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AT TE TABERNACLE. REV. LiR. TALMAGE PREACHES UPON THE WORTH OF RELIGiON. AU InterestiDg atd EicquerxC Sermon From the Words of Solomoy.-"WfMdom I Better Than Rubie&"- The True Cbristf3n Spirit. BRoCKLYN., Feb. I.-In the Ttber nacle this f)r-noou Rev. Dr. Talmasge preached to a cro.wded audienice tbat flled the great build-ng to ove- fi 'elnz, the subject of his sermon being %-Rubies Sur pqed," and the text Proverbs vili, 11. "W:dam is better than rubies." You have all seen the precious stone commonly called the ruby. It is of dead red color. Tre B:ble ciahes much of it.. It glowed in the first row of the high priest's breastplate. Under anotber name it stood in the wall of heaven. Jeremiah compares the rulddy cheek of the N zarites to the rubv. Ezekiel points it out, i the robes of the-king of Tyre. Four Limes does &,%on use It as a symbol by whicth to exuol wisdom or reli gitzn, always setting its value as better than rubies. The world does not agree as to how the precious stones were formed. The ancients thought that amber was made of drops of perspiration of the goddess Ge. The thunderstone was supposed to have dropped from a stormeloud. The emerald ,was said to -have been made of the fir- fly. The lapis Izull was thought to have been born of the cry of an In dian.giant. And modern mineralogists say that the precious stones were made of eases and hquids, To me the ruby seems like a spark from the anvil of the setting sun. The home of the genuineiruby is Bur mash, and 60 miles from its capital, where lives and reigns the rater, called "Lord of the Rubies," under a careful governmental guard are these valuable mines of ruby kept. Rarely has any foreigner visited them. When a ruby of large value was discovered' it was brought forth withgelaborate ceremony, a proces sion was formed. and, with all bannered pomp, military guard and princely at tendants, the gem was brought to the kings palace. Of great value is the ruby, much more so than diamond. as lapidaries and jewel era will tell you. An expert on this subject writes, "A ruby of perfect color weighing five karats is worth at the pres ant day ten times as much as a diamond of equal weight." It was a disaster when Charles the Bold lost the ruby he was wearing at the battle of Grandson. It was a great aflaence when Rudolph II of Austria inherited a ruby from his sis ter, the queen dowager. It was thought to have had much to do with the victory of Henry V. as he wore it into the bat tie of Agincourt. It is the pride of the Russan court to own the largest ruby or all the world, presented by Gustavus III to the Rus sian empress. Wondrous ruby! It has electne characteristics, and there are bghtnings compressed in its double six sided prisms. What shall I calln? It is frozen fire! It is petrified blood! In all the world there is only one thinz more valuable, and my text makes the comparioon, "Wisdom is better than rubies." But it is impo3sible to compare two things together unless there are some points of similarity as well as of differ enice. I am glad there is nothing lack lng here. The ruby is more beanufuil isthe night and under toe lamplignt than by day. It is prelerred for evening adonmeet. How' the rubies glow and burn and fiash as the lights it the dark ns! Catherine of Aragon had on her finger a ruby that fairly lanterned the night. Sir John Mandeville, the celebrated traveler or 400 years ago,.said that the emperor of China had a ruby that made thie night as bright as the day. The probability is that Solomon, under sone of the lamps that iliumined his cedar palace by nmahtuoticed the peculiar glow of the ruby asit looked in the hilt of a sword or hung int iome fold of the uphol stery or beautifid the lip of some chal ice, while he was thmnkmng at the sme time of the excellency of our holy relig .on as chiefly seen in the night of trou ble, and he cries out, 'Wisdom is bet ter than rubies." Ob, yes, itis a good thing to '-ave re llgon while the sun of prosperity rides high and everything is trilliant mn for une nuin health, in worldly favor. Yet you at suh times har dly tell how much ot it is na bra~xerance and hew mnch of it is the grace o a ~.But let the sun set and the shadows avalanche the plain and the thick darkness oflnek n'eser poverty or persecution or mentai exhnation fill the soul and fili the house and fitl the world; then you sit down by the lamp of God's word, and under its lght the consolations of the gospel come out-the peace of God whi'th passeth all understanding appears. You never ful ly appreciated their power until in the deep nmght of trouble the Divine Lamp revealed their exquisiteness. Pearls and amethysts for the day, but rubies for the night. All the books of the Bible attempt in some way the assuagement of misfor tone. Of the 150 psalms of-Dayid at least 90 allude to trouble. There are sighings in every wind and tears in every brook and pangs in every heart. It was origmnally proposed .to call the president's. residence at Washington, "fre Palace" or "The Executive Mian sion," but after it was destroyed in the war of 1814 and rebuilt it was painted white to cover up the marks of the smoke and fire that had blackened the wfall. Hence it was called "The White House." lMost of tue things now white with attractiveness were once black with At the world most needs is the con solatory, and here it comes, our holy religion, with both hands full of anodynes and sadatives and balsi'ms, as in Dan iel's time to stop mouths leonine; as in Shadrack's time to cool blast furnaces; a i Ezekiel's time to console captivi ty, as in St. John's time to unroll an apoclypse over rocky desolations. Hear its soothing voice asitdeclares: "Weep ing may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." "The moun tains shall depart and the hills be re moved, but my loving kindness shall not dpart from you." "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." "They shall hunger nomore, neither thirst any more neither shill the sun light on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to the livin fountains of water, and God sall wipe away all tears from their eyes." The most wholesome thing on earth is tcubie if met in Christian spirit. To make Paul what he was took shipwreck, and whippng on the bare back, and penitentiary, and pursuit of wild mobs, and the sword of decapitation. To make David what he was it took all inat Ahitphel and Saul and Absalom and Goliath and all the Philistine hosts could do against him. It took Robert Cham bers' malformation of feet to make him the literary conqueror. It was bereavement that brought William Haworth of Wesley's time from wickedness to an evangclism that won many thousa'iis for heaven. The world would never have known dhat heroic stuft Ridley was made of had not the fires been kindled arounzt bis feet, and not likIng their slow work he cried: "I cannot burr,! Lzt the fire come to me! I cannot burn!" Thank God that hea e eem tat unfold their best 2i'ries under the lamplight! Thank Giod for the ruby! Moreover, I am sure that S.)iomon was right in saying that religion or wis dom is better than rubies, frcm the fact zhat a thing is worth wbat it will fetch. ReiiIon will feteh solid happiness, and the ru'y wi;i not. In all your ooserva tion did yo,: tver find a person thor ougbly felicitated by an incrustment of jewels? As you know more of yourself than any one elsa, are you happier now with worldly adornments and suc cesses than betore you won them? Does the picture that cost yon huudreds or thousands oi dollars on your wall brior 'ou as much satisfaction as the engrav mni that at the esp -nse ot$5 wis bung upon the wall when you first began to keephouse? Do all the cutlery and rie plate that 0latter on your extension d :alig table, surrounded by flattering guests, cootain more ot real )liss thae the plain ware of Four ili a table, at which sat only two Does a wardrobe crowdod witb costly attire give yon enore satisfaction than your first clothes closet wah its four or bve pege? )id not Lhe plain ring set en the third finger of your lett hard on the day o1 your betrotbal give more gladaes than the ruby that is now enthronesd on the third finzer of your right, hand? If in this journey of life we have learned anytning we have leamed that this world neither with its emolumenra nor gains can satisfy the soul. Why, here come as many witnesses as I wish to call to the stand to testify that be fore high heaven and the world, in com - panionship with Jesus Christ and a good bope of heaven, they feel a joy that all the resources of their vocabulary fail to express. Sometimes it evidences itself into ejaculations of hosana, sometimes in doxology, sometimes in tears. A converted native or India in a letter said, -fHow I leng for my bed, not that I may sleep-I lie awake often and long but to hold sweet communion with my God." It so mighty is worldly joy that Jul ims II, hearing Lis armies were trium phant, expired, and it Talya, hearior that the Roman Senate decreed him sn honor, and if Dionysius and Sophocies. overcome of joy, expired, and if a ship wrecked purser, waiting on the coast of Guinea in want and starvation at the sight of a vessel bringing relief, fell dead. from shock of delt, is it any surprise to von that the joys of pardon and heav en~ rolling over the soul should some times be almost too much for the Christ ian to endure and live? An aged aunt said to me: "D. Witt, three times I have fainted dead away under too great Christian joy. It was in all three cases at the holy commun ion." An eminent Christian man while 1in praSer said: "Sop, L'>rd; I cannot bear any more ef this gladness; it is too much for mortal. Withhold! Withhold!" We have heard of poor workmen or workingmen getting a letter suddenly telling taem that a fortune had been lett them, and how they were almost be side themselves with glee, taking the first ship to claim the estate. But, oh. what it is to wake up out of the stipar of a sinfal life and through pardoning find that all our earthiy existence will ne divinely managed for onc best welfare and that then all heaven will roll in up-. on the soul! Compared with that a spring morning is stupid, an August sunset is inane, and an aurora has io pillared splendor, and a diamond has nc flash, and a pearl no light, and a beryl no aquamarine, and a ruby no ruddiness. My Gracious IL'rd! My glorious God! Mv precions Chrisi! Roll over on us a few billows of that rapture. And now I ask you, as fair minded men and women, accustomed to make comparisons, is not such a joy as that worth more than anything one can have in a jeweled casket? Was not Sol omon right when he said, "Wisdom is better than ru;bies!" IThere is also something in the deep carmine of the ruby that suggests the religion depende. While the emerald suggests the meadows, and the sapphire the skies, and the opal the sea, the ruby suggests the blood of sacrifice. The most emphatic and startling of all colors hath the ruby. Solomon, the author of my text, knew all arout the sacrifice of lamb and dove on the altars of the tem ple. and he knew the meaning ot sacrnf cial blood, and what other precious-stone com3i he so well use to symbolize it as the ruby. Red, intensely red, red as the blood of the greatest martyr of all time -Jesus of the centuries! Drive the story of the crucifixion out of the Bible and the doctrine of the atonement out of our religion, and there would be nothing of Christianity left for our worship or our admiration. .Why should it be hard to adopt the Bible theory that our redemption was .purchased by blood? What great bridge everaprung its arches; what temple ever reared its towers; what nation ever achieved its independence; what mighty good was ever done without sacrifice of lfe? The great wonder of the world the tnridge that unites these two cities cost the tle of the first architect. Ask the shipvards o1 Glasgow and New York how many carpenters went down uder accidents before the steamer was launched. Ask the three great trans continental railroads how many in their construction were buried under crumb ling embankmnents, or crushed under timbers, or destroyed by the poyder blast. Tabulate the statistics of how many mothers have been martyrs to the cradle of sick children. Tell us how many men sacrifice nerve and muscle and brain and life in the effort to support their house holds. Tell me how many men in Eng land, in Trance, in Germany, in Italy, in the United States, have died for their country. Vicarious suffering is as old as the world, but the most thrilling, the most startling, the most stupendous sacrifice of all time and eternity was on a bluff back of Jerusalem, when one Be - lug took upon himself the sins, the ago nies, the perdition of a great multitu~e that no man can number, between 12 o'clock of a darkened noon and 3 o'cloca in the afternoon, purchasing the ransom oi a ruined world. Dive in all thte seas, explore all 'the mies, crowbar all the mountains, view all the crowned je wels of all the empe rors and find me any gem that can so overwhelmingly symbolize that martyr dom as the ruby. Mark you, there are many gems that are somewhat like the ruby. So is the cornelian, so is the garuet, so is the spmnel, so is the bala, so the gems brought from among the gravel of Ceylon and New South Wales, but there is only one genuine ruby, and that comes from the mine of Burmah. And there is only one Christ, and hz comes from heaven. One Redeemer, one Ransom, one Son or G4, only "one name given under heaven among msn by which we can be saved." Ten thousand times ten thousand beautiful imitations of that ruby, but only one ruby. Christ had no descend ant. Christ had no counterpart. In the ligted up grandeur and glory and love and sympathy of his character he is the Incomparable, the Infinite One -"the only wise God, our Saviour." Let all hearts, all homes, all times, all eternities bow low before him! Let his banner be lifted in all our souls! In olden times Scotland was distur b ed by freebooters and pirates. To rid the seas and norts of these desperadoes the hero Wuzli-am Wallace fitted out a nerchant vessel, but filled it with armed men anti put out to sea. The pirates, with their flagr inscribed of a death's head, thinking they would get an easy prize, bore down upon the Scottish merchantman, when the arm ed men of Wallace boarded the crf of the pirates and put them in chains and then sailed for port under the Scotch flag dying. And si our soul-, assai!<-d of sin and death and hell, through Christ are rescued, and the black liag of sin torn down, and the stripped !!ag of the cross is hoisted. Blessed b2 God for any sign, for any signal, for any preciou stone that brings to miud the price paid for such a rescue! I like the corai.for it seems the solid ified foam of breakers, and I like the jasper, for it gathers 17 colors into its bosom, and I like the jet, fur it com presses the shadows of many mid nights, and I like Ihe chryzo.ras- be cause its purpie is iluuan-d with a small heaveu of stars, acd I like the e-! vsolo'e for its svaves or colo-,which seem on dre. Bu- tnis moruing noth Min so imprsses ml: as th- ruby, .r it depiets, it typities, it sugg,s;s -"-he blood of Jesus Christ tha c-anso h from ai sin." "Without the shtddico of blood there is no remissiun." Ye, Solomon waF, right whe' in my text iii says, "Wisdom is btter than rub-'-s." To brioz out a coutrast that wili iH lus'rate my text I put before you two last earthly scenes. The one is in a room with rubies, but no religion, od the other in a room with reigion, but no rubies. You enter the tirzt room. where an aff uent and worldly man is about to quit this life. There is a ru by on the mante), possibly amni the va ses. There is a ruby in the he address of the qeenly wife. On the 11 ger ot the dying man there is a ruby. The presence of these rubies implies opulence of all kinds. The pie tures on the walls are heirlooms or th trophies of European trave!. Tne car taios are fron forentu lomms. The rugs are from Damascus or Cairco. The sofas are s:.uff-d with ease and qaie tude. The rocking chairs roll ba.:k ward and forward on luliabies. Thi pillows are exquisitely embroider-d. All the appointments of the room are a neroration to a successful commer cial or professional life. But the man has no religion, never has bad and nev er professed to have. There is not a Bible or one religious book in the reom. The departing man feels that his earthly career is ended and nothing opens beyoi:l. Wnere he will land stepping off from this life is a mystery, or whether he will land at all, for it may be annihilation. He has no pray er to offer, and he doe3 not know o w to pray. No hope of meetinz again in another state of existence. le is through with this life and is sure of no other. The ruby on the mantel and the ruby on the wasted finger of the derarting one say nothing of the ran soming blood which they so mightily typify. So far as giving sclace or illu mination to a departng spirit they are a dead failure. Miduight of utter hopelessness drops on all the scene. Another room of mortal exit. Reli gion and no rubies, Sne never had money enough to buy one of these ex quisites. S metimes she stopped at a jeweler's show window and saw a tow of them incarnadining the velvet. She had keen taste enough to appreciate those gems, but she never o wuqed o ne of thew. Nhe was not jea'lns or-:mi happy because others had rabies wamle she had none. But she had a riche-r treasure and that was the grace of G A that had comforted her along the way amid bereavements and temptati ins and persecutioas and sickness and o:: v tions and trials of all sorts. Now she is going out of life. Vhe room is bright-not with pict ures or statutes, not with uphulstery, not with my of the gems of mountain or of sea,-but there is a strange and vivid glow in the room-not the light of chaindelier, or star, or noonday sun, but something that outshmnes all of them. It must be the prasence of su pernaturals. From her illumined face I think sne mu-n hear s weet voices. Yea, she does hear sweet voices voices of departed kindred, voices apostolic and prophetic and evangelic, but all of them overpowered by the voice of Christ, saying,, 'Come, ye bless ed of my father, inherit the kinghom." From her illumined face I think she. must hear rapturouis music. Yea, su does hear rapturous music, now soft as solos, now thunderous as orchestras, now a saintly voice alone, now the hundred and forty and four th iusatnd in concert. From her illumnined face think she mast breathe redolence. Yea,she does inhale aroma from off the gardens whose flowers never wither from the blossoms of orchards every tree of which bears twelve manner of fruit. From her illumined face I think -she must see a glorious sight. Yes, she sees the wall th-at has jasper at the base,an d amethyst at the top, and blood red rubies between. Goodby, sweet soul! Why should you longer stay? our work all done; your burdens al carried; your tears all wept! For ward into the light! Up Into tue joy! Out into the grandeurs. And after you bave saluted Christ and your kindred search out him of the palaces of Lebanon cedar and tell him that you have found to be glori ously true what thousand of years ago be asserted in this morning's text, "Wisdom is better than rubies." In those burnissed palaces of our God may we all meet, for I confess to you that my chief desire for heaven is not the radiance or to take the suggestion of the text-not the rubescence of the scene. My one idea of heaven is the pace to meet old friends-God, our best friend, and our earthly friends al ready tr-ansported. Aye, to meet the milions to whom I have never seen, but to whom I have admiffistered ini the gospel week by week tnrough journalism on both sides of the sea,and throughout Christendom, and through many lands yet semibarbaric. For the last 23 years every blast of injustice against me has multiplied my readers all the world over, and the present malignancy printed and utter ed because our church is in financial struggle after havirg two great struct ures destroyed by fire and we comnpell ed to buIld three large churches-I say the present outrageous injustice in some quarters will multiply my audi ence in all lands if I can keep in goodi humor and not fight back. A gentleman tapped me o-a the shoul der summer before last on a street of Einburg and said, 'I live in; the Shet land islands, north Scotlantd, and I read your sermons every Sabbatn to an audience of neighbors, and my brother live in Cape Town, and he reads them every Sabbath to ah audience of his neighbors-" And 1lhere and now sa.1 to the 40,000,000 of the earth to whose eyes these words will come that one of my dearest anticipations is to meet them in heaven. Ab, that will be be t ter than rubies! Coming up from different continents from different hemispheres, fromn o pp - ite side of the eartb, to greei. een' jother in holy love in the presence of tue <lor ius Christ who made it possible for us to get there! Our sins all pardoned, our sorrows allebanishe, never to weep never to part, never to aie! I ti-Il you that will be better than rubies. 0.1: may have the crowns, and the Iirone and the scepters. Give us our old frnend ack samar, Christ, "the frieud who s:icketh close than a brother," and all the kindred who have gone up from bereft households, and all our friends whom we have never yet seen, and you may have all the rubies, for that will be "better than rubies." Istead of the dying kiss when they looked so pale and wan and sick, it will be the kiss of welcomu' on lips jabilat with song, wflue standing on lloors paved with what exquisit-ness, under ceilings hung with what glory, boundod by walls facing us with what splendor amid gladness rolling over as with what doxology. Far better. intimtely better, everlastingly better tnan rubiva. AN effort is being made to esta'elien the Louisana State Lottery at Tampa, Fla. Gov. Mitchell has another serlous matter to deal with, and it is to be hoped he will be mire successfull than e. was with the fighters. Hi T BY HIS OWN:P?-yARD Siper A*teWp-,d t Show Fraud In the Ahlyu P.'cmrimarms. WAIINGTON. Feb. 'J -Chairman Cummings, of t! t louse Navai Com mittr-, has completed the rep-rzted of tae c'mumt upon the HiiJman re solutL:i d,(ciarint that the nremiums paid for spe d of navial vesseis are ex cessive ari seekiuL to restrain futrher paymnen:s on tha score. Mr. Cum mins p-rfae-s his report oy calling atrehtion to tn f"t tat Mr. Holmin sougzht ; o t rin- im-n-liato adt-p tion of i" re '.i ;'ithout reference to the co uuitO e Ile s'is a patient effort thas Outen nadi to unjvartlhi facis te warrnit en inves *ioo. . Ie ian has inro duce d Mr.NJ. I Hid Sy .-r as a g-utieman of exceleut rermtalou WhO hAd tU:iurmLW.d tl ac's noon which 'he ca.rses .ere 1is: 1;nt wieq the ctumi e-cep'ing~ Mr Holua-m's es riate o! h aann call-d f'or i..s nobe were p-seated. ?be Wit nv-ss did ;ot ;ieve that Zry naval fnicer had Letn pauti i . corro ptc:m bi-a io, ha" elvC1 that tae pre oiu ti wa.e un ViSA uM t..at re ekle. ex tvi ca ha- ea shown. It app t1 Mr. Sypter knew no.h i- - of any fraud or of navl construe or en..ne-ring, but re'lietd upoa .v-s:par repor s. He named expetts va.> woul ! support his stalements, that the de: ied engineers could cal cul1Ate thel speed of a vissel within a quE.rer of a kuo, but when one of them was eatl-d he didn' the possiotity of preic i g tie - p-e. whia a knot or a 'a i Cue'"i I-Engieer M-1 vil!p .i i dew-d 'tat 'h- predietian cou d be- ode w~itini half a knot aLA ho had1 o'her navail exper's. Tr Loami~t'- found that the charge ti e 3sie we purposeiy dra-vn ' s":re m an ifthe c-ntr.et speed was n.o b rte .:it aTd the s.rn was true of the aliegition that unuul an improper ma-s .ere used to forc. the vessels on trial trips, dam aging the machinery. The report next taxes up the question of Mr. Syper's motIves in passing the charges. It quotes the testimony to show tbat he declared that he appeared "pro bno poblici, a patri at" and that he hai deuied any cojcern in the in troduction of th- b air resolutica pre ceding Mr. Lioima-: ttluton oa the sarme. subjec. Thea it qaotes Sviser's letter to the Cramps Sept. 28.h I st saying that he bad i!n)ortant iaiormfioa &t their service: atnd contin-iig this evidence of ex-Rores -. tuve I.z1:on who drew up te3' ir relu on 1, says it was prepared in yp -r's otii.e in forrna tion fruraissd ;7 Syp t. In farther at tack upon the cnaracter of thewitness, the report says: The ll-'lman prermble and resolution were introducedino the House Dec. 13. On his first appearance before the co.umittee Mr.Syper was asked; "Did you prepare a copy of that resoluttoa ?' iis reply was, "No sir." He was than asked whether ne had knotwledge of the resolution before its introduced His reply w.-, "Yes, sir; I had know l-ige anod th;t resuriou probably ori gmat.. d fro-u the sugg-stions mane b me baedi upon th-se newspaper arti O s." Fatner al rg, he was asked, "Did you f-r ner the resolution ?" 1 - repived, "Why? It is not my child." i-e was -in asked, "You did not prepire or caus-d i!tot n prepared?" His reply was, "i aid nst prepare it, bu. I had a talk with Judge Holman several times and showed him these newspape: arlicles and ga'e this infur mation." Was ha Crazy or Angry? Ba~oKtYs, Feb. 1.-A sensation of thez verv lirgest kinds was created the' moirning~ in S.. Paul's R vman Catho lic Chart", the oldat cor'secrated church in Brooklyn. It arose from an attack upon the pastor of the church, the Rev. William J. lHll, at the very steps of '.he altar by his assisf ant, the Rev. Dr. Pat rick V. McDe~aled. The trounle occur red at the 10 o'clock Mass when t~he curch was crowded with worshipers. Father Ed!i is about 53 rears ot age, and it was under his successful administra tion that the parish has beea freed from debt, and w?.s c.onsecrated some years ago. Dr. McDonald camne to the parish from Newark, N. J.. and was origimally from the diocese of Cloyne, Cork, Ire ladd. He is a highly educated man, has travelled wtdoly, and it is said has once or twice been in ecclesiatical trouble. He had stated to Father Hill, it Is said, that he had snffered kom sof tening of the brain. ~Ie is of p~owerful oflysique, weghing obou.- :50 pounds. Dr-. Mce Donald had oee-~ apointed by Father HIul to ce!e bra:c Miss a' 10 o'clcck and also the High M4ass at 11. During the erlebratino of thc forrmer the whorship pers i'em ai azad to see Dc.McDonald approaca Fal~her Hill, who -drared to asit, a, the -: lebration, and strike him . violent blow, felling the pas.tor to the firr. Before Father Hill could arise Dr. Mc Donald camec to the chancel rail, and, gesit:cul-aties wildiy. exclaimed that there had been a consiracy between Father Hill and Bishop Mc~hnald to drive him fro - 'e ((iocese. He then turned and anin a:saulted Father Hidl. Te pashioniers linally rushed forw.ard and beid him untal the arrival of otlicers. He wa:. subsequently, taken to St. Pe> er's H 'spital ior treatment in charge of an fflcer. Is is said that he had been notuiled th'rouJh the Bishop's secretary that he would not be madc a rregular priest cf the diocese, and, this fact wied upoa his mind. He has many friends who believe him to be insane. Munr'ter or an &med Couple. KNOXVILLE. TENN. Feb. 9.-Henry inoder: v, airea 9:i, and his wile, agen 70, were murdered on To;ursday night, abiut 8 o'cloc'k, aion County, eigh teen miles irom Kucxville. The ne-.s of tragedy reac a this place about noon. Te Old man w 's ver-y wealthy -.nd was imown to have a lar'e sum of monev concealed about ius bouse. E1s grand Sea liying with 'b l bad octzion to go on an errard to' ue mi l net~r by. He opened the dr and saw t' > masked men on iLhe ou .de armed: wi'lh revol vers. He sp-:.n.: back, but a vodasy was Srd and San derly hell dead. A::other was fired and Mrs. Sncdeily was killed. Te burg ars covered the young man with their pistols and ordered him to nd his grandfaither's money. The boy pulled the drawers out of the bureau ar-d emtied them iu the bed. Fanding an opportunity while ihey were searching or the money he s prang out ot the door ecaped to alarmn then neighborhood. Af tse 'carchi or the house the burglary s e- two hiae noree and escatped in thy diec'o' Oi Knox'ie. It :s said the ecu ed only S:NjO. No accure :e descrip t 'In c-u-i de on tiC accunt of the ms3,.l-. t he robrer were trailed to w. jave~ -nles r' K:r:,:-i:'e. It u, bs ie- tre,- wcr" ett ir-n and may be concale na -m -re arund here- Trhe po1tee ud a leree oi depuu4 sheriffs are Thi-ty Were Fc.z, KANSAS Cr, Mo., Feb.13.-Raports receiveo nere today from Oklahoma and the Indian Territory make it al most certain that at least thirty lives were iCst during the great storm of Suna. ny i'oled honesteads, were the 1drniiis were poriy prepared for the wauter,eaot be h-ard from days, and poser y wet km, andi toere is reason to believe- that tnirty will not represen t the total number of the dead. In Western and Southwestern Katns:ts there was fire-at suffering ai it is prob Iable that in more than one house dead dis will some day be found. The worst of the stormn was over in the Missouri valley tu..y, and as it is growing warmer and is cloudy it is not uoliaelv ta. t he sno w will be melt ed sudeny causing floods in many KO..B NOMINATED. Will Opp i!e I the Danmocratic Nominee A Strange Mi ure. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 8.-The State convention of the Jeffersonian, Democrats or Kolbites and tn; People's party was held here to-day and a fall State ticket nominated to oppose the regular Democratic ticket. The People's party held their State convention this morning at the Winnie Davis Wigwam. A. Longshore presid ed as chairman. An invitation was received from tne Kolbites to join them in their conventioa. It was accepte' but not without some disesisions The People's party adopted a plit form which endorses the Omaha plat form dechring for an income tax. de mands a free ballot and a tair count and opposes the repeal of the 10 per cent tax on Stniee banks. At. noon the K ilbite delegates cane into the hall and the two conventions combined into one. Judge Zeli Gaston of Butler County was mAde perm inent chairman. The following State ticke-t was no-mi nated: For Governor, Reuben F. Kolb of M--ntgomery; for Seeretary of Sate J. C.Fonvi;e cf Crenshaw County; for Auditor, W. F. B. Lynch of Maeon County; for Treasurer, T. K. Jones of Hale County; for Superintendent or Education, J. P Oliver of Tallajoosa County; for Attorney General, Warran Reese of Montgomery. Captain KAlo, when he came for ward to accept the nomination, was greeted with loud applause, whica con tinued for several minutes. Heread a speech in which he denouncea the ID uocravy una reiterated all his grievai ces against that party from : he bolted two years ago. He was follow ed by P. G. Bowman, J. C. Manning and others who spoke in the same strain The convention adj;urned until 7 o'clock to-night, wnen it reconvened and adopted a platform. The attend ance was much smaller than had been expected. The following is the platform adopt ed at to-night's meeting: 1. We demand a free vote and an honest count. 2. We demand the passage of a con test law for State officers. 3. We demand the free coinage of gold -ttd silver on the basis of 113 to 1. 4. We demand the expansion of the circulating medium to $50 per cspita. 5. We protest against tue coatro' of the circulating median by corporate er.m erp-is. G. We demand a tariff for revenue and tnat the revenue necessary to meet the expenses of the goverenment be raised so far as possibl by a tariff on importatiot-s aLd that this tariff be 8) levied as to protect the laborer in the mines, the mills, the shops and on the farms, and tneir products, against the labor of foreign countries. 7. We demand a national graduated inc.)me tax on salaries or incomes in excess of reasonable expenditures of the comforts and necessities of life. 8. We favor more lit eral educational i ac'ities for the masses and a better and more efficient aministration of the school laws. 9. We demand that the convicts shall be removed from the mines. 10. We demand that the present lien laws be so amended as to give miners the same benefits accordtd to other laborers and the enactment of such laws as will seaura to t.aen payments of wages in lawful money semi-month ly. 11. We favor the creation of the office of zstate inspector of weights and meas ures. the election of mine inspectors and 'the inhibition of woraing children under 13 years of age in the mines. 12. We favor the development of our materal resources and the upbuilding of indnstrial enterpries and to that end, wve invite thes investment of capital, pledging the enactment of such laws as will afford encouragement and protection to all legitimate invest ments. -The Sheriff Killed. WHARTON, TEXAs, Feb. 9.-News has just come to town that Sheriff Eamilton DL)ckson was killed above town at S o'.zlock. In company' with Sheriff Townsend, of Columbus and D-pnties Hope, Hearatt and Wells they had lozated Braddock, the murderer of Constable Townsend at Weimar, While entcring a thicket on the east side of the river, about three miles below Rancho Grando. Braddock was sudden ly discovereC' He began dring at close quarters upon Sheirff Dickson. who was killed instantly. Immediately one of ibr3 posse made abort work of Braddock. The murderer was shot and killed in an instant. Mr. Dickson wasmarried only a isw weeks ago. Braddcck, the dead desperade. had been arrested for train robbery and killing two negroes, but relea ed. A tew weeks ago he was put, oft an exccrsicn train and fired into it, for which he was locked up at Weimar When Constable Townsend went to feed him Braddcck cut him to pieces and escaped. Constable Hearaitt returned at 10 o'.clock to-night. He reports tnat when H. H. Moore, who had been hind ing Braidack, was called on to surren der hec fired on the officers, but without effect. They returtied the fire, killing Moore. The negro who has been sup plying Braldock with food was branght in and juiled. Dastiloas Storm. BERILN, Feb. 13.-Reports of loss of life and damage to property by yester day's stormicontinued to be received from all parts of the country. Among the many dispatch received, giving de tails of the storm, is one from Ride brg, a small town in Saxony, one from Penzlin3, in M.ecklenburg Schewerin, one from Rintein, in Hesse-Nassau, and one from Son tier burg, onthe south west side of Island sf Alsen, in the Bailic. At Readeburg, a scaffolding upon which a number of men were working was blown down and four of the workmen were instantly killed. Some of the other :men who tell with the scaffolding were injured. At Pen zlin, a hocuse was blown down and all the inmates were burieci in the ruins. Seven children were either crushed to death or scaff.>cated.. At Vintelr, the talchimney ot the stove and glass works was :?own over, Some of the bricks struck three persons, killing them instantly. At Sonderburg, a bridge collapsed and several persons who we:e ona it wer keilled. Robbers. COLUM3BIA. S. C., Feb. 9-Last night about 10 o'clock a trio of regro vagabonds forcibly emtered a colo:ed tenant's house on the farm of General Hampon, about four and onebalf miles trom Columbia, and, at the point of a pistol, nie was made to give up all of the ratons he had in his house. They then marched him out and made him go with tem to the residence of Miss Hampton. There they broke into the store acuse and appropriated many things such as clothing anid groceries. From there, not ~e-g saustied with booty obtained, they came back a mile up the road and brok~e into tae store house of Col. John Has kll. While there a white man on the place dicovered them and nered up~on them, but they made their escan~e. The supposition is they belong to the lot of new negroes who -have come hete in the hope o1 getting worik at the new miil when it commences business.-Journntl. Baited. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Fe.:i 14. Juttcs Giliespie rendered a decisioa to day in the preliminary trial of George N.- Henson, charged with the murder of Jacob B. Wert. The justice admitted the defendant to bail, placing :Lbe bond at $10 000. The banker promptly exe oted the bond and was released from QUAIN LY EXP-ESSD. Libon .Alllabke!' DZ i " - 1 e btand and Gives Same, Advic,. Editor Columbia Register: Lisbon Alian-e at the regr.ar meeting, on FebruarY 10. passed -%o sets ot reso lations, and requested that a copmy of each be sent to the Rigister for publi cation. Tney are as fcilows: Whereas, certain self-constituted leaders, who are not Democrats, are undertkinP.g to !ake charge of and c.)n trol the Rf4orm movem'nt in S.uth Carolina, and wheieas we, the mei bers of the All e as well as Demo crats, promised tte -p-pe of this State in 1890, that we would not disrnpt or destroy the Democratic party, and up on which the Mflaoiiaery of the party was allowed to be !ven to u-: no therefore be it res-ived by tbe Lis-i Ailiance: First, That ,ve meaa no personal disrepect or want of alle-lance to th'e principles of the Allituce when we boldly proclain tia; no third party man or Repubm. whether he is au Allirncemau or not, or the e.sitor of the Aliliice organ or n,., need at tempt to leal us into revait ag cmst the Democratic party of this nation or State, and we protest as honest men and Democrats againsr any Interfer ence in our factional movement from either Editor Bjwden or any man who is not fully ideatitied with the D1mo cratic party of the country. Second, To:tt we fully endorse the :gree nent as to the ca-!ing of a March conventi n entered mto between Go - ernor Tdilman and Senator Irby, and will follow th:-ir ieo! becaue w. know that. they i:wa bee.a true anl honest Rteformers, and no wan who is outside of the Democr -.lc party or who afli'i ates with ,ur opponents shall receive our countenance or support. Tuis is plain language but we mean what we say. Whoreas sime little men of large ambitions,desirlan to bring themselves into nonice, have been a little too pre vious by assuming to speak (from Wright's 1otel) for the people and to cal! on a gentleman (whose political eyesight ias failed him, coosequently ne h4:s l0st the Reform paths) to call a Marchi couventioi, therefore be it re solved: First, That March is rather early to set out a gubernatoral pi:. , as only one March drawinge -v;' matirei: S econd,That we uoify - ii pli.icnins and would-be le iders ;t hat the p.ople are 'going to take a hand in seiecting their public servants this ye ar.. Third, ..at the pople had better bi consul.-d b, fore a'y of their true lead ers are asked to take a b:ick seat. Fourtn, We would dvise the politi cians to be caref al ho.v and what kird of a slate they make,' as the people, being naturally c!umsy, wouly be apt to smash it. Fifth, We would notify would-he leaders that the farmers are atteading to the skimming of the political sor ghum, and have done some efficient skiwming in the past and wil rcontinne to skim until they have the Durearticle Sixth, We would advise the antis not to rejoice too mah over the treachery of a fewsci-called Reformers, for they shouid remember that te miiin school of fisL keep in the rau of the channel, and only the skipjic'is get into sluodi waters, mate a sp!atter and are taKen in by hawkS. W. L. CuvX.NorIIAM, President. A. R. HOLMES, Secretary. Lisbon, Laureus 0-unay. Feb.10, 1891. A Prehaatoric Ciay. . MAPI3I, MEX. Feb 16 -Malvern W. Cieswotth, an English mining man, well known throughout Southwest Mexi co., arrived litre to day io a bag over lend journey through the Sierra Madre Mountains, bis starting po~nt being Cubicin, near the Pacific coast, in the State of Sinaloa. He claims to have visited a section ot country never before visited by a white man of the present generation, and [hat he discovered a large. and beautiful deserted city. He states th t the wonderful city is situated about eighty miles west oi Lake Colorado, in toe very recesses of the Sierra Madres. It occupies a basin about ten miles long by eight miles wide. Perpendicular cliffs suirround the basin on all sides, rising to a height oi hundreds of feet. The only entrance to the city is thrcugh a deep can yon, which has a width of about 30 feet. Mr. Cresworth states that he stumabled otn to the secret entrance quite be e cident. He glves a vivid cescription *a the deserted city. The buildings, he says, are construnted cf reditone blocks. resembling granite. The busitness b oc ks are two and three stories in height, and are entirely differer.t in- archiEctural1 design from the structures budlt by the Aztecs and Spaniards. Tne strt e~s are very narrow, but are laid cut in regular order. In the city is a small park, which is overgrown with rare l.)wers and tropical vegetation. He entered the business houses and decavice residences, but found very little or value except omne remnarkable and strange ornamemts made of stone. He believes that the city was looted at the time that it was de serted^ whenever that may have been. No records or writings of any kind were ound, not did he see any elseeton that wou:d give an ioma as to the race ofpeo pie who it one time r.uhabited the city. Nooc of the n-atives of that section of country had ever heard of the deserted city. M-. Cr~eswortha is making ailigent inquiry of thiem. Mr. Cresworth's story is very startliue ami remarkable, bout it is bel'ved by taose to whom he has related his expediences, He will orgr anize an expedition to make a thorough eploration of the city. WILKES.BARR~E, Pas., Feb. 13.-An ex tensiv-- eave in cecuredJ at the Gaylord mine of tne Kmigston Coal Comnpany at Piymouth this moarning. A large num ber of mninero and laborers wvere at work under a secuon oi th rool' which has bor some time beon con:..iered weak without ony warnvg w~aever, the roif, consisting of roc and coal, fell int. It is not known as yet whether any~ of the men were killed outright, but it is kiow.3 that thirteen or them are hemmed i 'in one of th:: gangwaiys. Te air supply io no shat off and the chauce of living for :my length of t im e is very smnai!. An army of rescuers are hard at was k trying to reach thae en tombed men. The relatives of the men shut in the mine are gathered about the place and their lamantations are pitiful. The s-ctioo ot th~e mniue, in wbi -h the~ men are imprisoned, is a poion of the Baltimore veio, which at this point is very tnick, and they were engaged in placing IlArge timers as a prop aud support for the roof. T.o 0 an~y Wives. JACKSONVILLE, F':, Feb. 13.-A sne~ to tne l'imes-Union fromn ) ala Fia., says: S-veral rmonths' ag ; r Jnkmis of Valdosta, G.A ,-lope I wir 4 young womfl:1. at that pi, cesertta~g his wife andi tbos. Jenklus and ]i~s paramo-ur cm to Lee Weir, Fa., were they paes:d as Mr. and Mr:,. Denkins. Detiuis soon deserted the young woman and camel to Ocala. where he ingratiatea himself into the affections of Miss Myra Frencher, a higly respected youug lay, and mar red her. Toduv~ Denkene, A~is ,Jenkins was recognized by a sen'.emfan f~' m Videsta, and be immaediamy~ !bd. I -. latest wife has swvorni on a wara fo bigamay. ST. Louis, Fe b. 14.-A dispatcii fromt Oklahoma, .1.T., sass that sevenf Per SOnS were founu dead in a bouse tiere It is reported thait their titrears were cut, and that the father of trx viie.i.us left a note saving he had murdereu ris family to keep> them from freeziug to death, adding that he would commit suicde. The dispatch says thatt 20 per sns ha fro-n to reath in Oulahoinla Sqtic(z i the Evmer Som, Mores Thcse who would like to see the Unit ed States ngricultrial department abol ighed and the appropriations for the state experiment stations cut off ought t o investigate the service these agencies hive done for the farmer before they air the;r opinions. Becaiuse the farmers cannot be on hand at Washington to lobby loud mouthed for their own pro tection they are the ones who are left every time in legislation. The very irs, recommendation, therefore, in the direction of economy in legislation naturally is this: Cut down the agricul rural department and the experiment stations. OA, yes, of course! The farmer can raise- pork and potatoes and get eno-trh to eat in any case. What need has a clodhopper for anything more than pork and potatoes? There fore squeeze him. Meantime,however rtasonable, fair minded legislators wio are w)Iling to do justice all around may be reminded that among recent services of the agricultural stations is that of analyzing so called fertilizers on the market and exposing and weed ing out a number of cancerns that were fatening by imposing worthless com pounds on the ruralist. Yet another service of the stations has been the ex perimenting with scientific precisions on the best foods for animals. They have envolved a ration for the dairy cow, for instance that enables her to produce consi derably more and better milk and butter than the cow of a generation ago did. EconomizB on some of the elegant and ornamental individ. als of leisure that loaf arounds Washington with th6ir names on the payrolls of the department if you will; but let the f-rmer's poor little appropriation stand HtI gets precious litte anyhow. Econ omivze if you like on some of the horses and carriages that are kept at govern ment expense for government officials' wives and daughters to go calling in. That would be in the interests of gen uine ecominy and reform. The expri ment stations have practically abo - ed the chinch bug and the potato bag, they have saved mollions of dollars by introducing fruit spraying, and they are rapidly finding out jast what are the best varieties of fruit, vegetables cereals and live stock for every section of this great country. They are show ing what insects are injurious to the farmer and how to get rid of them. The Rep ablilcans E-sponsible. What party is responsible for the general depression? The Republican s:.y it is caused by the "threat" of the Wilson bill, and the consequent appre hei+nsion of its impairmeat of the in dustries of the country. But the De mocrats confidently say that it would have been the same if Mr. Harrison had been re-eledted in 1892. That the whold trouble is the legitimate result of bad legislation and extravagant methods of the Republican party. They protest that when Mr. Cleveland went out of office he left one-hundren million dollars in the Treasury, an that when Mr. iarrison went out he leffran empty Treasury. That the Democratic party therefore took the government in this condition and find it hard to lift the panic. No better description of the condition can be given by Mr. Martin of Indiana. He says: "I say here and now it is my deliberate judgement that even had the campaign of 1832 been different In its results, had Benjman hrrison, of the State of Indiana, been re elected, to-day and to-night a Repub lican maj'rity upon that side of the House would have been confronted wih the same condition of bankraptsy which now exists or is said to exist in or national Treasury. This deficiency has not come by virtue of Democratic legislation. Tue "necessary result" did not come in 1888 under Democrat ic legislation. N~o; in neither ono case nor the other can whatever of harm, whatever of wrong out of this measure be laid to the charge of the Democrat ic party. It is ~a Republic legacy brought upon us by means of legisla tion which that party fastened upon the statue books, and the bad effect of which, so far as they are the result of that legislation, are now felt by the American people." These reasons, here~ in couched, seem to be reasonable, and doubtless the result came more as the result of bad legislation than from fear of tariff renovatioD. starts Out Naked. BosToN, Feb. 15-"Paul Jos," a name assumed by one of the Boston Athletic club, who, on a wager, is going to circumnavigate thb globe, starting wthout money or clothes, has made his start from the Boston Press club. By the terms of the bet he must circle the earth, and he will not be permitted to beg, borro w or steal. "-Jones's" clothes were apptalsed by the committee, and he returned to as- room where he dis robed in the presence of as many mem bers of the club and visitors as cared to pay him 5 cents eachr. After undress ng, he sent oat and bought with money he had taken In 11cents worth of paper out of which he ingeniously made him self a suit of clothes for temporary use. Later in the evening he sold this suit at auction to a retail merchant for 5. He then went to the redig roomf of the club, where he gave a shor6 en tertainment-he is something of a gen ious-and here again he charged an ad mssion fee of 5 cents. By this time he had money to buy back his under clothes, which he did. In giving his entertainment he had occasion to use a few trivial articles, which he hired, frcm the steward of -the club- He. gave another entertainment at the club and from the proceeds bought himself a suit of clothes. He was treated seir eral times41aring the night, and a num ber of cigars were given him. Those he turned into cash whenever he cosld tnd a buyer. He goes from here to New York where he hopes to ea some money before teaving for lng and. _________ hturdered sy his Sons. MOBILE, Ala., Feb. 14.-A special to the Rlegister from St. Stephen's Ala., says old Ras Rodgers of the Keenton neighborhood, Washington County, disppeared on January 28. When in qury was made his sons. Allen, aged 18, and Benjamin, aged 15, said he had one to Texas. The boys had consid etble monY which they spent freely. T is aroused suspicion, and a searcn of the premises resulted in finding Rodg-, -rs' corpse in a shallow grave under te kitchen iloor. Blood on the walls of the bed room showed where the murder had been committed. An ini quest was held and a verdict rendered tnat the death was caused by blows from au axe by parties unknown, but Allen and Benjamin were arrested and held without bail charged with killing their father. They were lodged in jail at St. Stephen's today. The guards say at n tne way to jail Ben confessed tht when the murder was committed le w as in the yard. havmng gone there to: escape seeing the dee.d done. He heard the iat:a1 biows and beard his father groi three times. Returning anp :tiiug his father dead he asked Allen wy ne ha-: kidled him, and Allen re pied there was notning else to do, as ros father had threatened to do him up. if h dia not by next morning find the e w plough line he had lost. TnrE Columbia State says: '"The Demcrats have a majority of about 80 vtes over the Republicans and P'opu liss c-ombined In the House of Repre s-ntaiveis.yet dayr after day this ma jricappears and the time which t he peoote pay for to be devoted to their srvice Is wasted in "calls of the Ious-." and tedious efforts to drag in a (girum. What becomes of the major n ? What bustaess can they have so important as attendanhe on the ses sion of the House ? With a majority so large, the Democrats of the House should not be without a quorum one hour. The evil of absenteeism is gro w ing, and it is time to check it. The Democratic press should see to it that the work-dodgers in Congress are held in e-nsnnii lity." some Cotton History. A hundred years ago the total cotton crop of the South amounted to 20,000 bales. For years prices ruled high, in 1801 bringing 44 carts a pound. The profit was so great that production was continually stimulated and the yield outgrew the demand until the price fell to 13% cents in 1839. In 1840 there was another decline to 9 cents and low prices prevailed until 1846 when the average price was 5.63 cents, the lowest average price ever known to the cotton trade. Even in 1891 92, when the crop was 9,035,000 bales. after the disastrous failure of tte Barings, so long English kings of the money market, the aver age at New York was 7.50 cents, nearly 2 cents higher than in 1846. Then the seed were without money value, but now they add about a cent a pound to the price. In 1847 the crop was short and cotton rose to 8, but feli back to 7% cents. The increase in yield in the ast seven years has been unprecedented. In 1884 5 the South made 5,700,000 bales, in 1891-2 she gathered over 9 million, an increase of nearly 60 per cent. The rest of the world cannot manufacture it as fast as the South makes it. The two last crops have fallen off from the enormous yield of 1891-2, and the sur plus stock is being worked up. If a small crop is made this year a fair price will be realized. In 18 years- the cotton crop of the South has sold for $5,700,000,000, but very little of that im mense sum has been ciear prodt to the raiser. Daring all that time the South era people have been hard at work, trying to make money with which to buy everything that they need to eat and to wear, in sickness and in health, from the cradle to the coffin. Our folks have been toiling in the burning sun for the stock raiser and wheat grower of tne West and the manufac turer and merchant of the East. On the new schedule of making a living first and money after, the Southern farmers are in the right direction to prosperity. It Is as straight as an air line and if they keep in the middle of the road they will get ont of all of their troubles, to wonder why they were so short sighted so long. We clip the above article from the Alliance depart ment of the Barnwell People. Vast Plot Unearthed. PAims, Feb. 15.-It is belitved now that the outrage committed by Emile Henry at the cafe of the Hotel Terminus on Monday nig' 1, when twenty-four Der sons were injured by the explosion of a bomb thrown by him, was a part of a vast anarchist conspiracy. It is thought that the plot was prepared in London and that twenty-three men, among them Henry, were assigned to execute the outrues. Henry has confessed that he held communication with Dr. Paul Rat clas, for whom the police have been looking for along time in conseqaence of his alleged connection with Vaillant. Judge Meyer, the examining magistrate, has been ques..ioning Emile Henry all dav. The prisoner retused to reply to the questions regarding his acquantances in England and declined to give any de tals of his sojonrn in that country. He also refused to tell where be had resided since he came to Paris. He said: "It is useless for you to question ms. I will not anwser you." When he does speak en any sabject he expresses himself calm ly, but he has again assumed his reti cent air and all eforts to work informa tion out of him have failed. It has been learned that he was one of the best pu pus at the Paris College. He won scholarships given by the city of Paris. His tutors ay that he gave every satis taction as a pupil and that he always stood fiest in the mathematical class. He passed a written exsamiaation at the Polytechnic School :and some tims af terward went to Venice, where he we employed as an assistant on important engineering works. He quairelled about his payment for those ser -ices and giv ing up his position, returned to Paris, where he secured a clerkship. La Patrie says that the bomb thrown by Henry was loaded with nitric acid and chlorate powder, which formed a most dangerous combination. The paper says it was a miracle that the bomb did not explode while Henry was carryig it. What WIU Become of P ui. JAf350ON. MIss., Feb. 14.-Attorney General Johnston, in the name of the State, has made a motion in the Su preme Court in the case of Will Parvis to have the question settled in order to have a new sentence passed either by the Supreme Court or Circuit Court, as the Supreme Court may see proper to determine. The motion wf il be present ed to the Supreme Court -aext Monday. Section 3467 provides that the sen tns of the Supreme Court in all crim inallecases brought before it shall be ex ected in like manner as if passed by the court in which the prosecution or iginated, while Section 1451 provides that the mode and manner in whch the Circuit Court may resentence a convict wher. the convict has not been executed according to the original jaidgment of the court, ond this , provides that the convict shall be brought before the Cir cuit Court on a writ of habeas corpus. The question which aries is whether this case, in which the sentence was not executed by the sheriff was prono unced by the Supreme Court and where the sheriff was acting tinder the man date of the Supreme Court, comes within the terms of Section 1451 and whether it is a case proper for the Cir cuit Court to award the new sentence. The whole matter can be readily de termined on this motion by the 6u preme Court and the proper direction ivyen by the court in the premises. Ex ansted inquiry confirms the belief heretofore telegraphed that Purvi will be dealt with under Section 1451, Code of 1802, that the Supreme Court has nothng to do with the case and that it will be so stated. Driven by Desperation JACKsoNVILLE, Fla., Feb; 9.-This morning Capt. W. F. Blake. of the schooner Annme E. Chase, loading at Fernandina with lumber, placed a pis tol to his forehead and biew out his brains. The cause of the suicide was a costliy niistalke made by the captain. A few days ago he delive.-ed a cargo of raikoad iron valued at over $6,000 to a irm of contractors at Trader's Hill. Ga., without shipper's orders, when they were shipped with the specification that they were to be deliver ed only upon ship. per's orders. The concern to which the mi were delivered broke a few days later and went ~into the hands of a re ceiver. The Smith-Kilby R alltoad Sup ply Company of Anniston, Ala., which shipped the iron, -litehied the vessel at Fernandisa last night to save itself from loss, and confronted by financial ruin, the captain suicided as above related. Captain Blake was a resident of Rosier4 Maine. _________ Mn. S. S. TURNER, who has just been elected to the House of Representa tives in the 7th Congressional district of Virginia to succeed Governor O'Fer ral, had once an escape from death lit tle short of the marvelious. He was a Confederate soldier, after the evacua tion of Richmond, with four other men, climbed into a box car to sleep. The car had been used to transport powder, and every creviee in the fijor was filled with the powder dust. In the morning one of the men, after lighting his pipe, threw the burning end or the match lhe bad used, on the floor. Instantly there was an explosion which killed all out Mr. Turner. He was terrioly injared, and lay for weeks in almost mortal ag ony, for opium or other narcotics were not to be had. He recovered finally, but bears still the marks of the acci dent. Of the torture he endured he cannot even at thsis y be induced to speakr