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2 “THE DAY AYE LITE IN.” Ult. TAIiMACI, VAkUS HIS TEXT FHOM usxurai IV., 11. ITotr a True, Aggri'Kitivf) C. hrUtlnn Should IVrform Hid Ood-Api-oitated Work sOlllO I’roluMwor* of lteligtoii t'ompiftivd to the North Carolina C aetua Flower— Avoid all Keckle Icoooclamn, but i!o not Stick too Closely to Old Methods. Bt.OOKLYN, fi. Y., June 7. L>r. Tal mage preached this morning in the Brook lyn Tabernacle on the subject, “The Day We Live In.” Before the sermon he read in the Old Testament concerning a scene in the Persian palaces. He also read the names of many new members who during the past few weeks have united with the church. The opening hymn was: “Salvation, oh, the joyful sound. , ’Ti pleasure to our ears.” The text was from Esther iv., 14: “Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Dr. Talmage said: Esther, the beautiful, was the wife of Ahasuerus, the abominable. The time had come lor her to present a petition to her infamous husband in behalf of the Jewish nation, to which she hud once belonged. She was afraid to undertake the work lest she should lose her own life, hut her uncle, Mordecai, who had brought her up, encouraged her with the suggestion that probably she had been raised up of God for that peculiar mis sion. “Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for suen a time as this?” Esther had her God-appointed work; you and I have ours. It is my business to tell you what style of men and women you ought to be in order that you may meet the demand ol the age in which God haseast your lot. If you have come ex pecting to hear abstractions discussed or dry technicalities of religion glorilledyou have come to the wrong church; but if you really would like to know what this age has a right to expect of you as Christ tian men and women, then I am ready in the Lord’s name to look you in the face. When two armies have rushed into battle, the officers of either army do not want a philosophical discussion about the chemi cal properties of human blood, or the nature of gunpowder; they want some oue to man the batteries and swab out the guns. And now when all the forces of light and darkness, of heaven and hell, have plunged into the fight it is no time to give ourselves to the definitions and formulas and technicalities and conven tionalities of religion. What we want is practical, earnest, concentrated, enthu siastic and triumphant help. in the first place, in order to meet the special demand of this age, you need to bo an unmistakable, aggressive Christian. Of half-and-half Christians we do not wnnt any more. The church of Jesus Christ will be better without 10,000 of them. They are the chief obstacle to the church’s advancement. lam speaking of another kind of Christian. All the appli ances for your becoming an earnest Chris tian are at your hand, and there is a straight path for you into the broad day light of God’s lorgiveness. You may have come into this Tabernacle the bond men of the world, and yet before you go out of these doors you may have become princes of the Lord God Almighty. You remember what excitemeut there was in lies country years ago when the Prince of Wales came here—how the people rushed out by hundreds of thousands to see him. Whv ? Because they expected that some tlay'ue would sit upon the throne of Eng land. But what was all that honor com pared with the honor to which God calls you—to be sous and daughters of the Lord Almighty; yea, to be kings and queens unto God ? “They shall reign with Him forever and ever.” But, tny friends, you need to he aggres sive Christians, and uot like those persons who spend their lives in bugging their Christian graces and wondering wbvtbey do not make any progress. How much robustness of heart would a man have if he hid himself in a dark closet? A great deal of the piety of the day is too ex clusive. It hides itself. It' needs more fresh air, more outdoor exercises. There ar many Christians who are giving their entire life to self-examinations. They are feeling their pulses to see what Is the con dition of their spiritual health. How long would a man have robust, physical health if he kept all the days ami weeks and mouths and years of his life feeling nis pulse instead of going out into active, earnest, every-day work? 1 was once amid the wonderful and be witching cactus growths of North Caro lina. I never was more bewildered with the beauty of flowers, and yet, when I would take up one of those cactuses and pull the leaves apart, the beauty was all gone. You could hardly tell that it had ever been a flower. But there are a great many Christian people in this dav just pulling apart their own Christian expert encee to see what there is in them, and there is nothing left of them. This style ot sell-examination is a damage instead of an advantage to their Christian char acter. I remember when 1 was a boy I Used to have a small piece in the garden that 1 called my own, and I planted corn there, and every lew days 1 would pull it up to see how last it was growing. Now there are a great many Christian people in this day whose self-examination merely amounts to the pulling up of that which they only yesterday or the day before planted. O my friends, if you want to have a stalwart Chris tian character plant it right out of doors in the great field of Christian usefulness, ami though storms may come upon it, and though the hot sun of trial may try to consume it, it will thrive until it becomes a great tree, in which ! hr fowls oi heaven may have their habitation. I have no patience with these flower-pot Clnistians. They keep themselves under shelter, and all their Christian experience in a small and exclusive circle, when they ought to plant it !u the great garden of the Lord so that the whole atmosphere could be aromatic with their Christian usefulness. What we want in the Church of tied is more brawn ol piety. The cen tury plant is wonderfully suggestive and wonderfully beautiful; but 1 never look ul it without thinking of its parsimony. It lets whole generations go by before It puts forth one blossom: so 1 have really more heartfelt admiration when 1 see the dewy tears in the blue eyes of tin- violets, for they a >me every sprite. My Christina friends, time is going by so rapidly that wo cannot nll'ord to be idle. A recent statistician says thnt human life now bus an average oiotily thirty-two years. From these thirty-two years you must suimtruct all the time you tuke'for *ie-p anil the taking of food and roc re a- Uoa; that will leave you about sixteen years. From those sixteen years you must mi bn tract all the time that you are necessarily engaged In the earning of a livelihood; that will leave you about tight) ears. From those night years you must lake all the davs and weeks ami months—oil the tswgih of time tku U j'ssnod in sickness, leaving you about one v ir in w hich to work for God. Oh, my i 11, wake up! How Barest thou sleep in harvest time and with so few hours iu vPi-i to i up? So that I stale aas a s i pie lavt ttial all the time that the Mist l .jority o| you will.have lor tlieexclu v. w set vice of Uud will be less tliuu one y ji 1 Hit *ays Hotmiman: “I liberally Rttp. ) i! lie* gospel, and thq-church is open id tin- gospel I* preached; all the spill 1' s.l advantages arc spread l fine mon, n and if they wnnt to be suvod let them < jc to be saved; i Lave discharged all nsponsibility.” Ah, is that the -i .-ii r’s spirit? Is there not an old book tome where that command* us to go out inio tb.* highways aud the hedges ami compel tiio people to come in? What would have become of you aud me if Christ had not come down off the hills of | heaven, and if He had not corns through the door of the Bethlehem caravanserai. andV He had not with the crushed hand of the crucifixion knocked at the iron gate of ihe sepulchre of our spiritual death, crying: “Lazarus, come forth?” 0 my Christian friends, this is no time for inertia when all the forces of darkness seem to be in full blast; when Hb'im printing presses are publishing infidel tracts; when express railroad trains are carrying messengers ol sin: when last clippers are laden with opium and ruin; when the night air of our cities I is polluted with the laughter that breaks j up from the 10,000 saloons of dissipation ! and abandonment; when the fires of the 1 second death already are kindled in the | cheeks of some who only a little while ago were incorrupt; oh, never since the curse fell upon the earth has there been a ' time when it was such an unwise, such a | cruel, such an awful thing for the church !to sleep. The great audiences are not gathered in the Christian churches; the great audiences are gathered in temples ot sin—tears of unutterable woe their bap tism, the blood of crushed hearts the awful wine of their sacrument, blas phemies their litany, and the groans of the lost world the organ dirge of their wor ship! . Again, if you want to be qualified to ' meet the duties which this ace demands of you, you must on the one hand avoid reckless iconoclasin, and on the other , hand not stick too much to things because they arc old. The air is full of new plans, new projects, new theories of government, : new’ theologies, and 1 am amazed to see how so many Christians want only novelty in order to recommend a thing to their confidence, and so they vacillate and swing to and fro, and they are useless and they are unhappy. New; plans—secular, ethical, philosophical, religious, cisat lantic, transatlantic —long enough to make a line reaching from the German I universities to great Salt Lake City. Ah, my brother, do not take hold of a thing 1 merely because it is new. Try it by the realities of a judgment day. But, on the other hand, do not adhere to anything merely because it is old. There is not a single enterprise of the church or the world but has sometimes been scoffed nt„ There was a time when men derided even Bible societies; and when a few young men met near a haystack in Mas sachusetts and organized the first mis sionary society ever organized in this country, there went laughter and ridicule all around the Christian church. They said the undertaking was preposterous. And so also the work of Jesus Christ was assailed. People cried out: “Who ever heard ot such theories of ethics and gov -1 ernruent? Who ever noticed such a style of preaching as Jesus has?” Ezekiel had talked of mysterious wings and wheels. Here came a man from Capernaum and Genessaret and he drew his illustrations from the lakes, from the sand, from the ravine, from the lilies, Irom the corn stalks. How the Pharisees scoffed! How Herod derided! How Judas hissed! And this Jesus they plucked by the heard and they spat In his fuee and they called him “this fellow.” All the great enter prises ru and out of the church have at trines been scoffed at, and there have been a great multitude who have thought that the chariot of God’s truth Would fall to pieces if it once got out of the old rut. And so there are those who have no patience with anything like im provement in church architecture, or with anything like good, hearty, earnest church singing, and they deride any form of reli gious discussion which goes down walk ing among everyday men, rather than that which makes an excursion on rhetorical stilts. Oh, that the church of God would wake up to an adaptlbility of work ! We must admit the simple fact ttrat tire churches of Jesus Christ in this day do not 1 each the great masses. There are fifty thousand people in Edinburgh who never hear the gospel. There are oue million people iu London who never hear the gos pel. There are, at least, thr e hundred thousand souls in the city ol Brooklyn who come not under the immediate minis trations of Christ’s truth; and the church of God, in this day. instead of being a place full of living episiles.rcud and known of all men, is more like a “dead letter” post office. “But.” say people, “the world is going to be converted; you must be patient: the kingdoms of this world are to become the kingdoms of Christ.” Never, unless the church of Jesus Christ puts on more speed and energy. Instead of the church converting the world, the world is con verting the church. Here is a great fortress. How shall it be taken ? An army comes and sits around about it, cuts off the supplies, and save: “Now we will just wait until from exhaustion anil star vation they will have to give up.” Weeks aud months and perhaps a year pass along, and finally the fortress surrenders through that starvation and exhaustion. Hut, tny triends, the fortresses of sin are never to He taken in that way. If they are taken for God, It will be by stoiin. You will have to bring up the great siege guiiH of the gospel to the very wall and wheel the flying artillery into line, and when the armed infantry of heaven shall conlront the battlements, you will have to give the quick command: “Forward! Charge!” Ah, my friends, there is work for you to do and for me to do in order to this grand accomplishment. Here is my pulpit and I preach in it. Your pulpit is the bank. Your pulpit is the store. Your pulpit is the editorial chair. Your pulpit is the anvil. Your pulpit is the house scaffolding. Your pulpit is the mechanic's shop. 1 may stand in this place and through cowardice or through self-seek ing may keep back the word I ought to utter; while you, with sleeve rolled up and brow besweated with toil, tint); utter the word that will jar the foundations of heuven w ith the shout of a great victory. Oh, that this morning this whole audience might feel that the Lord Almighty was putting upon them the hands of ordina tion. 1 tell you every one, go forth and preach this gospel. You have as muoh right to preach as I have, or a* any man has. Only find out the pulpit where God will have you preach and there preach. Headley Vicars wan a wicked until in ihe English urmy. The grace of God came to him. He became an earnest and emi. neni Christian. They scoffed at him and said: “Y’ou area hypocrite; you areas Had as ever you were.” Still he kept his tnith in Christ, and alter awhile, finding that they could not turn him aside by call ing him a hypocrite, they said to’him: “Oh, you are nothing Hut u Methodist.” That did not ditturb him. He went on perloruiing his Christian duty until lie had formed all his troop into a Bible class and tho wholts encampment was shaken with the presence ol OoJ. So Havelock went into the heuilu-n temple in India while the English army Was the! e arid put a caudle into ILr hand of each of the heathen gods that stood around In the heathen temple, and by the light of those candles held up by the idols (ion. Have lock preached righteousness, temperance, and judgment tu come. And who will say on earth or in heuven that Havelock had not the right to preach? In the minister’s house where I prep urn! for college there was a man who worked bv the iiiune of I’.-ter Croy, lie could neither read nor write, but be was a mini of GoU. Often theologians would stop ill the lieuse —grave theologians- ami at family prayer lVtr Crov would be ottlled upon to lud, and all those wise men sat around, wmi derstruck at his religious (fflciency. When he prayed lie reached tip unit seemed to take hold of the very thri nc of the Almighty, ami lie talked with Ginl until the very lieawits were bowed down into the sitting-room. Oh, if 1 were dying 1 would rather have plain Peter Croy kneel by tny bedside and commend mv immortal spirit to God than the grente si Archbishop arrayed in costly canonicals. Go preach this gospel. You say you arc uot licensed. In the name ot the Lord Almighty tbia morning, 1 license you. Go SAY NI'NG NEWS: MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1885. preach this got. m Bab bath schools, in ...-clings, in the highways, iu the 1. Woe be-unto you if you preach it not! I remark again that in order to be quali fied to meet your duty in this particular ago, you want unbounded faith in the triumph of the truth and the overthrow of wickedness, flow dare the Christian church ever get discouraged? Have we not the Lord Almighty on our side? How l ing did it take God to slay the hosts of Seunacherib, or burn Sodom, or shake down Jericho? How long will it take God when he once arises in his strength to overthrow all the forces of iniquity? Be tween this time and that there may be long seasons of darkness, the chariot wheels of God’s gospels may seem to drag heavily; hut there is the promise and yonder is the throne aud when Omnis cience has lost its eyesight and Omnipo tence falls back impotent aud Jehovah is driven from his throne, then the church of Jesus Christ can afford to be despondent but never until then. Despots may plan and armies may march and the Congresses of the nations may seem to think they are adjusting all the affairs of the world; hut tiro mighty men of the earth are only the (lust of the chariot wheels of God’s providence. And I think that before the sun of this century shall set the last tyranny will fall, and witli a splendor of demonstration that shall lie the astonishment of the universe. God "• ill set forth the brightness and pomp and glory and perpetuity of His eternal government. Gut of the starry flags and the emblazoned insignia of this world God will make a path for his own triumph, and returning from universal conquest He will sit down, the grandest, strongest, highest throne of earth His footstool. “Then shall all nations’ song ascend To Thee, our Ituler, Father, Friend, ’Till Heaven’s high arch resounds again With ‘Peace on earth, good will to men.’” 1 preach this sermon because 1 want to encourage all Christian workers iu every possible department. Hosts of the living God march on 1 march on ! llis spirit will bless you. His shield will defend you. His sword will strike tor you. March on! march on! The despotisms will fall and Paganism will burn its idols, and Moham medanism will give up Its false prophet, and Judaism will confess the true Messiah, and the great walls of superstition will come down in thunder and wreck at the long, loud blast of the gospel trumpet. March on! march on! The besiegement will soon be ended. Only a few more steps on the long way; only a few more sturdy blows; only a few more battle-cries, then God will put the laurel upon your brow, and from the living fountains’ of heaven will bathe off the sweat and the heat and the dust of the conflict. March on! march on 1 For you the time lor work will soon be passed, anil amid the outflashings of the judgment throne and the trumpeting of resurrection angels, and the upheaving of a world of graves, and the hosanna and the groaning of the saved and the lost, we shall be rewarded for our faithfulness or punished for our stupidity. Blessed be the Lord God ot Israel from everlasting to everlasting, and let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen. TEXAS TiIO HIBITIONIS J’S. They Propose to Go Into Politics and Make a Square Fight. From thr St. Tonis Republican. Dallas, Tkx., Juue 4. The prohi bition movement is being pushed by its promoters in this part of Texas for all it is worth. Every precinct in every county is being canvassed with a zeal never be fore witnessed here,and the liquor people are so far alarmed us to be forming asso ciations and working to defeat prohibition and local option elections and county and precincts respectively as they may come up. Dr. J. B. Cranfill, editor of theGates \iile Adrnnce, was in Dallas to-day. Dr. Cranfill is a leader of the Texas prohibition movement, and is perhaps the best informed man in toe State on that question. He said: “The outlook lor pro hibition is all that could be desired. From every source comes the most cheering news and the most substantial encourage ment. The failure of the Texas Senate to submit the question to the people, alter having been asked to do so by 50,000 ot our people, aroused a just and widespread iudignation.” POLITICAL. “What of the prohibition organization us a political party ?” “ f'he prohibitionists have organized and are of necessity a party. The whisky question is a political question us much as was the slavery question, and to that extent is the organization a political party, in the coining State election no candidates for State offices will tie nomi nated. Their object is to elect a legisla ture that will allow a vote, in districts where Legislative candidates will proper ly pledge themselves to submit tho question no candidates will be placed in the field, but in dis tricts where such candidates are not found, tho Prohibitionists will elect men of their own. Wo are ready to lay aside all political affiliations that stand in the way of this reform, it is not designed to make war on any political party as such, but we will earnestly labor to break down every barrier from whatever source that stands in the way ot our success. Jt is a union of God and the people against a curse.” A SqUAIlt: issue. “You arc aware that the liquor men are organizing. What steps are being taken to offset their aggression?” “We are ready to meet them face to face and don’t need, like they, to put screens before our doors. Lecturers are now in tin* field. Mrs. Saxton, a talented lady ot Memphis, is canvassing tho State. Prohibition literature Is being distributed as rapiil yas possible. I have great con fidence iu the integrity of tbs Ti mis press, and out of the 24’> papers in this State l believe that more than one-half of (hem favor prohibition. 1 learn the liquor men of Dallas have or ganized to-day, and it is K good otneti. If they were not spurred thev wouldn’t ’ kick. The more thev kick the more we will or gunize, ami the sooner they organize and the sooner the lines are sharply drawn the better it will be tor us. Then it will be little trouble fora mail to select his crowd and go where tie belong*. We are not making war on the liquor im n. Thu man who sells whisky is us good ns the men who drink whisky. The whisky men lliemselv* s need to be reformed. The Prohibitionists are working to destroy tbs conditions that mnke tbs liquor traffic possible, ami we will meet the whisky men at every step." GEN. KOMKOIfAVS’ AUTOGRAPH. He Began to Place It Upon Uncle Sant's Ureutibscks Friday. W ASlllN(lT(in, Junetl.—Gen. Koseernns having decided to accept the office of Registrar ot the 'l reusury, the resignation oi ex-Netiator Bruce, who was appointed Registrar by President Garfield in May, issj, t\.,M accepted Friday. Gen. Rose* runs was installed Friday. The uppointiiiout of Gen. Itosecrans seems to give general satisfaction to ever>body. Republican* and Democrats alike, lie ban b ••*n a most o inseientious, hard-working Cougresawan, ami hi* frlen I* arc all glad to aee him In the office, which Ims a very gratifying salary of ll.'HHla \ ear. Gen. KoNCcrana is of u temperament tlist delight* in the people, and It will give him u very decided nHtisfaetlon to place hi* autograph upon all of Uncle saiu’s new notes where the people may be able to see it frequently. Couittieticciiiont at ItoHttoke. Fai.xm. Ya.. June* 7. The commence ment exercises of ltoanoku College took place to day. OM-: FRKAK OF LIGHTNING AN OLI> NEW .JERSEY FARMER STKICK KN DOWN. Singular Occurrence Near Paterson — A Gold Ring Straightened Out by the Electric Bolt—The Effect Upon Demur est—He I.ay Full Length in the Bot tom of His Wagon Unconscious, but Soon Restored. From the-Veto York Tribune, June 6. As Barney Demarest was driving with his wife in an open spring wagon on the Haledon road, three miles out from rater son, N. J., yesterday afternoon, he was struck by lightning. The case is a re markable one. Demurest is a farmer and lives in Pompton Plains, about nine miles from Paterson. Some years ago his father died, leaving him a number of bouses and other real estate in Paterson. Mr. Demarest visited the town regu larly about the first of every month to collect his rents. This was his errand yesterday, lie came early in the morniug and made haste to dispatch his business, fearful less the sultry weather would bring rain. About 2 o’clock he started homeward. 11 is way lay over the Preakness Mountain, which rises behind the city at a short distance. A wide macadamized road has been built over the mountain, and a large part ot its founda tion was taken from a great mass of sand stone which crowns the hill. This rock was cut down when the road was built, and in order to make the ascent as easy as possible the road at the base was raised as much as was practicable. Mr. Demarest had nearly ascended the mountain when the rain began to tall. The wind blew with great fury, and the thunder crashed frightfully. Mr. Dema rest’s horses soon became unmanageable. He had reached the entrance of the moun tain pass, but he could not Induce the horses to enter the cut. They stood im movable in evident terror, and whenever urged to go lorward, despite a vigorous use of the whip, they only responded by rearing and plunging desperately. In the meantime the storm increased to a hurri cane and the rain fell in sheets. Attached to the seat of the wagon and running through its bottom was a stationary umbrella, designed to serve as a sun shade. This had been hoisted despite the wind, and was afford ing the farmer and bis wite some protec tion. As there was no possibility of get ting the team to advance, Mr. Demarest concluded to turn them around and seek shelter at a neighboring farm house until the storm bad passed. He had his left hand tirmlv clasped about the handle of the umbrella, and with his right he held the reins and endeavored to turn the ter rilled and plunging horses. Just at this moment a blinding glare Hashed directly overhead, there was a tremendous crash, the horses stood stock still and trembled, the umbrella was torn out from the wagon seat and the farmer, swaying an instant, plunged headlong into the road. C. H. Neilson, of Paterson,was coming through the cut and saw the whole occurrence at a distance of about 100 feet. He sprang from his wagon and hurried to the assistance of Demarest. The old man, for he is nearly 60 years of age, was lying on his right side motion less, as though dead. The left side of his face was blackened and swollen, and his left arm hung rigidly at his side. His body seemed to be extraordinarily heavy, for Mr. Neilson, who is a stroug, vigorous man, could, with his utmost exertion, barely lilt him up. When finally he was raised up and laid at full length in the bottom of his agon, he showed no sign of life. Mi s. Demarest, who sat only a few inches from her husband, was hardly stunned. She complained, in an swer to Mr. Neilson’a questions, ol a pain around her waist, but said it was slight. Near by was tbe farm house of 11. T. Hill man, to which Mr. Demarest had intended to drive. Thither Mr. Neilson led the horses, with the body of their owner. On the way Mr. Demarest began to show signs of returning activity. He tried to move and uttered a short moan. When the farm house was reached he was placed upon a couch, and Dr. Porter S. Kinnie, of Paterson, his family physician, was sent lor. After the first sign of life had mani fested itself, Mr. Demarest quickly grew hotter. He bad received an extraordinary shock, and his entire body was numbed. As this feeling of rigidity died away, shooting and stinging pains coursed through him, as if every inch of tlesh was being pricked with needles. Ilis left arm was entirely without feeling, and his left hand, which had clasped the umbrella handle, had been cut bv the lightning clear through the ilesli of the palm for a distance of an inch and a half. The hand was swollen to twice its natural size and was almost entirely purple. Upon t'ue little linger of this hand Mr. Demarest had worn a heavy tight gold ring. It was gone and the spot it had circled was per leetly white. As tin* ring could not have been torn off the linger without taking the linger with it, there was mueh curi osity as to how it was removed. A man was sent hack to the siait where the acci dent occurred. He returned with the ring, which bad been rendered perfectly straight bv the thunderbolt. Hu found It standing upright in tlm mud. Hy this time l>r. Kinnte had arrived. The patient was still suffering Intensely from the stinging, darting pains, though they were growing gradually less fre quent and less severe. He could scarcely speak, for the muscles of his throat were affected. He complained of pain in his spine and chest and of the general rigidity of the left side of his person. His pulse, however, was normal. Dr. Kinuie said last night that he would recover. SWEPT INTO THE SEA. Carried from Dinner Py s Huge YVave- Au Incident of Shipwreck. From the yew York Tribun*. Boston. Juneb.— James Giles and Hod. crick Mcßae, first ami second mates of the bark Appbo, now at Gloucester with salt from Liverpool, relate tho circum stances of the loss of tue Lady Milton which left Cardiff on March 27 for Char lottetown, Prince Edward Island. They were respectively first and second malts of the lost vessel. They were in bit. 49 deg. 51 lulu, and long 19 deg. 60 min west wlii'ii the gale struck I hem at noon on M ay ft. TlteCaptalu and mate wore in tho cabin at dinner, rbe soa* waa running moun tain high and u “tidal w ave,” as the mate called it, swept the house off with tb<> Captain and mute. It was strange that they were not Instantly killed. The sec ond Plate saw themi*h iioiirding the vessel nnd made for the wheel, only to he swept nil with tiny wheelman unit the wheel. The lee bulwarks were carried away. The three chief officers and the wheelman wi re In the ea three-quarters of an hour before they ere rescued. The steward hove a line > them, and after consider able kuockit ' nliout they were pullud In. The bullae had shifted and the ship wusi i on bur beam ends. The Cap Us. gave orders to cut away the nit us. 'l ids was done quickly. All the muMis, yards and rigging went under, slid the vessel rode over the debris. The rail of the mainmast dtaablad tke rumps and the foremast carried away the I lie-bout, leaving the mariners helpless. The ship gradually settled down and all bund*, nine meij, were set to work hailing with buckets. Thev trimmed tin* ballast. Fortunately the weather moderated and the men kept the vessel afloat by bailing water for lour days and rights, and then Were picked up by the steamer Ik-glftlator of New Orleans and taken to Liverpool. The ship was worth slo.tkKi and was aban doned. Everythin.; on board was lost. WINNING HIS STARS. j How Gen. Young Charged Into a Major Generalship. From a Washington Letter . Gen. Pierce M. B. Young, of Georgia, lias never lost through all the changes of his life the dashing cavalier air with which he used to lead his cavalry command into action during the war. Since that time he has been a Representative of his State in Congress, where he got into hot water, and has had other troublous experiences. But he stands as straight as he used to sit in the saddle, and he walks as jauntily as he used to ride—and all the while he keeps his eye fixed on the vanishing vacancies in the diplomatic service. A gentleman who served with Gen. Young in the Confederate service the other day recalled a daring plan formed by the gallant cavalryman to charge down a railway cut in order to capture a Federal position. The cut was long and narrow, the Federals were strongly posted at the farther end, with a battery of well-served guns at command, but Young ordered the charge as confidently as though the Federals wore already in flight. It was a magnificent thing to see Young at the head of his thousand troopers tearing down the road toward the cut straight on the silent but stern looking guns. “But it is not war,” said one of Young’s aides as he rode up to Young, and then, riding with him, asked him just as they got to the cut whether he realized what he was doing. “<>h, yes,” said Young lightly; “I’ll either be a Major General or in hell in half an hour.” The impetuous eiiarge carried all before it, though, and Young became a Major Gen eral —but not within half an hour. VlfeMitliDr luaivbtuiuft. For the South Atlantic States to-dav: Fair weather, followed by local rains, nearly stationary temperature, winds gen erally southerly. The height of the river at Augusta at 1:33 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time) was 6.5 feet —a fall of 0.3 feet during the past 24 hours. Comparative statement of temperature at Savannah June 7, 1884 and 1886: 1881.1 1885. 8:44 A.X It 5 6:88 a, M ... 79 5 3:44 P. X 812 a;36p.X 82 6 10:44 r.x 73 0 10:36 F.X 7!) 5 Maximum 84 5 Maximum 83 0 Minimum 70.5 Minimum 78.5 Mean temperature Mean temperature ol lay 77.2 o'day .. 80.5 Rainfall 0 00 Rainfall 0 04 Cotton region bulletin for 21 hours end ing (5 p. m.: s vvannAll. June 7. 11 r. 51., Eastern time. insraicrs. | Average. Rainfall. Minimum Temperat’e. Maximum Temperat’e. Numbor of stations. Name. Wilmington .... 8 86 63 Charleston 6 88 70 .19 Augusta 9 93 71 04 Savannah 12 91 74 34 Atlanta 8 94 72 Montgomery 9 95 72 Mobile 7 97 74 05 New Orleans 6 93 72 Galveston 13 90 67 Vicksburg 4 94 70 Little Bock 9 94 66 Memphis 19 97 71 04 Average . 92 9 70.2 06 Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations: Savannah. June 7.10:36 r. m.. City Time. ! Temperature. j Direction. * • __ 2 , Velocity. ? | Rainfall. Name of ‘"'ATIONS. New York I 67 B\V 171... [Threaten’g. Norfolk I 7(1 SW 12 ... Clear. Washington.. 7i> 8 a ...[Clear. Atlanta 78 SE .. cloudy. Augusta "6 HE .051 Cloudy. Charleston 80 SW r 9 Fair. ’ Charlotte 77 8 0 ....[Clear. Hatteras 72 SW Clear. Jacksonville... 82 SE 7 .. Clear. Savannah..... ho s ....! loudy. Mobile 70 s I Clear. Montgomery... 841 8 Fair. New Orleans.. 81 SE ICloan. Pensacola 81 SW T 11 . Iclearl Vicksburg 78 SE .. Clear. Palestine 79 8 10 ! Clear. Fort Smith. 77 S > Clear. Clalveston 80 8 9 [Clear. Indiauola 78 SE 8 00(Cleitr. Philadelphia 70 S 14 .. Clear. Shreveport— 82 S ... |Clear. Cincinnati 79 SVV 12 —Clear. Indianapolis... 78 SW (Clear. Knoxville 74 E (Threaten’g. Memphis 81 SE iClear. Nashville 79 SE 10 Th’r storm. Chicago 65 E .10 Tlireatcu’g. Duluth 87 NW 13 .. Cloudy. Cairo 83 S 8 Clear. Davenport 70 N W .24 Cloudy, St. lands S2 ! SW io ... Clear. Omaha HI N W o ... Clear. } anktou 88j N 10 Clear. Bismarck...... 411 N 8 Clear. Dodge City.... M] SE 12 Clear. North Platte . 001 N 10 | Cloudy. St. Paul 15 1 N 1 12 .... Clear, Louisville..— 88 8 lit Clear. Key West 80i SE 7 . (Hear. Sinithville 70T 8 [ 7 Clear. Boston 85| SW ;lf; Clear. Kitty Hawk.... 78 SW (I 1 - Clear. Cape Henry. 70! 8 'll! Fair. Block Island... 67 SW 122 . Fair. Brownsville... 7s| E I I ..iClear, 8. C. (BliT. Sgt. S. C„ V. 8. A. Tnr. public hiring out of children to the lowest bidder > till obtains in the Swiss can ton of Berne. A heartrending Oise of ibis kind is reported from Itiel, where the public crier, despite the tears and entreaties of the widowed mother, •‘placed'' her four children of 10, 8, 0 and 2 years forts, 31, 4o.'ii>d 7(1 francs respectively for the remainder of the year, thus separating the whole family for fear lest the wretched woman become u burden upon the town. Jtuutormritlo. Music at Battery Park / \N TUESDAY NEXT and on every Tues- V " day and Friday thereafter there will be music and damn tic afternoon* and evening* at Baltsry I'ark. Mu*lc furiiiidied by Lutz's Band nnd refro-lunt nt* by a popular caterer. yiruuo. THE ORPHAN BOYS’ HCJIC St. Jobu tiie Baptist T. A. & B. Society ISLEOF HOPE ON TUESDAY, JI NK . JB9&. W HOLE TICKET, Mic.; 11A1.F TtC'KKT, 25c. (street (an iDelmtoO.) Dinner and refreshment* on Ihe ground*. Thi;Guards Band (Brassand String) wilt tur n(*li in lisle for the day. MuiiKiit'i.x. -('nr* leave Anderson street 9:30 noil 1u:23 k. m., 12 m.. 2. 3:25 and < :;so r. m. Leave Isle of Ho|* 6. 7 and 8:30 I*. M. Tiekets on *sle at K. M ()oui.<>r's book store, 4V. F. Keui sdrng store, E. A. Knapp and by the lady collector* and member* of the soon-t v. lir.i( (f-ol.ttr. Southern Real Kstutc Investments. \GRICUI.TURAL, Timber,Grazing, Phos phate and Mini rid bund*. Also Manu facturing Pro perlie*. CLARENCE GORDON, 4 nod 6 Pmc street. New Y ork. No /nreetwent ofere't without A'ir/iert .Surrey mnitr (iml uioiriintred by thi Office. Sale eorra*pondsnla in Now York, Boston, Mass,, and London, Eng. Expert cxuudnvr* at various points In the So it hern Stiitc*. Corresponding and Listing Agent for East ern Georgia. JORDAN K. itlfOoKS, 185 and D7 Bay street, Savannah. JFurteral 3mii{p.ttcno. ! SIMKINS.—The relatives and friends of ! Mr. aud Mrs. W. D. Simkine, aud of Mr , | and Mrs. W N. Habersham and faintly, are j invited to attend the funeral servicesof I.ili. A Habersham, infant dangnter of the former, at 168 Harris street, at 5 o’clock THIS AFTERNOON. IJtrrtmQß. DeKalb Lodge No. 0, I. O. U. F. Savannah, June 8, 1885. A regular meeting will be held THIS (Mon day) EVENING, commencing promptly at 8 o’clock. A full attendance is desired. Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers are cordially invited to attend. Ev order WALTER K. WILKINSON, N. G, Walter E. Swanston, Secretary. Ihe Southern Mutual Loan Associa tion. The 6th annual (73d monthly) meeting of this Association will be held at Metropolitan Hull THIS (Monday) EVENING, at 8:15 o’clock. The Treasurer will submit his annual re port. and officers to serve for the ensuing year will he elected. June 8, 1885. M- J. SOLOMONS, President. W)i. D. 11 (ifi> ii n . Secretary. (JeriiHn Friendly Society. A regular monthly'meeting of this Society will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, at 8 o’clock, at Turners’ Hall. ('HAS. GASSMAN, President. A. Heller, Secretary. Special llcltrro. Special Notice. An Omnibus will leave Exchange for Ocean Steamship Company Wharf EVERY MORNING at 6:30 and 7:30 o’clock. Leave Wharf at 6:30 p. m. Fare 10 cents. JOHN FEELEY. Notice. During my absence from the elty Mr. JOE. BETTILNI is authorized to take charge of our business. L. P. MAGGIONI A CO. Dividend No. 24. A dividend of THREE DOLLARS AND A HALF per share has been declared by the Directors of the Citizens’ Mutual Loan Com pany, payable on and after MONDAY', Juue 8, at the office of the Company. GEO. C. FREEMAN, Treasurer. WANTED. I, POUNDS OF w o”o L BEFORE SELLING YOUR W OO L CONSULT LEE ROY MIEKS & CO,, 133 liny Street. I consider ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR a most valuable Medicine, and shall take pleasure in recommending it. It was pre scribed for me by my physician. G. F ANDERSON, President the Seovers & Anderson Milling Company. Baltimore, Nov. 24, 1884. $1 a bottle; freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D„ Savannah, Ga. Etraw Hals 10 Cents, And various other ariicles toe numerous to merit on, at the only TEN CENT STORE in town 154 Bryan street. Call and see these aud other bargains. o : trtroiono. J IT TV E Tr SUMMER EXCURSION TICKETS. SEASON 1885 Round Trip Tickets -TO ALL— SOUR RESORTS, Good to Return Until Oct. 31, -VIA- Savanuali, Florida & WBsternßy. tor information, engagement of Pullman Car uecommodatino and purchase of tickets, apply at Bren’s Ticket Office and at the Pas senger Station of Ihu Company fool of Lilicrty street. JAS. L. TAYLOR, Gen. Passenger Agent. 1385 EXCURSION SEASON 1885 ON JUNE 1 THE CENTRAL RAILROAD WILL PLACE ON SALE ROUND TRIP TICKETS -TO ALL - SUMMER RESORTS, Good to Return Until Oct. 31. For full information apply at Ticket Office, 20 Bull street. GKO. A. WHITEHEAD, sien. Passenger Agent. J. C. SHAW,Ticket Agent. State OF Weather. -Auction 3aleo £o=patj. PAR LOR, BEDKOOMAND NI TURK FOR SALE AT RESIDENCE C. H. DORSETT. Auctioneer. W ”' se ’ l on MONDAY, JUNE Bth, 1885, at u o c.ock, at the residence. 174 Gaston sir,- ■} near Barnard—take Whitaker cars- ‘ Fine WALNUT HAT RACK. Oil error., CARPETS. M ATTING, PARLOR sr FANCY CHAIRS, i HII.D’S ( HAIR p> f’ TURKS. LOOKING GLARES M TRESSES. BED SPRING, BED LINFV BLANKETS, handsome WALNUT up!Y’ ROOM SET. very neat COTTAGE Rk ' ROOM BE!\ PARLOR ORGAN. All of .hi above furniture is new, and is t-einir 8 „l.i i cause the owner is leaving the cityr ,e ' fcflal liotiri'o. GEORGIA, Chatham CocntyUlnT,";'',. hereby given that 1 have made atmli,-, tion to the Court of Ordinary for Chatham county for order to sell all of the real elwei belonging to estate of HENRY I.AXri. deceased, for the payment of debts and tribiitioii, and iliat said order will bo j at JULY TERM (1885) of said courL uu el objections are liied. uules * Junk 6, 1885. JOHN LANGE Administrator estate of Henry Lunge. /'GEORGIA, Chatham County—\vi„. r ,.~' U ANNA M. D. MORGAN has applied% Court of Ordinary for Letters Di-niis or V j? Administratrix on the estate of FitEiii klr'u- MORGAN, deceased. Klch - These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all whom it may concern to be and appear be fore said court, to make, objection (if they have), on or before the FIRST Movat f IN SEPTEMBER NEXT, otherwise stid letters will he granted. Witness the Honorable Hampton L fkr bill, Ordinary for Chatham countv this the 39th day of May, 1885. ’ ’ UU tkß PHILIP M. RUSSELL. Jk„ Clerk C. O. C. C. /"GEORGIA, Chatham County.—Where** l I RICH UID W. ADAM s, J R „ hasamdi. J to Court of Ordinary for Lettersof Adminis* tl’ation on the estate of THOMAS NEW El [ deceased. ’ These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all whom it may concern to be and appear he fore said court, to make objection (if U in they have) on or before the FIRST MONDAY iv JULY’ NEXT, otherwise said letters will lie granted. Witness the Honorable Hampton J, Ki k kill, Ordinary for Chatham couutv. this the 30th day of May, 1885. PHILIP M. RUSSELL, Jr.. Clerk C. O. 0. C. (GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY.—Whereas J JOSEPH I). W t ED has applied to Court ot Ordinary for Letters Dismissory as Guar dian on the estate of WILLIAM SINCLAIR BRIGHAM, minor. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all whom it may concern to be and appear be fore said court, to make objection (if any thev have) on or before the FIRST MONDAY IV JULY NEXT, otherwise said letters will bo granted. Witness the Honorable Hampton L Ffk rill. Ordinary for Chatham countv, this ilm 30th day of May, 1885. PHILIP M. BUSSELL, Jr., Clerk C. O. C. 0. (GEORGIA. CHATHAM COUNTY.—Whcrea- J JOSEPH G. BULLOCH has applied to Court of Ordinary for Letters of Adminis tration de bonis non cum tostamento aiiiieto on the estate of JOHN LEWIS, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite, and admonish all whom it may concern to be and appear k fore said court, to make objection (if am umy have) on or before the FIRST MOND AY IN JULY’ NEXT, otherwise said letters wihl* granted. Witness, the Honorable Hampton L. Fer rill. Ordinary for Chatham county, this the 30th day of May, 1885. PHILIP M. RUSSELL, JR., Clerk C. O. C. C. DfOrtaUlco aitii Jruilo. ON I ONS! IN CRATES AND BA RRELS. L. L. and LOOSE MUSCATEL RAISINS. “EUREKA BRAND” FANCY H. Mi FillE LEMONS l £ANCY CHOICE—AND FAIR / LEMONS, LEMONS, LEMONS, LEMONS, AT LOWEST PRICES. Nuts. Nuts, Nuts. HAY and GRAIN. Heavy stocks of i t >UN, OATS, HAY, FEEIZ MEAL, BRAN, EYES, CROWDER PEAS, ETC. Get my special prices on car load lots of Gram aud Hay before buying. 163 and 155 Kay Stre'it, r M\ a*,i so rvi >. £alr. ASSIGNEE’S SALE I AM OFFERING THE STOCK OF CLOTHING,HATS Ami Gents’ Faruistiiug Gooils, At the well-known rtund on the nortnead corner ot Broughton aud Bull atreetr,at pr.ces that defy competition. As the stock must be disposed of asqaictlv as possible, parties desiring to purchase wit iln well to call at once and secure the leimain* offered. J. K. BROOKS, Assignee of Simon Gazin. Uiatrr, (* : tr. _ ECENTS A GLASS y EGGNOG SYRUP-' AT THE Mammoth Fountain. SUPERIOR ICE COLD SODA WATER WITH CHOICE FRUIT bYJiIT OCR OWN MANUFACTURE. Far- try THE *EC,G sou SYUIT "V* <J. M. HEIDI’ X Cm Cor. Congress and Wliitsker ■Sire('t , -_ lip “ America's tsust Boer.'* Ilighc-l award wherever evluinb a nd MEYER. solMtfk'jß’.. Depot and Offlre. foot of Alercorc efe**' Bl anch Office, 142 Bay street. (f opariitcvohip Ilfftirro- Notice of Dissolution. THE firm of AUG. BTUCKKN A < mg business at New Orles n *kJi£itk S ivniii ili.Gu..ruinpo'l'd of AUG.J'I i/Vy JjrlA (AIM. EGLINOkK and GEORGE L. M'l JR., l* this day dissolved. . J.M fk AUG. BTUCAXN A (4 Hav 4nxah, June 4. isS. i Jjl