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THE GLAD NEW YEAR. Webave watched the old year dyingit, We have fe;t it icy breath, We heard the w;nid chant sadly The requiem at it- de-. Within our hearts we count the time. So vei y poor are we, So little do we feel tie reach Of our eternity. We look and, 1o afar doth stretch The vision of a year. We see asain the violets blo winig And to the iiSteniug ear Is borne the chirping of ie robiris, And w e kvow the cladsomn sprit Will conie again with all her treasures, And flowers and ,unshine brimg. And so irtwine the violets and holly With the coming of the year. The violets sveak of springtime, f-he holly Chri!tiuas cheer. Then begin the journey onward Knowing naugt-t of fear. Keeping sunshine in the heart Throughout the glad New Year. BRICE ADMITS HE'S BUYING. One of the Senators Who Does Not Share the Stock Scare. WASHVNGToN, Dec.. 2,.-The heavy buying orders which poured frow Washington into Wall street vesltr day, as announced exclusively im The World, were not from senators and representatives alone. There is no city in the country where a *good thing" is so quick ly recognized by the general public as in Washington. Hundreds of Government Clerks and business men, who for years have kept closely in touch with Treasury operations and the movement of mar kets, were alert and buying. The heavy operators at the Capitol, of whom Senator Brice, Senator Jones, of Nevado, and Senator Cameron are the most conspicuous examples, plact their orders directly in New York by wire, and not through Washingtor brokers. As a rule they are reticeu about their financial transactions, bu yesterday witnessed an exception t< the rule, and there was a free expres sion of opinion that the opportunity for investment was of the kind tha1 happens not oftener than once in five years, and that they were utalizing i to the limit. Senatqr Brice did not hesitate to ac knowledge the part he was taking He even seemed to think that he wa: doing a patriotic and public service in coming to the support of the markel by buying. "Yes," said he "I am buying, and I reckon a good many others are, not only here, but all over the country." A well known . Eastern senator whose face is familiar in Wall street, said tonight: "There hasbeen aheavy buying movement, not only fron Washington, but from elsewhere. ] see signs, too, that the small investors have been buying stocks outright, not fora temporary speculation, but with a longer purpose. The opportunity i of the sort which thousands recognize and take advantage of. "If on January 1 you could examine the books of the hundreds of savings banks in New England, New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania you would find that their deposits had shrunk millions of dollars. I speak advisedly. That money will have goneintostocks where wise heads have taken advanta.ge of weak ones. It is .strange but true that the weak heads are generally the professional specu lators who got scared, while the wise heads of people who donot know what the inside-of a stock exchange looks like, but who have faith that common sense will never permit a war between Great Britain and the United States.' There is a bi Western cattle raisex in Coiigress. No one would dream that he knew anything about puts and calls margins, bulls or bears. A World correspondent asked him yes terday about the Beef Trust. Don'1 know and don't care," he said. "I'm too bhs buying railroad stocks. This "s a cinch" and he rushed for the tele graph office. A California senator, commlentmn2 on the unexplainable vagar'ies of speculation, referred to the decline ol Pacific Mail from 32 to 21 during the scare. "What arrant nonsense," said he. "That stock has fallen on the thoythat in case of war the com poysbusiness would be smashed. Ye t isertain that in the event ol hostilities the Government would buy every Pacific Mail Steamer it could get and pay a big price for them ai The general opinion of the specula' tive contingnt at the Capitol is tha1 there may bestill further fluctuations, but over a narrowing range, and that before the week is over the tide will turn and move strongly upward. New York World. Defeats AU Competitors. WAsINGTON, Dec. 26.-Secretary Herbert today formally awarded tc the Newport News Company of Vir ginia the contract for building both of the new battleships for one of which the Union Iron Works of San Francisco was a competitor. The award of the contract has given the Secretary great concern for the reason that he desired if possible to meet the intent of Congress that one ship should be built upon the Pacific Coast, and he has made it the subject of a .special report to the President, so how he was absolutely obl' ythe law to make the award to teNewport News Company. In this report Secretary Herbert says that theboard of bureau chiefs recommend ed the rejection of the Cramps' bids based on their individual plans; which recommendation he approved. He says: "The bids upon the pates' 'TanS were as folos Cramp & Sons, one ship, $2 820.000: t wo ships. $2,750,000 each. Union Iron Works, one ship, $2,740,000; two ships. $2, 690,000 each. Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Company, one ship, $2,350,000; two ships, $2, 230,000 each. "It will thus be seen that there is a getdisparity between the bids. Were it not for the~ section of the law appropriating for these ships. which looks to the construction of one of them on the Pacific Coast, there would be no room for argument, and the Newport News Ship Building Compa ny would undoubtedly be entitled te both. The peculiar wording of the law authorizing the construction of these ships, however, has rendered i neceary to examine into .the question very carefully befort reaching a conclusion. The Act re quires that one of the ships shall i> built upon the Pacific coast, subject tc the proviso that if it shall appear tc your satisfaction from the biddimg for the contracts when the same shalh be opened and examined by you tha1 the pronosed battleships cannot be construted at a fair cost upon the Pa cific coast, that is, by the Union Iron Works, you may then authorize the construction of ~such battleships else where, that is to say, by the lowes1 and best bidder--the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry D ock Comr pany. ______ Beginning to ijuake. LONON, Dec. 27. -The Vienna cor respondent of the Daily News says that Spain has already notified thn British Government of its oppositior to President Cleveland, and it is be lieved that the four States, Great Lrn tam, France, Spain and Holland, wil form a quadruple alliance to .protec their American possessions against th United States. A (1iRISTMAS CAROLS REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON CHRIST'S MISSION. Thle World'-; Great Emnaticipators Were of L.owly 1Birti--season of Forbearance and Forgiveness---(ood Will to Men. WASINGTOUN, Dec. 22.--in his ser mon today Dr. Talmage chose the uIni veral thenme of theseason -- the Christ mastide. The text selected was. "Now when ,tesus was born in Beth lehem." Matthew 1i, 1. At mtidnight from one .of the gal leries of tie sky a eiaut broke. To an ordinary observer there was no rea son for such a celestijd demonstra tion. A posor mIIA-r and wife -travel ers, Joseph and Mary by name-had lodged in an ouibtoluse of an lnpor tant villare. The -reme hour of soleiinity d pa-d. ad upon th e pallid forehead and cheek of Mary God had set the dignrity. the Zranldeur, the tenderness, the everlasting and divine signilficance ot notherhood. But such scenes had often occurred in Bethlehem. vet never before had a star been un i xed or had a baton of light marshaled over the hills winged or chestra. If there had been such bril liant and mighty recognition at an advent in the house of Pharaoh, or at an advent in the house of C:esar, or the house of Hapsburg. or the house of Stuart, we would not so much have wondered. but a barn seems too poor a centre for such delicate and archan gelic circumferenrc. The stage seemrrs too small for so great ain act, the musie too grand for such unappr-ciattve au ditors, the window of the stable too rude to be serenaded by other worlds. It is my joy to tell you what was worn thAt night in the villaie barn. and as [ want to inake my discourse accumulative and climacteric I be-'in in the first place by teiling you that that night in the Bethlehem muange, was born encouragement for ali the poorly started. ie had only two friends-they his parents. No satin lined cradle, no delicate attentions. but straw, and the cattle. and tnte coarse joke and banter of the camel drivers. No wouder the midieival painters repres-ut the oxen as kneel inrg before the infant Jesus, for there were no men there at that time to wor ship. From therdepths of that pover tv he rose until today he is honored in ail Christendom and sits on the impe rial throne in heaven. What name is mightiest today in Christendom? Jesus. Who has more friends on earth than any other being? Jesus. Before whom do the most thousands kneel in chapel and church and cathedral this hour? Je sus. From what depths to poverty tc what height of renown: And so let all those who are poorly started re member that they cannot be more poorly born or more disadvantageous ly than this Christ. Let them look up to his example while they have time and eternity to imitate it. Do you know that the vast majority of the world's deliverers had barnlike birthplaces? Luther, the emancipator of religion, born among the pines. Shakespeare, the emancipator of liter ature, born in an humble home at Stratford-on-Avon. Columbus, the discoverer of a world, born in poverty at Genoa. Hogarth. the discoverer of how to make art accumulative and ad ministrative of virtue, born in an humble home in Westmoreland. Kitto and Prideaux, whose keys unlocked new apartments in the Holy Scriptures which had never been entered, born in want. Yes, I have to tell you that nine out of ten of.the world's deliver ers were born in want. I stir your holy ambitions today, and I want to tell you, although the whole world may be opposed to you, and inside and outside of your occu pations or professions there may be those who would hinder your ascent, on your side and enlisted in yotur be half are the sympatnretic heart and the almighty arm of one who one Christ mas nighit about eighteen hundred-and ninety five years ago was wrapped in s waddling clothes and laid in a man ger. Oh, what magnificent encourage ment for the poorly started! Again, I have to tell that in that village barn that night was born good will to men, whether you call it kind ness, or forbearan~ce, or forgiveness, or geniality, or atfection, or love. It was no* sport of high heaven to send its favorite to that hamiliation. It was sacrifice for a rebellious world. After the calamity in paradise, not only did the ox begin to gore, and the adder to sting, and the elephant to smite with his tusk, and the lion to put to bad use tooth and paw, but un der the very tree from which the for bidden fruit was plucked were hatched out war and revenge and malice and envy and jealousy and the whole brood of cockatrices. But against that scene I set thre Beth lehem manger, which says. "Bless rather than curse, endure rather than assault," and that Christmas night puts out vinidictiveness. It says, "Sheathe your sword, dismount your guns, dismantle your batteries, turn the warship Constellation that carries shot and shell into a grainship to take food to famishing Ireland, hook your cavalry horses to the plow, use your deadly gunpowder in blasting rocks and in patriotic celebration, stop your lawsuits, quit writing anonymous let ters, extract the sting from your sar casm, let your wit coruscate but never burn, drop all the harsh words out of or v aoularvy-Good will to men. i,'' you say, "I can't exercise it. I won't exercise it until they apolo gize. I won't forgive them until they ask me to forgive them." You are no Chrisian thenr-I say you. are no Christian, or you are a very inconsis tent Christian. If you forgive not men their trespasses, how can you ex pect your heavenly Father to forgive you? Forgive them if they ask your forgiveness, anid forgive them auxy ho. Shake bands all around- "Good will to men." 0 my Lord Jesus, drop that spirit into all our hearts this Christmas time: I tell vou what tire world wants more than anything else-more hel p ing hands, more sympathetic he-arts. more kind words that never die, more disposition to give other people a ride and to c-arr-y the heavy end of the load and rgive other people the light e-nd, and to aseribe good miotives instead of bad, and to ind our happiness in mnak in others happy. Out of that Betlehem crib let the bear and the lion eat straw like anr ox. "Good will to men." That prineinle will vet settle all controversies, amnd under it the wvorld will keep) ou imli proving until there will be only t wo a.ntagonists in all the earth, and they will side by side take the jubilant sleigh ride "intimated by the prophret wvhen hre said. 'IHoliness shall be err the bells of tire horses Again, I remar-k that born that Christmas nighrt in the village barn was symp)athyx union with other worlds. F-rom that sunuernatural groin~ifg of the cloud banks over Betnleherm andl from the especial trains that ran down-r to the scene I finrd that our world is beautifully and glo r'iousy and magnith-ently surround ed. Tire mieteors ar-e with us, for one of them ran to. a point down to the birthplace. The heavens are wvith us. because at tire tihownrt of our r-edemnp orn they roll L)ufnnas out of the oh, yes, I do n3t know but our world may be better surrounded than we have sometimes imagined, and when a child is born angels bring it, and when it dies angels take it, and when an old man bends under the weight of year.x, angels uphold him. a.d when a heart breaks angels soothe it. Anels in the it ospital to take care of the sick. Angels in the cenetery to wAtcih Our dead. Angels in the church reaiv to lv heavenward with the newsof -epentant souls. Angels above the wordI. Angels under the world. Angels all around the world. itub the dust of human imperlee tiou out of your eves and look into the heavens and see anigels of pity, angels of mercy, angels of pardon, angels of help, angels crowned, angels charioted. The world defended by ang.is, girdled by angels, cohorted by anels -clouds of angels. Ifear David elrv out, "The chariots of God are 2O,0('1, even thousands of angels." But the mightiest angel stood not that night in the clouds over Bethlehem: the inightiest angel that night lay among the cattle-the angel of the new covenant. As the clean white linen was being wrapped around the little form of th.i child enineror, not a cherub, not a se raph, not an angel, not a world but wept aid thrilled and shouted. Oh, yes, our world has plenty of sympa thizers: Our world is oily a silver round of a great ladder at the top of which is our Father's house. No mere solitariness for our world, no other friendless planets spun out into space ti) free:.. but a world in the bosom of divine martternitv. a star harnessed to a manger. Again. I remark that that night born in that village barn was the of fender's hope. Some sermonizers may say I ought to have projected this thought at the beginning of the ser ioa. Oh, no! I wanted you to rise toward it. I wanted you to examine the. carLelians and the jaspers and the crystals before! i .howed vou the Ko hinoor-the cro wn jewel' of the ages. Oh. that jewel had a very poor setting! Tne cub of bear is bora amid the grand old pillars of the forest, the whelp of lion takes its first step from the jungle of luxuriant leaf and wild ilower, the kid of goat is born in cav ern chandeiiered with stalactite and oillared with stalagmite. Christ was born in a bare barn. Yet that nativity was the offender's hope. Over the door of heaven are writtea these words, "None but the sinless mav enter here." On, horror," you say. "that shuts us all out." No. Christ came to the world in one door and he departed through another door. He came through the door of the manger, and he departed through the door of the sepulcher, and his one business was so 'o wash away our sin that after we are dead there will be no more sin about us than about the eter nal Gid. I know that is putting it strongly, but that is what I under stand by full remission. All erased, all washed away, all scoured out, all gone. That undergirdling and over arching and irradiating and impara dising possibility for x ou, and for me, and for the whole race-that was giv en that -hristmas night. Do you wonder we bring flowers to day to celebrate such an event? Do you wonder that we take organ and youthful voice and queenly soloist to celebrate it? Do you wonder that Raphael and Rubens and Titian and Giotto and Ghirlandajo, and all the old Italian and German painters gave the mightiest stroke of their genius to sketch the Madonna, Mary and her boy? Oh: now I see what the manger was. Not so high the gilded and jew eled and embroidered cradle of the Henrys of England, or the Louis of France, or the Fredericks of Prussia. Now I find out that that Bethlehem crib fed not so much the oxen of the stall as the white horses of Apocalyp tic uision. Now I find the swadling clrthes enlarging and emblazoning into an imperial robe for a conqueror. Now I find that the star of that Christ mas night was only the diamonded sandal of him who hath the moon un der his feet. Now I come to under stand that the music of that night was not a completed song, but only the stringing of the instruments for a chorus of two words, the bass to be carried by earthly nations saved, and the soprano by kingdoms of glory won. Oh, heaven, heaven, heaven:! I shall meet you there. After all our imper fections are gone I shall meet you there. I look out today through the mists of years, through the fog that rises from the cold Jordan, through the wide open door of solid pearl to that reunion. I expect to see you there as certainly as I see you here. *What a time we shall ave in high converse, talking over the sins pardoned, and sorrows comforted, and battles tri umphtant: Some of your children have already gone, and though people passing along the street and seeing white crape on the doorbell may have said, "It is only a child," yet when the broken hearted father came to solicit my service he said, "Come around and comfort us, for we loved her so mucn." What a Christmas morning it will make when those with whom you used to keep the holidays are all around you ini heaven: 'Silver haired old father young again, and mother who had so man y aches and pains and de crpitudes 'well again, and all your brothers and sisters and the little ones. How glad they will be to see you: They have been waiting. The last time ther saw y our face it was cover ed with 'tears :Imd distress, and pallid from long watching, and one of them I can imagine today, with one hand holding fast the shining gate, and the other hand swung out toward you, saying: Steer this way, father, steer' straight fore nm:. Ihere safe in heaven I am waiting for thee. Oh, thes~e Bethlehema angels, when they went back after the concert that niuht over t he hills, forgot to shut the door: No more use of trying to hide from us the glories to come It is too ate to shut thme gate. It is blocked wide open with hosannas marchinog this way and halleliuahs marching that wa'y. lIn the splendor of the an; ticiuation1 feel as if I was dying-not phi sicallv, for 1 lever was moure well -but in the transport of the Chr-istnmas transiguration. What almost unmans mec is the thought that it is provided for' such sinm ers as v'ou and 1 have been. If it had been provided only for those xho had always thought right and spoken right and acted right, you and I would have hail no ini terest in it. had no share in it. You and I would have stuck to the raft mridocean and let the ship sail by crrying perifect passengers fronm a per feet life on earth to a p)erfect life in heaven. I ;in I have heard the conmm der of that ship is the sanme great and glorious and sympathetic one who hushed the temipest around the boat on Galilee, and J have heard that all the passenlgirs on thre ship are sinners saved by grace. And so we hail the ship, and it be'ars down this way, and we come by thre side of it and ask the captaint two questions: "Wh~o art tou : And whmence:"~ And he says. ''1 am: Captain of savation, and I am fronm the manger."' Oh, bright Citrist mas morning of my soul's delight: Chm all the bells. Merry Christmas: Merry with the thought of sins for given, merry with the idea of sorrows comforted, merry with the raptures to come. Oh, lift that Christ from the mangerand lay him down in all our hearts! We may not bring to him as costly a present as the Magi brought, but we bring to his feet and to the man ger today the frankincense of our joy, the prostration of our worship. Down at his feet, all churches, all ages. all earth. all heaven. Down at his feet, the four and twenty elders on their faces. Down, the "great multi tude that no man can number." Down, Miciael, the archangel: Down, all worlds at his feet and worship. "Glory to God in the highest. and on earth peace, good will to men 'irst of January Resolutions. If vou wish to avoid one fruitful cause of discomfort during the coming year, make a resolution not to grum ble about the weather. Kicking and fault finding never made a hot day cooler or a cold day warmer; but on the other hand, they always intensify the current weather trouble immense ly. If you want to make your husband good natured, resolve to help him to have his own way invariably. He probably will anyhow, and the adop tion and carrying out cf this resolu tion will save a whole lot of trouble. If your wife has got in the habit of asking you for money every day, re solve to make her a regular allowance and then keep your resolution. You'll be as much surprised by the result as she will be by the resolution. . If you have become disheartened by the depravity of your fellow men, re solve to stop thinking about it and try to do a favor every day for some one of them. It will amaze you to see how quickly the world at large will improve your eyes. If the new year finds you clean dis couraged because of a lack of progress in 1,95, review the 12 months careful ly and see if wasted time has not been at the bottom of youi- failures. If it has, resolve to make the minutes count in 1896. A year is made up of min utes, and you cannot well fail to ad vance between New Year's days if you make every minute count. If you have had hard work keeping your New Year's resolutions in the past, resolve this year to make none and to c )nduct yourself in such a way that none will be necessary. Good practice is better than good resolves al ways. Deficient State Laws. RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 24.-Chapter second in the matter of the North Carolina bond coupons, which were yesterday paid by the State Treasurer after they had been cancelled, had its scene in the mayor's office today. A. W. Lawrison, the man who picked up some unburned coupons which had passed through the Treasury chimney, and who had two of them cashed at the Treasu'y, was charged with embezzle ment, but the charge would not stand, so he was discnarged. He was order ed to leave the city immediately. The mayor expressd great regret that there was no law under which he could be held. Lawrison yesterday sent to relatives at Elmira, N. Y., $30 by express. He had a card from the Y. M. C. A. at that place, and he has been at Atlan ta. There was evidence that he had several other coupons in his vest pock et. He said that when the end of the month came the State Treasurer would discover how much he had lost. The police say that several other tramps were with Lawrison, and that these all had coupons. It is believed they cashed several hundred dollars worth of these at nanks and other places. After they picked them up in Uapitol Square yesterday other persons picked up a number of these coupons but 'r turned them to the Treasurer. The matter has created a big sensation here. The Treasurer says he will nev er again be caught in such a way, Of course the loss falls on him. He has given notice to watch all coupons. Attempted suicide. PORTsmoUTH, Va., Dec. 26.-About two weeks ago a well dressed man arrived here from Washington, D. C., and took a room at the Hotel Ports mouth, giving his name as George WV. Fechner, and after ward formed a copartnership with N. Seymour to sell jewelry at auction. Fechner spent all of yesterday in his room, and nothing was seen or heard from him until this morning about eleven o'clock, when the chambermaid went to his room and found it locked. She reported it to Manager Jay, who went upstairs and smelling gas broke the door open.- Fechner was found on the bed in an unconscious condition and nearlf~dead from having inhaled the gas. Physicians were summoned and worked on him until 3 o'clock this afternoon before he was pronounced out of danger. -A letter addressed "To Whom it May Concern" was found in his room, in which Fechner said that not having treated his wife' and daughter right this would he his 'ast day on earth. It was dated 7:30 i. . and requested that his body be crematedl and his ashes thrown to the wind. The would-be suicide also left i sealed letter addressed to the mayor, the contents of which the latter de clined to give out. As soon as Fech ner is able to be movedl he will be taken to jail for safe keeping. A Fool Judge. AsHEVILLE. N. C.. Dec. 24.-Last July The Citizen of this city forcibly and earnestly commented on the re moval by Judge HI. G. Ewart of the criminal Court of a murder trial from Buncomube county to Henderson coun ty. The Citizen said, among other things: "That the removal of the case to Henderson is unnecessary, expen sive and a reflection on the intelligence of the people of Buncomibe." Judge E w art at once hauled the editor of The Citizen into his court for contempt. and sentenced hliml to pay a fine of $250 and be imprisoned in the county jail for 30 days, though the editor purged himself of contempt. An appeal was taken to the supreme court of North Carolina, and that court has just ren dered its decision. The opinion is favorable to The Citizen, the supreme court finding that Judged Ewart was ni error and that there was no con em pt in The Citizen's editorial. s truck by a Elizard. IND)IANAi'oLIS, IND., D~ec. 26. -A blizzard struck this city early this morning and continued with incr'eas ed violence until at ncon the streets were almost impassable and the tele phone and electric wires were in a tangled mass. Not a telephone is in working order in the city and at least 501 poles are broken oil' or toppled over. One horse was killed and several per sons knocked senseless by coming in contact with live wires. Large gangs of men are at wcrk trying to get the wires oflf the streets, but the storm is is increasing in force and bids fair light tonight. Cotton statement. NEw ORLEA~NS, Dec. 26.-Cotton eX change statement: Sem i-weeklyv move ment at 12 towns in 1895: Receipts 73.141 bales, shipments 60,766, stock 462,357; same time in 1S91 receipts 101,9u6 bales, shiipmeats 79,884, stock 460,232; in 1893, receipts 57.452 bales, shipments l31 stockdel .37ti9. Preserve Peace. BOSTON, Dec. 23.-The American Peace Society of this city, which in cludes as its members Hon. Edward Atkinson, Hon. Robert Treat Payne, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and others, to day at a meeting passed the following resolutions: "War between the United States and Great Britain is a moral impossibility. Neither nation, surely not our nation, can be guilty of the awful crime of attacking the other. 'Threats of war by the United States were worse than a stupendous blun der. Christianity. civilization, hu mianity condemn the war and threats thereof. "Justice between nationsis good and especially by the powerful to the weak. Magnanimity inspires our country to seek justice for Venezuela from Great Britain. The Monroe Doctrine meaas, first the safety of the United States, and secondly, the protection of this hemisphere from European oppression. But our safety is assured beyond ques tion by our power. But it is incon ceivable folly to so extend the Monroe Doctrine that boundary disputes of ancient origin, growing out of the doubtful documents or data beyond our ken, must imperil the peacefulness of the country. "Our government has done viell to intervene by honor, diplomatic appeal and protest, including urgent requests for arbitration. After diplomacy has faikd two great nations must always arbitrate if the quarrel be grievous. 'Tihe exact Venezuelan boundary sinks into insignificance measured against the peace of the English-speak ing people principle. War between them would check civilization, inflame malignant passions, inflict immeasure able suffering on the masses of the people, the millions of workingmen and women, even now struggling hard to earn bread for the families. "The golden rule condemns war and these threats of war. The rulers of both lands are in fault. Both nations must recede. We are between two na tions of brothers, leaders of the world in Christian civilization is impossible. We appeal to the Christian conscience and common sense of our people to do all in their power to maintain inviolate the existing and steadily-growing sen timents of amity and peace between 'the English-speaking nations." The Dangers of the Deep. LoNDoN, December 25.-The French steamer Emile Eloise has been sunk in a collision at Algiers. There were thirty-four persons on board. Four were drowned. The rest were saved. The British steamer George Pyman, from Aarhaus, is ashore on the rocks near Aberdour. on the Frith of Forth. Scotland. All efforts to get her off by tugs have failed. The British steamer, Mobile, Capt. Leyland, has arrived at St. Michael's from Hartlepool. A steamer pipe on his vessef burst. She sailed from New York December 9. LONDoN, December 25.-A dispatch from Kingstown, Ireland, says that the English bark which was reported in distress off there yesterday is full of water, and that wreckage from the vessel is coming ashore. The men on the bark -re huddled behind the deck house. So far ali efforts to rescue them have been unsuccessful. The Poolberg life boat crew have made several vain attempts to reach them. The trawler Sunrise, of Aberdeen, has been lost in a gale with all hands. The crew consisted of five men. LoN~os, December 25.-The turret ship Rupert, which sailed on Decem ber 21 from Plymouth for Gibraiter, has returned. She had a terrible ex perience in the gale. Her turret flaps, which were supposed to be water tight, were useless -and tons of water were shipped . Incessant pumping for for ty-five hours alone preveated the ex tinguishing of the fires. The vessel made barely eight knots. Accounts of dis-Lsters multinly. HALIFAX, N. S., December 25.-i-A dispatch from New Foundland say s it has now been learned there were in all twenty-two persons on the ill-fated schooner~Victoria, Capt. Bradbury, believed to have foundered with all on board of Cabot Island, on the New FoundIland coast. Among thbem were a family named Noseworthy, husband and wife and five children. The stem of the Victoria has been picked up at Horse Island. - Brayton in the Soup To the Editor of The News and Cor rier: Mr. E. M. Brayton's statement to Mr. Larner in Washington, "that the National Republican Committee had placed Mr. Lawson Melton's name on their list of State chairmen as the chairman off the Republican party of South Carolina," is not true. Mr. Carter and the secretary of the na tional committee informed Mr. Webs ter and myself that "the committee took no action at all in relation to the claims of Mr. Melton to be the State chairman for South Carolina; that Mr,. Melton's name was not mentioned to the national committee." Mr. Webster, Col. *T. B. Johnston. Gen. Smalls and myself appointed an hour for Mr. Brayton and the Melton people to meet members of the nation al committee and settle the matter, but Mr. Brayton refued to meet us, and, althoughi Mr. Webster and those of us did meet Gen. Clarkson, as by appointment, Mr. Brayton failed to be presen. Mr. Webster is regarded by the Republican party for the nation as the only head chairman of the Republican party of South Cardlina. There is no truth in Mr. Brayton's statement to the contrary. To.E.MLR He Shot Santa Claus. JACeKSON. Miss., Dec. 25.-Prof. L. W. Saunders, a deaf mute, and for many vears teacher in the State Deaf and 'Dumb Asylum, was shot and in stantly killed tonight at 7 o'clock by his nephew, C. R. Young. Prof. Saunders was to act Santa Claus at th-e Christmas tree gotten up for the amasement of the deaf and dumb chil dren in the institute, and called by~ Mr. Young's hou~se in his Santa Clau. garment. His knock at the door was heard. and Mr. Young, the only occu pant, demanded who was there a time or two, and, receiving no reply, fired through tihe door at what he supposed was a burglar. Prof. Saunders dropped inside the hall and died in two minutes. The 44-calibre ball passed clear thrcugh his body. Prof. Saunders is a brother of Capt. R. L. Saunders. World's Fair commissioner from this State, and was highly re spectedl both as a man and teacher of deaf mutes. The affair is the most de pl)orable in the history of Jackson, and Mr. Young is crazed withl grief. Street Car Held Up. SANs Fansc-isco, Dec. 2;.-Four masked men armed with riules held up a Mission street electric car from Ingleside at 8 o'clock last night and robbed two employes of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club of j:y,000. Ruben N. Clark, who carried the pouch con taining the money, was shot in the leg. John Bronner, another employe of the .Jockey Club. and Policeman Johin Josephs, also received bullet wounds, neither of which is serious. Clark's wound will probably cause the ampluation of his leg. The robbery occurred in a lonely place eight miles The Passinz of t he New Year. It has no doubt often occurred to you, fellow traveler on Time's coach, that the milestones of Nev Years fly past much faster now than they did in the early stages of your journey. What an interminably lon., wait it seemed to be between the first New Year's day of your memory and the second. Perhaps you were 1 or 8 vears old then and in school for the first term. If so. New Year's had its sorrow as well as its joy. for it was the last day of the midwinter holidays and next day you had to begin your wrestling with the intellectual arith metic and the ge6graphy and maybe with the elements of the English grammar. Look back now and pity yourself. Do not make the mistake of most of our acquaintances and de clare that particular New Year's to have been the happiest of your exist ence. Pahaw!. It was perhaps the most miserable. The fact that you have forgotton your childhood's mis eries does not make it true that you had none. It was several years after that be for the New Year becan to move ap preciably faster. Perhaps it was not till your sister and your pretty dark eyed cousin began to chair you about the silky down upon your upper lip. and your portly comfortable father, in speaking of soie doings of yours of which he did not approve, re:erred to you as a "foolish young man." Then you noticed the flight of time, I'll be bound. No one had called you a "young man" before. You were ready to forgive the governor's -hid ings for that. You rejoiced that al. though you were very young indeed you had yet been called a man. At that time you had great respect for your own opinions on most mat ters. You began to shave forthwith, and you fell into the habit of calling your chum, who was of about your own age, "old man." If any oue called you "my boy,"you felt resentful. It seemed so utterly out of place. But you had not yet learned that manhood brings with it certain de'inite and sometimes heavy responsibilities. It is possible you discovered this significant truth very soon afterward, though perhaps it'was not till two or three mnore New Years had passed. At all events the knowl edge came to you with somewhat of a shock-possibly pleasant, possibly otherwise. At all events, it was not long after that that you, found -ut that your knoivledge was not univer sal and your wisdom- was fiot' infalli ble. And ever since the New Years have flown by faster' and' faster. After awhile your girth grew greater. Then there were lines in parts of your face that had once been smooth. The top of your cranium, that was once thick thatched. grew bare and smooth and shining. Glasses came next. and-your hands wrinkled up. Then there were occasional twinges in your joints, and what hair was left grew gray, then white. Only yesterday you began to carry a cane--once you carried it for ornament- because it helped you when walking.- Yesterday b You ask. Oh, yes, I-remember. It was a good ten years ago, but you see the New Years fly so fast.now. What! Are you going to leave the coach? Is your life journey done? You amaze me. I thought you were good for several more New- Years. Well, goodby, my boy; goodby. So he is gone. But, bless me, he was only 75. He was a young man yet. Now, let us give the ne w year 1S96 a rousing xvelcome ! And may the road between her'e and 1897 be a smoother one for all of us than was that of 1895! Rejoicing in Venezuela. . NEWt YoRK. Dec. 21.--The World tomorrow will publish the following copyrighted cable from Caracas. Ven ezuela: The anti-English feeling is in creasing here, Fresh flowers are placed daily upon the statue of Wash ington and the American and Vene zuelan Ilags are every where to be seen, either displayed side by side, or en tvwined in significant embrace with the portraits of Washington and Mon roe between. Another mass meeting was held on Plaza Bolivar this morn ing, at which were heard the cries: "Abajo los Engleses," (Down with the English). " Vive Cleveland los Esta dos U'nidos."(tLongtive Cleveland and the United States.) A demonstration of all the citizens is planned to take place on Christmas day under the auspices of the Simon Bolivar Club. Invitations have been given to the President of the Republic, the Cabinet,' the clergy and thie United States Min ister. The American residents of Car acas will then return the honior paid to th.-ir 'nation by the tributes offered to Washington by decorating the statue of Bolivar, the liberator. The patriotic society for the defense of' Venezuelan- 1erritory issued a protest against the pretension and aggressions of England. It also requests the Min ister of Foreign A trairs to remove the exequators of Venezuelan citizens who are acting as British Consuls in this country, unless they resign immedi ately. In Guayra the enthusiasm has led to the forming of battalions ready for service. The honors paid to the American minister continue. The archbishop and the clergy of Caracas called upon him- today to express their thanks and those of the people to the United Staites for the stand taken by President Cleveland. Venezuela is sending diplomatic nissions to every foreign country. The country ap plauds the action of the government and the nation is united. MONTREAL, QUE.. Dec. 23.-Canatda is beginning to look a little more se riously than at first at tiie war qjues tion. The liftv' ninth batalion, comn posed nearly 'entirely of Irish, with headqjuar'ters ini Stermont, and on whom the nirst defen:->e on the frontier South of Mount Royal would fall. cabled to Lord Salisbury: "Do not loose any sleep, over the de fense of our p)art of the froutier: we will triple our number of men if war should be declared." The Montreal Star to-day ofl'ers to equip a reginient and look after thme relatives of its men dluring thme war, if there should be one. It says: "There has been a natural disposi tion on the part of the people of Cana da to regard President Clevelanid's message to Congress as an incident of a political par-ty strife ini the I.niited States. and devoid1 of a ser ious inter' national sitruiticance. To deliberate ly and witihout provocaition cour t for this country such a (lire calai tyt as war with the most pow.etrul emnpitre on earth appeared more like the outtc'omte of tihe drunken orgy of an imperial despot than the deliberate act of tihe chosen leader of a free and enlighten ed people. But whatever may' have been the miotive f or this action wbich has such stupendous siirni ficance for us or none at all, the man ner ot its re ception by thie press5 andl people of the U..nited States, forbids Canadians any' longer ignoring it or treating it with inditlerence." iInvetera~te Couinterfeitterw. F~R.ANtFoirr. Ky. Dec. 2. -A Coun terfeiting outfit has been found by the penitentiary authorities in the posses sion of James Ilolt anmd James Ballen, convicts. The two rmade their (lies of plaster' Paris while in the prison hios FF:AIETL FATALITIES. I TWi.N rY-N:NE MINERS KILLED AT DAYTON. TENN. Ari of vpl.i .n f Fr-edamup DiEodg Wal;.f --Wt.- and coal wisichi Fa21I- and Inpi'i-sus'the 3en in a Ciamber. With IP !.oIn l .A ir. Cn1rATTANOI;., Tenn.. Dec. 24). Twentv-four iiners lost theirlives-to day in the Nelson mine, Entry 10. Lpar Day ton, Tenn.. by an explosion of tiredamp. The explosion was suc ceeded by a territic crash. which indi SIted that the roof of the passage through which the men had entered had fallen in. No averue of escape vas left, and there is no possibility that any of them will be found. The. mine is the property of the Dayton Coal and Iron company, three nies from the town of Dayton, and is reached by a spur track. The men, both white and colored, includingsev eral. bovs. entered the mine to go to work at 7 o'clock this morning, but nothing of the awful catastrophe was known untill 11 o'clock. when the drivers into Entry 10 found their way blockA by a solid wall of coal and slate. The Nelson mine has been worked for 12 years or more, and the entry where the unfortunate miners are entombed ran back more than two miles from the mouth of the mine. The mine is of the kind common in southern coal fields, known as a drift or level veined mine and- worked in the direction-of the vein straight into the face of- the itotintain, but before entry is reached a l6br slope extends to a level of several hundred yards be low at angle~ of'about 20 degrees. The cars are pulled up from' tie foot of the slope where the train of cars drawn by mules connect with it to the outside by a cable which hauls the coal up with remarkable rapidity.- . Rescuing parties have been working all day like grim death trying to reach the miners, but it is probable-that they will be several days forcing an open iba through the wall of fallen roofing which must be mad, safe as they pro ceed. The foul air quickly exhausts the workmen who are relieved by fresh hands. The work wilf continue day and night till the bodies are re covered. At the drift. mouth hun dreds of women and children soon gathered, and the picture of- grief and despair is heartrending. Mothers wringing their hands, weeping daugh ters and little boys and sweethearts and grey-headed parents all t ih the great distress, for they have been told that there is no hope. It is a spectacle from which one turns sick at heart. The mine is ventilated by air shafts or passages, so the caving of the wall in the-entry cut off the draft and death was certain to those who breathed the poisoned air, The latest details and a corrected ac count at 4 o'clock this afternoon says that a way has bien broken through the debris in the passage of Entry .10 and the' blackened corpse of the- dead -miners -were carried out one by one ta the-outside, where thework of identi fication- began. ' The number of vic tims, first reported at 25;-has- reached 29. Two bodies recovered' are those of negroes, which have n6t been recog nized. Wm. Raddy, a colored lad, .as one of the last to bo brougkht out. Life had long been'extinct in alt the. poor remnant of humatnity stretched at the mouth..of the tunnel. -Latest records say that the gas' was the first ignited in, No 9 by Tom Hawkins, gas inspector, on his usual' morning round of the mines. Flames were rapidly communicated to Entry No 10 by means of side passages. All the men at work in entry 9 escaped except Hawkins. In No. 10, which forms an angle in the banks and connects the outside world at the foot of the lower slope, the deadly gas drifted and con gested, doing its work so well that not one of the men at- work in the rooms of this cross passage is alive to tell the story. Oscar Hawkins, one of the first men to get out of No. 9 will also dlie, making the 29th life sacrificed. Lec ch and Westfield, two negroes, were found just outside the entry, htav-ing fallen dead just as they were beyond the reacn of flames. Reassured by Olney. Lox1>oN, Dec. 27.-A New York dispatch to the Daily News says: There is a rumor that Secretary Olney tias sent a private telegram to L'ord Sal isbury, assuring him that the passage of the comrhission bill is not to be con struedl as a hostile -act. The Daily News says editorially, on this subject: --There is nothing incredible or sur prising,, in such an announcement. On the contra.ry, it would be highly honorable to Mr. Olney."' The Daily Ne ws says further. "Our Vienna cor ~resondent has reason to believe that Lord Salisbury is negotiating with France and Holland as owners of American colonies to join in a protest against President Cleveland's action, which has nlready been condemned by Spain. We should be inclined to doubt the wisdom of -any European al~ance to meet demands which have not been supported by cool and sober opinion in America." Arms for Canada. The fanchester' Courier, of date December 24th, says that orders have been given at the Woolwich and Day enport arsenals for a large quantity of ammunition, together with a great numiber of magazine rifles, Martini Henry rifles, anid other guns for ship ment to Canada in January. -It also learns that the defenses are to be great ly strengthened. While all express the opinion in Toronto that there wili be no war between the United States. a number strongly advocate precautionary measures on the part of Canada, such as. military organization and arming at all vulnerable points on the lakes and at the crossings of Niagara, D~etroit and St. Lawrence rivers.____ A moG sensation occurred in Chat taniooga, Tennessee, last Monday. Chief Justice D. L. Snodgrass, of the State Supreme court, shot and wound ed in the wrist, a lawyer named John R. Beasley. It seems that Beasley was the a'uthor of an article in the Chattanooga Times charging that Sucdgrass had readered a decision in a certain railroad case for political reasons, rather than on any grounds of law or justice. Snodgrass saw Baslev in a law oilice and denounced himi as a liar. A scuffle ensued, and Snodgrass drew a pistol and fired with the result stated. Snodgrass was ar rested: but was subsequently released on~ a bond of $l,fl00 Tnii Georgia Legislature has passed an act to test the constitutionality of the ten per cent. tax on State banks of issue. The act provides for the estab lishment of a State banik of issue in the face of the ten per~ cent. tax, and a test case will a t once be brought before the Supreme Court of the United States. It is 11 e opinion of able law ers that this ten per cent. tax is un :onstitutional and we are glad it is to be tested before the highest court in the land. ___ __ SomaTI Chandler.-ntroduced in the Senate a bill appropriating $J100,000, Sto strengthen the military arma men~1t of the Un ited St ates. IRepresen ta:ive .Grout introduced a similar bill RAKING. POWDER Absolutely Pure. A: eresm of tartar ba'klug powder. Highest of all in Ieaviming strrn%.tb-ba t st. Unittd Statas Govvmrment Faod Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St., N. Y. 'WE'LL NEVER SUBMIT!" The Bold Declaration of a London Paper Thought to Have It Straight' LONDON, Dec. 20.-In commenting upon the Venezuelan question. -he newspapers generally agree that the situition is much more serious than they had thought it to be.- .na. the public mind, also, there is a geperal feeling of disappointment at the action of congress in supporting the sitnd taken by President Cleveland in his message to that body. The Stock Exchange here and' the exchanges throughout the country contibue under the influence of the difficulty which has arisen - betden Great Britain and the United Sates. At the same time there-is no excite ment. Consoles declined i,. foreign funds were weak and American and Canadian stocks were lover on con tinued selling. The Pall Mall Gazettes& uoneyarti cle says: -Of course, whatever happens Amer ica will lose credit opei the:.af4ir. It is particularly inopportune:wben many.of her railways need money." The afteriiooh" nesp'e- ' ft'con tain og 4ditoriials on te Yetheian questi'o, the gneral tenor ..ofth'eir utterances being the same as Wednep day's, thoughali ag'tee'that thdintter is becoming much grave'.: The Globe; a high. C6nsava'tivi'~or gan and a newspaper whicli may'be supposed to- be'- on terms of intimacy with the government, gives whiing that Great- Britain will remain:.firm, saying:: . "President Cleveland may appoi4t a dozen commissions, but England'will remain firm in her -refusal to Tecog nize them and jurisdiction oftthis.sprt. This is our unalterable position be the consequences what they'day.;. e will nev6r submit to such U= el ed dictation. The Globe also irates ast he recent utterances of Dr. ChaukncbM. Depew, especially his references to th-e ksy manner in which the United' Stites could conquer Canada, rematking: "The overwhelniing navalstrergth of England would enable her t6 -ppur troops into Canada at auy sign of dan ger and small.warships. could be sent to the lakes and Chicago, -Detroit and Buffalo would be utterly at :-their mercy." . ., . The St. James Gazette says that-the Britishers -were much. disappointedkon reading the American telegrams, and expresses the fear that.the Americans williiot read the aiplomatic, cov!es pondence or see that Lord Salisbury is right, adding. "We think that the Am drlan pfes, with its customary enterprise,. has giVen its readers everythip.g butlthe essenial facts, and the tendency of the moment is to- believe .that tPesident Cleveland has made a spirited eort to hold up his country's - honor' The Americans, if sensible, are also setti mental, and would fight with all'the fierce energy of their race 'fors aprin ciple. We know it and respect-them for it. What is inconceivable..'is that they can imagine there is any-ocdision for resentment. Let them-. read the dispatches The Pall Mall Gazette among other things says." ."For the present it is-enough .that the foremost jurists of America unrni mously condemn thle Olney doctrine, while but one single continenta- iour nal of repute~sustains President Cleve land. The Cause of the Troul.>e. The dispute between .Great.Brilian and Venezuela has been- 6E'iniany years' standing.. It involves the right of the English..o occupy the territory beyond the Essequibo river.. whish is held by the Venezuelansto be the true bounidary. bet ween their countryg'nd British Guinea. The advancee.of-the .English raises as-the. issue one- of the oldest traditions -cf the U'nited .States government-the enforcem'ent op~ the Monroe doctrine-as the United States can never stand idle while England attempts to seize territory on the Amer ican continent to which it is- claimed she hasano i'ight, unless it issettled by arbitration that she has. . Secrdary Olney declares it t'o be the belie( o( the United States government that' the territorial claims which Great Britian has set up in Venezuela are~in the nature of an attempt to seizs territory on the American coritinent to'which she has no legal right. The see-reay pointed out two horns to the dileinma, leaving Great Britian to chose which it w'ould accept. - - *First-If the quarrel with Venezuela is an ordinary boundary dispute, hav ing its origin in faulty discriptions. imperfect surveys or other misunder standings, a refusal to arbitrate the same is contrary to the precedents set. by Great Britian, herself and contr-ary to the practice of all civilized nations Second-If on thi other hand as ap peared to be the case, an d as the belief of the president of the United States the dispute as to the location of a, bounda:-y line was a mere* disguise under wnich Great Britian is attempt ing by superior force to extend, her territorial possessions in America. this is' directly. .violative of the- Monroe doctrine, and will never be submitted to by the Uni-ted States. At the request of President Cleve land Mr. Olney, while still holding the office of attorney general, and be fore- Secretary Gresham's death, bagan an exhaustive legal investigation of the various-boundary lines in dispute. He made a most exhaustive report on the subjiect, 'which, while it in no way changed the policy of the administra tion, thoroughly convinced the -presi :ent and other members of the tabi net that. the admission by this couhtry >f Great Britian's claims to \'enezue an territory wvest of the Schoniurg line woild be a complete abandoninent >f the Monroe doctrine.. SENronR Chandler, republican, New Eampshire, introduced a bifl "to strengthen the military armament." t directs the president to strengthen he military force of the United States by adding one million infantry rifles, ne thousand guns for iield artillery, and not exceedling five thousandhieavy uns for fortifications. The sum of $100,000,000 is n ade immediately available for the purpose of the pro