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TALMAGE AT HOMi . wl A GREAT CONGREGATION AT THE pi ACADEMIY OF MUSIC. th TI He Prenches an Eornest and Eoquen t Sermon on" he iouse on ihe Wail"- P How the Subject was Treated. m The- Rev. T. DC Witt Talmage, D. D having returned from his visit to the Holy Land, resumed preaching in Brook- W lyn on Sunday. The Academy of Music is tenporarily used instead of the destroy- S' ed Tabernacle, was crowded to its ut most. Thousands of people were not able to get into the building. The sub- t ject of his discourse was "The Hanqe on " the Wall." Dr. Talmage took for his b text Joshua vi, 23: "And the young men that were spies went in, and brought t out Rahab, her father, and her mother, and her bretheren and all that she had." He said: When, only a few weeks ago, I visited t Jericho, I said: Can it be Dossible that i this dilapidated place is the Jericho that r Mark Antony gave as a wedding present t to Cleopatra? Where are the groves of % palm trees? Where is the great theatre from the stage of which Salome told the people that Herod was dead I Where is the sycamore tree, on the limb of which Zaccheus sat when Jesus passed this place? Where is the wreck of the walls that fell at the blowing of the ram a hornt But the fact thar all these have disappeared did not hinder me from seeing in imagination the smash of everything on the fated day, save one house'onsthe wall. - That scere centuries ago comes back to me as though it were yesterday. There is a very sick and sad house in the city of Jericho. What is the matter? It is poverty? No. Worse than that. I it leprosy? No. Worse than that. Is it death? No. Worse than that. A daugh ter has forsaken her home. By what in fernal plot she was induced to leave I know not: but they look in vain for her return. Sometimes they hear a footstep very much like hers, and they start up and say: "She comes!" but only to Pink back again Into disappointment. Alas! Alas! The father sits by the hour, with his face in his hands, saying not one word. Tne mother's hair is becoming gray too fast, and she begins to stoop so that those who saw her only a little while ago in the streets know her not now as she passes. The brothers clinch their fists, swearing vengeance against the despoiler of their home. Alas I will the poor soul never come back? There is a long deep, shadow over alLthe house hold. Added to this there is an invading army six miles away, jnst over the river, coming on to destroy the city, and what with the loss of their child aad the com ing on of that destructive army, I think the old people wished that they could die. That is the first scene in the drama of the Bible. In the house on the wall of the city is that daughter. That is her home now. Two spies have come from the invading army to look around through Jericho and see how best it may be taken. Yonder is the lost child, in -.that dwelling on the wall of the city. f- The police hear of it, and soon there is the shuffling of fees all around'about the door, and the city government demands k the surrender of those two spies. First, Rahab-for that was the name of the lost child-first, Rahab secretes the two spies and .gets their pursuers off the track; but after awhile she says to t1m "I will make a bargain with you. I v'. i save your life if you will save my life, and the life of my father, and my moth e~ r, and my brothers, and my sisters, the victorious army comes upon " 0, she had not forgotten her see. The wanderer never Hrhatbreaks now as #6Lg*Ea e wishes she were back 'with them again, and she wishes she could get away from her sinful enthrall Sment; and sometimes she locks up in the Sface of the midnight, bursting into agon s~ing tears. No sooner have these two Sspies promised to save her life, and the -life of her father and the life of her .mother, and brother, and sister, _than SRahab takes a scarlet cord and ties, it 'around the body of one of the spies, Sbrings him to the window, and as he Sclambers out-nervous lest she have not >strength to hold him-with muscular arma such as woman seldom has, she lets Shim down, hand over hand, in safety to Sthe ground. Not being exhausted, she ties the cord around the other spy, brings Shim to the window, and just as success fully lets him down to the ground. No sooner have these men untied the scarlet cord from their bodies than they look up Sand they say: "You had better get all your friends in this house- -your father, umother, your brothers and your sisters; you had better get them in this -house. And then, after you have tnem here, take this red cord which you have put around our bodies and tie it across .the window, and when our victorious army comes up and sees that scarlet thread in the window, they will sre this house and all who are in it. Shall Sit be so? cried the spies. "Aye, aye,' said. Rahab, from the window , "it shall be so." That is the second scene in thu~ Bible drama. There is a knock at the door of the old man. He looks up and says: "Come in," and 1o! there is Rahab the lost child; but she has no time t' talk. They gather in excitement arounc her, and she says to them: "Get rend; quickly, and go with me to my house The army is coming! The trumpet -Make haate! Fly! The enemy!" That 1 the third scene in this Bible drama. Thi hosts of Israel are all around about the doomed city of Jericho. Crash goes the great metropolis, heaps on heaps. Thb airsuflocating 'with dust, and horribli -with the screams of a dying city. All thi the horses flat down. All the peopl< dead. Ah no, no. On a crag of the wal S-there is a house which we must enter There is a family there that have beei spared. Who are they? Let us go an< see. Ral:.o, her father, her mother her 1ot~,hers, her sisters, al: safe, an< the only house left standing in all th city. What saved them? Was the hous more firmly built? 0, no; it was built i the most perilous place-on the wall; an1 the wall was the first thing that fell. We it because her character was any bette than any of the other populationc the city? 0, no. Why, then, was sh soared, and all her househiold? Can yo tell me why? 0, it was the scarlet lin in the window. That is the fourt scene in the Bible drama. When the de stroying angel went through Egypt. ] was the blood of the lamb on the doc posts that saved the Israelites; and no that vengeance has come upon Jericho is the same color that asures the safet of Raheb and all her household. M friends, there are foes seining upon ua --more deadly and more tremendous,t overthrow our immortal interests. The -will trample us down and crush us 01 forever unless there be some skillft mode of rescue open. The police< death already begin to clamor for or surrender, but, blessed be God, there a way out. It is through the windo' and by a rope so saturated with bloc with which the spies were lowered ; at f once our souls shall be delivered, the the scarlet color streched across the wi dow of our escape, we defy all bot bardment. earthly and Satanic. In the first plaee, carrying out the ia of my text, we must stretch this scarl cord across the window of our reset There comes a time when a man is si rounded. What is that in the fro door of my soul? It is threatenings oft ur,,. What is that in the back door soul? It is the sins of the past. He I a! anot get out of either of those door- t ;s. If he attempts it he will be cut to $1 eces. What shall he do? Escape C rough the window of God's mercy. it at sunshin4 has been pouring in for p any a day. Gud's inviting mercy. God's a) rdoning mercy, God's all cooquerug t ercy, God's everlasting mercy. But. , i y, the window is so high. Ah, there is % rope, the very one with which the e oss and its victims were lifted. That A as strong enough to hold Christ, and it v strong enough to hold you. Bear all y our weight upon it, all ycur hopes for a is life, all your hopes for the life that v i to come. Escape now through the s rindow. "But," you say, "that cord is t o small to save me; that salvation will u ever do at all for such a sinner as I have I een." I snppose that the rope with t rhich Rahab let the two spies to the I round was thick enough, but they s Dok that or nothing. And, my dear I rother,that is your alternative. There g s only one scarlet line that can save you. [here have been hundreds and thousands 4 vho have bena borne away in safety by hat scarlet line, and it will bear you away ] n safety. Do you notice what very nar o escape those spies bad? I suppose b came with the flush cheek, and 1 ith excited heart. They went in the i road door of sin; but how did they -cme out? They came out out of the rindow. They went up by the stairs of itone; They came down on a slender ;bread. And so, my friends, we go easily =d unabashedly into sin, and all the :ors are open; but if we get out at all will be by being let down over preci pices, wriggling and helpless, the trong grip above keeping us from being d.ashed on the rocks beneath. It is easy to get into sin, young man. It is not so esy to get out of it. A young man goes to the marble counter of a hotel. le asks for a brandy smash-called so, I suppose, because it snashes the man that takes it. There is no intoxication in it. As the young man receives it he does not seem to be at all excited. It does not give any glossiness to the eve. He walks home in beautiful apparel, and all his prospects are bril Lant. That drink is not going to destroy himbuti- t-ie first step on a bad road. Years have passed on, and I see that young man after he has gone the whole length of dissipation. It is midnight, and he is in a hotel-perhaps the very one where he took the first drink. A delirium is on him. Z- arises fro= the bed and comes to the window, and it is easily lifted; so he lifts it. Then he pushes back the blinds and puts his foot on the window sill. Then he gives one spring, and the watchman finds his disiured body, unrecagnizable, on the pavement. 0, if he had only waited a ittle-ifhe had come down on the scarlet ladder that Jesus holds from the wall for him, and for you, and for me; but no, be made one jump, and was gone. A minister of Christ was not long ago dismssed from his diocese for intoxica tion, and in a pubhc meeting he gave this account of his sorrow. He said: I had a beautiful home once, but strong driali shattered it. I had beautiful cildren; but this tiend of rum took their dimpled bands in Wis ahd led them to the grave. I had a wife-to kar w her was to love her -but she sits in wretchedness tonight while I wander over the earth. I had a mother, and the pride of her life was I; but athunder bolt struck her. I now have scarcely a friend in the world. Taste of the bitter cup I have tasted, and then answer me as to whether I have any hatred for the agency of my ruin. Hate it! I hate the whole damning traffic. I would to God tonight that every distillery was in fames, for then in the glowing sky I would write in the smoke of the rumns: 'Wo to him that putteth the bottle to his neighbor's lips' " That minister of the gospel went in through the broad door of temptation: he came out at the A e' see the tempta tions thtare about us in all counrries, and when I know the proclivities to sin in every man's heart, I see that if any of us escape it will be a very narrow es cape. 0, if we have my friends, got off from our s, let us tie the scarlet thread by which we have been saved across the window. Let us do it in praise of him whose blood dyed it that color. Let it be in announcement of the fact that we shall no more be fatally assaulted. "There is now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." Then let all the forces of this world come up in cay airy charge, and let spirits of darkness ome on an infernal storming party at tempting to take our souls; this rope twisted from these words, "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin' will hurl them back defeated foreve~r. Now, as I stand here, you do not see ny hands outstretched towards me, and yet there are hands on my brow--hands or oth my shoulders. They are hands of parental benediction. It is quite a good many years ago now since we folded those Ihands as they began the last sleel on the banks of the Raritan in the vil lage cemetery, but those hands arn stretched out towards me to-day, and they are just as warm and they are jus1 s gentle as when I sat on her knee al five years of age. And I shall never shak off those hands. I do not want to They have helped me so much a thous nd times already, and I do not expec to have a trouble or a trial betwee: this and my grave where those hand will not help me. It was not a yer: penihome, as the world calls it wornw had a-family Bible there, wel wrbytender perusai; and there was: - amily altar there, where we knelt morn 1 g and night; and there was a hol; Subbath there, and stretched in Sstraight line or hung in loops or festoon tere was a scarlet line in the window a 0 the tender, precious, blessed memor a of a Christian home! Is that the impree a bion you are making upon your children a When you are dead--and it will not b e long before you are-when you are dead will your child say: "If there ever wss - ggood Christian father, mine was one. I there ever was a good Christian motber m ine was one?" Still further: We want this scarle lie of the text drawn across the windo: C of our prospects. I see Rabab, and he a ather, and her mother, and her brotl Li ers and sisters looking out over Jericht Sthe city of plain trees, and across tb 3 river, and over at the army invading r and then up to the mountains and t b sky. Mind you, this house was o ejte wall, and I suppome the pro. n -pect from the window mnust hav e ~en very wide. Besides that, I dio uc h tink tfat the scarlet line at all inter ferfeed with the view of the landscap< [t The assurance it gave of safety mut ir have added to the beauty of the cout 7 try. To- day, my friends, we sit in tt Lt window of earthly prospects, anid a :Y look off towards the hills of heaven an ! the landscape of eternal beauty. Gc 6' has opened the window for us, and v .o look out. We now only get a dim ou y line of the inhabitants. We now on1 it here and there catch a note of the e: il1qquisite harmony. >f But blessed be God for this scanl ir line in the window. That tells me thi is the blood of Christ bought that hon !, for my soul, and I shall go there wh< mymy w~ork is done. And as I put n at hand on that scarlet line, everything id the future brightens. My eyesight ge betbe ter, and tho robes of the victors a mo mre lustrous, and our loved one. wl n- went away some time ago-they do n stand any more with their backs to cou ut ttheir~ faces are this way and thi .et voices drop throumgh this Sabbath a te- saying with all tenderness and sweetnet ir- "Come! Come! Come!" And t at child that you think nf only as buried hee why, there she is, and it is. May day I they pluck the lilies, and they twist em into a garland for her brow, and e is one of the May queens of heaven. do you think they could see our wav g to-day? It is quite a pleasant day, retty clear, and bot many clouds in the tyr I wonder if they can see us from at good land? I think they can. If -om this window of earthly prospects e can almost see them, from their tow rs of light I think they can fully see us. .nd so I wave them the glory, and I rave them the joy, and I say: "Have ou got through with all your troubles?" nd their voices answer: "God hath riped away all tears from our eyes." I my: "Is it as grand up thete as you bought it. wouAi be!" an ! the voices uswr: -Eye h o-, Lei nor ear eard, oeither nath .L eni;:v-d ito the eart of man, the th;;:gs vhich God hath epared for those who love him." I av: "Do you have any m..e struggle ui bread?" and they tuniwer: "We nun r no toe. we -hirst uo more." And say: "Have you teer out to the cem tery of the golden city?" and they an wer: *Tbere is no death here." And 'lyk out thlough the heavens, and I a5: "\Where do you get your light or nights. anid what do you burn in h temple" and they answer: "There a Uo ni here, and we have no need of ndle or of s.are." And Isay: "What mook do you sing out of?" aid .they on iwer: "The Hallelujth Choru." And [say: "In the splendor and magniti ence of the city, don't you ever get lost" and they answer: "The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne leadeth us to living fountains of water." 0, how near they seem. Their wings do you not feel them? Their harps-do you not hear them? And all that through the window of our earthly pros pects, across which stretcheth the scar let line. Be that my choice color - for ever. Is it too glaring for you? Do you like the blue becat.se it rem-nds you of the sky, or the green because it makes you think of the foliage, or the black because it has in it the shadow of the night? I take the scarlet becau'e it -ball make me think of the price that was paid for my soul. 0 the blood! the blood! the blood of the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. I see where you are. You are at the cross roads. The next steps decides every thing. Pause before you take it: but do not pause too long. I hear the blast of the irum;>et that makes the dead. Look out ! Look out! For in that day, and in our closing moment on earth, better than any other defense or. barricade, however high or broad or stupendous, will be the one litt le, thin scarlet thread in the window. BREVITIES. Arthur (just beginning his French: -"Papa,is the French word for mone of the feminine or masculine gender? Tather-"Feminine,of course." "Why pa?" "Because, haven't you hear that money talks?"-Lowell Citizen. Mother-' You don't seem tired, Jen tie, for a young lady who attended dancing party last nioht?" Jennie "It was a plumbers' ball,you know,ano everything went so slowly that on could not get tired."-Boston Herald. Inquisitive Citizen - "What's th matter with the man? Been run ove by a railroad train?" Ambulance Su geon - "Worse than that. He wa caught among the women in a bargai rush at Seller's." - Philadelphia I7 qurer. Belinda-' Dearest,what was the ret reasoa. of your marrying me?" A phonzo-" I think it was beeause I ur derstood you. And what was the rei son of your marrying me?" Belinda "I think it was because I did not ux derstand you."-AmericaL. Physician (to Mrs. Col. Blood< Ketcky)-"How did your husban ass the night. Mrs. Bflood?" Mrs Blood-" He seemed quite comfortable si-r, and asked for water several times. Physician (with a grave look)-"H') -still flirhtv."-Botonl Beano. How to Sharpen a Pencil. "It really makes me tired to see t average man sharpen a pencil," sai an olcinewspaper man in a stationar store to a Washington Star reporte: "He will cut his tingers, cover the: with dirt and blacken them with lea dust, and still will not sharpen ti pencil. "There is but one way to sharpen lead pencil and that is to grasp it firn ly with the point from and not towar you. Take your knife in the other han and whittle away as thouph y< a ha lots of pencils to waste. i .: ,win these directions and turnin;: - enc over you will soon have it a . ' at recularly sharpened, and y.. -inge: wifi be unsoiled and you will --.' net any court plaster to put on the w-oun< because you cannot cut your linge when whittling from them. "This method is the best, wheth the knife is dull or sharp. If the pe cil is a soft one there is no sense sharpening the lead. .Simply c away the wood, and in writing turn t) pencil over, thus writing with the sid of the lead. "Another disgusting and sensele habit is in placing the pencil in ti mouth when writing. This is a rel of the days when pencils were as ha2 e as fint and before the manufacture .were able to produce the smooth, sc pencils that are used to-day. The co Stinual dampening of the lead w s harden even a good graphite pent and make it hard and gritty. It simply a habit, any way, and mc -habits are bad ones." A Tanl Throne. The King of Italy has sent to Kin 'Menelik a carved wooden thro: ftwenty-four feet high. Don't Pnll Out Saperfluous Hair. , Young Padelford of Philadeln r who was at Newport last summer, I met with a curious and perhaps fa experience. Some time ago he d Scovered a small tuft of hair growi on his neck which seemed to have '~relation with the hair of his he: n Last week a barber whom he patri . ized suggested that he should take1 etuft of hair out by the roots, and Pad er told him to go ahead. The b brperformed the operation, Padelord is said to be lying now at ' point of death from an attack of bki t oisoning which the operation has Te statmen fis made l~that3. m t adn 5,000elephants sae ile t Africa every year. Their ivory in it raw state is worth $4,000,-000. mEx-Gov. D. H. Chamberlain m sneech before the Boston Refc Club last Saturday in which he re nounced the wholesale robbery 10 the Treasury going on under at name of pension bills. Concern he negro question, Mr. Chamber1 rr said the negroes were getting all rvery well under the control of s:white people of the South, and ape he Feeral legislation intended to int ere with their control can do notl: AEINN[". DEEI. HOW THE TOWN OF ST, ALUANS T1 WAS TAKEN. Twenty-six Confederatte Escape from Pri on and Captured a Vermont Town--' he S. Banks Sacked--PTrial in Canadr. i tlanta Constitution. Sketches innumerable, have appeareLd in newspapera and magazines, on bozt sides of Mason and Dixon's line purpor- be ting to be "the most daring exploit of m -he war." I have, however, seen no al- SO usion to what I claim, was the most thl daring, viz. the capture of St. Albans, Vermont, by twenty-six confederates in ne latter days of December '64, or early ce in January '65. This audacious episode da is so lit13 known in Atlanta, that a brief re account by one who was almost (not quite) a part of the capturing force, may e not be uninteresting. ed In the summer of 1864 about 120 con- th federate prisoners of war. who had con. tv trived to escape from different northern v prisons made their way to Cauada in tb preference to taking the risk cf recap ture in the endeavor to pierce the nilita- ta ry lines, and perhaps have to answer the st charge, so freely made against suspicious wv strangers, of beitg spies. Rock Island, lin Camp Chase, Camp Douglas, Camp M r ton and other prisons of lesser rote each furnished its quota of this couitgent. i Now, such a body of men, who had the shrewdness and energy to effect their es cape, were not likely to be inactive in the stirring events which so much con- r, cerned them. Consequently a movement al was set on foot looking to tue liberationa of the prisoners on Johnson's Ilaud. a This ended in the capture and execution of Major Beal, of Buffalo, N. Y. Fl lowing on the heels of their telovea t< leader's death, it soon became apparent that Sherman was about to abandon the sword of the soldier for the torch of the incendiary. As the mothers, wives and and sisters of these exiled patiets were exposed to insult and pillage, naturally their rage knew no bounds. Said Cap tain - of Alabama, to the writer: "There are enough of us here to draw off 10,000 cutthroats form our beloved t homes, if we but hang together and strike in the most tender spot, as these vandals have been striking us." As a result of mature deliberation c like a clap of thunder in a clear sky r news flashed over the wires that "a rebel t horde hid captured St. Albans, Vt., Subsequent events developed the fact that "the horde" consisted of twenty-six men, who quietly entered the town and I throwing off their outer wraps, appeared I in the garb of confederate soldiers, arm ed to the teeth, and enforced an immedi surrender. Although the place con tained 5,000 inhabitants, the mayor and city officers counseled submission. The entire male population was corraled in the public square and held for hours, twenty being detailed as a guard for them, while the other six went through the public buildings, both local and led eral, and the national banks. Five mil lions in greenbuks, bands and securities compensated the Laptors. On returning to Canada, a demand was made from Washicgton for their ex tradition, The case was taken before a a judge in Toronto on a writ of habeas corpus, and postponed for ten days to enable the prisoners to procure evidence. 2 Now, as much courage and greater shrewdness was necessary to prove these men were soldiers- not mere robbers. Five scouts were immediately dispatched for Richmond, each commissione:1 on the same errand, so if one or more fell into the hands of the enemy some of -them might get through. On the night one of the couriers returned, and on the tenth morning, just before court f convened, two others came in with a d certified copy of Lieutenant Young's . commission, and certi'ied copies of the ,enlistment papers of each and every one " of the other twenty-five. The trial pro ceeded; the court decided the -parties were beligerents, and they were acquit ted accordingly. S, strong a pressure, bowtyvcr, was brought to bear on the Dominion gov ernment that parliament was convened in session extraordinry. 'and the allien e sedition act passed under the govern ment whip and spur. This act may be briefly epitomized as follow::-'b governal general is empowered to sus dpend the habeas cor pus by proclar..ution in the dominion within forty-eight ehours." But little remains to be told. Al a though only twenty-six took par t inr the dSt. Albans raid there were abo~ut - hundred and twernty distributed through: dthe cities of Montreal, Toronto, _St. Catherines and Hamilton. A portion iiconceived the ideat of going to Europe, doffering their services on a blockada s runer, and gaining entrance to some d southern pert. 'Ibis was- deetned the s most feasible plan, as it would be mad s ness to attempt returning through the orthern states. Well, they found rr themselves, in course of time, in Edin a burgh, Scotlar d, with all arratigements a made to man a vessel, prepared for the t purpose on the Clyde, about forty miles m distant, when news came of Lee's sur a render and as a consequence they sur rendered their blockade running re ss solves. te How many of these ex-c'cape-d priso ic ners are left in twenty-yeats? As I write dd a coincidence presents it-elf ao me rs twenty-six men participated in Lbe S . ft Albans raid, and i: is ju-t twvr nty-ai a- ears since it occuredi. i If this should catch the cve or any ii one who was in Carnada at that time is will he confer vrith the writer of inis st through the Constitution. Ex-CoNFEDERlATE General Benhbam's Narrew Fercape. On the 5th instant Adjutant General ig M. L. Bonham, Jr., of this cil y had a e narrowescape ftom death by asphy xia tion at Washingtona, wvhere he was mu attendance on the mecetingrs of th Na tional Guard Association of the United ia, States. He was stopping at the Met t ropolitan Hotel, and wh-en he retired ta]lIthought he had turrma out the omd is- The fixtures. however, brewg very no it is probable that the weighzt of u n hand, ashe withdrew it, opened the td. stopcock and the gas escaped. General - Bonham went to sleep almost immneda :he ately, and had it not been for th-: mih el- watchman, who detected the odor ii ar- the hal and forced his way into tir *nd room, it is probable the effect of tu' hee Igas would have been fatal. As it was od he had only been asleep a short while in- and when the windows were throwr open he soon' became all right. A do& tor was called in, but his services wen not needed.-Columbia Register. A gainst 'a aking Offrrurn.. SVienna Dispatch to the L'ton News iA movement is on foot in Auntri Hungary just now to do aw:y with ore form of salutation cutmr m in men-that of toking' off the ha.A the Graz a committee has been formeacic passed a resolution and called upona th< civil and millitary Govero':rs, 13:r' tde Kuebeck and Count Wurmubra:.d, r's -i rm on the mayor of the city, begging th ee- the millitary salute from their inia:,..;-t acintersouanb e' a . of The three gentlemen gnrdly nave: the consent. The wish has also been ex ing pressed that the dangerous customo amuncovering the head for a length aintime at furnerals sheold be done ai'e mgwith. It is pointed out that the milita ~i]ry salute must necessarily imply at les or-as much respect as lifting the hat, sine r-a common soldier thus'saluates the bigh ngest command in the army. In the Midd a-e the hat or cam was not doffed. 2 EDi BY IED~[ HOT WIRE. ii Awful Fate cf a. Workman in a Trenton .3ill. 'fTe H jM'.d MEil" is t :e title giv Uy ,;kingn to the new Clinton .:nx to Roebliog's wiro and roll n1itl in Trenton, New Jersey. L'hi wen have sone cause for the re, too, for, although the mill his n operation but a few months, nearly ozea of of their fellow workmen have m stricken there with death in the st shocking manner possible. Indeed, superititious are the men becoming t, they go to their labor very reluc tly. THE PERILOUS PROCESS. rhe drawing of wire under the pro ises used at Roebling's is extremely gerous, although the firm is rapidly >'acing the old machineiy by the pipe ide system. A number of large bars of heavy iron reral inches in diameter are now plac in a furnace, and when at white heat ay are rushed over to the chain of e.v(; rollers with grooves, and it is ile they pass through these rollers at the danger arises. Two men on either side of the rollers ke charge of the iron in its heaviest itc, and from then on to the finisher, o is stationed at the end of the long ie of rollers, are boys. DANGEROUS WORK. The iron passes through the first groove the heavy state very rapidly, and at c opposite side of the rolls stands a > with a pair of tongs, who must tch this rod of red hot iron, going at a te of about a rod a minute, twist it )out his head in a snake like wriggle >d pass the end into another groove or hole smaller than the one through hich it has just passed. If the boy misses the hole or guide in which he should pass the hot iron i an instant the ii on bends, the end ioots up and if the lad is not nimble iough to get out of its way it goes rough his body. This was the position held by Charles heattle, and, although he was considered first class workman, he was not quick nough to escape the swiftly rolling iron !d it pierced his body through and arough. UOTCHKISS' AWFUL FATE. A few days ago Thomas Hotchkiss, e of the most expert "toughers," or 2en who handle !he hot iron when it rst passes through the rollers, was kill d in this mill in an even more horrible aanner than was young Cheattle. Hotchkiss was standing before the urnace with his tongs when an accident appened. A fellow workman stooped ver to repair the damage, and at the ame instant a large square rod of iron . me rushing from the furnace and ow ng to the disarrangement of the furnace Eotchkis codid neither stop the iron nor :rn it from its course. Nor could he nove out of his tracks. le bent over, thinking It might pan ver his head, but in this he was mistal CLEAR THROTGH HIM. The end of the red hot rod entered the ower part of his abdomen and passed through the body, coming out at the neck and burning out his entrails. Not one drop of blood was shed, but Hotchkiss was dead before the iron could be extricated. The Hungarian who was injured i bhewire department on Tuesday nigh iles ,n a precarious condition. The Roeblings employ about 3,00( men. - - - - GRIEVANCES OF THE NEGRO. An A ddress Issued From Washinirton b: the Colored Conrentloo. The colored convention, in sessior at Washington, elected ex-Gov P. B Piuceback~,'president of the national organization, and issued an address which, after reheasing in the usua manner the grievances of the race closes as followc:. . "The propositions nowv pending i: Congress looking to the deportation c or emmigration of colored Americal citizens of this country to any othe country, or even to any other part c our own country, through governmenl aid, also meet with our most emphat condemnation and disapproval; for wv cannot exile ourselves from this coun try as a neutralizing movement againi our growing numbers as an excuse fo the nation doing its duty toward American citizens. While we recog nize the right of colored American cit zes to go to any country they ma: desire or to any part of our own cour tr, :.et we do not believe that it is an, part of the duty of the General Go' einent to render aid or assistan( from the Federal treasury for the purpose, and we do not ask it. A we ask is justice, equal rights and fa play. If under such circumstance we cannot survive we will have nor t blame but ourselves. We recomen the adoption of the following resolu tions: "Resolved. That the national 0: ganizationi created by this conventic be authorized~ and instructed to upon the President~ of the Unite States and present him with a copy this address, and also to thank him the name of the convention for h kind allusions to colored Americans hi address to congress; also to appea before the ditlerent committees Congress having jurisdiction of ti subj. ct matters referred to in this at dress for the purpose of urging upc the satid comm uittees the necessity f< the said proposed legislation andi give the reason in detad for tl same." *n nere is the plae~ to linid a go< talking~ parrut ?" writes a sub~scribe, In tihe niewspaperCs, sonl; in the newv papers. You'll find woudlerful parr saying things in the mniscellanco cohnus of the papers that are neve iever, neCver heard froma the bills livi.: parrts anywhere else. Go te s-nle place for trained and sag clots do -s.-B'urdclic. V\~isi "Do yotu like going to scho< ay lutic detr?" Little Fauntleroy "e', indeed." Visitor-"0f cours You ove ourschtool, dlon't vou,n pet an'd y ou like your~ teacher, to o' t vt i?" Littie Faunttlero-" ve's.I \toiuhin' twanit anyt other teacheti n'a giwr -"-N. erent.'Lt An uncanny, ghastly trade was cetly consummated in Charlot Mandy Pankey was condemned to anged last Fr iday. About a mon ago y ankey bargained with the dc tors to allow theta to take charge his body after- is execution, if thi would ~gxve him twenty pounds candy. The physicians agreed ai the candy ~ was delivered to the co lemnen ~ his cl. For the~.ast t en da o chi-- Ue he feasted on the price hisxbody. I~ . *': of '. -Tommry-P a su i. -eu-e:5cortetc.?" Mr. Fi - I h ne wapapers report that the w~ t ; btween Ttrma', the defeated, ai :-! ric. the tuccesoful. candidate for t - '-Sena te ever. Briice havinr 1,Trumis' 1|tnrang a district and a deal to iTEMS OF ALL SORTS. Ay new indlustry, Scotland is sdvaco D gather ice. A shoemaker at St. Joseph, Mo.. hdas onstructed - a "cold air notor,'" whieb e clains will run all kinds of street re ticles. The Mormons have recently sent a nissiofnary from Salt Lake to the Samoan slands to preach the Gospel and drum ip recruits among the natives. At the moment when the war ship arrior rescued a party of French hal oonists they were casting lots as to who hould throw himsef out to lighten the :alloon. The Medical and Surgical Reporter mnounces that it will publish the names >f religious papers which print improper nedical advertisements if, after due warning. they persist in printing them. People on Pall Mall were recently won aerstruck to see the cooks, kitchenmaids, waiters, and all the employes of the A1.'my and Navy club, to the number of 100 or more, pour out on the steps and pavement. They were photographed. Leading English gunniakers report that they have had a remarkably large number of orders from ladies for fine guns. Shooting during the season is said to be the latest notion of the English wo raun of quality, although some prefer fishing. Mr. H. G. Vogt said that if ships could be towed instead of propelled by the pro peller, an aver;ge of 40 per cent. in coal and power could be saved. The propel ler at the stern sucks the sustaing water-from the ship, causing resistance to be increased in that proportion. Engine 310; of the Union Pacific road, that is now cmloyed in transferring cars across the Omaha bridge, has a record of having run 1,140,625 miles. It has been in use for twenty-five years, and was one of the first locomotives used west of the Missouri river. The agricultural department is organ. izing five new experimental stations for the study of sorghum and its manipulation -three in Kansas, one in New Jersey and one in Louisiana. The appropria tion for this work this year is $100,000 larger than it has ever been before. Jerusalem is rapidly growing as a trade center. One hundred thousand dollars' worth of objects of devotion in mother of-pearl and olive wood are exported to America and Europe every year. Vine cultivation is being extended, and the price of land has risen six fold within a few years. Since the receiving ship Wabash has been lying off Boston there have been several curious applications from men who NAnted to enlist. One man said he'd enlist if he could do work to which he was accustomed. He wasn't enlisted, for be was a .paper hanger. Anothei wantea to enlist to take care of the cap tain's horse. A gardener would enlist il if he could firrd Work, andanother candi dte gated to'be the ship's roofer. A Amf Ea'emedf1e, Tenn., buili a fl1a . co mV .g dead*ly and in itle e - apirof bhck feet drel down the c=1n7dy. A search revealet a colored rieigiabor of bad reputatioi stuck fast in it. Upon being release the negro sdid that, owing the house bdder 10 cents, he "had come to pay it and fnding the doors and windows fas chose this mode of entrance. But as Ii shoes and an a were left outside his tal wag not credited A few days agoa large hog beionj into Le roy a y,of Stark, Ga while the family were all out of t1 house, went into the house, and a-ft< climbmg upon afeather bed proceede tota h edadcohn into do rags. His hogship thoughtt he ha found a beatiful play house, and his delightend playulness tore thmn! up generally. hen the inmati -of the house came in the floo: were literally covered with feather and the festive brute ran from ti house looking more like one og. tl eathered tribe than a -fat porker. 1Mr. Andrew Carnegie will establi in Pittsburg one of the finest public. braries in the country. It willb a vel comprehensive institution, mncludu~ what will be known as the Acaden of science, the various departmer tof which will be under the charge e .the different scientific and investig etion societies of western Pennsylvang The cost of the building was orw 'r ally placed at $500,000, but Mr. O r negie now states that he w-ill give $75 s000 or more for the furpose, and tb nothing shall be lackingr that is nee ful to secure the most 0complete st M. ~ Nantet reached the Paris ex po ~tion from Brussels, after a seven dag ejourney, in a phactoni drawn by a p~ t of dogs. He is a humane man, a 1when his dogs were tired he went I tween the shafts while they-mount the box. To cut an apple into quarters pass d string by means of a needle across t apple, which is divided by pulling t two ends of the strmg, crossing und -the p eel. Opera'te in the same mnant n on fhe opposite side of the apple, so to divide it into a second half, andJ d will be perfectly divided into qua~rte f although enveloped by the peeL isODDS AND ENDS , The German military estimatesi of 1891 call for 120,000,000 marks i munitions of war. 1-A citizen of Wellsville, 0., nowv ayears old, boasts that he has never p~ ra cent to a lawyer or doctor. e All the miners of Great Britain ha decidcd to go on strike if the dema for an eight -hor's wvorkingr day is conceded by Jan.lst. > Give me the liberty to know, r. think, to believe and to utt.eir free 'acording to conscience, above t ther fibarties.--Milton. us Upwards of 2.300 miles of main: r covpvng natraia7 av been: l toital invested in the busiues~s excet a- $50,000,000. For the year eunded .March 31, 18 >_, the net profits of the English post fce an'd t'elegraph oiice, excl'usive e he packet service, were within a fr nu of E4-.(00.000. Pstmster General Wanamnaker I le submitted to the Congressional cc ul mitee on Postoffices the draft of a I providing for the establishment postal telegraph offices at e;'ery, f. .e delivery office in the country. Un' ethe bill it is provided that the te bS graph tolls in any one State shall t exceed ten cents Ior mi ssages of c- words or less, counting address a of signature, nor over 25 eents for a distance under 150 miles, nor over of cents for any greater dist ance; the ra dd and rules to be prescribed by the Po n master General. f When Nellie Big started on ht:r t( around the world, t be New Y-dk W(. oened a guessing departmnet and ofi ed a trip to Europe, with all apeni w, paid, nd $250 in pocket money to Rm erson makmng the closest cues :as to the time that woud be c.,,edi iS Melbe Bly's trip. F W. S-vos, New York, was the wie: er of the pr: The time actually c'.usi.rned asann by he timekeepers, was~ 72 da.9, hr, 11 inutes and 14scns edminu-es and 14 2 5 sec >ud2. d There is a deaf an~d dumb maon et ansas ieven feet tall. This is what cal a long silnne -Kearnev Enterpra ESTABLISHED 1844. Charleston Iron Works, Manufacturers and Dealers in Marine Stationary and Portable Engines a;l! Boilers, Saw Mill Machinery, Cotton Presses, Gins, Railroad, Steam boat, Machinists', Engineers' and Mill Supplies. KW.iepairs e.recnted witil promptness and Dispatch. &ndfor price lists. East Bay, Cor. Pritchard St., Charleston, S. C. R. C. BA~nkLxY, President. C. BISSFL JE-,xis, Gen'l Manager. RIcIAUD S. Gvirr, See. & Treas. The Cameron & Barkeley Gompany. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, -AND AGENTS FOR Erie City Engine and Boilers, Atlas Engine and Boilers, the famous little Giant Hydraulic Cotton Press, Eagle Cotton Gins. We have in stock one each 60, 65, and 70 saw Eagle Gin, only shop worn, that we are offering way below cost. Send for prices. Oils, Rubber and Leather Belting, and a complete line of Mill Supplies. We Guarantee Lowest Prices for Best Quality of (Goods. CAMERON & BARKELEY CO., Charleston, S. C. SECKENDORF & MIDDLETON. Cotton Factors, NAVAL STORES, No. 1 Central Wharf, F. W. CAPPELMANN, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS, TOBACCO AND CIGARS, S. E. Cor. Meeting and Reid Sts., CHiARLESTON, S. C. Choice Flour a specialty. Sugars sold near cost. No charge for drayage. Goods de ivered free to depot. Conntry orders promptly attended to. OTTO F. WIETERS, WHOLESALE GROCER, Wholesale Dealer in Wines, Liofirs and Cigars, No. 121 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. WETHERHORN & FISCHER, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN General Building Material. Sash, Doors, Blinds, Moulding, Scroll Sawing, Turning, e Door and Window Frames, Lumber, Flooring, Ceiling, rWeather-boarding, Paints, Oils, Glass, Lime, &c II Ofice, Salesroom, Factory and Yards, Smith, Near Queen Street, a rWrite for prices, or send a list of your wants for an estimate.e s[Eo.E ToALE. HEN 2 R.. A Mc&COBB,Jr L66 E. IO| & uO. ,,,,,,I Comsin eca S31A? UFACTURLL2 R\S A >W10L ESALL 8 AND DEALER IN t- ~i.~~~ ~ jLime, Cement, Plaster Paris, Hlair, Fire a D oors. Bricks and Fire Clay, a. Sash, Land Plaster and Eastern Hay. n- gjin'Is Agent for White's English Portland M!Oniings. Cement. at 31aultelS, NO. 198 EAST BlAY, Grates, etc. CHARLESTON, S. C. jScroll Work, [uruing and........ . Inside Finish. Budder's Hlard- ALL I:N HUGGINS, ]. D. s., Sware. anld G~ eueral . JRW~ SBuildlillg Materia. ' piisits Manning every month or two d OFFICE AND SALESROOMs, "rfes"*a~y a 10 and 12 Hayne Street, N~ISN e [REAR CHARLLESTON HOTEL. F Charleston, S. C. 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