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REV. DR. T?LM AGE. text: *2 samcel xxr, 10: <;axd riz pah ths daughter of al ah took sackcloth, etc, : TBSXt "And Rizpah, the devancier o? Aiahy toon sackcloth and spread it fov i)sr ?pon the rock, from the beginning of h?-r* vest until teater dropped upon them oat o) heaven, and suffered neither the birds oftJu air to rest on them by day nor Vie beasts o) the field by night.13?11 Samuel ,, 10. Tragedy that beats anything Shake spearean or Victor Hugoian. After return ^ ing from the Holy Land I briefly torched "*\ upon it, but ? must have a whole sermon for that scene. The explosion and flash of gun powder have driven nearly all the beasts and birds of prey from these regions, and now the shriek of the locomotive whistle which is daily beard at Jerusalem will for many miles around clear Palestina of cruel claw and beak. Bnt in the time of the text tr?ese regions were populous with multitudes of jackals and lions. Seven sods of Saul had been croci Sed on a hill. Rizpah was mother to two and a relative to five of the boys. What had these boys done that they should be crucified? Nothing except to have a bad father and grandfather. But now that the boys were dead, whv not take them down from the gibbets? Ko. They are sentenced to bans: there. So Rizpah takes the sackcloth?a rough shawl with which in mourning for her dead she had wrapped herself?and spreads that sackcloth upon the rocks ne >r the gibbets, and acts the part of a sentinel, watching and defending the dead. Yet every other sentinel is relieved, and after being on guard for a few hours soma on9 else takes bis place. But Rizpah is on guard both day and night and* for halfa year. One hundred and eighty days and nights of obsequies. What nerves she mr.sfc have had to stand that : Ah. do you not know that a * mother can stand anything ? Oh, if she might ba allowed to hollow a place in the side of t'- e hill and lay the bodies of her children to quiet rest! Ifin some cavern of the mountains she might find for them Christian sepulture! Oh. if she might take them from the gibbet of dis grace and carry them still farther away from the haunts of man, and then lie beside them in the iast long sleep! Exhausted na ture ever and anon tails into slumber, bat in a moment she breaks the snare and chides herself as though s?e had been cruel, and leaps up on the rock shouting at wild beast glaring from the thicket ana at vulturous brood wheeling in the sky. The thrilling story of Rizpaa reaches David and he comes forth to hide the indecency. The corpses had been chained to the trees. The chains are unlocked with horrid clank, and the skeletons are let down. All the seven are buried, and the story ends: But it hardly ends before you cry out, **Wbat a hard thing that those seven boys should suffer for the crimes of a father and grandfather Yes, but it is always so. Let every one who does wrong know that ha wars not only, as in this case, against *wo generations, children and grandchildren, i^t against all the generations of coming time. That is what makes dissipation and unclean ness so awful. It reverberates in other times. It may skip one generation, but it is ant to come up in the third generation, as is suggested in the Ten Commandments, which say, ""Visiting the iniquities of the father apon the children unto the third and fourth generation.** Mind you, it say s nothing about the sec ond generation, but mentions the third and tile fourth. That accounts for what yea sometimes see?very good.parents with very bad children. Go far enough back in the ancestral line and you find the source of all the turpitude. "Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.'' If when Saul died the consequences of his iniquity could have died with hfrn it would not have been so sad. Alas, no! Look on that hill a few miles out from Jerusalem and see the ghastly burdens of those seven gibbets and the wan and wasted Rizpah watching them. Go to-day through the wards and alms houses and the reformatory institutions where unfortunate children are kept and yon will find that nineout of tan had drunken or vicions parents. Yea, day by day on the streeis of our cities you find men and women wrecked of evil parentage. They are moral corpses. Like the seven sons of Saul, though dead, unburied! Alas for Rizpah, who, not for sir months, but for years and years, has watched them! She cannot keep the vul tures and the jackals off. ? Furthermore, this strange incident in the Bible story shows that attractiveness of person and elevation of position are no se curity againt trouble. Who is this Rizpah sitting in desolation? One of Saul's favorites. Her personal at tractions had won his heart. She had been caressed of fortune. With a mother's pride she looked on her princely children. But the scene changes. Behold her in banish ment and bereavement?Rizpah on the rock ! Some of the worst distresses have coma to scenes of royalty and wealth. What por ter at the mansion's gate has not let in champing and lathered steed bringing evil dispatch? On what tessellated hall has there not stood the solemn bier? Un der what exquisite fresco has there not been enacted -a tragedy of dis aster? What curtained couch hath heard no cry of pain ? W hat harp bath never thrilled with sorrow? 'What lordly nature hath never leaned against carved pillar and made utterance of woe? Gall is not less bitter when quaffed from a golden chalice than when taken from a pewcer mug. gcarow is often attended"" cy ftnnln* Tootmen ani laced lackeys mounted behind. Queen Anne Boley is desolate in the palaca of Henry YILL Adolphus wept in German castles over the hypocrisy of friends. Fedro L among Brazilian diamonds shivered with fear of massacre. Stephen of England sat on a rocking throne. And every mast of pride has been bent in the storm, and the highest noxmtajas of honor and fame are covered with perpetual snow. Sickness will frost the rosiest cheek, wrinkle the smoothest brow and stiffen the sprighthest step. Rizpah quits the courtly circle and sits on the rock. Perhaps you look back upon scenes differ ent freni those in which now from day to day you mingle. You have exchanged the plentv and luxuriance of your father's house for privation and trial known to Grod ani your own heart. The morning of life was flusbei with promise. Troops of calamities since then have made desperate charge upon you. Darkness has come. Sorrows have swooped lute carrier birds from the sky and bar sei like jackals from the thicket. You scan I amid your slain anguishel and woe struck. Rizpah on tue roc So it has been in all ages. Ya^hti must doff the spangled robes of the Persian court and go forth blasted fron the palace gate. Hagar exchanges oriental comfort for the wilderness o? Baersheba. Mary, queen o? Scots, must pass cut from flattery and pomp to suffer ignominious death in the castle of Fotberingay. The wheel of fortuu3 keeps turning, ani mansions and huts ex change, and he who rode the chariot pushes the barrow, and instead of the glare of festal ?gbts is the simmering of the neat fire, and in place of Saufs palace %: ci ": rock?the cold rock, the desolate rock. But that is the place to which God comes. Jacob, with his head on a stone, saw the shining ladder. Israel in the desert beheld the marshaling of the fiery baton. John en barren Patmos heard trumpeting, and the clapping of wings, and the stroke of sera pbicfingers on golden harps, and nothing but beaveniy strength nerved Rizpah for her appalli ng*r<sslon amid the screa-n of wild birds anil the stealthy tread of huugry mon sters. The grandest visions ot glory, the most rapturous exoeriences o" Christian Jove, the greatest triumphs of grace have come to the tried, and t le hard pressed, as? the betrayed, and the crushed. God stoop ing down from heaven to comfort Rizpah on the r<>~ \ Again, the tragedy of the text displays the conraee of woman amid great emergen cies. What mother or sister or daughter would dare to ?o out to fight the cormorant *Dd jackal? Rizpah did it. And so would you if an emergency demanded. Woman is ! caturairy timid anrl shrinks from exposure i and depen is on stronger arms for the achieve meat of crent enterprises. And she is often troubled lest there might be occasions de manding fortitu le when she wordd fail. Not so. Some of those who are afraid to look out of the door after night-fad, and who quake in the darkness at the least uncertain sound, and who start at the slam of the door and turn pale in a thunderstorm, if tha day of trial came, would be heroic and invulner able. God has arranged it so that that woman j needs the trumpet of some great contest oc 1 principle or affection to rou3e up her slum bering courage. Then she will stan i under ' the crossfire of opposi a r hosts at Chalons to i give wine to the wounded. Then she will carry iato prison and dar.; lan? the message ! of salvation. Then sha will brave the pes- ! t?enc?. Deborah gr.es out to sound terror into the hearts of God*s enemies. Abigail j throws herself between a raiding party of i infuriated men and her husband's vineyards. ? Rizpah fights back the vultures fr?ua the ! rock. Among the Orkney Idia Is an eagle ? swooped and lifted a child to its eyrie far up j on the mountains. With the spring of a panther tha mother mounts hiit after hPd, crag above crag, height above height, the ! i fire of her own eve oatflashing the glare of ' ! the eagle's, and with unmailed hand stronger j than the iron beak an ? the terrible claw she ! hurls tha wild bird down the rocl<s, In the French revolution Cazatte was brought out i l fco be executed, when his daughter threw | herself on the body of her father and said: ' "Strike, barbarians! You cannot reach mye father but through my heart I" The crowd parted, and linking arms father and daugh ter walked out free. During the siege of Saragossa, Angustina carried refreshments to the gates. Arriv ing at the battery of Portillo she found that ?li the garison had been killed. She snatched ? match from the hand of a dead artillery man and fired offa twenty-six pounder, then leaped on it and vowed she would not leave it alive. The soldiers looked in and saw her daring and rusfae i up and opened another tremendous fire on the enemy. The life of James L of Scotland was threatened. Poets hava sung those times and able pens have lingered upon the story of m sol y endurance, but how few to tell the story of Catharine Douglas, one of th? queen's maids, who ran to bolt the door, but touad the bar hai bean taken away so as to I facilitate the entra?es of the assassin ! She thrust her arm into the staple. The mur ; derers rushing against it; her arm was shat ? tered. Yet how many have since lived and died who never hear a the touching, self ! sacrificing; heroic story of Catharine Doag ? las and her poor, shattered arm.! I You know how calmly Mme. .Roland went i to execution and how cheerfully Joanna of Naples -Talked to the castle of Mura, and j low fearlessly Mme. Grimaldi listened to aer condemnation, and how Charlotte Cor iay smiled upon the frantic mob that pur tued her to the guillotine. And there TTou?d be no end to the recital if I attempted u> present ail the historical incidents w nie a ih?w that woman's courage would rouse it elf for great emergency. But need not go so far. You have cnown some one who was considered a mere j Butterfly in society. Her hand had known ao toil. Her eye had wept no tear over misfortune. She moved among obsequious idmirers as careless as an insect in a field of ' blossoming buckwheat. But in 1867 finan j ?al tempest struck the husband's estate. Before he had time to reef sail and make things snug the ship capsize 1 and went down. Enemies cheered at the misfortune j and wondered what would become of the butterfly. Good men pitied and said she ! would die of a broken heart. "She will not work." say they, "and she Is too proud to beg." But the prophecies have failed. Disaster has transformed the shining sluggard into a practical worker? happy asa princess, though compelled to hush her own child to sleep and spread her own table and answer the ringing of her own doorbell. Her arm had been muscled for the conflict against misfortune, hunger and poverty and want, and all the other jackals Rizpah scares from the rock. 1 saw one in a desolate home. Her mer chess companion had pawned even the chlidreu's shoes for rum. From honorable ancestry she had come down to this. The cruse of oil was empty and the last candle gone out. Her faded frock was patched with fragments of antique silk that she had worn on the bright marriage day. Confident in God, she had a strong heart, to which her children ran when t?ey trembled at the staggering step ani qua?ed under a father's curse. Though the heavens were filled with fierce wings and the thickets gnashe I with rage, Rizpah watchei faithfully day after day and year after year, and wolf and cam brant by her God strengthened arm were hurled down the rocks: You pass day by day along streets where thsre are heroines greater than Joan of Arc. Upon that celiar floor there are conflicts as Here i as Sedan, and heaven and hell min gle in the fight. Lifted in that garret there are tribunals where more fortitude is de manded than was exhibited by Lady Jane Grey or Mary, Queen of Scots. .Sow I ask, if mere natural courage cm do so much, what may we noi expect of wo men who have gazed en the great sacrifice, and who are urged forward by all the voices of grace that sound from the Bible ani all the notes of victory that speak from the sky ? Many years ago the Forfarshire steamer started from Hull bound for Dundee. After the vessel had been out a little while the winds began to rave ani billows risa until a tempest was upon them. The vessel leaked, and the fires went out, and though the sails were hoisted fore and aft she wenfspeeding toward the breakers. She struck with her bows foremost oa the rock. The vessai parted. Amid the whirlwind and the dark ness all were lost but nine. These clung to the wreck on the beach. Sleeping that night in Longstone light house was a girl of gentle spirit and comely countenance. As the morning dawns I see that girl standing amid the spray and tum ult of contending elements looking through a glass upon the wrec ani the nin9 wretch ed sufferers. She proposes to her father to take boat and put out across the wild sea to rescue- them. The father says: "It cannot be done! Just Jock at the tu nbling surf!" But she persisted, ani with her father bounds into the boat. Though never accu> tomed to ply.ng the oar, she takes one an i uer father the other. Steady now! Pull away! Pull away i The ssa tosse I up the boat as thou^'i it were a babble, bu:"a*nil the foam ani the wrath of the sea the wrecc was reached, the exhausta I people picked up and saved. Humane societies tendered their thank-. Wealth poured into the lap of the poor girl. Visitors from all lands came to look on her sweet lace, ani when soon after she Jaunc ied forth on a dark sea, and Death was the o?rsnan, dukes ani duchesses and mighty me i sat down in tears in Alnwick cattle to think they never again might see the face of Grace Darling. ~So suca deeds of daring will probably be as^ed of you, but hear you not the howl of that awfu! storm o: trouble and sin that hath tossed ten thousand shivered hulks into the breakert? Know you not that the whole earth is strewn with the shipwrecked?that there are woan Is to be healed and broken hearts to be bound and drowning souls to be rescued? So ue have gone down, and you come too late, bue ctaers are clinging t> the wreck, are shivering with the coll. arc strangling iu the wave, are crying to you for deliverance. Will you not, oar in hand, put c;*; -day fro:n ta i lighthouse? \. hen the last ship's timoer shall '..ave "Dee;.-, .?nt, an I the last; L^ngstoa" boacoa shall have beea thuaderei down in tue hurri cane, and the last te pest shall have folded its wings, and the sea itself shall have been lickei up by tua tmgu> of all consuming fire, the ?ro-v is of eternal reward shall be kindling iato bri*h??c glory oa the brow of l?efaitnfui. Ail Cms:, pointing to the inebriate Mat you reformed, an i the dying sinner whom you taught to pray, and the outcast whom yon pointed to God for shel ter, will gay: "You did it to them ! You did it to Me!" Agaio, the scene of the text impresses up on us the strength of maternal attachment. Not many men would have had courage or endurance for the awful mission of Rizpah. To dare the rage of wild beasts, and sit fro?r May to October unsheltered, and to watch the corpses of unsheltered children, was a work that nothing but the maternal heart could have accomplished. ..It needed more strength than to stand before opened batter ies or to walk in calmness the deck of a foundering steamer. There is no emotion so complete'y unsel fish as maternal affection. Conjugal love expects the return of many kindnesses and attentions. Filial love expects paternal care or is helpei by the memory of past watch fulness. But the strength "of a mothers love is entirely independent of the pa<st and the future, and is, of all emotions, the purest. The child has done nothing in the past to earn kindness, and ia the future it may grow up to Maltreat its parent, but still from the mother's heart there goes forth inconsumable affection. Abuse cannot offend it; neglect cannot chill it; time cannot efface it; death cannot destroy it. For harsh words it has gentle chiding; for the blow it has beneficent min istry; for neglect it has increasing watch fulness. It weeps at the prison door over the incarcerated prodigal, and pleads for par ion at the governor's feet, and is forced away by compassionate friends from witnessing ? the struggles of the gallows. Other lights go out, but this burns on without extinguish ment, as io, a gloo-a-.-truck night yvi ir.ay see single s taf, ou? of GoTs* pickets, with gleaming bayonet of light guarding the out posts of heaven. The Marchioness of Spadara, when the earthquake at Messina occurre I, was car ried cut insensible from the falling hou?es. On coming to her senses she fouad that her infant had not been rescued. She went back and perished in the ruins. Illustrato . o? ten thousand mothers who in as many different ways bav* sacrificed themselves for their children. Oh, despise nota mother's love! If here tofore yon have beea negligent of such a one, and you have still opportunity for reparation, make haste, if you could only just look in for an hour's visit to her, you would rouse up in the aged one a whole world of blissful memories. What if she does sit without talking much? She watched you for many months when you knew not how to talk at all. What if sue I bas many ailments to tell about? During ? ;i?teen years you ran to her wita every lit :le scratch an 1 bruis?, an 1 she doctored your little tin it-r as carefully as a surgeon would bind the worst fr.icture. You say sue is childish now; won 1er if she ever saw you when you were childish, j You have no patieuce t ? wait with her on j :he street, s.ie moves so slowly; I wonder if : ih* remembers Hie time when you were glad j ?nou^h to g>j slowly. You complain at the f ?xpense of providing for her now; I wonder -hat your financia! incoro.? was from one rear to tea years of age. D > not begrudge what you do for the ol i folks. I care not low mach you did for them; they have done n re for you. But from tbe weird text o? the morning ?oraes the rusbiug in upi^-i my soul a thought that overjpowers me. This watching by Rizpah was an after death watching;. I wonder if now there is an after death watch ing. I think there is. There are Rizpahs who have passed death and are still watch ing. They look down from their supernal wad glorified state upon us, and is noe that an after death watching? I cannot believe that those who before tbeir death were in terested in us have since their death become indifferent as to what happens to us. Not one hour of the six months during which Rizpah watched, seated upon the rocks, was she more alert or diligent or armed for us than our mother, if glorified, is alert and diligent and armed for us. It is not nr Rizpah on a rock, but Rizpah on a throne. How long has your mother beeu dead? Do you thin* she has been dead long enough to rorget you? My mother has been dead twenty-nine years. I believe she knows more about ms now than she did when I stuod in her presence, and I am no Spiritualist either. The Bibb says, "Are they not all ministering spirits sent iorth to minister to them that shad be heirs of sal vation." Young man, better look out waat you ao and where you go, for your glorified mother is looking at you. You somet?ales say to yourself, ^Wliat -would mother siy if she knew this?' She does know. You might cheat her once, but you cannot cheat her now. Does it embarrass us to think she knows all about us now? If she had to put up with so rauoh when she was here, surely she will not be the less patient or excusatory 7? c t Ob this treman lous thou ru. oc my t9xt ?this after death watching ! Waat an up lifting consideration, ani what a comfort ing thought! Young motaer, yoa wao have just lost your babe, ani who feel that need of a nearer solace than that which comes from ordinary sympathy, your mother knows all about it. You cannot run in and talk it all over with her as y ou wouli if she were still a terrestial resident, but it will comfort you some, I thin??yea, it wir. comfort you a goo i deal?to know*'that she understands it al'. You see that the velocities of the beaveniy conditions are so great that it woul ? not take her a half second to come to your bereft heart. Oh, these mothers in heaven I They can do more for us now thau before they went away. The bridge between this world and the next is not broken down. The approach the bridge from both ways, departiug spir its and coming spirits, disimprisonei spirits and sympathizing spirits. An 1 so let us walk as to be worthy of the supernal cham pionships, and if to any of us .life on earth is a hard grind, let us understand taat if we watch faithfully ani trustfully our blessed lard there will be a correspon ling reward iu the land of peac?, an I tnat R.zpab, who once wept on a rock, no reigus oa a .throne,_ ~ PROMINENT PEOPLE. Gladstone earns on an average $15.030 a year by his pen alone. Dr. Oliver Wexdsll Holmes suffers somewhat from astama. Fope Leo still writes Latin poetry, though eighty-two years old. Eismakck admits that he deliberately precipitatea the war with Franee. General Roberts. Commander-in-Caief of the Augio-Indian army, has been super seded Mrs. Charles S. Parx2LL has filed a petition as a bankrupt in the English courts. Tre Prince of Wales is quite a virtuoso ou the bar-jo: the Princess is a distinguished pianiste. Justice Field has been a member of the United States Supreme Court for almost thirty years. Yci xo "J in' G mieli is sai l, now that he has grown a bearJ, to be the perfect image of his father. Chairman Carter, of the Republican National Commute?, uas resn nel the prac tice of law in Helena, Montana. Emanuel Cl'ster, father of the late Gen eral George Custer, died a few days ago at Parsonvilie, Mich., aged eighty-live years Bjsaor Foster, of the Methodist Church, says te is one of only eleven in all tha world who have : reached the G ispal tor fifty-two years con.c utively an 1 witaout rest. Representative McKeighan, of Ne brasks, the only Populist outside of Kansas elected to Congres-, is d stin^uished as the homeliest man in the Fifty-second Con gres-. G e ver al Cassi us M. Clay, now eighty years old, and one of the last survivors of the diplomats of his day, has presented his library, statuary ant paintings to tae county in whienbe lives ( n Kentucky) as the nucleus of a public library. William H. English, o* Indianapolis, candiuate for Vice-President o:i the Han cock ticket in lfcS ?, is still described as a business man in his prime, with "iron gray" hair and "lashing eyes.''' He devotes him self to theaccimulation of wealth, although already the possessor of many millions. "Joe" Jffferson's farm in Loui-iena, to which Presiden t-eiect Mr. Cleveland is ex pected to go tor a few days1 hunting this wiuter, is described as a beautiful place. Immense vales, which never lose their ver dure, may be leund there; the forests are lull of game; the waters are coverei with wild duck, and there are lakes abounding in huge trout. Mr. Jefferson's house is twenty miles from a radway. Henry S. ?ves, "the young Napoleon of finance," who begau business with nothing in ISS? and failed in 1SS7, as he reported at the ti. ^ with '-liabilities ; & ).000,00 ), as sets SiUOJfcODfV' was married in Loe* port. . Y., recently to Miss Helen Gertrude Sears, of that piac ?. She is tha daughter of Roland Sears. * It is said >h? was engage i to be married to tha young man before he made the grand smash in 1S?7. President-elect Clsv?laxd had a brother, who many years ago lived at New Albany, Ind. Ha was a house and sign painter. He enlistei in the war and came out with the rank of Lieutenant. In 1S61 he took passage on tha steamer at New Or leans for New York. The vessel reached port in safety, but if Lieutenint Cleveland was among the passengers that landed it was never known to bis fr?en Is. It is be lieved that he was lost overboard. Ti?T L?S?K WOiiLD. P.r tis? tin-plate works have resumed work. Cai.va is beginning to spin an 1 weave cotton. The Krupp works at Essen, Germany, have 55? > furnaces. The idle workmen of Lou ioa have deter mined upon a midnight parade. The Premier of New Zaaland is President of the Eight-Hour League of Australia? The colored employes of t ie restaurants and hotels of Chicago, 111, have organizad. Furniture workers repart that thz pros pect for winter work is extraordinarily good. The boot and shoe manufacturers of Now England sold more shoes iu lidi than in any former year. In the Government mines of Hungary one-fourth per cent, of the miners1 wages is reserved for a music fund The Cauaiian Pacific and its emoloyes have made a tea year*' agreement, from ona end of the lina to the other. The miners at Coal Creek, Tenn., .are organizug, and threat; i ta drive tha coa victs away from the mines again. Eleven contractors at West Suo?rior, is., sigue i contract? giving their nien tha nine-hour day, and all bu-, oaa brake their word. The Emperor of Austria has presente I a silver medal to a female servant who ro maine 1 seventy years in the employ of one family. "All hours'' shops in New South Wales are called tue establishments where peonie all compelled to work more than eight hours per day. It is probable that within the year 1893 manu facturo of shoo-, cigars and clothing by the Cainese will havj almost ceaseJ in San Francisco. 1 ke National Congress of Miners,recently held in Belgiu u, has decide 1 to make a gen eral deman i for an increase of thirty pel een t. in wages. The Bricklayers1 Lfnion of Indianapolis has opened a reading room for its main ?ers. They also are accumulating a fund to huit i a hall of their own. Lord Rosebery is said to furnish hi? plowmen with the leading daily aud agri cultural papers upon coalition that they read no labor paper.-. Inspector of Mines Hazleton, of W is consin, reports that in K'l , miners in that State averaged only t h irti -three ani a half weeks' work, a decrease of threj days sine? ISStf. Tr2 HuntsvHle ('\'a..> oil mills, employing mi-re tijtiii eighty hau l-, have stopped work owir.2 ta the high pri .:<.* <?; c )ttoa sie 1 and the !o"w price of The mills have beeni uuiiiu^ for moro than tea year-. If working peo.?le in lbs East couiJ be as sure t that they would no' have to compete with Caiiiesi iu nearly every department o: labor California coni 1 Iii! in six months the place of every Chinese within her borders. M us. v loi : f. c E . a" - VV ; s C E vv r S Y special agento^ the i Hi?o s Bur rauof Libar, says that there are over I ??? ? swe itiag shops in Chicago, au 1 in mosso; tham little boys and girls can be faun all huddled together, ?ewihz on buttons and pulling out threads. ! PBEIEK MESSAGE. A GENERAL REVIEW OF THE NATION'S AFFAIRS. Words ol Gommenflatton for al! Brancies o? t?8 AWnistratioE ? Condensation of the Most Important Features of the Message. Washington, D. C, December 6.?The preti dent's message, embracing over fifteen thousand words, was read to botb branches of congress today. Tne following is an interesting and intelligtm condensation of the points of interest embraced in the message : To the Senate a Row. of Kcprcseiitativeti In submitting my annual message to congresi I bave great satisfaction in being able to say that the general conditions affecting the com mercial and industrial intereste of the United States are in th? greatest degree favorable. A comparison of the most favored period in the history of the country will, I believe, show that so high a degree of prosperity, and so general a difference of the comforts of life were nevei before enjoyed by our people. our total wealth. The total wealth of the country in 18G0 was $16,159,616,065; in 15C0 it amounted to $62,610, 000,000, an increase of 287 per cent. The total mileage of railways in the United States In 1860 was 30,626 ; in 1590 it was 167,741 ; an increase of 448 per cent ; and it is estimated that there will be about four thousand miles of track added by the close of the year 1892. The officiai retama of the eleventh census and those of the tenth census for 75 leading cities furnish the basis foi the following comparisons: the capital invested. In 1S80 the capirai invested in manufacturing was $1,232,839,670. In 18S0 the capital invested In manufacturing was $2,900,735,884. In 1880 the number of employees was 1.301.3SS. In ISSO the number of employees was 2,251,134. In 1880 the wages earned were $501,965,778. In J830 the wages earned were $1,221,170,45^. In 1880 ti ? value of the product was $2, 71,579,899. In 189u the value of the product was $4,8C0,28C,S37. The message goes into every detail showing the increase in the number of wage earners and the money paid. It also shows the increase in the number of factories of all kinds that have been built. new cotton mills. Of the cotton mills the president says : Of the forty cotioa mills, twenty-one have been built In the southern states. Mr. A. B. Shepperson, of the New Y oik cotton exchange, estimates the number of working spindles in the United States, on Septem ter 1, 1892, at 15,200,000, an in crease of 660,000 over the year 1831. Theoon ?umptioa of cotton by American mills, in 1891, was 2.3^6,000 bales, and in 1?92, 2,584,000 bales, aa Increase of 188,000 bales. some LABOK figures. The message then goes Into figures on new tin and tin plate plants. Message then refers to and gives figures of labor commissioners of New Yori: and Massachusetts. Shows Increased production of pig Iron, Bessemer Ingots and Bessemer steel rails. imposts and exports. The total value of our foreign trade (export and impcrtsof merchandise) during the last fiscal year was $1,837,^80,610, an increase o? $128,283,604 over tha previous fiscal year. The value of our exports during the fiscal year :?9- reached the highest figure in the his tory of the government, amounting to $1,030, ?i78,U8f exceeding by $145,797,338 the exports of 1891, and exceeding the value of the Imports by $202,875,688. The message shows great prosperity of the country, comparing the trade on the Detroit river to show that as much business was done on that river as in Liverpool. Another Indica tion of the prosperity of the country Is found In the fact that the number of depositors in Savings banks increased from 698,870 in I860, to t,258,?U3 in 1890, an increase of 513 per cent. prosperiti", Bt LOW PRICES. There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or wages were a) high; whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to eupply the necessaries and cornions of life. It is true that the market prices of cotton and wheat have been low. it is one of the unfavorable incidents of agriculture that the farmer cannot produce upon orders. He must sow and reap in Ignorance of the aggregate production of the year, 2nd is peculiarly thoughtless to the depre ciation which follows over-production. The value of our total farm products has in creased from $1,363,046,810 In 1*60 to $4.500,000, 000 in 1891. as estimated by statisticians?an In crease of 239 per cert. THIS is THE BEST COUNTRY. If ar.y aie discontented with their state here. If any believe that wages or prices, tho returns for honest toil, are inadequate, they should not fall to remember that there is no other country in the world where the conditions that seem to them hard, would not be accepted as highly prosperous. The English agriculturist would be glad to-exchange the returns of his labor for those of the J Tuerican farmer, and the Man chester workmen their w-tges for those of their fellows at Fall I?iver. I believe that the pro tective system, which has now for something more than thirty years continuously prevailed In our legislation, has been a mighty instrument for the development of our national wealth and a most powerful agency in protecting the homes of our workingmen from the invasion of want. I have feltj a most sol.citous interest to preserve to our working people rates of wages that would not only give daily bread, but supply a comfortable margin for those home attractions and family comforts and enjoy ments without which li.'e is neither hopeful uor sweet. They are American citizens, a part of the great people for whom our constitution and govern meut were framed and instituted *nd it cannot be a perversion of that Constitu tion to mo legislate as to preserve in their homes She comfort, indej endence, loyalty and sense ,-.f interest in the govcrament which are essentia to good citizenship in pe.ice, and which will bring thU stalwart throng, as in 1S61, to the de fense on vhe flag when it is assailed. It is not my purpose to renew here the argument In favor of a protective tariff. the result " e election. The result of the reo nt election must be ac cepted as having introduced a new policy. We mu3t assumo that the present tariff, construct ed upon tho lines of protection, is to be re pealed and that there is to bo substituted for it a tariti law constructed solely with reference tc revenue; that no duty is to be higher because the increase will keep open an American mill or keep up the wages of an American workman, but that in every case such a rate of duty is to be imposed as will bring to the treasury of the United States the largest returns of revenue. mist reform the ta It I ff. The contention has not been between sched ules nut between principles and it should be offensive to suggest that the prevailing party will not err.-} into legislation fie princi ples advocated by it, and the pledges given to the people, and the t.riff bills passed by the house of representatives A; THF. last SESSION trere, a3 I suppose, even in t:ie opinion of their promoters inadequate and justified only by the fjct that tho senate and the bouse of represen tatives were not in accord, and that a general revision could not therefero be undertaken, and 1 recommended that the whole subject of tariff revision be left to the incoming congress. It Is a matter of regret that this work must be delayed for at leust three months for the threat of Kr*'at tarili changes. Introduces so nn.Ch un certainty that nn amount not easily estimated, t>f business ii action ami of diminished produc tion will necessarily result. It is possibio al.-o that this un :ortainiy may result in decroased revenues from customs duties, for our mer chants will make cautious orders for forel^D j liooils in view of the prospect of tariff reduc tions and the uncertainty as to when they will t.ike effect. Those who hare advocated a pro tective tariff can well afford to have their < ?> as:rous forecasts of a change of policy disap pointed. The friends of the protective system, with ! undiminishfd confidence m the principles iney ! have advocated, will await the resr.lt?? of the new experiment The j resid? nt t'.itn enters Into long disser- I tation as to tho probable effect oJ a change fn ,' i*ur t .r?,*i system. >.\ tj'.MU E * WITH Kt?'lJJSOjtS 'ino complicated sud threatening diffeiencei with Germany and England in tclatiuu tu j S.iiuOJD alla?rs. with Ungl-ud in relation to tho ; 60a! fishery and in the liehring sea. and with ! Chili growing oat oi tho Baltimore o fiai?, h ivo : beee adjusted. There have been u?gotiated and concluded under section of the tariff law. commercial J agreements relating to reciprocal ir.nl? with tir- following countries: Br.zil. Dominican Republic, Spain for Cub."., and Porto R'co, Guatemala, Salvador, the German empire, Great Britain for certain Weit Indian colonies and British Guania, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Austria-li angary, , Of these those with Guatemala, Salvador, the German empire, Great Britain, Nicaragua, Honduras and Austria-H angary hava been con cluded sin^o my last annual message. The following statistics showing the increase of trade the Unite J Sta?es has made with coun tries having reciprocal agreements, amounting to $74,234,525: ' A treaty providing for the arbitration of the dispare between Great Britain and the Cmted States as to the killing or seals in the Behring sea was concluded on the 29th of February last. Thia treaty was accompanied by an agroement prohibiting pillagic sealing pending the arbi tration, and a vigorous effort was made during the season to drive out all parching sealers from the Behring sea." Then follows a statement showing the unsuc cessful effort to establish closer trade relations with Canada. THE TROUBLE WITH CHILL "Congress,at the last session, was kept advisee of the progress of tbe serious, and fur a time threatening appearances between tbo United States and Chili. It gives me now great grati fication to report that the Chilian government in a mcst friendly and honorable spirit has ten ? dered and paid us an indemnity to tbe families of tbe Bailors of tbe Baltimore wbo were killed and to those who were injured in the outbreak in tbe city o? Valparaiso the sum of $75,000. This has been accepted, not only as an indemnity for a wrong done bat as a most gratifying evidence tba: the government of Chili rightly appreciates the disposition of this government to act in a spirit of the most absolute fairness and friendliness In our interior with that brave people." The message speaks of our relations with Hawaii and the importance of the projected sub marine cable. THE TROUBLE WITH ITALY. "The friendly act ot this government in ex pressing to the government af Italy its reproba tion of abhorence of the lynching of Italian subjects in New Orleans by the payment of 125,000 irancs or $24,330.20 was accepted by the kiag of Itally with every manifestation ot gracious appreciation and the incicent has been highlo proaiotive of mutual respect and good wilt. 'Tbe recent disturbances of the public peace by lawless foreign marauders in tbe Mexican frontier have offered this government an oppor tunity to testify its good will lor Mexico and Its earnest purpose to fulfill the obligations of international ?rienciship by pursuing ana dis persing the evil doers." MATTERS OP NOTE. The message then goes into minor troubles with small principalities, the majority o? which have been amicably adjusted. International copy ngh.j have been established between this country, Italy and Germany. The message commends tbe Nicaragua canal. Matters relating to the present Internationa Monetary Conference are discussed at this point. The president says: "The free coinage of silver upon an agreed international ratio would greatly promote the interests of our people and equally those of other nations." THE TREASURY. Report of the secretary of the treasury here follows. It shows that the prublic debt has been reduced since March 4, 1889, $250,074,200, and the annual interest ebarge $tlfc'$4,4t,9. There has been paid cut in pensions by the present administration to November 1, 1892, $432,?o4,17?. an exsess of $114,466,386.09 over sum expended during the period from March 1, 1885 to March 1, 1889. Under the existing tariff law, the message says, $93,000.000 has gone into the pockets of the people which would have otherwise gone into the treasury. The revenues 1er the fiscal year ending June 3\ 1892, from all sources were $425,865,210.22, and the expenditures for all purposes were $415,95 ,806.56, leaving a balance of $*>,914.453.66. j There was paid during tbc year upon the public debt ${0,570,41,7.98. Oar rece?? ts from customs duties fell eff l'$42,C6.4,241.C6, while out receipts from internal ! e . enne increased $8,284,823.13, leaving tbe net loss of revenue from these principal sources I ?3 :,784,4l7.i>5. The r.< t loss of revenue from all sources w.:e $32,675.9; 2.81. j The revenues, estimated and actual for the l?se 1 year ending .lune 30, ls'J3, are placed by ! the secretary at $4<3,33o,3;0,44. and tbe expeuii j tu rei $4?i,3t>>,-''50 44, showing a surplus of re ? ceip'.s over expenditures of $^ 000,000. The cash I cwh l alance- in the treasury .-it the end of the hbra! year, it is estimated, wi 1 be $20,?02,377.03 These estimates are based upon a continuano) of the present laws. THE A MY. The president refers only briefly to the report of the eecrttary of w^r, showing the imporranco ! of establishing strategic po*ts and a compiete reorg n'zatiou of tbe infantry and artillery orsnchee of the eervice, a so the construction of heavy guns and coast defense** THE ATTO NET GENERA Li The president refers briefly to the re j ort o: the attorney general, ext nding to him gr^ai praise for his zeal and intelligence displayed ir j fflae. THE POSTMASTER GENERAT* j The president praises very highly the repor if the postmaster general. I The postal revenue.* have increased during the lasl year nearly $5,1X10,000. The d .fielt foi ine year ending June 30, ?$92. is $84ft34I, les: than the deficiency of the preceding year. There havo been added 1,590 new mail route? ? It Ping the yecr, with mileage of 833 miles, an< to.al number of miles of mail trips added dur ing the year is nc&riy seventeen millions. ? The president refers very favorably to a la* making American ships o? comaierce float tbc American flag and be command* d by Ameiican dtizens. THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. The report of the secretary of the navy ex hibits gre ;t progress in the construction of aur new navy. When the present tecretary entered upon his duties only thrte modern 6teel vessels were in commis tiou. he vessels since put in commission and to be put in commission during the winter will nuke a total of nineteen aunng his administration of the department. During the current year ten war vessels and three navy tugs have been launched, and riur ing the four years twenty-five vessels will have been launched. Two other lar^e ships and a torpedo boat are under contract, and the work upon them will : dvanco rapidly, and the four monitors are awaiting only the arrival of their ermor, which have been unexpectedly delayed or they would have been before this in commis sion. The president praises the efficiency o? Secre tary Tracy and refers with pride to the fac. toat the United States is once more a -naval power." The adoption of a torpedo and the discovery o? smokeless powder has worked wonders in our new navy. SECRETARY OV THE INTERIOR. The work of the interior department is always very bur"ensome, has been larger thac ever before during the administration of Secretary Noble. The disability ension law, the taking of the eleventh census, the opening of v?s: areas of Indian lands to settlement, the organi zation of Oklahoma and the regulations for the session. Indian lands furnish some of the particulars of the increased work, and the results achieved testily to the ability, fidelity and indu.-try of the head o? the department and his efficient assistants. The president seconds tbe endorsement of the lecrocary of the interior to ratify the agreement made with the Cherokees. ALASKA. The form of government provided by congres* on May 17, ISsj, for Alaska was in its frame and purpose, temporary. The Increase of population and the develop ment of some important mining and commer cial interests make it imperative that the law ihould be revised, better provisions made for the arrest and punishment of criminals. The president then rtfjrs in terms of praise to the conduct of the land office, to the court of general claims nn l the Indian bureau. The ap propriation for subsistence of the Cheycnoe and Arrapai.oe Indians made at the last session of ;ongress was inadequate. Tha pensions for this year were $1)4.956.000. That amount was appropriated ano a deficiency amounting :o si?,50.-',tj21 inu^t bo provided for by congress. The estimate for the year ending June 30th. 18i>4, will be $105,000.00.). The commissioner of pensions believes that if die present legislation and methods are main tained and fui:her additions to the pension aws are uot made the maximum expenditure tor pensions will ne reached Juuo 3?;, ISUl, ar.d ?vili be at the highest premium. UNION PACIFIC RAILUOAO. In my last annual message I called attention to the fact that some legislativ? action was neccs.-ary in order to protect tho interest of the Ko veruni ent in its relations with the Uniou Pacific Rai*way. Tho commissioner of rail roads has submitted a very full report, giving the exact int ormation as to tho debt, the liens upon tbe com] any'e pmpcr'y.aud its resources. We must deal with the question as wo rind it and take that <our-e which will under existing condition best secure the interest of the United States. I recommended m my last annua message, that a commission be appointed to leal ?iti? this question ind ? .enew that recom mendation and surest that the commissioner be given full power. SECRETARY. AGRICULTURE. 'lue president praises the efficiency o' ihe de partment of agriculture and gives tacts and figures why it should be sustained. He ih.-n deais at length with quarantine inspections aud regulations : says that a liberal appropriation Should be made to prevent cholera gaining ? iootbold in this country nc-.\r spring. Ho also urges restricted Immigration, espe cially for the present. Ho refers in tetme or praise to the work al ready don?> en ;ho World's Fair. lie next deals with matters pertaining to the District of Columbia. ' He recommends that congress talee some ac tion for t?e protection of railway employes in soapling and braking of cars. Tbe civil service commission ask for an in jreased appropriation for needed clerical as listance, which he thinks should be given. our election laws. I have in each of the three annual message; which it has been my duty to submit to con gress, called attention to the evils and danger: connected with our election methods and prac tices aetbey are related to the choice of officer! of the nationa1 government. THE torce RILL AC a I.v. In my last annual message I endeavored tc invoke serious attention to the evils of an un ! fair apportionments for congress. I cannot close this message without again calling atten tion to these grave and threatening evils. I bad hoped that it was possible to secure a non-pai tisan inquiry by means of a commission into evils, the existence of which is known I to all and that cut of this might grow legislation from which all thought of partisan advantage should be eliminated and o.- ly the higher thought ap pear of maintaining the freedom and purity o? ballot, and tne equality of the elector, without the guaranty of which the government could never have been formed, and without tiie con tinuance of which it cannot continue to exist in peace and prosperity. nONEST ELECTIONS. It is time that mutual charges or nnfairnest ind fraud between the two great parties should sease and that the sincerity of thosj who pro fess a desire for pure and honest elections should be brought to the test of their willing ness to free our legislation and oar election methods from everything that tends I to impair the pnblic confidence in the annoencod result. The necessity for an inquiry and for legislation by congress upon this subject is emphasized by the fact that the tendency of the legislation in some states in re sent years has in some important particulars aeen away from and not toward free and fair Sections an,l equal apportionment. free HALL?T and FATR COUNT. It is now time that we should come togethex upon the high plane of patriotism while we devise methods that shall stcure the right of svery man qualified by law to cast p. free ballot and give to every such ballot an equal value in choosing our public officers and in directing :he policy of the government. Laws is not less such, but more, where it usurps ;he function of the peace officer and of the jourts. the LYNCHING of NEOROES. The frequent lynching of colored people ac cused of crime is without the excuse which has sometimes been urged by mobs for a failure to pursue the appointed methods for punishment af crime that the accused have an undue influ ence over courte and juries ; such acts are a re proach to the community where they occur and s > far as they can be made the subject of juris diction the strongest representative legislation s demanded. A public sentiment that will sustain the officers of the law in resisting mobs and in protecting accused persons in their cus tody should be promoted by every possible means. The officer who gires his life in the brave dis charge of this duty is worthy of special honor. No lesson needs to be so urgently impressed upon our people as this, that no worthy end or sause can be promoted by lawlessness. HARRISON'S LAST SAY. This exhibit of the work of the executive de partment is submitted to congress and to the public in the hope that there will be found in it a due sense of responsibility and an earnest pur pose to maintain the national honor and to promote the happiness and prosperity of all our people, and this exhibit of the growth and prosperity of the country will give us a level from which to note the increase or decad ence that new legislative policies may bring to us. There is no reason why the national influence power and prosperity should not observe the same rates of increase that have characterized the past thirty years. Wo carry the greet im pulse and increase 01 these years into the fu ture. There il no reason why in many lines of pro duction we should not surpass all other nations is we have already done in some. There are no aear frontiers to our possible developments. Retrogression would be a crime. Benjam:* Harrison, Executive Mansion. December Gib, 1832. THE LEDGER BUBNED OUT. Disastrous Blaze in George W. Childs' Bi?f Newspaper Office. The Public Ledger building; a mas- ' si ve si.v-st i-y, brown stone front stiuc lure ou the southwest corner of Sixth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, was i dam ge J by fire Tuesday night to the ! amount of $200,000, of which $100,000 j was sustained by The Ledger and $50,- ! 0?0 by the tenants. The Lodger insu rance'agoregates $240,000?$1G?,000 on ihe building and $80,000 on the con tents. The other occupants are be lieved to be fully insured. The collec tion of curios and plate iu the office of Mr. Childs, The Ledger's owner and publisher, inestimable in value, was 3aved. j Dsmigc to building $100,0'd0. About1 half the building was gutted by fire and wat-, r, The flames were confined to the four h floor and all above and portions below were flooded. The fire wt\s tw ee extinguished bui broke out a third time aud gained fearful headway. FLIGHT OF THE PRINTERS. The names scon enveloped the compos ing room. The compositors, to the Dum ber of 140, hurriedly retreated down stairs and escaped safely. Soon after the fire started there was a sharp explo sion, tbe cause of which is unknown, and Business Manager Joel Cook and a numoer of the clerks were forced to the street by the concussion. The facilities of every printing office in the city were offered to Mr. Childs, and after William M. Singerly, president of The Record Publishing Company, had personally tendered the use of bis plant, the offer w.is accepted, aud, till further arrange ments, Tbe Ledger will be issued from the Record office. Mr. Childs and A. J. Drexel were wit nesses of the fire and personally noted the tflicieucy of tbe fire department. They expressed their appreciation by telling Director Butler, of the depart ment of public safety, that a check for $5,000 wai'd be sent him to be used at his discretion for the benefit of the fire men. BIG MISSISSPPI FAILURE In Which the Liabilities Exceed Four Hundred Thonsand Bollars. A Greenville, Miss., special says: The heaviest mercantile failure ever record ed in Y.-.zoo (Miss.) Delta occurred Tues day when the great wholesale house of L. & N. Wilehinski closed its doors and carried into bankruptcy with it tbe firm of Wilehinski & Barnes, at Barnes Land ing. "Wilehinski & Reisern, at Erwin Station, and George Wilehinski, of Greenville, also came into the failure. The total liabilities will reach nearly 1400.000 of which about $200,000 is pre fer? ed and secured by selling the cxten s ve stock of geodi in their store, with books, notes, etc., for $72,000 and giving deeds of trust on leal estate in his section. It is understood that at torneys for the unsecured creditors will attach propeity, refusing to rcccznizethe sale. The failure was forced by malicious rumors circulated ten days ago that they had f died, coupled with the fact that they Irid large investments in land, and short crops and thn failure to collect bills bad embarrassed them, and the rumors of failure, destroying their credit, forced the failure. The Treaty With Chile Ratified. The treaty with C hile, which the sen ate ratified Thursday was that brought to the states by Mr. Eagan on the occa sion'of his rece nt return from South Amer ica. It was transmitted to the senate by the president with his annual message and referred to the commute on foreign relations. At the meeting of the com mil tee it was voted to recommend ratifi cation. In the executive session it was j approved without discussion. Our Income and Expenditure. A Wash ui!'.'<n special of Wednesday says: The si crttiry of the treasury's re poit estimates the revenues for the pres ent fiscal year a! $463,336,350, and the expend? ur s. nt the same per tent, at $461,336,350. The secretary estimates that tin: tetri amount available nt the close of the present year is over $131, 000,000. THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH. Notes of Her Progress and Prosperity Briefly Epitomized And Important Happenings from Bay to Day Tersely Told. The resolution presented in the South Carolina legislature instructing m> mbsrs of congress to urge the free coinage of silver, passed its second reading bv a vote of 7 G :o 18. A Jackson, Mis?., di>pitch says: At j ihe annual leasing of state convicts Mon day, white men in s?pante squads brought $5, colored men in separate Fquads $9 a month. The lessees are Mis sippi delta cotlon plant?is. A quiet movement is on among Sa vannah, (Ja., bondholdirs of the Georgia Southern and Florida having for its aim the appointment of H P. Smort, of Sa vannah as receiver. Prominent Balti more bondholders are interested with them. In tbe Alabama house of representa tives. Tuesday, a bill to prohibit tbe sale of cgarettes in the state was reported favorably. This bill raake3 the sale of cigarett s a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of from ten to tweuty-five dollars and prohibits any one from smoking ciga rettes in any public place. A bill was introduced in the Alabama legislature Thursday making it a misde meanor for any person to ?o upon the land of another with a pisM, whether concealed cr not, without having obtain ed permission of the owner of the prop erty, if unoccupied, or the permission of the servant or occupant if occupied. The prohibition struggle in the South Carolina legis aiure is on. The consid eration of the majority report recom mending the passage of the Childs bill, a lengthy measure providing for the ap pointment of county agents to dispense liquor only for sacramental, medical and scientific purposes, came up in the house "Wednesday. The North Carotina Confederate Mon ment Association met at Raleigh Thurs day and decide 1 to erect a monument in Nash square iu that city to the confeder ate foldiers fiom North Carolina. A com mittee was appointed to co-operate with a c mmittee from the Confederate Vete rans' Association in asking the legisla ture for $10,000 annual appropriation of $5,000 for the monum-nt. A Jackson, Mi-s., special says: By an oversight, the last legislature carried forwaid m the Mississippi new code of laws the old d ?te in December lor the meeting of the presidential electors, and while the electors all knew that the date fixed by the federal statute in January would govern, still five of them were on hand "Wednesday aud the others were ready to come inon time, if necessary, but it was found that there was nothing to do but return in January. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, held at Ricbm'>rd, Ya., "Wednesday, the following officers were elected: President, Walter G. Oakman. Board of directors: W. P. Clvd', George J. Gould, R. Y. Hayes, E" P. Howel), J. C. M= b:n, John Y. Moore, James B. Pace. J >bn A. Rutherford, | Thomas F. Ryan, G orge F. Stone, Wm. ?. Sti ong, S in id Thomas. All the members of the board are of New Ifork save Messrs. Howellj of Atlanta; and Pace, of Virginia. A Greenville, Miss., dispatch says: ? Over 100 attachments were made Thurs day on tbe property of L. & N. Wisin ski, bankers,- merchants and planters, | who failed on Tuesday; Creditors who are not included in the preferred list are indignant, and are determined to have the assignment set aside by court. It is now thought the liabilities may reach $1,000,000. The assets ate about the Same, but nearly all are in real estate or mortgages and plantations. W. R. Profit <fe Co., who were large creditors of the Wisinskis, bave assigned; liabilities, $100,000. ! A special of Wednesday from Sa van- j nab, Ga., says: Unless the telegraphers ; strike the Central will have no trouble, j The firemen have been fixed up for a ! year and there is a truce on with the en gineers for ninety days, or until March I 1st. TL?: busy season will be over then and tht railroad will have somewhat of | an advantage. The men will then renew ! their demands fora new contract and on the result hinges the probability of a la bor trouble of great magnitude. The truce was brought about by a conference between superintendent Wadley and Chief Arthur, of the brotherhood of en gineers._r TELEGRAPHERS STRIKE. The Rock Island Road and Its Branches I Compieteli Tied tJp. \ A special dispatch of Thursday from ?ansas City says : The rock Island rail road, in all the territory adjacent to f?au sas City, is completely tied up. Every operator in Kansas City, St. Joseph, Topeku, Wichita, and afl the more im- i I portant points, so far as heard from, are out. Out of Kansas City pissenger train? went all right during the day; They will continue to be handled by Union Pacific and Burlington operators until Ramsey orders otherwise. SWITCHMEN MAY JOIN tS. A special fro il Chicago says: A point of interest developed in connection with the strike of Thursday U the possibility that the operators arc being joined by members of other railroad labor onrjiii zations of the Kock Island C m >any. Ramsey and several of his cot eagues have "already visitid the switchmen's headquarters, and it is .Mated that the meeting was extremely friendly. KANSAS AND NEBRASKA DIVISION. The telegraph operators and train dis patchers on the Kansas and Nebraska division of the Rock Island railroad struck Thursday morning in compliance with orders sent out by Chief Ramsay. Council B utts is divis:on headquarters on the Rock Isla-.d ioad an i train dis patchers 'here control all east and w?-st bound l u-ini ss. The dispatcher's office is not :>ITecied by the strike, because but few opernt >rs in it belong to the Order of Railway Telegraphers. The yard of fice, however, is closeei. The Rock Island telegraphers at Den ver went ont a l along tho line. Tele graphers on the Kick Island road at Chi cago, with few (xcep-ions, obe\cd the ord< r of the Order of Railway Telegraph ers, and at 10 o'clock left their keys. IMPORTANT COURT DECISION Which Will Turn Much Money luto North Carolina's Treasury. A Raieigh special of Thursday says: The supreme court of the United Statt s has filed a decision of gn at importance to North Carolina. It affirms the deci sion of the state supr?me court that twenty miles of the main line of thr Wilmington and Weld on railway are lia ble to taxation as are also 28i> mites of a : branch. This road has never pai i j any tax. e'aimieg exemption under ;t cbniter inni the state. The supreme court las intimated that if the case is ? roseeuted it will de cide that the remaining 15U miles of the ? main lice are liable a so. The d c:si ;i>. j it is stated, carried with it back ta::es. : Their are due far fifty years on a division j of the main lins and from five to thirty years on branches. 1 be aggregate ol j th?se 1 ack t:?xes is at letst a quarter of H ! million dollars, and it may amount to a j half million. j THE CANAL CONVENTION. Memorial to Congress Adopted at the Meeting in New Orleans. Id point of attendance and enthusiasm ihe great Nicaragu?n convention at New Orleans was a grand success, more than 500 representatives and wealthy men from nearly every state in the un ion beiDg present. If business success, commercial advancement, if new and bet ter markets for American products are worth securing, if the far west is worth defending in war and the commerce of the Pacific ocean is worth having in peace, then this crowning glory of the 19th century, the Nicaragua canal, should be completed. The convention, at its conclusion, m'.morialized congress as follows: Whereas, in view of the fact that the territory of the United States reaches across and fronts on both sides of the northern half of the American continent; that the distance by water from the At lantic to the Pacific side of our country is more than 15,000 m!l<s; that to make this voyage we must pass over tempestu ous feas and through every known va riety of climate; that a mere thread of land s< perales the two ocean? ; that the severi d g of this thread a: d opening a navigable water channel across the Ifcthmus of Nicaragua will unite the Atluntic and Pac'fic and shorten the water route from one side of the continent to the other 10,000 miles; that the Pacific states and territories are more remote from the At tic seaboard and the older and more populous parts of our country than is Europe; that the construction of the Nicaraugua canal will encourage closer re lations with our sister republics of South and Central America, the cost of trans portation of freight east and west from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean will be cheapened more than one half; that as a measure of national defense the making of this canal will be of infinitely greater value to the American republic than the building of forts or the maintaining of armies ; that by its con struction, our navy can be concentrated at any American port in one-third of the time and with one-third of the expense that is now required ; that large and nu merous coaling stations will thus be dis pensed with; that the Pacific ocean, with its vast and increasing commerce, its isiand and Asiatic trade, will thus con tribute to our wealth and enlarge our markets; that in this age of commercial hctivity, when the most enlightened nations of the world are seeking and cre ating new markets for their products the great aim is to shorten the distance and cheapen the price of transportation from the producer and consumer; that to suc cessfully accomplish this and mainfein large and varied industries all over our country, and to give broader markets to our agricultural and manufacturing pro duct*, the shortest route by land and sea must be created; that water trans portation is the cheapest trans portation ; that as America is a great producing country, it competes with all other countries in the world's markets, and thus inspires their rivairj; that this is the great republic of the world; that the monarchies of the eastern continent are jealous of its wonderful growth and splesdid industrial achievements; that the time has come when America should prepare for and guard against the neces sities and dangers of the future; that it would be both unwise and unpatriotic for this great republic to peacefully and quiet ly permit any foreign power to either open themselves the gates of American com merce or close those gates upon us, and hence the American people should build this canal, and control it when built, and. Whereas, both of the great political parties of this country, in their last na tional conventions, expressly indorsed the building of this canal, and both can didates for president heartily approved said declarations, and received more than nine-tenths of the votes of the American freemen; therefore be it Retolved, 1, That it is the paramount duty of this go verd ment to aid in the construction of the Nicaragua Canal. 2, That this convention respectfully urge the congress of the United States to ta?e such steps and give such nan cial aid as will insure the speedy com pletici of said canal at the minimum cost thereof, taking proper security for any credit pledged or money advanced for this purpose, and retaining such control and supervision ef the same as wijl insure the peaceful use of this great enterprise to the commerce of the world and at the lowest possible rates. A committee of five will present the above memorial to congress. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Development in the Past Week. Inrcga'dto the industrial situation in the South for the past week, new industries on ? large scale continu" to be es abhshed, as a lock factory captalized at $600,000 in ntucky, a cottoli mili with $160,000 cap?trl in South Car olina, coke works c *ting $125,000 in West Vir gin a. and urain mills, textile and weed-work ing plants in all the -outhern Mates. The re ports from corr spendente at industrial and mercantile c nters are uniformly favi rabie. There is no basic shown in bringing in coto?, and ?be slight fall in the price of r ce is more than offset by the quantity and l igh grade of the crop. 1 he iron market shows a falbng oft of 25 cents m p?g "hon, the c ai market is firm, and th* feeling of confidence before reported continues without chance. Thirty-nine new industries were established or incorpora ?cd during the week, together with 10?margements of mauuf?rtories and 16 im portant new buildings. Among the new in dustries rcoorted are brick works at Attalla, Ala., a $125.000 co:?c making plant at Wini frede, W. Va., a sicam cotton gin at Gaines v lie. Te xas, a $30.0J0 development company at Atlanta. Ga.. au i o >e with $60,000 capital at Ccvington. Ky., & distillery at G..-neva, Ga., and electric lig!:r a:.d power pi?nta at Eliza bethan, .. M< uroc. X. C. Chattanooga, nn., and Longvie w. Texas*. Flour and gii"* mi Is will !e Imitat Columbia and Lowe's P. .. ., Storevil?c S. C, Austin and Greeu ? vnle, Texas, a foundry at Point Pleasant, Va., a phosphate pl? at'Bat tow, Fla., a $10,000 ice facto; at H?lsbcro. Texas, and tanneries at Talladla* Ala., and KnoxviBe, Tenn.; a $160,000 cotton mill at Aiken. $. C, and others at Hartwcll, Ga.. and Tferboro, N. C; tobacco acories at Eminence and Midd.csborough, ! Ky.. a box iac:ory at Gainesville, Mi-?., a hin ! die factory at Kingston. Toon., a lumber mill at Fordyc?, Ark., and saw and planing mills at Renfro, Ala., Rolling Fork. Miss.. Swanton, N. C Florence. 8. and Austin, Texas. Water works are to be built at Sturgis. Ky., Sumter, S. t., GreenviRe, Tun., and Groesbeck. Texas. Among the enlargements of tho week xro an ice factory at Gainesville, Texas, powder works at O. It w?h, Tonn., a cotton rcih at Fort Mill. S. C and a woolen mill at Jackson, lenn., a furniture factory at Mossy Creek, Tenu., and wood-working plants at Muscadine, Ala., Arlington and Memphis, Tenu. The new buildings include bush-ess houses at Attalla Decatur and G^dsd?a, Ala., Dublin, Ga? and \shevi le. N. C. a *S0,000 college at Roanoke. Va., and one costing $40.000 at Clin ton, Tenn.. a $44,000 gov-rnmeUt building at Paris Texas au hotel at Pine Bluff. Ark., and a jail at Plaquemine, La.?Tradesman (Chatta* nooga, Tonn.) THE MONETARY CONFERENCE. _ Rothschilds Proposals Withdraw and Other Plans Presented. A Brussels cablegram says: The mon etary coherence Tuesday continued^ the discussion of the report of the committee which examined the Rothschild propos als. After a speech by Sir C. E. Wilson, a member of the Brit sh delegation, Rothschild withdrew his scheme from further constderatioa of the congress. Before Rothschild withdrew his plan Sir Fremantle, deputy master of the English mint, declared himself ready to support any reasonable measure to solve the silver problem effectively. Sir Williani Houlde, >f the British delegation, a bimetaiist, announced that he had prepared a fresh proposal to be present cd immediately. There is no doubt that interest in the pro ceeding is abating, the belief gaining ground that the debates of the confer ence will have no appreciable value.