s probable that a large number of bills l1 wll be found here, and tmany persons 'l may find that they have sustained a a loss by receiving them. in Honor of southern Hieroes. PENSACOLA, Fla., Nov. 7.-The La- a dies' Confederate Monument Associa-\ tion Tuesday last let the E'ntract forI a monument to be erected in this cityt of Richmond (Va.) granite. One face ti of the die will be inscribed to the memt-t ory of Jefferson Davis, the first tmonu mental recognition of Mr. D~avis, an-' other face to Stephen RI. Mallorv, a citi Izen, and before the war a Senator from ' Florida and also secretary of the Con federate navy; the third face to the Con- t federate dead. Suggestions wiil be in-n vited for inscriptions on these three t faces of the monument from ladies ofp the South. The fourth face will be in- lI scribed to the memory of Governor Perry,a general and governor of the taeadacitizen of Pensacola, who originated the monument before his I death. His inscription will come fromI the ladies of Florida. The Grand Jury systemn Denouncedt.' Sr. Lorrs, Nov. .-The state grandv jury has handed in a sweeping denuncia-o tion of the whole grand jury system andg called for its abolition. The report de clared the grand jury a superIluious ad- I juntto riinal jurisprudence, and as-e serted that in most cases it hinders and delays the administration of justice. while it affords the members when sot inclined, an opportunity to gratify mal-t ice or blacken the reputation of reputa- I ble men. A G o1 S110\\1L T. THE FARMER'S ALLIANCE AND !TS POWERFUL INFLUENCE. rnhe New Organization n Most Potent Faciur in the Canvans Tust Closed-Ald ing the Den.-,rat le Party 'ld Antagon iztic to the Itepublican MIachine.s. WASINO TON. No-. 12.-No feature )f the late election ias caused mnore genuine surprise and consternation in he Republican ranks than the results ichieved by the new element in the politics of -he country--the Farmers Alliance. The advent of this new party was iailed with delight by the lRepublican eadeis. They knew its Ptrength would ie mainly confined to the South and :rans-Mississip-pi States. Confident of :heir enormous majorities In such 3.ates as Kansas, Nebraska and '%in iesota, they thoight the Alliance could iot wor. them serious harin, and they iewed the movement as one well cal ulated to break up the existing poli ical lines in the South. At last, they xelaimned with one voice. a olitical orcp has been found which will destroy he Democratic solidity of the South Ld which will split the 1ourbon ohorts in twain. How sadly they de :eived themselves the results of the '?cent elections fully demonstrate. While in the Southern States the Al iance men, almost to a man Democrats. vent in to control Democratic prina ies and conventions. their brethren of he West, lirgely Republicans. held oof frout the o(1 party, and decided to nake their own nominations and go it ilone. The reason for this difference n the poliev of the organization in the wo sections was doubtless due to the act that while in the South the Demo :ratic party was already committed to nany of the prmciples advocated by he Alliance, the llepublican party in he West and clsewhere was committed o no single one of them. The Alliance n the South was satislied i: the mafin vith Democratic policy, and only spired to control that party so as to hape its legislation in certain direc ions, but in the W est the Alliance was eartily disgusted with lepublican )olicv, and it realized that the record 4' the party in Congress left no lope of ecuring any of the desired reforms at ti hands. In Alabama the Alliance nearly suc eeded In nominating the Democratic andidate for Governor. In Georgia, outith Cnrolina, Tennessee and Texas it id succeed in controllng the Demo ratic State Conventions and in placing tIs men at the head of the tickets, and hev have been elected. In some fifteen 'origressional districts in the same ;tates Alliance Democrats secured the inttfation over "regulars." and in tinany others, where they failed, the )emocratic nominees, since electtd, are ledged to the Alliance platform, with he single exception of the sub-Treasury cheme. In at. least two States, Georgia nd Soui'h Carolina, it is believed the liance will control the selection of the nited States Senator. The Alliance n the South has not injured the Demo rat'c partv: It ha merely dominated ts nonmntions in certain icalities. How difTerent the result in the West! n four States hitherto regarded as eritable Gibraltars of Republicanism he Alliance has fairly overwhelmed he Republican ticket. In Kansas a tepublican majority of 80,000 has either ntirely or practically disappeared. ive out of seven districts return Al iance Congressmen, and the Legisla ure chosen will retire Ingalls. in Nebraska the Alliance has almost lected the Governor, and at any rate as coumpassed the defeat of the Rtepub can nomiknee by letting in the Demo ratic candidate. Two Alliance men nd one Democrat are elected to Con ress. The Republican party has been, or the time at least, obliterated. In Minnesota, while the Republicans pparently elect their Governor by an1 pology of a plurality, they have vir-1 ually suffered defeat, for as against the wo opposition parties they are in a opeless minority, and they have lost he live Congressmen and the Legisia South Dakota the Alliance contested 'th the Republicans on equal terms. In MIichigan and Illinois the Alliance lid not put a ticket for State olllcers in he field, but the organization has lected legislative candidates and gen rally contrib~utedl to Republican defeat.1 t maty hold the balance of power in the: linois Legislature and control the letion of a successor to Senator Far Such is the outcome of the Alliance' ovement in the campaign of 1890. The deductions therefrom are pertinent.1 t has shown itself to be a power in: oerican politics, and In future elec ions it Is likely to be a very important: actor. No political movement has ver shown such an azing vitality in uchi a short space of time.1 As itlooks now, the Democraticeparty< eis likely to be the immediate bene ciary of ie Farmner Alliantce -idea." The ret urns fromt the West show con luively that united the D)emocracy nd thme liimee can carry nearly every irge Western State. and even when nniu;g seoaratte tickets the Alliance] raws so heavily fromm the llepublicansi hat it jeoicardizes the stuccess of that1 arty in all the great agricultural States I 1 te Mississippi 'alley. 'There is no ntiont~t that the Alli .nce holds the1 alLnce of nower to-day ini Illinois, owa. Alichigan.. Minnesota. Kansas, ebraka, and probably mn the two Da-] Whichever party secuires its support sure to win in 15l2. WVithout its upport or w.th its hostility the Repub can party Is in a hopeless minority. 'ne States It promnises to control have Iways been considered Republican trongholdis. and they have been added. tp in the Republican colnutm as cer ainly s Georgia, Alabama and Slissis ippi are put in the Democratic coltumn. Vith some of these States voting for a )eicratic candidate, or even casting h i electoral vote for an Alliance can i'ate for President, Newv York ceases o be pivotal and thle issue becomes ich in volved. The liepubtlican party can hope for 1 otiN at thme hands of the Alliance. ie lui.'er owes its creation to the pro: ective tariff policy of time g. o. p. and o its ndifference to the ineeds of the asses. Its aim is to after and annul ie very lh'islation in which the Ilie b lican party avers its absolute he tef. storm-sitriece IEnglmL LoxNioN, Nov. 7.-A heavy sorm revails thurouighout Great liritain and relnd and mnuch danmge has been one. Rain is falling incessantly and n many sections the country is booded.I e (1o)wnp our I is accoi m:Ied b y htigh hinds and' reports have been received *f many houses being unroofed by tie ale. The storm was 's peclally severe 'i t he shore. Telegrams f romn various oints along the coasts state that an normois sea is ritunig and~ that a u uber of coasting vessels have been rrecked. Advices from Belfast state hat a report has been received there] hat a yacht foundered in Belfast ough and that its owner, a Scottish no dean.m ws drowed. 1 DELIGHTED WITH THE r.EU't Y. This is the way P'resident 'ol F4C Ov-er the Eilecton. KANSAs. Nov. 8.-Col. L. L. Poll president of the Farmers' Na'ionu Alliance, is erthused at the grand ri sult, and. In speaking of the iiatte says: "It is what might be termed a polit cal volcano eruption, is It not ?" he sai with an expressive smile. "There 44 two principal reasons. which I thin will embody the primary root of th great revulsion of feellnir. The irst j the fact that the people of Kans~s ar awakening to the importance and al solute necessity of a pronounced pos tion on the part of the people of th north against sectiontalisin. Put it wa left to John .1. Ingalls, in a speech I the icnate characterized by politic malice and sectional party" hate. t touch the match to the magazine, th explosion of which has culminated I the election just held. Several promi nent flepublicans wrote me at tlie tim severelv condemning Ingalls's courst Thev had been his life-long friend: both in a personal and political sensf but they would never countenanc political demagoguery as (lenonstrate in that speech. "A meeting was finaily held in 2.larel at Topeka. at which a resolution wa passed.repudiating any mian who wxoul, support Ingalls in hi! course. Th resolution w.s heartily indors:d .b. thousands, awl ltd to the organizatioi of the late movement. "Sectional agitationm has serveil th purposes of political demagogiues i: the north in holding the ltepublicai party together. When they saw th necessity of abandioning the blood; shirt racket. the 82,00 majority stan peded and swyept the state. I speal fro:n personal knowledge of the statu of opinion in that section, having con versed with thousands this fall, and i %as tuade clear to mue that a determine< effort was going to be made to throv sectionalisu into oblivion. I trus that the patriotic men of the south wil meet these right-miinded people hal way, and co-operate heartily f ith then in establishing those amicable an< mutually beneficial relations whicl cnnot Iut manke our lorious countr: stronger than it has e wer been before. "T Lerecond reason lies in the wofutll depressed financial eonditim of thi farmers of that state. Thev believi that the chief cause of all this (epres son is the discritainating legislatioi of the past twenty-live years, and the are going to work at. the sourCe o rouble-the national legislature. "I aum informed upon good tuthoritl that there are in the state of Kansas to Jay 10,000 sober, industrious. hard working fartners, who are unable e t .o pay the interest on Ahe mtortgage; with which their land and property ar :vered. They a;e hopelessly in deb and can only get relief in financial re lorm. I was prepared to hear ver, ,ood news froum the election, but , must say that the result has surp:tsset Al tny previous anticipations." NEGROES IN INDIANA. . RIot Caiusec at Fairmount by a Negrn Republican Desperado. 1NDIX .'(LIS, Nov. .A lario ind, special to the Sentinel says: Thi Quaker town of Fairmount, twelve mile south of Marion, had its first murde: .ast night in the killing of Coi Paul b: i negro named Tom Uttley. For a timi he affair took on the proportions of iot, and when the smoke of battle clear d away six men had been shot. It wa! he occasion of a Democratic jolliicatioi mnd a knot of the faithful were groupe tround an anvil celebrating the recen ictories. In the party were W. II ampbell, Con Paul. J1. J1. Berry. Lei Iarrington and Jerry Rayser. Ilarring on had charge of the anvil and was doe ng~ tile liring, when Tiomn Uttley, a ne tro of unsavory reputation came up ant rdered the celebration to stop. Iar -ington, frightened, dropped the rod an< tepped back, and Berry, a Kentuckian >y birth and a late arrival at Fairmount :ook his place. lIe was also ordered t( lesist by the negro and, upon his ref usal 2ampbell came to the front and dletiet ttley. Both men wvent for their guns Irawing and firing simultaneoutsly 'hey stood at a distance of ten fee tpart and had fired two shots aplect ,vhen the negro was struck in thme fort iad with a brick. The blow was severe >tt had no effect, and a second after hi vas hit, Uttley wvheeled upon his assail mnt and tired. Paul fell with a bulle: :rough the top of his head, and an ic romif the forehead. By this time Jerr: dayser. colored, became involved in thi ight, and he went to the ground wit] wo wounds through the left leg anc 'ight hipi. After thme shooting of Paul the negr< urned about and ran with the crowd b full chase. The ric~ing became general md he received a bullet. With three 03 our men in pursuit. Uttley ran al ver town. crawledl nuder a barn ant 'as fi'e:dly captured in time Central 110 a citizen and escorted to the otlict f Dr. IHarley. A mob soon gathered urrouding the oilice and crying foi he niegro's blood. In all six men werf ;hot. as follows: Paul. shot in thme head lied this morning at Ui o'clock. Berr: va shot in the cheek and hit with ;toneRaser, colored was shot in th' eg and thigb, Wmn. Cabb, a farmer, ; petator was shot through the calf o: he leg. Uttley wounded in thme back ampbell wounded in the wrist and airn vith stones. Another man supposed tI e from .Somerville was seriouly wound t. At midnight the town was miar proar, and its citizens determined t< tag the negro. but thme riot act wat -ad and the crowd partially disper'sed mt it was not unttil t o'clock this morn g that an opportunity wvas given f'o tealing thme p~risoner away, ie is nov n jail in this city.____ Re'ady to ihick D)own ('it :A, o, November 7.-The Eveii fournal, for many y'ears one of tim tanchest of Rteptublicani papers mi th<n 'urse of a double-leaded editorial or le political situation this afternoon tys: "'-hat now shmall be the liepubli a party's course' ySimply this. tha1 t must live upl to what are its real prin ;iples. The \IeKinley bill must no1 tand unchanged. It must be modiliet n almost every' feature. A national ~aucs of the party has been hed and ts leaders must obey the dictates of thu ~aucus. There is no occasion for delay iutil a Democratic Congress has assemn led. and a Iliepublican senate has giver tssent to thle changes r'equtire'd. 'The tepblicain par'ty is tihe party of time pro le and onie of ref"orm within itself. It ems no0w its opportuniity. IFeni and "rot e. lzt Neck. WI sn!' Ky. Nov. -~ -l I. Kiug, an oild and highly rtespeced m -armtier of Whlitlte county. tell to li o yrn loft 'and broke his neck. ie lived. ar Ikockhold. in thtis county. le was i t aneht D emocrat atnd had just ret urn d from his election precinet and~ lput 11p his horset, and had gotne into tie oft to get hay'. ie never spoke af tir he' fell le wats about 70 years o 1U trtx. 'Tex.. Nov'. 7.-it has beei earned that tree brothlers naimed iteet yore killed att a polliug place twenty oura iessthm of Aunstin in a drunkex Thc )eiocratie party is imt uin nearer to the Alliance in its sympathies and s tendencies. Both advocate tariff re form and low taxes. Both are against monopolies and trusts. The thing which will be likely to keep thetn apart is the now famuous "Sub-Treasury scheme," which would make a pawn rshop of' the United States Treasury Th4is \Alliance article of faith" is some thing the Democratic party never can d and will indorse. It is one of the wild e sahemes which always arise to mar re k form movements, and it seems to be s: vry dear to the Alliance heart. It re s mains to be seen whether the Alliance e members in the Fifty-second Congress will make the adontioa of this project - the price of their support. Had they e held the balance of power, they wculd sdoubtlessly have done so, but as It is. n the Democracy, with its monster ma L jority, is independent of them, were e they three times their present number. e Still the Aliance is likely to 1igure for a some yeais to come in the politics of the country, and it is not unlikely that e its adherents may control the United States Senate at a not very distant day. I Under such circumstances It will un questionably make itself felt in the eI political arena, and for some time it promises to be a quantity not to be despised or ignored.-New York Her ald. A SECRET MARRIAGE. e I I C Romance in Real Life-A Skelton In the Blonnerhassett Closet. et ST. LoUIs, Mo.. Nov. 6.-An extraor i dinarv case has developed through the 1 filing of an application for a change of name by Miss Theresa Blennerhassett, a member of the historical family of that t name. The petitioner is the daughter of s ilichard S. Blennerhassett, the youngest son of the Blennerhassett of Burr con spiracy fame. She states in her petition that Oct. 40, 1871, at Odin, Ills., she was married to John Calvin Adams, and lived with him until November, 1871, but that at the instance of her family she kept her marriage a secret. IHer hus band was killed a few weeks after the marriage, and so, still at the solicitation of her family she continued to be known as Theresa Blennerhassett. In August, 1672, she gave birth to a female child, who was always known as Mary Blen inerhassett. Petitioner says her mother . and all the other members of her family 'are dead, save a twin brother, and her family patronymic is a historic name of r which she is justly proud. -Moreover, she has acquired property since her hus band's death, the title of which in in . vested in her maiden name of Theresa . Blennerhassett. She prays the court to fix and establish her legalname as Ther esa Blennerhassett Aaams. The story back of this petition is ro mantic. Theresa Blennerhassett, in spite of the bitter opposition of her rela- I tatives, fell in love with Adams, who was a traveler for a St. Louis business house. She went on an ostensible visit to rela tives at Odin, and there met and mar imied her lover, and togather they went on a flying trip to the East. She return ed to her home on account of the sud den illness of her mother, and arranged with her husband to follow her in three weeks. Ile did so, but was thrown from the train by an accident and kill ed. The world was in ignorance of the clandestine marriage, and was unfortu nately kept so, even after the birth of the child. The advent of the little one was kept a secret, and Therese Blenner hasset in due time announced that she i had adopted a little girl. Her child has grown up in ignorance of her true rela tion to her foster mother, and is now a beautiful girl of 18. The present pro ceeding, which lay bare a family secret, are brought as much to protect the girl and insure her title, as they are to satis fy th'e mother's longings to have her le gal status deiined. Theresa Elenner hassetL is now about fifty years old and has always been looked upon as an old maid. -____ __ FRIGHTENED BV( A BALLOON. The Panic Which an Airship) Caused Among Russian Peasants. IST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 8.-An ac count which recently appeared in the Novoe Vremya of a balloon voyage from St. Petersburg to a point not far beyond Lake Ladoga conv'eys a strik-1 ing picture of the benighted condition Iof the Russian peasantry, even wIthin a few hundred miles of' the capital.' The balloon in question, containing a Col. Pomostzeff and Count Covauko, descended at a place called Moustoi, in 1the government of Oletz, 300 versts] I from St. Petersburg, and caused a gen- I eral panic. The peasants thought that, >antich rist was descending from the sky, iand that the end of the world was 1 ,come; women screamed, children cried, and all the Inhabitants were well-nigh I out of their wits from fear. Soon from I the wood came thd women who hadi -been gathering mushrooms, running as fast as their legs could carry them. 'A .house,' they cried, 'has come down - from the sky with wonderful stranger4 Sin it!' The peasants thereupon all hid .themselves in the village as best they I could, with the exception of a few bold I fellows, w~hio took their hatchets and I cudgels and proceeded cautiously to< the forest. It was long before these latter, who assisted to convey the appa ,ratus to the village, could prevail upon itheir fellow villagers to come out of >their hiding piaces. The aeroiiputs -spent the night in this village, and in ithe morning marched back, the balloon >being packed on a sledze because there was not a wheeled vehicle in the place. At the next village. Podboria, there was another scene. The descent of the balloon had also beeni observed here. and the inhabitants concluded that it was a visit of holy saints from heaven. So in every' cottage the shrine lamps were lit, and the peasants fell on their knees and prayed the heavenly visi tants to favor their village also with their presence. When, therefore, there appeairedl on the road to Podboria a sledge surrounded by a crowd, the whole villag: w~ent out to meet it, and great was their disappointment on learnig the actual state of affairs. Their Debts they Left Inehind Them'. ] Nl.:w YonK, Nov. 7.--ThomaslHarper, president aindtreasurer of Harper Bros. Company, manufacturers of diecorated: lamps and sha des. at barclay and Church streets, and W~illiam hiarber. manager of a factory at V~anwecrt, Westchestert ('unilty. have dishappear ed, leaving debts reported at itgO ExI ecutionis against the company for 81.3100 andl against the Hi arpers for' 83.00 are in the hanids of< thie. Sheriff', but,'there is nothing to at tach., it is said( they coillectedl all the< cash they could and raised money ont notes before they disappeared.1 Lost He.r Life, for a Mole. eTmIcA co. Nov. 12. - Miss Marion JIones,j aged fouirteen years, was very pretty, but rieved; because her beauty was maa red by a mole on the right cheek. X es terdav hieriparents accompanied her to< the Presbyterian hospital, where she was put under the iniluence of cloro- 1 form and the mole removed by Dr. Char les T.1. Parker. The girl never recovered from the anotsthetic. andt was caried .home unconscious. P'hysicians5 worked twith her all night, but she diedl early MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM DEATH An Engine 1asses Through a Crowded Car Without Fatal Results. CNCic1 xT1, Nov. 7.-A miraculous escape from death by the occupants of the Jacksonville. Fla., sleeping car oL the Cincinnati Southern Ratircad hap pened at Junction City at 3:30 o'clock. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad crosses the Southern at this point, and when train No. 8 of the Southern road had reached the station on schedule time and stopped at the usual place, Middlesboro. directly across the track of the Louisville and Nashville, on the latter road a heavy freight was coming from the West. It should have stopped two hundred feet from the crossing until the track was clear. but for some reason the freight did not stop. It is said that the breaks would not work. At any rate the train came rushing on and struck the sleeper in the centre, the engine plougiling through, breaking the car to pieces and throwing the occupants right and left on either side of the track. The engine left the track and crasned into the baggage room of the Louisville and Nashville depot. Fortu bately the wrecked car did not take fire and no one was killed outright. The injured are: Herbert F. Tousley, Bell vedere. Ill., concussion of the brain; Mrs. S. W. Wheeler, Milwaukee, knee cut slight; Jennie R. White, three years old. Milwaukee, injured tbout the head. These are at Junction City. Kentuckg, under medical treat ment. Others injured were: D. J. Wheeler, Findlay, Ohio, slight scalp ound and bruise on neck; Ered A. Shaler. Findlay, Ohio, slight bruises; David B. Shaler, Findlay, Ohio, com pressiou of the chest. These three are le to travel and will reach this city this afternoon. W. T. Hardie, Jackson ville, Fla.. general freight agent of the Savannah, Florida and Western, was badly injured about the spine; B. N. A.ustin, assistant general passenger igent of the Northern Pacific Railway. St. Paul. Minnesota, was badly injured ternally. These two were brought to lhis city on the delayed train and were taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital. A. sad feature of Austin's misfortune is hat he had gone to Jacksonville, Fla., o take home the body of his mother, vho had recently died and her body was n the baggage car at, the time of the tecident. Austin was in great pain luring his journey to this city, and as ie moaned, lie thought he was dying, d said: "1 shall soon join my moth r." McLean, conductor of the sleep r, was slightly injared, as was also the ngineer of the freight train. Mr E. L. orthrup of Elicotsville, N. Y., was a >assenger in the wrecked sleeper. He rrived here to-day and said he could 2otaccount for the escape of any body n the car. The engine crashed through t with such force that the whole car vas in ruins and the sleeping passen ,rs were thrown" promiscuously among he debris. The delayed train reached incinnati over three hours late, a ittle after ten o'clock to-day. REPUBLICAN REVENGE. Reducing the Wages of Democratic Worlrmen. CLINTON, 0., November 7.-This norning forty-seven Democrats em )oyed by Russell & Co, of Massillon, !uit work because their wages had been -educed 33 per cent. The wages of the lepublicans were not changed, and the nly reason given for reducing the Dem crats' wages was that they voted for ohn G. Warwick, the people's candi late, and against Major McKinley, the 'iend of the monopolists. The city of Iassillon is ablaze with indignation on he part .of the workingmen of both arties against the tyrannical action Ld an indignation mneeting will be held )y the citizens to take action in the natter. The shops of Russell & Co are im nense concerns, in which six or seven mndred hands'find employment in the usy season. over four hundred being ~mployed the year round. The firm nanufactures agricultural machinery, team enaines and similar articles. uring the campaign the Russells, who ire stanchl Republicans, interested them elves deeply in the election of Mr Mc ~imey. Yesterday a large number of Democrats received their cards with the rices revised, a cut of 33 per cent. being nade on every ainicle. Upon hearing it Lieutenant Governor Varwick could scarcely bring himself to elieve it. Investigating the story, he ound it to be only too true, whereupon I said: "What an outrage ! What a shame ! It s terrible, terrible. I am shocked and urprised. indeed, by this mnfamous act. 3riven from work because they voted or me!" At once Mr Warwick began to make reparations to relieve tile men who Lad been so outrageously treated. A legram was sent to Michael D. Harter, 'f tie 15th district, who has large shops .t Mansfield, asking him if h6 conld not nake room for those who had been iracticallv evicted. Shortly after 1 o'clock Mr C. H. Rus ll was accosted at the postoflice by )tto Young, Democratic candidate for 'roate Judge and i leading lawyer of Jassillon. ~Mr Young asked the mannu acturer if it was true that the reduction tad been made. lie was frigidly re ived, Mr Russell evading the question. nsisting upon a reply, Mr Young re cived the harsh response: "Hereafter in our shops free-traders all receive free-trade wages." .J. Walter McClymonds, president of he company, is now in New York. iew York World. Caused a Railway Disaster. SYnACUSE, N. -., Nov. S.-TJhe oroner's jury in the case of the Rock ;ut disaster on the T~elaware and ackawannla and Weste' 1 Railroad on londay evening decidezd that it was *ccasioed by the Ilagmnan and operator ,ichael A. Clark who recklessly and rithout a word raisedl the lever to the withl thereby running one train into be other. Through the Bridge. SAN AN-roNIO, Tex., Nov. 7.-The 1o l freight trainl of the International and reat Northern railroad, which left this it at 4:30 oelock, a. in., went through ie iroii bridge over the Gaudalupe river, hirt miles north of the city. Tile en ~ine'and six cars went down. Fireman Iones and Engineer Hlealy were fatally njutred. China Leads the World. SuA N(;iAi. Nov. 7.-A terrible acci lent has occured at Taipingftu, at wvhich >dace are situated the Government mills 'or the manufacture of gun powder. While the workmen wvere employed Lboult the mills all explosion occurred iid eiitirely demolished the buildings. ['le loss of'life is enormous, three hun tred persons being killed. The cause af te explnsinn is not known. THEY ARE HAPPY. DEMOCRATIC BOYS AT THE CAPITAL HOARSE FROM YELLING. The Greatest Time in Washington Ever Known-Republicans are Exceedingly Blue-Who Is Responsible for the De feat-Reed and the Force Bill. WAsHINGTON, Nov. 8.-The Demo crats have yelled themselves hoarse and are tired of whooping. The poor old Republicans in this town hunted their holes early, and they have not the slightest deisre to make their appear ance in public places In large numbers since. Here and there you could meet a group of Republicans, and they are truly a mournful set. A conversation overheard was to this effect: First Republican-We seem to have been avalanched. Seco n d Republican-Avalanched? Worse than that, my boy. I never saw anything like it. A few prominent Republicans now in the city cannot be induced to express any opinions on the result. They are simply stunned, and have, as a rule, no theory, except that it is a rebuke to President Harrison. They are not will ing to admit that the tariff and election bills and Porter's census have been re sponsible for the avalanche, but insist on placing most of the blame on poor, unpopular President Harrison. It is no secret here that.the rank and file of the Republicans regard Harrison as a distinct failure in the executive chair, and now that the Democrats have ap parently captured the earth, they are abusing Mr. Harrison, and are trying to throw the whole blame upon his shoulders. The Democrats are. quietly enjoying their great victory, and those who come down town are constantly dropping in to the newspaper offices to hear the latest returns. The returns from the congressional districts In all portions of the country continue to be of the most encouraging character, and there was no let up for the Democrats in the gains. Some of the Democrats began to hope that the gains would cease, as the number of Democrats elected to the house was frightfully large; but they finally began to laugh, and, as the thing was running their way, declared that they might as well have a hundred majority in the lower branch of congress as fifty. Some of the Republicans, remember ing Treasurer Hustod's recent remarka ble Interview in regard to President' Harrison and the Lord, are wondering whether Harrison or the Lord carried Indiana for the Democrats. Great interest was felt here in the contest in Cooper's district in Indiana. The hirelings of Raum and "Pension Shark" Lemon confidently expected that the young Democrat would be laid out, but they had long faces when they hunted the returns. Every bul letin Indicates the triumphant re-elec tion of Hon. Geo. IV. Cooper. It is believed that Raum's days in the pension office are numbered. The ad ministration is bound to unload him. He has been practically condemned by the house committee, who investigated him and he has been in some nasty scandals. The henchmen of Lemon and Raum are gnashing their teeth over the news from Cooper's district, for the latter has won, in spite of the slush fund of Lemon and the ranting of Raum on the stump in Indiana. The Democrats here are keenly re joicing over the defeat of McComas, in Maryland. He went out of his' way to make a mean, bitter speech in favor of the infamous force bill, and his people have severely rebuked him. One of the sweetest pieces of news that came from the west was that Row elI, the chairman of the house commit tee on elections, had been defeated in the Bloomington district in Illinois. Rowell Is one of the rankest radicals in the house, and It was he who led the deviltry that resulted in the robbery of so many seats in the present house. There Is not adoubt that old Virginia and Maryland have each elected solid Democratic delegations to congress, making a net gain of three in each state. The returns received here indicate that this was a bad year for the Democratic bolters and soreheads. Frank Hume tried to beat Gen. "Rooney" Lee In the Virginia district just across the river, but Gen. Lee's majority is larger than ever. Hume has plenty of money and spent it liberally, but principle knocked out boodie in that contest, and Hume wvishes now that he had kept outof the way of the engine. Congressman Gear, of Iowa, the Re publican who has been knocked out, is a member of the committee that framed the high tax bill, and is an ex-governor of his state. It is the general opinion here that if the Maine election for congressman had taken place in November instead of in September, Boss Reed might have had a shaking up. too. The question is being asked on the streets, "Will Boss Reed and Henry Cabot Lodge now have the gall to press the force bill?" There is great rejoicing here among the Democrats that "Kreutzer Sonata" Cannon has been defeated in the fif teenth district of Illinois. When the bulletin came in practically concedin his defeat, the Democrats chuckle greatly. One of the greatest surprises commented on here is the reported election of four Democratic congress men in the city of Chicago. Election News Items. NEW YORK. Nov. 10.-The esti mates of the morning papers on the complexion of the next congress this morning, with the exception of.The Trie bune, vcry nearly agree. The Herald makes the Democratic majority 141. The World 145, The Times 152 and The Tribune 129. TroPEKA. Kan., Nov. 10.-The legis lature is now apparently against the re election of Senaftor Ingalls by fifteen votes at least, and possible twenty four MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 10.-The latest returns tram South Dakota show* that the result is an Alliance victory and Louck is elected governor. The legislature will also be Allhance, the Republicans conceding the defeat of Senator Moody. ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 10.-The official and unofficial returns from all ex cept seven counties in this State, give Merrain, Republicans, 73,628, and Wil son, Democrat, 76,353. Both parties still claim the state, the Republicans by 1,000 and the Democrats by 600. A Political Conspiracy. BOSTo.'. Nov. 7.-A snecial to thCf Globe from Nashua, N. H., says that there is no doubt that the liepuablicans will have a special session of the present Legislature called for De cember. It .is now Republican by thirty-five majority, and the terms of the members do not expire untIl Janu ary. They will then officially recog nize the new census returns, and will admit new members, giving them a majority in the Legislature. A con ference of leading Republicans is being held on the matter at Concord to-day.