Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-01-28
TWO PREACHERS.
T. levitt Talmage and Dr.. Iohn p.
Newman.
THE FORMER IN HIS PRIVATE LIFE
And the Peculiar Trinity Which the Other
Has Built Up for HimseIf-Gould
Ro2pin Mad and General Grant
Very Sick.

preacher in America, the Rev. I. Dewitt
Talmage. He came into the cars swinging
his arms and rubbing his hands briskly as
If suffering from cold. He began chatting
pleasantly, for he is pleasant man, always
CHEEKY and vivacious. us the world get
ting better" he said, repeating my auss-
ton. II think so. Indeed, am sure OF it
Just look at my church. Fourteen years
ago started with twenty members, and to-
day the roll numbers 3,H5-the largest
membership Of any church in the world.
Yes. the world is getting better. As peo-
pie become intelligent and progressive they
grow more solicitous about the hereafter,
and the day is coming when We shall have
| in America q nation OF Christians. The
mighty engine of the press is helping along
the pulpit. The people read and think
and draw conclusions, and the name Of
Jesus Christ is the most popular on earth
20 dsy. So, say, the world is getting bet
ter" A twirl of the brakes, a tremulous
rumble beneath the car, and the cable drop
ped, bringing the train to a standstili in
Brooklyn. Mr.. Talmsge was
On His Feet Like Shot.
gave his overcoat jerk, and dashed out
and down the grand staircase, his head
thrown back and his ample legs making
rapid strides for Fulton street. A wonder
full man is MIR. Talmsge-next to Mr..
Beecher the most wonderful. man in
Brooklyn, and / can't conceive why so
many men and newspapers consider it
their bounden duty TO abuse him at each
and every pretext. In his home there
lives no more genial and unse.hsh man.
He is roor because his charity is only lin
| tied by his purse, aud don't believe there
| is mean or vinGictive hair in his head
And the tabernacle? Wri!, a man or wo-
man can enter 1t on Sunday and be de.
Gently treated even IL their clothes are not
Of the most fashionable cut, and the badge
OF poverty is no bar to the sacrament. 1t
is a church for the people, aud at every
service the immeni eamphitheater is packed
to lls utmost capacity.
IL innate friends of Mr.. Jay Gould say
that
| the great speculator was really mad on
| Monday last. He made things lively in
| his office in the Western Union building,
| and for several hours the zero atmosphere
was streaked with oral terrors. The gen.
| tlemen who attempted TO bear the stock
Market by the. report that Jay Gould had
lost as much as $50, 900, 900 were referred TO
| liarsn Then Mr.. Gould caused a number
| of sheet steel boxes to be brought before
| him and these to be opened to his friends,
| showing $50 1000, 900 in Western Union,
| $27,0C0,0O0 in mixed Wabash, Texas and
| Pacific, and Iron Mountain, and bonds and
hard cash to the tune Of 100000 600, total
OF $97, 600 900, and he defied those present
| 10 bring to him any man in New York bet
| ter fixed for o raid, or better able TO hold
| his own. OF course this box.openipg busi.
ness had its dramatic effect. The friends
| present swore they would not say word
about it, but Mr.. Gould knew better, and
| when an hour after the market straight
| ened its backbone and Gould stocks took q
Jump the right way, he laughed to himself
| probably. OF course the sensational
Rumors About Gould's Losses
are nothing NOR or less than stock market
| dirt, but they have worried him terribly.
| met him coming down the Western Union
| steps at lunch time Wednesday, and he
| looked like q man WHO wanted to hide
himself below his coat collar. He was nag.
] gard, nervous, and crotchety, and he had
| the appearance Of q depressed dealer In old
| clo' rather than a man worth $4,000, OoO
| He is sick and anxious to Get out oil New
| York, but he don't dare leave. TEo weeks
ago his magnificent steamship, Atalanta
sped away 10 Charleston, s. C., 70 await the
| coming OF the master and bis family, who
| were to spend the winter q the Antilles
| but the master goes not He is as much
| prisoner as IL his only abiding place was
| cell in the TOmbs. The hsppiest people in
New York are not those whose wealth is
| piled into millions.
Like o rocket that shoots up with rush,
| brPsts into brilliant colors, and iiluminei
rrL -, then dies out aud is seen no
| u..r.r ~ Willard. IL seems but yes
=, IL his palace trains sped through
49, Invest, loaded with distinguished
men OF England Germany and America;
| tbat he rode through arches OF h)vers and
| listened 10 the praise Of millions; that he
| he'd money beyond any ordinary capacity
| TO spend, aud that he was king OF wall
| street, wearing his crown undl1tuTbed.
To-day he is on
Tbe verge OF of ImbeeiIi'y
"A very sick man; sick with grief that
DR.. Hammond cannot cure, and his name
| Ia seldom heard in his old haunts. Never
in the history OF this city has noted man
so completely and speedily passed out Of
human interest as this great hearted, care
less, sanguine Willard. In his sorrow and
exile the Door man finds comfort in his
noble wife. The daughter Of William
LIoyd Garrison is made OF the stuff that
ouails not under bardships and adversely.
She is q grand woman, devoted to her hu:-
hand and 10 her beautiful children. With
| the first sign Of spring the family will
quietly retire to their home on the Hud-
son. and the Northern Paci6c will number
| among its assets an ll.fated palace On Mad
| ison avenue.
Gen. Grant doesn't seem to get we'll as
| fast as the extent OF bis injuries would
seem to warrant, and great uneasiness pre-.
walls among his friends. Since December
| 29 be hss not smoked q cigar, and that
means that he Is very sick man. In aa.
| ditjop TO his accident the troubles oil his
pastor, DR.. John p. Newman, have worried
| him not q little. DR.. Newman seems to
to pessess to a marked degree
| The Faeulty Of CoBstautly Being In
| Hot water,
and of having bis friends JOIN him. And
a member OF bis church says thst this IL
| ALI becsuse the doctor has q trinity pecu-
liarity of his Owl, made up Of John p. New.
| mar. Y. 8. Grant and Jesus Christ. On
| Tuesday evening lsst tie dominant party
in the Madison ayenue church gavs Q soeia-
bic 10 honor of the doctor, and on the sur
fsce 1t was q very pleasant sffsir. But the
truth Is. there was o bsrrel OF troubled
water present 10 every gill OF oil, and
the main object of the gathering failed
The rumors that Nj. Michael Donovan
would fight Mr.. Patrick Ryan were not true
two weeks ago, but Mr.. Mike concluded TO
make blpff, and has put up deposit for
Mr.. Paddy TO cover, and in case Mr.. PADDY
5oeen't want TO meet Mr.. Mike, then Mr.
Mike ssys be has an unknown TO ofr
There Is no attention paid 70 all this by ths
sporting frsternity. because II is generally
upderstoodin New York that Mr.. Paddy II
no good, and that he will not fight any
thing more dangerous than State street
cock tail.
Gerald Massey hss finished his turtle nc
and emerged lsst Tuesday night at the OLE
Baptist Church in Brooklyn, where b.
lectured on .Man in search OF his sou
during $1,000 years. and how he fouud it.'
Poor Massey II didn't take at all, yol
know. and
The Audience Kept Wondering
If the title-didn't mean "AD Englishnsl
in search Of American dollars. and how b