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Savannah morning News ESTABLISH KD 1850. 1 jj, If. EfeTILL, Editor ami Proprietor.! GARLAND'S EXPLANATION hB WILL BE BEFORE THE committee to-day. Oeoraia # Delegation in tlie Home Paid H Hlcli Compliioent -Hleiite Trying to Bac the Knights of Labor Vote—Logan Excites the Opposition of a Soldier’s Society. Washington, April 18.—Attorney General Garland will make a plain state tnent of his connection with the l’an Kiectric Telephone Company before the House Committee investigating the tele phone question to-morrow, iho com mittee will allow him to tell it in his own way, but Mr. Ranneytnay have some questions to put to him afterwards. Mr. Garland will tell the story he has slready given to the public. Ihe only now statement expected is as to what deposition ho has made, or proposes to make of his stock. Chairman Boyle of the committee says that it will probably conclude the investi gation by May 1, and that the reports (for it is expected that there will be a majority and minority report) will probably be ready by June 1. GEORGIA’S DELEGATION. The Post expresses a general opinion Kt-tlay as follows: The Georgia delegation in the House is accorded the palm for saving a higher average of brain, back done, industry and influence than any otLer State delegation in the House. OUT WITH LOGAN. The Veterans’ Rights’ Union,an organi sation of the members of the Grand Army of the Republic, formed for the pur pose of securing recognition to ex-soldiers in appointments to office,is at loggerheads with Senator Logan because he recently interfered in its attempts to secure two places for veterans. It threatens to de clare war on him unless he makes amends. BLAINE’S EYE ON THE KNIGHTS. Representative William Walter Phelps, 41 New Jersey, who is announced in the morning papers to-day as en route to Alt. Desert with Mr. and Mrs. James G. Blaine, is now in Washington. It is un derstood, however, that he will join Blaine ■ Alt. Desert later in the season. His latest visit to Blaine was, it is under stood, for the purpose of perfecting plans [or capturing the support of the Knights ofLaborfor Blame. SPECIAL DELIVERY. To-morrow, if it is reached in the call jf committees for motions to suspend the rules, the Committee on l’ost Offices will move the passage under a suspension of the rules of tne bill recently perfected for the extension and improvement of the special delivery system. The bill pro vides: 1. That the system shall be ex tended to all post offices in the discre tion of the Postmaster General; 2. That the system shall be extended so as to cover all classes of mail matter; 3. That the Postmaster General shall be author ized to contract for the delivery service with local messenger and delivery companies at a cost not exceeding HO per ceut.of the lace value oi the stamps; 1. That Postmasters may employ their subordinates as messengers; 5. That ike hour at whicn special deliv ery post offices shall close shall be within tbe discretion of the Postmaster General. it is believed that these amendments will make the system much more satis factory than it is. XHE STRIKE IN VK9ITGATORB. the Men Who are to Get the Facts About the southwestern Labor Troubles. Washington, April 18.—The Con cessional committee appointed to in vestigate tbe Southwestern labor troubles will probably start West sometime this week. The members of the committee are men of strong common sense, and are among the ablest in tbe House. Ex-Gov. Curtin is, of course, known to the whole country. His ability and impartiality will not be questioned. He is tbe Chair ii.tn and a Democrat. Mr. Crain, of Texas, is a Democrat, and In one of tbe you g membersot the House, licit, but 30 years old, and is serving iiis first term. Though anew member, he lakes rank as one of the able men on the Democratic side. Ho is a recognized luder of tbe labor.ng element, though nut a fanatic upon any subject. Mr. Beckman, a Republican, is also on lie Labor Committee. He is a corpora fion lawyer, and serving his first term in D-egress. He is a New Jersey Iricnd of Ik" Pennsylvania railroad. Mr. Outhwalt, of Ohio, is a Democrat from the Columbus district, and was “ever before in Congress. He is a lawyer •'A profession, but has had little expe rience in public affairs. Mr. Stewart, of Vermont, is a Republi can, has bee nSpeaker oi tbeHouseof Rep resentatives of bis State and wits a mem r i"! tin; State Senate. This is his second krm in Congress. He is a lawyer and said to be friendly to railroad*. Mi. Parker, of New York, is a Repaidi <-i,n and alawyer; has served in the House an i -enate oi his State, and had oousider a.ile experience in public affairs of New jnrk. fie is a member of tbe Judiciary 1 oinmittee, and was first elected to the 1 ’ -eight n Congress. Dunies, of .Missouri, Is now on bis sec- Mkl i ongressional term. He is a mem oir of the Appropriation Committee and # lawyer with recognized ability as a I’enioerst, ami has his eye upon the seat MSenator Cockrell. P'-destrians Beat ilie Record. •h-KosH, Wis., April 18—Tlie six-day j'Mis-you.plea**. walking mutch between !; Ilerrlman and Anton rttokol, ot mulligan, ended last night, Herriman V'lred 284 m’lcs and 5 laps and Mokel •'•i miles and 9 laps. This is said to lie hi" bet record on the basis of hours ever jiiaiD n, the United hiatus. Tbe contes- Mts walked each day from 2 to 10 o’clock. Base Ball Yesterday. Washington, April 18.—The following Dun s were played to-day: bnuLvdle—Loiiisvitln 4. Cincinnati i. -** kits—Louisville s, Cincinnati i. '[ • oui \ i.ir 1.1 inulnnsi 1 1 ■ l on - si. Lout* 8. Pittsburg 4, Seo ■ Abie—st, Louis 10, Pittsburg 8. Geo. Arthur Better. •Nkw York, April 18.—An inquiry at house o| ox-President Chester A. Ar lv, ' to-night as io his physical condition as met with the statement that he was proving and was able to be about the I ' "’P at tin* time of the reporter’s call. ‘‘x-l’resident's children wore out,and ' *• McElroy was busy with company. Itelchuwl's Kxplorut ions. Apri! 18.—The German gov .‘ll*lll refuses to recognize the German l |ifa* r *fi**fichard, who claims to havn ac tn‘,‘ territory around Lake Tanganyika iuat to half the area of Germany. SETTLING A STRIKE. The Baltimore and Ohio Arbitrates with the Switcbmeu. Chicago, April 18.—First Vice Presi dent Smith, General Manager Dunta, and Superintendents Foreacre and Britton, of the Baltimore and Ohio road, held a con sultation to-day with a committee of the striking switchmen, and an arrangement whs made whereby tbe freight blockade on that road will end to-morrow morning. The strikers modified their demand that eight men be discharged into a request that they be transferred to some other point. The eight men referred to, an nouncing their willingness to be trans ferred, the company agreed to a settle ment of the difficulties on tms basis. At a well attended meeting ot tne Lake Shore strikers to-night a circular was or dered Issued denying that the Switch men's Benevolent Association was hi any way responsible tor the strike. A com mittee of 30 members, composed wholly of strikers, was appointed to guard the three principal points where the mob—should one gather—would be most likely to do injury to the company’s .property. While they disclaim aiiy intention to create a disturbance, the strikers are determined to prevent the moving of freight trains should the com pany attempt to do so with the new men. They also say they will do all in their power to prevent hoodlums and outsiders generally from taking any hand in mat ters or from doing any damage to prop erty. THIRD AVENUE STRIKERS. New Y'ork, April 18.-Twenty five new men were hired by the Third Avenue Railroad Company to re place the strikers, and the drilling ot the new drivers has gone forward all day m the depot. The company officials are thoroughly confident that the company now has enough men to run cars cn tbe Third Avenue main line man end to end and also on the Hundred and Twenty fifth street line. The strikers were in ses sion all day to-dav and say they initiated 25 of the company’s newly hired men of Saturday. beaten by strikers. Chicago, April 18 Late last night the Lake Shore officials attempted to takeout a freight train from their yards. A rush was made for the engine, and before any protection could be offered the engineer and fireman were dragged from their posts. Each was given a terrible beating before being allowed to escape. URGED TO ARM. New York, April 18. —What is known as the Woikingmen’s Rifle Corps to-day filled a hall on Second avenue. They were addressed by Editor Schewitsoh, of Di* Polks Zeitunq, upon tbe labor ques tion. He advised his hearers to provide themselves with guns as rapidly as possi ble, and prepare themselves for future troubles. Rifles could be had for $8 each, and ammunition was cheap. The crowd cheered these sentiments. conductors discountenance strikes. Elmira, N. Y., April 18.—The Elmira Division of the Order of Railway Con ductors, numbering 160 members, to-day adopted the following: Ilmolved, That wo extend greeting and com mend the manly action, steadfastness to prin ciple ami prestige, thereby given to the Order of Railway Conductors in maintaining its principles by the brothers of the Order em ployed on tbe Missouri Pacific system rail roads,in refusing to join in and discountenanc ing the strike wnich has been in progress in ihat section, to the detriment both of cm p.oye and employer Heanlced, Tnat we believe arbitration to lie the only and proper method to pursue in matters of grievances. We condemn strikes aud assert further that they are invariably ill-advised, gotten up by agitators, socialists, incendiaries and demagogues, rather than by representatives of honest labor. Revolted, That a copy of the foregoing reso lutions be sent to every division along the 'ine ot railways contiguous to the Missouri Pa cific system of railroads, as well as to Vice President lloxie, whom the order holds in the highest esteem. ON GUARD AT BERLIN. Berlin, April 18. —The Home Minister has issued a decree instructing the proper government otticials to watch all labor c inflicts in Berlin, and see that every thing is settled peacefully and legally. If the Socialists attempt to create a riot a state of siege will be proclaimed. BISHOI* SHOT BY PRIEST. Three Effective Shots Fired at tbe Head of the Cathedral Steps Madrid April 18.—This morning while the Bishop of Madrid was ascending the steps leading to the entrauce to the Cathe dral, he was shot with a revolver by a priest standiugat the top of the steps, the ball entering his abdomen. This was fol lowed by another shot from the same source, which wounded the Bishop in thu side, whereupon the wounded man tell on the steps. The priest then de scended tbe steps and tired still another shot, which took effect in the Bishop’s thigh. The priest was then seized, put ting a stop to bis murderous work, and his victim was borne in an unconscious condition to a private chamber in the Cathedral, where the last sacraments for the dying were adminis tered to him. Being Palm Sunday the Cathedral was more than usually crowded by worshipers, and when the feariul work of the priest was realized a furious mob followed the carriage in which he was conveyed lo prison by gendarmes, whose presence alone prevented the lynching of the would-be murderer. The motive lor the crime was revenge. Toe man who tired the shot was recent ly dismissed from the priesthood, and had fruitlessly applied to the Bishop to be re instated. QU' cn Christina lias Inquired as to tbe Bishop’s condition. The I’opo has telegraphed his blessing. STILL alive. Madrid, April 1,3 a. m.—The Bishop is still alive. The priest made an attempt lo commit suicide. Wiped Out by FI I*o. Vienna, April 18.—The town of Btry,in Galicia, has been almost completely de stroyed by fire. The number of bouses burned is about 800. Many persons were killed. The inhabitants are destitute. A high wind was blowing and tbe fires started In several parts of the town about the same time. Many inhabitants were killed by falling walls and steeples. One hundred persons were killed in onestreet. The town hall, railway station and tele grsph office were destroyed. A Urge number of wounded were extricated fiorit the ruins and seut to Lemberg, a distance of 42 miltis, where the hospitals are crowded with sufferers. Hundreds of persons are missing. Lack of water rendered aid by the military futile. Money and food are being collected lu the surrounding towns lor the relief of the sufferers. ~ . . The tire originated In a small shop and was caused by a falling lamp filled with petroleum. Fur Inciting Biots. Paris, April M.—MM. Ducqueroy and Rochefort have been sentenced to 16 months Imprisonment for lumen ting riots. SAVANNAH. MIN DAY, APRIL 19, 1886. LAUGHTER OF TIIE BIBLE; THE SUBJECT MENTIONED 38 TIMES IN SCRIPTURE. Skepticism's Lough In All Aces but the Kclid or Sarah's Lnugti \Vhn Told That Site Should Become the Ances tress of the Lord Jesus Christ—Heav en’s Kternal Laughter Laughs of Re-association Difference Rttweeu God’s Laugh and His Smile. Brooklyn, N. Y., April 18.—So great is the popularity of the preacher at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, that it is under ad visement to build for him a church tviee as large, and thereby to make sometling like adequate accommodation for the peo ple who crowd to hear him. The Rev. Do Witt Talmage’s sermon this morning was on the subject, “Laughter of the Bible,” The opening by mu was: ‘■Lome ye that love the Lord, And let your joys be known; Join iu the song with sweet accord, And thus surround the throne.” The texts were chosen by the preacher —Psalm cxxvi, 2: “Then was our mouth filled with laughter”; and Psalm ii, 4: “He that sitteth in tbe heavens shall laugh.” Dr. Talmage said: Thirty-eight times does the Bible make reference to this configuration of the features and quick expulsion of breath which we call laughter. Sometimes it is born of the sunshine aud sometimes of tbe midnight. Sometimes it stirs toe sympathies of angels and sometimes tbe caciiinnationof devils. Ail healthy people laugh. Whether it pleases the Lordordis pleases Him that depends upon when we iaugh and at what we laugh. My theme this morning is the laughter of the Bible, namely—Sarah’s laugh, or that of skep ticism; David’s laugh, or that of spiritual 'exultation; tbe fool's laugh, or tnat of sinful merriment; God’s laugh, or that of infinite condemnation: Heaven’s laugh, or that of eternal triuuipn. Scene: An Oriental tent; the occu pants, old Abraham and Sarah, perhaps wrinkled and decrepit. Their three guests are three angels—the Lord Almighty one of them. In return for the hospitality shown by the old people God promises Sarah that sbeshall become the ancestress of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sarah laugliß : in the face of God; she does not believe it. She is affrighted at what she has done. She denies it. Sue says: “I didn’t laugh.” Then God retorted with an emphasiH that silenced all disputation: “But thou didst laugh.” My triends, tne laugh of skepti cism in all ages is only the echo o! Sarah’s laughter. God says he will accomplish a thing and men say it canuot. bo t-done. A great multitude laugb at tbe miracles. They say they are contrary to the lows of nature. Wnau is a law ot na ture?” It is God’s way of doing a thing. You ordinarily cross the river by the bridge. To-morrow you ehange for one day and you go across Wall street ferry. You made the rule. Have you not the right to change it? I ordinarily come in at that door (pointing to a side entrance of the church.) Suppose next Sabbath 1 should come in at the other door? It is a habit 1 have. Have 1 nota righttoebange my habit ? A law of nature is God’s habit —His way of doing things. If He makes the law, has he not a right to change it at any time he wants to change it? Alas tor the folly of those who laugh at God when He says: “1 will do a thing,” they responding, “You can’t do it.” God says that the Bible is true—it is all true. Bishop (Jolenso laughs; Herbert Spencer laughs; John Stuart Mill laughs; great German universities laugh; Har vard laughs— softly! A great many of the learned institutions of this country, with long rows of professors seated on the fence between Christianity and infi delity, laugh softly. They say: “We didn’t laugh.” That was Sarah's trick. God thunders from the fieaYcus: “Hut thou didst lifhgh.” The garden of Eden was only a fable. There never was any ark built—it was too small to have two oi every kind. The uil lar of lire by night was only the northern lights. The ten plagues of Egypt only a brilliant specimen of jugglery. The sea parted because the wind blew violently a great while from one direction. The sun and moon did not put themselves out of the way for Joshua. Jacob’s ladder was only horizontal and nieturesque clouds. The destroying angel smiting the first born iu Egypt was only cholera infantum become epidemic. The gulletotthe wnale by positive measurement too small to swallow a prophet. The lame, the dumb, the blind, the halt, cured by mere numan surgery. The resurrection of Christ's friend only a beautiful tableau; Christ, and Lazarus, and Mary, and Martha act ing their parts well. My friends, there is not, a doctrine or statement in God’s holy Word that has not been derided by tbe skepticism of the day. 1 tnke up this book of King James’ translation. I consider it a perfect Bible, but here are skeptics who want it torn to pieces. And uow, with this B.bie in my hand, let mo tear out all those portions which the skepticism of the day demands shall be torn out. What shall go first! “‘Well.’, says some in the audience, “lake out all tnat about the creation and the first settlement of the world.” Away goes Genesis. “Now,” says someone, “take out all that about the miraculous guidance of the children of Israel in tne wilderness.” Away goes Exodus. “Now,” says someone else in the au dience, “there arc things in D uteron oiny and Kings that are not tit to be read.” Away goes Deuteronomy and the Kings. “Now,” says someone. “the Imiok of Job is a faille that ought to come out.” Away goes tbe book of Job. “Now,” says Horm one. “Those passages lu tbe New Testament which imply the divinity of Jesus Christ ought to come out.” Away go tbe Evangelists. “Now,” says some one, “the Book of Revelation—preposter ous! It represents a man with tbe moon under his leet and a sharp sword in liis hand.” Away goes tbe Book ol Revela tion. Now there urea lew piece* left. What shall we do with them? “Ob.” says smne man in the audience, “1 don’t believe a word in the Bible from one end to tbe Other.” Well, it is all gone. Now TOU have put out the last light for the nations. Now it is the pitch darkness of eternal midnight. How do you like it? But I think, my friends, we had better keen tbe Bible a little longer in* tact. It has done pretty well for a good many years. Then there are old people who find it a comfort to have it on their laps, and children like tbo stories In It. Let us keep It for a curios ity anyhow. If the Bible Is to be thrown out of the school, and out of tbe court room, so that men uo more swear by It, and it is to be put in a dark comer of the city library, the Koran on one side and the writings of Confucius on the other, then let us eaoh one keep a copy for him self, for we might have trouble and we would want to bo under the delusion of Its consolations; and we might difi and we would want tbe delusion ol the ex altod residence at God’s right band which it mentious. Üb. what an awful thing U is to laugh in God’s face I hurl bs revelation back at him. Attawbile the day will come when they w sav Uev did not laugh. Then all the fcreritkisms, all the cari catures and rjiie learned sneers in the quarterly revik will to brought to judg ment; and ajl the rocking of every thing beneattjnd anid the flaming of everything afe, Gl will thunder: “But thou til laugh.” I think the most fascinatllaughler at Christianity 1 ever re me mil was Iheoilore barker’s. He made tj wort of Go l seem ridiculous and laugled on at our holy religion until bameto die, and then in said: “My lilas been a failure—a fail ure domestic*. 1 lisve no children; a failure sociatuor 1 am treat'd in the streets like u kit.-; a failure profession ally, becauscnow but one minister that has ado; my sentiments.” For a quarterofa eitry he laughed at Chris tianity, and e since Christianity has been lnurhitij him. Now, it is a mean thing to go in Plan’s house anil steal his goods; but 1 1 jotl the most gigantic burglary eve vented is tbe proposition to steal thes manures of our holy reli gion. The in st laughter ever uttered is the laugiiti I'the skeptic. The next rliter mentioned in the Bible is Davi laughter, or the laughter of spiritual ltation: “Then was our mouth tilled i laughter.” lie got very much down mutinies, but there are other cliapti where tor four or five times, he caupon tbo people to praise and exult, ras not a mere twitch of ibe lips, it wji demonstration that took hold ot his wk physical nature. “Then vus our moulded Witli laughter.” My iriends this and will never be converted to God untufistiaus cry less and laugh and sing me) Tno horrors are a poor bait. II pod are to be persuaded to adopt our liiftligion it will be because tlev have nfc up their minds it is a happy religiq They don’t like a morbid CtristianityJ know there are morbid people who by a funeral. They come early to see : Iriends, take leave of tue corpse, and ti steal a ride to tbe ceme tery, tiut al! jlthy people enjoy a wed ding better ti they do a burial. Now. you make thuigionofCUrist sepulchral and hearse-liind yqu make it repulsive. 1 sav plant! rose of Sharon along the church walked columbine to clamber over thechurjvali; and have a smile ou tbe lip and fo tne mouth tilled with holy laughter! here is no man in the world excepie Christian that has a right to feel aLtrammeled glee. He is promised evening is to be for the best here, and he on the way to a uelight which will tall) the processions with palm branchegud all the orchestras, harped and cycled and trumpeted, to express. “Oh,’lu say, “1 have sc much trouble!” Haiju more troublfe than I’aul had? fiat does he say? “.Sorrowful yi always rejoicing. Boor, yet makl many rich. Having nothing, yet poking *ji things.” Tne merriest laugh ink I ever Heard has been in the sick mi of God's dear chil dren. When Tidostus was put upon me rack he suffa very great torture at the first. Soun !y asked him how he endured ail that non the rack. He re plied: “When 4s first put upon too rack 1 suffered ;reat deal; but very soon a young mgi white stood by my side and with .fr, and comfortable handkerchief he y>d tbe sweat from my brow and my paigrere relieved; it was a punishment lor to get from the rack, because when them was all gone the angel was gone.”|i, rejoice evermore! You know how it fi the army—an army in encampment to-day news conies that our side 1) had a defeat, it demoralizes all thifct. But if the news couies of victory tty and victory to morrow, the wholekny is impassioned tor the contest. N| iu tbe kingdom of our Lord Jesus Chi report lewer de feats; tell us the vbries—victory over . sin and death and h) Rcjoioeevermore and again 1 say l believe there is more religion in laugh than in a gioun. Anybody cA ro an,bin to laugh in the midst of banitent and persecu tion and indescribatrial, that requires a David, a Daniel, j Paul, a modern heroine. The next lauglittjncntioned iu the Bible that I shall sp| of, is the fool’s laughter or the ei ssion of sinful merriment. Solomokas very quick at simile; whon he makl comparison we all catcu it. WhaliAo laughter of a fool like? He saysk is the crack ling of thorns under at.'’ The kettle is swung, a bunch of brinies Is put under it, and the torch is aiim to it and there .is a great noise and alg blaze and a sputter and a quiclxtiuguishinent; men it is darker than ias before. Fool’s laugnter. The most a rable thing on earth is a bad man’s fij There they are —ten men in a band; they pave at home wiv*s, lnother.liHßghters. Tbe impure jest startsatoiioriier of the bar room and crackle, crasy,crackle it goes all around. lnoi>o*U( Hflaws there is not one item of bappims Lucy ail feel bemoaned if they iia an' conscience left. Have nothing t<ffi with men or women wno tell immor sto ies. 1 have no confidence either tteir Christian character or their moraty. So, all merriment tna srings out of the delects of others—capture ot a lame toot or a curved spine omidind eye or a deal ear—will be met wi ,hu judgments of God either upon you o*our children. Twenty years ago, iu Unity, I knew a man who was particularjikiiHul in im itating the lameness of jeigbbor. Not long ago a son of the skill mimic had his leg amputated for e very defect which his fattier had minted years be lore. Ido uot. say it waJ judgment ol God; 1 leave you to makejurown infer ence. So, all merriment iu of dissipa tion, that which startst the coun ters of tbo drinking tstaurant or from the wine glass the homo circle, the maudlin sintk the mean ingless joke, tbe saturno|u gihberisu, the paroxysm of mirth abdnothing that you sometimes see in the ftionable club room or in the exquisiteiarlor at 12 o’clock at night, are of thorns under a pot. Huchkughtur and such sin end in death. \VI> 1 was a lad a nook came out, entitled,llion Jour’s Patent Sermons.” It mad*) great stir, a very wide iaugh, all ovetie country, tiiat nook did. it was n trirat tire of the Christian ministry and title word of God and of the day of judgijnt. Ou, we bad a great laugb! Tne cinentary on the whole thing is tnat nut jig ago" the author of that book dieiiii poverty, shame, debauchery, kicked J( of society and cursed of Almighty fJod The laugh ter or such men is the echo their own damnation. Tne next laughter that I all mention as being in the Bible is the Igh of God’s condemnation: “He that ieth in the heavens shall laugb.” zain: “Tbe Lord will laugh at hint.’’Again: “1 will laugb at bis calamity.’’With such demonstration will God greeevery kind or great sin and wickedns* But men build up villanies higher ad higher. Good men almost pKy God-buose he i* so schemed against by men. tiddeuly a pin drops out of the maebineiof wicked ness, or a secret is reveal* and tbe foundation begins to reck; \ul finally the whole thing is demolished What is the matter? l'will teH you wtfcthe met- u ter is. The crash of ruin is only th reverberation of God s laughter. On Wall street there are a great many good meu and a great, many fraudulent men. A fraudulent man there says: “1 mean to have mv million.” He goes to work reckless of honesty aud begets bis first one hundred thousand dollars. He gets after awhile his tvo hundred thou sand dollars. Afterawhiiehe getuhis five hundred thousand dollars. “Now,” he says, “1 have only one more move to make and ltshall have my million.” He gathers up all his resources; he makes that one last grand move; lie fails and loses all. aud he has not enough money left to pay the oost of the car to his home. People cannot understand this spasmodic revul sion. Bome su'd it was a sudden turn in Erie railway stock or in Western Union or in Illinois Ceutrai; some said it was Jay Gould; some said it was one specu lator, some said it was another. They all guessed wrong. I will tell you what it was: “He that sitteth in the heavens” laughed. A man in New York said he would be tbe richest man ill the oitv. He lelt his honest work of chair-making aud got into the City Councils some way, and in ten years stole fifteen million dollars from the city government. Fifteen millioudollars! He held the Legislature ot tbe State of New York in the grip of his right hand. Suspicions were aroused. I’he grandjurv presented indictment*. The whole land stood agnast. The man who expected to put half the city in his vest pocket goes to Blackwell's Island, goes to Ludlow street jail, breaks prison, and goes across the sea, is re-arrested and brought back and again remanded In jail and dieti there. Why? “lie that sittelii in the heavens” laughed. Romo was a great empire; she bad Horace and Virgil among her poets, she had Augustus aud Constautine among her Emperors. But wtiat means the de faced Pantheon aud the Forum turned into a cattle market, aud the broken walled Coliseum aud the archi tectural skeleton of her great aqueduct! What was that thun der? “Oh,” you say, “that was tiie roar of the battering rams against her walls.” No. What was that quiver? “Ob,” you say, “that was the tramp of hostile legions. No, The quiver and the rear were the outbursts ol Om nipotent laughter from the defied and insulted heavens. Rome defied God and lie laughed her down. Thebes defied Go t and He laughed her down. Babylon defied God and He laughed her down. There IS a ereat Uifference between God’s laugh and His smile. His smile is eternal beatitude. He smiled when David sang and Miriam clapped the cymbals and Hannah made garments for her sou and Paul preached and John kindled with Apocalyptic vision and when any man has anything to do and does it well. Ills smile! Why, it is tne filteetith ol May, the apple orchards iu full bloom; it is heaven at high noon, all the bells beat- ing the marriage peal. But His laughter —may it never fall on us! It is a con demnation for onr sin; it is a wasting away. We may let the satirist laugh at us, and all our companions tnay laugh at us, and we may be the target for the mer riment of earth and hell; but God forbid liiat we should ever come lo the fulfill ment of the propbeov against the re jectors of the truth: “1 will laugh at your calamity.” But, my friends, all of us who reject Christ and the pardon ot the Gospel must come under that tremeudoue bombardment. God wants us all to re pent. lie counsels, He coaxes, He im portunes and He dies for us. He comes down out oi heaven. Ho puts all tlm world’s sin on one shoulder; He puts ali the world’s sorrow on the other shoulder, and then witbtbat Alp on one side and that Himalaya on the other, He starts up the hill back of Jerusalem to achieve our salvation. He puts the palm of His right loot on one long spike, aud He puts the palm of his lelt tootou another long spike, and then, with hands spotted with His own blood, He gesticulates, saying: “Look! look and live; witti the crimson veil of my sacrifice 1 will cover up all" your sins; with my dying groan I will swallow up all your groans. Look, live!” But some of you t uis morning turn your back on that, and then this voice of invitation turns to a tone divinely ominous that sobs like a si moon through the first chapter oi I’ro veriis: “Because 1 have called and ye rutused, 1 have stretched out my hand and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel and would none of my reproof; 1 also will laugh at your calamity.” Ob, what a laugh that is! a deep laugh; a long, reverberating laugh; an oxerwbelraing laugh. God grant we may never hear it! But in this day of mercilul visitation yield your heart to Christ that you may spend ail your life on earth under His smile and es cape fort-ver the thunder of thu laugh of God’s indignation. The other laughter mentioned in the Bilde, the only one I shall spiat of, is Heaven's laughter or the expression ot eternal triumph. Christ said to His dis- ciples: “Bless.*d are ye that weep now, for ye snail laugh.” That makes me know posit ively that wo are not to spend our days in heaven singing long metre psalms. The formalistic and stiff notions of heaven that some people have would make me miserable. lam glad to know that the heaven of the Bible is not only a pi toe ot holy worship, but of magnificent sociability. “What,” say you, “will the ringing laugb go around tue circles of the saved?” I sav yes; pure laughter, chnering laughter, holy laughter, it will be a laugb of congratulation. When we meet a friend who has sud denly come to a fortune, or who has got over some dire sickness, do we not shake bands; do we not laugh with him? And when wo get to heaven and see our Inends there, some of them having come up out ot great tribulations, why we will say to one of them: “The last time I saw you, you had been suffering for six weeks under a low, intermittent fever;” or to another we will say: “You for ten years were limping with the rheumatism, and you were lull of complaints when we saw you last. 1 congratulate you on this eternal recovery.” We shall laugh; yes, we shall congratulate all those who have come tip out of great financial embarrass, incuts iu this world because they have be come millionaires lo heaven. Ye shall laugh, it shall be a laugh of reassociation. It i* just as natural for us to laugh when we meet a friend we have not seen for ten years, us anything is pos sible to lie natural. Wnen we meet our friends from whom we have been parted ten, twenty or thirty vears. will It not be with lufinite congratulation? Our per ception quickened, our knowledge im proved. wo will know each other ataflasb. We will havetotalk over all that has happened since we have been separated, the one that has linen ten years in iieaven telling us aM that has happened in tbs ten years r Ms heavenly residence, and we4elltng him in return all that has hap pened during the ton years oi his absence from earth. Ye sliaHUugh. I*think George Whit field and John Wesley will have a laugh or contempt for their earthly coltlsslons and Topi aiiy aud Obarles Wesley will have a laugh of contempt for their earthly mlsunderstandlngs; and the farmers who were in a lawsuit all their davs will have a laugh of contempt over their earthly disturbances about a line fem e. Exemp tion from all annoyance. Immersion in all alndncss. Ye shall laugh. Christ says so. Ye shall laugh. Yes, It will be a laugh of triumph. Oh, what a pleasant thing it will be to stand on the wall of heuveti and look down at Hutun and hurl at him defiance, and see him caged and chained and we forever free from his clutolies! Aba. yes, it will be a laugh of royal greeting. You know how the Frenchmen cheered when Napoleon came back from Elba. You know how the English cheered when Wellington came back from Waterloo. Y’ou know how Americans cheered when Kossuth arrived from Hungary. You remember how Rome cheered when l’ompey came back victor over nine hundred citieN. Every cheer was a laugh. But oh, the mightier greet ing, the gladder greeting when the snow- white cavalry troop ot heaven shall go through the streets, and, according to the Book ot Revelation, Christ, in the red coat, in the crimson coat, on a white horse,and all the armies of heaven follow ing on whit* horses I Oh, when wo see and hoar that cavalcade we shall cheer, we shall laugh! Does not your heart beat quieklv this morning at the thought of the great jubi lee up 'ii which we are soon to enter? 1 pray G, and tiiat when we get through with this world, and are going out of It we may have some such vision as the dying Christian had when he saw written all over the clouds ill the sky the letter “W ;” and they asked him, standing by his side, what he thought that letter “W” meant. “Oh,” hesaid, “that stands for welcome.” Aiid so may it t>e when we quit this world. “ VV” on the gate, “W” on thu door of the mansion, “W” on the tbronu. Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! 1 have preached this sermon this morn ing with five prayerful wishes: Tnat you might see what a mean thing is the laugb of skepticism, what a bright thing is the laugh of spiritual exultation, what, a hol low thing is the laugh of sinful merri ment, what an awful thing Is tbe laugb of condemnation, what a radiant, rubicund thing is the laugh of eternal triumph! A void the ill; choose the right. Bo com forted; be comforted. “IHessedare ye that weep now; ye shall laugh.” Ye’ shall laugh.” THE PANAMA CANAL. lie Thinks the Ditch Will Bo Dug But l>o*n’tKlly linuw Much About It. New York, April 18.—Mr. John Bige low’s long expected report oti the I’ana mt Canal is quite voluminous, but the gist of his conclusions is in the following paragraph: g‘Long as my story is t am conscious that l have answered none of the questions about which the members of the chamber are most curious. 1 have not ventured an opinion as to the time when the work will be completed, nor as to its total cost, nor as to the revenue it cun earn, nor even as to the probabilities of the required means being provided for its prosecution. To determine wnen the canal will be fin ished one must know first how much work is yet to be done; second, how much money the company will be able and dis posed to spend annually upon It, and third, how many laborers or their equiva lent In machines it can command. That information has not yet been revealed to man. No one living can even give any tmug more tliuu a guess as to the amount of work to be done. No one knows whether tbe company will decide to build a darn or carry off the wators of the Cha gres some other way. rffo one knows what slope it will tie necessary to give tiie cut at Culebra, nor what obstructions the workmeu rimy have to encounter Iroin subterranean water courses as they descend. All these uncertain ele ments are rendered more uncertain by tbe financial situation of the company. It is about entering the market for anew loan of 600,000,000 francs. The price it will have to pay for this money is uncer tain, and the price of a future loan, if one should become necessary, i* still more uncertain. Mr. Bigelow says that the canal will now be prosecuted to its com pletion, without any very serious inter ruption, islairly to "lie presumed, for too large a proportion of its cost has already been incurred to make retreat as good policy as to advance. Even if abandoned by the company, the contractors them selves would probably find it for their interest to combine and finish it. INCIDENTS OF THE TORNADO. The Had Fate of a Wedding I’urtjr. St. Cloud, Minn., April 18.—There were many sad as well as many curious incidents connected with tbe northwest tornado. One ot tho saddest was the fatal ending of tbe wedding party near Rice’s station. The party was as sembled at the bouse of John Schulz, a tanner, to celebrate tbe, wedding of his daughter Mamie, and the ceremony was performed about 1 o’clook. The afternoon was spent iu social enjoyment, ana at 4 o’clock the parly gathered about the wedding least. It was a happy assem blage ot nearly 40 people. Tho tornado came, and ill five miuutes tbe house was converted Into kindling wood and scat tered all over the farm. Or the party 10 are dead, and many others injured, several of whom will die. Tbe bridegroom was killed outright, but the bride was only injured. Among the dead are the bride’s'mother and tho clergyman who performed the ceremony. Farmers from tue northwest part of the county tell almost incredible stories of finding remnants of buildings on their property twenty miles distant from the city, anil parts ol organs and pianos have been picked up fifteen miles from the city and brought in as curiosities. Tue prairie for miles northwest of the track of the tornado is full of nieces ot plans driven a foot or more Into ttje ground. The sides of innny ot tne buildings are pierced with heavy splinters that weredrlven through the thick walls, in the walls of other buildings ure holes that seem to have been made by cannon halls. Panels have been torn from doors and the buildings otherwise lelt uutoucced. The wails ol many of the buildings bawe a blackened appearance, as tUough they had been tired and badly smoked. A box oar was picked up from tbe track and blowu three blocks and dropped Into a ravine. A child’s blood-stained dress was found yesterday afternoon in Buektnan township 22 miles northwest of Hank Rapids. Greek War Manmuvres. Athens, April 18.—Tho Minister of War bus withdrawn hie resignation and is about to start for tho frontier. It is re ported that thu Athens garrison will go forward immediately. The General commanding the Greek troops on fiearkos, a height which com mands the plain of Larissa, ass sum moned by tbe Turkish Ooneral to-day to withdraw ironi that stronghold. The Greek General flatly refused to withdraw. A Turkish force, consisting of 7,000 men and several batteries, thsreupon ad vanced to tbo foot of the heights. * (FRICFetOAYEAR.M fSUKNThAUUPY. P WORK BEFORE COXORESS. WHAT THE SENATE WILL AC. COMPDISK UNCERTAIN. f Members of t he Home With Pet Scheme* on Manil Becoming Alarmed ms Ad journment Looms Up in tlie Dun Distance and the Calendar Is Piled. Mountain High With Husinrs,. Washington, April 18.—The calendar of the House has grown to such propor tions that tbo more important commit tees are becoming alarmed at the waning chances for action upon their preferred, measures aud are about to make efforts to secure assignments of entire days for their consideration. Several motions will be made to-morrow to suspend the rule* and pass the bill to regulate tbe promo tion of graduates of the M ilitary Academy and the bill to make parcels and light! merchandise mailable as special delivery! matter. lUVKKS and harbors. The river and harbor lull comes up a* the unfinished business Tuesday and will) occupy the attention of the House perJ haps two days, it will be followed by tb diplomatic appropriation bill. The Public Lands Committee may. un der the newly conlerred power, call u[g during the week one or more turteltui* bills. A number of bills changing judicial dis tricts will lie called up by the Judiciary Committee tor action Saturday. It is probable the Home will adopt an order setting aside Tuesday nights instead of Fridays, as at present, for consideration of private pension bills. SEN Al K RIGHT OF WAY. The contest for the “right of way” in the Senate waxes warmer. It is the in tention ol Senators Edmunds and Morgan to ask that the doors be kept closed tno* coming week until the mysteries of tha Foreign Relations Committee shall b disposed of. Senator Cullom purposes to insist upon continuous discussion of the Inter-Stata commerce bill until tiiat measure is voted upon. Senator Blair promises to keep up hia fight for ills general pension bill, his arbi-< trillion bill, and Ids two or three hundredi private pension bills. FITZ JOHN PORTER’S RELIEF. Senator Sewell,lt ho is not appalled by the pressure in favor ol other measures, wilt plead tor consideration ol thu Fitz John Porter hill. Senator Riddleberger threatens to in aka some Grief hut energetic remarks every day upon the absurdity of secret sessions. Senator Van Wyck will no longer suffer the hill to tax railway lands to be put offi without a protest. Senator Hoar, who concedes the prcce deuce of the Inter-State commerce bill, will watch lor a vacant moment to begin a battle in behalf of the bankruptcy bills, and the Appropriations Committee will exercise unusual self-restraint if it does, not bring in one or more of the regular appropriations hills and take the floor in virtue of its dominant, rights under tha* geueral praetion of the Senate. VVkatj will be actually accomplished during thw week no one can tell. UNDKK THK DUMB. Some Old .funk In the National Capitol. Washington, April 18. —There ara more things twixtlite dome and the cel- Ur of the Capitol than are dreamed of by the Capitol guide*. Down under the dome itself is the must interesting spot la the building, its very centre and oore, where George Washington’s body was to lie after death; but George Washington, wouldn’t lit; there, and so we base to go down to Mount Vernon on a steamer in. order to see the place where be does rest. 1 went down into the crypt ol the Capitol the other day preceded by a white-haired, negro, who unlocked the successive doors. It is a circular chamber with square cor ners, and Is almost till' and by a rectangu lar wooden platform, on which, the bodies ol Lincoln, Garfield, Chase and Sumner, and all the other dead statesmen whose remains had lain in state in the Capitol, rested in the rotunda directly underneath the Goddess] of Liberty on the dome. The very simplicity of these whitewashed walla and this plain rough platform is im- pressive. In a chamber near the crypt f saw the original model of the Goddess of Liberty which stands in bronze on the apex of the dome. The model is all in. pieces, but tbu heau is fairly well pre served, although its nose is gone, and you. get a good idea ot lls size. Now come up stairs into the sub-rotunda, commonly mile t tbe crypt, and let us all look at tb attempt at American art which Thomas Jefferson suggested and Mrs. Trollope ad mired. Jelferson, you remember, thought, that tbe builders of tbe Capitol ought nob to copy so closely the architectural deco rations of the effete Last; he suggested to the architect that pillars made to look, like big bundles ol tall corn-stalks would be a good feature. The architect had the Idea laitiiiully—yes.too faithfully—worked out, and here are the pillars to this day.' Each of them looks like a stack In a Cali fornia Held, with all tbe ears ol corn standing right straight upon end in a row, the whole lining bound together with a rope. They are very peculiar, to say tbs least. Uuiler the halls and corridors ol the visible portions of tbe Capitol are the oataooaba —miles upon miles of clean, well-painted passages, through which run tbe beating and ventilating pipes and the electric wires, and where the gas lights are never turned out. There is a little world of life down here, of which the great world above knows nothing. Day and night the great fans go round at dizzy speed sucking In the fresh air, which, passing over hot or cold water pipes seven miles long coiled into a cham ber twenty feet square, is forced intotbe halls and corridors and committee rooms, above in Immense quantities. Tbe beat ing und ventilating apparatus is by no means perfect yet, but it is vastly Im proved over what it was ten years ago. In one ol these corridors la a very lino metal working model of the Tcbaunlepeo ship railway, with real water, a real ship and a great map of the world.• When I Congressmen come down to the hath ! rooms in one corner of the basement they are gently led around to the Kadscorrldoi and glibly shown Just how the thing wilj work. ___ (Jtinraiitino Ordered. ItOMR, April 18.—Tho Sanitary Hoard admits that Asiatic cholera has broken , out at Brindisi and has ordered all ar rivals at other Adriatic ports Irom Brindisi to be quarantined for one week. Austria oaincßs a quarantin*. Viknna, April 18.— Tbe government ba* ordered u week’s quarantine against ar rivals at Austrian Adriatic ports from Br i nd I*l. Gabriel Cliarnics Dead. London, April 18.—Gabriel Charms* ta dead.