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TALMAGti NERMON. DR. TALMAGE'S ELOQUENT SERMOI ON "EASTER IN GREENWOOD." Where the Wound of Deati Is '11idag4e by Foilage-oirt's Itesurrection I OuIr Besurrfection it Wo Are MIs-Thi "Good Morulog' of Our Stvioir. BROOKLYN, March 25.-The Easte services in the Tabernacle today wer attended by immense audionces. Beau ll ful floral decorations almost hid the 1u pit from view, and the great. organ gav forth its most rapturous strains in lionc of the day. In the forenoon Retv. 1) Talmage delivered an eloquent sermo on "Easter In Greenwood," the tel being taken from Genesis xxiii, 17, 1! "And the field of Hebron, which was i Machpelah, which was before Mamr< the field, and the cave which was then In and all the trees that were In tho fie] that were in all the borders round aboul were made sure unto Abraham." Here is the first cemetery ever laii out. Machpelah was its name. It va an arborescent beauty, whore the Wount of death was bandaged with folhage Abraham, a rich man, not beiig able t< bribe the king of terrors, proposies her as far as possible to cover up the rav ages. He had no doubt previously no ticed this region, and now that Sarah his wife, had died- that remarkable per son who at 90 Tears of age had born t< ber the son Isatc and who niow, n!tc. she had reached 127 years, had expirei -Abraham is negotiatinig cor a fiimif plot for her last sluuber. Ephron owned thls real estaite, al after, in mock sympathv for Abrahdnm, refusing to take anything for t, nov sticks on a big price-400 shokels fall ver. The cemetery lot is paid for, and the transfer made in twe ixi-eseic of witnesses in a public hilce, for there were no deeds aine no hallIs of record iii those early tines. Tlien in a cavern ci limestone rock Abraliai put Sarah, and1 a few years ifter Iimielf f Illofwed. and then Isaac and R'1bokal. and iith .Jaeob and Leah. Embowered, )ictturee(Jl u' and memoratble Machlphelah! That "Godi's acre" dedicated )y Abraham has been the mother of inlnumeriable mortuary (b servances. The neeropolis of every civilized land has vied with its metropo lis. The most beautiful hills of Europe outside the great cities are covered will: obelisk and funeral vase and arched gate ways and columns and parterres in honoi of the intumated. The Appian way o lome was bordered by sepulchral coma mos'norations. Por this purpope Pist has its arcades of ai irble Eculpturd int( excellent bas-reliefs and tile features o dear faces that have vanished. Geio, has its terraces cut into tombs, and Con stantinople covers with cy press the silen habitations, and Paris has its Pere h Chaise, on whosen heiils rest, Bt'z u and David andI Marshal Ney and( Cuvie and La Place and Moliere and a mught group o warriors and poets and painter and musicians. In all foreign nations ti most genius on all sides is expended i the work of Interment, mummullcatio and incineration. Our own country consenits to he set oned to none in respect to the lifles body. Every city anvd town and neid~ borboodi of any in elligence or virrur, has, not many mues awvay, its sacredf in closure, where otection hlas etrag< sculptor's chisel and hiorist's sprade an<i artlifcer in metals. Our own city hant shown its religon as well as its art, in the manner which it holds the memory o those who have passed foreve ax way bv its Cypress Hills, and its Elvergreens and Its Calvary, and [loly Cross, an< Friends' cemeteries. All the world kum.vs of our Groon wood, with now about 270,000 inhabi tants sleeping among~ the hills that over. look the sea, and by lakes cinbosomet in an Eden of f1) ors, American West minster abbey, an Acropolis of moertunari architecture, a Pantheon niulhty 0ne1 -ascended, elegios in atone, 111ads im mara ble, whole generations in pr'ace waitin, for other generationa to join them. N dormitory of breathless sleepers in ati the world has 5') many mighty (lead. Among the preachers of the gospel Betbune andTPhomas DeWitt, and Bie hop James and Tyng, and Abeel, th missionrry, and IBeechier and Buddtinx ton, and McClintock and Inskip, ani Bangs and Chapin, and Noah S""'ene and Samuel Hanson Cox. Amon musicIans, the renowned Gottschal and the holy Thomas Hastings. Amion philanthroplsts, Peter C6oper and Isani T. Hopper, and Lucretia 'AIott and Ie bella Graham, and Henry B3ergh, thi apostle of mercy to the brtute creatior Among the httoratl, the Carys, Alic and Poecbe; James K. P'aulding ati John G. Baxe. Among jourtialisti Bennett and Raymond and Greeles Among scientists, Ormisby Mitchel warrior as well as astronomer, and lov ingly called by his soldiers "Oldl Stars; Professor Proctor and the Draperm splendid men, as I well know, one< them my teacher, the other my clasm mate. Among inventors, Elias Howe, wh<l through the sewing machines, did mor to alleviate the tolls of womaahood tha . any man that over lived, and Professc Morse, who gave us magnetic tele graphy, the former doing his work witi the needle, the latter with the thundet bolt. Among physIcIans and surgeons Joseph U. Hlutchinson and Marion Sim * and Dr. Valentine Mott, with the fol lowing epitaph which he ordered cut hi honor o1 ChristIan religIon; "My im - plicit faith and hope is In a merciful Re deemer, wiho is the resurrection and tnt life. Amen and amen." This Is oui * American Machpelah, as sacred to us at the Machpelah in Canaan, of whicl: Jacob uttered that pastoral poem in one verse, "There they buried A braxham and Sarah, his wife; there .they huried Isaac and Rebekah, his wIfe,,rnd there 1 buried Lsah." At this Easter servk'. I ask and answer what may seem a novel question, but it will be found, before I get through a prac tical and useful and tremendous ques tion. What will resurrection day do lor the cemeteries? First, I re-nark, it will bo tllr supernal bcutification. At cer tain seasons it is customnory in all iande to Strew flowers over the mounds of the departed. It may have been suggestet by the fact that Christ's tomb was In garden. And when -I say garden I d< -not, mean a garden of these latitudes The late frosts of sprig and the earl' frosts of autumn -are so niear each othe: K that there are only a few nmonths of flow sr in the field, All the flowers we met todysed to be petted and coated an: t tdrshelter or they would not hay loomed at afl.s They are the childreo 9I the conservto~Iles But at this set ~~ag OUb ht6. s06t of the year tb Holy Land Is all ablush with floral opu lence. You find all the royal family of flow era there, some that you supposed Indi genous to the far north and others indi genous to the far sou'.h-the daisy and hyacinth, crocus and anemone, tulip and and water lily, geranium and rauniuclus, mignonette and sweet mrrjoran. In the coll. te at Beirut you may see Dr. Post's collection of about oighteen bunidred kinds of Holy Lan' tlowelrs, while among trees are the o ak8 of frozen climes, and the tamarisk of the tropics, walnut and willow, ivy an< hawthorn, ash and elder, pine and syca more. If sucli floral and botanical beau ties are the wild growth of the lieldt think of whit i garden iust be in Pal estinel And in such a garden Jesus Christ slept afio:, on the soldier's spear, n his last drol) of blood had coagulatel. t And then see how aporopriate that all our cemeteries shoul'i be floralized and ir o shaded. In June Greenwood l B Hr okly'i's garden. ,Well then," y.ou say, "how can you .miake oti that tho redurrection day wil heaultily the ceweteries? Will it not leave theni a )lowod up ground? On that day there will be an earthqudke and will not. this sph'- the polished Aberdeen I granite as well as the plain slab that cai afford but two words-'Our Mary' or 'Our Charle%?' " Well, I will tell you how resurrect.ion day will beautify all tile celeteries. It will be by bring. in4 up the faces that were to us once and im our meiores are to us now more beaut:ful than any calla lily and the lorms that are to us more graceful than noy willow by the waters. can you think 11 anytlhiuz more beautiful than tl:e reappearance ol those from whom we lave been Iparted? I do not care whY'1 way the tree falls in the blast o1 the jutHment, hurricane, or If the plow. share that day shall turn under the last rose leaf aud the last china aster, if out of lie broken sod shall come the bodies ot cir loved ones not damaged, but irra. (liated. The idea of the resurrection gets eas ier to understand as I hear the phono. graph unroll some voice that talked intc it a year ago, just before our friend's de cease. You touch the lever, and ther como fort~h the very tones, the very sont -f the person that breathed into it onc:e but is now departed. If a man can d< that, cannot Almighty God without, hall trying return the voice of your depared: An if he can return the voice, why not the lips, and the tongue, and the throat that fashioned the voice? And it' th lips, and the tongue, and the throat, why not the brain that sui.gested the words1 And it the brain, why not the nerves, cf which the brain is headquarters? And it lie can ret urn the nerves, why not the muscles, which are less ingenious? And if the muscles, why not the bones, that are less wonderiul? And if the voice an(d the brain, and the muscles, and the bones, why not the entire body? If mau can do the phonio.raph, God can do th1 resurrrction. Will it be the same body that in th last day shall be reaulmuatel? Yes, bu inAinitely iilroved. Our b)dies chang< every sevenl years, and in one sense it iE the sane body. On my wrist and thi second finger ofmy right, hand there is P scar. I made that at 12 years of age when, disgusted at the presence of tw( warts, I took a redhot iron and burnet *a them eLI' anid burei them out. S oc ten tny~ body has chlanged at leat . halt doi0 timlles, but those scars provi - We lever lose our idenitity. If GJon Cflcan and dones som etimesii rebuildl ai man1 - lIve, six, tcn times in this wvorld, is it ImySierius thant lie can rebuild him once more and that in the resurrection? itf he c'nn do it 10 times, I think ho cant do it 11 times. T1hen look at the 17 y ear lo encsts. For 17 years g'one, at the end oh 1 7 Sears they appear, and by rubbine the~ hind leg a':a uil.tthe wing make that rattle at which all the husbandmom andt vinot dIresserst :. .auible as the insectile host takest up the mlarchl of dlevastation Resurrection every 17 years, wondertui Another conisideration makes the idea of resurrection easier. God made Adam. lIe was nlo, lashiioned alter any model. Thiere had never been a human organ. ism, and1( so thlere was nothing copy. At the first. att~empt (God made a p)erfuict man, lie madle him out of the dust ot the earth. II out of ordinary (dust, o the eart~h -and without a mozlol God cold make a perfect, mau, surely out of th -ext.raordiniary du1.st of mortal body an< e withl the millhons of models God car make eachl one of us a perfect being Ii [I the resurrectien, Surely the last undiei k takingz wouldl not be greater thban til< I. first. See tile gospel algebra-ordinari k d ust minus a modlel e quals a perlect, mal a extraordinary dust. and1( plus a mode e equals a resurrection b~ody. Mysterie - aut it? Oih, yes. That is one reasoi e wily I believe it. It. would riot be rue -of a Godi whio could (10 things 0only asf fa a I can uniderstand. Mysteries? Ohl yes d but, no more about the resurrection c Syour bodly thlan about its present, e xIst -enlce. I will explain to you tile last myster of tihe resurrection andl make it as plall to you as thlat two armd two malhke four you will tell me hiow your mlind, whic is entiretly Indepenldent, of your tnodyv, cia act upon01 your b~ody so thlat at your wi] your eyes open1, or your toot walks, o ,your land is extendled. 8o I find not~h e ing ha the Bible statement, conlcerin 3 tile resurrection that staggers mue for r moment. All doubts clear from mi -mind. 1 say the cemeteries, ho~veve 1beamutiful now, will be more beautitt; when the bodies0 of our loved ones comn upl in the morning of tile restirrec'.ionl. 3 They will comie In improved condi - tion. They will come upl rested. TIh 1 most of them lay down at, the last ver tired. How of ten you have hieard tilen say, '"I am so liredl'' Tile fact 18, iti a tired world. If I should go througi this audience and go round the world. I could not find a person in any style o life ignorant of the sensation of fatigue I do not believe there are 50 personi in this audience who are not tired. Youi head is tired, or your b~ack is tired, o: your toot is tire:i, or your brain is tired, or your nerves are. Lone journeying or business application, or ber eavement or siaknaess has put on you heavy weighlts. 83 the vast majority of those who went out of this world went, out, fa tigued. About the poorest place to rest Is in 'this world. Its atmosphlere, its surroundings, and even its hilarities are exhauisting. So God1 stops our earthly - life, and mercifully closes the eyes, and more especially gives quiescence to the lung and heart, that have not had 10 minutes rest from the first respiration and the first beat. If a drummer boy were compelled in the army to beat )ilf drum for 24 hours - without stopping, his officer would be Scourt'lnartialed for cruelty-, It the drum. ~mer boy should be commanded to beat B his drum Ior a week without ceasing day 3 and nIght, he would die in atte'mpting It But under your vestment is a poor hearl a that beann Its dru-mat fo.. the.mrch. life 30 or 40 or 60 or 80 years ago, and it has had no furlough by day or night, and whether l conscious or comatose state it went right on, for if It ;bad stopped seven seconds your Ife would have closed. And your heart will keep uoing until some ti-ne after your spirit has flown, for the auscultator says that ater the last expiration of lung auio the last throb of pulse, and after the spirit Is released, the heart keeps on beating for a time. What a mercy, then, it so that the Vrave is the place where that wolr'ous inmn ichinery of veti tricle and artery c'an halt! Under the healthful chemistry of the soil all the wear and tear ot nerve and muscle and bone will be subtracted and both of good fresh clean soil will wash off the last ache, and then some of the same aueloof dust out of which the body of Adam was constructed may be infused into the resurrection body. flow can the bodies of the human race, which have had no replenish. ment from the dust since the time of Adam In paradise, get any recupera. tion f rom the storehouse from which he was constructed without our going back into the dust? That original, life giving material having been add ed to the body as it once was, and all the defects left behind, what a body will be the resoirrection body! And will not hundreds of thousands of such af.pearing above the Gowanus heights make Greenwood more beauti fil than any June morning afteri a shower? The dust of the earth being the original material for the fashioning of the first hulman tielng, we have to go back to the same place to get a per feet body. Factories are apt to be rough places and those who toil in them have their garments grimy and their hanis smut ched. But who cares far that when they turn out for u-4 beautiul musical nstruiments or extitilsite upholstery ? What though the grave is a rough place, it is a resurrection body man ufactory, and from it shall come the radiant and resplendent forms of our friends on the brightest morning the world ever saw. ' on put into a facto rv cotton, and it comes out apparel. You put into a factory lumber and lead, and they come out pianos and organs. And so into the factory of the grave you put in peumonias and con sumptions, and they come out health . You pt in groans, and they come out halleluaiha. For us on the final day the most attractive places will not be the parks, or the gardens, or the palaceis, but the cemeteries. We are not told in what season that day will come If it shoild be winter, those who come up will be more lustr otis than the snow that covered thein. If in the autumn, those who come up will be more gorgeous than the woods after t:e frosts had pen ciled them. If in the spring, the bloom on which they tread wilt be dull com pared with the runicund of their cheeks On, the perfect resuprrection body! Al most everybody hai some defective spot in his physical constitu tion-a dull ear, or a dimin eye, or a rheumatic foot, or a neuralgic brow, or a twisted muscle, or a weak side, or an inliamed tonsil, or some point at -which the eait wind or a s'aison of over work asaeults him. Bitu', the resurrection body shall be wit h tiot one weak spot, and all that the doctors and nursis. and apothe caries ot earth will thereafter have to (1o will be to rest without interuption after the 'Arokcan niaits of their earth ty existence'. Not only wvill thmat day be the beautification of well kept ceme teries, buit some of thie graveyards that have been neglected and( b~een thme pas ture ground for cattle and1( rooting places for swine will for the first ti1me have attractivenmes given them. It was a shame that in that place un grateful generatitons planted no trees, and t wisted no garlands, and seculp tured no marble for their Chiristain an cestry, but on the day or which 1.speak the resurrected shall make the place of their feet glorious. From under the shadow of the church, where they slum bered among nettles and mullein stalks and~ thistles and slaus aslant, they shall rise with a glory that shall flush the wmndows of the village church, and by the bell tower that used to call them to worship, and above the old spire be side which their prayers formerly as cended. WVhat itriumphal procession never did for a street,-what an oratorio never did for an academy, what an or ator never did for a brilliant auditory, wvhat obelisk never did for a king, re surrection morn w ill do f'or all the cem eteries. This Easter tells us th at in Christ's resurrection our res.urrection, if his, and the resurrection of all the pious dead, is assured, for he was "the first fruits of them that slept." Rienan says he did not rise, but 580 witnesses, 60 of them Christ's enemies, say he did rise, for they saw him ater he~ had risen, if he did not ite, ho w did 60 armed sol diers let him get away ? Surely 60 liv inlg soldiers ought to be able to keep I one dead man! .Blessed be God! ie did get awvay, SAfter his resurrection Mary Magda r lene saw him. Cleopas saw him. T'en ;disciples in an upper roon. at Jerus alem isaw him. On a mnount:,in the 11 saw him. Five hmundred at once saw him. Professor Ernest Rlenan, wno did not see him, wvili excuse us for taking time te'stimnony of the 580 who dlid see him. I Yes, yes, he got away. And that makes f me sure that, our departed loveud ones mIuand we ourselves shall get away. Freed ihimself from time shackles of cold, lie I is not going to leave us5 anid ours in the r lurch. - There will be no doorknob on the Sinside of our family sepulcher, for we cannot come out of our elves, but there is a (doorknob on the outside, and that r Jesus shall lay hold of, and opeing Swill say: "Golod mornIng! You have slept long enouighit Arise, arise!" And then what flutter of wings, and1( what flashing of rekindled eys, and what - gladeome rushilng across the family l'.t a with cries of ".1 ather, is that you?" "Mother, is that you ?" "My darling, 1 is that you?" "How you all have i changed! TIhe cough gone, the croup gone, the consumption gone, the pa ralysis gone, the weariness gone. Come, let us ascend together! The older ones , first, the younrger ones next! Quick now, get into line! T1he sky ward pro. cession has already started! Steer now by that embankment of cloud for the nearest gate!" -And as we ascend en one side thc earthi gets smaller until it is no largem than a mountain, and smaller until it 'is no larger than a palace, and smaller until 1ils no larger than a ship, and smaller until It is no larger than a wheel, and smaller until it is no large than a speck. Farewell, dissolving earth! But on thE other side as we rise heaven at fIrst ap pears no larger than your hand. And nearer it looks like a chariot, and near er it looks like a throne, 'ind nearer It looks like a star, and nearer it looks like a sun, and nearer it looks like a universe. iHail, scepters that shall al ways wave! Hail, anthems that shall roll! Hall, companionships never again to part! That is what resurrection day will do tr all the cemeteries and grAve yards from the Mach pelah that ws opened by Abraham in hlebron to the Maebpelah yesterday consecrated. And that makes Lady auntigto's imniortal rhythra most apposite; When thou. my righteous Judge, shalt Come To take thy ransomed people home. Shall I among them stand, Siell such a worthless worn as I, Who sometimes am afraid to die, Be found at thy right hand? Among thy saints let me be fonpd. Wheno'er th' archangle's trumpet stall sound To see thy smiling face. Then, loudest of the throne, I'll sing While lieaven'o resounding arches ring With shouts ot soverlu gra co AFTER SENATOR HOAR. Gov. Jones, of Alabama, Haul iln Over the Coals. MONTGOMERY, Ala.1 March 28. The New York Sun on Saturday came out with an exposure from Boston of the attempt of th' Home Market Club there to raise $5,000 for Kolb to u8 in carrying Alabama next August. The circular sent out contaiueda letter from Senator Hoar warmly endorsing the plan because he regarded Koib's movement as promifsing to break up the ballot box stuffmng and to forward the cause of proLection. The circular which Senator foar's letter accompanied also statea ihat Kolb cartied the State by 45,000, but counted out. In consequence of this publication, Governor Jones, who deleated Kolb today, sent Senator Hoar the following telegram: State of A labama, Oflice of the Governor, Montgomery, Ala.. March 24. lion. George F. Hoar, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. Tbe New York Sun of S tturday . last publishes a confidential circular of the iome Market Oun, of Boston, appeal ing for contributions throughout New Euygland to raise money to control the next State election here. Tne circular asserts some false and scandalous accu sations against the State government and the people.of Mahama. You are represented as endorsing the authoc of the slanders and approving the contents and purposes of the circular. The publication, i true, presenat :the case of a seuator from Massachusetts endorsing grave accusations against the Governor of Alabama in order to inflame the feelings oi his people against him that money may be the btter coin. ed out of these passions to raise a ilnd in Massachusetts to influence the people of Alabama in the selection of olli.ers to administer their own State govern ment. A senator like yourself, who has so lonug and so conspicuously guarded the honor and divniLy ot the Statehood will, I am sure, concede the right of the Governor of Alabama, who owes a like duty to her, to ask whether the letter purporting to be from you is gennine and c irrectly states your action. (Signed) TiHos. G. JONES, Govi rnor of Alabama. '[OAR'S REPLY TO JONES WASHINGTON, March 28.-Senator Hoar has sent to Governor Jones, of Alabama, the following telegram in re ply to the Governor's telegram as it ap pears in the morniog papers: Was ington, March 27, 1894. Governor Jones, Montgomery, Ala. Letter in New York Su i genuine: I stand by every syllable of it. L ha-e no concern with your Iccal affAirs, but when Alabama elects senators or rep resentatives whoes votes may bring ruin to the inustu~ries and misery to the home of New .analand, we have a right as manufacturers to address arguiments to Alabama to sho0w her that her ilterest8 a the same as ours, and to urge her that her 'rias voice shall .be uttered and not, stilled. We claim the same right to do what we honestly think best; to submit our caiuse to our brethren of Alabama as to the people of Massachusetts. No person in Massachusetts, so far as I know and believe, proposes to raise money for any other .purpose than to submit, arguments to your people on national questions. W hether your seat was gained by any other means than an honest and fair vote of your people you know and Ala bama must, settle for herself. I say nothing in my letter on that subject. (Signed) GEO. F. IIo An. A Dig at the Regiatar. Klitor Register: Your report of the Spartanburg meeting in today's issue of thie Itegister is very meagre, but there is enough in it to call forth a few remarks from me. You report that. Congressman Mc Laurin saIid that he would support Governor Tillman only conditionally, 1 quote the whole paragraph: "Gantt tried to claim that this was not a di rect answer, but the crowd evidently concurred in the opinion that McLau rin wvas right in saying that Tillman ought only to be supported just so long as he stuck to the principles of the farmers' movement and no longer, and~ commended his position of refusal to say he wouldi blindly support Till. man without any reference to his prin ciples." .Now, Mr. Editor, you have every reason to believe that I am without prejudice. I have no word of con lem nation for any true reformer. I have never had. My judgment is that Mc Laurin and Shaell lad better have stay ed a way from Spartanburg. Your report of what they said Is very damaging to the Itegister. There la no way f or you t~o get out of It. You have committed the llegister to Shell and McLaiurin. WVell, my opinion is, we will not go with yofu. The idea of a man like McLaurin or Shell making coniditions to Tiliman. Thes thing is absolutely absurd. If any one of these gentlemen had said that he favored liutier as against Tiliman I wvouldl not have had a word to say. That is their right. To put conditions to their support of Tillman is silly, cornpromising and treacherous. WV. N. MARtOHANT, Graniteville, Aiken Co., March 25, '94. R apine and Murdaer. JA CKiONvILLE, March 27.-A special to tue Tu'ines-Union from Jasper, Fla., says: There is great excitement at Ehlaville, a few miles south of this place, over the murder of Mrd. Turner, an aged woman, and Miss Epsey, a fir teen-year-oldi girl. The woman and the girl were alone in tihe house last night. l'his morning the girl was found in the road in front of th'3 house with her brains beat out. Old Mrs. Turner was found dead in the house, her head hav ing also been beaten to a jolly. An axa or a hatchet had been used by the mpur derer. Aa examination of the body of the girl sho ws that she had been ray fshed. It Is supposed that after tile fiend had satisAsd h~eistist, he slew the girl and the old woman, to prevent his crime being discovered. There is no clue to the murderer, but it ls supposed to have been the work of a negro tramp who was seen near the house at night. fall. The people are terribly wrought up, and if tile murderer can be discov ed Judge Lynch will dia'pose of him. THE Illinois Dempcraoy are dis ousiag the adoption of a new frill. It is the nomination of a United States senator by the state convention. GOING INTO POLITICS. The ?Udord Pope ot Colunbia Held a Areettag,. CoI&I A, S. 0., March 24.-Th negroes'9of the city met to night in the Cooper & Taylor Hall to adopt some 4otion looking towards taking a band in the coming municipal general election, There was an attendance of about five hundred men. June S. M[obley, who is, ouedthe call and inaugurated the move ment, called. the meeting to order, and stated the object of the meeting. The Rev. R. E. Hart was elected perqpanent chairman, I gather froni the convention that the negroes intend to see exactly what strength they can develop on the registration books, and then If they deem such strength sufficient they'will place a ticket in the field againts the regularly nominated Democratic ticket. They appointed the folling comMittee of three from each ward, whose duty It shall be to go from house to houseand see that every. colored voter registers: Ward 1. James Robinson, Cyrus Als. ton and Noah Johnson: Ward 2. C. F. Holmes, Henry Johnson and Abram Moore: W art 3. I. J. Miller, J. S. Mob. ley and R. E. Hart: Ward 4, J. L. Simons, E. B. Thompson and Alexan der Coultry. This committee is to keen one man at each registration place ani a complete list of every colored voter who registers is to be kept and the voting strength o I the negroes thus secured in advance. A committee of one from each ward was then appointed as below whose duty it shall be to decide atter due delibera tion whether the negroes should place v full ticket of their own in the field oi support certain men of the Democratic ticket, or support this whole ticket or dc something else. They decided, no mat ter what this committee thought best, to use their whole voting strength as a writ. - Tbis committee will meet on Mondav evening next at 6 o'clock at the chairman's residence, to decide upon some course of action. Tbe -ommittee consists ef R. E. Avery from Ward 1, Dr.- 0. C. Johnson from Ward 3, the Rev. J. H. Johnson from Ward 2. and J. L. Simons from Ward 4, The other committee will meet on Wednesday night next, and the two committees will then call another con vention. The attention of the negroce~ was called to the fact that only certitl certes secured in the next few days would be of use in the e&cvion. Hart. in e speech, told the neLroes to remem ber that they were not seeking oflces but measures. There were no ofilces to be secured. The call meant business, to think more and say iess. He said their move meant a chapter in the history ol their lives. June Mpbley, the originator of the movement, in his speech said the neioes bad been asleep. He had looked over the situation and he had come to the conclusion that it was suicide to them - selves and children to remain asleep, t-'1 had noticed the rules of the peoplc in power whocired nothing fir them bul their labor., He wanted everybody tc know that June Mobley was not satisfled with the Government as it was. He had prayed, and then he felt it was his -duty to go to every man and catch him by the shulder anid make him. They had been gong backward, le said John Gary Evans had won his applause by saving that no race was any race was at all unless it participated in pl)itics. The great, need of the race was to think. We are not here to defeat the present nominees, but we want some show In the Government and went to let all know that we are dissatilled with the past Government. He said that it this duty of the colored people to pay ofi ministers who would not lead them to the ballot-box as well as to heaven. Hie had nothing to say against Mr. Slian. Bride and Groom Murdered, l'ENSACOLA, March 28.-A terrible tragedy was enacted in this city last night, in which C. S. Huff and his bride, who were married but three hours, lost their lives. Mrs. Huff was f ormerly the wife of a man named Gal ltgher, who died a few years ago. Some time after she married Thomas Trainer, a steamboat captain. Last fall she obtained a divorce from Train er and yesterday married Huff. After the divorce, Trainer continued to visit the home of his former wife and kept hi8 clothes -there. It is not known whether' marraige relations were re sumed but it is thought they were. Trainer claims that he went to Iluff's house to obtain his clothes and was or dered out by fluff, who refused to let him have them, lie refused to go with out the clothe~s. Huff advanced to. wards him with a knife in lisa hand. Trainer drew his pistol and shot him dead. He also claims that Mrs. Hluff was shot accidentally by going between him and Hluff. Both died instantly. Trainer is in jail. A Traglo Fate. CANNES, March 25.-An areonaut named Wilton, well known in Ame rica, met a tragic death here .to-day in an ascension. No car was attached to the balloon, and Wilton ascended hang. ing to a rope. When 1,500 feet high the balloon was caught in a current of air that carried it rapidly seaward. It was apparent that Wilton could not control the valve at the top of the bal loon. He let go his hold of the rope from which he dangled and his body shot down into the sea with a frightful velocity. The accident occurredl in f ull view of thousands of spectators, and a number of women fainted away. A number of pleasure boats hurriedly made their way to the place where Wilton had failen, and after a shiort search his body was recovered. lHE denth must have been almost instan taneous, in Jail. U~manNGHAM, Ala., March 23. William Ingram, a young farmer liv ing near IEverrgeeD Ala,, was married last night. Toward.mildnig ht a party of friends surrounded his house and commenced a serenade, using for in struimente tin cans, cow bells, etc. In gram oeoamne so incensed that he :se z ed an axe and running to the door, hurled it into the crowd. The shari edge struct a young man named Jim Dixon and cleavedi his spinal column prodiucing death. Ingram surrendered find i spending his honeymo on in jil A urILL has been Introduced into the Massachusetts. Legislature prohibiting women from appearing upon the stage in tights, or in dresses which do not comes within four Inches of the floor, or which are cut decolete. The Boston H~ome Journal suggests that the next nliove will be to prohibit hotels and restaurants from serving low neck clams without some kind of dressing. A member has been expelle4 from the Louisville city council for taking money to vote for a certain man as city weigher and sealer. Four other menta bers are being tried on the same Charge, W hat is the world coming to anyhow 9When a city~ councilman pan no longer accepnt a brihbe9 A Whiskey Tragedy. ATLANTA, GA., March 26.-A spec lal to the ' Constitution from Homer, Banks County, says that J. F. Willi was killed last week by his daughteo Lillian .nd his wife. The newrot tdt tragedy did not trqnspire for sbYeral days, when a son, Francis, 11 years old, told It to soma neighbors. The (laugh ter and mother were both arrested taket to Homer and given pieliminary trial. The boy testilel that his fatier clit home from work about dark and, settine his bottle of whiskey on tne cupboard, called for his supper. After beginnini to eat his meal a difficulty arose betweet the father and mother, but the formie sat down o1 a chair before the fire, whet Lilliati, the girl about 15 years old, struck him with. afi axe, cutting a gas in his skull. Raising up and ecreamm Willis threw back his head and then thi mother took the axe from th girl an< cut him accross the throat with it, The deed was done, and in a ver, short time Willis died. The girl sai she 'struck the blew with the axe, alte havrog cut her father's thorat with a ra zor, while Willis was choking her mo. ther to deah. Atter drawing the rago accross the throht of her father and see ing that he .was not dead, she picked ul the axe .and finished him. Her ple was that she did the deed to save he mother's lite. Judge J. 13. Estes, of Gainesville and Hurber Estes, of Macon, were ax pointed to defend Mrs. Willis arid th girl; R. B. Russel, the solicitor general represented the State. The crowd re manined anxiously awaitir g the verdic of the jury until yesterCay afternoon when th'e jury rendered a verdict turn lug the girl loose. The verdict was me with demonstrations of applause b, those in the Court room. They Choose Death. OSKALOOSA, Ia., M'arch 25.-Joh Reed, 17 years old, and EttaShaw, age< 16, members of two wealthy famil ea contracted an affection for each othe: that time only berved to tntensify. Thi parents of the girl thought nothing o the boy's attentions until a few monthi ago, when he surprised them by askinj for their daughter's hand. While thor on-thly satistled with their daughter'i choice, the parents thought both th children too young too young to marr) and told them to wait a few years long er. At the same time they thought i prudent to check the visits of youni Reed to the house. This did not aeen to have the desired effect, as the young sters would mebt clandestjnely despit( the parental opposition. As a last re. sort Miss Shaw's parents decided t( send her away for a few months to the Eist, hoping that the change of scenei and asseclations would result benefi cially. It is believed that rather that be parted the children resolved to dit together. They met and went out rid Ing. They drove to a clump of woods and threw a rope over the limb of t tree. Each end of the rope had a run ning noose in it, aid these they place( around their necks. Then a sharp cul of the whip sent the horses and bugg3 forward, leaving the boy anI the gir dangling in the air. The families o: both the suiciders are nearly crazed ov er the affair. 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