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Ill TAIMES' SERMON. ?d Elolt? fens lie tees ?pol M tetooi t?ie Day, His Text was taken tropi the Eighteenth Chapter^ Tentft Terse ,of the Book of Revelations. Modern scientists afe doing a splendid work in excavating the tomb of a dead empire holding io its arms a dead eity? mother and child?of the same name? Babybn. The ancient mound in Vites the shovel ? and spade? and crowbars while the unwashed natives look on in surprise. ' These scientists find yellow bricKs still impressed with the name of jSebufchadneszar, ?nct they go ctofrn into thfe ?hrfcop&a<jus ?f ? ?onarcHy juried morte ih?n ?, ($0 veara ago. ??ay tHe exf jyor?tiobs of Kawlios?n arid t?yard ?nd UGfeVar?erahd bpperto dnd Ii?ftiis ?nd fc?hesney be?clipstd by the present arcbfe blogical uncovering. B?t is,it prss?bl? this is a?? ..that re mains bf Babylon f city once five times larger than London and twelve, times larger than. Sew Y rk ! W*tts 373 feet h%h and 93 feet thick. Twenty-five bur nished g?tes on each si?e, with streets running clear through to corresponding gates on the other sid-.-. Six hundred and twenty-five squares. More pomp and wealth ?ud splendor and s?q than could be found m any five mod?ra cities combined. A bity of palaces and t? mples. A city having within it a garden on ?n artificial T I 400 feet high, tlie sides of the m ?un -fcaia terraced. All this built to. keep tte King's. w.fe, A my t is, ffom becoming h?mesick fpr .th? mountainous region, in -&hich she had spent her girlhood. The watt ti of th? Euphrates spouted tip to Brigate this great altitude into fruits and flowers and atbvresbence tinimagin?ble. A gr?ai river running from north to south blear through the city; bridgi s over it; tunnels under it; bo-U on it. bity bf bc?aars and of merket places; unrivalled for aromatic? and ungents and nigh-mettled horses with grooihs by their side, and thyme wood; and African ever green; and Egyptian Ik en, and all s vies ! of Cb*tly teii.Je fabric; and rarest purples eitracted from shellfish o? the Medifcer rkr?e?n coast; and rarest scarlets taken froih br?i lian; insects in Spain; and ivories brbughfc from successful elephant hunts ie India; ?nd diamonds whote flash was a ref?rtee.t? the s?n. Fortress within fort irss; ? batt??meht rising ab )ve embattfe 3&??t. Great capit?i of the ages. But otte night ,whi'e honest citizens were asleep, out sii th? saloons of saturnalia were in fj?I-bUst, and at the king's cas tle ihe? ha3 filled the tankards for the tenth. rirMe,' and feeling and guffawing and hiccotiqghing; aro?inxl the state table vfrere th? rulers of the land, General Cyrus rrdtred his besieging army to take shov els ah8 spades; ?rd they diverted the ? fiver from its u-ual Channel iato another i direction so that Ihe forsaken bed of the river became the path,on which the be sieging army entered. When the morning dawned the conquerors were inside the Outside trenches. Babylon had fallen; and hence the sublime threnody of the tfett : "AlaSj alas, that great Cityj Baby l?h, that mighty city, for in one hour is thy judgment Come." But do nations die? Oh, yeSi there & great mortality among monarchies and republics; They are like individuals in the fact that they are bora, they hasfe a middle life-, they have a de cease?-they have a cradle and a grive. Some of Them are as assinated, some de stroyed by their own hand. Let me call the roll of some of the dead civilizations and some of tbe dead cities and let some one answer for them. Egyptian civilization, stand up. "Dead !" answer the ruins of Karnak.and Luxor, and from seventy pyramide on the east side of the 2* ile there came up a great chorus, crying: "Dead, dead!" Assyrian empire, stand np and^answtr. "Dead!" cry the charred ruins *cf Nin eveh. After six hundred years of mag nificent opportunity, dead. Israeli tish kingdom, stand up. After two hundred and fifty years of divine interposition and of miraculous vicissitude and of heroic behavior an dr. of appalling depravity, dead Phoenicia, stand up and answei. . After inventing the alphabet and giving it to the world, and send ing out her mer chant caravans in one direction to Central Asia, and sending out her navigators to the Atlantic ocean in another direction, dead. Pillars of Hercules and rocks on which the Ty ri : r?-hermen dried their ne??, all answer, "Dead Phoenica." Ath ens after Phidias," after Demosthenes; after Miltiades, dead, Sparta, after Leo nidas, after Euribiades, after Salamis, after Thermopylae ;iead. Roman empire, stand up and answer. Empire once bounded by the British can nei on the north, by the Euphrates on the east, by . the gteat Sahara desert in Africa on the south, by the Atlantic cctan on the west. Home of three great civilizations, owning all tho then discovered world, that was worth owning, Roman Empire, answer. Gibbon, in his "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire," says "Dead!" and the forsaken seats of the ruined Colos seum, and the skeleton of the aqueducts, and the miasma of the Campagna, and the fragments of the marble baths, and the useless piers of the bridge Trium phalis, and the Mamertine prison, holding no more apostolic prisoners, and the sil ent forum, and basilica of Constantine, and the arch of Titus, and the pantheon come in with great chorus, crying: "Dead, dead!'' After Horace, after Vir gil, after Tactus, after Cicero, dead. After Horatius on the bridge, and Cin cinnati, the firmer otearch, after Pom pey, after Scipio, after Cassius, afterCon itantine, after ? >rtr,dead. The war eagle of R me flew so hi^h it was blinded by the sun and came whirling down through the heavens, and ihe owl of desolation and darkness lui It its nest in the for saken eyrie. Mexican empire, dead. French empire, dead. You . my friends, it is no unnsnal thing for a government to perish, and in the same necrology of dead nations, and in tho same eraveyard of eroi ed governments will go the United Spates of America unless there be some potent vo're to call a halt, and unie ss Go 1 in his mercy interferes, and thron'.'h a purified ballot box and a widespread pub'ic Christian sentfment the catastrophy be averted. Th s nation is about to co to the ballot box to exer cise the right of pn?frage, and I propose 1 o set before yon the evils ?h?t. threaten to destroy the American gor^rnment. and to annihilate American ingtitntions, and if God will hep me I wf 1 show yon before I g*>t through the nW* in which each and ererv one may do some'hincr to arres1, that appdlinc calamity. And I shall plongh np the whole Sold The fi-st evil that threaten* 'he annihilation of onr American institutions is the fact that po litical bribery, which once was considered a nrime. ha?b" many coin? to bo considered a to'erabl1 rirtne. There is a les i tima te n=e of monev in elections, in the vrintingof political tracts, and in the hiring of public balls, and in the obtair-in? of campaign oratory; but 's thereanyhonroneuluswhosnpposee fhaf *h*"s vast arnonnt of money now bf iuz raised bv the polifi?*"I parties is coing in a legitimate direc tor? Tlieras1 msfority of it will co to buy r.fs. Hnndreds?nd thousands of men will hnve set before 'hem so mr.eh money for a re pnb!:can vote and sornneh mon y for & demo Tar ic vote, and 'he ? ? rior financial indnce m*Tii will decide the ection. Yoi wa^t to know which party will carry the doubtful states day after tomorrow ? I will ti 11 j on. Tbe party thatgoende tbe most mor.ey. This moment, while I speak, the neddWs ^arrring gold from Wall street, co d from Third street, cold from State street, and g-'>ld 'rom *he Brewf-rs' Asso ciation, are in ail the political headqnirrers of the donbtful ettte^, dealing ont tbe infamous inducement. There used to be bri! ery. but it held its head in shame. Ir was nnde" the utmost secrecy that many years ai;? a railroad company bought np the Wis<*0tjs;n legwJatew aiid m3ny other pnblic officials in the state. Tbe gov. rncr of the state at that tim^ received S50.W0 for his ^ismatm-e. His private secret?is ?i;c:v d .?5,000. TLir?en mrrr:bers of t!;e senate ro eeived SY75, ?00 among if?ka in bonds; Si t'y member- of th-> other bo^e ik1;-^-] from $5,000 to $10.OW each. The lieutenant gover nor received $1'>.':0". Tbo clerks o? rite boa e received from $5,000 to $10000 each. Tb* bank comptroller received 510^000; Two hun dred an-l fifty thousand dollars were divide.! among the lobbyists. You see, the railroad ?a - company was very g?nerons. But all that was hidden, and only through the severest scrutiny on the part of the legislative committee was ! this iniquity displayed;. Now. political bribery ! di ries you, dares you,.-is arrogant, ind will I probably decide the election- next Tuesday. Unless this diabolism ceases in- this country, Bartholdi3s statue on Bedlow's island, with up lifted torch to light-other nations into tbe har 1 ors, had-better be -changed, ?and the torch" drooped as a symbol of universal incendiarism. Unless this purchase and sale of suffrage hhall cease, the American governnr-nt will ex p:re, and: you might as well be getting ready the monument for another dead nation, and let rtiy text inscribe upon it these words: "Alas ! alas ! for Babylon, that great city, thrlt mighty cry, for io one hour is thy judgement come." My f iends, if yon have not noi iced that politi cal briberv is one of ihe ghastly crimes of this dav, ybti have not kept your eyes open. Another evil threatening the destruction of American institutions is the solidifying of the sections against eaeh other. A solid north. A solid south; If (his grjes oh we shall, after ? filile, hate asoliti east. against ? solid west. tf? shall have, solid ihiddle. states- agaihlt e6 id northern stat? ?, we shall have a eolid New York agaiiist a t-oiid $?ehnsylvania lah'd.a. ksolic\ Ohio against a. solid ?eiituekv,, I?, is twenty-seven years smoe iherwar, closed; ,and yet ?.t, e,v<rv pre-idee tialivelection ?he; old aritagiiusm is. aroused. . Y\h*n Gainelcf died, andv. all th? sietes gathered around Ins casket jn sympathy ani in tears, and as hearty telegrams of cond? lence came, from New Orleans and .from Charleston as from Bostop and Chicago, I Eaid to mysi-lf: "I think sectionalism is deiid." But alas! no. The difficulty will never.be erid cd.until each state of thenation is split up iri^ io two or thragreatpohtical parti?svThis country cannot exist Unless it exists as one . body, the natii ?al capital the. heart, sending out through > 11 tie arteries of communication ? armtH and fe to the very extremities. This. nation can:. tot exist unless it exists r-sone fam;ly, and voti might es v.el] have so | brothers against splid sisters, and a solid bread-tray against a solid cradle, and a. solid nursery again-t a solid dining-room; and }Ou might as well have solid tars against solid eyes, and solid head . against fo'.id f< ot. .What, is tbe interest^ of Giorgia is ? the interest tf Ma-sachusetts: what is the interest of Key? York is the. interest of South Carolina.. , Dy?s ihe Oh?o riv^ r change i ? politics when it gets below Louisville? It is nor possible f.?r these scctii ned antagonisms to .continue for a, great many ( years without permanent compound fracture. v n Another evil threatening the destruction of our American institutions is the low state of public morals. What k lied Babylon of mv text?. What kil led Phoenici ? What killed Rome? Their own d pravity; and the fraud and the dninkenes; and the lechery which have destroyed other nar tions will destroy ours unless a merciful God prevents. To shoxvyou the low stite of public morals, I have to cal? your attention to the fact that many men, nominated for offices in diff?r ent states at different times are. entirelv unfit for the p sitions for which they have been Luminateci. ..??.. They have no more qualification for them than a woif itas qualification to.be processor of pastoral theology in a nock of sheep, or a blind mole has qnahficatiou to lecture a cles^ of eagles on op:ics, or than a vulture has qualifi cation to chaperone a dove. The mere enun ciation of ; ome of their names makes a demand for carbolic acid aud fumigation. Yet Chris tian men wili fol ow right on under the politi cal standards. I have to tell you what you know already, that American politics have sunken to such a low depth that there is nothing beneath. What we see in >-ome directions we see in nearly all directions. The peculation and the knavery hurled to the surf?ce by the explosion of banks and business firms are only specimens of great Cotopaxis and Strorr.bolis of wickedness that b il and roar an I surge benea'h, bat, have not yet v regurgitated to the surface. When the heaven-descended democratic party exacted the Tweed rascality it seem d to eclipse eveiything; but after a while the heaven-descended repub lican pirty outwitted Pandemonium with th? Star Boute infamy. My friends we have in this country people who say th? marriage institution amounts to noth ing. Th y scoff at it. We have people walk ing in po ite pari' rs iuour day who are not good enough to be ?-cavangers ih Sodom ! I went over to San Fr ncis:o ten or fi i teen years ago?that beautiful city, that qmen of the Pacific. May the biessing of God come down upon her great churches ahd her noble men and women ! When I got into the city of San Fi anciscb the mayor of tbe ciiy &i,(a the president or'the board of health called on me and insisted that I go and see the Chinese quarter, no doubt e that on my rerum to the Atlantic coast I might tell what dreadful peo ple the Chinese are. But on the last night of my stay in San Francisco, before thousands of people In their great opera house, I said : "Would yon like me to tell you just what I think, plainly and honestly?" They said: "Yes, ics,y.?"' I said: *\D yon think you can j "tsndit sil?" They said: "Yes, yea. yes." "Th? ," I said, * my opinion is that the curse of San Franci-cois not your Chinese quarter, butyour millionaire libertin ? " And two of them sat right before me?Felix and Drus?la. And so it is in all 1?? cities. I never swear, but when I see a man go unwhint of j astice, laughing over his shame and calling his damnable do ds gallantry and peccadillo, I am tempted to hurl red-hot anathema and to conclude that if, according to some people's theology, there is no heli, there ought to be ! There is enough out-and-out licentiousness in American cities today to bring down upon them the wrath of that God who, on the 24th of Au gust, 79, buried Hercxdaneum and Pompeii so deep in ashes that the eighteen hundred and ? hirteen subsequent years have not been able to | complete the exhumation. There are in some of American cities today whole blocks of houses which the authorities know to be infamous, and : et by purchase they are silenced ., by huth money so that such places are as much under the de fense of government as public libraries and asy umsof mercy. These ulcers on the body politic bleed and gangrene away the life of the nation, and public authority in many of the ci tie; looks the other way. You cannot cure such wouncs as tht se with a silken bandage. You will have to cure them by putting deep in the lancet of moral surgery, and burning them out with the caustic of holy wrath and with most ?Jecisive amputation cutting off the scabrous nd putrefying abominations. A3 the Romans were after .ths Celts, and as the Normans were after the Britons, so there are evds after this cation which will attend its obsequies unless we thst attend theirs. Supeistitution tells of a marine reptile, the cephaloptera, which enfolded and crushed a diip of war ; but it is no superstitution when I el you that the history of many of the dead nations proclaims to us the fact that our ship -f state isin danger of being crushel by the ephalop'era of national depravity. Where is h - Hercules to *b*y this hydra ? Is it not time o speak by pen, by tongue, by ballot box, by rhe rolling of the prison door, by the hang nan's halter, by earnest prayer, by Sinaiticde onation ? A Fon of K'ng Croesus is sa'd to have teen dumb and to have never uttered a word until . i saw his f**h< r being put to death. Then he >ioke the s. ..cklesof silence, and cried out: Kill not my father, Croesus When I see the cheatery and the woutonne.-s and the mani old crime of this country attempting to com mit patricide?Vra. matricide npon our institu ions, it seems ?> rne 'hat hps that heretofore have beendnmb ought to break the silence with -sonorous tones of fi.ry protei. I want to put all of tbe matter before you, so tint every honest man and woman will know jn.-t how mattet s stani, and what they ought 0 lo if they vote, and what they ought to do f they pray. T-ds nation is not going to per ish. Alexander when he heard e>f the wealth of [ - Indies, divided Macedonia among his sol 1 is. Some one asked him what he hud kept for imself, and he replied: 'Tarn keeping hope!" And that jewel I keep bright ano ?-Inning in my sou!, whatever else I shall surrender Hope thou in God. He will set back these ceanic tides o? m ral devastation Do you know what is the prize for which contention is nude to-day? It is the prize of this continent. Never since, according to John Milton, when "Satan was hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sk es in hideous ruin and combustion down," have the power* of darkness be<-n so de tetmined to win this continent as they aie u >w. What a jewel it is?a j^nel carved in ie l:ef, the cameo of this plauet! On one side of us the Atlantic ocean, dividing us from the worn-out governments of Europe. On tbe other side the Pacific ocean, dividing us from ih- superstitions of Asia. On the north of us the Ar-tic sea. which is tbe gymnasium in which the explorers and navigators develop the r courage. A continent lO.?OO m?es long, 17.000.WK> square miles, and all of it but about '?ne-s -veuth capable of r:ch cultivation. One hm.dred millions of population on this conti nent of Norm and South America? no hun dred millions, anel room for many hundred mill on- more. Allfl'-ra and all fauna, all met als and tdl precious woods, and all gtains and ..11 finite. The Apalachian range the backbone m:d the rivers the ganglia carrying life all through and out 10 the extremities. *.s bmns of Da?en the narrow waist of a giant conti ti- nt, all to he under one government and all free and all Christian, and the scene of Christ's ? sonai r ign on earth if, according the ex pecta?on of many gooel people, h ?. shall at last ret up his thione in thi-i wuild. Who shall liavi this hemisphere? Christ or Satan? Who shall have the shoiv e>f her inland s< a. the sil ver of iu-r Nevadas, the gold of iu r Colorados, she telescopes < f her observatories, tbe brain f ber universities, the wheat of her prairies, he rice of her savanuahs. the two great < cean benches the One leaching from BafnVs.bay toTciT-i.de] Fuego, aud the other from Bthr ing 9 ri-, i* s C pe Horn and all the inorai, and temporal and sp ritual, aud ev< r?asticg in terestsof a population vast beyond all compu tation save by Him ?hh wboma thousand years areas one day? Who -ball have tbe hemis ohen? VTou and I will decido that or help to decide it. bj e hseitntious vote, by earnest prayer, by maintenance of Christian institu tions, by support t.f great jyhilanthjopies, by putting body, mind and sold (? the right s ue ot all moral," religious and national movement? Ah! it will ?or le long i> fore it will not j m?k*; any difference to you or to me whai be- J comes of this continent, so far as earthly com fort is concerner"1. All we Will want of it will be seven feet by three, and that will take in the targeet, and there will be room and to spare. Tnat is?li of, this ?Purrtl[7 wi'l need very soonr?ihe youngest of ?$. J^nt we hatean anx ietv about the .welfare andtho hapFPuess.oi the g. nerations that are coming on, and it wi?? be a grand tbiogif, when the arch angel's, tram pet sounds, we find that our sepuLcher. like the cna Joseph of Arimatiiea pr..videa<for Christ, is isi the midet of a garden. By that time this coun try will be all paradise, or all Dry Tortugas: Eternal God, to thee we commit the destiny of this people!_ BILL ARP'S LETTER. He Has MHii to Say o? M Qaait 01 City o? San Antonio, A Cbft?lc:&?rat?o?i of P?opi? of Ali Col?rs and Many i?righages; There is ho town on the continent that .is , so quaint, so, antique, so curious as Sail Antot?i?*. Its t? op ciil parks aij.l plaLs, i s narrow streets, its evergreens ?nd flowers, its ctca.fi, ?o?y eck tage homes and stately mansion's ?U.mixed ?j in neighhorly proximity, its public buildings, of pearly stone that are made to conform to th'o old Spanish style, with battlements and balco nies and turrets, and i??s m'ixedp;j)?l ition of ?ll colors and many langu?mes, cause a stranger tp, ft el like he hxs crossed t,h - Kubicon apd goftcp int.. another coun ry?and he has. Of course i: is in Texas, but '?exas is a fr e and iudep- ri dent state with imper.ums and imperious every where you go. In Tyler you can't buy a cigar cut of "tLe hotel sb^v-case* on Sunday, but in San Anton o y? u can buy anything yon want in the sr< res and saleoj:s, for they are all open and Sunday is no mere than any other day, ixcept that there is more frolic au?i more b+er, more whisky..inore shows, more badger figli's, njore sttraciions in the suburb-, than any,: other day. Tli<re are enough people to filj the churches but they are a small pioportion of the population. Th? Germans and Mexicans anjd negroes predominate and they-do as.they please. They arc not ieckhsp(?r devilish of malicious, ?or does it .take many policemen t? ieg?l?*? the city?nqt ?s many ?s it docs in Atlanta in proportion to. the population. ?/ut the general ; dea is todo as you p?as? prov ded you don't impose on anyone else. There i s an old Eng lish maxim that siys *ccus ( m makes law*" and so these Germans are just do ng as their fathers have done for geueratione. They are thrifty, frugali indus?rion ??, peacab?e people and are not CO!?scions of doiug anything wrong in the way they obse've ihe Sabbath. The Mexican s are" a * lower < rder of civilized humanity, but they rank, with the negroes or ?abortrs and citizens, except that, they are peor cooks, poor watess ?in the hotels and poor cottoli pickers. It is hard to draw the color line betw en so mauy ?ojors. It is hard on the railroads to have to provide sep arate first-class cats for the negroes when so few of them travel except on excursions. I have seen a beautiful, chair-scat?d carcccupied by one negro woman for one h iudied and fifty miles while w? white folks wtrej crowded for room in another. But such is the law. The climate of San Ant* n:o is just like l almy spring. I don't wonder, that the hotels are full of northern pecp'e. That is right. Let them come and sp nd their money and mix up with us. Whenever yon. see a nortben man move south and invest some money, you m tv L et that he is a clever man, a lair man. He is 11 ither a fool nor a fanatic, nor has he a bitter prejudice against bur people. Such men are always wel come. I went fr?m San Antonio to Beeville, a lovely little town away down ar Corpus Chris i? just thiuk what a name?"ibi body of Christ.' Bee county was named for General Barnard E. Bee, who was killed at the first battle of Man tesas. His region is called the France of America; and it is filling up with people who grow fruits and veg?t?bles. I rode out to see seme of the beatiti:ril gardens. They do not teem to have any seasons but they plant and gather all the year round. I saw corn that was silking aiid squMsh?s that were blooming and the gardners were still putting *eed in the ground. San Antonio is the great market for all this country and it is growing rapidly. It is already the largest city in Texas. It has been called the wicked city, bat I did not see any signs of it except the dies cratioh t?f the Sabbath. May be S?m Jones has rb'orint-d it for a time and I saw it at its best. Sara is the to.vn talk and it is cf nain that he captured all the thinking peo ple, including preachers, and editors, and law yers a nel doctors. OnSnndayi went to the Episcopal chuten with af. iend who Jives there and the venerable minister, Mr. Richardson took f< r Iiis text. 'What weut ve out for to see, at. ed shaken bv the vnnd?" After be had explained the text and the context he suddenly aroused and surprised bis congrega tion by comparing Sam Jones to John the Bap tist, and he drew the paradel at great length. -i sild. "we Episcopalians do not like Sim Jones' methods nor his eccentricities, for they are utterly at variance win all our traditions, but becomes like John the Biptist came, and he calls the pe? pie to repentence for many long years. I have been pr* aching to you bnt I con ies ? my inability to draw the outsid? sonls who are perishing for the light. Jly prejnd ces against Sam Jon* s have all been dissipate d and I thank "i.e Lord for raising up such a wonder ?raan." He said a gnat deal more in his is-', and it astonished me lor we a l know t the E: iscopalians are the last to yield one 'ot or oik tit le of their time honored and stately forms of church worship. he contrast between Sam Joues' simple ' ms and (hose of this serv ice that I hearel and saw was striking, for he e were twenty little boys in gown and stirpile?, singing and cbantiug the ritual and sometim's they were from-face and sometimes right-face. :;nei at the close of the serv ce their leader took *p the s'aff with its silver crucifix and they all f l owed him down the aisle singing and then back again to the chancel. I never s w that d' ne before, but it was pretty and very impress ive. They have no lad?s in the choir. They have boys only, and when I asked my compan ion, why she smiled and said "lsdy singers in a choir always qu-?rrel." I knew they did in our Town but I didn't know it was a general thinir. I had rather bear them though than boys and they don'r quarrel while they are singing. Even' little while the preacher would say 'and what went ye out for to see ?' Most of the peo ple went out fiom curioiity, but Sam Jones, like John the Baptist, soon arrested their atten liem and provoked their self-examiuat.on, and it was a wond? rftil sight to see?over a thousand ungodly men going up to him at the dose of the servie e and with t(ars, promising him to lead better lives- Such se lus ate not wit nessed at the chus ch( s and my deep concern is how many of this congregation are geing to lead better lives. How much good is this church to get out of tliis great upheaving that Sam Jones has brought to San Antonio?'' I have recentlv visited tome of the most beautiful towns in Texas. Sun Marcos, with its gr. ? s ?v. r springs and its Chantauqna heights is just lovely. So is Bnnett that is iKstieei away up among i*w? granite hills, and so is Cameron, with i:?.-r new $80.000 court rtor.se and her public PChcol building that cost more. I found good friends every where and veterans?veterans who marched through Georgia to ? ;? Johnston's command of* lire and fall hack''and they love to talk a! out it. Most of them are getting grey but they love- the m morios that cluster around that glorious retreat?a retreat that Joe Johnston says in his book resulted in innre feder 1 dead han he hud fold:era in his . And y* t they keep on bragging. I found my old lloman r e nd, Captain McCord. at Cameron and was the puot of bis happy family. The Captain is operating th' finest cort?n s- ed oil mill I ever saw. but he found time to gather up some of th - G- orgia ve crans and we had a loving time.. Mrg. McC< rd says she is satisfied now but it took he-r s-. v. ral years to get weaned from (j< ( rgia. Wbi'c telling yarns about the war the Cap tain told about a one-leg r< bel coming acr< ss an Irishman directly after the war?an Irishman who had been shot all to pi ces a* the battle of Franklin and was 1< ft for dead by the federal surgeons and placed in a farm house to take his chances. But be didn't die. He got well, what tin re wa* left of him. and was at the de pot asking chanty so that he could get back up north and put in tora pension. Tue one leg ged rebel surveyed him from head to foot and bopped round him on his crutch until he was satisfied. The poor fellow had lost his left leg and his right arm and his left e\o and tho bridge of the ne>se--Hll from a rebel shell at Franklin. "That's where I lost my leg," said the rebel, and he slowly put his hand away down in a pen-kct in his undershirt and drew out a rive dollar bill that se:-m d to bo all he had. He gave it to the Irishman and re marked, 'Take th s, my friend, and welcome. You are the first Yankee soldier I ev- r saw who was trimmed up to suit me," and he hobbled away on his crutch. Bux Abp. in Atlanta Constitution. A MEAN MAN. I "I e;atr* do nothin" with Unit man j Jones," said the editor. '-He'stoo mean to live"' ' What's he been doing uowi ' "Weil, lie took ?ick and the doctor -ttan'.-'d to blister him and prescribed a mustard plaster. And what el > you think he did : " 1'Don't know. " "Why. theblaiiKid old skinriuit, $u\ j as he '.vas, crawled out ol bed santi- ? Mii, iti hopes that the sun woul'l '??'. ' j him and save the expenses of th ' ? ?? ! tard '?[Atlanta Constitution. The new railway between Jaffa and Jeru salem is already well patronized. The cars are of the latest American build. Only a low spee i is attempted, and with six way stops the journey occupies about three hours. MC SLM K lg len o? ti World Gonflensea Mo iti? ?j Psisteft lmm$& Interesting and ^nsiructir? io Kit Classes of Readers. A conference of mill managers in New Bedford, Mass., Thursday, decided to follow Fall River's actioD, and itcnase the wage.? Of operatives 7 per cent the first of September. Hon. G. W. Ed les died at his honte in Mansfield, Oaio. Wednesday; age 68 years. He served four terms in congress, / m 1878 to 1886, and was once the democratic ennel date for the supreme bench of Ohio. A London cablegf m of Wednesday says: George Char'es Spencer Churchill, duke of Si?rlbotougiij was fotind dead in his bed in ?lendheiui palate at Woo^ stock th;s morning. He was forty-eight years of atg?'. A S\ Lotfis despatch" says i Congfe-s nian O'Neill decidedTht?isd?y to Contest the claim; of Charles F. joy to' election in the eleventh Missouri district fry going into the tfnited Sta'.?< ?' urt and asking for a coiint ot ih'e vote in the 3 strict. </ A d'spatch from Elizabeth, . J., say s that three unknown men fishing on Biy bridge, on the Jersey Central railroad, at Elizabeth port, Tuesday, were struck by a train and knocked into the water, two of them being drowned. They nre sup posed to have be?ri from Jersey City. A Columbus,. Ohio, special saySj ?)an iel Bornia,- ?ged sixty-two,-, who was a democratic jugde of the election in the second warn, shot himself dead with a pis tol before daylight Ttiesday itiorning. The cat?se was* trouble oler financial and family matters; The election werit on in his house. An explosion occurred in Paris Tiles day morning, by which two policemen lost their lives and another was fatally injured. The affair was undoubtedly the work of anarchists, who were seeking re venge upon the Carmaux Mining Com pany, whose long struggle with their em ployers was amicably settled a few days ago. A special . pab'le of Thursday tO the New York Herald from Kingston, ja maica, brings the ?ntetlige i?? that ad vices received fr?tn ?a}ii tell . of the at tempted ?prisit?g at Cape t?nyfieri. t?ip olyte was on the ?l?rt,- however,- and nipped the revolt in the b?i: There have been many arrests, and it is rumor ed some executions. The St. Louis Globe-Demor rat, repub lican," in,its issue of Wednesday says the democrats will b'e in undisputed control of all branchies of the.gov rnm'ent for the first half of .Cleveland's new terr? at !e >su Tbey will thus he entirely responsible for all the legislation of the two years begin ning with. March 4. 1803, and the p?ople will be ab'le to hold them to a rigid ac countability for the man?gemeht of its af fairs. There waS a great demonstration by the advocates Of Universal s?ffrage at Brussels, Belyium, Tuesday On the occa sion of the opening of the chambers by King Leopold. The city has seldom wit nessed a mote imposing or resolute ex hibition of popular will, and it evidently impressed both the king ani members < f parliament. The Crowd overflowed the street all along the royal route from the palace t? the cnambets- both on the king's departure and return. A Washington special of Tuesday says : Mr. Blaine is represented as attaching se me importance to the point originally raised by General Butler, of Massachu setts, that the twenty-four additional rep resentatives given to eighteen states l?y the eleventh census and which are to be represented by a corresponding number of " votes in th? electoral college ought to be elected to and seated in the prtsent congress, before its expiration on the 4th of March next, especially in view of the fact that there is a remote possi bility that the election of president may be thrown into the house. Adv'ces of Thursday from Chile say that war is imminent between Peru and the Argentine Republic on on c side and Chile on the other. A dispc ch from Valparaiso says that Peru is well armed and her forces have recently received 100,000 Winchester rifles, with other formidable machines ?.f war. In the Argentine Republic vigorous recruiting, Doth among natives ana ioreigners, is Oe ing prosecuted, and the government is with feverish haste arming troops. There is no longer doubt of a secret compact against Chile between the two republics. There was a big liberalist demonstra tion at Brussels, Belgium,Thursday night at the Alhambra theater, fully 3,503 be ing present. At the cenclusion of the meeting the liberals paraded through the streets 2,500 strong and marched toward the palace, preceded by a red fl :g. Ar riving at Rue Montague, the procession was chargea dv a aetichment or gend armes. The paraders were separated into two portions and were finally dispersed ht about miduight amid howlings and hootings and cries of "long live univer sal suffrage." The six story Miller block in Boston, Mass., which was damaged by fire three weeks ago, was again on fire Wednesday night. The two lower fl )ors and basement are occudied by Rice. Kendall & Co , and are filled with paper stock. The third floor was occupied by W. S. Bent & Co., job printers; the fourth and fifth floors by ' S. T. Abhott & Co., book oinders; the sixth floor by the Boston Mailing Company. It was on this floor that the fire started. The fire confined itself to the two upper fl >ors and was speedily extinguished. The I sses nre estimated at $G0.000. THANKSGIVING DAY. The President Names the 24th as a liay of Thanksgiving. The following is President Harrison's proclamation announcing Thanksgiving Day : the gifts of God to our people lining the pa*t jear have been so abun d ?nt and special that a spirit of devout thanksgiving awaits not the call, but >nly the appointni nt of a day when it in iy have common expression. He bas ?tayed pest?i-nee at our door. He has given us more love for free civil institu ions in the creation of which, under His directing providence, was so conspicu ous. He has awakened a deeper rever ence for the law. He has widenel our nhilantbropy by a call to succor distress in other bods. He has blessed our schools and is bringing for ward a patriotic and God fearing genera t on to execute his great and benevolent designs for our country. He has given us rent increase iu material wealth, and a wid<i diffusion of content and morals in the homes of our people. He has given his gr;ic: to the sorrowing; wherefore, I, Ben j unin Harri?.u, president of the United States, do call up >n all our peo ple to observe, a- we have been wont, Thursday, the 24th day of this month, November, as a day of thanksgiving to God ft>r his mercies and supplication for his continued care and grace. In testi mony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand F id ci used the seal of the United States to be ? \<:<|. D neat Washington, this the fourth da*. ' '.?> ?. < ruber, one thousand eight j hundred and ninety two, and of the in- i < ? pendente ol the United Stat s the en* hundred and seventeenth. Benjamin Harrison. By the president : John- w. FejSTUH,Secretary of State. BUSINESS REVIEW Bj B. ?V #a* xn* ?o.'s Mercantilo Agency. R. G. Dunn & Co.s' weekly review of trade says : Even in the last week before the presidential election business contin ?kdfeij active} indeed, the volume is af b?yo?'?; a?'y repto? t for a ?i mi lar pe r?od^ y^et th'e, coming ?le?tioi ??s Mainly ffimmisn'ed business i? two way's. Mul titudes have been ?^ver^?d fron? trade t? political activity, and mois hajve chosen to postpone transactions until the political uncertainty has been removed.. The fact that even under 'these circumstances trade has been enormous shows how pow itfal is this impetus toward activity and ?lpai'^c'n" "?he people are clearly buy ing more gooae" ?tat? ?ter,? end i? some imtances the manufacturers ?fe realiz ing a slight advance in pricel. ( Mo???y is closer at some western points, btit no where is a stringency seen, and there is no apprehension as to the immediate fut ure. The sales of cotton have amounted to more than 1,000,000 bales, and prices hatiflg advanced an ? for southern ac counts, appears to indicate a greater de crease in the yield, and receipts are again Comparatively small. Speculation is not vety active, e*cept in cotton. At Philadelphia iro? has an advancing t?hdencj-. Trade i? healthy and buoyant at Baltimore,- though open weather re gards some branches and wilt lesson the oyster packing n?w in f?ll bl?st. Pitts burg notes a'ctivity in iron", especially in finished products, and fair trade in glass. At St. Louis, though the weat&ef checks trade in woolens and clothing, gr feerie?, and boots and shot s and dry goods generally are strong and grain re ceipts are heavy. At Louisville business is ? f?ll average, and at Memphis is Slightly improved, though below tbe nor mal V?lumc; AtKew Orleans the labor trouble retards trade, but cotton is higher and active, and tbe receipt* of su gar ate libeial, With good demand. Th? iron business improves everywhre a?$( Unsold stocks ire fast disappearing. Pig is stronger, ?Mt bar is somewhat weak. The demand tot plates is Only moderate, but for structural irofl is Very large, and sheets are active, with especial pressure for the lighter qualities. West ern competition depresses plates, but for the industry as a whole the tone has dis tinctly improved. Wool sales for the week have been 7,100,000 pounds, against 4,800,000 the same week last yeaf, and since May 13 tbe increase has been 37 per cent. The demand for woolen goods is active for the season. Cottcn goods are firmer and in seine lines higher in price. The Fall River mills hav? voluntarily increased wages 7 per cent. The boot and shoe factories are sur prisingly busy for the season, the ship ments for this week exceeding last year's $ p?r cent. The advance in paper has been mainlined,- though there is some feeling of Unceitainty. ?be ?ank of ?ngland made no advance in rates and money here has ben steady at ? per cent. Circulation of all kinds in creased $10.000,000 in October aud is now oYer $1,606,000,000; This week the treasury has put out $600,000 more notes, while increasing its specie but $100,080. Merchandise exports are improving, and the excess of exports over imports is new large in general. Nothing seems to foreshadow a mone tart difficulty, and with colder weather and the political uncertainty removed, great business is anticpated. The business failures occurring through out the country during the past week uuthber for the United States 207, against i%Z for the con esponding week last year. COMER'S REPORT On the Cond tion of the Central Rail road?A Discouraging TieVf. A Savarin?h special says: Receiver Comer's long expee'ed report on the financial condition and outlook of the Central railroad was made public Friday, together with an equally voluminous re port by General Superintendent Wad ley, on the state of the system and its equip ment. It is hard to tell which report has had the most depressing effect on the public mind. From Mr. Comer's report people have generally got the idea that the Cen? trai is insolvent, while from the report of Mr. Wadley they have been convinced that the report that the roads comprising the system had been allowed to tun down terribly was only too true. Mr. Comer pointed out that for four or five years the expenses and fixed charges of the company have been rapidly increasing while the earnings have been decreasing. Tbe expenses for the uext year, he estimates, at figures twice as great as the expenses for 1887, with a prospect of the earnings being consider ably less than in that year. On the part of Mr. Wad!ey, he comes forward with the discouraging statement that in order to place the system in a conditicn where it can be economically run there must be expended within the next two or three years over $5,000,000. He does not m <ke any suggestions, though, as to where this great sum is to come from, and Mr. Comer presents the general superintendent's report with out comment. In fact, comment seem to be unneces sary. The exhibit made is so paralyizing that it will be difficult for the public to grapple with and comprehend the facts without study ini: suggestions. On the main line, Mr. Wadley 9ays, that there are ninety miles laid with fifty six pound steel, which is for the gre ter part in a bad plight. Some of this rail recently replaced, shows vertical bends as great as six inches from a straight line in the middle of a rail thirty feet long. This is by no means an exception, and is due to neg lect in not keeping sound ties under it and having inte'ligent trackwork done. A large amount of ditching is needed. A large force is at work remedying this and other defects. lie gives an elaborate review of the condition of nil the brunch roads, terminal facilities, etc., which will be interesting reading to tho<-e secu ring copies of the report, and which is not calculated to advance the value of securities. The equipment of the Central, he says, is very limited, the company only hav ing 1,336 fiat, 2,190 box, 7(8 coal and 48 stock cars. This gives only abou* one aud fourteen-one hundredths box cars per mile and seventy-one hundredths fiat cars per mile, a proportion far below that of other roads. During the last year 700 cars were condemned and no ad ditional cars have becu bought since 1800, As reasons for increasing the equipment, he shows that for car mile age the company is paying out nearly $150,000 per annum. COTTON GOES UP. The Rise Generally Attributed to Cleveland's Election, liad au observant min confined his at tention entirely to the market renorts Wednesday he could easily have dis cerned Cleveland's election in the change of the figures. Cotton took a bin jump. January cotton opened at S.l??3 and boon went to 8.77. Fein uary cotton r<??o from 8.70 to 8.00, March e >ttoa from S 90 J ? 9.0o, aud so on, May cotton being quoted at 9 21. This speaks volumes, ft means a prospero:-? er.a for the south, and an j increased valuation for southern invest ments. Thursday mom ing a *t?! greater increase was Shown, when January cor t?n touched 8.81, a rise of eighteen points over Wednesday's opeuiug figures and of over thirty points over Monday's close. THRO?&HO?T TE S0?11 N?? si 1er Progress ani Prosperity And Important Happenings from Day to Day Tersely Told. Robert B. Peep?es,- of tile firm of Pee* ?les S? Trotter,- one of tbe Ieadirig whole sale grocery ..hou'sjs* in' Chattanooga^ Tenn., commitrea s-Vic?d?^ Th?rSdaV morning, by shooting himself ?? tire head with a pistoi. A Savannah, Ga., dispatch says: One remarkable evidence of the beneficial eifectoi Cleveland's election came Thurs day ?n the Strcfden demand from New York for ?e?rtral railroad debentures and stock, ?3 wer! ?s inquiries iof other Csa tral securities;. President Corners ?ettef to the stockholders fr?d to go?d effect in showing that with three y?'ar? of good business the Central would be all righ'r. A New Orleans dispatch says: The electric light people notified the gover nor and municipal authorities that the city would be in darkness Tuesday night owing to the strike and threats of vio lence made against their workmen. Both sides are still firm aud business is tied up. It is said that President Gorn perg of the f ederation of Labor, and Mr. Powdefly of the Muigbta,- have been sent for. Facts concerning an immense re?l es tate ?r?n2a?tion became known in Bruns wick, Ga., Saturday. R. R. Hopkins, real estate agent and owner of the Hop kins railroad in Camden county, sold his entire interest, including track, cars, lo comotives and timber interests to P. L. Conquest <fc Co., of Virginia. This trans action, added to Conquest & Co.'s large holdings, makes them about the largest cros3tie firm in the country. The sale involved about $38,000, but the exact figures could not be learned. ?t was made known Thursday, that on October 28tb, C. T. Pollard of Montgom ery, A a., was appointed receiver of the ?lobile and Girard, a part of the Central system of Georgia, extending from Co lumbus, Ga., to Seawright. The app dnt ment was made by Chancellor Poster on a bill filed by a stockholder. The re ceiver has n^tyet taken possession of the road, because of the want of rolling stock, all of which is in the hands of Re ceiver Comer, of the Central railroad of Georgia. Papers are now in the hands of officers of the United States court at Montgomery to be served on Comer to show cause why he should not turn over the rolling stoek to Pollard r.s receiver. a mamm th walk-out. Fifty-Three Thousand Cotton Spinners on a Strike. A London cablegram of Monday says : As the lockout in the cotton trade be gan at the usual midday closing hour Saturday, the exact number of operatives affected dan now only be known. The secretary of the Amalgamated Associa tion of Operative Cotton Spinners, thinks that 53,000 persons will be rendered idle by the lockout or strike, the trouble par taking of both features. His estimate, however, may be modified should the stampede among employers spread. The Federation of Master Cotton Spin ners has never been very successful in its lock-outs, and the present trouble prom ises to be no exception to the rule. Since the masters issued their notices that the spinners would have to submit to five per cent, reduction io their wages there baa been considerable improvement in the co*ton trade, acd manufacturers are loth to shut their mills and forego the profits in sight. Should the manufacturers spinning American cotton offer their old em ployes the old rate of wages it is highly probable that about 15,000,000 spindles would continue to run and the number of idle spinners and others would be reduc ed to 30,000. At any rate victory for operatives is practical certainty. Only one mill in Heywood closed Monday. With so many mills runn'n? the posi tion of the strikers and locked out oper atives is materially strengthened. The spinners at work pay a small proportion of their wages into the strike fund, which is already very large, and this will allow the operatives to stay out for a long time. Each manufacturer belonging to the importers' federa'ion pays a fine of one farthing for each spindle he runs during the lockout, but it is evident that on the present occasion many of them can pay the wages demanded by the spinners and the fine and still tun their mills at a sat isfactory profit. If this were not the case mills would be closed. NOVEMBER COTTON. The Department of Agriculture Issues its Report* A Washington dispatch say?: The No vember returns to the department of ag riculture indicate a very light cotton crop with ?hort staple, gathered gener ally in good condition. The local esti mates range from two-fift'is to four-fifths of afull crop. Many make it tbe worst crop since i860. In a very few locations a fair crop is promised. On the Atlantic coast the loss isattrib u'ed to the alternating heavy rains and drought. A cold and wet spring was followed by long continued dry whether, producing lar^e weeds nrcl dificieunt fruitage. Picking in this region is well advanced and the crop partly marketed, while the killing frosts on the 27th and 28th tilt., has reduced the top crop. There is great unevenness of growth and '.hp range of production is very wide. One correspondent in Alabama says that some of the fields will quire twen ty acres to make a ba'e, while some iu Mississippi are estimated at a bale pu ?ere. Iu the Mississippi va'ley there is also a <rood growth of stalk and small devel opment of boils. The injurious factors are a cold and wet spring, defective stands, drought aud boll worm*. The early r.iins forced cotton in slender joints with poor bolls. The weather is favorable lor gathering, but unfavorable for niatu ing. The yield of lint i* g> nernlly short in proportion to the weight of seed cotto; and the staple is short, though generally clean anil of g<od quality. FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE. A Freight Train Telescopes a Caboose aud Four People Killed. A fearful catastrophe occurred on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul road Wednesday nig! '' at Richlind Center, a small station north of Ottumwa, Iowa. A fast freight train dashed into the ca boose of a local freight traiu standing on the trick, telescoping the caboose and four cars. The caboose caught tire and four pec pie were burned alive.and a num ber of others had narrow escapes. The caboose was sp it by a car of gniiu, wedg ing in four people on the right side. Three of the victims wove wouieu. The roan who was killed was unknown. A curious incident \\a> that of one of t'ie passengers who was disguised, and in the ( tash the disguise came off revealing a noted crook. He quickly disappeared in the excitement. \ \?. <:o >D M.V\ 1 ;ik - to ?!?. but do you ku ?w It'jj >?.?!<to o tint 1 ever go. Afwiottgh I like the limiting, Do not desire to t?-l! a lie. ?[Judge. THE PRINTERS JOIN IN And. the Big Strike at New Orleans Grows Apace* The strike at JSew Orleans Monday morning was more gaserai than ever. The decision of the typographical union to join ihe striking phalanx has aerved ot?fer bodies, which were neutral in tbe matter, Z??&ll labor unions, which sign ed the call for a general strike, are now out, except the eoi ton laborers. It is understood the men afe ready to quit work when the committee gires the word. Not a street car is running, bo work is being done and the only sign of activity is ?n the wholesale grocery dis trict, against which tbe strike was prin cipally directed. The strike of the printers h?? t&e effect of closing all newspapers, except The Daily States, which the printers hare been fighting for several years. The proposition made, through the governor, to arbitrate the question of hoars and wages, but leaves the question of uoionism entirely alone, has not yet j been responded to. The governor is keeping hrs staff within call, and the ! militia is ready to come ont or short no i tice. Little violence of ant kind as yet, and nothing to warrant the sending o? troops to reinforce the police. There is a wide spread feeling resulting from the state ment of the gas people that unless the utmost care was exercised dangerous ex plosions mleht follow the cutting off of the gas supply. The people are also get ting worri'd at the prospect of cutting off the water supply, which would place the city at the mercy of the fire fiend. Steamboats are tied up as a result of tbe strikes of the mates and engineers, and business is being seriously ham pered. The merchants say they absolute ly refuse to recede from the position not to be restricted to union men in the em ployment of labor. They are prepared to close up if necessary. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Developement in the Past Week. A review of the industrial situation in the South for the past week shows a moderate and Steady increase in the number of new indas trit s < stablished. Several flouring mills, iron working plants, coal mines and quarries, and an increase in the average number of new cot ton mills, ?8 shown in the reports, indicate that thefe is* an encouraging condition of indus trial development. The new furniture factories, saw and planing mils, lumber companies and other wood wo kin g plants which have been es tablished during the week are more in number than for a considerable time. Forty-seven new industries were established or incorporated during the week, together with 6 enlargements of manufactories, and 9 import ant new buildings. Among the new industries reported aro a bra*s and iron company at Knox viile, Tenn., canneries at McKenzie and Union City, Tenn ; brick and tile works at Savannah, Ga, and Dickson, Tenn., and a cigar factory at St Augustine, Fla. Development companies, one with $500,000 capital, are reported at Sa vannah, <?a_, a $30,000 electric light company at Marlin, and one ct Marble Falls, Texas, an elevator at Owensboro, ?y., a $75,000 flouring mill at Atlantai Ga,, one with $30^000 capital at Beiden, Texas, and one capitalized at $10,000 at Paragonld, Ark., foundries and machins shops at Hnntsv?ie, Ala. Borne, Ga., and Dyewburg, Tenu., a $50,000 coal company at Laredo, Texas, a $50,000 as phalt company at Dallas anda $30,000 ore sampling company at El Paso. Texas., and a $500,000 phosphate and mining company at Charleston, W. Va. A $200,000 cotton mill will be bui. t at O wen eboro, Ky.. and others at Tuscumbia, Ala., Barn we ? and Lockhart Shoals, S. C.j and a knitting mill at Meridian, Miss. Among the working plants of the week are iurnitnre factories at Dublin, Ga., Tyler, Texas. Boauokp, Ta,, a $50,000 lumber company at Nichols, Ala., and one with $20,000 capital at Waco, Texas, and saw and planing mills at Peach Orchard and Farksdale, Ark., Tampa, F.a., Canton, Ga., and. Alexandria, La. Water works are to be built at Van Buren, Ark., and Coleman, Texas, and a sewr rage system es tablised at Cbarlotteville, Va. Among new buildings to be erected are busine s houses at Angusta and Brunswick Ga., and Owens doto, Ky., a $40 Ott) church at Decatnr, Ala., a $40, 000 hall at Louisville', Ky, a $50,000 hotel at Jug Tavern, Ga., and a warehouse atBambnrg, S.O. _ STREET C?R STRIKERS Are Causing. Considerable Trouble in Columbus, Ohio. The street car strike, which was in augurated in Columbus, , several days ago, took a threatening aspect with the attempt of the company to start their cars Thursday morning. About seventy-five policemen, under Chief Murphy, were taken to the Long street barns before seven o'clock, and preparations made to run out the cars. Two non-union motor men and two conductor* were on hand and took their positions after Chief Mur phy had drivenjthe atrikers from the com pany's premises across the street into the commons. The cars were filled with policemen and succeeded in getting a good start. They were stopped and turned back* before reaching South Barns, where a large number of ittikers had congregated. The sympathizers with the strikers are notifying tbe shop hands and all union men to turn out and prevent the cars from running. THIS IS8AWF?L. "My!" shrieked the saw. "This sets all my teeth on edge." "It might mine," answered the file, "were I not hardened to it."?[Indianap olis Journal._ ATLANTA MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY. Groceries. Coffee?Boasted?Arbnckle's 22.60 ? 100 lb cases, Lion 22.00c; Levering's 22-60c. Green-Ex tra choice 20c; choice good 19c; fair 18c;com* mon 16}?c. Siigar-Grannlated 53?c; o? granu" lated ?c; powdered 5Xc; cut loaf h%\ white extra C 4e; New Orleans yellow clarified 4%c; yellow extra C 4c" Syrup?New Orleans choice 48@50; prime 35@40c; common 30?35c. Molasses?Genuine Cuba 35<g38c -imi tation 22@23. Teas?Black 35@55c; green 40@60c. Nutmegs 65<S>70c. Clove- 25<?S0c. Cinnamon I0@12^c. Allspice 10@llc, Jamai ca ginger 18c Singapore pepper 14o; Mace $1.00. Bice fair 7%c; good 6%c; common 5l/<@6c; imported Japan 6<g7c Salt?Hawley's dairy $1 50; Virginia 72>?c. Cheese?Full creami Cheddan -c; flats 12>?c; White fish, half bbls.$4 00; pails 60c Soa"ps?Tallow, 100 bars, 75 lbs $3 00a 3 75; turpentine, 60 bars, 60 lbs, $2 25 a 250; Candles?Farafine 12c; star 10%c. Matches? 400s $4 00; 300s $3 00a3 75; 200s $2 00a2 75; 60s, 5 gross $3 75. Soda?Kegs, bnlk 3c: do 1 lb pkga 5%c; cases, 1 lb 5%e. do 1 and ".'lbs 8c, do%lb 6lic. Crackers?XXX soda 6>^; XXX butter 6%c; XXX pearl oysters 6c; shell and-excelsior 7c; lemon cream 9c; XXX ginger snaps 0c; corn hills 9c. Candy?Assorted stick 6^c; French fciixed 12V?c. Canned goods?Condensed milk $6 00aS00; imitation mack-rel ?3 93a4O0; sal mon $6 C" i7 50: F. W. ovsters SI 75a-: L.W. $125; con $2 50a3 50; tomatoes $160. Ball notash $3 20. Starch?Pearl 4>$'e; lump 5c; nickel nackiges $3 59: celluloid $5 09? Pickles, plain or mixed. p;n;s$l OOal 40; quarts $1 5,->al 80. Powder?Rifle, kegs $5 0>. % kegs $2 25; -4 kegs SI 85. Shot $1 69 per sack. Flour. <iratu anil Meal. Flour -First patent S5 50; secon 1 patent $4.75; rxtra fancy $3.90 : f.tucv $3 75 ; family $300@$350. Corn--No. 1 white 60o. No. 2 white ?c: mixed ?c Oats? Mixed 42a-c; white 44o; Kansas rust proof 51c Hay?Choice timothy, large bales, 85 No. 1 timothy, large bales. SOc: ch dee timothy, small bales^ 85c; No. 1 timotuy, small bales. 80c; ?>. 2 timothy, small bales, 75c. Meal?Plain 62.'; bolted 5So. Wheat bran Large sacke 83c, small sacks 90c Cotton seed meal?$110 per cwt. Steam feed?$1.35 perewt. Grits?Pearl. $3.59. Conntrv Produce. Eggs 19c. Batter?Western creamery 30c choies Tennessee 22%a25c: other grade* 10al2%c Live poultry-Turkeys 10@13*?{c p?r lb: hens 31 and *>2 young ehickeue large 20a25cr small spring t2%al8e. Dressed poultry?Turkeys l?al8o; ducks I5c; chick ens tffralo. Irish pnatoKs, 2.50<??3.00per bbl sweet potatoes new?40&5 por bu. Honey? Strain-d 8al0c ; in tue comb lOalic. Onions $3.00a3.f>0 per bbl. Provision?. Clear rib sides, boxed \ ice-enred bellies 10%c. Sagar-cured hams 12alSc, according to brand aud average: California break fast bacon I2al2>?\ Lard-Pare leaf ?t leaf 9%; reti ned none. Cotton. Market Finn ?Middling 7^c Kot Se Wide After AIL j The world is wide they say, And each may go his way. No need is there o? strife, And one for peace may pray - In all his daily life. If aught distaste fu 1 lie Anear thee pass it by, And thy aspiring gaze Turn upward to the sky To what thou fain wouklst patee? So may we all be taught; So train the early thought In good and peaceful ways, That all, as people ought, May live but happy days. I truly like the plan, It hath a broadened span Beaching to better things, Far better even than The warJor-psalmist sings. But somehow I can not To such a quiet lot Attune my rebel fate, For just as sure as shot I meet wbate'er I hate. ?[Detroit Tribune. HUMOROUS. Candied opinion?Taffy. Under a cloud?Umbrellas. Kindred evils?Poor relations. J?eraisiency is a great virtue, bat it is hard to admire it in a fly. Not necessaiily after a bird?the man who goes out for a lark. The farmer considers his fields well carpeted when they're ingrain. The fellow who marries the "reign ing belle" often has a stormy life. Do not call a Boston boy a ?Hob* bub" unless you want to raise one, It is said that the guillotine is ihe most successful remover of daudruffl The flounder is a fleh that requires lots of seasoning, and even then it is flat. Youth?Pa, give me an example of a "floating debt" Pa (sadly)?My yacht. , A man may run into debt, but he sel dom comes out at anything faster than a walk. "That dark-haired lover of yours is badly sunburned." "Tes ; I call him now my little black aud tan." Bolts do entice. Its jam was iree, No youngster would desire H. Make pleasure difficult and see ? * How much a man requires it. "Iu order to live well," said the mas who rejuvenates wearing apparel, "1 must be careful to dye well." "When it comes to making a lining for a nest," sofily quacked the eider duck, " ? got it down fino." She?I can sympathize with you. I was married once my seit He?Bui you weren't married to a woman. Husband?My dear, there's a burg lar in the room. I have no revolver. Wife?Then look daggers at him. Persistency is the road to success. The only known exception to this rule is the case of a hen sitting on a china egg Penelope?Going into business* Cholly?No, father thinks Fm to? much of an ass. Pm going into society. It isn't until a man gets to be rea sonably rich that other people come to him and tell him how he can make a lot of money. "Young Whizz is living a rathe* fast life now isn't he?" "Yes, he has to, you know. He's* conductor on an express train." If the orator is referred to asa word painter, why not refer to the lecturer in a deaf-and-dumb institute as a sign painter. A correspondent writes to know what he ought to get for "kicking cows." We should say about a year if he does it habitually. *Tm saddest when I sing," 'twas this Her vocal art did try. She got no further ere she heard Him murmur, "So am I." Rivers?The cholera bacillus, it seems, is shaped like a comma. Banks ?Then why don't the authorities knock its tail off and bring it to a f uli stop, Cawker?What is this pair of spectacles worth? Jeweler?Three dollars. Cawker?Can't you knock off half, because I'm blind in one eye. She?I don't believe you love me as much as you did before we were married. He?Just as much as 1 ever did ; perhaps not as much as I said I did. jj A lady said to a gentleman who was suffering from influenza: "My dear sir, what do you take for your cold?" "Five pocket handkerchiefs a day, madam." Professor?Wait, wait. You are playing that part too loud. Don'* bang so. Maiden?Oh don't worry about that, professor, the piano is a hired one. She?How angrily those little waves dash against the boati They seem to be clamoring for something. He?? They are ; but they wont get it if I can hold on lo it, The Widow?Do you think marriage is always a failure? Bulfinch Al ways a failure! Well, I should say not. Why, I know a case where the wife fairly idolizes her husband, and he?why, he cau't keep away from her a minute. Tbe Widow?Bless mei How long have they been married? Bulfinch?Nearlv a week. m_ h Kaiural Iron. Diamond Studded. Pieces of natural iron have beat found in Arizona, near the Canon Diablo, which possess an extraordinary hardiness and contain small cavities which are filled with a black svi* j stance in which are diamonds, some halfa millimetre in diameter. The specimens of natural iron appear to bo of meteoric origin. The occurrence of the diamond in natural iron, whether of historic origin or not, is an extremely interest!m fact