g - GHT NEW YEAR. i p——— 3 as Deliversd bythe Brook- | yn Divine. “This year thou shalt die.”"—Jere § xxviii., 16. ss itd wi te. It isonly wo old, but I prophesy for it an eventful Year of mirth and madness! bly prove true of some 18 augmented by the ver five The probabil fact that all of us who 0 it is oak or cedar, or who moment it is thrown, he clute It sins, no great not aware that your sinful? The snow comes down © nake by flake, and it is so ligh fay hold it on the tip of the fin, feeling any weight; but the fla they compact, until some day a 1 foot starts the slide, and it goes dow avalanche, sing to death the 3 8o the sins of your youth, and your manhood, and the sins of may have only accuracies or trifling divergen right—so slight that they are | mentioning; but they have , and piling up, packing Sogoaon antl t they ne ‘ sin, and one more step wrong direction may an ayalanche of ruin ravening out of the forest from all sides and horribl red him. Thou art the man. years of age have gona beyond the ‘average | ero of your life summoning on all of human life. 1 Merime, We read of but one antedi- | la ‘youth whose early death disappointed ay his parents by his dying at. eo ; ‘age, ue world then may have been Ww. atit is now, for nien had solong atime | = in ich to study and invent and plan, ©Osophers have done who years before them? In the nearly two thou- sand years before the flood, ‘considering ‘the longevity of the inhabitants, there may nave. ¢ le as’ there are was not a freshet, that washed a few people off a plank, but a dis- Begin that may have Zwept away a thousand million. c Ocean by a lurch - of the earth to-night should drown this hemisphere and the Pacific Ocean by a sud- den lurch of the earth should drown hemisphere, leaving about as many beingsas tf an arfist or a philosop has forty or makes great achieve. 3 wi o e = ; But'what must the | pearly as man now. The fl z “1¢ ‘the Atlan : sould be got in one or two’ ocean steamer 4 awould ha ary ) ¥ Fa hiastn all ped | ers, 1d give yonarn idea of what thearcient 0 ve nis time God started ‘the race witha shor The nine hun- : r allowance of life. ered years were hewn down until, in the : of Vespasian,a census was taken and only one hundred and twenty-four persons wera ~ found one hundred years old and three or it four persons one hundred and forty years old, Now a man who has come to one hun- dred years of ageis a curiosity, and we go 1) miles to ce pas The vast majority of es, ) OL, & y begun to toll, and @ adaptedness of the text to you is "more 2 and sore probable, “This year thou shalt die. The character of our occupations adds to the probability.” Those who are in the pro- * fessions are undergoing a sapping of the brain and nerve foundations. moderation. There is stead of fifty-five, sand! Charles Dick orty. There | predisposes to disease. fo disorders apoplexy. If we be frail; to rarely reach fifty years. OWI. Painters fall under their own brush. Fonn drymen take death in witH the filings. Shoes snakers pound away their own lives on the Overdriven merchants measure off their:own lives with the yardstick. Millers grind their own lives with the grist. Masons n in all our occupations and professions there Jast, dig their own graves with the trowel. are the elements of peril. Rapid climatic changes threaten our lives. By reason of the violent fits of thether- mometer, within two days we live both in the arctic and the tropic. The warm South - wind finds us with our furs on. a blast cuts through our hoot, the wheel, the fir wait their chance to pub upon us their I auiioune it as an impossibility nd sixty-five days should quietus, that three hundred and leave us all as we now are. In w digection to shoot the arrow I know not, and This year thou 80 1shoot it at a venture. shalt die.” 3 In view of this, 1 advise that you have your temporal matters adjusted. Dg not feave your wordly-affairs at the Jasrey of pts prop- erly pasted, and your letters filed, and your books balanced. It you hava *‘trust funds,” see that they are rightly depdsited ‘and ‘ae- ow or orphan ‘This man Many a nan ha a competency, whose property has, through bie Dor carelessness, afterward been divided be- administrators. Have your rec teounted ‘for. Let mo wi ‘Scratch on your: fombstone, wrongel me of my inheritance.” man has died leavin tween the! administrators, the: surrozate, the lawyers and the sheriffs.’ ' I charge you, before many days have go ; sible, have all your worldly matters made straight, for ‘‘Ihis year thou shalt die.” I advise; alse that you be busy in {Christian | er rly Habart 1h tio year? work, : How mi Fifty-two. If the text be true of you it does not say at what time yow may go, and therefore it is unsafe to count on all ot the fifty-two Sundays. As you are as Jikel} to 0 in the first half of the year asin the last ena Barr, I think we had better divide the fifty. ' through all the ages of. eternity Jfian women, what c: the redem an £wo into halves and calculate only twenty- six Sabbaths. Come, Christian meén, Chriss f you do in twenty-six Sabbaths? Divide tHe - three hundred and sixty-five days into two parts, what can you 40 dn ono Bandred and Signo, days? at, by: the way of savin, ur Jf the church and the world? Bn will 1 not; of. in heaven, get over the dishonor<and the outrage of go- ing ints glory, and having helped none up to the same place. . Tt. will.be found that ‘many a Sabbath-school teacher has taken nto heaven her whole class; that Daniel Baker, the = evangelist, took thousands into heaven; that Dod. rida has taken'in hundrédsof thousands; ce, 4hat Paul took in a hundred millions. How many will you take in? if you get inta heaven and find none: theré*hat you sent and that there are your instrumentality, I beg of you to crawl tinder some seat in. the back corner and never come out lest the redeemed Bet their 68 on you and some one cry out, “That ij he man who never J j ption of his fellows. h ven!” Better be bus; ay Hold with’ « : t you 1x undone for Christ will 5, **I'iis year thou shalt die! ew of the probabilities mentioned, 1 The note is more than due. It is only by sufference that it is not col- | the We are like a debtor who is tak- da; *..of the banks. . ven hundred and seventy-seven years of ahead e other if before twenty years. To every are five blossoms that never get ain and Literary men-in this country are driven with whip . and spur to their topmost speed. Not one brain worker out of a hundred observes any 3 eis ging So stimu-. lating in our climate that if John Brown, the essayist of Edinburgh, had lived here, he would have broken down at thirty-five in- occupations which It we be stout, ranging from fevers td i as rang- ing from consumption to paralysis. Printers W atchmakers, jnmarking the time for others, shorten their Chemists breathe death in their laboratories, and potters absorb paralysis. gone, as far as pos none to rome throuzhe hand or voice for, forever bt the rest, they surround thy soul and ‘make ight of thy sin terrible with the assault of their bloody muzzles. Oh, the unpar- ‘doned; armors g, ravening, all devouring Sins: of thy lifetime hoynd § A was pacing along the JToaq wit a torch in ne hand ond a pail of Tow in the other, and some one asked him what he meant to do with them. sswered, ‘With this torch I mean to burn down heaven, and with this water I mean to EE fo os oe could do the one as well as he could do the other. No time to lose if you halt di Let me announce that Christ, the Lord, stands ready to save any man who wants to be saved. e waited for you all last year, and all the year before, and all your lite. He has waited for you with blood on His brow and tears in ey stretched, ma: o ; phil. | It: 4 nine hundred us toeerape your sins for *This year thon . song hands of love. mark of muddy feet on your ‘front step. You hasten in and fiad an excited group around child, He fellintoa re brought. hi « home 10 ‘be resuscitated, you woul been childless. You feel that you cannot do enough for the rescuer. arms around him. You offer him any com- pensation. You say to him: ‘‘Anything that you want shall be yours. I will never cease to be grateful.” sees your soul sinking, and attempts to bring it ashore, and you not only refuse Him thanks, but stand 88 that soul! save it myself.” SE I wish Jou might know what a job J undertook when He ried your case to Calvary, They crowded Him to the wall. They struck Him. They spat on Him. They kicked Him. They cuffed Him. They scoffed at Him, They, scourged Him. They mur- dered Him, Blood! blood! As He stoops down to lift you up the crimson drops upon you from His brow, from His side; from His hands. Do you not feel the warm current on your face? Oh, for thee the hunger, she thirst, the thorn sting, the suffocation, the struggle, the death. 3 gx A great plague came in Marseilles. The -doetors-held a consultation and decided that be dissected or they would to stop the plague. A Dr. ¢“Tosmorrow morning I will issection.” He made his will; prepared for death; went into the hospital; dissected a body; wrote out the results of the dissection and gdlied in twelve hours. Beauti- ful self sacrifice you say. Our Lord Jesus looked out from heaven and saw a plague stricken race. Bin must be dissected. He made His will, giving everything to His - ple. He comes down into the reeking Pe pital of earth. He lays His hand to the work. « Under our plague He dies—the healthy for the sick, the pure for the pol- Juted, thé inmndcent for:the guilty. Behold the love! Behold the sacrifice! Behold the rescue! ¥ Decide on this first Sabbath of the year whether or, .not you will have Jesus. He will not stand forever begging for your love. ‘With some here His plea ends right speedily. **This year thou shalt ‘die.” This great salvation of the Gospel I now offer to every man, woman and child. You cannot buy it. You cannot earn it. A Scotch writer says that a T woman one cold winter’s day looked through the win- dow of a Kking’s conservatory and saw a bunca of. grapes hanging against the glass, ‘She said, "Oh, if I only had that bunch of grapes for my sick child at home!” At her spinaing wheel she earned a few shillings and went to buy the grapes. The king's gardner thrust her out very roughly, and said he had no grapes to sell. She went off and sold a blanket and got some more shil- lings, and came back and tried'to buy the pes. But the gardener roughly assaulted her ahd Lod her at be. oR. The ing’s daughter was walking in the den at the ri J and ‘she nn the Ee and seeing the poor woman, said to ber, ‘My father is not a merchant to sell, but he is a king and gives.” Then she reached up and plucked the grapes and dropped themvin the poor woman's apron... Christ is a king, and all the fruits of His, pardon He freely gives. They may not be bought. ‘Without money and without price, take this sweet cluster from the vineyards of God. I am coming to the close of my sermon. I sought for a text appropriate for the occa- sion. I thonght of taking one in Job; “My days fly as a weaver’s shuttle;” of a text ia Psalms: *‘So teach us to number our days that we midy apply our hearts unto wis- domj” of the prayer of the vine dresser: rd, let it alone this year also;” but pressed upon my attention first of all, and last of all, and above all, were the Words: *‘This year thou shalt die.” fect health now, it does not take God one week to bring qa the strongzest physical constitution, ‘I'do not want to die this year. | We have plans and projects on foot that I ' want tosee eted ; but God knows best, do the work yet undone. I have a hope that, notwithstanding all my sins and wanderings, 1 shall. through the in- finite mercy of m right place. I have nothing to brag of by way of Christian’ experience; but twa things I have learned—my utter helplessness before God and the all abounding grace of the Lord Joss. 1 She text means some 2 ou, earers, o not want you to Tate anetepared. I would like to have you, either through money you had laid up or a *'life insurance,” be able to leave the world feeling that your family need not be- come paupers. But if you have done your best and you leave not one dollar’s worth of ay confidently trust the Lord hath promised to care for the widow and fatherless. | I would like to have your soul fitted ous for eternity, so that if any or moon or evening or night of ¥ e hundred and sixty-five days, 3 id look in and ask, ‘‘Are you a aight, with an outburst of Chris trinmph; answer, ‘Aye, aye! all hat our last words may be. eld prided himself on his po- ow not w Dayrolles a chair.” Dr. Adam, a dying ‘schoolmaster, said: *‘It grows dark. © may dismiss.” Lo; wolves, and they came He an- He was a‘maniac. You come home some night and find the your and had it not been for a brave lad, who Junged in and bro ol out and carrled im have | not think we You throw your But my Lord Jesus =| Perhaps it may mean me, Though in per- and He has a thousand better men than I to Saviour, come out at the rd © liveness, and said in his last moment, ‘Give rd Tenterden, sup- ‘have kept the faith; there is k ° giveme.” -if we are fitted for entrance in the it is an everlasting day; yet they keep an ; a a at ho ng ough heaven r how many times the earth has turned ny axis, and in that way the angels can keep a for Tather to come up, or for mother to come up. Some day they see a cohort leavin heaven, and they say, ‘Whither bound ‘earth; y fy ** soul?” Aud a family circle m heaven find that it is one of their own number that is to be brought up, and they come out to watch, that is to bring our friends home. nearer and nearer, until with agree the gates hoist, and with an. embrace’? with the ecstacy of Jaren, old friends meet . Away wih your stiff, formal heaven! I want none of it. Give g vy. feet free from the clods of earth, i shall bound the hills with gladness and break forth in a laugh of triumph. Aba!aha! We weep now, but then wae shall laugh. ‘‘Abrabam’s bosom” means that: heaven has open arms to take us in, Now we fold our arms over our heart, and tell the world to stand back, as though our bosom was a two barred gate to ki the world out. Heaven si Is. not with folded arms, but ‘with heart open. It is “‘Abraham’s bosom.” 1 see a mother and child meeting at the foot of the throne absence. The child died up. We néed their infant voices in the .. And when we walk ont inthe ght, we want them torun ahe clap their hands and Jick out the brightest of the field flowers. ' Yes, here is 4 child and the mother just arrived. you are, m “Yes,” says the child, ‘‘thisis sucha “How changed and two out- | place, and Jesus has taken such care of ms, and heaven is so kind, I got right over the Jover with which I died. air, mother! The temple is so beautiful, you used to.” Oh, I donot know how we shall stand ths first day in heaven... Do you y will break down in the song rom overdelight? I once gave out in church he hymn: There is a land of pure delight, ‘Where saints immortal reign, and an aged man standing in front of ths . pulpit sang heartily the t verse and then e sat down weeping. 1said to him after- ward, *‘Father Linton, what made you cry the beach y : wr aot it ve ei ‘over that hymn?” He said, 4 3 4 how we can rise with itif a 0 everlasting delight come upon the soul—bil- low of joy after billow of joy. Jesus would bs eooUgh for the first day in heaven, yet here heaven at His back last January to Some who are present. You have Sutered the Year, but Jou ri not close it. ithinithese twelve moaths your eyes ‘will shit, for the last sleep, Other hands will plant the Christmas tree and: give ‘the Year's co! g “Shabion oF Joy to Som and 46 A Warning to ol CHICAGO. tain Her Supremacy. less wild continent behind them. be missed. people. energetic. ancient or modern times ‘situa the heart of a continent. said that Chicago is an only in name, and that it ¢ have achieved the. posit achieved but for situated ‘on the sho double-armed inlana se landish in their habits. ‘people. down the stream. up for me a crown of righteous- ry "which the Tord, the righteous Jud 3 thém in sucha manner that her sight The sooner the last hour comes the better world. There is no clock in heaven, because account of the passing years, because ney i from our wor ; and they say it is almost time now and the answer is, *‘To bring up a soul from i? and the question.is asked “What as on the beach we now watch for a ship After a while the cohort will ‘heave in sight, flying | Yorsary Wedn es, its mother meeting. The child long in glory, darling!’ says the mother. happy ¢ The skies areso | mother! The flowers are so sweel, mother! Core, take me up in your arms as Methinks eapproaches with all | Bat I must close this sermon. This is the | oth I leave in your ears these five words oiohe syllable each..*This year thou shalg dis An English Writer Says She Can’t Main- A generation ago America consisted of the settled Northeastern: and Southeastern States and of more or Year by year, however, the popula- tion has been spreading west, and every fresh census has pushed inland the mean line of population—the line on either side of which the popula- tion is equal. The significance of this gradual withdrawal of the mean pop- ulation line from the coast must not The fact means that the Anglo-Saxons in the United States | are becoming what they have never been before in’ their history, an inland In a very little time, the vast majority of Americans will not only never have seen the sea, but will never have been within a thousand miles of it. The destiny of the Ama ican people is to become as much a people of great inland plains as the Russians; and this fact will "be ‘made clear to the world when travelers leave the ocean at New York and after traveling inland over a thousand miles, find themselves in a city as big as Vienna, and ten times as rich and The existence of a great city so far removed from the sea is probably unique in the world’s history. . Delhi in the days of its greatest prosperity had no doubt a very large population, but unless Moscow can be called great we can recall no great city of the great lakes have helped Chicago, and no doubt also the fact, that they | 4: acquire from the populations which surround them all the seafaring qual- ities of the English race, will prevent its inhabitants from becoming too in- Chicago, ‘however, is not enough in the middle of the continent to hold forever the position ofthe typical American city. As the ‘center of population shifts westward, her relative, position will decline, and she will ultimately have to give way to some younger rival to «the. west and south, possessed of a geographical position more suited to the commercial capital of a nation of some two hundred millions of inland | 3nd Still, as ‘we have said, Chi- cago for the time will serve as an ob- ject lesson in. regard to the great | puttinga bullet into John Zameck's left change which has come over the con- i ditions habited.—London Spectator. An island comprised of about fifty acres of rice land has broken loose in a river near Depere, Wis, and is floating A a PENNSYLVANIA NOTES. ~~ ;A Few Oondensations of Events Occur- ring Throughout the State. Margaret Hays, the 4-year-old daughter of Owen Hays. of Rankin station, found a box of concentrated lye, and after filling both hands with it rubbed her. eyes, burn- lost. - The elegant new residence being built by John Wallace, the wealthiest farmer of Snowden township, Allegheny county, which was almost y for occupancy, was burned to the ground, entailing a loss o nearly $16,000. B. F. Isenberg published a card in the Huntingdon papers addressed to the farmers of Huntingdon county, and others, propos- ing to grind free of charge all the grain brought t» the Honey flour mills, and in addition for every ten bushels given by others he will give one bushel to be for- sians. : 4 At Corry, the largs tannery of G. A. Auer, Sr., was burned. timated loss, $20,000. George Thompson, of Clarksville, and his wife celebrated their sixtieth wedding anni- ay in the presence of a arge ‘number of children, grand-children ‘and other relatives, They are both over 80 years of age 2 Mt. Jewett, McKean county, wants an at- | torney and counsellor at law. There is none there, and the Justice has more than he can do, and will aid any attorney who will set- tle there. It is said there is income enough to make apy young attorney proud over it. Pennsylvania has twelve towns or post offices. ‘with very peculiar names, viz.: Stumptown, Bullskin, Shintown, Jugtown Puckerty, Sin, Sis, Scrubgrass, Hers, Man's Choice, Maiden’s Choice and Bird in Hand. Wm. H. Dill;late president of the Clearfield and Houtzdale banks was held in $3,000 for his appearance at February Quarter Sessions at Houtzdale. Bail was promptly furnished. Fred Demmock, employed atthe Gambria : Iron Works, Johnstown, was killed by a piece of iron striking him. A peculiar disease is prevalent in Sharps. pronounce the grip, but which isnot. Whole: families have been suffering from it, and several deaths have occurred within the past week. and watery eyes, sore throat, aching bones and a red and mottled face are the outward and visible signs. Mart Donley, a Perkins detective. was held for court at New Qastle on the charge of striking James Leslie with a hand billy on the night of January 1, 1891. W. A. Lefevre’s livery stable at Tyrone was burned. Loss $2,500, partly insured. A tramp was run over by a train at Gallit- zin and killed. Joseph Meyers, when about to board a train at Greensburg, was robbed of his pocketbook containing about $300. 5 Charters were issued from the State Department to the Altoona Short Line Raliroad company, which proposes the con- struction of a line 40 miles long, from Everett, Bedford county, to Ore Hill station, Blair county, with branches” to Langdon, Riddleburg aad other poixts. Hon. A. B: Sharpe, a leading lawyer of this State and a prominent Grand Army man, was found dead in his bed in Carlisle. His death was caused by heart failure. He was 60 years of age. He leaves a large estate. : Edward Davis, of Mt. Carmel, who for years has been applying for a pension for service rendered in the ‘Mexican War, received information that he would get his money. ‘Overcome by the good news he fell dead. George Mofflaur died at Pittsburg from in: juries received in a natural gas explosion at ulations. As a progla- | the mines of the Rainbow Coal and. Coke company at Whiteset, on Wednesday last. William Kirby, of Garfield, fell from a freight train near Ninevah and was crushed. He died shortly after. Charles Montgomery, of Altoona, fell from a freight train near Blairsville, and both legs were cut off. He died soon after. Stephen Shaner, a miner, was killed at the Cliff coal pit at Imperial, on Christmas eve, by being caught between loaded coal cars, and crushed to a pulp, He leaves: a family. : The statement of cashier Guyer, of the Tyrone bank, was made public. It shows O. Guyer, Claude Jones, A. B. Hoover and P. Flynn to be partners. The bank assets are: Realestate, discounts, judgments, etc., $75,668.74: overdrafts, $5,439.59; cash on hand, $6,557; due from other banks, $1,328,- 42: furniture fixtures, etc., $500; total, $90,- 503.55; the personal assets are: C. Guyer,on real estate, 30,000; Claude Jones, ditto, $15, , The liabilities are: Interest certifi- cate, $46,868.74; deposits, subject to check, $41,178.41; duc other banks, $9.468.50; total, $07,615.65; excess of assets over liabilities, $37,087.90; C. Guyer, cashier. _The grip is prevailing in Carbondale and vicinity to an extent equaling the first visita- tion, a few years ago, and many cases are fatal. In the little town of Sherman, Wayne county, the malady has been getting in its dreadful work at a wonderful rate during the ast two weeks. In some instances whole amilies were prosizated by ' it. In’ one family the father and 11 children were ill at once, while the mother was confined in bed with a babe. In other instances families of two, three and four were all dowa. On Sunday there were over 50 cases in various stages of disease, snd the.number has since increased to over 80. The disease was so widespread that no services were held in the leading churches on Sunday. 5 A Pole was torn to pieces by a steam shovel while at work on the Allegheny Valley road, near Arnold station. ~~ Peter S. Reynolds, of New Castle, has a cow that has a pair of twin calves which at the age of four weeks weighed 280 pounds. Demico Reppilo, an Italian, was blown to atoms by an explosion of powder which had been ignited from a match while he was searching in a closet for tools. W. H. Dewitt, jeweler, of Wilkesbarre, | has failed. Liabilities, $8,000; assets un- known. Fred, son of Editor Moorhead, of the Indiana Progress, was accidentally killed on a hunting g¥pedition near Bay City, Mich. Fred was the husband of a niece of the late Governor Geary. A horse kicked Sergt. Charles Stuflet of the Star clay works, Mertztown, in the, face and knocked him through a door. He may In a not in a Hungarian saloon at Shen- andoah, Saturda night, seviral men were stab One of the injured men is dying, Six arrests have been made. A malignant type of diphtheria is epidem- ic at Fairview, a village near Johnstown, seven children of Frank and Cooley Degraw having died within a month. Epizoolio has attacked many horses and cattle in Lancaster, Berks and Chester counties. Thomas James was killed ju the Otto col. liery, near Minersville, Saturday. Diphilieria prevails to an alarming ex- tent at Atwood, Recently two children of the widow Duff died and another one 1s dangerously. ill. Thomas ' McCaslin, of Cowanshannock township, lost two children Wm. A. Fleming one from the same dread scourge. Andrew Fisch, living at Rankin, was arrested Saturday and held for a hearing for arm. The latter was in the house and isch ‘was shooting at the door as a target. Mollie Ritchie, of Rochester, had some trouble with her sweetheart on Christmas day, and Baturday committed suicide by poisoning. I \ West Middlesex, aged 65, Saturday afternoon by hanging herself. warded tothe relief of the starving Rus- ‘| ville’ and vieinity, which: some people; Mrs, Genger, a widow of Five Points, near , committed suicide (Datei, of So, 5.7.) as on while n With his grandchild. 2 _ Judge Doty, at Greensburg, sentenced Geo. :8. Wainwright, of Blairsville, the forger, to five years and three months in the peniten- Henrietta Harrison, of Harrisburg, who claimed to be 105 years old, was burned to death, her clothes catching fire while she lighting her pipe. jlerman Stedger was found dead near the P.& L. E. track near New Castle, Sunday, He had evidently fallen into a drunken sleep and frozen to death. : A big gasser has been struck near Butler. William Broderick,aged 15 years, shot and killed John Hollister at Shamokin. The boys were shooting at a mark. A ‘Something to Think Of. The Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, in his great speech at the recent New York Chamber of Commerce dinner, said a great many good things which: business men should now carefully ponder over. Mr. Depew is generally a good prophet; but he seldom, if ever, has had such an array of facts and figures to sustain him in his calculations as at the present time. We give a few pertineni extracts from “his able speech, which we are sure will greatly interest thousands of our read- ers. . *“There is to be, within the next twelve months, a famine in this land; but it is to be a famine of the means to carry the vast product of the soil. There is to be a famine of cars, a» famine of locomo- “tives, a famine of the methods by which this enormous product which the fields of the country have produced may be conveyed to the sea and so go abroad, where it is needed. [Applause.] There are times when a great surplus of pro- ‘dite is thrown upon the market and not ‘consumed, and that is generally a time “when there is a general lack of prosperi- ‘ty throughout the country; but this year we have a phenomenal condition of the harvest, unequaled for many a year; of prices greater for our products than have been secured for then in the last ten years: of the railways receiving whole and remunerative rates for what they carry, and having more than they can do, and a demand from the other side of the water, owing to the horrible conditions there, which will take the whole of our surplus; and it will probably be unequal to the demand. “These conditions are going to make railways more than usually prosperous in their net eainings; are going to give an unusual business to every house, no matter what the par- ticula article in which it deals; are going to put an amount in the hands of the far- mer such as he has nothad in a long ‘time before; are going to lead to the con- struction of new lines of railway; are going io make a demand for iron, coal and’ coke; are going to pour back into this country in the next fiscal year twice the surplus of imports of money over the amount we expend abroad. [Applause.] “This banquet is as it was the year of the Presidential election. My friend Mr. Mills says that the way to preserve this prosperity is to have free trade and an income tax to carry on the Govern- ment. My friend Mr. Cleveland says the way to preserve this prosperity is to have revenue reform and honest money. My friends of the South and of the West say the way to preserve prosperity is to have feee trade and the unlimited coin- age of silver. : «My friends with whom I am associ- ated say the way to preserve this pros. perity is to have the protective principle applied in such a way that it will pro- tect wherever another mill can be built and another man can be given employ- ment who hasn't it now [cheers], and the reciprocity project so pushed that treaties by this country shall be made with every country that has a surplus of the things we cannot profitably produce, and needs the things of the factory or the farm of which we have a surplus; and that parity of silver and gold shall be maintained in such a way that both metals will be used to the utmost ex- tent that the product of our mines shall afford; but that in the Treasury there shall be always enough of both to keep the silver equal to the gold and the promise of the Government upon its paper equal to gold.” [Prolonged ap- plause.] Southern Industrial Progress. The current report of industrial pro- gress in the South, which is published weekly by the Manufacturers’ Record, of Baltimore, contains a long list of enter. prises in which are noted three new iron furnaces in Texas,’ a projected cotton tie and rolling mill in Texas, iron pipe works in Virginia to employ 400 hands, the organization of a five million dollar company in London to develop large iron and coal properties in Virginia and Tennessee, a million dollar company’s purchase of 8000 acres of West. Virginia coal lands and scores of other concerns of small capital whose manufactures are based on iron and steel. It is a wonderful record of the material progress of the South, and the peculiar feature of it is that it is due largely to protective tariff. None of the enterprises above mentioned could be started or suc. ceed but for protection. It is proposed Bevg St by a Democratic House to pasé bills at this session to put iron and coal and cotton ties on the free list. In that event not only thesenew enterprises, but thousands of similar ones that have sprung up over the South in the last ten years, will be driven to bankruptcy. Yet the solid South has sent a solid array of ' Democratic free trade Congressmen to Washington prepared to do this injury to the progress of their own section. If the industrial wealth inthe South has any wer in politics it will be heard 1n the National Capital this winter protesting against the Democratic programme.— The Press. The sacred standard at Constatino- LA is believed to be formed of the nether garment of Mohammed, ¢ and a pair of his pyjamas, which are rever- entialy preserved at Lahore, are held Vy the faithful to have miraculously extinguished a fire at that place no pti eri longer ago than 1849, um, Visi "GRAND ARMY COLUMN: Their Last Days in Prison, and How : They Were Exchanged. In a recent article I promised to give the closing scenes of their confinement and escape of the hostages in Libby, but the sickness of Captain Rockwood has prevented till now. : The Captain continues: “Soon after our confinement in the jail, or about New Year's, I was taken sick with what the Surgeon called typhoid pneumo- nia, was carried to a hospital, and remained there till February. On the 19th of Feburarv wé were informed that the Confederate Secretary of War had issued an order releasing on parole all Federal prisoners in the South. 7 “] think the order must have applied to the prisoners at Richmond only. The information was given by the Commandant of the prison. Aboué Wednesday, the 20th, the hostages were transferred to the Tobacco Ware. house, where the officers were confin- ed, and on Thursday Iwent back there from hospital,and I heard then that ali were to be paroled except the hostages. “All officers that had men in prisom were permitted to go to their quarters up-stairs to assis} in signing the parole Friday morning the officers were t> sign the parole, and we all fell in ling, waiting what might turn up. We ex- pected to be refused, but as they com- menced to call the roll it was in alpa betical order for the first time. Col. Cogswell, the first in order of the hos- tages, looked up surprised and hope- ful, turned and winked to Col. Lee which we understood meant to do as I do, and as his name was called he stepped up and signed the parole, an no one was refused. Sat “Then we were in a dilemma, as the day before we had drawn our weekly hundred dollars. It was in Richmon bank money, and good for nothing the Federal lines. Coli Wood, wh was a man well up in the Orders, to the money, called for the Officer of th Guard, and asked for a parole of th city for one hour, and by some mean got it. He returned, and soon a dra unloaded four 25-pound bags of Kil kinick tobacco, which cost $1 a poun Early in the day the United States Government had furnished the men were going home were widely generous. A large crowd of negroes collected about the prison to see ‘Massa Yankee go home,’ and the men began to throw their old clothes out of the windows to them. Old gray headed men, women, and children were wild in running to secure some article flying from the window. The crowd increased and the Officer of the Day went out, rushed into the crowd, and lay about him the flat of his sword; but it was. no use, the crowd eould not be driven away till the last article of clothing had been secured. ~~ “Six o'clock p. m. came, and with it the order to march. We shouldered blanket, in which Was rolled a bag o tobacco, and bid good bye to the ola warehouses, and Samuel A. Pancoast, a civilian of Virginia, was left the gole- occupant of the huge buildiug. : “The boat was small, and we were crewed, standing, and could nof lie down. The rain commenced to fall, the night was dark and foggy; we were full of impatience, und as morn- ng broke all were eagerly looking. forward to catch sight of the Federal flag. As the morning advanced the. fog lifted, and we soon passed ‘the black hulls of the Confederate steam- | ers Jamestown and Patrick Henry, and in the distance the Federal flag-of- truce boat appeared. ; “We were formally transferred to the United States bout. We steamed down the river past the men-of-war Congress and Cumberland, whose rig- ging was filled with sailors, who greeted us with hurrahs, which we an- ‘swered till unable to do so any lon- ger. . : “Fortress Monroe at last, and many of the officers went up to pay their respects to General Wool, and as his eyes fell on Colonel Lee, who was a classmate of the General, burst into tears, embraced him, saying, “I did not expect to sec you, as it was a blun- der of the Confederate officers in paroling you, and they telegraphed the police boat to intercept the flag- of-truce boat and take off the hostages and return them. * “The fog had delayed the flag-of- truce boat so long that the police-boat officers thought it had passed, and they returned to their port.”’—L. W. Baker, in National Tribune. : GRAND ARMY NOTES. John Vice, an old soldier of Owings ville, Ky., and for many years blind and destitute, has just been granted a pension of $72 a month, and received a check for $18,398 back pay. Vice has also been allowed a pension for a wound, and this, together with the one just now received, makes what is be- lieved to be the largest pension ever: paid by the Government to a private soldier, the two aggregating over $16.000. i The Chattanooga Park Commission ers have granted General Wilder's brigade permission to erect a monu- ment to mark its position on the Chickamauga battlefield. i The City Troop of Philadelphia re- cently celubrated the one hundred and seventeenth anniversary of its organi- vation by a parade and a banquet. There are ten main lines of railway centering in London. Of these 3,21 suburban trains run in and ont daily while the main line trains are onl about 410. The ten lines carry 000,000 suburban passengers per
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