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I TALMAGFS SERMON. iS REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON HOME AND RELIGION. Tlie El'qaent Divio? Makes a String Pica for the Gospbl?A Sermon tbat Takes Hold of ilie Heart?The Grardeet Git'. Brooklyn, A>rill5.?In the great audience which assembler] in the Brook1 rr,~oftamnnn were manv IJfU 1 Buciuauv tuig 8trackers. Rev. Dr. Talmasre chose for the subject ofbis sermon "Home R?lieiOD," taking bis text from Luke viii, 39, i "Return to thine own house asd shew how great thiogs God hath dene unto thee." r" &.fler a fierce and shipwrecking night, Christ and his disciples are climbing up the slaty shelving of the beach. Hew g- . pleasant it is to stand on solid ground after having been toesed so Ions on the billowe! While-the disciples are con* eratulatins: each other on their marine j i=?- - w escape, oat from a dark, deep cavern on the Gadareae bills there is somethiog swiftly and terribly advancing. Is it an apparition? Is it a mac? 13 it a wild beast? It Is a maniac who has broken '' away from his keepers, perhaps a few rag3 on bis person and fragments of stoat shackles which he ba% wrenched off in terrific paroxysm. "Wiih wild yell and bleeding wounds of his own laceration he flies down the bill. Back to the boats, ye fishermen, and pot out to sea and escape assassinator-! s But Christ stands his sround; so do the . disciples, and a3 this flying fury, with gnashing teeth and uplifed fi?tp. dashes at Christ, Christ sau: '-Hsnds cfl! I Down at my feet, thou poor sufferer," and the demtsiac drops harmless, exhausted, worshipful. "Away, yftVlevilj-!" commanded Christ, aDd the 2,000 fiends which bac? been tormen'ins the poor mac . are transferred to'-he 2,000 swine which go to sea wiih ibeir accursed cargo. The restored demoniac sits down at Christ's feet and wants to stay there Christs eays to him practicallj: "Dj not stop. You ta7i?. a mission to exe J;., s cute. Wash tff The fiit i and ihs wounds in the sea. smooth vonr disheveled locks, pul on decent apparel and go s-raight to jour desolated home and tell your wif j and children that y< u will no more affright them, and no more do hem barm; ? - that you are restored to reason, and thai I. omnipotent bon cf God, am entitled bereafser to ihe wor&hip cf >onr entire household Reiurn to thine own house if? and shew how areat things God hath fdone unto thee " Yes, the h*>us>e, the home, is the first place where cur religious gratitude ought to be demonstrated. Ib the outside world we may seem to have religion when we have it not bat the home tests whether our religion is genuine or a suam. What 1 1 v ma&es a uttpyy IJV/UK; PWell, one would say a house with great wide h*lls, and antlered ceer heads, and parlors with sculpture and brie a brae, snd drairg hall with essv chair and plenty of light, and engravicgs ot game on the wall, and sleepin? 8partments commodious and adorned. jSTo. In such a ?lace as that giganiic wretchedness has some times dwelt, while some cf you look back to your father's house, where they read their Bibble by the light of a tallow caudle. Ttiere were no car pets on the flc-or save those made form the rag3 which your mother cut cut nisht by night, you helping wind t' em into a ball, and then seiit to the weaver, who brought them to snaps uaaer ni3 siow sbattle. Not a luxury ra all the house: Bat you cannot think of it this morning without tearful and greatful emotion. You and I have found out that it is not rich tapestry, or gorgeous architecture, or rar=: art that makes a happy .home. The six wise men of Greece gave prescriptions for a happy home. Solon says a happy home is a place where a man's estate was gotten without injustice, kept without disquietude and spent without repentance. Chilo says that a happy home is the place where a man rules as a monarch a kingdom. Bias says that a 1??rwVtora o mon uaypy uvrnc 10 pcn<u nutsiv u v.*c?u uv?? \ volunatrily what by law he is compelled \ to do abroad. But you and I, under a t grander light, give a better prescription. A happy home is a place where the kind - ness of the gospel of the Son of God has full swing. While I speak this morning there is knocking at jour front door, if he he not already admitted, one whose locks are wet with the dews of the ni?ht, who would take your children into his arms and would throw upon your nursery, and nnrif ofoemmor armrfrnpnts. fttld VOnr ;v"' ~r ? j ? drawiog room, and jour entire hcuse a blessing, that will make you rich while you live and be an inheritance to you., children after you have done the last day's work for their support and made for them the last prayer. It is the illustricu3 one who said to the man of my test, "Return to thine own house and shew how great things God hath done unto thee." Now, in the first place, we waGt religion in our domestic daties. Every housekeeper needs ereat grace. If Martha had had more religion, she would not have rushed with such bad temper to scold Mary in the presence ot Christ. It is no small thing to keep order, and secure cleanliness, and mend breakages, aod achieve economy, ana cotrol all the aftairs of the household advantageously. Expenses will run up, store bilh will come in twice as large as you think they ought to be, lurniture will wear out, carpets will unravel, and the martyrs cf the fire are very few in comparison with the martyrs o-. housekeeping. Yet there are hund. eds of people in this church this morning who in their homes are managing all these aflairs with a composure, an adroitness, an ingenuity and a faithfulness which they never could have reached but for the grace of our practical Christianity. Tbe exasperations which wear out others tn vcu sDiritual development and sanctiGcatlon. Employments which seemed to relate oily to an hour have on them all the grandeurs of eternal history. You need the relision oi Christ in *he discipline of your children. The rod which in other homes mav be the first means used in yours will be the lasr. There will be no harsh epithets?"you knave, you villain, you scoundrel, I'll trash the life out or jou; you are the worst child I ever knew." AH thai kind of chastisement makes thieves pick pcckets, murderers and the outlaws o? society. That parent who in an^er strikes his child across the head desrrve* the penitentiary. And yet this work of discipline must be attended to. Gcd's grace can direct us. Alas, for those who come to tbe worK wito nercc passion sua recklessness! Between serverity anu laxativeness Ihere is no choice. Both rninous and boih destructive. But tbere is a healthlul medium wbich ihe grace of God will show to us. Then we need the religion of Christ to help us m setting a good example. Cowtier said of ihe oak. 4'Time was when settled on thy leai a fly could shake ihee to the root. Time has been when tempest could not." In ether words, your children ar? very impresfible jast now. They are alert; they are gathering impressions you have no idea of. Have yon not been surprised sometimes, months or years afier some conversation which you supposed was too profound or intricate for them to understand?some question of the child demonstrated the fact that he knew all about it? Yonr children are apt to think that what ycu do is right. They have n? ideal of truth or righteousness but yourself Things which yon do, knowing at the time to bs wrong, they take to be ri^ht. They reason this way: "Fath* A ?r alwau dees right. Father d:d th;s. Therefore this is right." Tbat is good logic hot bad premises. No one ever gets over having a bad example set him. Your cenduct more than jour teaching makes impression. Your laugh, your frown, your dress, your walk, your greetings, your goodbye, your comings, your goings, your habits at the table, the tones of your voice, are making an lm pression which will last a mnuon years after you are dead, and the Bun will be extinguished, and the mountains will crumble, and the world will die, and eternity will roll on in perpetual cylces, but there will be no dimurition of the force of your couduct upon the young eyes that saw it or the young ears that I beard it. ! Now, I would aot have by Ibis the Idea given to you that you mu3t be in cold reserve in the presence of yoar children. Your are not emperor; you are companion with them. As far as yon can you must walk with them, skate with them, fly kite with them, play ball with nom chnro f hom i.hat. vnn are interested in all that interests them. Spensippcis, the nephew and successor of Plato in the academy, had pictures of joy and gladness bane all around the schoolroom. You must not give vour children the impression that when they come to you they are plavful ripples striking against a reek. "Ycu mu3t have them understand that ycu were a boy once yourself that you know a boy's hilarities, a bo >'8 temptations, a boy's ambiilon?yea, that you are a boy yet. You may deceive, them and try to give them the idea that you are some distant supernatural eflul2*nce. and you may shove them off by \uur ri^orou3 behavior, but the time will come when they will find out the deception and they will have tor you utter cod tempt. Aristotle said that a boy should begin to study at 17 vears of age. Before that his time ->bouId be given to recreatiou. I caucct adopt that theory. Bat this su* tests a truth in the right direction. Childhood is too brief, and we have not enough sympathy with its sportfulness. We want divine grace to help us in. the adjustment of all these matters. Besides that, how are jour children ever io oscoms vxinsiiaus 11 yuu yuur&e'f are not a Christian? I hav6 noticed ihat, however worldly and sinful parents may be, they want their children good iVtien yonnz people have presented themselves for admission into our membership. I bave said to them, "Are ^cur lathe- and mother willing thaty< u shall come?" and they bave said, "Oayes; they are delighted to have us c^me. They have not been in church tor 10 or 15 years, but they will be herenexc Saboath to see me baptizad." I have noticed thai pareuus. however worldy, want their children goo j. So it was demoostrated in a police court in Canada, where a motner, her little cMld ! her aroaa. sat by a table on wh'Cu her own handcuffs lav, and the lit tie babe took up the handcuffs and played with them and had great glee. She knew not the sorrow of the hour. And then when the mother was sent to prison the mother cried out: "Oh, God, let-not this babe go into the jiU! Is there not some mdther heie who w;ll take this child? It is good enough for heaven. It is pure. I am bad. I am wicked. Is there not some who will take this child? I cannot have it tainted with the prison" Then a brazen creature rushed up and said, "Yes, I'll take the child." "Xo, no," said the mother, 4*not you, not you. Is there not some eood mother here who will take this child?" And then, when n: ~c 4.1 1 tug uuiucf vi LUC law iu aioLuy auu took the child to carry it away to fiad a home lor it, the mother, kissed it lovingly goodby and said, "Goodby, my darling. It is better you should never see me aaain." However worldy Mid sinful people are they want their children good. How are you going to have them good? Bay .them ! a few good books? Teach them a few excellent catechisms? Bring them to enured? xnat is an very weu, out oi utile final result unless you do it with the grace of God in your heart. Do you not realiza that your children are Btarted for eternity? Are they on the right road? Those little forms that are now bright and beautiful?when they have scattered m the dust, there will bean inmortal spirit living oa in a mighty theater of action, and your fiuhfulness or your neglect now is deciding that destiny. There is contention already among ?ninistering spirits of salvation and fal* leu angels as to who shall have the siastery cf that immortal spirit. Your children are soon going out in the world. The temptations of life will rush upon tbem. The most rigid resolutioa will bend in the blast of evil. What will be the result? It will require all the restraints of the gospel, all the strength of a father's prayer all the influence of a Christian mother's example to keep them. You say it is too early to bring them. Too early to brine them to God? Do you know bow early children were taken to the ancient passover? The rule wa3 jast a3 soon as they could take hold of the lather's hand and walk up Mount Moriah they should be taken to the parsover. Y^nr children are not tooyouag to come to G a. While you sit here and think ot them perhaps their forms now so bright aad beautiful vanish from you and their disembodied spirit rises, and you see it after the life of virtus or crime is past, sud the judgment Is gone, and Cwexuiuy iBUCLC, A. Christian minister said that m the first year of his pastorate he tried to persuade a youoiT mechanic of ihe importance of lamily worship. Some time passed, and the mechanic came to the pastor's study and said: '-Do yon remember that sirl? Tbat was my own child. She died this morning yery 3ud denlv. She has gone to God, I uave no dcubt, but it so she bas told him what I tell you now?t *at child has never beard a pra>er in her father's house, never heard a prayer from her lather's lips Ob, it I only had her back as;a:n one day to do mv duty." It will be a tremendous thinz at the last day if some shall say VI us: i uevcr ucatu my lawci pray. I never heard tny mother pray." Again, I remark, we want rel^i^n in all our home sorrows. Tnere are 10,000 questions tbat cjme up in the best regulated household that mu3t be settled. Perhaps the lather has one favorite in ibe family, asd the mother another favorite in the family, and there a? e many questions that need delicate treatment. Tyrany and arbitrary decision have ! no place in a household. If the parents love God, there will be a spirit of selfj sacrifice, and a spirit of forgiveness, and a kindness which will throw its charm over the entire household. Christ will ccme into thai hoasehold and will sa>: ' Husbands love your wives anc! be not bitter against them. Wives, see that you reverence your nusbands. Children obey cur parents in the Lord. Servants be obedient to your masters," and the i'amily will be like a garden on a summer morniDg?the grass plot and the flowers and the vines, and the arch of honeysuckle staniing in the sunlight glitterins with dew. Rnf thp.rft will hft sorrows that will come to the household. There are bat few families that escape the stroke of financial misfortune. Financial misfortune come3 to a house where there is no religion. They kick against divine allotments, they curse God for the incoming calamity, they withdraw from the world because they cannot hold as high a position in society as they once did, and they fret, and they scow!, and they sorrow and they die. Burin? the past few years there have been tens of thous acds of men deatroved by their financial distresses. But misfortune comes to the Chris tain household. If religion has full sway in that home, they stoop gracefully. They savs, "This is right." The father says, ''Perhaps money was getting to be" my idol. Perhaps God isgoing to make me a better Christian by putting me through the furnace of tribulation. Besides that, why should I fret anyhow? He who owneth the cattle on a thousands hills and out of whose hand ail the fowls of heaven peck their food is my .Father. He clothe me the liles of the field; he will cioth me. If he ta&es care of tne raven and the hawk, and the vulture, most certainly he will take care of me, his child." Sorer troubles come?sickness and death. Loyed ones sleep the last A io AH t 3ICCJJ. XX UUliU lO uuntu vuw of sight. You say: "Alas, for this hitter day! God has dealt very severely with me; I can never look up. 0 God, I cannot bear it!" Christ comes in, and he says: "Hush, 0 trouble soul; it is well with the child! I will strengthen thee In all thy troubles. My grace is sufficient. When thou passeth through the waters, I will be with thee." When through the deep waters I call thee to go. The rivers of sorrow shall not everflow For I will be with tbee, thy troubles to bless, And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. Bat there are hundreds of families represented here this morning where religion has been a great comfort,. There are in.vour homes the pictures of your departed and thiogs that have no wonderful value of themselves, but you keep them preciously and carefully because bands now still once touched them. A father has gone out of this household, a mother has gone out of < this, a daughter just after her graduation a son j -isr as he was entering on the duties of life. And to other homes trouble will come. I say it is not that you may be foreboding, not that you may do the unwise thing of taking trouble by the forelock, but that you may be ready. We must go one by one. There will be partings in all our households. We must s*y farewell. We must die. And yet there are triumphant strains that down these tremulous accents; tnere are antnems tnai whelm tne.dirge. Heaven is full of the shout of aeliverec captives, and to the great wide field of human sorrow there come now the reaper angele with keen sickles to harvest the sheaves of heaven. Saints will to end the ea-iure; Saftey will the nhepard keep Those he purchased for his sheep. Go home this day and ask the blessiog on your noonday meal. Tonight set up the family altar. Do not wait until you become a Christian yourself. This day unite Christ to your household, for the Bible distinctly says that God will pour out his fury upon the families tha^. call not upon his name. ^ ? r>:u*? J ?AAi4*A AkA?sfA?>. t-Kof upeu tat; .diujo auu iw a. ujapwi, uuai will make vou stroDg. Kneel down and offer the first prayer in your household It may be a broken petition, it may be only "God be merciful to me, a sinner/' but God will stoop, and spirits will listen, aod angles will cbant, "Behold, he prays!" Do not retire from this house this morning until vou have resolved upon this matter. You will be gone. I will be gone, many years will pass, and perhaps your younger children may forget almost everything about you, but 40 vears from now, in some Sabbath twilight, your daughter will be sitting with the family Bibleon her lap reading to her children, when she will stop, and iwinliar solemnifcv will come to her face, and a tear will start, and tlie children will say, "Mother, what makes you cry ?" and she will say, "Nothing only I was thinking that this is the very Bible out of which my father and mother used to read at morniog and evening prayer." All other things about you they may forget, but train them up for God and heaven. They will not forget that. When a queen died, her three sons brought an offering to the grave. One son brought gold, another brought silver, but the third son came and stood over the grave and opened one of bfs viwiq and let. the blood droD unon his mother's tomb, and all who saw it said it was the greatest demonstration of affection. My friends, what is the grandest gift we can bring to the sepulchers of a Christian ancestry'? It is a life all consecrated to the God who made us and the Christ who redeemed us. I cannot but believe that there are hundreds of parents in this house who have resolved to do their whole duty, and that it this moment they are passing into a better life, and having seen the grace of the gospel in this place today you are now fully ready to return to your own house and show what great things God has done unto you. Though parents may in covenant be Aud have their heaven in view, They are not happy till th- y see Their children happy too. I " T ^ A Ktrnhnm or* rl may CUC AJ'JiU VXUa \JL auiauaiu auu Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers be our God and the tiod of our children forever! CUT HIS EARS OFF. A Negri) Man Severely Paui-hfd lor Inaoltl&g a Lady. Augusta. Gi? April 15.?News reached Augusta yesterdav from Louis ville. a station on the Augusta and Knoxvilie road, about 75 miles rom Augusta over in Carojina, of the severe punishment inflicted upon an ignorant negro for his toolbardiness. It is eaid the shallow brained negro who lived in that town wrote a note to a young lad v. the daughter of a prominent citizen of Louisville, in which he made improper overtures. The negro, who had more "nerve" than judgment, incautious^ presented the note himself to the lady, on the street. He admonished her not to breathe a word about the contents ot the missive for, if she did, he was apprehen? ? ?? ^^ rrryvtO/^ Ka 1 TTr"?Vio/ } KtJ ?r\ f?1 r! ? ttive llitt b UC n\J UXU UCi ijruuuuu M 7 1U1UH ated citizens. The lady took the note and turned it over to her father. The,parent was uaturally highly incensed at the boldness and audacity of the ne^ro which amounted to more than impertinence. The affair was talked about and it is reported a large posse of citizens was foimed and started a search for the madly rash and adventurous negro who vas soon fou-.d. Ha was taken la charge by the mob and it is said he was was severely lashed and the whipping continued UQtil the negro wa3 so weak that he could not stand. The Ethiopian was so cruelly beaten that welts were raised all over his body. After the flogging the most unhuman part of the punishment is said to have been ioflicted. borne of the men wenc up to the negro and grabbed hold of his arms and legs to prevent resistance while others of the party used their bnives nnr? r.nfc his aara off as close to his head as the keen blade could be run through the skin. After maiming the negro it is reported the crowd escorted him to the banks of the SavanBah river which was only three miles away and they made him cross tha stream and come to the Georgia shore and before letting him go they notified him that it he returned to that neighborhood they would fiaish up by killing him. The negro took the men's word for it, and it Is safe to say that he will not go back.?Chronicle. Gen. H. W. Slocum, a gallant soldier of the Federal army during the late war, aiea at nis nome in xirooKiya oa last Saturday. One by one the old heroes on both sides of the straggle are passing over to 'he other side where ; they will rest under the shade of the trees in peace and love. j TOM REED KEJOICES. [the rule to count a quorum adopted !n the house. | forty-nine democrat* record their opi posft'oi-to check filibuhterlnj;?different. from reed'# uoautbo:ized ko!'h2 in ihe 51? c?rjrrets. Washington, iipm n.??ne ?iouse was precipitated at once, upon the opening of the session today" into an animated, not to say bitter, controversy over the proposition to count a quorum. Immediately afcer the chaplain had concluded the Lord's Prayer, Mr Catchings got the Ibor and stated that by direction of the committee on rules, he would withdraw the report of the committee made last ;veek, proposing to fine members for unexcused absences and failures to vote. That having been done, he offered the resolution agreed upon by the committee as a substitute for the DeArmond resolution, referred to the committee by the Democratic caucus last Friday. Following is the resolution: Amend iiule 15,by inserting between Clauses 1 aud 2 tne following as Clauses 2 and change the number cf Clauses 2 and change the number of before the beginning thereof, the speaker shall noma torn mamheps Ann frv>rn o9f>h ciirtu of the pending question, If practicable, who shall tnke their places at the clerk's desk to tell the names of at least i enough members who are ia the haii of the House during the oil call whu do not respond, when added to those responding, to make a quorum. If a quorum dues not respond on the roll call, then ths names of those so noted or present shall be ieported to the Speaker, w ho shall cause the list to be called from the clerk's desk and recorded on the journal; and in determining 'he presence of a quorum to do business, those who vo ed, those answered preseut and those so reported present, shall be considered. Members noted may, wueu uitrir uauiea ard yaueu, tocord their votes notwithstanding the provision:? of Claus-1 of the Rale. Amend Clause 1 of Rule 8 by adding thereto the following words: Aod on a roll call, should he not vote, he shall ans wer'"present" so as to read: ''Every member shall be present within the hall of the house duriDg its sittings, ualt-ss excused or nectssarily prevented, and shall vote on each question put, unless he has a direcc personal or pecuniary interest in the event of such ' question, and on a roll call should he not vote, he shall answer "present." When it had been read Catchings asked unanimous consent that the pre vious question on the passage or tne resolution be considered ord?red, and that debate be elnsed in an hour and a half, the time to be controlled by the Speaker of the House. At once tbere was opposition manifested on the Dem ocratic side, and so much confusion existed that the proceedings could not be distinguished at the Speaker's desk. Burrows asked to be allowed to offer as a substitute for the rule reporttd, the rule inforced in the Fifty-first Con- ' gress. as representing the vie^s of the minority. This was agreed to and the iule was read as follews: "On the demand of any 1 membsr or at the suggestion of the ! Speaker, the names of members suffi cieat to maue a quorum 111 tne nau 01 ; the House who do not vote, 3hail be ! noted by the clerk and recorded In the journal and reported to the Speaker with the names of the members votiner, and be counted and announced in de- ; termining the presence of a quorum to do business." (Clause 3, Rale 15, Fifty first Congress.) Catchiags' request for unanimous 1 consent was then submitted, and Wells | (Dem) of Wisconsin objected. Cachings then moved that the pre- . vious question be ordered on the pas sage of the resolution. On. division, the vote was aye3,128; nays, 98. The Republicans generally voted 1 against ordering the previous question. , Tne yeas ana nays were Gemanaea ana ordered, resulting yeas, 140; nays, 120; ; so the previous question was ordered. Burrows said that the rule reported ; by the committee and the substitute offered by him both contained the prin- , ciple of counting a quorum, differing only as to detail, jtfot desiring to embarrass or delay the option of tne prin- ; ciple by the House, desiring rather ; that the Democratic majority should nave an unobstructed opportunity 1 to endorse the Fifty-first Congress, he would withdraw the substitute. The debate was opened by Caterings In explanation of the rule, saying it was the result of the action of the caucus of last Friday. Springer said the proposed rule contemplated no change of the Constitution; it was only a proposition whereby the House could do the business for which the members had been sent here. (Republican applause.) The House had sat here for a month past and done scarcely two day's work. He was tired of it,he said, and hoped the House was. He should hail the adoption of the ruie as cue uawa ui a UBLter era m piumotmg legislation. (The delivery of Springer's remarks was accompanied by almost continuous appiause from the Republican benches.) Kilgore was greeted with a round of applause as he began to speak, which caused Speaker Crisp to warn tne galleries tbat they were present by courtesy of the House, and that tbe rules required them to refrain from any dem onitration what'-yer. "In this case," said tbe Speaker, ''the chair noticed tnat tbe applause started in the galleries." Iviigorc said be rose chiefly to express his unalterable opposition to the -r At?- I - ~ r ?u: ~U *r.r* adoption 01 tats ruie, ui vvumu m- got*tieman from Maine (Reed) was the parent. T&h rule was unnecessary in tiis opinion. Rules were not adopted by parliamentary bodies to exp--dir,tj but to hiader the transaction of business; to bridle the majority and to compel it to tafce all the responsibility of legislation. Russell of Georgia lamented the humiliating spectacle presented to the country "by the Democratic majority of the H.ousa, with seventy or eighty more votes than the Republicans and thirty-nine more than a .majority, finding themselves unable to do business without calliag to their aid the excep; tional and revolutionary methods of the Fifty first Congress. Mr. iteea Siia: "i ao not aesire to acdress the House again upon the general subject. Thi3 scene here today is a more effective address than any I could make. Tne House Is about to aaopt the principle for which we contended in the Fifty-first Congress, and is about to adopt it under circumstances which show conclusively to the country its value. Xo worcs that I can utter can add to tne importance of tbe occasion. I congratulate the Fiftythird Congress upon the wise decision it is about to make. (Applause on the sirlp. Outhwaite spoke in favor of the proposed new rule. Cumminj?s opposed it. The debate was closed by Catchings, who pointed out the necessity for toe adoption of the rule, and said the present conditions were widely diiierent from those which obtained in the Fifty-first Congress and against which the Democratic party protested. While Catcbings was speaking Bynum rose to a point of order that Catcbings had exceeded the limit of time remaining to him. The Speaker: The time is being kept at tbe desk, ;ind the chair will cail the gentleman's attention tcthe fact that bis time nas expirea wneu ins num. reached. Bynum: The clock shows that he has been speaking more than three minutes. The Speaker (sharply); The chair keeps the time for the House. This colloquy was greatly enjoyed by the Republicans. The vote on tbe passage of the reso fl?M??BJ????MBMgaH?BBMSi f luMon was announced at 2 o'clock to have been?yeas 212, nays 47. So the resolution was agreed to. The announcement was received with loud applause on the Republican side, and many of the members surrounded Reed and congratulated him upon the final triumph of the principle for wnicn ue nau su long iuuwuucu. REED ROBBED OF GLO*Y. wire Proves ?hat he haa Sailed under I:\tl3B C?lors, Washington, April 18.?The read- 1 ing of yesterday's proceedings of the ' House was listened go with close at- < tent ion by the leaders of the House When the clerk reached the point discribiog the first roll call under the new < rule, the names of those reported pre sent, not voting, were not given. Reed inquired who they were. Crisp replied that the names had not J been inserted by the clerk, but tbey 1 should have been. There was an error 5 in the record which he had been in- 1 formed was made at the printing of- i Gee. i Reed said he wanted to know who t were responsible, the clerks or tellers, i so that he might Know whom to blame, i The Speaker said the tellers had not j made ary report. The reading of the journal having , been concluded, Kilgore asked a eorrec , tion of the Record, which reported him ' as voting on the first roll call nnder the rtatxr m!o Ho HiH nnt. ' iu which statement he was supported t by the Speaker, who satd the correction should be made. Burrows called attention to the speech of Wheeler (Dm.) of Alabama contained ia the Record today. The gentleman had baen granted one minute by Catchlngs yesterday, Burrows said, in which to express his views on the quorum counting rule. In that minute, according to the Record, he nad been aDle to say enough to fill four colums of the Record. He knew that the eentleman was a rapid talker, bat he did not believe he could talk that fast. Richardson (Dem.) of Tennessee said Wheeler was not present and suggested Vha m?\ rvwAM 11 ka moo ( I licit L JO UiablCl ? \J UYCl UUbU Liu TTOO ? in his seat. Reed?It is his duty to be here, and f if we had a proper system of fines for i absence, doubtless he would be. I Burrows said that having called at- , temion to the matter he was willing to ? postpone further consideration until , Wne-ler was present. If he had deliv- , ered that speech in the minute he was on the floor of course, there was no criticism to make; if he bad not he (Bur- 1 rrtnrtA inciat-ori ha h!i<1 trlnTatPfl a rjiip nf 1 House and some action should be taken to expung the speech from the Record. The matter was thereupon posponed. The House went into com mittee of the whole, Bailey of Texas in the chair, for the consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation , bill. j The debate was entirley political' with only incidental reference to the , bill before the House. In its course, Mr. Wise (Dem.) of Virginia read from ' the Record to show the position tafcen ( by ex-Speaker Reed when the amend- < mentoffered by J. Randolph Tucker of 1 Virginia to the rules, providing for the < counting of a quorum, was under dis- : uussion in the Forty-eighth Congress. I He showed that Reed opposed the \ amendment and added with^ much , 3pirit that "this adulation of Thomas < B. Reed by the Republican party was a miserable pretense." Wise went on to say that Reed was Dot the originator of this proposition to count a quorum until it was iirst proposed by'a Democrat from Virginia. Grosv^nor (Rsp.) of Ohio, who had several times attempted without success to interrupt Mr. Wise?May I ask the gentleman a question ? Wise, emphatically and amid general I laughter?I cannot refuse you the cp- i portunity to talk. ' Grosvenor?Was that a Democratic ?, Congress? \ Wise replied that it was; and added that it was his purpose to strip Thos Jt5. Reed of the false colors under which he , had sailed. He added that Springer of Illinois had voted and spoken for the rule. "That vote," said Keed, sotto voce, 1 "accounts for its defeat." "Garfield." continued Wise, "voted against it and denounced it as unconstitutional; 30 that this pretense that the country is indebted to the Republican party for this rule, is a base lie. On lhat occasion, Reed denounced the proposed rule as a violation of the Constitution and the Republican leaders joined him in the denunciation." Wise stated that he refused to vote yesterday for the rule because he had bad no opportunity to examine it, and because there was no chance to debate it. But he believed that if the power resided in the House to bring a man from California to his seat, the House had a right to count his presence for the transaction of busineas. TTTU*. nntlawa Perry, 0. T., April 19?News of a j terrible fight between the notorious ; outlaws, Bill Dalton and Bill Doolan " and another outlaw, said to be Bitter Creek, and a number of deputy marshals, about forty miles east of here, ; near E wen Mountain last night, was re- ! ceived here this morning by messenger. ! The three outlaws and a woman and ner 1 liitle gril were shot dead, as also were two deputy marshals. Marshal Nix of I Oklahoma has been planning for some days to catch the Dalton gang, and Marshal Burrell Cox, W Heck Thomas , and Bijl fjghemsnn of Perry, and a crowd of fourteen marsaals left some , days ago for the eastern part of the Cherokee Strip in pursuit of the Da!- ' mt. . v_1_ i. VHHzh. ' loos, ine marsuaia uioii muw juuuiicj, one of the gang and the light com- , menced. This was on McElroy's ranch, 1 fifteen miles this side of Engalls. Bill D^iton aDdBill Doolan were near by when the fight occurred, and went to Bruce Miller's assistance, and a regular fight took place. Tiie messengers left the place of conflict last night at 8 o'clock. They say that eight persons in all had been killed and tne latest news from i he field of conflict is that n running fiht is still in progress and it looks very much as though the outlaw gang would b? swept out of existence. Tne price for BMi Dalton's capture dead or alive, is S2.500 ana the priC9 for Bill T^AAlon'e ri 1Q X/UV/1UU O uvuu AM VA)vwv? Good. Savannah, April 15.?The city authorities sat dowa on Sunday baseball in Savannah today. Savannah and Macon agreed to play the game scheduled for Monday, today, leaving Monday a rest ofday. Announcements of the game were made in the newspapers and scattered through the city. This morning the mayor notified the chief ot polic9 not to permit the game. The management of tbe club was also notified. The grounds are just beyond She city Umits, but under the city ordinance giving the mayor jurisdiction two milts beyond the limits, the game conld not be nlaved. A detail of police was stationed at the park gates to enforce the mayor's order. Over two thousand people went out expecting to see the game. The action of the authorities today will probably settle the question of Sunday baseball in Savannah. The management of the club will not figh s the matter. A Collision* Columbia, S. C., April 17.?The train on the South Bound due here at 9:45 p. m. between Norway and Denmark last c<ght ran into a push car. The pilot of the engine was damaged and the step leading to the engineer's cab was knock off. The push car was knocked off the track and a lot of bed clothes, mattresses and utensils of various descriptions were distributed broadcast over the territory round about. It is supposed that the car had been stolen by some colored persons who were using it to assist them in moving their household goods.?State I # THE COMING CAMPAIGN.-. THE DATES OF MEETINGS TO BE SET IN A SHORT TIMEIhe Srate Democratic Executive Committee Will Arrange the Programme?Oaly Keto: m CiEdfda'ea Will Appear or the Stump. Columbia, S. C., April IG.?Politi Jiaus ?UC uu <1 JUi noiu . V wuw beginning of the State campain, and are 3is;ussiDg the showicg which will be made cn the stamp by each of the can3idates. The dates for campaign meeiwss will iiave to be fixed by the State Demojratic Executive Committee, of which Senator Irby is chairman. It is said that i call for a meeting of this committee will be issued before a ?reat while. The meeting will likely be held some time aext month, Nobody knows what are ;he ideas of the members of the commit:ee about the time for the beginning of ;he campaign, but it will hardly start before the last ot May or the first of June. I> ihoa horAt-AfWr<? *ol:pn flhnnfc twn UW , "WW MV*V?WV4W ? nonlhs to cover tbe State, allowing ibout four meetings a week. Beginning .he first of Jane, and taking It for granted ;hat two months will be necessary to jet arcund, this would end the campaign ibout the first cf August and allow Dreathing time before the primary elections in that month. The campaign mee^gs are always irran^ea for the benefit, of the candidates or Governor and State officers. What he programme^will be for joint debates between Governor Tillman aad Senator Butler is Dot known. It is presumed, aoweyer. that the Senatorial candidates will have to do their spsakiog at the f^oAhrirta oa tho Athftf jauig L4t> www \suwiw* ilthough each will have the privilege of idcressing as many extra meetings as le desires. So (ar it looks like all the speakers, ;xcept Senatoi Butler, will be Reformers, rhe Reformers have managed things so jatis'actorily that their opponents are. lot apt to bs given an opportunity to lake advantage of dissensions. Tnere will be no fighting and no divisions, rhis baing the fact the Conservatives will not think of putting uy candidates lor State officers. Befjre the Democratic primaries are leld the Reformers of the various cguq;iea will have held county conventions in a sent delegates to the State conven;ion which is to put up Reform candidates tor Governor and Lieutenant Govsrner. Inasmuch as the constitution of jLio jjttuiuuraui; p-iity i a uui lAUimai iu ;he people, the following portions ot it, which should be preserved for future reference, are given: Article V. County Democratic contentions shall be coupoaed of delegates ilected by the several local club3, one Jelegate for every twenty-five voters, as shown "bv the poll list made at the preceding first primary election, and one lelegate for a majority fraction there:f, with the right to each county convenion to enlarge or diminsh the representa;ion according tc circumstances. The ;ounty conventions shall be called together by the chairman of the respective ;xecutive committees under such ruie, lot inconsistent with the constitution mr with the rules adoDted bv the State Democratic Executive Committee, as ?ach county ?aay adopt, and when assembled shall be called to order by the ihairman of the executive committee, ind ths convention shall proceed to lomioate and elect from among its mem* oers, a president, one or more vice presidents, a secretary and a treasurer, rhe clubs recognized by the respective ;cunty conventions which sent delegates ? the State convention which met on August 13, 1890," shall be recognized as ;he only legal cluba: Provided, however, rhafc any couaty convention may pernij; the formation of new clubs by a naionty vote cf its members: Provided, urther. Tbat in all cities with a popclanon of 5,000 and over there many be two ilubs in each ward; they shall be organized in obedience to this constitution, as ire the clubs elsewhere in this State, and n orgranizing said ciubs they shall have representation in the county conventions 1 respectively, as said conventions shall declare in accordance with the provisions of this constitution. Art. YI. The nominating convention for the nomination of Governor, Lieutenant Governor and other State officers, in 1892 and thereafter, and for ilectors for President and Vice President in the same year and every Pre&iieDtial year thereafter, shall be composed of delegate from each county 3oui)le the number to which such coui ty is entitled in both branches cf the General A eaemblv. Said delegate? are to be chosen by primary elections to be held on the last Tuesday in August of sach election year; the delegates elccted to receive a majority ol the vote3 cast. At this election only white Democrats shall be allowed to vote, except that negroes who voted for General Hampton in 1876 and who have voted the Democratic ticket continously since may be allowed to vote. The club rolls of the party shall cons itu'e the> registry list and shall b9 open to inspection by anv member of the party, and the elec tion under this clause shall be held and regulated under the Act of the General Assembly of this Siate. approved Ds cember 22, 1888, and any subsequent Acts of the Legislature of this State Second primaries when necesssary shall be held two weeks later. Art. VIII. The State Executive Committer shall be composed of one rnomhtr from por>h rnnntv. to he elected o> i he respective delegations and elected f>> the convention. If any vacancy occur on tbe State ticket or for electors, by death, removal or other cause the committee shall have the power to fill the vacancy by a majority vote of the whole committee. Art. IX. When tbe State convention assembles it shall be called to order by ibe -chairman of the State Executive Committee. A temporary president *hall be nominated and elected by the ci nwntirtn* and after its organization the c invention shall proceed immediately to the election of permanent officers and to the transaction of business. When the business has concluded it shall adjourn sine die. Art. X. There ehall be a primary election m each Congressional District in this State on the last Tuesday in August, 1892, and every tvo years (.hereafter, to nominate candidates for Congress to be conducted and managed as is hereinbefore provided in the election of dele? i? iTKo TT-v<? gams iu luc oiat-c wuvcunuu. j.uc tuw to be received, tabulated and announced by the State Executive Committee to the chairman of which the result is to be transmitted by the respective county chairmen by the first Tuesday in September, 1892, and every two years thereafter. The election for Solicitors lor the different Circuits shall be by primary, subject to the same rules and regulations, and to be announced in the same way a3 before set forth for Congressmen. Art. X[. Before the election in 1892, and each election year thereafter, LlC OldiC xi-i.wugi?v mittee shall issue a call to all candidates for State offices to address the people of the different counties of the State, fixing the date of the meetings, and also inviting: the candidates for Congress, United States Senate, delegates to the State convention, and tor Solictor, in their respective Districts and Circuits to be present and address the people. At suefc. - meetings only tee candidates above set forth shall be allowed to speak. Art. XII. It shall be tbe duty cf ' each county executive committee to ap- J point meetings in their respective conn- 1 ties to be addressed by the candidates for ) ' i * ti_ _ ? j:r ( tne t^ecerai .assamoiy auu xor iae u ifereut county officers, all ot whom, excepting Trial Justices and Masters, snail be elected by primary on the last Tuesday in August of each election year under the same rules and regulations hereinbefore provided.?Register. " A RIOT INDE1ROIT. Clasb Between Striking Poles and a Sheriff's Posse. Detroit, Mich., April 18.?Trouble has been brewing- between the water board and the Polish laborers engaged to lay the pipe extension east of the water-works near Connor's creek, four miles from the city, over the question of wages for soma days. These men were quarrelsome yesterday and refused , to go to work themselues or allow any , one else to do so, but no serious out- \ break occurred. At 5 o'clock this morning an angry 1 looking mob began to gather at the 1 scene and when 7 o'clock arrived, more J than five hundred men carrying pick- ; axes and spades were patrolling the ' road. Four policemen were sworn in ) as deputy sheriffs and a force of eigh- J teen men were put to work. The stri- 3 kers threatened to kill the first man \ who dared attempt to do any work, ; and when one of the men, more daring ; than his feliow workmen, jumped into : the ditch, he was savagely assaulted. The handful of deputies were overpowered and the strikers were left in possession for the time being. At 10 o'clock the mob further armed itself with clubs and cudgels. SberiK?&>lllns was telephoned for and hurried to the scene, taking with him balf a dozen deputies. After a conference with the water board about work for the day and then the clash came. Wnen Eagineer "Williams attempted to withdraw his men peacefully, the strikers became furious and made an onslaught on one of the men. Sheriff Collies ordered the mob to dis perse, threatening to shoot it the order was not obeyed. The mob appeared maddened, however, and continued the attack. Then the sheriff ordered his posse to (Ire. He stilted the action to the words, and fired three shots from his revolver ia rapid succession. This was a signal for a volley from the deputies, who emptied their revolvers at the advancing mob. Two strikers were shot dead, and at least fifteen others. are more or less dangerously woanded. This had a demoralizing effect on toe mob and it fell back. Policeheadqaarters were notified and a large force of policemen were hurried to the scene, aDd all the ambulances in the city. The trouble commenced when Engineer Williams gave the order for the removal 01 ine sucuou puuips auu uuuis from a small excavation that had been made at the end of the pipe line fa preparation for the work. As he spoke in English, however, the mob did not comprehend what he said. Sheriff Collins stood near the excavation with a deputy. The deputy spoke German and told the mob that the water board had given in and it only wanted to remove its tools. Foreman Cathey then jumped into the excavation and began taking up the pump. One of the strikers yelled: "Are we going to stand this? Let us all strike together." At this speech there was a forward rush of the" strikers, who held their sbovels and picks aloft. Cathy was struck a blow on the head, which knocked him to the bottom of the excavation. Sheriff Collins waved his arms wildly and fairly shrieked to the mob to stand back, but his efforts were wasted. No attention being paid to what he said. Instead of retreating, he drew his revolver and aimed it point blank at the crowd. He tired three shots as rapidly as he could pull the trigger. Then a long-handled siovel upraised behind him, descended swiftly and a corner of it pierced his skull. He was struck again and again and was probably fatally injured. Foreman Cathy is also fatally injured. One member of the water works police was seriously cut. The two strikers killed j and all the wounded are Poles. ttui (tai.Mo maqlltr hporan vAqteravii I JL UV WlVUWiV AVMMJ J J 7 when Engineer Williams of the water works sought to introduce a system of paying the men by the cubic yard of excavation instead of a daily wage rate. The Polish laborers rebelled at this and as a result the water board decided to suspend operations. This afternoon and evening deputy sheriffs scoured the Polish quarter for the rioters and by night fifty of the lawbreakers had been gathered in. The corridors of the jail cell block were filled with them. About 6 o'clock a group of Polanders gathered about the ; jail and made ugly demonstrations. < One of them was shot in the leg by a ! deputy sheriff and carted on ro a nospi- tal. The crowd about the jail, mostly I spectators, continued until midnight. . The Polish quarter is all excitement tonight. A meeting was arranged in a Polish hall for tonight from which it was declared the Polandera would march to the jail and wreck it, but the J police were watchful and the meeting ; did not materialize. ! Hom? Folks In Waablngrtoo. Washington, April 16.?Judge Izlar i is rapidly becoming familiar with his Congressional duties, and to-day he made the round of the executive depart merit in ine Interest of his constituents. Se has been overrun with requests for fiower and garden seed, and he says he was not aware until he yislted the agricultural department that the quota belonging to the 1st district had been exhausted for the present session by his predecessor, Judge Brawley. It did not take 3 udge Izlar long to learn that some of the Congressmen who live in city districts sometimes make exchanges of seed for books and Congressional publications, so Judge Izlar is now negotlat ing a deal by which he hofes to fulfil some of the requests for garden seed. Ttiere is considerable comment among the members of South Carolina delegation over the revival of the Hampton proposition to organize Anti- ' Tillman clubs throughout the State. Representative Latimer says he does not think it will assist in quieting the contending factions to start such a movement at this time. On the contrary, he says it is calculated to increase the bitterness on both sides and 3olidify the "Reform" element. He is fearful that the recent outbreak at Darlington and Florence is but a forerunner of furher difficulty. He regrets that the feeling between the town folks and the country people is so intense, and he also regrets that military companies are being formed in many country districts. iie preuicis iaai cue coming campaign will be one of the most exciting in the history of the State and he is vsry much afraid it will end io,bloodshed. He would like to see ail the differences of opinion now existing between the Conservative and "Reform'" factions, growing out of the dispensary law, submitted to a veto of the people, and whichever side is outvoted peacefully abide the result. Judge Izlar is naturally cautious in discussing the situation at home, for he , realizes that the feeling is running ' high between the contending factions, and any thing said at this time is apt t,o be misconstrued or misunderstood. He does not see the propriety at this time of starting the Hampton clubs. He is very fond of Gen Hampton and under ordinary circumstances would cheerfully aid him in any movement that is calculated to relieve; the State from the present unhappy condition of affairs. Judge Izlar, however . is thoroushly familiar with the - existing conditions, and he is disposed to accept the views of The News and Courier to the effect that the proposed movement is untimely and perhaps illadvised under .the present circumstances. 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