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TA1LMAGE'S SERMON. t4 REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON ] HOME AND RELIGION. y The Ei.quent Divise Makes a tit r.ng Plea M for the tiospel-A Sermon that Takes It Hold of tie Heart-The Grandest GIt' q URooxi,YN, Ap~ril 15.-In the great audlence which. aaissembled in the Brook. y lyn Tabernacle this afternoon were many i strangers. Rev. Dr. Talmale chose for a the subject of his serenon "Home Relie- t Ion," taking his text from Luke viii, 39, r "Return to thine own house and show e how great things God hath done unto 'I thee." 1 Lfter a fierce and shipwrecking night. ii Christ and his disciples are climbiog up I the slaty shelving of the beach. How n pleasant It is to stand on solid ground f after baying been tossed so long on the g billowsl While the disciples are con- .1 gratulating each other on their marine I escape, out Irom a dark, deep cavern on p the Gadarene bills there is something a swiftly and terribly advancing. Is it an e apparition? Is It a man? Is it a wild c beast? It Is a maniac who has broken e away from his keepers, perhaps a few b rags on bis person and fragments of i stoat shackles which he has wrenched e off in terrific paroxysm. WiLh wild yell h and bleeding wounds of his own lacera tion he flies down the hill. I( Back to the boats, ye fishermen, and c put out to sc-a and escape assassination! d But Christ stands his ground; so do the c disciples, and as this flying fury, with c gnashing teeth and uplifted fjsts, dashes i at Christ, Christ says: "Hands ofl- t Down at my feet, thou poor suf'erer,' i and the demoniac drops harmless, ex. t hausted, worshipful. "Away, ye'devils!" a sommanded Christ, and the 2,000 fiends r which had been tormenting the poor man I are transterred to the 2,000 swine, which I go to sea with iheir accursed cargo. t The resbored demoniac sits (Iowa at, Christ's feet and wants to stay there. a Christs says to him practically: "D3 I not stop. You have a mission to exe- t cute. Wash off the filth and the wounds in the sea, sniooth your disheveled locks, t put on decent apparel and go straight to 3 your desolated home and tell your wif 5 g arid children that you will no more af- ) fright them, and no more do them harm; c that you are restored to reason, and that t I oirnipotent bon of God, am entitled t hereafter to the worship of your entire household. Return to thine own house t and shew how great things God hath h. done unto thee." c Yes, the house, the home, is the first g place where our religious gratitude ought ( to be demonstrated. In the outside world e we may seem to have religion when we V have it not but the home tests whether a o.'r religion Is genuine or a sham. What makes a happy home? e Well, one would say a house with e( great wide halls, and antlered deer il heads, and parlors with sculpture and a bric a brac, and (lining hall with easy p chair and plenty of light, and engravings ti of game on the wall,'and sleeping apart- b< ments commodious audladorned, No. In fa such a Mlace ais that aigantic wretched- co ness has sometimes dwelt, while some th cf you look back to your fatlher's house, TI where they read their Bibble by the light 15 o'a tallow candle. There were no car ba pets on the floor save those made form tic the rags which your mother cut out night Lb by night, you helping vwind them mnto a ball, and then sent to the weaver, who c< brought them to shape under his slow 1i1 shuttle. Not a luxury in all the house! w But you cannot, think of it tis morning tI without tearful and grantful emotion, ec You and I have found out that, it is not kt rich tapestry, or gorgeous architecture, tbh or rare art, that makes a happvjhomne. th The six wise meni of Greece gave p~re- th scriptions for a happy home. Solon says so a happy home is a iplace where a man's ch estate was gotten without injustice, kept is without disquietude and spent without Lh repentance. Chilo says that a happy I home is the place where a man rules as TI a monarch a kingdom. Bias says that a sa happy home is p)lace whore a man (lees no volunatrily what by law he is compelled is to do abroad. .Hut you and I, under a wi' grander light, giye a better prescription. th< A happy home is a place who the kind - toc ness of the gospel of the Son of God has hoi full swing. in~ Wbile I speak this morning there is dai knocking at your front door, if hehbe not see already admitted, one whose locks are wet with the dlews of the night, who the would take your children into his arms yeo and would throw upon your nursery, and a I your sleeping apartments, and your eel drawing room, and your entire hiouse a chi blessing, that will make you rich while tie you live andl be an inheritance to your gri ch9dren after you have clone the last rer day 's work for their support and made for ett them the last prayer, it is the illustri- ror ous one who said to the man of my text, bri "Return to tbiue own house and shew scm how great things God hiath done unto iru thee." Now, in the first place, we want thb religion in our domestic duties, or Every housekeeper needs areat grace, tin If Martha hand had more religion, she would not have rushed wvith such bad mi temper to scold Miary in the presence of le Christ. It is no small thing t~o keep or- ter dor, and secure cleanliness, and mend dr breakages, and achieve economy, and a cotrol all the stairs of the household ad- thu vantageoualy. Expenses will run up, bei store bills will come in twice as large as the you thmnk they ought to be, furniture will stt wear out, carpets will unravel, and the of martyrs of' the fire are very few in comn- Cli parison with the martyrs of housekeep.- thu mng. .Yet there are hundreds of people in this church this morning who in their To homes are managing all these aftairs kn with a composure, an adroitness, an in- th genuity and a faithfulness Which they a never could have reached but for the fat grace of our practical Christianity. Thbe ah exasperations which wear out others a~ have been to you spiritual development to and sanctification. Employments which of seemed to relate only to an hour havebi or them all the grandeurs of' eternal his. iLb You need the relhgion of Christ, in the pa disciphne of your children. The rod etb which in other homes may be the first means used in yours will be the last, fir There will be no harsh epithets--"you su: knave, you villain, you scoundrel, Pil at trash the life out of you; you are the pe worst child I eyer knew," All that pi kind of chastisement makes thieves pick- m pockets, murderers and the outlaws of c' society. That parent who in anger Idu strikes his child across the head deserves di the penitentiary. And yet this work of Lu disciplne must be attended to. God's a grace-can direct us. Alas, for those who h come to the work with fierce passion and ( recklessnees! Between serverity and I laxativeness there is no choice. Both d ruInous and both destructive. But there a is a healthful medium which the grace of pl God *ill show to us. Then we need the religion of Cbrist to a help us mn setting agood example. Cow. q per said of the oak. "Time was wilen Ih settled on thy 1esf a fly could shako thee JI~ ) the root. Time has been .-hen temp. Bt could not." In other words, your bildren are very imprasPible just now. 'hey are alert; they are gathering im ressions you have no idea of. Have ou not been surprised sometimes, iontbs or years after some conversation rhlch you supposed was too profound or itricate for them to understand.-some uestion of the child demonstrated the ict that he knew all about it? Your children are apt to think that ,bat you do is right. They have no leal of truth or righteousness but your slf. Things which you Co, knowing at ie time to be wrong, they take to be ght. They reason this way: "Path r alwave does right. Father did this. 'heretore this is right." That is good 3gic but bad premises. No one ever ets over having a bad example set him. Eour cenduct more than your teaching iakes impression. Your laugh, your rown, your dress, your walk, your reetiigs, your goodby3, your comings, 'our goings, your habits at the table, the ones of your voice, are making an im. ression which will last a million years fter you are dead, and the sun will be xtimguished, and the mountains will rumble, and the world will die, and ternity will roll on in perpetual cylces, ut there will be no dimuition of the >rce of your conduct upon the young yes that saw it or the young ears that eard it. Now, I would not have by this the lea given to you that you must he in old reserve in the presence of your chil ren. Your are not emperor; you are ompanion with them. As far as yon an you must walk with them, skate with hem, fly kite with them, play ball with hem, show them that you are interested a all tLat interests them. Spensippus, lie nephew and successor of Plato in the cademy, had pictures of joy and glad ess hung all around the schoolroom. (ou must not give your children the im roession that when they come to you hey are playful ripples striking against rock. You must have them under tand that you were a boy once yourself hat you know a boy's hilaritles, a bo's emptations, a boy's ambition-yea, that ou are a boy yet. You may deceive hem and try to give them the idea that ou are some distant supernatural efl'ul ence, and you may shove them off by our rigorous behavior, but the time will ome when they will find out the decep ion and they will have for you utter con )mpt. Aristotle said that a boy should begin study at 17 years of age. Before that is time should be given to recreation. I annot adopt that theory. But this sug ests a truth in the right direction. hildhood is too brief, and we have not sough sympathy with its sportfulness. fe want divine grace to lielp us in the dIjustment of all these mattcra.3 Besides that, how are your children 'l 7er to become Christians if' you your- c lf are not a Christian? I have noticed I lat, however worldly and sinful parents 3 ay be, they want their children good. Iien young people have presented emselves for admission Into our mem Irshij [have said to them, "Are , our thor and mother willhng that you shall me?" and they have said, "Oh yes; 3y are delighted to have us come. c iey have not been in church for 10 or a years, but they will be here next Sab- n th to see me baptized." I have no- t ed that parenis, however worldy, want 5 sir children good. So it was demonstrated in a police I urt in Canada, where a motnor, her 1 ,tie chiild in her arms,. sat, by a table on hich her own handcu2h lay, and the lit babe took up the handcuffs and plav with them and hand great glee. Shie ow not the sorrow of thbe hour. And mn when the mother was sent to prison a mother cried out: "'Oh, God, let not, e s babe go into the jaili Is there not, se mothier hete who will take this id? It is good enough for heaven. It, mure. I am bad. 1 am wicked. Is ire not some who will take this child? i~ annot have it tainted with the prison" ten a brazen creature rushed up andu 6, "'Yes, I'll take the child.'' "'No, i ," said the mnother, ' -not yoti, not you. there not some good mother here who I take thig child?" And then, when O ollcer of the law in mercy and pity w k the child to carry it away to find a oj ue for it, the moether, kissed it, lov- Il lv goodby and said, "Goodby, my 01 ling. It is better you should never b me again" tt Iowever worldy and sinful peop~le are P y want their children goodI. [low are i going to have them good? Buy'them ~ iw good books? Tieach them a few e x. lent, catechisms9 Bring thoem to hh irch? That is all very weil, but C f lit final result unleds you do it, with the ce of God in your heart. Do you not 1 lize that your children are startedt for e rnit}? Are they on tihe right i: ,d? Those little forms that are now al l, and beautiful--when they have hi ttered in the dust, there will be an ci nortal spirit, living on in a mighty y' ater of action, and your fa-ithfulness o1 your neglect now is dleciding that des- v ['hero is contention already among iisteoring spirits of salvation and lal* fc angels as to who shall have the mae- hi y of that immortal spirit. Your chil ~n are soon going out in the world. bi e temptations of life will rush upon s< in. The most rigid resolitioa~ will si id in the blast of evil. What, will be o~ result? It, will require all the re- v aints of the gospel, all the strength n a father's prayer all the influence of a ristian mother's examp~le to keep g mm. krou say it, is too early to bring them,. o early to bring them to God? 1)o you n w how early children were taken to u ancient passover? Trhe rule was just h soon as they could take hold of the hi her's hand and walk up Mount Mori- ai they should be taken to the pa~sover, si mur children are not too young to come tl Goed, While you sit here and timk d them perhaps their forms now so ght and beautiful vanish f rom you and g sir disembodied spirit rises, and you i it after the life of virtue or crime is st, and the judgment Is gone, and utnity is here. A Christian minister said that in the 1i st year of his pastorate he tried to per.. bh ade a young mechanic of the import- IC Ce of family worship. Some time ,ased, and the mechanic came to the ,stor's study and said: "Do you re-- 1 ember that girl? That was my own ti ild. She died this morning very sud- ei inly. She has gone to Goed, I have no fe ubt, buit so she has told hint what I V 1ll you now--that child has never heard ti prayer in her father's house, never a Bard a prayer from her lather's lips. I 'h, itlI only had her back agaln one clay n >)domy duty." It will be a tremnen- tI ons thing at the last day if some shall my of us: "I never heard my fatherd ray. I never heard my mother pray." Again, I remark, we want religion in ~ i1 our home sorrows. Tnere are 10,000 b liestions that come up in the best regu ted household that must be settled.~ erhaps the father has one favorite in t the family, aid the mother another fav. orite in the family, and there ave many Cuestions that need delicate treatment. Tyrany and arbitrary decision have o place In ai houseiold. If the parents love God, there will be a spirit of self. iacrilce, and a spirit of forgiveness, and % kindness which will thiow its charm )ver the entire household. Christ will ,ome into that household and will say: "Husbands love your wives and be not bitter against them. Wives, see that you reverence your ausbands. Children obey our parents in the Lord. Servants he obedient to your masters," and the family will be like a garden on a summer morning--the arass plot and the flowers and the vines, and the arch of honey suckle stan-ing In the sunlight glitter ing with dew. But there will be sorrows that will come to the household, There are but few tamihes that escape the *troke of fl. nancial mistortune. Financial misfor. tune comes to a house where there Is no religion. They kick against divine al lottments, they curse God for the incom ing 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 scowl, and they sorrow and they die. Duriog the pu1 few years there have been tens of thous ands of men destroyed by their financial distresses. But misfortune comes to the Chris tain household. If religion has full sway in that home, they stoop grace fully. They says, "This is right." The father says, "lFerhaps money was get ting to be my idol. Perhaps God Is going to make me a better Christian by putting me; through the furnace of tribulation. Besides that, why should I fret anyhow ? He who owneti the cat. tle on a thousands hills and out of whose hand all the fowls of heaven pock their food is my Father. le clothe me the liles of the fleld; he will cloth me. If he takes care of theraven and the hawk, and the vulture, most certainly lie will take care of me, his child." Sorer troitbles come-sickness and death. Loved ones sleep the last sleep. A child is buried out of sight. You say: "Alas, for this bitter day! God has dealt very severely with me; I can never look up. O God, I cannot bear it!" Christ comes in, and lie says: "Il ush, () trouble soul; it is well with the childi I will strong then thee In all thy troubles. My grace is sufhicient, When thou passeth through the waters, I will be with thee." When through the deep waters I call thee to go. I he rivers of sorrow shall not overflow For 1 will be with thee, thy troubles to bless, nd sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. But there are hundreds of families epresented here this morning where eligion has beeni a great comfort. here are in your homes the pictures f your departed and things that have to wonderful value of themselves, but ou keep theiii preciously and carefully ecause hands now still once touched horn. A father has gone out of this ousehold. a mother has gone out of MIs, a daughter just after her gradua on, a son .just as lie was entering on le duties of life. And to other homes trouble will me. I say it is not that you iay be foreboding, not that you lay do the unwise thing of sking trouble by the forelock, but that ou may be ready. We must go one by ne. T1here wviii be partings in all our ouseholds. We must say f'arewell. We nust die. And yet there are triumiph. nt strains that down these tremulous Ccents; there are anthems that ihoimn the (irge. Ileaven is full of the liout of' aelhvered captIves, and to the reat wide field of human sorrow there >met now the reaper augels with keen ckies to harvest the sheaves of heav 1. Salits will to end the endure Saft ty will the shepard keep' Th'iosoe o purchased for his sheep. Go home thuis day and ask the bless g on your noonday meal. Tonight t up the family altar. D)o not wait dlil you become a Christian yourself. his day umte Christ to your house >ld, for the Bible distinctly says that od will pour out his fury upon the ~milies ' It call not upon his name. pen the Bible and road a chapter; that ill make you strong. Kneel down and Ter the first prayer in your household ,may be a broken petition, it may be 11y "Ghod be mercifuil to me, a sinner," la God wvill stoop, andl spirits wihll his na, andl angles wvIll chant, "Behold, lie rayal" D~o not retire from this house this orniig until vou hiave resolved upon its matter. You will be gone. . wvill gone, many years will pass, and per aps your younger children may forget most everything about you, but 40 bars from now, in some Sabbath twi ght, your (daughter will be sitting Ith the family Bilble on her lap read g to her children, when she will stop, id1 peculiar solemnity wiii come to r face, and a tear will start, andl thie aidren wvill say, "Mother, what makes mn cry ii" and she will say, "Nothing aly I was thinking that this Is the wry Bible out of which my father and other used to read at morning and 'ening prayer." All other things about you they may rget, but train them up for G0(1 and inven. They wvlhl not forget that. WVhen a queen (died, her three sons 'ought an offering to the grave. One n b roughut gold, another brought lyor, but the third son caine and stood ror the grave aind openied one of his eiis and let the blood drop upon his other's tomb, and all who saw it said was the greatest demonstration of fection. My friends, what is the andest gift we enn bring to the sep. chiers of a Christian ancestry ? It is life all consecrated to the Goed who ade us and the Christ who redeemed a. I cannot but believe that there are .mdreds of parents in this house who wve resolved to do their whole duty, id that tt this moment they are pas. ng into a better life, and having seon 1o grace of the gospel in this place to ay you are now fully ready to return your own house andl show what rent things God has done unto you. Th'iough parents may in covenant be And have their heaven in view, They are not happy till the'y see Th'ieir children happy too. May the Lordl Go:i of Abraham and lac and Jiacob, the God of our fathers our God and the Ood of our children rover! Matrdered. .LOUiMIsyra, Ky., April 18.--From ike County came the news today that 1o notorious Frank Phillips, a promin it Participant In the H~atileld-McCoy ud, has been killed, also D~etective rilliam Bovine. They were shot near ie Virginma border by thie Pickett boys, ho killed old man Ferrell recently in logan County, West Virginia. The lurder'ed men were trying to cap ire the Pickett brothers. GEN. HI. W. Slocum, a gallant sol ler of the Federal army (luring the ate war, died at his home in Brooklyn n laat Saturday. One by one the old eroes on both sides of the struggle are assing over to the other side where hey will rest under the shade of the reeea p aco amid love TOM REED REJOICES, THE RULE TO COUNT A QUORUM ADOPTE0 IN THE HOUSE. Forty-Nine Dumoorate Record 'PLir Op posit'on-To Check Flinbntorng-lir ferent front Reed's Unautho'lzed Ruling in the 51st Cengress. WASUINOTON, April-17.-The 11oujo was precipitated at once, upon, the opening of the session today, into an animated, not to say bitter, controver. sy over the proposition to count a quo rum. Immediately after the ciiaplain bad concluded the Lord's Prayer, Mr Catchings got, the floor and stated that by direction of the committee on rules, he would withdraw the report of the committee made last week, proposing tu fine members for unexcused absen ces and failures to vote. That having been done, he offered the resolution agreed upon by the committee as a substitute for the DeArmond resolu. tion, referred to the committee by the Democratic caucus last Friday. Fol lowing is the resolution: Amend Rule 15,by inserting between clauses 1 and 2 the folowing as Claus. es 2 and change the nimber of Clauses 2 and change the number of before the beginning thereof, the speaker shall name two members, one from each side of the pending questiun, if practicable who shall take their places at the clerk's desk to tell the names of at least enough members who are in the hall of the House during the roll call who do not respond, when added to those responding, to make a quorum. If a quorum does not respond on the roll call, then the names of those so noted or present shall be reported to the Speaker, who shall canse the list to be called from the clerk's desk and record. ed on the journal; and in determining the presence of a quorum to do busi oess, those who voted, those answered present and those so reported present shall be considered. Members noted may, when their names are called, re cord their votes notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 1 of the Rule. Amend Clause 1 of Rule 8 by adding thereto the following words: And on a roll call, should he not vote, he shall answer "present" so as to read: "Every member shall be present within the hall of the house during its sittings, unless excused or necessarily prevent ed, and ahall vote on each question put, unless he has a direct personal or pecu niary 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 of the I resolution be considered ordered, and that debate be closed in an hour and a half, the time to be controlled by the Speaker of the House. At once there was opposition manifested on the Dem I ocratic side, and so much confusion existed that the proceedings could not I be distinguished at the Speaker's desk. I Burrows asked to be allowed to offer as a substitute for the rule reported the rule inforced in the Fifty-first Con- I gress, as representing the views of the minority. This was agreed to and the iule was 0 read as follews: "On the demand of any c membsr or at the suggestion of the r Speaker, the names of members suffi- I cient to make a quorum in the hall of t the House who do not vote, shall be noted by the clerk and recorded in the1 journal and reported to the Speaker with tho names of the members votingi and be counted and announced in de termilning the presence of a quorum to do business." (Clause 3, Itale 15, Fifty first Congress.) Catchings' request for unanimous I consent was then submitted, and Wells i ~Dem.) of Wisconsin objected. t Catchings then moved that the pre- h vious question be ordered on the pas. E sage of the resolution. On division, the 3 vote was ayes, 128; nays, 98. c The Republicans generally voted c Igainst ordering the previous question. I l'ho yeas andl nays were demanded and a ardered, resulting yeas, 140; nays, 10; so the previous question was ordereod.' .Burrows said that the rule reported a ay the committee and the substitute >ffered by him both contained the prin-n aiple of counting a quorum, differing ti )niy as to detail. N~ot desiring to em- P narrass or delay the option of the prin :iple by the House, cesiring rather a' ~hat the Democratic majority should a iave an unobstructed opportunity ti o endorse the Fifty-first Congress, he vould withdraw the substitute. The debate was opened by Catchings P n explanation of the rule, saying it vas the result of the action of the cau :us of last Friday. Springer said the proposed rule con- t emplated no change of the Constitu- I ion; it was only a proposition whereby a he House could do the business for which the members had been sent here. r Repunhican applause.) The House iad sat here for a month past and done carcely two day's work. He was tired f it,he said, and hoped the House was, a le should hail the adoption of the a uie as the dawn of a better era in pro noting legislation. (The delivery ofc pringer's remarks was accompanied >y almost continuous applause from P he Republican benches.)t Kilgore was greeted with a round of ~ ipplause as he began to speak, which aused Speaker Crisp to warn the galie-y 'les that they were present by courtesy h >f the llouse, and that the rules re- b juired them to refrain from any dem m11'tration whatever. "In this case," r m'id the Speaker, "the chair noticedh hat the applause started in the galle- b -les." KiIlgore said he rose chiefly to ex ress his unalterable opposition to the doption of the rule, of which the gen Aeman from Maine (iteed) was the pa- t -ent. The rule was unnecessary in his c >plinion. Rules were not ado pted by ( anrliamentary bodies to expedite but 3 o hinder the transaction of business; A ~o bridle the majority and to compel I t to take all the responsibility of leg- ( slation. ~C Russell of Georgia lamented the hu- f niliating spectacle presented to the r sountry by the Democratic majority of I t.he House, with seventy or eighty I rnore votes than the Republicans and a thirty-nine more than a majority, find- -1 Lng themselves unable to do business 1 without calling to their aid the excep- -I tional and revolutionary methods of I the Fif ty-first Congress. Mr. Reed said: "I do not desire to r address the House again upon the gen eral subject, This scene here today is 2 a more effective address than any I E could make. The Hiouse is about' to adopt the principle for which we con tendled in the Fifty-first Congress, and is about to adopt it udrcircumstan ces which show conclusively to the country its value. No words that I can ] utter can add to the importance of the I occasion. I congratulate the Fifty- 1 third Congr~ess upon the wise decIsion t it is about te make. (Applause on the I Republican side. . fao oftepo Guthwaite spoke i ao ftepo posed new rule. Cummings opposed it. 1 The debate was closed by Catchings, who pointed out the necessity for the adoption of the rule, and said the pres-] ent conditions were widely different from those which obtained ini the Fif- 1 ty-first Congress and against which the Democratic party protested. While Catchlngs was speaking By. num rose to a point of order that Catchings had exceeded the limit of time remaining to him. The Speaker: The time Is being kept at the deek, and the chair will call the gentleman's attention to the fact that his time has expired when the limit Is 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 the passage of the reso lution 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, I and many of the members surrounded Reed and congratulated him upon the final triumph of the principle for which he had so long contended. REED ROBBED OF GLORY. Whe Proves that he has Sailed under 1 False Colors. WAS1HINGTON, April 18.-The read ing of yesterday's proceedings of the House was listened to with close at tention by the leaders of the Houso. When the clerk reached the poinfkdis cribing the first roll call under the new rule, the names of those reported pre- t sent, not voting, were not given. Reed inquired who they were. Crisp replied that the names had not been inserted by the clerk, but they should have been. There was an error in the record which he had been in- I formed was made at the printing of fice. Reed said he ,anted to know who t were responsiblo, he clerks or tellers so that he might ;inow whom to blame. The Speaker said the tellers had not made ary report. t The reading of the journal having 0 been concluded, Kilgore asked a correc - tion of the Record, which reported him I as voting on th.s first roll call under the I new rule yesterday. He did not vote. t in which statement he was supported I by the Speaker, who said the correction i should be made. Burrows called attention to the 1 3peech of Wheeler (Dem.) of Alabama r 3ontained In the Record today. The f gentleman had been granted one mn- I Ate by Catchings yesterday, Burrows I maid, in which to express.his views on he quorum counting rule.. In that C ninute, according to the Record, he 1 lad been able to say enough to fill four d ,olums of the Record. le know that t he gentleman was a rapid talker, but F te did not believe he could talk that It ast. J Richardson (Dem.) of Tennessee said t Vheeler was not present and suggested e hat the matter go over until he was t n his seat. Reed-It is his duty to be here, and r E we had a proper system of fines for 1 ,bsence, doubtless lie would be. . 8 Burrows Eaid that.having called at- k ention to the matter lie was willing to V ostpone further consideration until % Vheeler was present. If he had deliv- t red that speech in the minute he was y n the floor of course, there was no criti- v ism to make; if he had not he (Bur- d ows) insisted he had violated a rule of b louse and some action should be 1 aken to expung the speech from khe t lecord. The matter was thlereupon 11 mosponed. T1he House wvent Into com.- a nittee of the whole, Bailey of Texas in I lie chair, for the consideratilon of the v~ liplomiatic and consular appropriation C 4111. The debate was entirley political' s vith only incidental reterence to the a ill before the House. In its course, fr. WVise (D~em.) of VTirginlia read from E ao Record to sho0w the position taken M y ex-Speaker Reed when the amend- P lent offered by J. Randolph Tucker of 8: irginia to the rules, providing for the ri :unting of a quorum, was undler dis- tl assion in the Forty-eighth Congress. ci [e showed that Reed opposed the mendment and added with much 81 uirit that "thuis adlulation of Thomas tt .Reed by the Republican party was a b1 ilserable pretense." c< WVise went on to say that Reed wats fi] ot the oridinator of this proposition R count a quorum until it was first pro- Ja osed by a Democrat from Virginia. 0 Grosvenor (Rep.) of Ohio, who hlad di hveral times attempted without suc- ita las to interrupt Mr. Wise-May [ ask si ue gentleman a questiony T Wise, emphatically and amid general tC ughter-I cann->t refuse you the cp. a artunity to talk. W Grosvenor-Was that a D~emocratic ni ongress? p Wise replied that it was; and added di lat it was his purpose to strip Thos B. eed of the false colors under which he ad sailed, lHe added that Springer of Lllnois had voted and spoken for' the o1 ale* - "That vote," said Reed, sotto voce, d< accounts for its defeat."a "Garfield." continued Wise,. "voted gi gainst It and denounced it as~ uncon- ni ~itutional; so that thuis pretense that a1 1e country is indebted to the Republi- al En party for this rule, is a base lie. On ki lat occasion, Reed denounced the pro- e osed rule as a violation of the Consti- ni ition and the Republican leaders si >ined him in tbe denunciation." w Wise stated that he refused to vote t< esterday for the rule because he had nx ad no opportunity to' examine it, and a acause there was no chance to debate at . But he believed that if the power te Isided in the House to bring a man ca om California to his seat, the Ihouse ti ad a rIght to count hisa presence .for a me transaction of business. - t - n A New Railroad. f AUGUSTA, April 16.-It - is said that c: me Louisville and Nashville BI airoad g annot saddle its road with the South d aro'.mna Road at seven million dollars f4 ihe'n they can buy the Port Royal and 'I tugusta Railroad for one million dol- I1 ira and build a line from Fairfax, S. I a., to Charleston, sixty-five miles, at at oat of $600,000, giving them a line h rom Augusta to Charleston eighteen n siles shorter than the South Carolina toad, besides givIng thlem the shortest no from Augusta to Savannah. In hort, at ai cost of two millions the o souisville and Nashville can have ap ne to the sea, covering Charleston, 'ort Royal and Savannah, influitely su- p erlor to the South Carolina Railway, t: nd save to their stockholders five v million dollars. It comes from a relia- k le source here that the Louisville and c fasihville Is figuring on this plan and v xpects to-soon buy the Port Royal and b kuigusta and build the connections.- a fews and Courier. b After Guard. n CH ARLOTT8YJILLE, Va., April 15 . t. i. Guard, who Thursday afternoon mst shot Miiss Laura E. Martin at hi Jnion Station in this city, was taken 0 o Santion at 5:80 tis afternoon. Tis si otion was taken, it is understood, at 0. he request of the prisoner's councel, 0 or the reason that an attempt would lI me made tonight to lynch Guards. Dii. d ent inquiry loads to tile belief that the I ears of the attorney were groundless. E diiss Martin is getting along nicely b nd there are strong hopes oi' her ulti. .E nate recovery. g A RIOT IN'ERI iash netiveen strikina roles her. te's rosse. DERiT'r, Mich , April 18.-Trouble ias been brewing between the water 3oard and the Polish laborers engaged ;o lay the pipA extension east of the Wa Ler-works near Connor's creek, four mniles from the city, over the question f wages for some days. These men wvere quarrelsome yesterday and refused to go to work themselues or allow any 3ne else to do so, but no serious out Ireak occurred. At 5 o'clock this morning an fingry ooking mob began to gather at the Icene and when 7 o'clock arrived, more ;han live hundred men carrying pick. Ixes and spades were patrolling the 'oad. Four policemen were sworn in is deputy sheriffs and a force of eigh ;een men were put to work. 'rho stri cers threatenea to kill the first man who dared attempt to do any work, md when one of the men, more daring han his fellow workmen, jumped into ,he ditch, he was savagely assaulted. Lhe handful of deputies were overpow ired and the strikers were left in pos. ession for the time being. At 10 o'clock het mob further armed itself with ,lubs and cudgels. Sheriff Collins was telephoned for md burried to the scene, taking with irm half a dozen deputies. After a :onference with the water board about vork for the day and then the clash ame. Wnen Engineer Williams at empted to withdraw his men peace ully, the strikers became furious and nade an onslaught on one of the men. iheriff Collins ordered the mob to dis. erse, threatening to shoot it the order vas not obeyed. The mob appeared naddened, however, and continued the ttack. Then the sheriff ordered his losse to tire. Ile suited the action to he words, and fired three shots from its revolver in rapid succession. This vas a signal for a volley from the dep Lties, who emptied their revolvers at lie advancing mob. Two strikers were hot dead, and at least fifteen others ,re more or less dangerously wounded. "his had a demoralizing effect on the aob and it fell back. Police headquar era were notifled and a large force of >olicemen were hurried to the scene, ,nd all the ambulances in the city. The trouble commenced when Engi Leer Williams gave the order for the emoval of the suction pumps and tools rom a small excavation that had been ade at the end of the pipe line in reparation for the work. As he spoke a English, however, the mob did not omprehend what he said. Sheriff Col ns stood near the excavation with a eputy. The deputy spoke German and I >Id the mob that the water board bad iven in and it only wanted to remove ;s tools. Foreman Cathey then imped into the excavation and began %Icing up the pump. One of the strik ra yelled: "Are we going to stand its? Let us all.strike together." At this speech there was a forward ish of the strikers, who held their iovels and picks aloft. Cathy was d ,ruck a blow on the head which nocked him to the bottom of the exca ation. Sheriff Collins waved his arms I idly and fairly shrieked to the mob 3 stand back, but his efforts were rasted. No attention being-paid to rhat he said. Instead of retreating, he ~ rew his revolver and aimed it point lank at the crowd. le tIred three liots as rapidly as he could pull the Igger. Then a long-handled shovel praised behind him, descended swiftly nd a corner of it pierced his skull. [e was struck again and again nad 'as probably fatally injured. Foreman athy Is also .fatally injured. One uiember of the water works police was triousiy cut. The two strikers killed adi all the wounded are Poles. The trouble really began yesterday, hen Engineer Williams of the water orks sought to introdude a system of mying the men by the cubic yard of [cavation instead of a daily wage to. The Polish laborers rebelled at 1 uis and as aresult the water board de ded to suspend operations. T1his afternoon and evening deputy eriffs scoured the Polish quarter for Le rioters and by night fifty of the la w eagers had been gathered in. The irridors of the jail cell block were led with them. About 6 o'clock a 'oup of .1olanders gathered about the a ii and made ugly demonstrations. ne of them was shot in the leg by a puty sheriff and carted off to a hospi- :E I. The crowd about the jail, mostly ectators, continued until midnight. Lie Polish quarter is all excitement* night. A meeting was arranged in c Polish hall for tonight from which it i as declared the Polanders would arch to the jail and wreck it, but the o lice were watchful and the meeting F d not materialize. . The Pocket Nerve.." WA8INGITON, April 14.-"A good deal -- fun was - made of the resolution ade Thursday to fInd members ten llars for absence without leave", id Col Ike Hill, the Democratic Con essional whip, this afternoon. "The ~wspaper fellows said it would not nount to anything; would not have ay.effect; but I want to tell you I 1ow better. Look here, I was direct I to sentl out telegrams Thursday ght, wasn't I? Well, yesterday only K or eight answer came in, and they ere vague, indefinite and unsatisfac ry. You could not tell whether the embers aere coming or not. This orning, about 10 o'clock, just as soon the absentees read the result of yes rday's caucus the telegrams began to me in, saying; "I am on board the ain and will be in Washington as soon n ateam can take me." Before 1 o'clock vonty of them had been received.I aver saw such a rush of telegrams be >re. The members read that a Demo ratic caucus had instructed the ser aant-at-arms to enforce the -law de ucting per diem (something over $14) >r every day's unexpired abence, hat touched them in a tender spot, epubilcans and Democrats alike; and. tell you there will be the biggest at ndance in the House Monday there as been since the bill to repeal the Sher an law was passed." A coniI oni. COLUMBIA, S. C., April 17.-The train a the South - Bound due here at 9:45 .m. between Norway and D)enmark tnight ran into a push car. The lofteengine was damaged and. e step leading to the engineer's cab ras knock off. The push car was nlocked off the track and a lot of bed othes, maltresses and -utensils of ~ arious descriptions were Ilistributed roadcast ever the territory round 8 bout. It is supposed that the car had eon stolen by some colored persons 'ho were ueing it to assist them in toying their household goods.-State TilE late Marquis of Ailesbury was irdl~y a credit to the British aristocra /. He married a notorious music ball nger named Dollie Tester, was ruled a I the English turf for "pulling" one 'his colts, and on a brief visit to ow York, during which he never row a sober breath, he enlisted in the nital States marine service at the rooklyn navy yard. lie is said to have aen the foulest mouthed man in Great ritain. The Other noble peers are lad Ailenhury is dad. Musical Homes are Happy 'Romes. Have you ever noticed it? Call to mind the homes of your friends who lave a good Piano' or Organ in the 11o8ise. Are they not brighter and inore attractive than those where the livine art of musl never enters? To be' sure it costa to buy a good instru raent, but it lasts many years, aD will pay its costs many a ttousand Imues )ver by Interesting thd yPoung folks in heir homes. Don't maiko the mistake, hought of Investing lphazard. Post yourself thoroughly y writing LudJen Bates Southern Music House, Savah aub Ga., the great music house; of the Bouth, established in 1870. They have Jupplied 50,000 instruments to South )rn homes, and have a reputation f6r air prices and honorable treatment of nistomers; and they represent the lead ng pianos and organs ''* Ameriba 'hey take pleasure in c' tesponding with you, sending free catalogues, etc. Write them. ?ADETT P L) TH FIM GH1 Why "ay ttema Prioes for Goods I Cand for (aialogus and See What You Ca Smi X1~ T)1.T OAK A", all or ic. W$69-*T $37 ~ Jnst tuitolStee thetin. - i_ No freigat pah4 on thIe or AI& (iuartaitejd to be a - ta orde an or tionoy re. ICan!i Pti2 ush PA P.11 R ITS, coneleting a fa, Arms (itor, Rocking C.7hair, Divajn 1a.,z sid' ctalr8 - ,,rr 1 $4. Will deuvoi - -"14,. - with 31 Piaces of ware wit) . - be deliver od to d ror UZWO ACPrice $1S. rit all uttnvhmetnt. for - --Nk $10.50 delivere to .m1 depot. iha. o r1 e t paid .he nacig tirer pay al he expenses Mnid i.44l1 01hem o you for Ak-MZ3.r7R3-V nd guarantee everona argain. No freigVipa:id a thin Bu g - - ........ A $4M&O~ PIAN4 I11 e tl da fo , Mte Send for catologutes of !turniture, Cookin toves naby Carrigo, eycles, organ, Pi no@ easta,151norta, Lamnps, Ao., and AVEi MONE1Y. Addres0. n E. F. PADGETT " -THE For Agricul tural and Gln ed teirreputa S tion as the best - on tue market. K.For 8impliity. *~ Durabilit and -Economy in I fuel an dwater THE ToZER Has no E~iual. Tie Hr PrPNO imes Lowd Cr (111y3' [' for1 a Siprh \l Aso , yf & i iM .1N (rguo. - sets x hit iletitti ro enti~ .j N 31 irror Top1 . rdi ony0 1 0~fI. I seIs il'c.ds, il -Mops. W nirr: U18.r E~vl e nt New iI n I a sI '1114.25 U0ew P'ianios and(1 irgans11, used1 i aI trIfle, (only. WV Ots rxsJ. C p S if you watl~t a1 IPlalin or O'gan ~] 1ow s' 18 ,he 1ime1 o r4 11'Ov I. D Write us anlyhlow. Trade41 In g (11du1 and~ 3y11t nn't aesk inore f gt10estIOtas about1 Plan and4 111( Luwen Tr Ba, lenx8.M.H SSAVANNAH,GA. NOW IS THE TIME TrO PLACE YOUR ORDERS FOlt Threshers:! nal I Soli the Best in the Market. Write to me Before Buying. hingle Machines,9 Stave Machines, Brick Machines, Planing Machines, Swing Saws, Band saws, (Gang Rtip Sa1wdJ, and all kinds of WOOd working mnachines. rist Mills $115 to $260. Saw Mills $190 to $400. Watertown Engines and Boilers. Talbott Engines and .Boilers. Seed Cott~on Elevators. Cottohi Gins and Presses. 111(11 andi LOW tIRADE. V. 01. BADHAM. COLUMBTA. S: n1