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POETKYtT L'Honiae **rop>?e; <*r, P\r?t Prop o^U. Frn<u tie #?t fixe tigdt is softly heading. Wnh i? *ol<J?n ^M^torurtwiy sireatuiag - tlut 'Hi ibe tiej?ihs of sky. Aa?i HfftifT*. fly ?f??Jy JeI swifts by; { Tfce br?i* of Ed** >u?g btfUxeiy in the tree#; \ .The harp*;#" a?gr?* into harmonies (Jlf&Stlaf griurflenr Areata shades a *i?ovsan<3 odors from his ??" silken wfngs: / "F^v wiih streaaia . of *h?de and light gluriuBsIy berings The forecurfaia of ijigit. * ; Down ia ihe depths oftiie garden of Gysiatk: Sej^ Two fornix oforigin sopernal outline yields In tJ?e fading hjht. "Pon her cheek is the enchanting bloom of love Softened by lustrous eyes above Tne splendor of the stars. If? on beaded knee below His rapturous gaze on her doth best?*: Breathing lo^r-facpunting it again and o'er, : Prays ler, ittploresfer, to behis fcrevermore. ^ Sfce m:.th beauteous brow and tremblieg tip, By golden slippered IriV fingers tipped. Averts her bead and in si'.eiyx gives consent ? - Site breathes, with happiness Suppreet ? He ia urass porta beyond the blest, ' Siaks into rhapsody. Ok, glorious Venn?! Goddess of lots, In the stiHsled seas of heaven above, N, Pinnacled in the cerulean depths of light, ? i - Born 10 shine forever bright On Terra below, Place thy begemmed mantle aside Glance behind the tide ' - Of empyrean bine; x look! behold an impersoneile of thee Striking chords of tneiody Its 'Vie' heart Of SUA. F*vr>r with fortune's laughing sprite, IWfan by iephyrean angels bright Th*se at thy shrine; * In each strike np a symphony of heart That thro' time shall ne er depart , . From these, thy slav es. ? l ull BY TAlMAGq H? IS ON A PREACHING TOUR OFj TEN DAYS ?N THE SOUTH. / Preaches on tbe Great Circles [ : of God'd Provi<2ence ana the Moral government of the World? Beccr \ *1*% Cycles of History. N, A'tUiSTA, Jan. 15. - Rev. Dr. Tal V Wge, xho is now making a tea days' tour -ofv the Southern cities, preacfaicd ? here t oday. The throngs in and - around the audience hail were b%ond estimate. Tne subject chosen w&a ? "The Circle of the Earthy the text being Isaiah xl, 22, "It is he that sitteti: upon tbe circle of the earth." Whiie yet people thought that the ^wt-S fiat, and thousands of years J>efore they found out that it was round, Isa&b* in my text, intimated the shape o t it ? God *ittiug upon the j circle At the earth. The most beauti ful figure iu ali geometry is the circle. God m^de the u inverse on the plan of I jh i circle. There are in ?he natural ; / world straight Hues, angles, parallelo grams, diagonals, quadrangles, c but these evidenthrftte nofGod's favorites. -Almost everywhere where you will - j find him ggometrizing you find the Circle dominant, and if not the circlef then tbe curve, which is a circle that | died young. If it had lived long f enough it would have been a full - 4 orb ? a periphery. - An ellipee is a circle pressed only a little too hard at tbe aiden. ?[ - Giant's Causeway, in Ireland, shows J what [?WL ihiniw of mathematics. There ire over 85,000 columns of j rocks? -diagonal, hexagonal, penta gonaL These rocks seem to have been made % rule aod by compass Every artist baa his molding room, where he may make ?% shapes, but he ctooses ^ shape as preferable to ill others. will jot say that, the-Giant's Cause way was the world's molding room, but I do say out of a great many fibres God seems to have selected the pirele as the best *It is he that sitteth on the circle of the earth." The 8ta:*s in a circle, the moon in a circle, the sun in a circle, the universe in a ci rcle, lie throne of God gEel csBg rfthat cirnle. nxjo ooild churches they t)ught to imitate the idea of the Great Architect and put the audience in a circle, knowing that the tides of emo tioajtoll more easily that way than in straight lines. Six thousand years ago God Sung, this -world out of his rigat hand, but he did not throw it ^fV? JvJtraight line, but curvilinear, With ajjei&h of Jove hold ing^t so as to back again. .The world start his hand pure and Edenic. been rolling on through regions oi fiwrai ice and distemper. How it w 11 roll God only knows, but. 1 m due time make Complete cir aad come back to the place it started? the hand of God? Edenic. "*? ;y ? 'v j _ EESUMEB. 2 Th* historV-oTl^ world goes in a f?ie. Why is it that the shipping ay is improving so rapidly? o? mode} of JSmOi's i\pentep gives that ia his opinion. At ; though ao much derided by small wits ga^sfcp of Noah's time beat the Majestic and the Etruria Ad the City ofcParis, c f which we boast stf* much. Where is the slnp on the sea to-day that could outride a deluge in whwh l and the earth were wreck % all the passengers in # of each kind of living thousands of species? gy will go on ?til after many cen wiil have plums and be paradisaical. The *? grow for cen tre Dowaibga'and rid have done their ! fcring with #its able to make some winddWof ?*???? built in We , are six centuries behind those artists, but the world most keep ofc until it shall make the Vircait and come up to the skill of very men. ; j . If tfe world eontinces to improve in masonry we shall have after awhile, perhap* aifer the advance of centuries, jmortar iwjjad to tjtet which! saw iaat sumaaer in the wall of an exhumed English, t ity, felt in the time of the ^BoiaifcJ^OO -years ago ? that mor r-ar to-dMpgood as the day in which it was lade, having outlasted the brick and the stone. I say, aifcer hun dreds of y<5ars, masonry may advance that poc at If the world stands load ^HCgfa we may have a city as $arge at " tibey had in old times ? Babylon five times the size of London. You into the potteries in Eag ]ang awl you $od them making cap* SfcL ?' 6* and vases after the style of the cups J and vases exhumed from Pompeii, The world is not going back. Oh. u<>; but it is swinging in a circle and will come back to the styles of pottery kuown^0 long ago as the days of Pompeii. The world must keep on progressing until it makes the com plete circuit. The curve is in the right direction; the curve will keep on ; until it becomes the circle. B THE EVER REVOLVING WHEEL. Well, now, my5 friends, what is true in the material j universe is true in God s moral government and spiritual arangefoent That is the meaning of Ezekiel's wheel All commentators agree in saying that the wheel means God's providence. Bat a wheel is of no use unless it tu?n, and H it turn it turns aroun<^ and if it tun* around it moves in a circle. What then? Are we parts of a great iron machine whirled around ^whether we will or not, the victimes of inexorable fate? No! So far from that, I shall show ycu that we ourselves start the circle of good or bad -actions and that it will surely come around ag&in to us unless by divine intervention it be hindered. Those bad or good actions may make die circuit of many years, but come back to us* they will as certainly as that; sits on the circle of the earth. " ! Jezebel, the wbrsfc- woman of th?r Bible, slew Naboth because she wanted^ has vineyarf. While the dogs were eating the body of Naboth, Elisha the ptophet put <iown( his compass and marked a circle from the dogs clear around to the dog$ that should eat the body ot Jezebel the murderess. - "Im possible!" the people said; '-that will never happen." Who is that being flung out of the palace , window? Jezebel. A few hours after they came abound hoping to bury her. They find only the palms of her hands and the skulL The dogs that devoured Jezebel and the dogs that - devoured Naboth! Ob, what a^swift, what an awful circuit! i A RETURN TO THEOCRACY. But it is sometimes the case that this circle sweeps through a century dr through many centuries. The world started witl|; a theocracy for government ? that is, God was the president and emperor of the ' world. People got tired of a theocracy. They said, * We don't, want God directly interfering with the af&irs of the. world; give us a monarchy." The world h?#lf a monarchy. From a monarchy it is going to have a limited monarchy. After awhile the limited monarchy wilj.be given up, and the republican lorm of government will be everywhere dominant and recog nized.; Then the world will get tired of the republican form of government, and.il will have an anarchy, which is no government atVil. And then all nations, finding outltra^ man is not capable of righteously governing man, will cry out for a theocracy and say, i4Let God come back and conduct the affairs of the world." V . ? Every step ? monarchy, limited monarchy, republicanism, anarchy ? only different steps between the first theocracy and the last theocracy, or segments of the great circle of the j earth on which God sits. But do not become impatient because you cannot see the curve ok events, and therefore conUude that God's government is going to break down. History tells us that in the making of the pyramids it t<>ok 2,000 men two years to drag one "great stone from the quarry and putiit into the pyramids. Well, now, if men short lived can afford to work so slowly as that, can not God in the building of the etern ities afford to wait? What though vGod should take 10,000 years to draw k circle? Shall we take our little watch, which we have to wind uj^ every night lest it run down, and bold it up besicle the clock of eternal ages# If, according to the Bible, a thousand .yeaite are in God'ssight as one day, then, according to that calculation, the $,000 years of the world's exist ent have been only to God as from Moiiday ^Saturday. GOOD RETURNS AFTER MANY ViYS. But .it is often the case that the re bound is quicker and the circle is sooner completed. You resolve that you will do what good you can. In one week you put a word of counsel in the heart of a Sabbath school child. During that same week you give a letter of introduction to a young man struggling in business. During the same week yon make an* exhortation in a prayer meeting. ^ It is all gone; you will never bear -of ir, perhaps you think. A few years after a man come? up to you and says, "You don't know me, do you? You say, "No, I don't re member ever to have seen you." "Why," he says, "I was in the Sab bath school class over which you were the teacher. 'One Sunday you invited me to Christ I accepted the offer. 3You see that, church with two towers yonder?" "Yes," you say. He says, -That is where I preach," or, "Do you see that governer's house? 1|j^t is where I live." One day a man comes to ydu and says, "Good morning." You look at him and -say, "Why, you have the advantage of me; I cannot place you.% J&e says^Don't you re member j&irty years ago giving a let ter of introduction to a young man, a letter of introduction to Moses H. Grianell?" "Yes, yes, I do." He sa^s: **I am the man; that was my first step toward a for tune^ but I have retired from business now and am giving my time '? - Ori a comes to yoa and says: "I w*nt t? introduce myself to you. I wentlinto a prayer meetiogin Atlanta some years ago; I safe back by the door; I you arose to make an exhorta tion; fiat talked chaoged the course of mjj life, and if ever I gettojheaven, under God I will owe my salvation to | you."' In only ten, twenty or thirty I years the circle swept out and swept | back : again to .your own grateful heart, < ' ; ^ J But sometimes it is a wider circle i ftiwt does not return for a great while, i I saifa biU of expenses for burning ' $nd Ridley. The bill ot ex One loatf at fir ? 3s. 4d. C*rtagfe for four loads of wofcd....... 2s. Item, a post.....' ls.*4d. Item, two cbaina.... ...3s. 4d. Ittttt, $wo staples L A 6d. Item, iurr laborers i That was cheap fire, considering all j the ciacumsiantes, but it kindltxi a : iigfet that shone ait ar<5:<nd the world j and aroused the mart vr spirit, and out j f*>ai that burning of Latimer "and j Ridley rolled .the circle wider and wider, started other circles, pon vol ut ing* overrunning, circumscribing, overarching all heaven ? a circle. ' | . * CIKCLS OF EVIL SPEAKING. Bat what is true of the good is just ? as true" of the bjui. You utter a slau- i der against your neighbor. It ifas ; gone forth from your teeth; it will j never coro^ack, you thin k. You have done tbe fe?an all the niischiefyou can. You rejoice to see him vinc&? You say, "Didn't I give it to fiim!" Tbaj Wori has gone out, that slanderous word, on its poisonous and blasted way. You think it will never do you any harm. But I am watching that; word, and I see it beginning to curve, | and it curves around, and it is aiming I at your heart. Yeu had better tlodge j it. You cannot dodge it j It rolls into your bosom an$ atter it rolls in a word of an old book,* which says, "With what measure ye mete^ it shall be measured to you again," ' * You maltreat an aged parent. You ? begrudged him the room in your house. You are impatient of his i whimsicalities and garrulity. It makes you mad to hear him tell the sameistory twice. You give him food he cannot masticate. You wish he was away. *You wonder if he is going to live forever. He will be gone very soon. His steps are shorter and shorter. He is going to stoj$ But j God lias an account to fettle with you on that subject After awhile your eye wull be dim,' and your gait will halt, and the* sound of the grinding will be low, and yon will tell the same story twice, and your children will .wonder if you are going to live forever and wonder if you will never be taken away.: | , ? They called you "father" once; they call you the "old roan." If you live a few years longer they will call you the )'old cba^ What are Ibose rough words with winch your children are accosting you?' They are the echo of ?he jvery words you used in the fear of your old father forty years ago. What is that whieh you are irjingto chew,J)ut find it unmasticable, and your jftws ache, you surrender the attempt? Perhaps it may be the gristle which y$u gave to your father for his break faft forty years agfL j A gentleman passing aloft. the street saw a son dragging, his farther into the street jiy the hair of the head. The gentleman, outraged at this brutal conduct, was about to punish the offender when the old man arose and said, "Don't hurt him; it's all right; forty years ago this morning I dragged out my father by the hair cf his head!" It is a circle. My father lived into the eighties, and he had a very wide experience, and he said that maltreatment of parents was always punished in this world. Other sins may be adjourned, to the next world, but maltreatment of parents is punish- i ed in this world. they7circle around to judgment The circle turns quickly very quickly. Oh, what * a stupendous thought that the good and the evil we start come back to u??! , Do you know that the Judgment B&y will be only the points at^bich ^circles join, the good and the $Wb$&&ave j done com ing back to tis, unless diviue in tervention hinder ? coming back to us with welcome of delight or curse of condemnation Ob, I would like to see Paul, the invalid missionary, at the moment ^when his influence comes to lull orb ? his influence rolling out through Antioch, through Cyprus, through Lystra, through Corinth, through Athens, through Asia, through Europe through America, through the First century, through five centuries, through twenty centuries, through all the cceeding centuries, through: earth, through heaven, and at last, the wve of. influence having made full circuit, strikes his great soul. Oh, then I would like to ste him! No one cau tell the wide sweep of the 1 circje\f his influence save the one ! who is^aied on the circle of the earthy p I jSnould not want to see the couute naaceof Voltaire when, his influence comes to full orb. When the fatal hemorrhage seized him at eighty-three years of age his influence did not ct-asr. The most brilliant man of his century, he had used all h's faculties for ?s*?uiiiog Christianity, his bad influence widening through France, widening- out through Germany, widenicg through all ?urope, wideu j ing thi^ngh America, widening through the 11c* years that have gone by since he died, widening through earth, widening throuth hell, until at last the accumulated influence of his bad life in fiery surge of omnipotent I wrath will beat agaiust hj^ destroyed spirit, and at that momenfTit will be enough to make the blacjjc hair of ; eternal darkness turn whit&kwith the j horror., No one can telllj&w that | bad man's influence girdled the earth | j save the one who is seated on the ! circle of the earth ? the Lord Al mighty. "Well, now," say people in this ; audience, "this in some respects is j a very glad theory and in others a very sad one; we would like to have | all the good we have ever done come j back to us, but the thought that all ! the sins we have ever committed will come back lous fills us with affright." LJbiave to tell you God can break tfauit circle and will do so at yoar call, I can bring twenty passages of Scripture to prove that whpi 0od for Christ's sake forgives a .man the! sins of his past life never come back, j The wheel may roll on and roll on, ; but you taae your position behind the j cross, snd the wheel strikes the cross j and is shattered forever. Trains fly off from the circle int^the~p^rpendiciHj kr, felling at right angles w^. coxa plete oblivion. Forgiven! Forgiven! j The meanest tiling a man can do is, J after some difficulty has been settled, ; to bring it up again, and God will not be' so mean as . that. God's memory is mighty enough to hold all j the events of the ages, bot- there is one thing that is sjure to slip his; memory, one thing he is sure to for- 1 I get, and that is i>ardoned transgression. ? t? ~ %*r How do I know it?" X wilVfwfcve iiv "Their sins and their annuities will I remember no. more.1'' Come in to thit state this morning, my dear' brother, my jdear sister. "Blessed il I the one whose transgressions are forgiven.'' , ' TETE CiBCLE OF GLORY. i Bfit do not make the mistake of thiokiog that this doctrine of the circle stops with this life; it rolls on through heaven. You might quote in opposition to me what St. John says about the city of heaven. He says it "lietb four square." That does seem to militate against this idea, but you know there is meaty a square house that has a family circle facing each other, and in a circle moving, and I can prove that this is so in regard to heaven. St John says, "I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beast?, and the elders." | - Again he says, "There was a rain bow round about the throne,1" The former two instance a circle; the last either circle or a semicircle! The seats faciYg eacfc other, the angels facing eaca other; the men facing each other. . Heaven , an amphitheater of glory. Circumference of patriarch and prophet ana apostle. Circum^ ference of Scotch Covenanters and legion and Theban Albigenses. Cir cumference of . the good of all ages. Periphery of . splen dor unimagined and indescribable. A circle! A circle! But every circumference must have a center, and what is the center of this heavenly- circumference? Christ. His all the glory. jSis all the praise. His all the crowns. All heaven wreathed into a garland round about him. Take off the the imperial sandal from his foot and behold the scar of the spike. Lift the coronet of dominion from his brow and see where was the laceration of ihe briers. Come closer, ail heaven. Narrow the circle around his great heat. 0 Christ, the Saviour! 0 Christ, the man! O Christ, the God! Keep thy throne forever; seated on the circle of the earth, seated on the circle of the heaven! On Christ, the sohd rock, I stand; All other ground is finking sand. ODDS AND ENDS. % Never dispute a woman or coax a man. The electrotype was the work of Spen ser in 18&7. A rainbow in the morning is the shep herd's warning. , ? The father of George Frederick Han del was a country doctor. If bats flutter and beetles fly about, there will be fine weather. There is no motion of progression so delightful as riding on horseback. A paste made of equal parts of lard and powdered chalk will cure corns. It is asserted that the oldest building in the world is the Tower of London. While slicing ham a lady in PottetoWn, Pa., found a silver thimble embedded therein. * . i\ ? The drive well, one of the simple# of inventions, has yielded its inventor $2,000,000 in royalties. . j \ For the earache, drop one drop of sweet oil up in the ear and place a piece of cotton in the outer ear. Experts say that dalmatian powder shaken over flower beds will drive away nearly all kinds of insects. Hejrod the Great was the first Hebrew king who imported into his realm Ro man modes of "society life." At an ordinary temperature mercury in an equal quantity in bulk weighs about two-thirds more than gold. Emerson "made every man give him of his best." Montaigne declared that "listening is the better half of conver sation." ? The fndian exhibit at the World's fair will inclrfde representatives -of every tribe from 'the extreme north -to Terra del Fuego. ' A semaphore post on which three men were at work in England was fuiled over by a locomotive that came along and became entangled in the wire stays. -One of the men.was killed and the others vwere mortally hurt. ? _ When Seward Was Little Known. William H. Seward used to tell a story that seemed to give him great joy to repeat. When be was a member of the state senate the first, time he re ceived a message from one .of the most distinguished politicians in New York asking for an interview. Mr. Seward felt pleased to be honored thus, and arraying himself in his Sunday clothes, which consisted of a blue broadcloth coat, cut swallow tail fasfiion, light col ored trousers strapped oyer the gaiters, a very-higfe~4ickey collar and stiff stock and a bell crowned beaver h*t, he went to call ion jthe distinguished man. He was received in the parlor, and the poli tician, while courteous, was cold and distant, treating him with the utmost formality. Mr. Seward said, "I thought perhaps you had some special business with me." V "No, sir; I do not thinVof any? in fact, I supposed you were paying me a call of mere respect." "But I received a message from you." "I do not remember to have sent one. I am expecting this afternoon a visit from Senator Seward. Maybe my re quest has miscarried. I did not catch your name." "Why, I am Senator Seward, gen eral." , j The politician arose fti5m his seat, went toward Seward, put his hands on his shoulders and said: "Well, senator, you will pardon me, I know. I supposed you were a young beau who had called with a lurking desire to meet my daugh- i ter.4 Let me apologize by saying that you have indeed an old head on young shoulders." Then he abandoned his formal man ner, and an intimacy was begun which lasted for years.? New York Stin. Still H? Was Happy. At one of the sessions of the St. Ixmis conference of the Methodist Episcopal church Itev. Dr. Shumate, of Glasgow, H6.,i related the following anecdote, which brought down the hodfr: "Some Methodists o? an emotional 'type Were holding an ol$ fashioned meeting in a : grove. Under the inspiration of hearty singing and fervfcnt prayers they became shouting happy, and jumping up and down like plantation negroes at a revi val made vie woods ring with 'haltelu- ; iahs.7 Oral man who was more demon strative wan the rest, and who wished' particularly to emphasize the fact that religion agreed with? him, kept waving his arms in the. air and exclaiming, 'Glory to Godf Emhappy ? 'In one of hiray sweeping gestures he struck the limb of a tree, knocking down a hornets' nest, Some of th* hor j^ets crawldfc up his pantaloons' ^and stung him. Clntching frantically at his breeches he yelled: ^Brethren; there 4? something on me. Yes, there is ? there is something on me. But, glory to God,Tm nappy r "?St Louis Olobe-Democral : ] ? THE BAR. ?jf&lb OF-THE CELEBRATED' ^ "ailhoao ta|c cases*' : 1 c??* - "?"???? su?? MatUr Start b> DecUrto, th?t it ha. no Jurisdiction over the Matter in Dfepate. Washington, January 12.-Dur ; ng the argument of Q& South Caro l.na caress the Supfreme Court to day Chief Justice Fuller stopped ^ rr for tbe raiiroads 3?the announcement that the Court has no Cat ^ " the <aSe- This w? ? represent,^ the railroaAnd e state authorities, and the decision of bo Court will probab]y ^ the Til lman ilea to rejoice, for it ? a I"8 kI110? J* " ?ertaio of methods of their taxation. , * thIb,tCriefJU6tiCe '9tated' howeTer> that the Court was not prepared to go Info the merits of the case/tut was convinced that thejsgurt haS no jurisdiction, and! therefore further argument would be unnecessary The sndden termination of^ argument, after, the counsel had bee* detained here since last Prhjay, occasioned considerable disappointment, especial Jy among the raiL-oad men. opened the. argument on behalf Of the State authtfitiea, and up. Smitt ^'T? 0tbk "niarks Mr Smith proved to present the ar gument for? the railroads ? aediatety certain/ members 'of the Court .plied Mrtyiith with questions, all of which seemed to indicate that ^, "r \ ted its jon^diction to deal with the question, invoked After Mr Smith finished hisargunjfent -Ir Fit zaimmons, also representing the ailroads, began to supplement ' and reinforce the statements made bt Mr midst of this argument the Chief Justice held a whispered consultAion with his Associates and then announced that tbe Court did ?ot care to hear further argument, as it - was clearly of the opinion that it fcad nojunsdiction, to consider the case. ,frMp.,Barou w*> ^ have followed Mr hiusimmons on behalf of tbe rail roads aud then Speaker Jones was to the C?> tV 'DS arKUInent for the State. The action of tbe Court to fkPI ^ct,c*to rever8es the decision of the Court few, which was in favor of the rajlmids. Those who are Snn'rp" ^'h the Pract'oe Of the Supreme Court say that the an nouncement of tbe Chief Justice of the retusul.to hear further argument without passing upon the menu of the guw cuts but little figure in tbe proceedings. The failure of the Court Jo take jurisdiction in itself virtually decides the case in favor of the State authorities. R M. j * ?J*he Senate Order of Washington, Jan, 16. ? There was a caucus of Republican Senators this morning to arrange the order of business to follow the auti option bill, 'which is expected to be disposed ot Wednesday. Nothing final was done, for two reasons: First, because of the slender attendance; secoud, because there was a difference of opinion that coula not be adjusted in the brief time that the caucus was in session. The difficulty arose from the efforts of certain Senators to bind the caucus to take up the silver repeal resolution immediately after the antrBption bill. As was to be expected, the silver Sen ators! bitterly resisted this attempt, andthe caucus adjourned to meet to morrow, when it is hoped there will be a better attendance. '-J ' i? '? Republican Dig&flter In Colorado. Denver, Jan. 16. ? The Republican majority iu the- lower house o? the Legislature today became a minority by the bolt of Representative Funderburgb, who has gone over to the fusion ists because of a failure to secure all the patronage he thought he was entitled to. The present organization is threatened, and the scenes of two years ago are likely to be repeated, when the regularly elected Speaker was supplanted by a fusion Speaker. The Republicans are doing everything i in therr power to bring their bolting mem))er back into the traces, but he knows his power, and the fusionists are bidding him for his support. The West Virginia Senatorships. I Chableston^W. Va., Jan. 16. ? The senatorial caucus will probably be held tomorrow night, bus this will not be definitely settled until to morrow morning. At present Faulkner seems to lead,- with Chilton as the probability as Kenna's successor. However, the Camden men are still claiming the election of their favorite, and there is some talk of a compromise, Camden to accept the short term. Is Generally So. Sam: Say John, don't you thiuk that's wrong? John: What's wrong? Sam: Taking chances in raffling, of course, the thing you have just done. John: I can't say that I. think so. j By the way, Sam, you:^ went to the Opera a few nights ago; don't you thinkth&t's wrong? ; Samf '?'Well?' no, I can't say that I *fckkso.";j ; f (Tha friends very sensibly conclud ed there was a alight difference of opinion existing, and the conversation was permitted to "drop."' Good Man for State Printer. 1 ? ' '? ^ Some days ago it was mentioned that Gov. Tillman had decided to have tjie dispensary act printed in pamphlet form. Bids for 1,000 copies were aSked for. , Bids were submitted as follows: * Bryan Publishing Company, $26; C. A. Calvo, $50; J. ? L. Berg, 835; a Charleston firm, $30; and Hugh Wil son, Abbeville, $8. Mr Wilson's bid being sp wonderfully low the contract was yesterday awarded to him. ? The wfc * . ? ? t ' ?? ' ? ? o: y- ^ \ ELECTION OF SENATORS. ^ The Hon?e Decide* they Should be Cb * by the Popular Vote. # W AsflrNGTOx, JaD. 16.? Ill the House, the demand for the regular order from Mr Kilgore prevented the consideration of several private bills which members desired to call up. Then, for almost an hour, the time of the House was consumed in the con sideration of a resolution to which there was not the slightest opposition i 2 in any quarter, and which was finally" adopted without objection. It was one calling upon the executive de partments for information as to the number and amount of war claims al lowed or disallowed by such depart ments. Then a motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill to settle the claims of Arkansas and other States under the swamp land grants failed to secure the necessary two third vote, and was therefore defeated. Mr Chipman, from the committee on election of President and Yice PresidenX, moved to suspend the rules and pa^Fa jpint resolution providing for the election of Senators by popular *^k>te. ? Mr Lodge, Senator-elect from Mas sachusetts, demanded a second. The republicans refiained Irom vot ing, and left the House without a quo rum, although it was but three short. Then Mr Reed moved for a call of the House. Mr Reed's motion was defeated ? yeas, G, navs, 181 ? and the tellers re sumed their places. A quorum ap peared, and the motion to suspend the rules was seconded. In a minute or two speech Mr Lodge opposed the measure, but the motion to suspend the rules and pass it was agreed to without a division. The House then at 4.20 adjourned. CARLISLE AND THE CABINET. Gen. Stevenson's High Estimate of the V Kentucky Statesman. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 16. ? Geu Stevenson, the Vice-President-elect, is in the city, the guest of Mrs \Steven son's sister, Mrs Scott. He arrived here yesterday morning from Nash vflJe^ where he attended the Jackson Day ball, and is accompanied by his relative and law partner, Col James S. Ewing. Geu Stevenson will b^ the guest of the Commercial Club a^Jhe annual dinner at the Gait. House to morrow night, and is down on the program for a speech. Gen Stevenson expressed his con viction that Carlisle's reported accept ance of the Treasury portfolio would give general satisfaction. "I know nothing of what has passed between Cleveland and Carlisle," he said, "but from what I have read, it seems to be settled that the great Keutuckiau will hold a place iu the cabinet Mr Carlisle is an able fiuancier, and con servative on all questions pertaining to the country's financial life, and Mr Cleveland is to be complimeuted on his choice." "Will there probably be an extra F session of Congress-?" was asked. '*1 am not in a position to say, ' was I the reply. "It ail lies witu Mr Cleve | laud. As to whether the necessities or' exigencies require the bidding of an extra se-sion, I would prefer not to discuss the matter." The Mischief That Humor "The manner in which rejKjrts about anything become exaggerated as they j travel from mouth to mouth on the shoul ders of babbling rumor w$s conspicu ously eiemplified in my town' ten yeara ago," said 0. J. Elgin, of Akron. 0. "About 9 o'clock one morning a runaway horse dashed through the plate glass window of one of the biggest banks in the city. The incident, of course, caused considerable excitement for a moment, and as the news of it spread through town some nervous and excitable indi vidual connected the words Tun' and 'bank' in an ominous way. This idiot soon we*? convinced that there was a run on the bank, and he so told all the shop people in his neighborhood. That was enough. Nothing more was needed. _ By 12 o'clock that day there were hundreds of money mad and frenzied men and women around that bank scrambling to withdraw their deposits. "The broken plate glass window only served to increase their excitement, and all attempts by the bank officials to ex plain the situation were howled down. By tte closing hour in the afternoon thousands of dollars had been drained from the vaults of the bank, and 'out for other banks coming to the assistance of the unfortunate institution that night by distributing circulars around the city telling depositors that they (the other banks) would cash all checks properly certified on the bank with the broken plate glass window the run would havt continued the next day and resulted in 'busting' the bank, for there is no insti tution that can withstand a run without warning." ? St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Leading Him On. 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