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y. city features. I Dntot ttae Meathe Jalv ea Aagwste vacation class for a mi ted number of pap Us will be held for two hours each morning. It attendant wU thereby be able to keep, up their present standard, and it wilt facilitate some to pass a higher grade. Particular mar bo obtained at 600 Fifth street.

eiethlac at wear mm arte- at the "Arcade, No. 35? Jefferson nmt, aear Fourth (Tyler Block)t Men's aod boys alpaca and mohair coats, liaea suits, dusters. Tests, silk, alpaca aad esciliaa coats or 60 oa the Fer setter, laaa eeJelee le Dr. liimmUn Tofile Brrap or ChiU Cure. Merely "orseldagtae raOl is aot sufficient the esose mast be removed Wlaiieess Ith's ChiU Cars sever tails, Sofctsrali MONDAY MORNING.

JUNE 25, 1838" rxxson matttna th Cotrxcpt-Jovruraz. Hfritmdt asuearf asasi pat a raW seat stoma om oca wa tUtaiwtd at tho pott- BKADLEY'S CARD. Jfest. ireefer Xnmit'a Anomr so Wild AsaortUmo On CVraeTfey. the TUB FELT OOTOLIOX'S TOUX, Coxnuzm-JormvAl.

roporter had a short talk frith Hon. J. Proctor Knott last night fek apartments in tbs Louisville Hotel. Mr. Knott has bean ailing for tbs past few days, and was unable to go around much yesterday, but received a nomber of his friends at ths hoteL "I rappees you saw ths eard frota Col.

TVlUiam O. stating that yon bad changed your appointment At Hopklnsvillo because you did not want to 'meet CoL Morrow there," said tbs reporter. "Yes, I saw ths card," was tbs reply, "bat did not see much point to it." was your reason for changing the appointmenur asked the reporter. "It was this way. Hart county has always supported ma warmly, and I bars many close frishds then.

After ths list of appolntmsnts bad been mads out, bat before they were published, I receired a of letters from my friends at Munford rills, asking ma to come then and speak on County Court day, as I could get a much larger audience then than at any other time. The requests were so argent, and coming from ths msn that they did, I could not refuse them, so I scratched out Hopkins-Ola pa the list and inserted Munfordvule, and sent the list to ths Cocrier-Jourhal for publication. I wrote to Col. Bradley, tailing him of the cbangs, as I did not know where to reach Col. Morrow by letter, requesting him to Inform that, gentleman.

The next day I received a letter from CoL Bradley, asking that tbs changs should not be made. I had written to a number of persons in Hart county telling tbem that 1 would speak there, and had mailed ths list to the paper; so I told him that I could not make the change. 1. also thought it would be preferable to Col. Morrow to hare full swing at Hopkinsville on County Court day, as be could get a larger crowd at that particular time than 1 could hope for on any other day.

I did not think the matter was of any importance, so 1 did not nay any attention to tbs card. When will you go to Eastern Kentucky!" "I expect to put in about the last ten days of the canvass in that section." PJtlZK riOHT. Two Presten-etreet' Brirkaaakers fettle a Dupete la the Rlaf. For some months past Milt. Obermaa and Mate.

Johnstone, two Preston-street brick makers, havs been on bad terms. Both are what is known as "good men;" thsy are strong-limbed, stout fellows, with muscles hardened by work, and thsy mutually agreed to settle their difficulty by the old English method a fair fight with their fists. After some trouble their friends settled on Tow-head Island as the best place for the fight, and some sporting men who took an interest in the fight said that it must be done according to the Marquis of Queensbury rules. Yesterday morning, shortly after 4 o'clock, about thirty men got into skiffs at the foot of Preston street and polled op to the island. A ring was soon mads under the shade of the trees, and the sun wss hardly up when the men began pommeling each other.

The fight was a abort one. Johnstons won the first round and Obennan the next four. By that time Johnstone's face resembled a mass of raw beef. His eyes were almost imperceptible, and his nose was- badly flattened out. He was declared the loser, baring failed to coma to time on the sixth round.

Toe prize money, 50, was given to Obennan. Mtowsxit. William Ultras aer Loses Bis Life Walla FTaalan, "William Rittnauer, a tinner, residing at No. 1,616 Congress alley, was drowned while fishing near the falls yesterday morning. It appears that Rittnauer left home about 3 o'clock determined to bare a day's port fishing with a cast net.

About 6 o'clock, in his wandering around ha threw bis net into one of the deep holes which fishermen call These nets are all heavily weighted with lead, and are usually tied to the fisherman's wrist so that, be may not accidentally lose it. It seems that when Rittnauer throw it in be was standing on the edge of the "quarry," and the heavily-weighted net Jerked him into the pool, where, as ha was nnabls to swim, ha was quickly drowned. No one happened to be near at the time to glvs him assistance, but the alarm was quickly given, and after a short search the unfortunate man's body was recovered with the fatal net still firmly attached to his wrist. The corpse was taken to Christ Miller's undertaking estabushment, on Market street, near Fit teen tb. where the Bar was summoned to hold an inquest, Rittnauer was a married man, about thir- ty-flve years old, and leaves a wifs and four ihUdren.

XUJ tOMTDOS HMASCU Of the Ale Lias- mm Assets Hon. 8. 1L Stocksiager and Judira Donr. lam, of Corydon, are making final arrangements for the beginning of work on the Corydon branch of the St. Louis Air-line road.

It is estimated that in order to complete the work and equip the road 1100,000 will be necessary. the efforts of Col. Bennett H. Young and Mr. Stocksiager this sum can be secured, and work will begin without delay.

The road will be operated independent of Um Air Line, but a good contract has been made for; cheap pamnger aad freight rates. The opening np of this avenue will be a big thine for the little town of Corydon. It may probably tuaite it popular ummsr resort. Tha hessll-pes al Bareatewa. Dr.

Crawford, of too Board of Health at Bardstown, shows three oases of small-pox and flva of varioloid. All the cases have been promptly isolated, all intercourse cut off, and tbe authorities are determined to sump it out. Dr. 8pedhas sunt up vaccina matter for general use. The people are wake to the importance of keeping off idle visitors, and they art raocinating the young and the old.

Isolation and vaccination are watchwords. he Uepe fer Raadall. Congressman Btockslagsr. of the New Al-' bany district; la a brief talk with a Cocaixn-JocaWAfc reporter, said be did not think that Mr. Randall could be sleeted Speaker of the next House.

Mr. Stocksiager being a tariff -f or-revenue-only man will aot support Mr. Randall. Ha ban not declared for anybody in particular, bat thought that Mr. CarliJa would maxs aa excellent Speaker, CHRISTIANITY'S CRITICS.

Thm aTrsasi Brm. Jhn Jlvmiu, LL. KffT tha Southern P'. BmftUt CmnventUm, AI AI8WXfO THE Tmrr-Ad fijom ekOd thou had known, Uu Holy II. Timothy, OL, 15.

There are two kinds of Christianity, Church Christianity and Bible Christianity. Tbs former has had until recently fall sway In Maxico, Brazil aad in Italy. "VYa ars try ing in a small wfy in those places to displace Church Christianity by Bible Christianii. When men care much for the Bible and are free to speaS, they discuss it, they dispute about it. Men iike to speak about what they love.

Tha modern. Bible has always been a subject of controversy. I welcome this controversy. Far better quarrel over the Bible than to treat It with indifference. Tha disputes about the Bible have bad a great variety of centers in different ages of the world.

Sometimes as to certain doctrines, sometimes as to ecclesiastical teachings, sometime as to moral precepts, and sometimes tha Bible itself, It origin, nature and antbosV ity. In this respect there have been many changes, la England 150 years ago, able men wrote against the Bible, saying they believed in a God, but this is no revelation from Him; we can have none. This feeling crossed front England into France, into Germany; later in a Frenchified form it returned to England, and came on to America, and far and wide swept this wave of Voltairism. My friends and dear brethren, such erroneous teachings are not on tha increase ons hundred years ago they were in America and England five times as general as now, and thsir teachers were ten times as powerful as About fifty or sixty years ago there came another assault from the Continent to England, and then oe to America; we feel its force now, for it is rife to-day. They charged then against the four gospels.

This learned German attack was translated by an eminent English novelist; it lead her from the simple faith of her childhood; she became a scoffer and died in darkness. But this attack died away. Next from Germany came an assault on the Book of Acta. It was widespread in England; the wave was so high that many said that tha school of Turbin had overthrown the Book of Acts and the Gospel of John. All this passed away except that a small remnant remains in a modernizea form.

Now a similar attack is made on the Old Testament. The same elements of warfare are here. This, too, will pass away. In ten, twenty, thirty or forty years they will have new ideas. Friends and brethren, I wish to say humbly as one who studies tbs Scriptures and these things, they do, alas! mucn mischief.

Much depends the spirit with which we meet them. Pardon me for saying that twenty-fivs years ago, in a public address in the South, I predicted that in twenty-five years there would come this wave of infidelity. Others saw it as 1 did. It bad to come. We Baptists are peculiarly interested in meeting it in the right way.

Many of our brethren around us took to church Christianity. They speak of the teachings of an alleged early church. Tbey lean on something else. Baptists have nothing but the Bible. If the Bible be not thoroughly inspired of God we have nothing else, i trust for the sake of the subject and tno occasion you will listen to me.

All I shall say will be in love. When men take a large subject for exposition they must consider it either in curtain parts or only in general outline. 1 shall speak in tho latter way, considering what writings are probably included in the Holy Scriptures; to what extent do we, as Baptists, regard them as inspired: lastly, how are tbey to be treated by us! Does the sermon seem to be long It is a momentous theme. What writings are properly include! in the Holy Scripture I in the text Paul speaks to Timothy of the Old Testament, in regard to the Old Testament I do not see that recent assaults have taken away a particle of the strong testimony of Jesus and the apostles. They always spoke of them as the Scriptures of God.

We know what they meant. Those to whom tbey spoke understood tbem. Jose ph us, the Talmud, and other writings so unaersiana mem. mere nave been attempts made to set aide this belief. In the year 90 the Sanhedrim attempted to ft aside certain books of the Ula testament; the attempt lauea.

it omy snows taac cne (scriptures ol the Old Testament, just as we have them. were received from the first. are told that the connection of the books of the Apochrypha with the old Scriptures compli cate the matter. Xsotatail. The Jew read Isaiah in Greek.

The books were not then bound together as we have them now. Recent assaults in England on this point have amounted to nothing. We nave the words of Jesus and the apostles; that is enousrb. Now. as to the Old Testament, we must distinguish between the authority of early Christian fathers and the early church.

You and as Baptists, know nothing of an early church. I heard recen.ly a high dignitary, speaking of infant baptism, say there is the same authority lor it that there is for the church canon, and that is the early Christian cnurch, which was, as thought, a confes sion that there was no authority for it at all i oe carry unnstians ten us so. mere is a difference, remember, between the imaerin ary history of the so-called early church and tne teaching or the early Christians. Again, there is no ground of complaint nor occasion for surprise that it should re quire large study to understand the Scrip tures. A man savs: "See here I 1 want to know all about the New Testament being the word of God.

Must I turn for any proof to learned meni" unaouoteaiy. Many of the titles of your Texas lands run back to a Spanish grant. When land trades are to be made people go to consult some one who has made a study of titles, and they accept his abstracts. Do you ask is this possi ble that the title to a man's home depends on fcm. in a imv art! TM If in 1 possible, but it is the fact.

Is it possible that my health depends on another man Yes, it is even so. Dependence is a feature of our existence. It is no strange thing then that for land titles we depend on others, and likewise for the Scriptures' authenticity. Tne gist of this matter should be better under stood. Some Baptist ought to write a trea tise from our standpoint.

The Church of Eugland, the Presbyterian church and others have formulations. ought to have some thing that would give the gist of the matter Don all of you start at this at once. Rerent important additions have been made connrrn-ing the positions of Lightfoot, Wescott, Holt and Justin Martyn. (Juite recently one of tho oldest, if not the earliest, harmony of the Gospels has been found, the Armenian uanfciaiion 01 toe oyriac. Now I must leave that question.

I only wantea to bring it to your nunu. Hecondlr. to what extent do we regard the sacred writings ot the (Jul ana Testament in spired. Mark the words, to what extent. It is admitted that God spoke to us.

I do not now argue with any not so admitting. It is admitted that God spoke to us through man. I go further: I say the- Bible is thoroughly human dia not say exclusively human Jesus Christ was thoroughly human. God spoke through the prophets. Well xke the Holy spirit through tsaian.

says aul, Jesus says, in the 1 lUth Psalm, David spoke of the Lord. I say, if we can get the Bible meaning, wa will find it true in center and circumference, true in geuerai and in particular. I hare a right to take that for granted, till some show it is not true, Many affect to do this. Soma say, if it is thoroughly human it has error, as all human things have error. I say that would be true if there was not a mixture of supernatural.

I give the case of Jesus. He was thoroughly human, yet had no error. Some say there are strange expressions or 1 aul in the sev nth ha per of First Corinthians: "I have no commandment of the Lord, etc." Paul means, as they say, that ha is speaking his mind, and not as inspired by God. Now, Jesus was on record as saying many of tho things Paul saw; and, when Paul bad fin' tshad bis quotations from Christ, be continued wntintr as' inspired bv God. When Paul says "And I baptised also the house bold of Stephanas know not whether 1 baptised any other," wa are told raul can remember, and therefore can't be believed.

Jesus Christ says "Of that day and hour knoweto no man, no nos tne gels of heaven, but my Father only." 1 do not know what lie meant by that saying, but because 1 do not you do not mean to say that ail his other sa vines arc erroaioue. Most a man be omniscient! Wa are told that certain writers fail to tell this, that and tha other that other writers tell. Again, there are those who say the Bible mast contain er rors because it contradict ItselX. All Us things have been explained lor cen turies. Paul's voyage and shipwreck THE COURipUOURrrAL; LOUISyiLLTS.

MONDAY. JUNE 23. 1883. have been much debated. It re- mained for aa English layman to carefully route and verify every de- travel over that route and verify every tail.

I know of no Bible contradiction. The German scholars who know nothing of trials by jury do not know, as all boys of twelve) years of age do Know, taas tne varying statements of witnesses about a transaction only verify the great truth of it. Sine they have bad truU by jary for thirty years, they have dropped this argument. Misconceptions about the Bible are by various dis- rovertes using aimos aauy ciearea away, a do not know how to explain everything it contains. Yon say, "Explain this difficulty at once or I will reject the Bible, with all its divinity." A strange demand in this poor when we nanuy unaersiana any os the ordinary things that surround ns.

We are told that the Bible contradicts profane history. If Josephs and Luke didn't agree, of course Lake was wrong! Seventy years ago Herman scholars introduced these skeptical views into history. They overturned all oar former historie idols and events. Then tbey applied their system to the Bible. There came a reaction; it is now going on.

and I predict that there are persons here to-night who wiil live to see ail the om uoman nistory set right back again where it was. Wears told that tne Bible can all oe trae, oecause some things in it contradict modern science. We must destroy it, and believe scientific speculations. Some try tomake the Biblical interpretation conform to these speculations. For we are all told the Bible is not true, un less verified bv science.

Wbat science snail we verify it byt The science of the Bible's timet Oh, nol The science of five hundred years ago! Oh, nol The science of one hundred years ago! Oh not The science of to-day I In five hundred years that will be mughed at. Thus we can not settle which science the Bible most agree' With before man shall accept it. We are told of the con flict between the votaries ol science ana tne Bible. Dr. Drsper tells of Science vs.

Christianity, and for proof refers to the Roman Catholics. That is best for bis argument. Some are alarmed lest science should overturn Christianity. Some preachers are worked up to talk against science. Forgive them; they don't know science.

Because of tbem some scientists say all preachers oppose tbem. Some scientists I don't know much of science, about as much aa some scientists know of the Bible are very much mistaken. I was told years ago by a learned scholar that scientist iu general believed in the Bible. When I return borne, and to the church where I worship, I shall see sitting in the congregation I i 1 A numoio ueueTcr, um ui uw uwi uuiwu-j ruished scientists in ths United States, anT equally distinguished in Europe, a member ot the National Academy of Science, cor- a 1 responaing memoer ox me laBiuuiv ui France, and honorary member of Academies of Science, in a score of foreign nation. He fa decorated with the highest honors oi ImDsrial Orders.

He tells me that a large proportion of scientific men, probably four- fifths, are devout believers in tne uiDie. Such men as Tyndall and Huxley are the sensational preachers of science that is a bard name to call them. I say again, I know of no conflict between science and Christianity. It will always be true that when science gets its true results it will be seen that real physical science will prove the real meaning of the Bible. A little child reading the Bible does not understand all of it that will be easily understood as it grows older.

One hundred years from now men wiil understand more of science, and see that science and the Scripture harmonize. There are some good men, noble men, who are persuaded that certain parts of the Bible are in conflict with science, and they must give up something; they yield the Biblo so they may have their peace of mind. That may seem best, but -it is not desirable. A violent toothache may be cured with a pistol shot through the brains. If a man yields some for certain scientists they wiil want more; there is no halfway ground.

All the supernatural must go. fccfontists assume certain points in all their formulations and thus beg the question. Some people are troubled about the prophecy of Daniel, saying it in Maccabee. Some contend that these predictions could not have been written so long ago. Tbey can not carry this theory to other books.

They break down. There is another charge brought against the Bible, that it touches some things that are immoral. This is shamefully absurd. Think of the saintly men and women, devout believers, who have sanctified all about them in this would, Thirty years ago a vounz man in Virginia said to me: "I csn't believe the Bible, because it teaches that some people suffer for others. Don't children suffer on account of their parents? Don't patriots suffer for their countrymen! These are facts.

Theories do not affect facts. Thirty and forty years ago some good people in England and New England doubted the Bible, because it countenance 1 slavery. Some people contend that whatever you find in the Bible must be read in the blazing light of this great Nineteenth century. Their cham- Ci, an eloquent speaker, has dug up the of poor Tom Paine, and for a dollar a lecture. He says that the Bible is behind the times; that it is indecent, Oh, did ever his good old Presbyterian father think there was anything indecent in at Book? Is there any pure woman in all the world who ever found aught indecent in the Bible? Ob, he says there are some things in the Bible he would not read in public.

1 es, every mother says, and should say, things to her daughters that she would not say in Dublic. The Bible indecent! Perish, the thought? Pity for such a man! Such a slander should be smothered in contempt. Don't look at your watches (Amen). There are two risks in considering improvements in Bible thought. Much depends on tha temper of mind with which we approach them.

Some of us are so conservative as to reject all new things, and there is danger in the contrary view, that is of being carried away with the spirit of progress. Who does not want to get new views of truth? Who is not thrilled by the right? The age is in love with the new. We love new book new novels, new inventions, love the papers that have the news. We love to be thought new. Let us beware.

No thoughtful spirit such as I address to-night will delight to be taken up to be the darling of the press because of your newness. Some men are thus moved not all are. This press praise wears out. There is a difference between fame and notoriety. Some don't know the difference.

Some greet the new and bold to it because it is new, and the old cling to the old because it is old. Old people can not be young. In this progress there seems to be a dispute between these I am daily in contact with young men, young ministers in my classes. I thank God for it. I love young men have more love and respect for them than sometimes they have for one another.

Another remark on this point is that you will see good and great men, adopting views of the Bible, appearing to us to be untruthful. What then? They may have the training of early days which holds tbem to certain things. Thomas Arnold, of Rugby, snows how this may be done. Stanly, the son-in-law of Matthew Arnold, came out wbat his noble father started. There is a risk here; a man may bold views which taken by others to an extreme leads them astray.

If we love a man we go far in favoring his views. Now, my brothers. 1 have come to the third topic, and will not detain yon longer than ten or fifteen minutes. Yo can look at your watches if you choose to. Go on.

This is a great and important point. How are the scriptures to be treated by us I First, we, who believe them to be the inspired words of God, ought to be, above all, anxious to know the real text. Some consider the text critic the enemies of the Bible. He who has the highest view of the Word ought to want all errors cleared away. Don't confound such with the assailant of the Bible.

Second, it as our duty to translate the Bible into our own and other tongues. This is a difficult task; and we only approximate. No sentence is ever perfectly translated. Different persons have translated. They holding different views have to comiare, and a compromise is effected.

Look bow differently people treat this matter. Some people want all made plain. Others want everything expressed in scholarly diction. Many old people prefer the dear old text. So it has always been.

Why, when King James' translation was made, it took fifty years, with the Kmc and courts pushing it, to have it take the place of too old translation. The great Hebrew scholars to the King that they would rather be torn to pieces than to accept King James' version and give up the old. There can never be a satistactory translation made. Again, if the Bible be what we think it is, we ought to study it the original, if we can, with all the help we can secure. There is danger also in tnces aids, for too often we study things about the Bible, rather than the Bible itself.

The beautiful lessons of the Bible we ought to teach everywhere in the pulpit, in the school, in the family, the press, Let them enter into whatever we write and say. la conclusion, we ought to act oat the Bible la oar Uvea. Man and brethren, we have met fa this Christian convention. Shall there be anything said or done by any of na that shall sound like a jest on the Bible? Do not ask have I over beard any such thing. Snail we tell what the Bible says ox missions! it is a missionary work.

On, bow there comes ringing oat from it: "Go, go; dimiple all nations." And with those who go He goeth. Shall we here fear with one another error! Shall it appear to all that we care more for the work of the session than for oar devotional exercises! Lixten to the strong expression of the apostle "Living epistles known and read of all men." Ah, the sad condition of some of oar oldest Scripture manuscripts; how tbey are torn and soiled. Such are some of as, as the angels look down on as. On, that the Holy Spirit would reunite upon a. "Ail flesh is grass, and the glory of man as the glory of crass:" "the Word of the Lord abideth forever." When yon and I are long forgotten, still that same old blessed Bible will be handed down.

May it be the guide of you and I through Hfe, and wt shall rejoicing eat of the fruit of the tree of life forever. STEVE HOLCOSia lae Btmdmjf Afttrntmm Mtrmtn of a Jt. ersaetf UmmhUr Se Jfetfey Cewyii gmtimtk. TEAT WHICH COUBaQX. Every Sabbath afternoon, shortly before 6 o'clock, a motley assembly of people collect at the Court-bouse steps listen to the preaching of Stove Holcomb.

It is probably the most noteworthy congregation in the city, and the character of the services and the man by whom they are held are fully in keeping. "Steve" Holcomb, as every one recalls him, has had a remarkable history. At one time be was one of the most daring and successful gamblers in the whole South, over which he traveled for years, plying the questionable tricks of bis calling, and becoming one of the best known men of bis craft in the whole country. Shrewd, cool and daring, he was one of the most skillful of the many skilled "calculators of chances" who operat ed so extensively in that bey-dey of the gambling fever. It is rare, indeed, that one ever shakes off the fascination of that calling, but Stove proved an exception, and, becom ing converted several years ago, entered the ministry, and since then has undoubtedly been the means, in his eocentrio way, of accomplishing a great deal of good.

A Courier-Journalist, who was passing the Court-house last evening, stopped, to lis ten to Holcomb's sermon, if that can be called a sermon which is as different as possible from the recognized pulpit oration. He is a quietly-dressed, quietly-appearing man, with nothing about him to indicate his past history, except the occasional flashing of his eyes, whose fire years of humility have not altogether quenched. He takes no text, but talks in a simple, unconstrained manner, which is undoubtedly the most suited to the temperament of his auditors, lew of whom have, perhaps, ever entered a church since the days of their childhood, lone vanished and forzotten. Perhaps thirty or forty persons made up the reformed gambler's audience. They were ol all ages, colors, classes and sexes.

A few well-dressed gentlemen wore standing on the outskirts with the cigars, which they had for gotten to smoke, held unconsciously in their hands. They had stopped for a moment out ol simple curiosity, and then bad remained without eivinr an thine else further thought. Two or three flashily -dressed colored women were standmz nesltatlnzly in front, appa rently equally unwilling to go or stay, while the remainder of the crowd was made up ot a nondescript collection of boot-blacks, la borers and a sturdy policeman. A few had their hats off, and all paid quiet and respectful attention. Holcomb was speaking of the difficulties of becoming a Uhrtstian.

"It takes humility, boys, and at takes sac rifices without stopping to count the conse quences," he remarked plainly and in the di elect of his class. "I never thought of wbat 1 was giving up when i was converted. When I was gambling and winning thou sands of dollars, I never thought I would be come a common laborer and live on $1 50 a day, when before it wouldn't have bought my cigars. But I worked two years in the Fire Department, scouring off iron and rusty machinery. I went to Colorado afterward, and there I waiued dishes in a hotel.

when I was offered an interest in a biz camblinz-house, where I could 'a made a mint of money. It wasn't easy, boys, and I had to learn humility and rid myself ol a fiery temper before I could ever do it; but never stopped to count the cost, and it was because I didn't that I stand here a repent ant and. 1 trust, a pardoned sinner." After the speaker had concluded bis address a hymn or two was sung, and after a short prayer and benediction the crowd dispersed in as quiet and orderly a manner as it had assembled. Perbaos little eood was accom phahed; perhaps a great deal. Who can tell? 1ATA.L.

A Ci: ID EST. An Agee Want Fall from a Wlaiew aa Death Results. A distressing accident occurred yesterday afternoon on Jefferson street, just below Twelfth. Mrs. Ryan, the mother of Mr.

John Ryan, who has the contract for painting the Southern Exposition buildings, fell from a second-story window to the side walk, sustaining a fracture of her left wrist and a compound-comminuted fracture of her right ankle, besides severe internal Injuries. Dr. Ueorge rim ths was summoned and reduced the but the severe injuries she received internally resulted in ber death at ten minutes past eleven o'clock last night. Mrs. Ryan was an aged lady, being in ber seventy-ninth year and very infirm.

As she was both blind and deaf, she required the constant super vision of an attendant, in whose temporary absence the unfortunate accident occurred. A NARROW CSCAFK. J. H. Mudd, a freight brakeman on the L.

and N. railroad, had a narrow escape from a frightful death yesterday afternoon. He was on a train coming north, and when near Brooks' Station, a few miles below this city, in attempting to pass from the top of one car to another the heel of his shoe was caught in some manner. The train made sudden jerk at this juncture, and he thrown between the cars, but managed to catch the brake rod and keep from falling till be succeeded in calling: help. The rapid motion of the train and the severity of his fall caused dislocation of the thumb of his rizht hand.

aad in addition Ids face and right side were painfully bruised. He was brought to this city and his hurts dressed by Dr. George W. ninths, me surgeon ot tne roao. a Jirurjsur.

Market Street Esetted Over a lysterioas Oeeurreaee. The people about the corner of Preston and Market streets are excited over a mysterious occurrence that happened there last night. About 8 o'clock a showfly -dressed youngish looking man was standing on the corner twirling his cane. In a few minutes a young woman, dressed in a pale -blue silk, with besrr black vaiL and riiics on ber fiurers. stood beside him under the gaa-ligbt.

Tbey talked together iu a low.toue. Finally the woman said: "Yon have rained me: I can't go home." His answer was not beard. Just then a back passed; be bailed it, bat the girl refused to cet in. He cursed load and long, and finally bundled her up in bis arms, pitched her into the back, and off they went at a gallop. The lost that was heard of them was his command to the driver to drive to the Fourteenth-street depot.

The Celered Maseate Oelefarattea. The colored Masons ot this city will celebrate St. John's Day at Seminary Park today. There will be a grand procession, in which both of the lodges will participate. The procession will form at 8:90 o'clock at Seventh aad Grayson streets, aad will go in Seventh to Jefferson, down to Eleventh, out to Madison, down to Thirteenth, oat to Mags sine, up to Eleventh, in to Chestnut aad op to Fifth, in to Green and up to Jackson, oat to Breckinridge, down again to Fifth, and thence oat to too parkv THE SHERLEY WILL Xtatf of (Ae Opiate of I Ae Cewri of Ap- ssi lae caae of j.

mmortoy la JTaieewicre of tho Will, CSEDXZXLnT' OP ATTE3TDT3 WlUlSia. Stats or TCxxrwcxv. Corn or Amux Jrn 19. 1883. Brmnim Skeriew es.

Aerlrv'a Exro- ator The Court betas; advised, delivered the following opinion berria. For sufficient reasons the court refrains from err rearing; any opiaioa as to the qutsUoe of credibility of the attesting witnesses to the papers la eon teat, aad leaves that question oeee, in view ot the new trial which has been ordered. The opinion to this extent is modified: Stats or sTjnrrorxv. Cora or Amiix June iframM U. rrrad Bettim fmaeta.

atnxiiamts. r. Z. it. MkeHev's NL2.il.

tor aad deeisre. araeJiea The court being sufficiently advised delivered the following opia ioa nerein: ley. deceased, on appeal to the Court of Com- moa Pleas, tbey were sustained aa such by the verdict of a jury, and from the judgment on the vera let the contestants appealed. At the time the papers were sUrned, the deceased had a wife and three sons 11 Tine, and one bob eeaa, wno jerc only two children, tae contestant la this cane. To these sraadchUdrea the cob tasted naoers purport to bequeath the sura of $10,000, to be held in trust fur twenty years, the aceumulaUnc interest to oe added to the principal by trustees, who are to act without security, aad dispone of the remainder of bis estate, amounting to three or four hundred thousand dollars, between his wife and three sons in something lies equal proportions.

mm apparent ineqaauty between the living ms and the children of the ArnA mom was relied oa by contestants to show incapacity and un- aue inflDenee, which they contend was shown by it in connection with other evidence tending to prove that John Sberiey tried to ret his father to make a codicil affecting the appellants, aod influenced him to remove from his share the trust imposed by a former paper alleged to be a will, and which the draftsman was directed to Insert in the contested papers; that variooa material chaoses in the disnoaiUon of him nroDertv aod the appointment of snnralsnrs and BOB-reauirement of sunrtv of the trustees designated for appellants, were inserted at the suggestion of the draftsman: that tha decemwd had suddenlv and without suffloient reason contracted violent prejudlcea against the maternal grandfather of the appellants, and indulged the suspicion that he was trying to get hold of their property, notwithstanding he wished the deceased to become their guardian himself: that those nreiud ices were in Dart trsnslerred to the aimellanta: that the discrimination of the papers odVred for probate was contrary to his former expressions aod purpose that the appellants should have thru-father's full share, and that when be executed them he was greatly diseased from cancer of the stomach, that had been assailing him from an unknown period. and which so impaired his physical aad mental faculties as to render him incapable of making a will or resisting the undue influence of others. This evidence wss In conflict with that adduced by the pro pounders, who insist that it is fullv explained and overturned. The doctor disagreed aa to the effect of cancer of the stomach upon the mind. Borne of them ten tided that it rendered the mind brighter, and others that it impaired It, each giving the atages of iu ravages wherein he conceived it to affect the mental powers.

Other witnesses disagreed in the opinions they expressed a to the capacity of the deceased. we intimate no opinion as to the side upon which the weight of the evidence rests, becauae under the law as it now exist the verdict of a jury in a will case has the same effect aa the verdict of a jury In other civil cases. And only where there is no evidence to support a verdict rejecting a paper executed according to the forms of the statute ill this court upon revenial order it to probate. In cases like the present, the verdict being in favor of the paper, our province is to ascertain whether there is evidence on which uinerem venuct mignt De mads by a jury, and, if ao, whether there was any error of law committed at the trial in giving or refusing instructions, or in admitting or rejecting evidence. In looking at the evidence tne question lor this court, is not whether the verdict is palpably againitt the evidence or sup- ponea oy out wnetner II the verdict were otherwlne, there would be any evidence on which to base it.

As the tetitnonv is conflicting and that offered by the appellants sufficient to sustain a verdict in their behalf, if uncontradicted and unexplained, it becomes our duty to examine the instructions and determine their legality. The appellants coutend that the predjutices and hatred of the deceased to their grandfather. a- yj. urannin. amountea to an insane aversion to him.

on which rested mental delusion with re gard to them that caused the discrimination against them. The court instructed the jury by its fifth instruction as follows: The jury are instructed to disregard all the ev idence in reference to tne ui will, prejudice, or hatred or the testator toward A. O. Brannln, the maternal grandfather of the contestant. To this, as wallas the other instructions given, the contestants objected and excepted.

While ill-will, prejudice, hatred, or the exhibition of violent passions by a person usually good- humored and affable, such aa the evidence tends to portray Capt. Sherley, do not of themselves constitute insanity, they may be and often are the manifestations of mental derangement, and eviaence oi their existence with reference to person so nearly related to those naturally en- uuru 10 aim county as we maternal granulate or. against whom he entertains suspicions which might affect the diRpotdtion of his property should be left to the jury to determine whether they result from naturally ungovernable passions, or were produced by provocation, or wero the Indication or sign of a decaying or decayel mind when the issue of sanity or insanity is being tried by them. Tuder vs. Tuder, 17th B.

M. p. .105, close of page. The fifth instruction was, therefore, erroneous, and took from the Jury tne explanation of a portion of the acts and words of Capt. bherley wnich related to the appellants as well a to their grand-.

father, and which may have in the opinion of the jury materiol influenced Capt Sherley iu discriminating against them, by reason of insanity produced by these OR OTHER CACSKS. In the fourth instruction the court Instructed the Jury "that, if they believe from the evidence that the cause assigned by the testator in the paper or will in dispute for the inequality between his children and his grandchildren was true, then they must regard the testator aa having made that inequality for that reason or cause alone." The cause assigned by the deceased in the papers offered for probate "for the inequality was, in substance, that his son Iewis, the father of appellant, had stated to bim that he did not want his children to have a large estate, and intended to make a will in such manner that they should receive about flO.OOO eacn. If the jury believed from the evidence that these statements in those papers were true, then it mattered not, under tni instruction, what they believed a to Capt. Sherley incapacity or the alleged undue influence, they were compelled in obedience to it to disregard uch belief and conclude that Capt. Sherley made the inequality for the reason or cause alone as found in the papers in dispute.

i his can not be law. Although It may have been true that LewU did not wish his children to have more than SiO.UOO each, and so Informed hi father, yet it, does not follow that the papers in contest were not the product of an undue influence, incapacity or other causes. The jury were the sole judges of the facts or causes which influenced the execution of.the disputed papers, aod snould not have been ao restricted in their consideration of ths question. As said by this court in Wine, tc, vs. Foote.

Ac, February, 188:1, '-influence obtained by flattery, importunity, threats, superiority of will, mind or cbaracterjor by what art soever that human thought, ingenuity or cunning may employ, which would give domain over the will of the testator to such aa extent as to destroy tree agency or cotwtraia him to do against his will what he is uuable to refuse, is such an influence as the law condemns as undue wbea exerciitad by any one immediately over the testamentary act, whether by direction or indirection or obtained at ooe time or another. AmV when such influence is exercised by one person ov-r another it is not unreavooabl to suppose that the most effective mode of concealing the operation is to cause the paper produced by it not only to read sensibly, but. If circumstances will permit, also to state oa its face a truthful and plausible reason for it content whether sufficient or not in fact. Hence, if the jury be confined to the cause asaigned la the paper for making it. if that cause or fact be true.

then all that wss uecessary to render the paper ri vaiio, aiuKNign it may nsre ueen tne prouuet ot undue influence, was the Insertion of a fact In it known to the person exercising the andue influence to be true and prove that on the trial. My the third instruction the jury were told that the teatator had the right to mike such distinction between the objects of his bounty a he chose to do, if at the time he did so voluntarily and understandingiy, wa not controlled by undue influence and was of sound mind. This instruction singles om the fact of inequality and guard it so that tha Jury nUght aot give full weight to it. The court, when It bad the power to try both law and fact, said, "The testator had anna-questionable right to make soch a wuL But iu ua reason Crimea require satisfactory evidence that it waa tae free and deliberate offspring of a rational, self-poised and clearly disposing mind. HarreU Ac.

vs. Handle, 1 Duvau7204. Such a presamptton arista; from the fact of inequality 1 a Ota pu table presumpuoaand always exist where gross inequality la narx-plained by the statements of tha document Jt by the proof itself aad is a legitimate ooocom etaacy ot that fact until such explanation is satr-isiaciorily mad. Ihsc use oa awl arguments of this character, to be found in the books, wbea thai court tried the fact aa well a the law, were legitimate and belonged mors property to the domain of logic aad were aot uleededas exposition of guiding law to be given in the form of lnstrucriooa to the jury unless they be told that gross inequality is accompanied by the presumpUoa quoted above from brat imvall, excluding therefrom the word "cJaarly. was the apparent rrouad of eoav demoing aa instruction oa the subj-ct la Uie ik .1 i WW, SV VWI, Walk' iBWj however.

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METCALF 41 Central Wharf. Boston, jelS dMoAThX-lorHpAw'-o'Td in'an Instruction that it is misleading and calculated to ilireit the minds of the jury from ths issue of mental capacity "to that of the inequality." Hence we conclude if a limitation Is Imposed by an Instruction upon the presumption, flowing from gross inequality, the breadth of that presumpuon should be also defined to the Je Issue to be tried by the jury is not the lawful right of a man to make a will and dispose of his property in his own way, but wnetner, having that right regardless of their opinion, he has made a will when he had a sound and disposing mind, ungoverned by undue influence or fraud or dureas and according to ths forms and requirements of the statute. Therefore, the existence or non -existence of these questions of fact are the only subjects upon 1 which the jury should have been Instructed in this case. Such instructions should, of necessity, embrsue roper definitions of mental capacity, undue in-uence, duress or fraud, if any exists, and of the requirements of the statute. We see no prejudice to the substantial rights of the (ippellants by the seventh instruction, for it is a les burden on tbem to show be bod not capacity to do the several united acts therein specified than to demonstrate his inability to do any one of them, for it took more mind to do all than to do one of them.

If, therefore, be was shown incable of doing them all, but if it appeared he knew his heirs or estate, the instruction authorised the jury to And for contestants. The instruction was correct, and cast upon contestants the burden only of showing his incapacity to do any of the matters enumerated as esHential to testable capicity, according to instruction number two, given at appellee's instance. The word "prevents," ss used in Instruction number one, given by the might imply to the mind of the jury physical force, and should not have been uned. Lucas, vs. Cannon, 13 Bush, As we understand testable capacity, aa defined bv tbe instruction in Tudor vs.

Tudor. 17 B. Monroe. Jin. it 1m the ability of the testator to know his children, or heirs, snd his estate, and to dispose of the some in a rational manner, according to a fixed purpose of tbe testator.

That such capacity must exist without the officious and coaching promptings of any one, and enable him to dispoite of his property in a rational mode or manner, according to his own purpose. In other words, he alone must have the capacity, without the necessity of aid from any other person, to comprehend or understand all or any of ths essential elements of testable capacity which were approved in Tudor vs. Tudor. The determination of the questions of law raisnd in connection with the instructions wa have considered settles the points as to ths improper exclusion of evidence offerrd by the contestants. Therefore, the judgment is reversed aad cause remanded with directions to grant appellants a new trial Thk Democratic Editorial Association of Indiana will meet on Thursday next at Logans-port.

A pleasant niee ting is anticipated. Mb. FrsLO Morrow, grandxon of Dr. N. Field.

Is home to spend the summer vacation. Field is a pupU at the National Deaf and Dumb Institute. Mk. Oxo. N.

Eaesox, of Leadville, is in the city visiting Mrs. Clara Ryans. Mr. EeeHom I a prominent gold miner In the Lead-vtlle locality. Mollis Maix, better known as "Calamity Jane," made complaint yesterday that Moz Clune had assaulted her.

He gave the girl a very ugly eye. He was arrested by Marshal Cole, together with four other partiec, for drunk and disorderly. Tan Ferry Company has dons more business ia the excursion line this year than ever before. There will bw excursions every day this week up the Ohio, eonatatiug of Kunday-achool parties. On Friday next the WaU-atreet M.

K. Sunday-school will have aa excursion to Fern Grove. Col. Job T. Uatrkioht has about corn-pie ted arrangements for the organization of a company to establish a eider and vinegar manufactory in Jeffersonville.

The manufacture of cider and viaegar will be conducted on a large scale, and CoL Oethrigbt thinks it will be one of the best paying investments ia this section. Officer Kortbcctt has filed two complaints against Frank Whicber for keeping a disorderly house and running a keno bank. Tne officers say the conduct of the parties about this saloon oa Saturday night and Sunday morning was diagracefuL There are other complaints against Whicber. which will be tried this morning before Mayor Glass. Thk commission appointed to locate tha new msane asylum have selected Lonnsport aad Richmond as two of the place.

Lvansville had already beea selected as one ot that places. Ktebnmod Inducement was a donation of 140 seres of land adjacent to loo acres ot tbe Coffin tract, which wul he bought at $100 per acre. Logans port gives 10S acres of ground valued at The farm belongs to the county, aad is aot given aa a site for the asylum, but la a clear donation to be need as the Commissioners see At. The commissioa will probably eooduct the new asylums on the cottage plan, working the patients ia agricultural This ssuse sitaiea the use oi large tracts of lead, aad naval oners la una direction ware made by Logans port sai TWO VMM cases of small-pox wars discovered yeatrrday and the pest house had te be reopened again lass night. Jotao Deiler.

a wait. bus living near tbe btatePneoa south, aad a colored eomaa named Garnets, Uvtng aear the bead of Spring street, ware both removed to tha pest-house by Dr. Sboets last evening. In. baeeta is now the phyaicUa ia eharre of that institution, having beea appointed by Mayor Glass.

physician wno has had large experience a. cases Small pox saya there Is more danger of oontagioa stowthaa ever Before, as the flies are liable te spread it. It Is not known wnere the parties mentioned above come contact with the disease. They have beea ill several days. The utmoet caution should be need at this tuae to prevent tho FIRE sold in 80 days, bv orders of tho AUGUST ELECTION.

M. J. M'AULIFFE Is a candidate for Bute Senator for tne Thirty, eighth Senatorial district, comprising the Eighth. Ninth, Tenth. Eleventh and Twelfth wards.

JOSEPH a BEAD Is a candidate for re-election to the House Of Bepresentatives from the Fifth district, com-posed of the Eighth and Ninth wards. juiOdts E. F. MADDEN Is a candidate for re-election to the Legislature from the Fourth and Fifth wards. Third district.

jr3 eodtaul EDWARD FULLER la a candidate for the Legislature from the Fifth lttslrict, composed of the Eighth and Ninth Wards. jej dte JAMES R. W. SMITH Is a candidate for State Senator from Eighth Ninth, Tenth. Eleventh and Twelfth wards Senatorial District).

myZ dte ISAAC PALMER CALDWELL Is a candidate for the Legislature In the Sixth and Seventh Wards. August election, Thk police had a dull day yesterday. The town was duly sooer. Dr. D.

W. Votles, of Harrison county, spent yesterday in the city. Nkw Albaxt Commandery K. T. hold an Important meeting to-night.

Misses Emma ako Rosa Forman leave to-day for Cape May, N. to spend the summer. Mr. Josiah Bkttis and granddaughter. Miss Minnie Bettls, have returned from a visit to Chicago.

Thk funeral of Mrs. Florence 8nod grass waa largelv attended from Central Chriatiaa eh urcar yesterday afternoon. Emmet Hcves was before Justice Hack- eby Saturday evening on a charge of assauitiag a colored man, snd was fined 50. Cextekart M. E.

chcrch will hold their annual picnic st Vienna Park, on the M. and 1. railroad, on rridav next, the vruth Inst. The Knights of Honor of this city will cele brate the tenth anniversary of their order oa Saturday evening next with a parade and ad dresses. William Mansfield, who fell a distance of forty feet and hurt himself at English, on the Air-Line railway, a week ago, is in the city, and is improving rapidly.

The carrier pigeon flying match between Dr. Al. Hoffeld and Joseph Armsnel will take nlaoe to-day at 2 r. a. The birds will be turned loose at the Jeff rsonville Plate-glass works.

The ladies of Centenary church will bold a business meeting at the residence of Mr. Lawrence Bradley Tuesday at 2 p. at. Tbe church social will be held at the resilience of Mrs. Mo-Donald, Eaftt Spring street, that night.

The celebration of St. John's day by the Masons of New Albanv, under tbe auspices oY DePauw Lodge, No. It'lH, took place, at Sugar Grove yewtenlay, ani waa a very successful af-" fair. A I rge crowd, including a number from Louisville, left on the o'clock boat, and tho afternoon boat took about 300 more. The exercises at the grounds were of a moral and religious nature.

Rev. F. A. Friedley. K.

and Kev. T. O. Beharrel, K. delivered approprit addresses.

Tbe host returned last night, all having had an enjoyable day. IS MS OWS TRAP. A Laborer oa the Prreetaal-iaecloe Problem Loses Several Fingers la Ills Machine. An old Frenchman named Joquina Fou-chet, who lives on Main street, near Jackson, met with a peculiar accident yesterday afternoon, which came very near resulting fatally. Foucbet since his boyhood has been a devout believer in the feasibility of perpetual motion, and bis life has been devoted to the accomplishment of this exploded theory.

He works in the woolen mills, but every minute that he can spare be devotes to bis favorite Yesterday he was in his little room with his tools about him, experimenting and working as usual. He has a mass of iron and wood, put together with bolts and screws, that resembles a mowing machine more than anything else. He bad jost fixed in a bolt, and had reached in his hand to give it a last torn when there was a whirring of cogwheels and a rumbling and clattering of Interior mechanism, and he felt his shirt snatched up and bis arm drawn in. He con Id do nothing. Tbe noise of tbs machinery would drown his voice if he would shout ever so loud.

His arm was in tbe grasp of a machine as strong as five hundred men such as be. lie didn't know bow tbe machine could be stopped, because be didn't know now it bad beea started. Then be felt tbe machine grinding bis fingers. He shrieked aloud, but the roar of his strange captor buried bis voice. Suddenly after a lengthened quiver the machine stopped, tbe cogs ceased to tarn, tbe wheels ceased to revolve.

He drew bis hand out. or rather wbat was left ot it; for three ot tne fingers were only bloody stamps. The old man is even more sanguine now than ever. He baa arrived at that stage of lunacy in this queer hallucination, when be believes that after be gets one more bolt accurately set In, tha machine will be complete. Us bad very narrow escape.

The rinhwaveaae Hetet, The whole city seems to be putting on a holiday suit to greet in fay colors tha grsas Southern Exposition nod tbs throng of vfcit- ors it will draw from all over the land. Tbe Fifth-avenue Hotel has kept pace witH tbs general spirit of Improvement, and it on of Um brightest and most attractive popular bote's in Kantocky or tbs South. Tbe rooms bars been recently re-carpeted and re-papeiv ad, and the ceilings beautifully frescoed. The painter's brush has been busy in every nook and corner, and not aa effort has beea wanting in making it ready and welcome for IU old friends aad the thousands of strangers who will seek a resting place while in tho City of too Falls, viewing its wonderful and national xnibition this summer aad nxxxxA. Jons atTbe tion trains ot tbs Northern Faclflo reached TtUamola at 8 yesterday, There gap of ISO miles to dose between lUasoula and Helena.

Work is prorsaslns; al boU ends rapidly. A.