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pmr PKmdlv in sunli^hi l^flRjjjDess. still gaily' they ^Kprend, *VA KM/r"htr/1 tV?c. Irn/'lx* ? tw? dead; But the miaitttoe clings to the oak act, in part, But with, leaves closely round it, the root, n; its heart. Exists but to twine it?imbibe the same dev. Or to la 11 with its loved oak. and perish th ere too. Thus let'a love 02 e another 'niidit sorrosvs the worst. Unaltered and fond as we ioved at the first., Tbo' the felse wing of pleasure may change and forsake. * And the bright urn of wealth into p articles brtak; There are some sweet affections that wea th cannot buy. That cling bat still closer when sorrow draws / nigh ; _ And remain with as yet though all else pass away? Then let's love one another as long as we stay. DR. TALMAGE IN SYRIA. i:- ? ?; ?- A StRMON SUGGESTED BY THE. LOCALITY AND SEASON. There Are Mauy That Will Be Saved, for . the Great Triumph Is Yet to Come?The Earthly Armies of the I.iTing God?"Ttie Sky Anthem." Bes-rout, Dec. 24.?The Rev. T. I>e Witt Talmage. D. D., of>Brooklyn, : /' who is here with his part v. preached today to a group of friends on "The Sky Anthem." Kis text was Luke ii, 14: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men," on which he delivered the following discourse: At last I have what I longed for. a Christinas eve in the Holv l and. This e? ?i.?, rv,?:..i *5 tut; oj jcur mat vuust uuiuvm. He was a December Christ. This is the ohill air through which he descended. I look up through these Christmas skies, and I see no loosened star hastening southward to halt above Bethlehem, but all the stars suggest the Star of Bethlehem. No more need that any of them run alo'-iir the sky to point downward. In quietude thev kneel at the feet of him who, though once aif- exile, is now enthroned forerver. Fresh up from Bethlehem, I am full of the scenes suggested by a visit to that village. You know that whole region of Bethlehem is famous in Bible story. There were the wav ing harvests of Boaz, iu which Ruth gleaned for herself and weeping Na.. oxni There David the warrior *was thirsty, and three men of unheard of self denial broke through the Phil is;'i. tine army to get him a drink. It was to that region that Joseph aud Mary came to have their names enrolled in the census. That'is what the Scripture meajis when it says they came "to be taxed," for-people did not in those days rush after the assessors of tax anv more than thev now do. - V T3E HOLY ONE IX THE MANGER. The village inn was crowded with the strangers who had come up by the ' command of government to have their names in the census, so that Joseph and Mary were obliged to lodge in the stables. You have seen some of those large stone buildings, in the center of which the eamels were kept, while run?n./v Aiif -fwvrv* / *}?in oil Hivrw. tions there w6re rooms. in one of which Jesus was born. Had his parents been ?v more showily appareled I have no do'uit they would have fotuiu more comfortable entertainment. That night in tbe fields the shepherds, with crooiiand kindled fires, .>~ere watcllfpg "^^heir flocks, whe^'-iiark! to the ^^^^^^Kound of voices strangely sweet. it be that the maidens of Bethlehem have come .out to serenade 'the weary shepheitls? But now a light stoops upon them like tne morning, so mat me hocks arise, shaking their snowy fleece and bleating to their, drowsy ycnag. The , heavens are filled with armies of light, and the earth quakes under the harmony as, echoed back from cloud to cloud, it rin^s over the midnight hills: "Glory to God in the highest, "and on earth peace, good will to men!" It seems that the crown of royalty and 3 _ "1- - _ 1 /vl *_ i l.fj. aocaiiuon ana power wmcn V/iii'isc aei i behind liim was hung on the sky in sight of Bethlehem. "Who knows but that that crown may have been mistaken by the wise men for the star running and pointing down'ward? My subject, in the first place, impresses me with the fact that indigence is not always significant o? degradation. When princes arc born, ^ ^ heralds announce it, and cannon fhrmdfir it nnd flnws wnvo it.'and illuminations set cities on fire with the tidings. Some of us in England or America remember the time of rejoicing when the Princc of Wales was bom. You can remember tlie glad. ness throughout Christendom at the nativity in the palace at Madrid. But when our glorious Prince was born, there was no rejoicing on earth. Poor and growing poorer, yet the heavenly recognition that Christmas ni^lit Shows the truth or tne proposition that indigence is not always significant of degradation. In ail ages there have been great hearts throbbing under rqgs. tender sympathies under rough exterior, gold in the quartz, Parian marble in the quarry,' anc| in every stable of priva ruon wonaers 01 excellence uias nave been.the joy of the heavenly host. All the great deliverers of literature and of nations were born in homes without affluence, and from their own privation learned to speak and fight tor the oppressed. Many a man has ~ held up his pine knot light from the wilderness until all nations and generations have seen it, and off of his hard crust of penury has broken the . bread of knowledge and religion for fch'3 starving millions of the race. roetry, ana science, anci literature, and commerce, and laws, and constitutions, and liberty, like Christ, were ' " born in a manger. GOD HATH CHOSEN THE WEAK. t All the great thoughts which have jstecided the destiny of nations started pi obscure corners, and had Pi-rods ... .who wanted to slay them, and Lsca who betrayed them, and rabSS'N^hat crucified them, and sepulphexs tfts^connned them until they burst fortn^fc^rlorious resuft-ection. * h . Strong characterSdiko the rhodvden . &ron, is an AlpinepiS^Lthat grows Eastesi in the storm. JicTs^arc like wheat, worth ail the more iorN<iJig flailed. Some of the most useful pie "would never have come to posi- J lions of usefulness had they not been ground and pounded and hammered m the foundry of disaster. When I see Moses coming up from the ark of bulrushes to be the greatest lawgiver of the ages, and Amos from tending the herds to make Israel tremble with his prophecies, and David from the sneepcote to sway tiie pcoi s pen and the king's scepter, and-Peter from. the fishing net to be the jrreat preacher at the Pentecost. I hi:d proof of the truth of my proposition that indigence is not always significant of degradation. My subiect also impresses me wfth the thougiit that it is while at our useful occupations that we have the divine manifestations. Had those shep PPBdi "Wc j ^P^^herdesses, and ! ^rcKSof cares andannoy^^urxioties, and we must tend We sometimes hear very good people say: '"If I had a month or a year i or two to do nothing but attend to reiigious things, I would be a great deal j . ? ' ? " 22 11- - ------ L j Deuer man i am now. iou are mis! taken. Generally the best people arc j the busy people. Elisha was plowing j in the field when the prophetic mantle I /?--n _ i vr.i..!,. ISii OH UIIIl. JlitLLIltjw tt.is JuuiuiiJg to his custom house duties when Christ commanded him to follow. James and John were mending their nets when Christ called them to be fishers of men. Had they been snorinjr in the sun Ciurist would not have called their indolence into the apostleship. Gideon was at work with the Hail 011 the threshing floor when he saw the angel. -Saul waswuh great fatigue hunting up the lost :isses when lie found the crown of Israel. The prodigal son would never have reformed and wanted to have returned to his fa*':< ?-"? house if he had not first gone into business, though it was swine feeding. Not on00. out of a hund red times will a lazy man bocomo a Christian. Those who have nothing' t > do are in very unfavorable circumstances for the receiving of divine manifestations. It is not when you are .in idleness, but when you are, like the Bethlehem shepherds, watching your llocks, that the glory descends and there is joy among- the angels of God over your soul penitent and forgiven. "rejoice and de exceeding glad.1' My subject also strikes at the delusion that the religion of Christ is dolorous and grief infusing. The music that broke through the midnight heavens was not a dirge, but an anthem. It shook joy over the hills. It not only dropped upon the shepherds, but it sprang upward among the t-iii. xn</ * vvv ?? righteousness is not black. The Christian life is not made up of weeping aud cross bearing and war waging. 'Through the revelation of that Christmas night I find that religion is not a groan, but a son?. In a world of sin and sick bed and sepulchers, we must have trouble; but in the darkest night the heavens part with angelic song. You may, like Paul, be shipwrecked, but I exhort you to be of good cheer, , for vou shall all escane sale to the land. Religion docs not show itself in the elongation of the face and the cut of the garb. The Pharisee who puts his religion into his phylactery has none left for his heart.. Fretfulness and complaining do not belong to the* family of Christian graces which move into the heart when the devil moves out. Christianity does not frown upon amusements and recreations. It is not a eynic, it is not a shrew, it chokes no laughter, it. quenches no light, it defaces no art. Among the happy, it is the happiest. It; is just as much at home on the playground as it is in the church. It is just as graceful in the charade as it is in the psalm book. It sings just as wen in ourrev gurueiid ct^> ii? piaj j> iu St. Paul's. Christ died that we might live. Christ walked that we might ride. Christ wept that we might laugh. Again, my subject impresses me with the fact that glorious endings sometimes have very humble beginnings. The straw pallet was the starting point, but the shout in the midnight sky revealed what would be the glorious consummation. Christ on_ Mary's lap, Christ on the tkrcxru'Cl' universal dominion?what an humble starting! What a glorious ending! jGrrace begins or. a small scale in the "heart. You see only men as trees widkinsr. The crace of Cod in the iieart is'a feeble spark, and Christ has to keep both hands over it lest it be blown out. Whajt an humble beginning! But look at that same man when he has entered heaven. No crown able to express his royalty. No palace able to express his wealth. No scepter able to express Lis power and liis dominion. Dripping from the fountain that drips from the everlasting Rock. Among the harpers harping with their harps. On a sea of glass mingled with fire. Before the throne of God, to <ro no more out for ever. The spark of gracc that Christ had to keep both hands over lest it come to extinction, having flamed u? into honor and glory ana immortality. What humble starting! What glorious consummation! The New Testament church was on a small scale. * Fishermen watched it. Against the uprising walls crashed in uai v ocuu i anathema. Ten thousand people rejoiced at every seeming defeat, and said: "Aha! alia! so we would have' it." Martyrs 011 fire cried: i;How long, 0 Lord, how long?" Very humble "starting, but see the difference at the consummation, when Christ with his almighty arm hus struck off the last chain of human bondage, and Himalaya shall be Mount Zion; and Pyrenees, Moriah; and oceans, the walking place of him who trod the ware cliffs of stormed Tiberias, and island shall call to island, sea to sea, continent to continent and, the song of the world's redemption rising, the heavens, like a great sounding board, slia..l strike back tne snout 01. salvation to the earth until it rebounds again to the throne of God, and all heaven, rising on their thrones, beat time with their scepters. Oh, what an humble beginning! What a glorious ending! Throne linked to a manger, heavenly mansions to a stable. CHRIST'S CHURCH EVS? GROWING. My subject also impresses me with the effect of Christ's mission upward and downward. Glory to God, peace to man. When God sent his son into the world, angels discovered tomething new in God, something they had never seen before. Not power, not wisdom, not love. They knew all tli::t i-vfore. But when God sent his So:> i:uo this world then the angels saw the spit-it of self denial in God, the spirit of self sacrifice in God. It is easier to love an angel on his throne than athk-f on the cross, a seraph in his* worship than an adulteress in her crime. When the angels saw God? the God- -the God who would net allow the most insignificant angel in heaven to be hurt?give up his Son, his Son. his only, only Sen, they saw something that they hud never thought / i r ^ "5 r "f i *? . * ? j or oeiorc., ana i ao not wonaer tnat when Christ started out on that pilgrimage the angels in heaven clapped their wings in triumph and called on all the Lcsts of heaven to help them .celebrate it. and sang so loud that the j^S^ilehem shepherds heard it: "Glory to GoiSi^i the highest." Cut it \T??<also to be a mis? ion of peace to mamSIiifinite holiness?ac- , cumulr.tea depravity^ How could , they ever come togetherf"^he Gospel bridges over the distance. jVl<rings ( Gcd to us. It takes us to God. in us. and wo in God. Atonement! '"-j Atonement: Justice satisfied, sins ] forgiven, eternal life sccureu. heaven ( built on a manger. ^ But it v.t.s also to be the pacification . n -t i - -ill oi :ui nraiviuiuu ana international , animosities. What a sound this word of pcacc had in the Roman empire I that boasted of the number of people it hadiaassacred, that prided itself on ^ the number of the slain, that rejoiced ^P^?uy ?5 WP^aid Mace* ^PB^bovved to ifer j^^Wouched at the cry Hp^^^Tr carle.;. She gave lie r j honor to Seipro and Fabius i and Caesar?all men of blood. What contempt they must have had therefor the pcnmless, unarmed Christ in the garb of a Xazarene, starting out to conquer all nations. There never j was a place on earth where that word j peace sounded so offensively to the I ears of the muKitudt; as in the Roman ! T'w.v rli.l i-f.t mint rif>r>rn ! <-ul J I The greatest music they ever heard was the chinking chains of their cap-| tives. If i::i the blood* that has been shed in battle could be gathered together it would upbear a navy. The club that struck Abel to the earth has its echo in the butcheries of all ages. Edmund Burke, who g::ve no wild statistics, said that there had been spent in slaughter thirty-live thousand millions of dollars, or what would be j ecmal to that: but he had not seen j into our times, when in our own day, in America, we expended three thousand millions of dollars in civil war. Oh, if we could now take our position on some high point and see the world's armies march past! What a spectacle it would be! There go the hosts of Israel through a score of Red seas?one of water, the rest of blood. There go Cyrus and his army, with infuriate yell rejoicing over the fall of the gates of Babylon. There goes Alexander, leadii g forth his hosts and conquering all the world but himself, the earth reeling \\itL the battle gash of Arbelaand Persepc lis. There goes "LV? /".o 1 -vr> , ? r* J.1 cruiuuiiu. vui'ics, UIO wuvvu ered enemies on the table lands once fragrant with vanilla and covered over with groves of flowering cacao. There "goes the great Frenchman, leading his army down through Egypt like ono of its plagues, and up through Russia like one of its own icy blasts. Yonder is the grave trench under the shadow of Sebastopol. There are the ruins of Delhi and Allahabad, and yonder are the inhuman Sepoys and the brave regiments under Uavclock avenging the insulted flag of Britain; while cut right through the heart of my native land is a trench in which there lie one n 1 , uumuu uui'iuLTii mm suuiucia uciu. OUT OF GREAT TRIBULATION. Oil, tlic tears! Oh, the blood! Ob, the long marches! Oh, the hospital wounds! Oh, the martyrdom! -Oh, the death! But brighter than the light which flashed on ail these swords and shields and musketry is the light that fell 011 Bethlehem, and louder than the bray of the trumpets, and the neighing of the chargers, and the crash of the walls, and the groaning of the dying anmies, is the song that unrolls this moment from the sky, swept as though all the bells of heaven rung a jubilee, "Peace on earth, good will toward men." Oh, when will the day come?God hasten it!?when the swords 'shall be turned into plowshares, and the fortresses shall be remodeled into churches, and the men. of blood battling for renown shall become good soldiers of Jesus Christ, and the cannon now striking down whole columns of death shall thunder the victories of the truth. When we think of the whole world j saved we are apt to think of the few j people that now inhabit it. Only a ; very few. compared with the popula- ! tions to come. And what a small part j cultivated. Do you know it has been ; ! o-riftr Acfimotliof tVirAO- I auui^iiu^tuj. Y WWAXJUUbVU bUMU Vii&w fourths of Europe is yet all barrenness, and that nine hundred and ninety-one one-thousandths part of the entire globe is uncultivated? Tjiis is' all to bo cultivated, all inhabited and all gospel ized. Ob, what tears of repentance when nations beg-in to ?.w'eep! Ob. what supplications when continents begin to pray! Oh, what rejoicing when hemispheres begin to sing! Churches will worship on the places where this very hour smokes the blood of human sacrifice, and wandering through the snake infested jungles of Africa Christ's heel will bruise the serpents liead. Oh, when the trumpet of salvation shall be sounded everywhere and the nations are. redeemed, a light will fall upon every town brighter than that which fell upon Bethlehem, and more overwhelming than the song that fell oil the pasture fields wliere tiie flocks fed, there will bo a song loader than the voice of the storm lifted oceans, "Glory to God in the highest," and from all nations and kindred and people and tongues will come the response, "And 0:1 earth peace, good will toward men f' On this Christmas day I bring you good tidings of great ^.f*1I'/Mif rr.>? juy. xraruuu lur ujjl am, ^vuiiv;u iwi alt trouble and life for the dead. Shall we now take this Christ into our hearts? The time is passing. This is the closing of the year. How the time speois by. Put your hand on .your heart?one. two. three. Three times less it v.-iW teat. Life is passing like gazelles <;v:, ilie pawn : arrows hover like petrels over tins sea. Death swoops like a vulture frtm the mountains. Misery rolls up to our ears like waves. Heavenly songs fall to us like stars. I wish you a merry Christmas, not with worldly dissipations, but merry with Gespel gladness, merry with pardoned sin, merry with hope of reunion in the skies with all your loved ones who liave preceded you. In that grandest and best sense a merry Christmas. And God grant that in our final moment we may have as bright a vision as did the dying girl when she said: "Mother" ? pointing with her thin white hand through the window? "Mother, what is that beautiful land out yonder beyond the mountains, the high mountains?" "Oh," said the mother, "my darling, there are no mountains within sight of our home." "Oh, yes, sne sam, uon t you s^e inem? that beautiful laud beyond tho mountains out there, just beyond the high mountains?" The mother looked down into the face of her dying child and said: "My dear*, I think" that must be heaven that you see." "Well, then," she said, "father, you come, and with your strong arms carry me over those mountains into that beautiful land beyond the high mountains." "No," said the weeping father, "my darling, T r~r\ willi vmi " '1 " "slio said,clappingherhands, "nevermind, never mind; I see yonder a shining one coining. lie is coming now, in his strong arms to c;srry me over the mountains to the beautiful land?over tiie mountains, over the high mountains!" A Cab with a "Hoodoo." The '"hoodoo" appears to be the most impartial of all the influences that affect people and things. Nothing is sacred from its baleful power, not even a poor old cab. There is one of these two wheeled vehicles over which the dreadful hoodoo seems to have exerted its influence. It is the one upon which old John Barry was found dead by his companions on Tuesday night while 011 his regular stand near the postoffice. This is the third tragedy that has happened in connection with this cab within a year. One driver, named ' rlcanessy, was thrown off and killled , clearly a year ago near the west side [Tnioir.depot, another driver was kill- ' ?d at the corner of Chicago avenue and ] _aai-K street 07 tne cao running up on he curb stone and pitching the man o the jg^und, and now comes poor old < Fohn Barry, who was found dead, upon 5 he scat and was driven to Klaneffs^n x lis own ill omened vehicle. Surely the 0 loodoo is at work.?Chicago Herald. % a EuRO VIEW .OF IIV ; COLONIZATION ukokd a> the j ONLY HOPE Or THE i Tii? lii v. .1. S. Lse'n :iiui:<'ip i::r.n Uaj I Sj>i-?*ch at Ciiari* .stoo-i<?; iJrchtren I be i V\ bile .Him r.ii !> * - Terjt>?? *.r i'arly ! a Vain inipc-x- Slow Jlsc .M'^ro Car. ! KniabHoii lii.n Iiiclcpeudeitc und Value. The colored people ofCa^iicsion ce lebrated emaa - patio'- d^y wlih ? tireet parade aud speech making, i'be ora? lion of the day was delivered :.y (be Rev. J. 5?. 1j&&, u prominen ooicred minister. Alluding to thy emancipation and eni'raacisineuf of ae uegro race the sptakcr said: " f he new order of things so suddenly bursting upon us, found us in no v."ay prepared to uiect the dt macds thai at once conJronied us and yet we were a: once placed iu the seaies of human progress and iu ihe iight of Amiricdu prejudice, weighed and found wanting. Have we made mistakec? Have we commuted great blunders'? Have we been betrayed into paths oi siu and folly and ulu-'ost cestr^/yed? Alas; this is ail true, sauiy true. Ba, were it uoL u marvel ht;d we -acted otherwise uiidtr the circumstances? Indeed we must have b*en super-human to have acted otherwise. Clothed with the privileges 3-cd charged with the duties and responsibilities of American UlLlZ/CIiS WilUUUu fa>ilU\VlSUge U1 Ul tusii* ity to discharge these duties or to appropriate to ourselves the benelits accruing therefrom, we stood bewildered not knowing where to turn our thoughts lor instruction or our hands for help." Alluding to the recoil race riots in the South the speaker said: "i b?iieve that the ultimate solution of ibo so called race problem will be imuiiyra tion from utcessity if not from choice. Amalgamation is neither po-sible nor desirable. To obtain our rights and maintain tnern 03' lorce we are unable. For two peoples so distinct from each other in their physical structure and between whom there are such barriers natually to deveiope ia seperate and distinct lives is aboui as reasonable as to suppose that two kings reign on the same thione at one and the same time. Outrages, sueh > .-> lyncb iog i.egroes, coiEpeliiug them to ride iu smokiug cars an p refusing them hotel accommodations are evidences strong and convincing th*t we will never attain iuil manhood here. These are the shadows of coming events. To approach the white American for justice, li'e and liberty is simply to remain where we are, as beggars who j3i?st not be choosers but must, take what is given and use a? long as we do not dispiease the giver or his interests do not require him to withdraw the gilt, siiouia eitner prove to ce tne case they will be withdrawn and we have no power to prevent their doing so, and all lhat will remain is to come up begging once more. We make a great mistake when we suppose that the Anglo Saxon gave us our enfranchisement for the love he h id for us. ,1 deny that he did it for philanthropic reasons. He did ii because he" thought he could use us. Whenever the white man does anything for us, be it Northerner or Southerner, mark my woid, it is only because he thinks he can use us as his tool. It is a mistaken idea for us to kneel aown to the whites. The Anglo Saxon and the colored man cannot work together; one or tlie Otfcer will have to leave and I am somewhat a believer iu the tale abouo the Lord's lire. The fire wiil not burn the people but it will be so warm that our people will have to move on or get burned and I rather believe that they will move on. "No more faith cau be put in the Republicans than iu the Democrats. They are both Anglo-Saxons and do nothing for us unless it is to their advantage to do so, and will throw us overboard as did Uncle Ben in Johnson's story as soon as they find us too heavy? We must show cur indepeuthe. sooner we do this the better. Let some of us leave. Go to Africa, if necessary. Show that we can get along without the Anglo-Saxon, and by this spirit of independence make them learn and appreciate our vaiue. Independence an., immigration are in my opinion the only solutions to this great question." Uurke in ie2ch Feather in Honduras. From a gentleman who has just arrived at New Orleans from Honduras it is learned that Maj. E. A. Burke, the defaulting State Treasurer of Louisiana, is now in the capital of that repuh ic, .vhere he arrived three weeks ago, well provided with money furnished by the English syndicate which is interested with him in his Honduras mines. Burke had a royal reception from the President of the republic, General Bogran, and stands in high favor, the Honduras officials locking UpOll LQe Liouisiauu. luuiueuo us a matter of little account. President Bog> ran gave him important additional concessions, which put him in virtual control of all the mining operations in the large province of Olancho. It is understood that Bogran is himself interested with Major Bilrke io these mines- The latter succeeded further ig securing the good-will of the Americans in Honduras, and is said to have won all of them over to his support by interesting them in his venture or giv-' ing them employment in his mines, and now he has the b-ickingof nearly the entire American colony. Burke's headquarters are at the capital, but he has made several excursions to Judi- J calpa, near which the mines are situated.. The machinery >.;ent. there, via New York aud San Francisco, has not yet arrived, but gold has already been obtained from the concession, a\d the geatleman who brought, his news had several specimens with him. He ridiculed the idea of Bogran's surrendering Burke at the request of the United States, and says there is no? the slightest chance of it. The ex-Louisiana Treasurer is popular with the President, with the natives as well as the Americans, a: d pioinises to play an imnorta.nt, uart in Central American politics. IIer IS.iby Was a Poodle lioc. Annie Bennett got dvunk last night and was arrested i'or disturbing a mission meeting. When brought before Justice La Buy this morning she carried something all wrapped up in a big shawl. ';Don;l send me to the bridewell; please don't. Just think of my dear little baby," she said. ' You deserve to be severely punIr. /\11 All /vVl " f A ..A /Mirr> 13-LICU.. 1 UU Ui^ 11. V Vi v ? U XKJX thirty days. But I don't see how I ran tine you under the circumstances. Just let me see your baby." Annie threw back the shawl and a little poodle dog jumped^out of her irms and stood on the Justice's desk. ''.Five dollars and costs," "said the Magistrate, sternly-? Chicago ""Slail. ?Goidsborough Jones, a yout^| reientiy married Mary Simpers, ag?,d 80, Greenwood, De'aware. They would lot permit the ceremony go >n. until tnengnts v/ere airamea1, as; hey said the bride was timid. \ r 1 M ETRO PO. I TAX J GUI: N MA-M . rroviuctal Critic i oiuii On: It* LucJi of liouii .1 a>ic. Th? '"rue ropo Ua.u 1 aiif ts a. guuu ucai ui v;v>iicc.ij{jc im pi > v ilujiai journalism," out, u tiie New York paper.-, the very bt.st of ihtin, way be ?eeu Viuiattoun ? {'propriety ituil good tas-te would uol lit io traUM lor a cuaieut iu auewspao^r iiaviu^ ihe ?lightest daim lo reputation for decency iu Bo.stou, Baltimore, Philadelphia, iitjii'a' o or auy city east tol Chicago Fur iiislauce, in an account, re* centiy pu > isbed in une of the most, couservaiive, oue of the best cou-'ucted papers in New York oia hacds.xne social entertainment, wt :ead tuct ^though bouquets are entire y out of r,A i... \i; :> aujic, noo uaiiicu u\ xixi.o . | If Lhis is hod an unwarrantable in.-.u t what was il? In another paper ol most refined and religious prettnsiuns we read that as &ot:naiu lad. per-sis ted in carrying a, bouquet at a recent bad the flowers bobbed up and down and she "presented a very ungraceful appearance." Now by what right does a newspaper ttrns make a lady the helpless victim of such personal criticism upoii a matter which is not in the faintest sense a matter of public inttresi or concern? Then, too, wo read in a New York newspaper, the boast of which is that no vulgar word ever creeps into its columns, that at the recent Patriarch's Ball Mrs. appeared in ;'a most extraordinary dress." Then follows :i description of tbe dress, oiosing wiih the impertinent statement that Mrs. h^s "accustomed" her friends to violations of good taste iu ball costumes. Have ladies no rights that newspapers are. bound to respect??Buffalo Commercial. PROGRESS OF THE NEW SOUTH. i Tbousnnda of Sew Enterprise.*, Willi Million* of Capital. The annual review of the South's industrial progress as published in this week's issue of the Manufac:urers Record of Baltimore shows that 5,135 new manufacturing and mining enterprises wer<} organized in that section during 18S9, against 8,G18 in 1888, 3,430 in 18S7 aud 1,575 in 1885. The amount, of capital and capital stock of these companies was S229,703,500 in 1839 t?nd $163,SOI,000 in 1S88. The total number of new industrial enterprises organized in the iSouth during the last four years, or since t i ~ i o rv\A J: January x. ioc!; 15 over 10,/w, uivided as follows: Iron furnace companies, 126; machine shops and foundries 441; agricultural implement factories, 63; flour mills, 535; cottou mills, 267; furniture factories, 220; gas - works, 101; water works,331, carriage and wagon lactones, 170; electric light companies, 475; mining and quarrying enterprises, 1,801: lumber mills, including saw and planing mills, sash and d^or factories, stave factories, 3,036; ice factories, 293, canning factories. 425; stove foundries, 25; brick work 555; miscellaneous iron and steel works, roiling mills, pipe* works, etc., 1S4; cotton compresses, 114; cotton seed oil mills, 148; miscellaneous enterprises not included in foregoing 4,815. Total 13,774. a. bandof horse thieves. !*ucce??l'ui Depredation* in Tennessee? The Farmer* to Organize. Chicago, Jan 4 ? A despatch from Chicago, Tennessee, says what amounts to a panic, exists atuouy the farmers of Dtvids>n and adj liuin^ counties, in middle Teune>see. A splendidly organ ized baud of horse thieves has bee:i operating there for month- without let or hindrance. It is estimated that withia two weeks, 200 horses have been stoien, anfl run into Kentucky fastnesses where it is next to impossible to follow them or th-: thieves. Not o le of these animals koo ku/t.t p.? tf i^ cnn*wth? /' ? * -- -- -ri thieves have a regular underground route in Cincinoa'i, wbere stoleu horses are sold Geol. W. H Jackson of the fami-us Belle Meade farm, Coh. John Overton and Cockerili are preparing a Farmers' Association which, with abundance of money to back it, will empiry competent and adequate force to annihilate the robber?. The Grady Monument Fumf. The Gralv moi.uui..nt :u:j 1 now reached nearly $15,000. The aUOserip -u.... ?? -,I ?|| r, A,I_...Q UUIJS LU'i? ?ai ai c rti iiiwat ai i tiinu ;iu<'.uir., Young DVio nf other parts of are iutercst ug themselves, and while :<u returns have yet Diren received, theindica-tioaa are thai subscriptions fr-'ui other Gtoryia towns and cities will increase the fund to at least double ih? present amount. The largest subscription from the N-.irth cnme from th'i directors of tbe Fuurth National Bank of New York, accompanied by the following telegram: "The directors of the Fourth National B3uk of the ci:v of New York are induced, by the personal esteem au i admiration which ihev entertain .'or the hiyh character and distinguished pub'ic services of toe late Henrv W. Grady of Atlanta, to subscribe the sum of five hundred dollars to the monument fund, a check for which I (-end by mail this day. Y.mrs respectfully, "J. Edward Simmons, President " A Gift of Negroes to New Eiiclaud. There is one direction by which the surplus colored population of the South might be diverted elst.* where ?o the advantage of the Si>uih, liie blacks, and the North. Io the Middle and ^New England cities aod towns there is a greet scarcity of household labor, and m the country a similar scarcity of f>irra | labor. Tne South is overrun with i swarms of worthless household servants, j If schools were established for making these efficient cooks, chambermaids and nurses; the Nort^ would take the entire | supply. Gradually they would b? fol J lr.wed by their male relations, who I would find in the North plenty of farm work to which they are accustomI ed, and those who came would have t.he means of support awaiting them. The change would be a natural and gradual one, and more likely to be successful on tnat acc 'U'jt than any abrupt artificial tv\Aw/?m?in h ?\ Tnnnirnr LU^ > tOJC U J. i. I <* The Okra Fibre. Tbe Department of Agriculture has received fr^m Secretary of Agrionlture Rusk a letter acknowledging rhe receipt of the sample of okra fibre prepared by Mr. Hill of Edgefield Couoty, seut to Washington by tbe State Department here. The sample is pronounced espe cially tine and informati-m :s a^ked as to 4. ? i u:^u :. Li.-e process uj waitu u wa> prcparcu. Tue Secretary states tbat all over the S-'Utb there seems to be a strong disposition to utilize this Sore as a substitute for jute. A Richland County inventor of a process to prepare this fibre is said to be intending to perfect bis machines and then to gef. up a stock company to miuufactu-re them and provide 'or their use in the production of the fibre in quantities sufficient to make its intro duction practicable iu ihe manufacture of bagci'g acd rope ?Columbia Register. ? .. ? ?The meeting of colored men held in Columbia last Thursday was tern, perate in demeanor and expression. Resolutions were adopted, calling on the people of both races to stand by the law, and to refrain from violence. Tha (rovercor was commended for his actioa. I 7*5^ _--3r ? GENERAL NEWS ITEMS ! Kacis ?!" !ai?rcm-C (Iieri-<1 lr?m Variolic r?iu: rc?-*. ri.- . . IT r - - ? * w. ? cv ur^ uu?^ . reouuieti t-jeir ?Secretary MotSer, of the ICausas state board of agriculture, says the wheat crop is not.injured by the blizzard. ?Seuatcr Gormau, of Maryland, declares against the Ausintliau ballot sjs tem fur that btate, and the Demociaiic editors stand with him. ?Treasury officials estimate that the public debt was reduced $3,500,000 during December, and about SSl,(j00,000 for the whole year. ?The receiver's report on the business of the Xew York Star has been filed. It shows obligations aggrega- ; ting within a few dollars of $s00"000. ?Mrs. Er "in atid two daughters from Benton County, Missouri, were suffocated by gas irLttieir beds in Oakland hotel Saturday nrght. Tht*y had ; accidentally turned the ?ashalf on after j extinguishing it. TVw V/.tL- ?rx-i^rr i the prevalence of inflluenza is unsually his^h. The number of deaths recorded Wednesday was 1G-4?5G. of these being from pneumonia; 24 from consumption, ond 20 from bronchitis. ?German runctionsries will iu future have to be provided with three J. /?- ... A r ' J! . . . _ annorms: uue ior ordinary occasions, out; for festivities, arid one for solemn gala events. The las?* being particularly expensive is proportionately ob noxious 10 ihe poorly salaried official; ?In elligence is received f.omOboc, | a French settlement ou Tajarah B y on ; east coast of Africa, that two French j missionaries who were traveling from J Zeilah to Horiah, under escort of eight ! Greeks, were attacked by natives and all \ the party murdered. ?While a wedding party was return- j insr from church in Chattanooga on i Tuesday two electric wires became crossed burned in two and killed the team attached to the carriage, and badly injured the driver. The wedding party escaped unhurt-. ? Miss Lucy Wobble, a you:iy lady about tweury years of aye who has for some time past been teaching schorl at Goldsboro, X. C., committed suicide in fRaleigh on Monday by shooting herself through the head with a pistol. Insanity is assigned a3 the cause ?While four boys between the ages of 6 and 8 years were playing under tne edge or a sana name in ice eastern portion of Jackson; Tennessee, Monday afternoon, the bank caved in, burying them under about ten feet of sand They were dead when extricated. ?Mr/ J. Pierre pout Morgan of the firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co., leceived a $50,000 Christmas present of silver plate from the Yajderbilts in behalf of the New York Central Ruiroad. Mr. Morgaa had refused to accept any remuneration for his services jn re organizing their road. ?The bovi' section of the Dancers' school in the district of Forestgate, London, io conn'ction -with the White Chap el and Popular Union, took tire Tuesday night while the inmates were asleep and was burned with terrible results, twentysix of the boys who were in the upper stories beiug suffocated before they could be rescued. A cotton harvester and gleaner was recently and successfully tested in a large cottcn field at Lake Cormorant, Miss. The machine was drawn bj two mules as fast a3 they could walk, and came so near gathering all the cotton on the stalks that the little left can be easily gathered by hand in the ordinary way at a very small cost. It is estima ted that the cost of picking a bale of cotton by the machine will not exceed three dollars, whereas it would amount to at least eleven dollars by hand. The notice of the Board of Health requiring all parties to-clean out of their premises all matter liable to decay and fermentation is timely. Unless this is done the warm winter will very probably be followed bv an uoheahhy summer. Captain Hill, sanitary inspector, will soon visit our tomes in the city. It is better and more direct to keep clean voluntarily tban to be compelled to do so bv the police. Production of Fall River JIJlls. The total production of the mills of Fall River, Mas?., for 18S9, with the week ended last Saturday, wasT 8,660,000 pieces, o: 225,000 less than 1888. The weavers' strike last spring had- a mate ial effect in cutting the normal output down, otherwise the production ' would have exceeded ibat of last year by about the same number of pieces that it falls below it. Prices for the year have been profitable ones for the mills, fluctuating between 4 1-16 and 3$- cents, and ?averaged 3.81. There were five weeks io August and September when the market was sold completely out, and at no time was there a week closiDg with a larger sjock than 37,000 pieces. The largest week's sales were 403,000 pieces. The stock in sight Saturday was 35,040 pieces, as against 5,000 pieces in the corresponding week last year. _ Two 3Iur<!er? in Darlington. T*o murders are reported from Darlington County. On December 28:h Aleck Easterlimr, clored, while tit tiug in bis aioir.g room witu ujs taainy. was buor 10 death through the open door. The assassin escaped. Ou December 20 b George Windball, whit?, Hired eighteen years, and Robert Grandy, colored, aged seventeen, got into h drunken quarrel in a wagon in which they were returning from a neighboring town. Windail stabbed Grandy to th'. hmri, drove home, unhitched the burses and then fled, leaving the body in the wagon, where it was found Dcxt day. Vitx i*vk'h Flaar I'rcucnicd to Virainin. Governor Lee has, *? the request of Judge Hmry \V. F!ourr?"V, Sefrttary of the Ommou wealth, pteieotc-.i ;<> die State of Virginia his headquarters flag. LT .. ?... .v. ? -/.? ! a /Jim. I \ . rrr i 1^ lit: UOIIiiUtilJUCU a UIV.MUII UM >u the artuy of Northern Viryiuiii. This flag was presented t-< hiirs i>y Virginia ladies. I; is siik, v.ni:c field, with a blue cross ;?u?i gOidt-n jjiit ?t?rs, :i hi-avy gold fringe around its border Tt?e flay shov's tti<irks of service rents and tatter, aR'i it ia ?: Viiiufii rc;'.C of the war Mr. (Jimly'w Property. Much has been said about the late Henry W. Grady leaving his family in | v ant. This is a mistake, for while his property is mortgaged, nis snares in ths Constitution arc worth $126,- ! COO, and his friends in Atlanta have alread raised the mortgage on his home and will clear bis whole estate from debt; It will be a pleasure for ail his Jriends to know that. anrlloved J ones will thus be beyond acy want of : care. A Hands' .Han With a Gun. Asiieyille, X. C?- Jan 4 ?A trrribie ! ?rn.<T^.-iv took nlace in Mi:c:i;-!l Count v. r??- t ? N. C., twelve miles rom B?kers?ille, the county se:tt In >i drusken row Chris'tna* day ihree rne?i were killed. Friday Monro** Garland. nr->ther of one of the murdered men rode up to a crowd in the same place and uirec* into the crowd, kiiling three an<i wounding twelve i I Piuiion -tntl Organs j N W Trump 13-1 S rec, <Ji lUtllbia, sclb Ha ^Oli.ailr, uirect fiuiii faototy. No ?s?ciu>' cuttiiui si-vcs. Tbt: ctiebtute <?li*ckerirs?r piauo. Matbusb? k P:it i* ccU-b.a:ed for its cle.iroess ?*f t'mr, iiubrue.-s uf touch aDd ias;i g qualities 11 Mason <fc HhujIiii Upright Pia o. Sterliug Upright Pianos. from $225 up. Anon Piaai.s, trom ?200 up. Mason & llfcrolin Organs, surpassed by no ae. Sterling Organs, $50 up. . Every I :strumeDC guaraureed f< r six ! years. Fif eeti days' trial, expenses both ways, if uot satisfactory. SoM <>o i stalmeuts. ^ N. HE MARCHED WITS SHERMAN TO THE SEA; Trudged all the way on foot, over mountain and through morass, carrying knapsack and gun, slept on brush heaps to keep out of the mud, caught cold, from the effects of which his friends thought he would never recover. Lingering with slow consumption for many, years, he saw Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery advertised in a country newspaper, and he determined to try it. A few bottles worked a cliangc, six months' continued use cured him. Alwa\ s "too independent to ask his country for a pension, he now says he needs none. lie helped save his country, he saved himself! Consumption is Lung-scrofula. For scrofula, in all its myriad forms, tha "Discovery" is an unequaled remedy. ? cleanses the system of all blood-taints from whatever cause arising, and cures all Skin and Scalp Diseases. Salt-rheum, Tetter, Eczema, and kindred ailments. It is guaranteed to benefit or cure in all diseases for which it is recommended, or money paid for it will be refunded. Sold by druggists. Copyright, 1888, by Woeld'S Dis. Mzd. asstw. DR. SAGE'S CATARRH REMEDY cures the -worst cases, no matter of how lowr standing. 50 cents, by druggists. BEWARE! BE PRUDENT! When the proprietors of a blood remedy tell yoa that iodide of potash is a poison simply because thftir opponents use it, their assertions are made to deceive, and your use of 100 bottles of inert stuff their cbjcct. Iodide of potash is as essential to a true blood remedy, as pureblcod is essential to good health- No remedy has proven QUICK CURE so ?2fe,sure and quick an eradicator of mercurial, syphilitic, scrofulous, malarial or other poison, for* fm+/\ Kwmv* whftS CJ?U U? JCaUU, bUdb gttj utkv , ? all,else fails as B. B. B. Send to Blood Balm Co., Aiianta, Garter illustrated "Book of Wonders,'" h!icd with convincing proof c/ QUICK CUKES ci seemingly incurable eases. A. F. Britton, Jackson, Ter.n., writes: "1 con:r.-cte:l malaria in the swamps of Louisiana whils working for the telegraph company, and used ever> krtiii of medicine I could hear of without relief. 1 last succeeded in breaking the feve: pij [ SON hut it cost me over $'.00.00, and tlicr my system was prostrated and satu rated Tvith poison and I became almost helpless, J Sr. :'.\v r;m? hprfi. mv mouth so filled with- sore* I could scarcely eat, and my tongue raw and liiJed with little knots. Various remedies were rer iorted to without eflect I bought two bottles of B. 8. B. ait has cured and strengthened me. All sores of my mouth are healed and my tongue entire ly clear--of kaots and soreness, and I feel like > orv? .man." R R. Saulter, Athens, Ga^Hrrites: "1 have bcci. aSicted with Catarrh for many years, although a! sorts of medidaw and several doctors did their besi ?j_^_ to cure me. *r Blood was very impure, anu ugui Ing ever had any effect upon tht CATARRH disease until I used that gre*t Blood Remedy known as B. B. z few bottles of which effected an entire cure. 1 recommend it to all who have Catarrh. I refer to any merchant or banker of Athens, Ga., and w5E reply to any inquiries." Benj. Morris, Atl&nu, Ga-, writes: "I had no appetite, my Iddneys felt SORE TONSILS sore, my throat was ulceratcd and my breast a mass oJ fanning sores. S*vsn bottles of B 3. B^ entirely c&redme/ <T' FOR SIXTY DAIS. ~s WE Oi'FER 01: R XO. 2 EAND-MAD1 ?? ROAD CART to responsible parties or. SIXTY DAYS' time for only $18.00. It has bes> hickory trheels ar.d shafts, steel tires and axlt. cushioned seat and painted nicely. Not acheai made cart, bat is first class throughout. We alsc offer our our No 10 hand-made Bujrjry. put up oi OTIC of snrinir- nn SIXTY DAYS' time fO: the small amount of S45-00- It has best patem wheels, steel tires and axles. Trimmed up and painted in good style. Not by any means a ckeop vehicle, but is very substantial and is warranted. For circulars and general description address * HOLLER & ANDERSON. M anufacturers, P. 0. Box 110. ROCK HILL, S. C. In writing please mention this paper. oc 1-fm H. H. P GUARANTEE! U *\ 1 Sick Ileadacho and Constipation in a ahon time Prevents all Malarial troubles. Price Sftv cents. For sals by druggist? and mer cnants. Manufactured by THE BARRETT DRUG CO.. K*h l.*a\ Attoust . ft> blLDER'S LIVER PILLS Remove the bile from tbe system, care a: bilious troubles, and prevent malarial diseases. For sale by all druggists and merchants at 2 cents a box, or mailed on reccipt of price br THE BARRETT DRUG CO... Avsusta, Ga. TAKE Gl'LD EEL'S PILL*- -FVh PITTS' CARMINATIVE TT^AT) AAD7)r/^TTVr? V A T'OF A HVC 1J V^l\ JL JL-L^ U kJ?JJD>.y ? KJ entcry, Diarrhoea and Cholera In fanlum. A*pleasant medicine of incalcula hie merit in the home circle for child 01 adult. It is popular, pleasant and efficient. Truly a mother's friend. It soothes and heals the mucous membranes, and checks, the mucous discharge from head, stomach i and bowels. The mucous discharge from ; the head and lungs are as promptly re ! lieved by it as the mucous discharge fron. j the bowels. It is made to relieve tin mucous system and cure nausea, and it does it. It makes the critical period oU teething children safe and easy. It in vigoratcs and builds up the sy&iem while it is relieving and curing the "wasted tissue. It is recommended and used largely by physicians. For sale bv WanBamaker & Murray Co., Columbia, S. C., and wholesale by Howard & Willett, Augusta, Ga. jersey-flats ; CliilJ and Fever Cure. t.HrK? jotiles 5l? >:en>. and guaranteed to cure anj :a-e of Chills and Fever. MA.ia.ial. luteriDittexr md 'Imminent Fevers- hv THIS BARRETT DROG C'j . Ajgui/ (,i TRY J fclRSliY ?r LATS. }(.j if,., ' completi foe MMl -JEWELERS, HE ^ HOW C THE TERRY MAN'FG i rhe Toser Engine Works "^(Successor to Dial Engine Works.) JOHN A. WILLIS PROPRIETORS m 117 West Gzevats Street mwM I ^ 1 Sc o ?MANUFACTURERS OF THETozer Steam Engines AND ALL SIZES OF BOTH LOCOMuTJ i AND RETURN TUBULAR BOILERS FOUNDRY WORK IN IRON AND REPAIRING PROMPTLY EXECUTES* Jniy 23-fttn Langley Brotffers, 174 KING ST., CHARLESTON, > C \f ANUFACTURERS OF LADIES' AN * GEN'l S' Underwear. Fine Drex- Shirts * order ? specialty. Directions for mensuring scion application. sepi(Hu> B ARB AM VI1 LE STOCK AND POULTRY FAftivi HORSES, CATTLE, SWINE AND FOUL TRY FOR SALEGold Medal Batter Herd of Jersey Cattle. Tie Imported PercheroB Stalllcr BLCIIE, (10.S63) 7.950 will m.tke tk?- se?M>v ?, ?25. Choice young J ersey Cattle. H K K 1?>H it^wite". Light Br.ihnias. Wyandots. Labs-onn:Brown Leghorns. Fiytnonth Rock? ann <*a?? Fowl? for ?j>le. E?rs in ie.-i.-oxi. CKKS'tO?. L. >ICLI(!\. Ptopritiof. Cfi'fiBiW* ' 0 JH.i>A.fcAU>\VIN. M:.! ? sir ? ? rammig maae sasy. WM. M. BIRD & CO OFFEB TV/llVT7n PAINTS? i."JL J jCJLJL>JL/ JL II11' i AT EXTREMELY LOW CES. We have a full stock oi every:hicg in the paint Jine.j t] Window and Plate Glass all sizes. ? Oils for all purposes." Mil {^Supplies, Lanterns, etc- ' _ Grocers' Fixtures, Howe Scales andJMarvin's Safes. Sample cards and quotation*, urnished and inquiries cbterfuily answered. We are headquarters for e\erytbin? i r i* 1 . ... .m. . f jD;cur Jice ana can sav? you moiiey.-: ? M 205 Eaet_.B/y, " CHARLESTON, S.C. Gbdt! u coor?fc to Charleston don't forger to lay in a supply'of FE UIT. Bananas, Orang^, Pineappales, Lemons, Coccai uts, LiirtsB Plantains, Graje Fruit, s Always on hard. Frfsh cargo^| received weekly. Apples. Pears..Grape?, Bsisiitp. All? (.-I <fc, Nulf Dried Figs, Citron,) ?' Received ,by ^very steamer twice veek. Call and see for yoi r?elf, at C. HART & CO., \ *55,[57, 59, Market street, CHARLESTON, S. C. Country orders filled with *desp uch x>i u e niouoai At State Fairs have usually vfcry little meaning, as judges as a lule seem more disposed to encourage exhibitors ^tban to be governed by the real merits of their goods. A. premium for the "best saw mills may be construed to mean a premium for ths cheapest, and hence the worst saw mill because it may best suit the pocket of the "average farmer." . A premium or tne "best and largest display kments and machinery adapted to Southern agriculture" may be construed to mean a premium for harvesting machinery alone, even though all departments may be repiesented i$ another exhibit. But for once the committee on mfloliirprumaHA a truthful and harmv hit when they tied the "Blue Ribbon" on the little fifteen-horsepower Liddell-Tompkins Engine, which pulled a 52 inch saw through lightwood logs almost large enough tohide^^^ it, arousing the enthus:asm of aJfT beholders Such work wss only bie on the Liddell Variable Fee** Saw Mill, which needs no blu<yjfft>bon to ifo enr\cviAntr V&Ot .CiTxfrwr^A UJO.AC iio *ivj jyOiACU. JL Ui prices, etc., address w. H.GibbesJ^:, State Agent, Columbia, S-C. -p ^.-b-;pFl?LffS Srt f$M&i .. _ \ %S Pfkim 4;rns n MjrLvim. - - -FofLjfUUilaJi;!! pai" PR- s&wm$' MENSTRUATION OR MONTHLV r.'.UlCv C jr; IF TAKtN OVJRIN5 C-SASiC-L jV uTt. GRIM ^MISER^S4.* ??.'< ?* vf:'uL=LAVOIDS JSOOK T 0"W 0 ; W'WrJF*?F muriELO REGUl* TC-d r;:, ATLANTA GA soil tit all J OUTFITS Si in mm, 3ASES. J CO.. Nashville.