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THlE MIRACLE AT CANA. DR. TALMAGE ON THE TRANSFORMA TION OF WATER INTO WINE. An Eloquent Sermon Preached on Bibli cal oround-Christ Loves the House keeper-He Comes in the Hour of Ex tremity-HO Wants Us to Be Happy. NER CA , Dec. 22.-The Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D. D., preached here today on "A Marriage Feast," taking for his text John ii, 10: "Thou bast kept the good wine until now." HE said: Standing not far off from the demol ished town of what was once called Cana of Galilee, I bethink myself of our Lord's first manhood miracle, which -has been the astonishment of the ages. My visit last week to that place makes vivid in my mind that beautiful occurrence in Christ's minis try. My text brings as to a wedding in that village. It is a wedding in aommon life, two plain people having pledged each other, hand and heart, ind their friends having come in for pongratulation. The joy is not the Ma because there is no pretension. In each other they find all the future they want. The daisy in the cup on the table may mean as much as a score of artistic garlands fresh from the hothouse. When a daughter goes off from home with nothing but a lain father's blessing and a plain other's love, she ii missed as much as though she were a princess. It seems hard, after the parents have sheltered her for eighteen years, that -in a few short months her affections should have been carried off by an -other; buit mother remembers how it was in her own case when she was young, and so she braces up until the wedding has passed, and the banquet ers are gone, and she has a good cry al.alone. Well, we are today at the wedding in Cana of Galilee. -Jesus and his mo ther have been invited. Itis evident that there are more people there than were expected. Either some people have come who were not invited, or more invitations have been sent out than it was supposed would be accepted. Of course there is not enough supply of wine. You know that there is noth ing more embarrassing to a house keeper than a scant supply. Jesus sees the embarrassment, and he comes up immediately to relieve it. He sees standing six water pots. He orders the servants to fill them with water, then waves his hand over the water, and immediately it is wine-real wine. Taste of it, aid see for yourselves; no logwood in it, no strychnine in it, but first rate wine. I will not now be iverted to the question so often jiscussed in my own country, whether It is right to'drink wine. I am de icribing the scene as it was. When God makes wine he miakesthe very best wine; and one hundred and thirty gallons of it standing around in these water Dots-wine so good that the ruler Df the-feast tastes it and says: "Why, this is really better than anything we have had! Thou hast kept the good wine until now." Beautiful miracle! A prize was offered to the person who thould write the best essay about the miracle in Cana. Long manuscripts were presented in the competition, but a poet won the prize by just this one line descriptive of the miracle: ThO unZcon2scious water saw its God, and blushed. We learn from this miraele, in the first place, that Chiist has sympathy with hoskees You might have thought that Jesus would have said: "i cannot be bothered with this house hold deficiency of wine. It is not for me, Lord of heaven, of earth, to be come caterer to this feast. I have r thi thanthis to attend to." ' T-h-winegave out~d and Jesus, by miraculous power, came to the rescue. Does there ever come a scant supply in your household? Have -you to make a very close calculation? Is it hard work for you to carry on things decently and respectably? If so, don't sit down and cry. Don't go out and fret; but.go to him who stood in the house in Cana of Galilee. Pray in the parlorl Pray in the kitchen! Let there 'ae no room in all your house unconsecrated by the voice of prayer. If you have a microscope, put under it one drop of water, and see the in sects floatino about; and when you see that GoJ makes them, and cares for them, and feeds them, come to the conclusion that he will take care of -you and feed you, oh, ye of little faith! TRU~ST IS GOD. A boy asked if he might sweep the snow from the steps of a house. The lady of the household said:- "'Yes; you seem very poor." He says: "I am very poor." She says: "Don't you sometimes get _discouraged, and feel that God is rong to let you starve?" The lad lookeil up in the woman's face -and said: "Do you think God will let. me starve when I trust him, and then do the best I can?" Enough theology for older people! Trust in God and do the best you can. Amidst all the worriments ~of housekeeping, go to *him; he will tielp you control your ternper, and supervise your domestics, and entertain your guests, and man age our home economies. There are hudesof women weak, and nerv -ous, and e-,dausted with the cares of .housekeepino. I commend you to the 'Lord Jesus ZChrist as the best adviser and the most efficient ' -the Lord Jesus who performed his rtmiracle to relieve a housekeeper. I learn also from this miracle that Christ d6es things in abundance. I think a small supply of wine would have made up for the deficiency. I think-certainl'y they must have had enough for half of the guests. One gal lon of wine will do; certainly five gal ions will be enough; certainly ten. But Jesus g on, and he gives them thirty glos, and forty gallons, and fifty galons. and seventy gallons, and one hundred gallons, and one hundred and thirty gallons of the very best wine. It is sust like him, doing everything on the fargest and most generous scale. Does Christ, our creator, go forth to make leaves? He makes them by the wTh& foress full; notched like the fern, or silvered like the aspen, or broad like the palm; thickets in the tropics, Oregon forests. Does he go forth to make flowers? He makes plen ty of them; they flame from the hedge, they hang from the top of the grape vine in blossoms, they roll in the blue wave of the violets, they toss their white surf into the spirmna-cnough for every child's hand a flower, enough to make for every brow a chaplet, enouo'h with beauty to cover up the ghastiness of all the graves. Does he go forth to create water? He pours it out, not by the cupful, but by a river full, a lake full, an ocan full, pouring it out until all the earth has enoughi to drink, and enough with which to wash. Does Jesus, our Lord, provide re demption? It is not a little salvation for this one, a little for that, and a lit tle for the other; but enough for all "Whosoever will, let him come." Each man an ocean full for himself. Promises for the young, promises for the old, promises for the lowly, prom ises for the blind, for the halt, for the outcast, for the abandoned. Pardon -for all, comfort for all, mercy for all, heaven for all; not merely a cupful of Goplsupply, 'but one hundred and thr' gallons. Ay, the tears of godly repentance are all gathered up into oerore Tile i rone, we -i . ti-Fcu E of delight and ask that it be i it the wiw of heaveni: a' .! u irom that bottie of teals. Wi 1: pour in the cuP, and web' wi! c..v:-0 Jesus, 'we do not vwit ;o din-ik our own tears:" and .J(sus- will say: "Know ve not that ihe tear 4 -f earth are the w~-ine of lieavon: S. rrow m:ay endi-e, but joy cometin te morn ing. lIE h ELL's 1* 'TW 3i-: .! :E:Y. I remark further, desua. dc.-s not shadow the joysof oth(rS witi hm-is i griefs. IHe mighit Iave : down in that weddinz am md: --I Have so miugh troubl, so miuchi Poverty, so much persecuion, and the c irs is coiniig; I shall ot rej ico. and the loomi of my faice nd of :ysorrowvs shall bee ast ovr u Ill this r" So said not Jesus. IH. Iin . s id imself: --Itere are two )41-onls se inout in mr~i1ried life. Let it be t joyful ocea siol. IwIll hidie i owi griefs. I will kindle their jov. There are mahn1y not So wIse u1s tia. I klow' a hous'ehold whe there are mainly little :l-idren, where for two 'years the rmu leal in.tirumnt ls been k-pt shut et-ans there has iemi troable in the IouSe. Alas for tie' follvy Parents :arinf: "W j ilhae Io Cliristias :ree tiuis colig holiday because there .as beeni trouble in the house. ilsh hat lauging up str s: llow can Aier be any Joy when1 thee1 lias been 1 mulih trouble ." And so they make verythling conlsistenitlyV doleful, anld ;enid their sons zald daughters to ruin with the glooin they tairow around :lwm. Oh, my dear friends, do you not .low thioSe children will have trouble .auhrlm of their own after a while? oe glad they cannot appreciate all nu-s. heno back the cup of bitter .o iZa y otr daughters 15ip. When yu a d i.s down e in the t-ass of the omb. poverty may come to her, be raval to leri'. bereavement to her. K.evp back the sorrows as ,long as you 1n. Do- vo Ilot kmow that son may, Iter a wh'ile, have his heart broken? -4,md between himz and all harn. You may not fight his battles long; ight thenmm while you may. Throw not the chill of your oi despondency -over his soul: rather be like Jesus, who came to the wedding hiding his wni grief and kindling the joys of others. So I hav.e seen the sun, on a dark day. struggling amidst clouds, black. ragged and portentous, but af ter a while the sui, with.golden pry, heaved back the blackness; and the sun laughed to the lake, and the lake laughed to the sun, and from horizon to horizon, under the saffron sky, the water was all turned into wine. I learn from this miraele that Christ is not impatient with the luxuries of life. It was ilot necessary thmat they should have that wine. Hundreds of people have been married without any wine. We do not read that any of the other provisions fell short. When Christ-mlade the wine it was not a ne cessity, but a positive luxury. I do not believe that lie wants us to eat hard bread and sleep on hard mat tgesses, unless we like Cnem the best. think, if circumstances .will allow, we have a right to the luxuries of dress, the luxuries of diet and the lux uries of residence. There is no more religion in an old coat than in a new one. We can serve God drawn by golden plated harness as certainly as hen we go a-foot. Jesus Christ will dwell with us under a fine ceiling as well as under a thatched roof; and when you can get wine made out of water,~drink as much of'it as you can. What is the ditference between a Chinese mud hovel and an American home? What is the difference be tween the rough bear skins of the Russian boor and the outfit of an Aierican gentleman? No difference, exce~ that which the Gopel of Christ, directly or indirectly, has caused. When'Christ shall have vapeseh'e. -si-'the-warid.-Istppm Tr house will be a mansion, and every garment arobe, and ev-ery horse-an arch-neck ed courser, and 'every carriage a glit tering vehicle, and every man a kmng, and every woman a queen, and the whole earth a paradise-, the glories c ' the natural world harmonizing with the glories of the material world, until the very bells of the horses shall jingle thie praises of the.Lord. CHRtIST LOVES OUR INiGHTER. I learn, further, from this miracle, that Christ has no impatience with festal joy, otherwise he would not have accepted the invitation to that wedding. He certainly would not have done that which increased the hlarity. There may have been many in that room who were happy, but there was not one of them that did so much for the joy of the wedding party as Christ himself. He was the chief of the banqueters. W\hen the wine gave out, he sup plied it; and so, I take it, he will not deny us the joys that are positively festal. I think the children, of God have more right to laugh than any other eole, and to clap their hands as oudly. There is not a single joy de nied 'them that is given to any other peole. Christianity does not clip the wings of the soul. Religion does not frost the flowers. What is Christian ity? I take it to be simply a procla mation from the throne of God of emancipation for all the enslaved; and if a man accepts the termsof that proc laation, and becomes free, has he not a right to be merry? Suppose a fa ther has an elegant manston and large rounds. To whom will he give the irst priv~ilege of these grounds? Will he say: "'My children, you must not walk throtugh these paths, or sit down under these trees, oir pluck this fruit. These are for out-siders. They may walk in them." No father would say any thing lke that. He wvould say: "The lirst priv ileres -ill all the ground-s, and all of my house, shall, be for my own childen." An~d vet men try to mlake us believe that G'od's children are on the limits, and the chlief refreshmients and e'lvnjyemst of life~ are fon r usid ers, and not for hlis own children. It is stark atheism. There is nIo innocent beverage too ribch for' God's child to drink; there is no robe too costly for him to wear; there is no hilarity too great for hiim to inidulg'e in, and no house too splendid for'-him to live in. He has a right to thle joys of earth; he shall have a right to the joys of heav en. Though tribulation, and trial, and hardshup may come unto him, let him rejoice. "Rejoice in the Lord, ye rioteous, and again I say, rejoice." ~I remark ina that Christ comies to us in thea hour of oui' extremiit. He knewv the wine w-as giving out be fore there was any embarrassment or mortification. Why did lie not per form the miracle sooner? Why wvait until it was all gone, and no help could come from any sonree, and then come in and perform the miracle? This is Christ's way; and when he did come in, at the hour of extremity, he made fir'st rate wine, so that they cried out: "Thou hast kept the good wine until now." Jesus in the hour of ex tremity l lie seems to prefer that hour. In a Christian home in Poland great p)over'ty had come, and on the week day thie man was obliged to move out of1 the house with his whole family. That night lie knelt with his familyv and prayed to God. While they 'were kneeling in prayer there was a tap on the window pane. They openedl the window, and there was a raven thlat the family had fed and trained, and it had in its bill a ring all set with precious stones, which was found out to be a ring belonging to Lao iing s resiaence, amtu 0F LUe non. es tv of the iman ia bringing it back h hali a house givelo hin, ani a gar den and a farm. \io was it that sent the raven tapping on the window? The same God that sent the raven to feed Elijah by the brook Cherith. Christ in the hour of extremity! You mourned over your sins. You could not find the way out. You sat downi and said: "God will not be iterlcifui. H[e has caot me oli;" but in that, the darkest hour of your history, light broke from the throne, and Jesus said: "O wanderer, come home. I have seen all thy sorrows. In this, the hour of thy extremity, I oirer thee pardon and everlasting life " Trotible came. You were almost torn to pieces by that trouble. You braced yourself 'up against it. You said: 'N will be a stoie, and wilI not care;" but before you had got through making the resolutions. it broke down under you. You felt that all your re sources were gone, and then Jesus came. "In the fourth watch of the night," the Bible says. 'Jesus came walking on the sea." Why did he not come in the first watch? or in the sec ond watch? or in the third watch? I do not know. He came in the fourth, and gave deliverance to his disciples. Jesus in the last extremity! WILL YOU LET CHRIST COME? I wonder if it will be so in our very last extremity. We shall fall sud denlv sick. and doctors will come, but in vain. We will try the anodynes and the stimulants and the bathings, b all in vain. Something will say: "Xou must go." No one to hold us back, but the hands of eternity stretched out to pull us on. What then? Jesus will come to us, and as we say, "Lord Jesus, I am afraid of that water; I cannot wade through to the other side," lie will say, "Take hold of me arm; and we wil take hold of his arm, and then he will put his foot in the surf of the wave, taking us on dtown deeper, deeper, deeper, and our soul will cry: "All thy waves and billows have gone over ie." They covel' the feet, colic to the kiee, pass the girdle and conie to the head, ad our so'ul cries out: "Lord Jesus Christ, I cannot hold thine arm any longer." Then Jesus will turn around, throw both his arms about us, and set us on the beach. far beyond the toss ing of the billows. Jesus in the last extremity. That wedding. scene is gone now. The wedding ring has been lost, the tankards have becn breken, the house is down; but Jesus invites us to a grander wedding. You know the Bible uavs that the church is the Lamb's wife, and the Lord will after awhile conic to fetch her ho'mc. There will be gleaming of torches in the sky, and the trunimets of God will ravish the air with theiii inusic; and Jesus will stretch out his hand, and the church, robed in white, wili put aside her veil, and look up into the face of her Lord the king, and th' bridegroom will say to the bride: "Thou hast been faithful through all these year's: The mansion isreaLv! Comic home: Thou art fair, my love :" anid 'hen he shall put upon her br'ow the crown of dominion, and the table will be smead, and it will reach across the skies, and the might" ones of heaven will conic iii. garlanct ed with bx'auty and striking their cymbals; and the bridegroom and bride will stand at the head of the table, and the banqueters, looking up, will wonder and adrcire. and say: "That is Jesus the bridegrooim But the scar on Is brow is covered with the coronet. and the stab in his side is ooveredl with a robe !" and ''That is the bi'ide! The weariness of her earthly woe lost ini the flush of' this weddinig triumph! There Will be wine enoughi at that wedding; niot coming up from the poisoned vats of earth, but tihe vine ,vards of God will press their ripest clasters, and the c~ups andh the tankards will bluish to the brim with thke heav enly vintage, and then all the ban' que'ters will drink standing. Esther having come up from the 'oacehana lian revelry of Ahasuerus, whei'e a thousand lords feasted. will be there. And the queen of Sheba, from the banquet of Solomon, will be thiei'e. And the mother of Jesus, froml the weddinmg in Cana, will be thkere. And they all will agree that the earthly feasting w~as poor complharedl with that. Then, lifting their chalices in that holy ligh t, they shall cry to thme Lord of t'he feast: "Thou hiast'kept the good wine until now." German School Lire. In the course of a 'lecture on "A Visit to German .Schools," recently delivered ini Bradford by Mr. T. G. R~ope'r, British inspecTor of schools, president of the local branch of the teachers' guild, he gave a dlescmiption of a higher board school for' gir'ls (Burgerschule) as drawn by a German schoolmaster. Next he blescribed a typical school inspection, first in the wor'ds of a Gernmn school inspector and tlien in the words of one of the head teachers, and finally in the words of the scholastic newspapers. In one p'lace a teacher got only ?45 for teaching 170 children. In Anhalt town teachers begin with ?50, and rise in twenty-five years to ?105; in the country they get ?0 to ?10 less. As a natural result the applications for admission to training colleges are falling off. The workrequired of the teachers, too, was excessive. In Silesia, Fellhammer, four teachers have to teach 68S0 children in nine classes. In Salzbrunn, Head Teacher Bohm has 220 children to teach by himself. In Ditersbach, four teacher's have 700 children ini seven classes, and of these two classes only get six hours a week. The number of children legally al lowed in one class is 120, but it is often exceeded. This is the dark side of the picture. Looking at the other side, in the v'ery best schools (as in Berlin) the teachers are well paid, aiid there is a large number of applications for posts; the classes are smaller, and in sonme cases the teachers are "special ists," and take, say, all the aritlunetic or all the dr'awing in the school. But generally not only were the teachers overworked, but the routine for the children was (over'crowd'ed. The dis content of the Prussian teachers hav ing culminated in a joint movement, they were a few weeks ago forbidden to nuake a "mass petition." One dis trict inspector has gone so far as to is' sue an order that "expressions in teachers' unions' statutes which set up as the task of the union the further' ing of the interests of the elementary schools and of tea.chers in them are not permissible." The social position of the German teacher has evidently declined. In 1870 Bismnarck claimed themi as his stanchest allies, and the public extolled them highly. Now a change has set in. The comic press and reactionaries inl and out of parlia ment combine to Ilout the unhappy pedagogue.-St. James' Gazette. zuzy ApprciaLea. "Is this the postofhice?" lie q1ueried, as lie stepp~ed inside the stormi doors with a letter in his hand. "It is." replied the man addressed. "Could I mail a letter here ?" "Yes, sir." "And it'll go right out, will it?" "No doubt of it." "Thanks! I like this town. Things are business here. It is evident that you people like to see a man get along, and you won't lose anlything by it. I'll speak a good wor'd for your p)ostofce wherever I go, and ii I can help it any I shall be only too g'lad to ODS AND ENDS. The lartfordl (2on a.) Couraut has mI1tAed upoln its 1 3t year. Ex-Con<.emm Stephen F. Wil son, of Wellsboro, Pa.Z has built for himself a granite tomo in shape of a log cabinl. A New York p:per is wrestling with the problem. hiteirto unsolved, why fat men evince such a remarkable fondness for I aseball games. At Plant City, Fla., there has been found what seems tombe a half orange with a smooth skin and a half lemon with a rough skin, the latter being a little larger, growing together as one fruit. The vote in Massachusetts was very heavy. More than twenty-five tons of paper were used in printing the ballots. Siberia is commonly regarded as a region of ice and cold; but m summer time it is about as hot a country as there is on the face of the globe.. There are 16,310 newspapers and periodicals in the United States, a gain of SO in twelve months, and of 7,136 in ten years. There have been two springs discov ered in Bramwell, V. N a., which are only about fifteen feet apart, the water of one of which is colder thanice, if possible, while the other almost reaches a boiling temperature. Secretary Noble served notice upon the cattlemien who have leased Indian lands in the Cherokee outlet that they must vacate the lands by the 1st of next June. San Francisco, with a population of about 400,000, has only 120 churches, with a seating capacity of 40,000 and an average attendance of 25,000. The climate of San Francisco does not seem to be conducive to church go ing. A sailor being asked to describe the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon, replied: "In a hurricane, the wind blows as hard as it can right straight along; but in a typhoon, just as it's blowing its hardest, it gives al awful jerk." Prominent colored men in Illinois have formed a national association for the purpose of erecting, in the city of Springfield, a monunent to Abraham Lincon, the emancipator. April 15th next has been designated as a day for taking subscriptions in all the colored churclies and schools in the country. I have seen many an excellent mat ron, who could never in her best days have been handsome, and vet she had a packet of yellow love letters in a private drawer, and sweet children showered kisses on her sallow cheeks. Yes, thank God, human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth; it does not wait for beauty-it flows with resistless force, and brings beauty with it.-George Eliot. At a recent meeting of 1,500 Con federate veteraus held in Birmingham, Ala., for the purpose of raising a fund to build a home for disabled and home less Confederates, the speaker's stage was decorated *ith both the national colors and Confederate flags. The vet rans cheered the stars and stripes. and kissed the faded flags of the Confeder acv reverentv. The first white settler in the city of St. Paul came in the year 1S32; today the population of the capital of Min nesota is 200,000. The first lo- cabin was erected in 1838; today the city boasts of some of the finest business and residence buildings on .the Ameri can continent. The town site was lo cated i" 1847; the capital in 1851.,The lirst survey of the city was made in 1S51; the chamber of commerce or anized in 1867. The original St. Paul proper-, platted in 1847, contained about eighty acr-es. The present area of the city contains 35,4S2 acres. A minister of the gospel, a son of a prominent minister of Lexington, K~y., is attemping the extraordinary task of committing the entire New Testament to memory. He has been working on it for years, and, as ho has a wonder fully i-etentive brain, the work is in a fair way to early completion. As he argues, the plan is an exceedingly ood one, because he can refer to his ind at any tinme much more easily than to the pages of any book ever p-inted. If, for instance, he wishes to quote any passage, he can do so at will, and at the very moment, an ac complishment which would make him one of the most fluent preachers in t'he country. The following facts in reference to the new postage stamps will be of in teest: The one cent stamps are blue in color, and have the head of Frank lin; the two cents are carmine, and have the head of Washington; the three cents are violet, and bear the face of Jackson; the four cents are dark brown, with the head of Lin coln; the five cents are light brown, with the head of Grant; the sixc cents have Garfield's head, and are vermil lion red; the ten cents are green, with the head of Webster; the fifteen cents are brown, with the face of Clay; the thirty cents are black, with Jefferson vignette; and the ninety cents are orange, with the head of Perry. Tanner's Fast Outdone. A Bristol dog which was found in a deserted barn on Thursday had sur vived six weeks without fod The doc. is a valuable setter, belonging to Roert Bruden, and was lost six weeks ago, after Mr.'Bruden had been at a furniture sale. The furniture dealer had locked the dog in his barn, and left the town. People in the neig-h borhood heard the dog bairking for two weeks, and then heard him no more. After a fruitless search in every other direction Mr. Bruden thought of the furniture dealer's barn, and looked in there as a last chance. Here he found the setter as thin as a shin ole and too weak to stand up. He, hoever, soon revived undei- the stimulating effects of a three pound beefsteak, and is now well--Philadel phia Record. Veetable flannel is a textile mate rial nowv being largely manufactured in Germany out of pine leaves. The fiber is spun, knitted and woven into undergarments and clothing of vad~ ous kinds. A Compositor's Feat. James Leonard, president of the New Orleans Typographical union, is a typ o in The Times-Democrat office. On Friday, July 5, Mr. Leonard began his week's work. He was offered no special opportunities to make a ~eat record (or, in typographical parhuce, a "big string")b setting up easy matter ("fat takes," as the printer puts it) but worked on the regular "file" which contains the. eneral run of matter that appears in .The Times-Democrat's col umns. The type used in the office is brevier, agate and nonpareil, the latter largely predominating. The agate measures 30 ems to a line, the nonpa reil 25. Mr. Leonard worked seven ad a half hours a day for seven con ecutive days, and on 'Thursday night last, when he cast up his "string,'' it was disclosed that he had set up just L02,800 ems, an average of 14,685 ems day, orl1,941lems an hour. And he mnade few errors; hais "'proof" was ;ood. In doing this feat Mr. Leonard et 205,600 letters and returned the ame to their boxes. The distance ~raveled by his arm was about 12~5 niles. This record is the best made in New Orleans since the war. Mr. Leonad was born in Keokuk in 1858. rHE BIG T EARrHQUAiEi Hlow 'jihe .w allow D ,las &:e Citie% and I 11oALtsI of' People. Boseewitz on Earthquakes. One ofthe mot remarkable eaith quakes Of :antiquiy overtnrew mwanv cities of l:ai, but maul not interrupt the battle of Thrasmine-, which was raging1 at the tinie. This was in the year 217 B. U. Byron siogs of the event in "Childe Harold." And such the storm of battle on this day, And such the frenzy whose convul sion blinds To all save carnage, that beneath the fray An earthquake rolled unheedingly away! ,,one felt stern nature rocking at his feet And yawnina forth a grave for those who lay I Upon their oucklers for a winding sheet; Such is the absorbing hate when war ring nations meet. In 365 A. D., the greatest part of the Roman world was convulsed by an earth quake, which was followed by tidal waves. For a long time afterward the city of Alexandria annua'ly commemor ated the fatal day when 50,000 citizens lost their lives in ad inundation. Two centuries later the Roman empire again was shaken, and credulity is stagger ed by the statement that 350,000 lives were lost. One shrinks from enumerating many of the great earthquakes of history, for to attempt the task is to sup full of hor rors. In the early history of America the disappearance of whole cities was not unusual. In 1456, 60,000 persons were killed in Naples. In 1795 there were destructive shocks in Syrie, and at Aalbec 20,000 perished. In 1783 Guate mala, with all its riches and 8.000 fami lies, was swallowed up. In Sicila and Calabria, from 1738 to 1786, the victims reached a total of 80,000. China's capi al was destroyed in 1333, and multitudes 3ere killed in a serious of shocks that ere distributed through ten years. And so on until the statistics become sickoing. e The great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 will be remembered as the one in which the good Dr. Johnson refused to believe, although he pinned his faith to the story of the Cock lane ghost. This shock ex tended ever a surface of the globe four times greater than that of jEurope, de stroying the cities of Fez and Mesvuinez in Morocco, with 15,000 persons; and affecting the coasts of Greenland, the Isle of Madeira, and the West Indies, nearly 4,000 miles away. In Lisbon it was All Saints' Day, the hour of high mass, and the churches were erowded. There were three shocks, and then the city was in ruins. The earthquake was followed by the horrors of a conufagra tion. In tle Caracas earthquake in 1812 the people were praying, like those of Lis bon, when desolation came upon them. It was Thursday of Holy Week and great numbers were in the churches. At least 4,000 people perished in the downfall of the sacred editices. One catbcdral held out. SLAIN BY NEGROES. A Whole Community of Blacks Proba bly Implicated in the Assassinatlon of a White Merchant. News of a wretened murder at Mar tin's Station, S. C., on the Port Royal railroad, hasa been received. The vie.. tim was Mr. Robert Martin, twenty-five years old, the son of Major William A. Mlartin, of Martin's S. C. Young Mar tin kept a store at Martin's and ran a frm near by. As he was going from his store home Saturday night, he was shot in the back by an unknown par t. Suspicion points to a negro, Peter ell, who, together with Harrison Johnson and two other', is under ar rest. At the inquest, which was held Sunday, Harrison Johnson and his wife testified to having passed young artin in the read on his way home. He wss on horseback and Bell riding behind him on an ox. They were talking together as they passed. A fw minutes later they heard the re port of a guu in the direction they had one, and heard some one cry out, "y God, you have killed me." John son's wire testified that she started in. the direction to see what was the mat ter, but her husband said it was some druniken negro kicking up a fuss, and for her to go on in the house. A negro told on a nelghboring plantation that they had Bell arrested for killing Mr. Martin, and had him guarded at Mr. Martin's place. He told .this an hour er two before anybody suspected Bell, or knew any of the cir,,umstances. this with other facts, pointed to knowl edge among the negroes of the assass ination, and several are under arrest. At the inquest several parties testified to having heard the shot, and the cry of young Martin, but nobody, strange ly enough, went to investigate. As a consequence, it was not until Sunday morning that his body was discovered, or anything was kno u'n of the mur der. He was shot'in the back with slugs, four or five entering the body and probably causing death almost instantly. The remains were taken to Charleston and interred there. A COLD-BLOODED MURDER. One Charlestonl Negro Shoots Anether by~ Way of Celebrating Christmasft. CHARLEsTo~ S. C., Dec. 28.-An other fatal outcome of the miscarriage of justice in South Carolina was de veloped on Christmas night at a negro settlement in the: suburbs. James Anderson shot and killed Cupid Small and then escaped. There was no quara rel. After hailing his victim, he simply pulled his pistol and shot him dead. He was captured by some negroes and was sent to jail. The negroes of the neighborhood tried to lynch him, but the police wvho had him in charge were in a patrol wagon and the lynchers -were distanced. ~After being put in jail~to-day the mur derer was interviewed. He admitted having slain his victim, but denied that he had tried to conceal his body and so conceal the crime. Asked why he killed Small he said because he thought that Small might kill him. He had never had a quarrel with his victim. The colored people in the suburbs ale very much excited over the murder. Mlur-der in1 Georgin. MACON, Ga., Dec. 28.-The report of a riot at Barnesville is erroneous. It arose from the unprovoked murder on Christmas, of a negro man of excel lent character by four drunken white men who met him on a railroad track. The authorities are doing their best to arrest the murderers, who were stran gers in the community. A fight between a gorilla and a bull dog, for a purse of $500, occurred at Fort Wayne, Ind.,on Monday morning. The dog was a fine thoronghbred Eng lish bull dog weighing forty pounds, while the gorilla pulied down nearly eighty poonds. They were put into an enclosure twelve feet square and eight feet high, built of three inch oak strips. A large crowd was present and betting was spirited, with the odds greatly in favor of the brute from Africa. The dog was killed in two minutes. The gorilla was unhurt. The United Sta-es Senate has confirm ed the appointment of V. P. Clayton as postaste at Columbia. THE FUNERAL OF MI. GRADY. Great :Demountration in. ilis tnor at Atlantuta--- Knising !?unds for a .1Ionu ment---The Larzre-t Funeral Procem P-ion Ever Seen in (..orgin. All the, was mortal of I1enry Woodia rady was !a:d to rest in 0,tkind Cerne ery, Atlanta, on Christmas. There was io ostentation, no display, no glittering )hgeat-all was simplicity-but the ftu ieral proceasion was the largest that his State has ever seen, and in the hearts f Georgia's people was sorrow deeper han human minds can measure. It was o'cock when the honorary pall-bearers 6d committees from each of tb organi ations to which Mr. Grady belonged ar ived at the house. In the honorary es ort there were, besides men prominent n affairs in Georgia and the South, a umber of Northern friends. The body ay in a beautiful casket in tne largv par or, and here these friends took a lm-t :ok at toe beloved face. At 10 o'clock a sob.mn procession wended its way to the Firat Meti.odi t Church, where the body was to lie in tate. Here the local member- 4)t the chi Phi Fraternity, of which Mr. Grady was the highest officer in the State, took charge. Then for four hours the public were allowed to pass the casket in double lines and look upon the face. Floral de signs, which came from friends every where, were most beauti ful. Of tbe:e, that given by the Cont-titution emiiployee was especially noticeable and is mention ed because it was made after a design es lected for another purpose tuy Mr. Grady bimself. It was in the shape of Geor ia's coat of arms, with the ! imple words "Georgia's Son" on top of the arch, and "Our Friend" at the base. The scenes during these four hours were most touching. Old and yourig. great and small, white and back, passed by the casket, and there was not a dry eye as people realized that their best friend had gone. The employee. of the Constitutionheaded by Prtsident How ell and Business Manager Hem phill, came in a body. Then thny went t tbfe house and acted as escort of honor to the lam ily to the church. The services were the simplest poni ble, at the request of the widow. Dr. Morrison, Dr. Lee, Dr. Barnett, Dr. Glenn, Gen. Evans and D.. lioikins were the officiating ministers. lteading of selections from the Scriptures, sing ing of hymns and prayers by Dr. Morri son, Methodist, and Dr.farnett, Prv-,by terian, completed the sev-es. The singing of Mr. Grady's favorite hymn, "Shall we Gather at the River," was es pecially touching. The long procession wended its y to Oakland, and in the family vault ol W. D. Grant the body Qf Hen ry W Gr.a;d found a temporary resting-phice. Oae short prayer at the vatlr ar.d ail was over. He is gone, but his words of peace and good-will for the North and Sout h will keep him alive in the hearts of all the people. The peopleof Atlanta have determined to erect a monument to the memory of Henry W. Grady. A meeting of P,1ung9 inen resolved on this, and raised $5,000 within an hour. BURIED ALIVE. A Horrible Accident in a Californial mine ---Sixteen Mlen Under the Debri. SAN ANDRES, Cal., December 2G.-A disastrous cavein occurred Sunday eve ning in the Lane mine. owried by How ard & Habert, located on the we(-; edge of Angelo, by which sixteen men were buried. They were supposed to be dead. Nineteen men were sent into a drift ot the 400 foot level to repair timbe-ring which had become loosened. They ha not worked over an hour when the sup ports of timbers suddenly broke to the right, and robfibg, eartb and rocks fell, burying sixteen men underneath the de bris. Thomas Corwin and two Italian: were working near the mouth of the drift, and managed to escape, althougi Corwin was badly injured. Corwmn said the partitions were meanirg badly, whet he went into ihe drif t, b:ut no one sus5 pected there was daanger of a cavein. When it catne they weae ait unprepared. He and the Italians escapa-'i as soon a: they heard the timbers crack. Other also started to run, but were too f ar irt the drift to be able to re.-.ch a place o1 safety. Immediateiy after the acciden! men ~were let down the shaft, atnd enter lug the mouth of the drif t, conatnence( digging in the debris. They fod tha attempt almost useless, as5 the timber, seemed to have been woven together, a: though the sides of the drift had falle' towrd each other and had been covered by the roofing. By last evening the res cuing party had succeeded in getting eight feet into the pile of eatth and tim er and none of the vicrims had beet reached. There is no prospect of get. tiag them out alive. A Musical Murder in Lexington. CoLumRI. S. C., December 26:-Last nigt in Lexington County. about twelva miles from Columbia, the inevitable Christmas murder occurred. A negro dance was in progrress at a plantatiot oue. and the colored beaux and belle: were enjoying themaselves. As the eve ing wore on, the musical ear of William Glass was offended by the inharmoniotus manner in which Henry Saxon wais pick ng the banjo, and he criticised the per formance, and called the musical ex per out into the piazza. When they hac reached its section and passed a few rough expressions, the grieved musician rew a pis'oi and shot Glass, killipg him instantly, and thereby jputting him be yond the misery of hearing false note: and jingling discords, Hie then retired from the scene--whether with or without his banjo is not stated by the person who brought the news to Columbia to-day. The Nix Case in Charleston. CHARESTON, S. C., December 28- The rreet of merchant J1. T. Nix in Green vle is the subject of some talk in mer cantile and banking circles here. It is known that the lady who was referred to in the assignment proceedings is Mrs. A. . Fleming, of this city, Mr. Nix. motherinlaw. Mdrs. Fleming is thec widow of the late A. D. Fleming, a prom. inent candy manufacturer, and is ge-rcrr ally credited with being wealthy. She owns several stores on the buisiness por tion of King street. It is also rum-redl that Mr. Nix has large deposits in some of the banks of this city, and will have no trouble in securing a good bond by putting- up collaterals. [Mr. No: has since been released on $21,000 hail. I~e is harged with fraud in the purchase oaf A .ilattimtouth Enterprise. The purchase of the Santee Swan- p lands in Clarendoni county hats been consummated by the Michigan com pany. The purchase comprises 2,500 Tfhe plant will cost $250,000- and the enterprise will employ thet labor of six hundred operatives. The agent says tht the advent of this enterprise at Sumter will increase the population of the city by fifteen hundred white people. Cottages will have to be pro vided for this number by the company, making a little city in themselves. Work will begin as soon as a suita ble place can be abtained. This mammouth enterprise, it is propsed shall be in active life and operation by next sumrner.-Suimter -John W. harper, waite, has been arrested under a bench warrant from .ha last ourt and lodged in tbe cotin' j ii, charged with being a common oimano, and for loud use of profane l. gui-' '-a near to a dying woman as to' hbtste-n lb r dcah.-Marion Index. ESTABLISHED 184. CharIeston iron WorkS Manufacturers and Dealers inI Marine Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers, Saw Mill Macifinery, Cotlton lresses, GiIs, miil, ' anl boat, Machinists', Engineers' and Mill Supplies. k*s'l-epairs e.rec:ulad withI j rajiJ!wds and ispatch. 11:II IEr i .t East Bay, Cor. Pritchard St., Charleston, S. C. R. C. BARKELrv. President. C. BIss.L JENKINS, Gcn'l Maliagor. R HciuiD s. GA N e-r c. eTre3R. The Cameron& Barkeley Gompany. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, --AND AGENTS F'R. Erie City Engine and Boilers, Atlas Engine and Boilers, the ftMous little Giant Hydraulic Cotton Press, Eagle Cotton Gins. 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