The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 19, 1892, Image 1

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? ..A CAMDEN, S. p., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1892 !atii school tONAL LESSON FOB 21, 1892. the princes unto Barucb. s and Jeremiah. and let no kreye be." iJiruch was Jere Mtd had just been reatffog in ? people, in ttufc Lon's house, Dg day, the wyr- is of the Lord, written from the mouth of 1 R. . 1 h'i Lord gave thea? ttiab in trw Lope that the torn awl be forgiven tverses 15 ev?r spiking to save. Baruch k pernio Is sent for to read fce j rifio-^, which, having re afraid, inquire farther and "tteel as in thus verae, t/nng > prophet. ?y went into the kins? and told in th#? ears of the king. 1 the #m of Jueiah the jpxi > very diff Tent from his father, fled by bis brotiier Jeboahaz, only three month?, and was -captive :nto Egypt (II Chron. *eot Jebudi to fetch the i read it in the ears of the e. earn of all the princes." of God, thaS king?, princes ?*ih all the world *houid hear His i Hi to* responsibility' of all who fd, that (h?y should give it dr ?; and it we are ?>oiy willing before u?? open doorv. All re Him. H? will see to it. ' the king sit i& the winter boose i ttonth, end there wa* a fire on .^orning Vdm. Winter and and booses of ivory are (<o indicate the laiury and self in tbe peopie Ain'read 1&. If the ' o f verse ?> wua t Wfast of atone , * seventh mo?ithV*iV. xvi., 29>, >Uttle time rfovef a month) e la peed ?men's first reading and this read JMfce king. ^witfc the penknife a*d cast ~ t on the be^tb, v until t oonsuufaAsii the firelfiit was This was bis treatnje-nt of the <iod of Israel upon whose ! (I Chrou.. xxi x., 23> and whose re he ought to have been. Coo L ' : treatment of the wordtef . . xxii, U>. And Jeboiaki'm aid ? than the professors and prvach ' day who in the namfeurf "higher ?r '?scienae," ?>r something else, Bible, cutting out what they W?Jg us anything supernatural, "us that even Jesus Christ was ')le authority in all things. All _ter heed Isa., vSii., t?, R. V. life they wer? not afraid, nor rent i fid no more are these nritics of our tunes, who are ing on to their own destruction ; multitudes with them. erlheitss Eluathan made iater-_ ttee t?atJa$^gjHtfd-?ipt born , but he wo?m iiT if SOU W i." If Mritt not r< " fW?eveaf K^bethtf* leased ^ ^ jj. JBmtbanjPo Hoorj/% did well to ,%h they pleaded >n.-*od th Miiid ,-J/ * ^ Jot it. landed to take ?the ith W^ertoliail- the pro -KZ them . " Not only y }p 'Sestroy the Word of the f?ar<*i,not Co kill His servants [Sfe could lay as^^.s on them. Rebel lly liardens heart. How safe are God hides; see bow securely He.-"* (I Kiogs xviri^ lOj. Coamal 5, xxxii.. 7. and give good heeci . ii, 3; Luke xxi., 36 that you may (ittCol. iii.. :ir "Then ?he wt>ri< of the Lord came to 1 after thatj the fing had burned the [The Lord had seen ifc^aU and obsjerved ?had now more work for Jeremiah and RP just where to tind ham. The prophet fcflily to hold himselt rtoady for anything lltbovah might require, either to a|> 1 0r to be hit Idee, to speak or to be quiet, ' to suffer. "Takethei* a^ain another roll, and lltitk all the former w?r,!s that were in lypoJf." In vers?*J it is said that wor is were added. It is im-" ?to destroy the word of God. All. do so have only increased the num pies. The Bible has been compared who has been shot and hung and t and burn-id in the fire and scattered 1 wind?. and yet in some wonderful way lahve than ever. rtrhus saitb the Lord, Thou hast [this roil, saying. Why hast thou 1 therein, >*yiag.'; The king hated becaa-?e it toll of a coming judg* ; so the Bible is now hated by many lit tells of a lake of fire for the un? r, end of everlasting punishment, and judgments. But though many life these thiugwoat of their- Bibles, 1 those who preaob them, yet the ?Therefore thus saith toe $<yd.of king of Judab, I wilf punish cad litis seed, and his servants, for their but they hearkened not.'' His 1 death and wretched treatment of ?body, with evils upon his seed and king taw here foretold, and all came to pass, tbeiiver not only has a redeemed soul but will a reneraed body. 1 nice the body or his Lord, and shatf? i Him on His throne, and no evil can I Mm U John iii., 2, 3; Phil, iii., ^D. jJ?; ; SL, 21; Fs. xci.. 9, 10) . But the proe forethe uobehever is as indescriba ! as t brother ? glorious. iS5ee I i,? 7-10; y^itb. xxv.. 41. Rev. xiv., 9 Ood hasrprovvled saivatiou for all and tot wilting that any shouVi perisb, $>hall any escape who neg grmt a salvation? And what a responsibility rests upon all who tgrr way' add to or diminish the _ [ ol God tRev. xxii., 19, /0; Deut^ iv.. Pro v. xxx., 6). With many to ribe whole book of Reveiation is com set aside, and preachers tell their 1 not to read ii; whereas in this book _ other books of the Bible end and apd in it is the consummation of all rm prophecy. It is tlje onlv book of __>sixty-six that conta in^ arsp<y .al bless upon reader and hearer ^Rev. iM I " have heard one of the most popular land BioJe teachers of to-day say would not think of taking a text Daniel or Revelation if he could I do not wonder that the same man ?tbe Jews were no more to God than of our country. What differ 1 is there between such a man and the t of Judah who out and burned thu word J 1? Is not this man the worst of th? y. ? Lesson Hehser. -^^N^eting Ont a Dream. ^ joaair Wy of th:s piaoi^Who is Treas ytftt of a mission band in oaiTof our Sun- ! Hl4(bool8, anil vrho had afy>u? ?."> of I baud's money la her possession?^ dly jx rfonn??i a feat the other night, bile asleep, that was .juHe riangerottfc ytc lad j relet red to arose at a late hour, i herself, went Co the -bureatr Hpere she bad placed ;he -f5, and took is ? iittlo room in the bouse which the U* ly did not occupy. Gathering to Hpgr a few ofT) skirt.*, she? wrapped the tonfj u,p in tbeni and then securely tied 1 ft with a string and placcd it in a dark, hidden corner. fi Ai'ter this tv:?s accomplished Ac went Jeto her brother s* r >m, took his loaued ?ver iCfid stytc 1 /or the yard. It is known just how long she was out of Rub, bet tiic uc*t morning the revolver W^-fouad ia a laurel at the roar of the w When the revolver was discovered barrel .iawned upon the young < jpdv that some person had been (fjpffce h'Vvjaeipdl taken her miss ion money, ,^ed she quickly weut to the bureau where n]&e had the raouey concealed. On reaeh the drawer she ft and that it had dis xed. A thorough search was given, j me* j'ypearcu. a raoroujpi scarca was given, f gad the money faunain the place above f^entioaed.-riluntiugtoa fCaL) Jooraal* c '"-x" FEBRUARY FANCIES. x Many ImportantJU-ppenings That Get People Into Print. The Latest News Notes and Dis patches From the Potomac To the Gulf. VIRGINIA. A national bar* is being organized as Waynesboro, j ' Dicw:ddie county is to spend $100,000 on her public roads.^ ^ The project of a pork-packing nouae is being considered at W iochester. Committees of the Legi-lature visited the colored lunatic asylum at Peters burg, wbicfi contains 720 patients. II. B. Laskey, a jeweler of Roanoke, ha* b en arrested, charged with attempt ing to swindle an insurance company t>y firing his ttore. The Winches' cr Gun Club won in the coctest with the Staunton Gun Club lx.st week. . The county jail of Augusta county wil be renovated and enlarged at a cost of $10,000. * Mavor Bowks, of Clifton Forg.-, has been reversed by the county court ior the first time in the course of a term oi twenty-three jears. Richard J. Owen, who had lived un the administration of every President, died in Rbwhatan county at the advanced aire of % years. He was dissiptteu in early life, t ut formed when 31 years old and was baptized by his son, Austin E. Owen, D. D. ? - * Petitions arc circulating in Loudon ad dressed to the General Assembly asking for a higher license taa. The Rappahannock Railroad Co. has applied to the legislature for a charter to build a railroad, connecting at Richmond ,.?r within 7. miles of that city, by the Viost practicable route, to deep water at some- point on the Rappahannock river or Chesapeake bay. Preliminary survey of the^Marion and Rye Valley railroad ha* been completed and constructior^b^gun. A shooting sctape took place in Valley Thursday between John L. Whit sell and Doc Bates. The latter had a lock of hair shot cff. In the office of 'he Hotel Perkins, at fiinton, R. P. Robertson was handling a revolver, when it went off, instantly "killing an engineer named Snyder, who came there a short time ago from By ra cu3e N Y and was joined last week by his wife and little girl. A few minutes before the accident he was heard to say : ??l'tn perfectly happy now that my fami ly are with me r Robertson did not know the pistol was loaded and is nearly crazed with grief. He tried to commit suicide afterwards. NOBTH CAROLINA. Durham js to bave an ice factory. During January there were only: 24 deaths in Raleigh. The discovery of gold is reported from Nath county. J R. Nolan, general manager of the Seacoast Railroad, has tendered his resig nation, to take effect March 1st. The French Broad Mineral Co. h? be^n incorporated to deal in minerals and mineral lands in Buncombe county. The capital stock is $100,000. The commissioners of Iredell and Mecklenburgcouulies both heard testi mony Monrfav and Tuesday and both again refused" to grant license Robert Phi p pi was stabbed and almost instantly killed at a revival meeting near Crumpler, Ashe county, by Emmet Long. The part cs were under the mfiu encfrof liquor. Herman Beck, of Germany, was or dained Suuday by Bishop llondthaier of the Moravian church at S ?lcm, and le.t shortly afterward for the Indian Terri torv as missionary to the Cherokee In dians. A fatal fire accurred in Montflmmerv county. Miles Jordan, a farmer living at Ogltss Mills woke at midnight and found his house in flames, llis wife was on fire and was unconscious. lie made desperate efforts to save her ' but to no purpose, and was so terribly burned that his death occurred. Albemarle Presbytery accepted the resignation of Rev. A. J. McKelway as pastor of the^SmithScld church, and he goe3 to the Tayetteville church. Rev. J. S; AVatkias' resignation is accepted' and ha leaves the First Presbyterian ehurch at Ka'eign March 1st and goes to Spartanburg c . . A Lumbertcn spccial reports that a young man tore out a mule's tongue. 'I he animal had become contrary and while the man was exasperated, he grabbed the mule's tongue, which protruded, and tore it out. The Republican State Executive Com mittee met at Raleigh. There was mucji discussion as" to whether tfee convcnCwn couldf nominate candidates for fc'tste offi cers, or elect delegates to the national convention. It was, by a large majority, decided that it should only elect dele gartes. and that the nominating conven tioi should be held later. April 14th is the date and Raleigh^the place. One Peter Cobb was taken to the peni tentiary to serve a sentence of 1G years, having been convicted ot committing several burglaries along the Wilmington and Weldon raihoad. Ia ins posrssion was found a lot of jewelry taken from the store oft Geo^L. Parker at Rocky Mount and a k>t of dry j^oods stolen from fid Grady's ai'^te at Mount Olive. SOOTH CAROLINA. Charleston's pubh'c schools will not, close tius term until July 15. >Greeoville has voted $75,000 for sewr erage bonds. . The Fairfax Savings and ioan Asso ciation will ch3ng4 its name to the Peo* pie's Bank, Winnsioro. The Spartanburg court house proper ty was sold Thursday for $15,150, the Duncan family buying it. As a result .of tbe financial stringency nearly all of the large phosphate raining companies of South Carolina have sus pended operations. Only those which employ Italians are still at work. Col. Earle, of Greenville, will not this year enter the rac; for the Democratic nomi natitm for Goverctor. Captl W. H. Green, the able general scanager of the Richmond ? Danville system, is ukely to again take up his xesidence in Columbia. * McCreery and Chew, after haying ! / made a thorough inspection of Broad river for about fifteen ^|^les above the Cacal dam, at Columbia, have decided to put on a line of small steamers, with a view to promoting river traffic. Governor Tillmao appointed S. L. Altaian trial justice of Williamsburg, also appointed Leonard Williams expert accountant and agent to examine the books of the auditor and treasurer of Union county and instructed h:m to re ; port as to any shortage or irregularities. The premiums offered bjr ihe Colum bia Phosphate Compmy for the largest yield made on one acre otrwhich tbeir fertilizer was used were won by ":he Good Brothers, of Union, 1st premium, and E. Mclver Wiliiamston, of Darling ton, 2nd premium. ..-An eight-months-old child of T. W. VTood, living near Pelham, in Spartan burg county, was burned to death on Monday night. It had been left near the fireplace by its mother and while she -,vas abseut it crept into the fire. Afr Charleston, Tuesday, Collector Johbston gave a check for f 10,500 to Gen\T. A. Huguenin. as agent for the .Southern Construction Co., in payment for tw&v granite piers of the Custom House Wjiarf. Thi9 is the largest amount ever paid t>y a disbursing officer at the port of Charleston. . The annual State Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association will "be held in Spartanburg during the latter part of April next. It is expected "hat the Rev. Dr. R. J. McBride. a celebrated Virginia divine, will attend the Conven tion and deliver the annual address. Mrs. Dempsey Adams, a widow lady 65 years of age, living in Edgefield county, was burned to death Tuesday. She was in the house alone, when her dress caught. She ran and covered her self up in bed, thinking by that means to smother the flames, but she was burn ed so badly before assistance could reach her that she died a few hours afterwards. OTHER STATES. A ric* mill trust has been , formed in Louisiana. A Savannah dispatch say9 it is learned there that Samuel Spencer, formerly pres ident of the Baltimore and Ohio system, but now in charge of the financial iater 1 <sts.of Drexel, Morgan & Co., is booked for the presidency of the Richmond and Danville system. The Georgia State treasurer has begun the payment of the Confederate widows' [tension. The tax upon the Statf, au thorized by the Legislature, entails upon the State an annual tax of $300,000. There are 4,000 <*idow3 on the rolls. The payments wiir'be kept up until the appropriation is exhausted. John J. Breslin recently visited s.n in significant town in Tennessee, and was astonished at' the contentment of the people. To use his own; phrase, he did not he-rr tbe word dollar during his whole stay. He finally asked soaie of people rf they stood in nesed of anythhug, and on their replying that one of their few public buildings would be the better, for a tower he subscribed the suta neces sary to supply the need. The village has the distinction of possessing an Epis-' copal clergyman who declined a bishop ric on the ground that his plain duty lj,y with the small village parish over which lie was and is set as rector. /! , MARRIED AT 124 YEARfi i / ' i ; The Bride Was 80, and the Bride groom Claims to be the Oldest Person On Earth. Atlanta, . Ga., [Special.] ?Hiram Lester, who claims to be the oldest man on earth ao4 tars he is 124 years of age, aud Mrs. Mary E. Moselv, a fat, chubby bride?or 80 summers, were made man and wife at the Ed gewood Theatre last night. Judge Landrura performed the ceremony. Soon after 8 o'clock the visitors frjgan to arrive. Nine o'clock, the time for the wedding came, and no preacher made his appearance. Fifteen minutes passed and the crowd became nervous. Judge Laodrum was callea upon to officiate, but refused. Half past 9 o'clock arrived and still no preacher had arrived. In a few minutes the Judge came upon the stage and requested the crowd to keep quiet. The gallant , grocm and winsome bride were somewhat lwshfuL The curtain was drawn aside and out walked au old, feeble, palsied man, who had to have the assistance of a loag stick while walking. By his side and holding his ann was a feeble, fat' woman, who could ha*dly get along. S de by side the two sat in chairs upon the stage. The groom wore a largo felt hat, coarse coat and trousfrs, and shoes knowu as brogans. lie wore an oltf black tic and had a gray sb.^wl thrown around his shoulders, fn his hand be carried a young sapling wit^nrtlue ribbon tied at the top. The bride wore a calico dress ornamented with stripes, a large loud purple ribbon for neck ornament, a black silk hand kerchief on her head and a black shawl over her shoulders. Judge Land rum stood in front of the feeble couple . Unclc Hiram pulled ofi[ his wool hat. The words of tha Judge could be heard p'ainly as he said : "Hiram Lester, will you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?" 4,Yaas, sir," was tb^repljf "Will you at all times hoaior tnd trust her?'* "Yaas, sir.M A faint tittering in the house couid be heard. Then the Judge turned to the b;ide and said: '?Mary Mosely, fcll you take this man as your=wedded huslKnd, and trust and honor hiin always?" As though she was used to suoh affairs, she said : "Uraph! hugh!"r A laugh went through the spectators as the two held hamfcj,. and Judge Land* rum pronounced them husband and wife. Congratulations were soon bestowed upon the aged couple by the crowd. Un cle Hiram held out at shaking, palsied bsadand accepted the congratulations. Mrs. Lester took them in a sort of don't care way. The coupie were assisted to a hack, and soon disappeared in the d: r'c aeas An Fmrinc Made of Marble. George L. Sevey, au ingenious marble cutter of West S -merviiic, Mass.. ha<? made a small operating engine composed of marble. It has a vertical piston and two side flywheels. The height is twenty- j three inches and it is ten by :wenty in- 1 ches square. There are one hundred pieces of marble, held together by twelve brass screws. The engine is operated by air pressure. ? Scientific American. ALLIANCE D ?XT Dealing In Futures Discussed By Senator Washburn. Add Two More States to The National Farmers' Alliance and In -dustrial Union. It is estimated from very reliable sources that this season Virginia had 100,000 acres devoted to tobacco culture. *?* * * * * GOD GIVE US MEif | "2T OLIVES WETPKLig God Rive lw men; A ttae ukcithto demnnds is ttreat hearts. strong minds, trde faith and Jwlllin* handa J Men whom the luat of office does not kill; x<>n whom the spoils of office cannot buy; *en who possess opinions and a will; Ken who nave h inor. men who will not lie; ror while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creed* If*1?? Pr<??**l?ns and their lfttte deeds. Wrangle in wliUh strife ? lo! Freedom weeps. w rong rules the land and waiting Justice sleeps. *.***** The effect of spraying apple trees with London purple to prevent ravages of the coiling moth or apple worm Is well il lustrated by the experience of Lupton, oF \ irginia, as stated in a recent issue of Insect Life^ The work of spraying was undertaken in Mr. Lupton's orchard, but was discontinued when less than one third of the trees had been sprayed. From these trees 1,000 barrels of apples nearly free from worms were gathered, while from the remaining two-thirds of the orchard only 833 barrels of sound fruit wef? obtained, quite one-fifth of the apples from the unsprayed trees beiDg wormy and unfit for use. Mr. Lupton estimates that his returns from the or chard would have been increased $2,500 bad all the trees been sprayed. ******* FERTILIZERS FOR COTTON'. To the Editor: I expect to plaut about four or five acres in cotton; it is old land which has been subsoiled and is very stiff and heavy. It has been in corn for four consecutive years, is black pine laud with clay foun dation. Now, I want to know, what kind and quantity of fertilizers aro best for it. I would propose this: Equal parts of supherphospate and cotton-seed meal put in each furrow (say two hun dred pounds to each acre) and bed on that and plant; then a second working put, say, one hundred pounds more to the acre. I expcct to plant what we call here the <:Coen or Big Ball" cotton. Ashley, Miss. D, G. Ashley. ******. \ Senator Washburn having introduced a bill taxing all transactions in futures, he -ha 3 been called upon to defend his po sition. In response to some inquiries from the C'hamb:r of Commerce of Min neapol s. he said: Of course .the Board of Trade folks up there occupy ;'the same position as the Chicago board, they claiming to believe that the bill mcrins the utter demolition of all trading ifa futures, bnt they will find y their/ mistake when the bill fortnally^bccomes a law and goe? into effect/ J is especially surprised at the statement made then by President Saw yer^ of 'the Sawyer Elevator Company, n heysaid that not over 10 per cent. of sales mad# on the boards of trade in j, e country were of the gambling char acter. I had ndt the data with me. i>ut I find in looking the matter up that a quite different state of affairs exists. No board furnishes any data to make a com parison from except the New York board, which is small compared with the Chica go board, but even then the figures are startling. Here is a very interesting ta ble that I came across the other day. It shows that during ten days of the sum mer of 1890 the real and bogus sales of wheat were as follows: * Sales of ac- "* Option sales tual wheat, of fictitious Date, 1890. bushels. wheat, busb. April 8, 63,000 18,400,000 April 9, 54,000 * 2,000,000 April 12, 1,800 10,080,000 April 14, 0,000 44,000,000 Sept. 3, . 8,000 8,000,000 Sept. 4, 32,000 6,400,0Q0 Sept. 15, 62,000 7,240,000 ' Oct. 22, 12,000 4,000,000 Oct. 23, 64.000 3.000.000 Oct. 24, 35,000 4,6C0j00) ?X Total. 3#U00 125,720,000 The facls are that during the days named, for each bushel of wheat sold, New Yt.rk market wreckers sold 372 bushels of fiat grain, and that it would require but thirty-six days for them to sell options equalling in amount an aver age wheat crop. An expert, writing on the subject, says: 4 -It is not unusual for as much wheat to be sold in a day as there is Hft actual grain received in a y^ar. For in stance on the 14th of April, 1890, New York speculators sold 44,000,000 bushels of fiat wheat, probably more than twice as much ns reached that city during the year. While the "offerings" in a single day, at cither Chicago or New York, are saii to often exceed 300,000,000 bushels, such offerings having the intended effect of depressing prices. What would wheat have been worth had it not been for the board of trade methods? ?, Well. I think thit ever^ bushel would be woitli 20 cents more to day. * * ' * * *. Add.two ihore States toTne National Fanners' Alliance aud Industrial Union's column. At their recent State meetings the open Alliance of the States of Min nesota and Nebraska voted unanimously to consolidate wth the National Farm ers' Alliance and Industrial Union. Such action demonstrates the wisdom and power of conservative methods, and is conclusive proof that the great Northwest is not afraid of the ^o- called "Southern invasion." The order in these two States hare carefully considered the matter and, in spite^of political 'trickcry and falsehood,, ltaye 'joined^ their ^fortunes with the ifotional Fanners' Alliance and Industrial Union. This will do great good, since it brings with it all the pow er and prestige thai waits upon a united efiort under one central management. Doubtless during the year all retorm ag ricultural organizations will be consoli dated into one. TO MCLTIFLY PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Washington, D. C. ? Representative Davis, a Farmers' Alliance member of the Houss from Kansas, Saturday intro duced a bill to authorize the erection of postoffice buildings in .all placcs of more than , 3, 000 inhabitants, and in cases where the placj is the county, scat with less population than 3,000, the cqst of the buildings to be not less than $G,000'ool more than $30,000. In ? the secoM stories of the buildings there shall be; public libraries. The Secretary of Vat Treasury is authorized to issue Utoited States le^al tender notes to pay for the work done, not exceeding $100,000,000 per year. I BLAINE WOft'T RUN. The Long Expected Letter Written At Last. In a Letter to Chairman Clsrkion He Declares His Name Will Not Go Be fore the Repub lican Conventions / JAJCKS G. BLAINE. , Washington, D. C.? The following letter was ifiade public : Washington, Feb. 6, 1893. To Hon. J. 8. Clarkson, Chairman Re publican National Committee. My Dear Sib:? 1 am not a candidate for the presidency, and my name will nnt go before the Republican Nation- j al Conveution for the nomination. I make this announcement in due season. To those Tj-ho have tendered' me their i supporLlewe sincere thanks, and am j most grSfcful for their confidence. They will, I am sure, make earnest effort in 1 the approaching contest, which is ren- ; dered specially important by reason ;of | the industrial and financial policies of the government being at stake. TE^1 ! popular decision on these is of great mo ineut, and will be of far- reaching conse queuce. Very 'sincerely yours, James 0. Blaine. - The announcement that the Secretary had written the letter withdrawing him self from the neld of candidates was known on the row and in the hotel lob bies within a few minutes after its re ceipt by the Uni.ted Press, its reporters being the first to convey the information. It created much excitement, notwith standing the probability of its utterance: had been discussed for the past forty-; c'-ght with renewed vigor, and its1 appearance thereby discounted to some extent. THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA. More Than 14,000,000 Persona Without Food or Means Of Support. I Washington, D. G. ? In response to many sympathetic inquiries and proffers of aid received from friends in the Uni ted States, the Department of State has received from Minister Smith at St. Pe tersburg nn interesting report of the ac tual conditions of the stricken districts of Russia, prepared from evidence of eyewitnesses and most trustworthy sources, of which the following is an epitome: ? The territory afflicted by the drought comprises thirteen provinces of European Russia, where the famine is is general, viz: Kazan, Niji-Novgorod, Orenburg, Oufa Pcnsa,Riazan, Saratof, SimberUk, Tamboff, Toula,lWptka, and Voronege. In five other psovinees the famine pre vails in part, viz: Kursk, Olonetz, Orel, Perm, and TauriUc. One or two others, like Kharkov, iaave suffered to some ex tent, but are not included in the official reports. / Y The first thirteen provinces cover', on area equal to the StMes of Maine, New Hampshire/ Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut. New York, "^few Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware. Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Kentucky. The population is about eqaal, or about 27,000,000. The five provinces named, if included in the comparison would equ^J the comb ned area of In diana, low?, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min nesota, Illinois, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and half of Ohio. The total population of these last five provinces is nearly double that of the eleven States. This vast section is agri cultural, and the richest and ordinarily the m$st fruitful soil of Russia. The destitution is not universal, as there are those whose accumulations have saved the m from wast, and there are some spots preserved from blight by irrigation where a good harvest was reaped, but at the best estimate the pro portion of suffering is enormous. An of ficial estimate of the number of those without food or means of support who require aid is given as 14,000,000 per sons, and this is probably below the true number. Time is a most important factor in tht work of relief. One hundred and eighty million pounds of food . are necessary. Fifty car load* should arrive every day, but only eleven car loads per d-?y were received Christmas week: The imperial Government has up to the present time applied $42,500,000 from the public treasury for the work of relief, but the work must still go on. The Russian Emperor has j>ersoualIy given cnornjous ly. and all classes are giving according to their means. The loss to ihe Govern ment revenue will be at least 200,000,000 rubles, about $100,000,000, while a con servative estimate of the loss to Russia is placed at not less than one thousand! tnil lion rubles. Up to the present there have been few contributions from abroad, but the Government and the people of Russia are deeply sensible of spontaneous offerings that have been made in various parts of the United States, and the Em peror as well as others have intimated as much to Mr. Smith. - ? ! ' * ? ' i ? ; ? . ? m :o ? President Beers, of the New *STork Life, Retires. New York Cm'.? At the adjourned meeting of the trustees of the New York Life Insurance Company, Mr. Win. II. Beers, the president, resigned, at the re quest of the sob-committee and was vo ted a pension for life of 125,000 a year. ANTI-JOD^SSM UN- AMERICAN. The Jew Covptroi Favorably With the Christian If He Can Be Woghe<l Fairly. Gieorge R. Wendliog, in New York Herald.} V f. ' . * ]/???#_ There is not* drop of Jewish blood in my veins. I adL not connected wath the Jewj by the maraajje of any near or dis tant kinsman; 1 okvfi no Jew a dolla^and no Jew owes me. \ l speak from the van* tage ground of ayHoiute independence. It is a splendid rkrc, splendid in their patience, in their \ love for one another, jfn their endurance, in their sagacity and temperate h tbits, an4 splendid fn their inflexible \adherence to their Mosaic ideals/ X | ' Do you want\ an aristocracy of blood and birth? TneVjews are the! purest blooded people tir^l havo the best estab-. lisbed descent in the world. Not Mirn benu in the Frcncb -Convention, nqr Pat rick Henry in tbo House of Burgesses, noir "Sam" Adams in <fld Colonial ? ays *~7er said a more ; thrilling thing than t)ifraeli sai^i In the English Commons in reply to the charge that he wfci a Jew : Vyes, lama Jew 1 When the attestors of tbe honorable ngetleman were brutal lavages in an unknown^island njioc were priests in the Temjple!^ * \[ i Do you seek an aristocracy of talent? The great chinch historian Ncynder was k Jew; Napoleon's marshals, tfoult and Maasena, were Jews \ t the' brilliant and cynical Heine was a Jew, and? but the world's roll of scldifs, authors, musi cian*, pt inters, po&s, philosophers and financiers, contain more Hebrew names ,tbau I could reciWi in many hours. * t Are you lookiq^ for an aristocracy of 'wealth? The com bined financial power ;of tbe Jews in , Europe can prevent the ! floating of almostany national loan which 'may be put upon the markets of the world. j & if-' Itisa spurious, false Christianity that lifees Jews. Thei mystery of the incarna tion found expression in the flesh aud blood of ai Jew, and, therefore, in a sense we worship a JcW. We get out ten Com mandments ?the very foundation of our civilization? through the Jews. We sing Jewish psalms, are uplifted by the passion and j>oetijr of Jewish prophets, and rely on Jewish biographies for the only history we have of Christ. We get our Pauline theology from a Jew, and /we catch our clearest glimpse of the next Niftrld through the sublime apocalyptic vision of a Jew. Then forsooth, we Christians turn about and sneer at the Jews! I have considwed with teachcra of philosophy who s^oko slightingly of. the Jews and yet were ' teaching with enthu siasm ideas which they had absorbed from Malxnonidei and Spinoza, the two greatest philosophers, omitting Kant, since Plato's dajs ? both of them Jewa. I have heard musicians denounce Jews and then spend days and nights trying to interpret the beauties of Rossini, Meyer beer and Mendelsohn? all Jewa. I talked the other day wiKfra gifted actress and heard both her and her mis band sweeping!/ condemn, confidential ly, of codrse, the -whole race of Jewat^ and yet that woman would give half her remaining life iif she could only reach the heights which the great queen of tragedy, Rachel, trod with such majesty and power? an(l Rachel was a Jewess. Here in Washington I have heard as piring polisic'ans, when beyond the reach of the reporter's pencil, saeer at Jews, and yet iik was a Jew who^nade England's queen Empress of India, and it was a Jew w!bo was for years the adroit and sagacious chairman of the national committee of one of our great political parties. The brainiest man in the South ern Confederacy was Judah P. Benjamin, a Jew, and Chase, when managiog our national finances in a perilous time owed much of his success to the constant ad vice of a New York Jew. That you never s:e a Jew tramp or a Jew drunkard i3 a proverb, that you nev er meet a Jew beggar in a commonplace, and it is a statistical fact th'?t there are relatively fewer inmates of our hospitals, jails and othei workhouses furnished by the Jews than any other race contributes. Convert the Jews! Let us lirst^on vert our modern Christians to genuine Christianity. Suppress the Jews! A score of Russian Czars cannot do it. Every people on earth have tried it and failed. They have outlived the Tudora and the Pluntngeuets, the Romanoffs, the tyrranny of Spain, the dynasties of France, Charlemagne, Constantino, the Babylonian kings aud the Egyptian Pha- j roahs. It was God's own race for 4.000 years, p.nd the awful persecution it has survived for 2,000 more stamps r*ce still bearing some mysterious rela tion to the plans of the Eternal. The beauty and fidelity of Jewish1, women' command mj hora ige, and among wealthy and educated Jews the exquisite refine ment of Jewesses, the'r culture and high breeding, blended with a sort of Oriental grace and dignity, put them among the most charming women in the world. The belief ttiat" *he Jew is more dis honest than the Gentile is one-half non sense and the other half prejudice and falsehood. The anti Jewish feeling which seeo\3 to rising again is un christian, inhuman, and un-Americ^#'' No man can share it who believes iftftne universal fatherhood o( God and th<* uni versal brotherhood <y man. It is born c>i the deviil and is detestable. They Coma and Are Pleased. The German- American Colonization Society has purchased a large tract of land in Florida. Many of those connect ed with this enterprise ar^ veteran sol diers of the Union army, who wish to spend the remainder of their days in the South. Generals 0. 0. Howard and Francis Sisjcl arc among the influential eudorsers of this schcmc, which is under tlie imxofjriate management of Captain Francis Irsch, of Kolter Post, G, A. R, New York city. Lieutenant Howard, a son of the general, has surveyed the site selected for the colony, which is to be incorporated as a township aud named Fleming, in hou r of the prosent govern or of Florida. baadsome park has been laid out in tne center of the prop erty, and the surrounding land has been cut up into teS acre tracts, i On this the Teteracs, their families and descendants will settle and make, it is expected, the nucleus for a large German -American, colony. An agent will JeaVc New York this week to b?gin; the erectiioa of build ings. Wherever Germans shave located in th$' South they have flouii.shed. One of their attractive towns in Piedmont 1 Squth Carolina is Walhaila, which occu pies a lorely sight a few miles from the ;Blue Ridge mouiiir.ir.s. Florida will cordially welcome t'nia r?!ony and all others made up of equally dc^irable'njem bers, and so wilt every other Soutjieca I stt- * ?: ' .I1'-;-: ? " ? ' ,ti L .*- i ' ' kU}l!>l f. : 4i! \ 8H0T TO DEATH ? Iij a Scuffle With , His Sixteen Year Old Soil * Savannah's Deputy Collector Killed While Abating Bit Family, j i Pay ann ah, Ox., [8jjecial. ]? David Porter's too, 4)avid, was acquitted bj the coroner's jury of responsibility in the death of bis father . h'Tie verdict, made op tfter a brief de liberation, ytMA: { Divid Porter aune Wilis death ffpm a istol shot wound; said pistol wasdis " while in the hands of said David deccasod, during a scuffle for its by his son, David, and his Reby, and ire consider his dea thy1 accidental jj :j THE BTOBY OF TH* CUIJCH. j la the night epmo one came in the hjottfe, the son Stated, end went down into tho basemqg/ They thought it was their father, but he lulled to come up When the supper was announced. After that, bearing some one moving about and thinking It might be a robber, he went up stairs and got ; a revolver.from bis. mother's bureau. He and bis sister decided that it was their father, and thought be was asbamea'of his condition, sod would not come .up while they wete there. Fearing he might attempt sul fide while drunk, ho and his sister took his sword and the knives out of. the din ling room] and later locked the door and !Went up to the room of their mother, who has been is confirmed invalid for yc^rs. The boy went into his room when he beard his father comiinjg up the stairs. Bis sister wdht to her room. The father* | "began ^jjsrrelling with the mother about ;'thi| locking of the dining room door. The daughter went Into her brother's room>?na asked him tn back her up, as she wanted to relieve her mother pf the blame. ? the npv's eto^r. \ "I to'4 her all right,"" he continued; then she threw ^open the door and told him she had locked tho dining room. He advanced and struck her. I said to him, 'Don't you dare do that again.' He aaswercd: 4D ? n you! it's you, is it?" He advanced toward trw to strike. me. I had the pistol in mfc bend. I pointed <i toward him to intimidate him. Then I pullet the trigger as be approached with uplifted fist I do not kuWwhe'.her that bullet struck hitia ior not. He kept pj i towards. me cursiuff. He said, 'That's all right," Bave; yov/11 learn to use a pis tol next time.' Then, he clinched with me in my sister's room. While we were ^down he had bis fcnee on me. One of my hands was arounB the barrel and stock of tho pistol, while he had hold of middle. Whpn the second shot was fired, we were in that position. When the third shot was fired, I did not have hold of the pistol. I got hold M the pistol then, and told mother to go back to her room as she might get shot.' Father walked toward the room. -%>on ' afterward I saw him j in the clUir with his head thrown back! and the blood on bi? neck. I cried out : 'He is dead,' and ran cut for a doctor, then I went over to the barracks and gave myaelf up.". The boy showed no signs of nervous ness or excitement throughout the tell ing of the story. Hi' mother's testi mony, and that of his1 sister, a girl, eigh teen years old, was largely corroborative. Everything showed the family life had been an uuhappy one for some time {last. THE DEAD MAN. The dead man wus in his fiftieth year. He wus a native of Maryland, and served with credit in the rmion army. He waa past grand master of tho Independent Order of Odd Fello*^ of Georgia, and past department coinbiander of the Grand Army of the Republic.^ He was deputy collecUjffM this fatty1 The body was take^o^hgusta^ Jy? ' old home, for in ? tcrrAent. / : THE FLIGHT OF THE JONES BROS. \ ? < ? . Supposed to Have Made $120,000 by Selling Poo* Cotton m 4 High Grade. Memphis, Twin.?1 The publication in the morning newspaper* of the disap penranceof all the membere of: the firm of Jones Brothers & Co., as well as the bookkeeper, ^loosened maw toogues. It is evident now that it was^pmneditated and that they have been preparing for it for some timi. They have been buying lew grade cotton, BOme of it known as *'aog tatl,",4nd entirely unfit for the spinney export trado. It was shipped to New Orleans. A few weeks ago the Jones Brothers and Mr. Fleet, special partner, went to New Orleans, chartered two vessels, the Straits of Gibraltar and another, and loaded them with 15.000 bales of cotton, billed as good middling. If low middling had been sent they would hare cleared $5 a bale on tttfc lot, but they bought worse than low middling in many cases, and whole profit may foot up to $120,000. It was rumored bo strongly before the flight that they had done this that local creditors were wnrued to look out. The bank to which they owed $18,000 de manded additional security for their overcheck, aifd they mortgaged their residence property and their interest in the Newport cotton compress. Their overclieck* were given for cotton pur chases, but as they drew on the con- ' s'gnees after shipping, they got the $18, 000 bat k. To mortgage their property in this tirr.c of depression was tne best wav to realise Ou it. W. K. Joaca had an individual ac count with another bank, and drew out all his money, {nearly $3,000. That uight he and his brother left, the latter being so ill that he had to be carrie 1 to a carriage. Fleet sold his Cotton Ex change inemUership to tlje bookkeeper, Lindsay, and Lindsay hypothecated it for $j?50. Jones' Exchange membership was attached by; a creditor. It is now. known that the1 firm's Tupelo, Miss,j houic paper went to protest for $9,000 on Friday, and the holder of the note was here hunting for something to attack So was an attorney for S. BUisdell, Jr., Co , of Cbicopee, Mass., wUifci^Jeads to the bclk-f thai reclamations are tjomiiig in from their eastern spinners as well as from the other side of the Atlantic. The chartered! sterner* sailed on jW 0 and 15, and arc due at Bremen now. ' The drafts were accepted there, so that the^baoks at j New Orleaus win lose nothing Ttteir Bremen correspondents arc Itiusehart & Co. Jones Brothers took 'all sorts of risks, made factors carry -cat ton for them a month after the puroliase, against the jroU s of the Cotton Exchange. . T??y are supposed to be in Mexico. ? ! i .j! i 1" ? THE HOTEL ROYAL Fearful and ViU Yir ? inltke NewY3r*Citt. ? A, 4! Attar ing ia.horror, bringing to. nindt riblo ocdnrtenee InPnrk pfc, jii in the poblic mind, occurrfcTifl early Swday morning. { ijtoBi al, that well-known landmark w stood for more than 4 qwuffcer ot tury at the foutheant corner of ; noe and 40th ktreets, ?wn? lumtM ground ; and a large njamper o ass; dl*9.- Dm w), kt ( l4t* . GREAT FIRE j IN MEMPHIS. The Loss c Probably t IrtM* $780,000, (1,000,000 or fcor*. Memphis, Tam^-The worst phis his ever bad id rtgiog at tbk w ?i" * * esn 0 aod 19 tfcl ^Gwauiy'tt' lud, quickly | y, and fram r and saloon on ltd Monroe anc blaw ati ittg ' It started bet in the Brace Beine and, with a strong to Levv's tryak to Lcunrmann's k corner of Maitf There the witfd eh from the north, j Tbe fire then !6p block south from ? k :ad slot kg tbe eat m t|?e '.Brocr- Beiae , Company, and in s acccssion to^k in - Lanfjstafl Hardware Hurst, auctioneers; 4U~ wholesale dry gtH macufactory of Who} Sale stofea^ Jack & Co." wholesale and VitaQ ware, and tbe Ootfhelf Jewelry _ . pany. West from] Letili mean's tt vjM fi communicated to Charles Meyers saloea . ' and the Huby saloon on Monroe street, j West from Wetter1* it juhijsed an aHfcy nnd spread to Jon ' ' 'h Huhn i: Co.'e pridt just enveloped the any. . iugs, except the last; mm and the main tug hopse, and , Lilly Carriage Co All of these buil named are jjptirely street is m mass spFcad to Second _?T ? reached th$. mani'.facturinjj company's gone of debris. Thfe lira, ud Unioii streets* tid place, but vr&s kep Petbody Hotel and the Armstrong store were sate I under there find a railroad o Fiirnitur^ Com] fii'y by the the walls of the L< ubrmann Hotel. Leubrmann Hotel was one of t equipped hotels lot men only South, and the los i on it is over $100, ( Tbe block was in the heart of tbe t^jr. extending from Monroe to Union, ana was occupied only by .first -cins& houses. i: The total los? is fully $750, QQ#\ and ifay I* i rcach 11.000,000 . k-S The telfepnoRQ, L-lectricjkigh^alldatrMt j | railway compaujfi have lost heavily. j At ' this hour, 32 o'clock, t^eariad has 4 led down and Ihe Ike is prpjU&y under too- \ trol. No H*v* w.4?*i m ? ^ V. " ? HV ? tM UM ty on?merican flour imported ta wefltinto effect January 1st, lait 1-Geneml TVilliims jpartmeot that jhe tbe port of Ilavad'na for "the January last were; as' follows: | United* States, 5 21371 sacks, ti none. \ The receipts: for tat Janaa?^ 18JjlJ wr~~ ^ ' States, 3,720 sack*. Tbe niw VI RVW W U from tbe ports oOfw York, Mobile] ir - ^ K . *602, "W The exports froi "Unary, 1&91, vere *