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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-12
MERCHANTS OF NEW-YORK.
ADDRESSES AT THEIR ANNUAL DINNER.

ADDRESSES AT THEIR ANNUAL DINNER.
SECRETARY SHERMAN TIE MOST PROMINENT GUEST
AT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REUNION
HIS ENTHUSIASTIC RECEIPT oN-THE OTHER
SPEAKERS.
The annual dinner Of the Chamber of Commerce
last evening was not marked by the presence
of 80 many prominent speakers from other
cities as in some former years. The ad-
dress which was most enthusiastically received
was that of Secretary Sherman, and every refer
ence to the Secretary of the Treasury by
the other speakers was heartily applauded. George
W. Lane presided, Samuel D. BabcOck, president Of
the Chamber of Commerce, being kept at homo by
i'll health. Mayor Cooper, Chief Justice Davis. the
Rev. DR.. Storrs, Generals Porter and WoodfOrd, and
Fernando Wood were among the speakers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-12

ST. LOUIS, MAY 11.-Four men were burned
death in the destruction by fire OF the cheap lodging hons
Charles SChultze, this morning
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-20
A Slap at the Bloody Shirt.
4Nr. Tatmagc Comes Bach From the
SouM to Rcmarh Upon the Ngor and
immensely Of ,Salvart Lviag.

Mr.. Talmagc directed his congregation
Sunday to sing, "NIy country, 'tis of thee"
said his tcxt-Judgcs, l, I5--and contin-
ucd as follows; "To meet engagements iu
nine Of tho Southern cities and to catch a
glimpse of tho South land in tho spring
time, | made trip two weeks long below
Blason and Dixon's line. went equipped
with questions and hungry for information
on moral and religious and political subjects.
had grave to visit in Georgia, that of
my uncle, Dr. Samuel K. Talmagc, for
twenty years President of Oglethorpe Uni
vcrsity. When the war for slavery broke
out he lay down near tho scene of his use
fulness. Ho was one of those who are the
adornment of the Southern pulpit. Such
men as Jas. H. Thornwell and Smyth and
Duncan and Pierce are to be mentioned
with him. | went resolved to soc and
make report of what saw while South
l had no political record to look after or
guard, for the career Of my usefulness has
opened since the war closed. My admira-
ton for the Democratic and Republican
parties, as parties, is SO great that it would
take one of McAliser's most powerful
magnifying glasses to catch glimpse of it.
American politics is rotten. That party
steals the most which has the beet chance.
(Applauso) found while South the
most perfect proof that the bulk of the
stories We get here in the North, distilled
by special correspondents, arc sheer fabri-
cations and most persistent attempts to
msrcprcsent the real character of large
section of our people. There is no more
need of governmental espionage at Charles
ton or Savannah and tho other Southern
cities than there is in New York or Boston
Somo people have an idea that the scnti-
mcnt in tho South leans toward the re- -es-
tablishmcnt of negro slavery. Ah! the
people are all heartily glad to get rid Of it
aud the plains now arc placed under a
better system of cultivation beoauso i: is
gone. Old planters told me that tho worry
and anxiety and the care of looking after
plantation of negroes is all gone, and noY
all they have to do is to pay the wages at
tho end of the month. Put it to ballot in
the South whether or not you would have
again the system whioh prevailed before
the war and you would GET laundering
negative. The fight for slavery closed
sixteen yoars ago aud those Northern poll
ticians who keep tho subject of American
slavery still rolling might as we'll try to
make tho Dorr rebellion in Rhode Island or
tho attempt of Aaron Burr to found an
cmpiro test for our fall election. The
whole subject of American slavery
is dead and damned. Tho negro loves his
work and his South. when VIC hear Of
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-20

nounoed them moral They may have
weighed themselves and given a self.gratu-
iatory decision, but now God weighs thom
in unmistakable balances. On this side
OF the scales arc placed the souls of the
unpardoned--thcir wealth all gone; nothing
romains but t:e naked souls of the unfore.
given. On tho other side of the scales are
placed wasted Sabbaths, misimproved priv
iieges, disregardcd sermons, innumerable
opportunities of pardon. Hark How
the scales come down on this last sido
loud us thunder! God, looking at tho BAL
ancc, shall announce, in the presence of
man aud devils and oherubim and arch
ahgel, while eroaping earthquake, and
cracking eonaagration, aud judg gmcnt
trumpet, and everlasting storm shall repeat
it, "Wcighcd in the balance aud found
wanting"
"But," you ask, chow, if wc repent to.
day and como to God, will VIC at last be
wcighcd?' Yes! There is no escape from
the scrutiny. The wicked have been tested
aud driven away in their wickcdness, now
let the righteous got on to tho balances.
"oh," you say, "lct me off, l cannot stand
the test" Get in yo righteous! "What!
with all my sinf" No time to discuss the
matter. The bell of judgment is toling.
The balances are adjusted get in you must
All your opportunities of being better and
doing moro good are placed on one side of
the scales, and you get in ON the other.
You are too light to bridge the balance in
your favor. On your side are spread all
the kind words you ever spoke aud all tho
Christian deeds you ever did. Too light
yet.
On your eide are all your prayers, all
your reputation, all your faith. Too light
yet! Get on this side and ye martyrs who
went through fire and food -Wickliffe,
Ridley, aud Latimer Too light yet! Come
angels of God, and get on the scales, and
sec if ye cannot turn the balance in favor
of tho saints; for the righteous bo banished
with the wicked. Too light yet! But at
this point Jesus the Son of God, steps up
TO the balances. IIo puts one sacred foot
on the Christians side of the scales and
they tremblc and quivcr from top to bottom
lie puts both feet on, and down 20 the
scales on the Christians side with stroke
that acts all the bells of Heaven Ginning.
This Rock of Ages is heavier than any
other weight.
But oh Christian! you may not get off 20
cnsily. l place on the opposite scale all
tho sins that you ever committed and all
tho cnvies that hates and inconsistencies of
a lifetime, but altogether they do not
bulge tho scales. Christ, on your side.
has settled the balances forever. There is
no condcmnatian to them that arc in Christ
Jesus. Go free! go free. Sins all pvrdon-
cd, shackcls all broken, prison doors all
opened. Go free! go free! Weighed ia
the balances and nothing wanting.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-20
The Maine Law,

The Maine Prohbitory Law and itg
results are just now undergoing cxaminu.
tion 1t has been upon tho statute book
about twelve years, and has therefore been
sufficiently tested to determine its practical
efficiency. "Docs prohibition prohibit"
is tho question which may now be intelli-
gently answered. Tho results already at.
tained may be stated thus:
l. Drinking is not suppressed, but it is
diminished. The statistics show that ono.
tenth as much liquor, proportionatcly, is
consumed in Maine as there was forty wears
ago, and not woro than one-cishth us
much as in the country ut largo to day.
2. Fifty years ago over two galious Of
rum were manufactured in the State to
each inhabitant. To-day there is not a
distilery or brewery in the State.
3. The law has worked itself into SO great
popularity shat no political party or class of
men arc willing to assail it. The only
question in the minds of tho authorities Of
the State 10 how to make tho law moro eff
ccnt and the prohibition more complete.
a. The changes in tho rural districts arc
manifest, and most gratifying. The traffic
in liquors in these districts has nearly
ceased, and the number of drunkerds il
greatly Qlml0lShcQ.
S. The liquors which arc sold now arc
sold 10 the towns and large villages. But
the places at which they arc sold urc under
the ban of tho law, just as brothels aud
gambling houses arc The sellers of
liquor have to do it surrcptitiously and by
evasion of the law aud conccament of their
business from the public eye They must
skulk and dodge and sell under false pre-
tences Those who arc looking for rum
cannot find it at every corner.
8. In the cities there are many cases of
drunkenness, but not many from tho native
population. Thrcc--fourths of those ar.
rested are foreigners, who will have liouor,
and generally find out where it is to be had.
I. Occasionally the officials fail to
enforce the law and open grog shops arc
seen. But they do not thrust themselves
into public places, and do not put their
wares in the windows
.. Club rooms exist where men NAV
COLL for liquor and have it furnished to
them; but this is carefully vciled from
those who arc trying to enforce the law.
8. Liquor selcrs have diminished in
number, and the business has lost what
little respectability it had.
These are tho general facts but humanity
is still tho same in Maine, and liquors arc
still sold aud bought, and used as beverages
The reformation is great, but not total.
Meanwhile public sentiment is so strongly
in favor of prohibition that stringent law
las just been passed, curing the defects of
former laws, which has SO discouraged those
who have been quietly selling liquors, that
they must quit tho State or quit the bust.
ness.-PrcsLyterian.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-20

WASHINGTON, May l2.-Mr,
Frost, of Missouri, introduced a
resolution in the House to-day
calling on tho Secretary of State
for information as to whether any
official notification or circular
letter was addressed by the De-
partmcnt of State to foreign pow
ers, or to Ministers or consular.
agents of the United States for
presentation to foreign Govern
mcnts upon the occasion of the
recent visit to foreign lands by
Gen. y. 5. Grant or Immediately
prior thereto, in relation to said
visit, and if SO, it's nature and
character, and all correspondence
relating thereto.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-20

A Montana stage coach fell into
an abyss, making three complete
revolutions before striking the
bottom, and killing the driver and
four horses, but the two passen-
gers inside wore not dangerously
hurt.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-20

LONDON, May l0.--A Goneva dispatch
says that eighteen persons wero killed or
wounded on Saturday, tho 9th instant, by
the explosion of dynamite magazine at
Faido, belonging to the ST. Gothard railroad
contractors.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-20

Thirty years ago there was but
ono pottery in this country making
white and yellow ware, and not a
mill to grind material. All the
flint and stone required was i'm
ported from Great Britain. Now
there arc 800 pottcrics in tho
United States, representing
total capital Of over $G,O0O,OOO.
The pottery craze of tho last two
or three years resulted in tho
erection Of thirty new lilns in
1879.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-20

WASHINGTON, May l3.-Col-
lcctor Clark, of Georgia, tclc-
graphs 10 Commissioner Raum
from Atlanta to-day: deputy
Marshal Castor has Just arrived
with five more prisoners arrested
in Rabm County. lie reports
the seizure of three more distil-
lcrics and that Revenue Agents
Chapman and Rose were fired
upon. Ten shots were fired, but
no one hurt. A wagon and thrco
head of stock were seized in one
of the distillcrics.n
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-20

A Balylonian King WHO Carried Things
to Eatrcmcs IN Trying to Please His
IW1c-Wc Man IYAo Thinks the SAB
bath N.lgar Interruption and Drums
for Customcrs-A Sight for tie Whole
Lniverse.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-20
Calunny.

VNIUINHy'
A whisper broke tho air.
A soft, light tone and low
Yet barbed with shame and woo,
All me! quick and eager car
Caught up tho littlo meaning sound;
Another voioo had brcathcd it clear,
And SO it wandered round
From cor to lip, from lip 70 car,
Until it reached gentlo heart,
And that-it broke.
Especial to the Courier Journal.1
Getting Weighed.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-20
MUST FALL

MEMBER OF TIE HUMAN RACE
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
An Uneeremonious Invitation.


1t Is natural ior hospitable man, en-
countering a Trend unexpectedly, 10
ask MN unceremonlously home to
dinner. Inc man invited. having
snare OF common sense does not ex-
pect an eiaoorate repast under the en-
cumstances' out Is Wiling TO accept the
ordinary fare provided for the family.
1hls Is mans view OF the matter-but
1t IS a view that SIX thousand years OF
masculine expostulation has not sue
ceeded In getting inside the head OF the
female woman The woman is good
soul. we all know that, and We are all
ready to bow down and worship her
and admit thatw could not under any
circumstances, get along without her;
out when 1t comes TO this matter OF
dinner-giving we are forced to own up
that the dear thing has a great deal to
learn. When man comes home, say
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

" nestled to heart that beat alone for
the defendant, showed his base, black
ingratitude by abandoning her without
cause whatever, except the Unsuitable
thirst for novelty, which is the FREEDOM
inant character of defendants nature"
If the deserted one was in the habit of
holding forth in this style, the wonder
is that the union endured even . few
brief years.
A very extraordinary petition for d.
vorce once came before the Courts in
Tennessee. The petitioner set forth
that his wife died in February, 1871.
leaving eight children; that his mother
in-iaw took great interest in her grand
children; and feeling that she was
nearer and dearer to his children than
any other human being, and was bound
to them by the ties OF common affec-
ton, he, in September of the same
year, married his mother-in-law; it
never occurring to him or her that
there was any technical objection to
their taking such STEP. Two months
afterward, he was Mortified by acct
dentally discovering. not only that he
had committed an Illegal act, but one
unsanctioned by the church Of which
he was member. He therefore petit
toned the Court to pronounce the mar.
rage null aud void. and declare conf
plainant and defendant free from the
supposed obligation and its conse-
quences. No opposition being raised
on the lady's part. the Court decreed
accordingly, and the too-hastily con-
tracted union was formally dissolved.
Another attempt to escape the con-
sequences of matrimonial misadyen-
ture did not end so happily. In this
case, the widow of an officer who fell
fighting for the North, tired of her
mateless condition. had, by marrying
again. relieved Uncle Sam of pen
sioner. Unfortunately, her new part
ner treated her so badly that she
was compelled to go to the Di-
vorce Court for relief; and that OBJ
tanned, petitioned Congress toreinstate
her name on the military pension roll;
on the plea that she had reverted to her
former status rs an officers widow.
The committee to which the novel
claim was referred. reported that they
could find no instance of such a thing
being allowed, and declined to advise
Congress to create dangerous and
inconvenient precedent.
Here we stay our pen. not for lack of
material, but because we have no dis
position to try the patience OF our read
ers as hardly as petitioners are apt to
try that of the authorities to whom they
pray Chambers Journal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
HUMOROUS.

SECRETS may be trusted to . miser.
He never gives anything away.-N o.
Rcayune.
A CHINESE adage-Love 200 little.
love Oolong. -Boston Commercial Bull
ietin.
"Do FISH singr' asks an exchange.
Certainly, and many of them have been
known to reach the high sea--fnilo-
delphia Sunday TranscyiH.
BJoRNsoN, the Norwegian novelist
and poet, HAS Arrived lin this cjoun-
try, creating quite ain excitement lin
Literary Circles, ajnd lis anxious ito
inject Wilhelmji. bjingo.-OI City Dsr-
rick. s7
"THERE are only one hundred and
fifty different ways of putting up peach
es." said young lady to our funny
contributor; which way do you prefer"
81 prefer putting them down." was the
reply. Toronto Grip.
An American lawyer is now At
torney-General of the Sandwich, Isl
ands. II in two years he doesn't own
the entire country and hold the Kings
note for large sum he is no credit to
the American Philadelphia Ctr0R-
'cie.
"BY Georger' observed . Danbury
young man who was married last
month, "if I'd though. about kindling
coal fires I'd never got married in the
fall. I'd waited till next spring and
had six months honeymoon" Dan
barn Mems Fl
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

ABOUT a million Of copies Of Web
ster's Spelling Book continue TO be sold
every year.
The English Unitarians have issued
an edition of Channing's works, copies
of which are sold at a shilling.
DR. CHARLES MAcKAY will soon pub
fish treatise on "Obscure Words and
Phrases in Shakespeare and the Eliza
bethan Dramatists."
Mr.. RoBE.r BROWNING, the poet, is
living at present in France. His ply
sicians have advised pedestrisnism as q
relief for his recent ill-health.
MRs. j. WELLS CHAMrSEY will fur
nish the text ard her husband the illus
trations of some forthcoming magazine
articles on Spain and Portugal. where
the artists arc now travelling.
The Directors of the Edinburgh PHI
losophical Institution have ordered the
removal OF ..Oaida's" novels from the
shelves of their library. Considerable
excitement has followed the order.
ScHoPESHAUER was thirty years
without q disciple. almost without q
reader. At present the mere list OF the
books and articles in which reference is
made to him occupies ninety pages
octave of a special photography.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL. of Cincinnsti.
is very feeble physically, while his
mind appears to be as active as ever.
He recalls with delight his early theo-
logical labors half a century ago, when
he rode hundreds of miles through for
ests to establish churches.
IT has been found impossible to fill
the orders for Miss Nelson's photo
graphs since her death. Next to hers
the largest number sold are Of Mary
Anderson. and the next in popularity is
are of Maud Branscombe, many Of
whose pictures are bought BY artists as
studies, and are used by young ladies
in their first attempts at crayOn por-
traiture.
WILKIE COLLINS began life as n tea
merchant, but after short time studied
law at Lincoln's Inn. and presently
abandoned that for literature. He is 3
rapid inventor and slow producer,
writes at q massive desk, on one side
of which hangs picture Of his father,
and on the other is tin box containing
plots and schemes and ideas jotted
down. In composing he first finds q
central idea, then fits the characters,
lets the characters evolve their own
incidents, and begins his story at the be-
ginning.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
CURIOUS PETITIONS.

THE right of expressing their opin-
ions and making known their desires by
petition, has always been dearly cher
ished and abundantly exercised by En-
glishmen, who find satisfaction in
having said their say, even if nothing
comes of it.
Under the Declaration of Rights the
like privilege undoubtedly appertains
to the weaker sex; but whether it was
always held to do so, is not so certain.
When, in 1912, Anne Stagg and her
sister politicians. necessitated, as they
averred. by their terror of papists and
prelates, to initiate the example of the
women of Tekoah, claimed equal right
with the men to declare their senti-
ments by petition, the Commons thank
fully accepted the petition of the women
of London; but twelve months later.
upon the ladies coming to the front
again to demand the cessation of civil
warfare, the self-same House told them
politics was not their business. and
babe them mind their household affairs;
enforcing this new view of the matter
by dispensing the petitioners by cavalry
charge, in which two women were
killed and eight wounded.
Hardly amenable to the charge of
meddling with matters that did not
concern them were the ladies of st.
Adams. who. upon George III. taking
a wife unto himself, embraced the OPP
portunity OF calling royal attention to
the grievous distastefor matrimony dis
play led by the young men of the period.
by presenting petition to the new
Queen, expressing the hope that, as
subjects were always influenced by the
example of their sovereign, the matri-
mOnial state would be honored by their
Majesties' dutiful subjects cheerfuly
following the royal example AN exam
pie too much needed in that degener-
ate age, wherein the happy state was
made the object of ridicule, instead of
respect, by too many vain, giddy and
dissipated minds. ''H the riches of a
Nation consist in its populousness."
argued the fair enthusiasts, .'this happy
country will too soon become poor,
whilst the lawful means to continue
posterity are either shackled by the re-
straint of mistaken laws, or despised by
those who respect none. But as every
tHtuOuS anu COiliiuciutbiC uCtiOA - Gil
couraged by your royal consort, and
your own noble sentiments and conduct,
we hope this example will be duly fol-
lowed by your Majesty's loyal sub
jects." M
If time comes when sex will be no.
longer bar to possessing the franchise,
bachelors will have to beware; for un-
less the ladies lose their hymeneal id
stincts, we may look for the enactment
of laws for the encouragement Of mat
rimony, and the infection of pains and
penalties upon obdurate men; as was
within an ace of coming about not many
years ago in Indiana. Mr.. Cutter, q
young member of the Legislature, had
rashly promised to introduce bill for
the taxation of old bachelors; and
number of young ladies went down to
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
OF y The AlRTS TIE WIN CAN
BLAU.


TIN following poem WIS dedicated to Mrs.
Burns. during the honcymoon.I
Of a the ri-fs the win can blaw, dearly love
the West.
For there the bonnie lasse lives, the lass that
! love hcsii
There wild woods grow. and rivers row, and
mony hill bctween:
But day ard night, my fancy's flight Is ever
wi my Jean. r4
see he- in the dewy flowers, see her sweet
and fair
hear her in the tuneful birds, wi music
charm the air.
There's not a bonnie Hover that springs by
fountain. shaw or green,
There not bonnie bird that sings, but minds
me o nv Jean!
o, blaw We wcstlin' winds, blaw soft amang the
lcafy treesl
WI gentle gale, fra muir an dale. bring hame
the laden bees.
And bring the lassie hack to me that's aye sac
sweet an clean,
Ae blink o her wad Danish care, sac lovely is
nv Jean!
What signs and vows amang the knowes have
past between us twa,
How fain TO meet how wac to part.-that day
she gaed ava.
The powers above can only ken, TO whom the
hear; is seen,
That name can be sac dear to me as my sweet,
Robert Burns.