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, ESTABLISHED 1850. I
ij H EVITI.L, Editor and Proprietor.)
LABOR'S BIG CONVENTION
NEARLY I VERY 51EMBEB OP I
XUE BODY ON THE GROUND.
ltlhmond- Leading Churches Well At- j
tend'd hy the Visiting Kepresenta
,,Tof Tot'—Grand Master Workman
Powder 'y M>kt> a Clever Little
, r at, a Catholic Society’s Cun-!
Richmond- V A., sent. B.—Delegates to |
toe King tits ot Labor National Assembly j
have beer arriving steadily all day, and
very many strange faces may be seen on
Ihe"street. Among tbe latest arrivals are
tbu delegates from District Assembly No.
4) , of j,- ew York, who came by steamer to
Newport News and thence to Richmond
by rail, and the Milwaukee delegation.
Tbe principal churches were well at
tended by the visitors to-day. Grand
Master Workman Bowderly attended
hiab mass at St. Peter’s Cathedral. He
was accompanied by Messrs. Mullen and
Hayes, of the National Executive Com
mittee.
AT A CONFERENCE.
After tbe services he was invited to a
meeting ol tbe conference ol at. Vincent
de Paul, in the basement, ot tue cathedral,
where be was introduced to the membei s,
who "reefed Dim cordially. He addressed
ihe conference briefly, thanking them for
the kind reception. He alluded to the
work of tbe society, and drew a compari
son of its work and that ot the order over
which be presided, saying that the object
nf belli was. in many respects, similar, in
that each aimed to ameliorate the trou
b t sol their fellow creatures and aid and
iievate mankind.
A BUSY DAY.
Mr. Bowderly has been kept busy tbe
greater portion of the day in receiving
visitors, but to-nicht declined to see auv
one except Grand Secretary Turner and
the members of the Executive Com
mittee. Tbe Can Makers Union,
of Baltimore, numbering sever
al hundred,, arrived this evening
oo a steamer, acting as escort to the Bal
timoredelegation. They marched, pre
ceded by a hand, to Ford’s Hotel, where
they left the delegation, and toe excur
sion returned to the boat and left
for Baltimore. There are already be
tween eight and nine hundred delegates
here, besides a large number of Knights
not present as delegates.
The Executive Committee has not held
a session yet, but will do so to-morrow
morning before tbe National Assembly is
called to order. The meeting will be for
the arrangement of preliminaries.
BULGARIA’S REPLY.
The Ministry still Fall to Satisfy'
the Demands of the Czar.
Sopiiia, Oct. 3.—Gen. Kaulbars having
again asked for .reply to Russia’s ulti
matum the Miaisiry to-day ( Sunday ), af
ter a long discussion, drafted a reply to
the effect that the Bulgarian government
would comply with the demands of Rus
sia to the extent that the constitution
and laws would permit. It is expected
that when tbisrepiv is delivered to-morrow
Gen. Kaulbars will demand a more pre
cise answer. Anew paper, tbe Independ
ent Bulgaria, the first number of which
has iusi appeared, makes a violent attack
nn Russia and Gen. Kaulbars, and op
poses tbe liberation of the imprisoned
snnspirators, saying that the people would
•tone them to death it liberated.
KAULBARS PALK WITH RAGE.
The editor of the Vankoff organ and an
4ther man cheered for Russia. They
were lougnly handled by a crowd. Gen.
Kaulbars, bearing of tue circumstance,
drove up and addressed tne crowd, com
plaining ot their insulting conduct. He
slso warned the people against accepting
the advice ol their present leaders. He
was received at first with enthusiasm,
which soon gave place to repealed inter
ruptions. Gen. Kaulbars became pale
with excitement, and seemed to
jtasp for breath. He drove from
the meeting directly to the residence
if the German Consul. The supposition
is that Gen. Kaulbars intended to pro
voke an insulting demonstration which
would serve as a pretext for Russian in
tervention. The General expresses bis
otentioii to slump the country. It is be
•leYedho bus exceeded his instructions
and that M. Ue Giers only asked that the
conspirators be not executed.
COOI, AT CHARLESTON.
Ibe Past AH Hours Marked by No
Shocks— A Big Excursion.
Charleston, Oct. 3.—There have been
hio shocks here during the past forty
eight hours, and only two or three slight
tremors at Summerville. The weather
was pleasant to-day and cool enough for
light overcoats and fires. Religious ser
vices were held by all the congregations.
?„ retbv teriaus held a union meeting
t Westminster, and other congregations
■' r*mpped wherever practicable in their
eburen buildings.
To-day about 800 excursionists arrived
y the Atlantic < oast Line, uianv own
mg from Richmond, Washington and Bal-
The proceed* ot the excursion
■li'b ao bout-d over to the relief tund by
■ ® Atlantic Coast Line and the cunnect
g loads joining in tbe excursion.
Kentucky Tobacco Nipped.
LbiTHVMLLR, Oof. 3.— Specials report
, all over the Stale. About halt the
® ccncro b is uncut, and so much has
, “ ID .tured that one-hall to three-quar
1™ *'ll make onty frosted lugs. To
-. 5., ln Ibe lowlands is much damaged.
one that on the uplands is little hurt,
ihi, J‘ X(J .'‘ r ieuoen broker and handler
h r ‘dy rugbt’o trost will much tin
j’.j 'h" quality, but not. reduce thequan-
F, ~ crop. Reports Ironi tbe famous
, ,clt section, noted tor its dark, rich
bad. The estimates as to the
urrfPc '' JL ' lofm vary widely, but all
kte. toat, the damage t serious,
Mexico’s Army officers,
won .• i. MOKAB ’ Mux., Oct. B.—Gen.Vola,
a/vti i u ’ " °* Fifth and Twenty
ihfhntry, arrived ut Matnniorae
„ hi, ll ay , a ‘‘d W "1 lake couimaud of the
v, iiim y department of the Rio Bravo to
•be rest of liis troops will
uy arrive he r e, and the Fourth lnfan
waii. r ho,e wi, ‘ *° t® Han Luis I’otosi,
in „„ a i av alry regiment will be formed
‘‘,® c ' <r pe. under Col. Motius Blnojosii,
, A> “ ( avasos and 001. Hernandez
, Wa '*' n S orders. Gen. Gomez, as
kfaWc is resumed over tbe rail
, ' J ’ **•• B'° to the City of Mexico and
monee to Tampico.
Eiiii m Lord Lieutenant.
> u" 1,1 ? 1 <*•—'The Lord Lieutenant
l .. U f lar " “ lld *“* wire went u> ihe Gaiety
® in lhi * city last night. Thev
i riby the peoplo In the lower
V . '"f house, while those In the gal.
lied.’’ “ Dj ■ boute,s ‘biod save lre-
TWO HUNG ON SUSPICION.
White Men of Gadsden County,
Florida, the Victims.
Quincy, Fla., Oct. 3.—The dead bodies
ol F. 1,. Harris and a man named Buck
ling were found early this morning bang
ing from the limb of a tree about five
miles east of town. Harris was a farmer
and owned a grist mHI. Buckling was
his miller. One week ago last night the
new mill of J. T. Howard, a few miles
from Harris’, was burned. The supposi
tion is that these parties were the incen
diaries. The lynchiug is very much re
gretted by all law-abiding citizens and
considerable excitement prevails. A
Coroner’s jury was impaneled and an
inquest held. The verdict is that tbe
parties met their death by being hung by
persons unknown.
FATHER RYAN’S MEMORY.
A Monument to be Erected Over
His Neglected Grave at Mobile.
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 3.—A few
weeks ago a paragraph appeared in the
New York World saying that fhe grave
ol Father Ryan, at Mobile, was covered
with weeds, and adding as a sentiment
that this made no difference as long as
the poet-priest and patriot "‘lived in the
hearts oi his countrymen.” The Dis-
I aioh, of this city, ohjected, saying
that it did make a difference;
that the very fact of the grave’s neg
lect belied the assertion, and announced
its purpose of raising a fund to put an
appropriate monument over tbe grave.
The first appealed to for this purpose was
the editor ot the World, and the Maoon
(Ga.) Telegraph,which copied and indors
ed tbe World’s paragraph. Asa result
the following was received to-day:
Would Editorial Room, i
N bw York, sept. 31,153. j
M, 31. Jlrannen , Daily Dispatch , Montgomery,
Ala.:
Dear Sir—l have great pleasure in inclos
ing you herewith a check for SSO, uiy personal
contribution towards the proposed memorial
to Father Ryan. Very truly yours.
Joseph Pulitzer.
THE GAME OF DR AAV.
An Oil Town AVhere Wages are
Gambled Away.
State Line, Pa., Oct. 3. —This little
oil town, on the line of the Olean, Brad
ford and Warren railroad, and partly in
Pennsylvania and partly in New York, is
the greatest poker playing place in tbe
entire Northern oil field. There is only
one man in the place who does not play
the game, and he is a veteran oil
man known as Bible Joe, whose
only recreation is reading the Bible,
which lie does constantly when not at
work. No one knows what this man’s
name is or where ha came from, although
be has been in the oil regions since the
day sof the Pithole excitement. He holds
prayer meetings every Sunday night and
always has a good audience of oil well
drillers and tbe like, who go to meeting,
as they say, to encourage Bible Joe, but
as soon as the service is over they hasten
to their favorite retreats and play poker.
Hardly an evening passes that there are
not some notable games played at State
Lino between rival New Y'ork and Penn
sylvania players. They come from as far
as Bradford, Olean, Warren, Salamanca,
and even Jamestown.
Since active drilling ceased in the State
Line district a large portion of the men
with families have moved awstv, their
places being filled by young men who
pump the wells and take care of the
leases. With the use of natural gas
and automatic lnpiratorß, with one boiler
running the engines for all the leases or
lots on which producing wells are situ
ated, the men find but little to do. The
man on tbe lease visits tbe wells in the
morning, turns on the gas, touches a
match to it, sets bis inspirator, oils his
engine, takes a gauge of the oil, and
has nothing more to do all day
unless something breaks down. To
make tbe most of their spare time tbe
boys rig up what they call a tell-iale
wire, running from one lease to the
others. This wire is attached to the
walking beam of the well at one lease and
to a wooden ticker at tbe other, and by
this means the pumper at No. 1 is enabled
to spend bis time with his friend at No.
2. or vice versa, and know all the time
just how fast bis engine is going a half
mile or so away. As long as tbe ticker
responds regularly the two pumpers and
other acquaintances sit and handle the
pasteboards and risk their month’s wages
on their skill or luck. If the players be
long to the same State the rules ot the
game are not drawn too fine, and a win
ner will be willing tatake “wind” on a
bet. But if one player is a “York Stater”
and the other a Pennsylvanian, tbe
money must accompany each bet and
everything be settled as the game pro
ceeds. Within a radius of two miles of
this poker-playing settlement there are
ten games in constant progress. Orders
on employers for wanes are accepted as
cash In these games, and it is no uncom
mon tning for a player to have his entire
salary “ordered out” before the mouth
has fairly begun.
Spain’s Revolutionists.
Madrid, Oct. 3.—At a bull fight per
formance this afternoon a portion of the
audience displayed banuers Inscribed
“Long Live Altonso XIIL,” "Pardon for
the Prisoners,” “Long Live the
Queen,” etc. The whole audi
ence applauded the demonstration. Mr.
Paltnerton and other deputies of the Re
publican minority waited upon Premier
Sagasta to-day praying for clemency to
the rebels. Premier Bagasta replied that
everything possible would be done com
patible with duly and tbe laws of tbe
country.
Capture of ft Fugitive.
Palate a, Fi.a.. Oet. 3.—Last night
Sheriff Zehnbar and Deputy Sheriff' Perry
succeeded in arresting Wiggins, the mur
derer who escaped from jail two weeks
ago. He was hid in the swamp about
six miles from I’alatka. By accident
they discovered his hiding place and went
after him. and were successful iti cap
turing him.
Heavy rains fell here last night and to
day.
The Cotton Tax.
Vicksburg, Oct. 3.—The President of
tbn National Cotton Planters’Association
has addressed a circular letter to the Gov.
ernors of tbe cotton States asKing their
co-operation in efforts to secure the return
of sixty "dd million dollars collected Il
legally directly alter tbe war, and known
as the “cotton tax.”
Southwestern Passenger Business.
Chicago, Oct. 3.—The proposed plan of
forming a gross money pool on Southwest
ern passenger business, which has ab
sorbed the attention of tbe magnates of
the Southwestern roads the past week,
has fallen through, and now the success
ful organization of tbe pool is practically
as far awav as over.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1881).
TONS OF PRECIOUS STONES.
An Attempt to Room the Antiqated
Beryl.
New York, Oct. 3.—Tho jewelry trade
has recently been excited over announce
ments of the discovery ol an alleged new
gem called beryl. This stone was de
scribed as one of great brilliancy and
beauty, and also of exceeding hardness.
It bid lair, according to announcements,
to oust from popular favor all such minor
gems as topaz, garnets, sapphires, rubies,
amethysts, or emeralds. Only the dia
mond could hope to vie wdth this new as
pirant for honors with any sort of a
chance tor success. Tho jewelers of this
city learned that the new stones had been
touud in a mine near New Miltord, Conn.,
and that they came in small quantities
and were exceedingly rare as well as
radiant. It was made known that the
owners of the mtDe were organizing a
large boom for the beryls, anil that those
who wanted to “get in on the ground
floor” would do well to rise early in tbe
morning. Then came a whisper that jew
elers iiaving seen the new stones were not
astonished by them so much hs had been
expected. A reporter yesterday visited
a well known jeweler, E. A. Thrall, No. 3
Maiden lane, who laughed at the attempt
to boom beryls. “Why,” he said, “1
nad these stones iu my store a
year and a bait ago. They get
them out of a mica mine up" there
In Connecticut. They cannot be called
precious stones, because they are taking
them out by the ton. A stou'e, iu order to
be ‘precious,’ must be found in small
quantities aud be obtained with some diffi
culty. Now, they get these stones out by
the barrel, aud have a great quantity of
them in sight. Moreover, they are not as
hard as has been claimed, and a precious
stode must be hard. 1 understand that the
owners of the miue are going to boom the
stones by advertising them largely, but, I
don’t think any one in tbe jewelry trade
will pay muou attention to tnat.”
THE CAMERON SCANII.VL.
Lonsdale anil Deßenauude in a lll
diculons Attitude.
New York, Oct. 2.—An utterly unjus
tiduble importance has been given by the
daily press to the marital scandal of the
recently arrived English actress. Miss
A’lolet Cameron, simply because she is
followed by Lord Lonsdale, who claims to
be her dramatic manager. Long before
this reaches you tbe telegraph will have
informed you that Mr. Stokes, of tbe Holt
man House, bus virtually put her and her
manager out of that house.
Considering Mr. Stokes’ historio asso
ciation with Mr. Fisk and his hotel epi
sode, this action has created a general
ripple of comment and surprise.
The public attitude of Lord Lonsdale
and Mr. De Bensaude, the actress’ hus
band, is ridiculous, to say the least.
Lonsdale’s relationship to Miss Cameron,
so lar as the public is concerned, is based
upon the court records of London, in
which city be appeared as the protector
of the lady agaiust her own husband, and
ou one occasion put the husband out of
the house. Asa business manager bis
aotion excited interest, aud business
managers everywhere began to inquire if
they had not overlooked some of their
natural rights. An English Justice, how
ever, decided that a husband had a right
of access to his wife that no peer oi the
realm could bar.
Instead of settling bis private affairs
with Lonsdale, this husband has ever
6lnce hung upon the skirts oi tbe wife
with one hand and Lord Lonsdale’s coat
tails with the other.
When the Aurania arrived with tbe
manager and star, lo! and behold, there
was the husband on another vessel. Not
withstanding the fact that Lonsdale’s in
tention to aocompany Violet Cameron to
America had been published in every
Loudon paper and the date fixed for sail
ing, the moment this husband got upon
the dook he expressed the utmost sur
prise to hear that the Lord had come over
with his wife. He wouldn’t believe it,
dear no! He must look into it. Then he
blustered a little about Lonsdale and
threatened a good deal of swift punish
ment. And the reporters, with a catas
trophe in their minds’ eyes, began to
bristle up anddog all hands. Imagine iheir
surprise when they caught Lonsdale and
Deßensaude drinking together at Del
monioo’s in the most confidential manner.
The only result of the reportoriai work
was to frighten Mr. Stokes, of the Hoffman
Bouse, who doesn't propose to have any
killing done on his new carpets, and so
he ordered the pair out of tbe house. The
clamor of the papers over this matter is
astonishing.
Miss Cameron is not a pretty woman.
She is loudly English, with yellow hair
and slightly fade. She is nut seriously
annoyed at the public rumpus, having, 1
suppose, a thrifty prolessional mind. She
makes her appearance next Monday at
the Casino in a musical comedy called
“The Commodore.” He' preparatory
rumpus does not speak well for the pat
ronage of the better class of New York
theatre-goers.
Miss Genevieve Ward made her rentree
here on Monday nlgbt in an adapted
version of Scribe’s “Verre d’eau” called
“The Queen’s Favorite.” The perform
ance was a complete nrtistic suooess and
baa received only encomiums. This is
owing not alone to Miss Ward’s efforts,
but. to the freshness and cleverness of the
actors who appear with her. Mr. W H.
Vernon, a newcomer, made an instanthit.
He is a refined and rather fascinating per
sonage and a polished actor.
A great deal of comment has been oc
casioned among newspaper men by the
care the Herald took to avoid any men
tion of tbe ovletlon-of Lord Lonsdale from
the Hoffman II use. The general belief
appears to be that the editor of the Herald
is one of the lord’* Iriends.
N ym Crinkle.
Miners Killed ly t he Dozen.
London. Oct. 3.—A terrible explosion
occurred Saturday at Altof’s colliery,
near Wakefield, Yorkshire. Seven men
have been found dead, eight have been
rescued, and seventeen are missing. In
all probability the missing seventeen lost
their lives.
Base Ball.
Washington. Oct. 3.—The following
games were played to-day!
A' Cincinnati— Athletic*7, Cincinnati 6.
At Louisville— Louisville S, Baltimore 5;
game call' dat end of seventh inning on ac
count of a ant ness. _ ..
At-it. Louis—S'. Louis fl, MctropoKans 4,
A Clerical Society Dissolved.
Naples.Oct. 3.—The police have dis
solved the Clerical society entitled Loo
XIIL, on the around that it promoted tbe
recent disorders.
Tin l*late Work* Closing.
London. Oct. 3.—The tin plate works
in South Wales are Imlng closed, throw,
ingout of employment 4,000 workmen.
Louisiana's second District.
New Orleans. Oct. 3.—The Democrats
of the Becond district have nominated M.
D. Logan for Congress.
CRYING SINS OF THE DAY
REV. I>R. T ALII AGE DWELLS ON
MODERN WICKEDNESS.
I’ronenrsa of American* to Profanttf
The Curse of Drunkenness—The Sorial
Kvil's Insidious Kntrsnoe Into the
Homes of the Country “Let CSod
Arise, Let Hts Kneiutes be Scattered
Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. B. —The opening
hymn at the Tabernacle this morning be
gins:
“Arm of the Lord, awake! awane!
Put on thy strength, the nations shake."
Having expounded the account of Paul’s
conversion as given in the twenty-second
chapter of Aots, the Rev. T. Do Witt Tal
mage, D. D., took for his text the first
verse of the sixty-eighth Psalm: “Let
God arise, let His enemies be scattered,”
from which he preached the following
sermon:
A procession was formed to carry tbe
Ark, or sacred box, which, though only 3
feet 8 inches in length and 4 feet 3 inches
in height and depth, was the symbol of
God’s presence. As tho leaders of the
procession lifted this ornamented and
brilliant box by two golden poles run
through four golden rings, and started lor
Mount Zion, all the peoplo chanted the
battle hymn of my text: “Let God arise,
let His enemies be scattered.”
The Oamorouians of Scotland, outraged
bv Jam-s 1., who forcod upou morn relig
ious forms that were offensive, and by the
terrible persecution of Drummond, Dal
zitl and Turner, and by the oppressive
laws of Charles 1. and Charles 11., were
driven to proclaim war against tyrants,
anff went forth to fight for religious lib
erty, and the mountain heather became
red with carnage, and at Bothwell Bridge
and Aird's Moss and Drnmolog the battle
hymn and the battle shout of those glori
ous old Scotchmen was the text 1 have
chosen—“ Let God arise, let His enemies
be scattered.”
What a whirlwind of power was Oliver
Cromwell, and how with his soldier’s
name, “the Ironsides,” newent from vic
tory to vlotory 1 Opposing armies melted
as he looked at them. He dismissed Par
liament as easily as a schoolmaster a
sohool. Ha pointed his finger at Berkeley
Castle, aud it was taken. He ordered Lord
Hopton, the General, to dismount, and he
dismounted. See Cromwell marching on
with his army, and hear the battle cry of
“the Ironsides,” loud ns a storm and sol
emn as a death knell, standards reel
ing before it, and cavalry Uorses going
back on their haunches, aiul armies fly
ing, at Marston Moor, at Wineepy Field,
at Nasoby, at Bridgewater and Dartmouth
—“Let God arise, let his enemies be scat
tered.”
So you see iny text is not like a com
plimentary and tasselt and sword that you
sometimes see hung up in a parlor—a
sword that wes never in battle and only
to be used on general training day—but
more like some weapon carefully burnt
up in your borne, telling its story of
Cbapultepec, Cerro Gordo aud Cheru
busco, and Thatcher’s Run, and Malvern
Hill; for my text hangs in the Scripture
armory telling of tbe holy wars of 3,000
years in which it has been carried, but as
keon and mighty as when David first uu
sheatbed it. It seems to me what in the
Church of God, and in all styles of re
formatory work we most need now
is a battle cry. We raise our little
standard and put on it the name of some
man who only a few vears ago began to
live, and in a lew years will cease to live.
We go into contest against the armies of
iniquity depending too much on human
agencies. We use for a battle cry the
name of some brave Christian reformer,
but after a while that reformer dies, or
gets old, or loses his oourage, aud then
we take another battle cry, and this time
perhaps w e put the name of some ono who
plays Arnold and sells out to the enemy.
Wbat we want for a bat tleory is tbe name
of some leader who will never betray us.
and will never surrender, and will never
die.
All respect have I for brave men and
women, but if we are going to get the
victory ail along the line we must put
God first. We must take the bint of the
Gldeonites, who wiped out the Bedouin
Arabs, commonly called Midianltes.
These Gldeonites had a glorious leader in
Gideon, hut waat was the battle cry with
which they flung their enemies into the
worst defeat into which any army was
ever tumbled? It was “the sword of tbe
Lord and of Gideon.” Put God first, who
ever you put eacond. If tho army of tho
American revolution are to free America,
it must be “tbe sword of tho Lord and of
Washington.” If the Germaus want to
win tho day at Sedan, it must be
•‘the sword of the Lord and Von
Moltke.” Waterloo was won for the
English, because not only tbe armed men
at tue front but the worshipers in the ca
thedrals at tbe rear, were crying: “The
sword of tbe Lord and Wellington.” The
Methodists have gone in triumph across
nation after nation with the cry: “The
sword of the Lord and of Wesley.” The
Presbyterians have gone from victory to
victory with the cry: “The sword of the
Lord and of John Knox.” Tbe Baptists
have conquered million* after millions for
Christ wiiti the cry: “The sword of tho
Lord and of Judson.” l’he American
Episcopalians have won their mighty way
with the cry: “The sword of the Lord
and of Bishop Mcllvaioe.” The victory
Is to those who put God first. But hs we
want a battle cry suited to all sects of re
ligionists, and to all lands, I nominate as
the battle cry of Christendom in the ap
nroachlng Armageddon tho words of my
text, sounded before fhe arg as it was car
ried to Mount, Zion: “Let God arise, let
His enemies be scattered.”
As far as our finite mind can judge, it
seems about tune for God t# rise. Does
it not seem to you that the abominations
of this earth have gone far enough ? Was
there ever a time when sin was so defiant?
Were there ever before so many fists
lilted toward God, telling Him to come on
if He dare? Look at tho blasphemy
abroad! W bat towering profanity! Would
it be possible for any one to caloulate tbe
numbers of times that the name of Al
mighty God, and of J* sos Christ, are
every day taken Irreverently on tbe
lips. Bo common has blasphemy become
ihat tbe public mind, and public ear,
have got used to it, and a blasphemer
goes up and down tDis country in his lec
tures defying the plain law against blus
phemy, and msre is not a mayor ln Ameri
ca that has backbone enough to interfere
with him save one, and that the Mavor
ot Toronto. Profane swearing is as much
forbidden by the law as theit, or arson, or
murder; yet who executes it? Profanity
is worse tuan tbelt, or arson, or murder,
for these crimes ar attacks on humani
ty—that is an attack on God.
This country is pre-eminent fer blasphe
my. A man traveling in Russlawaasup
posed to be a clergy man. “Why do you
I luke me to be a clergyman?” said the
man. "Uh,” said the Russian, “ail other
Americans swear.” The crime is multi
plying iu lutcnaicy. God very often shows
what Ue thinks of it, but for the most
part the fatality is hushed up. A lew
summers ago among the Adirondack* I
| met tbs f uncial procession of a man wno,
I two days before, bad fallen under a flash
of lightning while boasting, alter a Sun
day of work In the fields, that he had
cheated God out of one dav. anyhow; and
the man who worked with him on the
same Sabbath is still living, but a help
less invalid under the shiuo flash. On the
road from Margate to Ramsgate, England,
you may find a rough iuonumeut with the
inscription: “A boy was struck dead here
while ln the act of swearing.” Years ago
in a Pittsburg orison two men were talk
ing about the Bible and Christianity, and
one of them, Thompson, by name,
applied to Jesus Christ a
very low and villainous epithet, and its
he was uttering It be fell. A physician
was called, but noholpcould be given.
Alter a dav, lying with distended pupils
and palsied tongue, be passed out of this
world. In a oemetery In Sullivan county,
tu this State, are eight headstones in a
line, and ail alike, and these are the facts:
In 1861 diphtheria raged in the village,
and a physician was remarkably success
ful iu curing his patients. So confident
did he become that he boasted that no
case of diphtheria oould stand before him,
and finally defied Almichty God to pro
duce a case of diphtheria that he oould
notcure. His youngest child soon after
took the disease and died, and one child
after another, until al! the eight had died
of diphtheria. The blasphemer challenged
Almighty God, and God accepted the chal
lenge.
But 1 come later down and give you a
faot that is proved bv scores of wituesys.
This lust August of 1886 a man got pro
voked at the continued drought and the
ruin of bis crops, and in the presence ot
bis neighbors he oursed God, saying that
he would cut His heart out il Ho would
come, calling Him a liar and a coward,
aud flashing a knife. And while he was
speaking his lower jaw dropped, smoke
issued trom mouth and nostrils, and the
heat of his body was so intense It drove
baok those who would oorne near. Scores
of peoplo have visited the scene aud must
the blasphemer in awful process of ex
piring.
Do not think that because God nas been
silent in your css#, O profane swearer,
that be is dead, is there nothing now In
the peculiar leeling ot your tongue, or
uothing iu the numbness of your bruin
that indicates that God may come to
avenge your blasphemies or is already
avenging them? But these oases I have
noticed, I believe, are only a lew cuses
where there are hundreds. Families
keep them still to avoid the horrible eon
spicuiiy. l'hyslcians suppress them
through professional confidence. It is a
very, very, very long roll that contains
the names of those who died with blas
phemies on their lips: and still tbe crime
rolls on, up through parlors, up through
chandeliers with" lights all ablaze, and
through the pictured corridors of club
rooms, eto., out tnroughjbusy exchanges,
where oath meets oath, and down through
all tbe haunts of sin, mingling witn the
rattling dice and cracking billiard bulls,
and tbe laughter of her who hath forgot
ten tbe covenant of her God; and round
the city, and round the continent, and
round the earth a seething, boiling surge,
flings its hot spray into the lace of a long
suffering God. And the ship captain
damns his crew, and tbe merchant damn#
his clerks, and the master builder damns
his men, and the back driver damns bis
horse, and the traveler damns the stone
that bruises bis toot, or the mud that soils
his shoes, or tbe detective time-piece that
gets him too late to the rail train, i ar
raign profane swearing and blasphemy,
two names lor the same thing, as being
one of the gigantic crimes of this laud,
and for us extirpation it does seem as if
it were about time for God to arise.
Then look a moment at tbe evil of
drunkenness. Whether you live in Brook
lyn, or New York, or Cnioago, or Cincin
nati, or Savannah, or Boston, or
in any of the cities of this land,
count up the saloons on that street
as compared with the saloons five
years ago, and see they are growing far
out of proportion to the increase of the
population. You people, wno are so pre
cise aud particular lest there should bo
some imprudence or rashness in nttuok
ing the rum traffic, will have your son
some night pitched into your front door
dead drunk, or your daughter will come
home with her children because her hus
band has by strong drfnk been turned Into
a demoniac. The rum fiend has despoiled
whole streets of good homes in all our
cities. Fathers, brothers, sons, on the
funeral pyre of strong drink! Fasten
tighter the victims! Stir up the flames!
Bile on the corpses! More men, women
and children for the sacrifice! Let us
have whole generations on fire of evil
habit; and at tbe sound of the cornet,
flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery and dulci
mer let all tbe people fall down and wor
ship King Alcohol, or you shall be cast
into the fiery furnace under some political
platform.
1 indict this evil as the fratricide, the
patricide, the matricide, the uxoricide,
the regicide of tbe century. Yet under
what innocent and delusive and mirthful
names alcoholism deceives the people!
It is a “cordial.” It is “bitters.” It Is
an “eye-opener.” It Is an “appetiser.” it
is a “digester.” It is an “invlgorator.”
It is a “settler.” It is a “night oap.”
Why don’t they put on the right, labels—
“ Essence of Perdition,” “Conscience Stu-
P'.flor,” “Five Drachms of Heartache,”
••Tears of Orphanage,” “Blood of Souls,”
“Scabs of Eternal Leprosy.” “Venom of
the Worm That Never Dies!" Only once
In a while is there anything ln the title
ol liquors to even hint tbelr atrocity, as
in the case of sour mash. Thai I see ad
vertised all over. It is an honest
name, and anv one can understand it.
Sour mash! That is, it makes a man’s
disposition sour, and bis associations
sour, and his prospects sour; and then it
is good to mash bis body, and mash his
soul, and mash bis business, and mash
his family. Sour mash! One honest
name ut last lor an intoxicant. But
through lying labels of many of tbe
apothecaries’ shoos good people who are
only a little undertone in health, and
wanting of some invlgoratton, have un
wittitigiv got on their tongue the fangs
of this cobra that stings to death so large
a ratio of the human race.
Otners are ruined by the common and
all-destructive habit of treating cus
tomers. And It isa treat on their coming
to town, and a treat walls the bargaining
progresses, and a treat when the purchase
is made, and a treat us be leaves town.
Others, to drown their troubles, submerge
themselves witn this worse trouble. Oh,
the world Is battered nod bruised aud
blasted with this growing evill It is
more and more entranced and fortified.
They have millions of dollars subscribed
to marshal and advance the alcoholic
forces. They nominate aud elect and
govern the vast majority of tbe office
holders of this country. On their
side they have enlisted the
mightiest political power of the
centuries. And behind them stand all
tbs myrmidons of the nether world,
Bntanio and Apollynio, and diabolic. It
is beyond all human effort to throw tbi#
bastile of decanters or capture this
Gibraltar of rum jugs. And while I ap
prove of ail human agencies of relorm 1
would utterly despair If we had uothing
else. But wbat cheers me is that our
; host troofis are yet to come. Our ohlei
I artillery Is in reserve. Our greatest com
mander lias not yot fully taken the field,
if all hell is on their side, all heaven Is on
our side. Now, “let God arise, aud let
His enemies be scattered.”
Then look at the Impurities of these great
cities. Ever and anon there are in the
newspapers explosions ot social life that
make !he story of Sodom quite repents
b!e; lor such things, Christ says, wars
more tolerable for Bodom and Gomorrah
than for the Cborazins and Belhsaldas of
greater light. It is no unusual thing in
our cities to see men in high position
with two or three families, or refined
ladles willing solemnly to marry
tho very swine of society If they be
wealthy. Brooklyn, whose streets fifteen
years ago were almost free from all slgu
of the social evil now night by night ri
valling upper Broadway in its flamboyant
wickedness. Tho Bible all aflame with
denunciation agaiust an impure life, but
manvof the American ministry uttering
not one point-blank word against this
iniquity lest some old libertine throw up
his oliuroh pew. Machinery organized in
all the cities of the United States and
Canada by which lo put yearly ln the
grinding mill of this Iniquity thousands of
the unsuspecting of the "country farm
houses, one procuress confessing last
week in the courts that she bad supplied
the infernal market with orehundred and
fifty souis in six months. Ob for five hun
dred Ball Mall Gazettes in America to
swing open the doorof this lazar house of
social corruption! Exposure must come
before extirpation.
While tho city van carries tho scum of
this sin lrom the prison to the police
court morning by morning, it is full time,
If we do not want high American life to
become like that of the court of Louis
XV., to put Millionaire Lotharios and the
Bompadours of your brown stono palaces
into a van of popular indignation, and
drive them out of respectable associa
tions. W hat prospect of social purifica
tion can there be as long as at summer
watering places it is usual tosee a young
woman of excellent rearing stand, ami
simper, and giggle, and roll up nor eyes
sidewavs before one of those first class
satyrs of fashionable litc, and on the ball
room floor join him in the square dance,
the maternal chaperon meanwuile beam
ing from tbe wall on the scene? Matches
are made In heaven, they say. Not such
matches, for tho brimstone indicates the
opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing all our cit
ies. By some these immoralities are
called peccadilloes, gallantries, eccen
tricities, and are relegated to tbe realms
of jocularity, and few efforts are being
made against it. God bless the “While
Cross” movement, as it is called; the ex
cellent and talented Miss Frances Wil
lard, its ablest advocate on this side the
sea—-an organization making a mighty
assault on this evil! God forward tbe
tracts on this subject, distributed by the
religious tract societies of tho land! God
help parents in the great work they are
doing In trying to Btart their children
with pure principles! God help all leg
islators in their attempt to inhibit this
crime!
But, is this all? Then It is only a
question of time when the last vestige of
purity and borne will vanish out ot sight.
Human arms, human pens, human
voices, human talent* are not sufficient.
1 begin to look up. 1 listen for artillery
rumbling down the sapphire boulevards
of heuven. I watoh to see if in the morn
ing light there be not tho flash of descend
ing Bclmeters. Oh, for God! Does it not
seem time for His appearance? Is it not
lime for all lands to cry out: “Let God
arise and let His enemies be scattered!”
I got a letter a few days ago asking me
it I did not think that tbe earthquake in
Charleston was tho Diviue chastisement
on that city for Its sins. That letter I
answer now by saying that if all our
American oitibs got all the punishment
they deserve for their horrible impurities,
the earth would long ago have cracked
open into crevioes transcontinental and
taken down all our cities; and Brooklyn
and New York would have gone so far
under that the tip of our church spires
would bo live hundred feet below the sur
face. It is ol the Lord’s meroies that we
have not been consumed.
Not only aro tbe affairs of this w'orld
so a-twist, a-jangie and racked, that t here
seerus a need of the Divine appearance,
but there is another reason, (l ive you
not noticed that In the history of this
planet God turns a leaf about every 2,000
years. God turned a leaf and this world
Was fitted for human residence. About
2.000 more years passed along and
God turned another leaf, and it
was the deluge. About 2,000 more
years passed on, and it was the
uppearaucc of Christ, Almost 2,000 more
years have passed by. and he will prob
ably soon turn another leaf. What it
shall be 1 cannot say. it may be the de
molition of ail these monstrosities of tur
pitude and tbeostablishmentof righteous
ness in all the earth. He can do it, and
He will do it. lam as confident us if it
were ulready accomplished. How easily
He can do it my text suggests. It doe*
not ask God to strike with his right hand,
or stamp with bis foot, or hurl a thunder
bolt of His power, but just to get tip from
the throne on which he sits. Only that
will be necessary: “Let God arise!”
It will be no exertion or omnipotence.
It will ba no bending or bracing for a
mighty lift. It will be no sending down
the say of tbe white horse cavalry of
heaven or rumhliug war charioto. He
will only rise. Now He is sitting in the
majesty aud patience ol fils reign. He is
from His throne watching the mustering
of all the Torces of blasphemy, and drunk
enness, and impurity, anil Iraud, and
Bahbath breaking, and when they have
done their worat, and are most securely
organized, He will bestir Himself and
say: “My enemies have defied me long
enough, and tbeir cup of iniquity is full.
1 have given them all opportunity for re
pentance. Tnis dispensation ol patience
is ended, and tbe faith of the good shall be
tried no longer.”
And now God begins to rise, and what
mountains give way under his right loot,
aud what continents sink under bis led.
foot, I know not; but standing in the lull
height, and radiance, and grandeur of His
nature, He looks this way. and that, and
uow liis enemies are scattered 1 Blas
phemers, wnite and dumb, reel down to
their doom; and those who have trafficked
in that widen destroy* the bodies aud
souls of men and families will fly with
cut foot on the down grads of broken de
cantrrs; aud toepolluteie of society, that
did their bad work with large fortunes
and bigu social sphere, will overtake
in tbelr desceul the degraded rabole of
underground city life as they tumble
over the eternal precipices; and the world
snail be left clear and cieau fur the friends
ol humanity aud tho worshipers of Al
mighty God. The last thorn plucked off,
tbe world will be left s blooming rose on
the bosom of UiatCbrist who came to gar
denia# it. This earth that stood snarling
with its tigerish passion, thrusting out
its raging (flaws, shall lie down a iamb at
tbe leei of the Latub of God, who took
away tbe sins of the Rforld.
Aud now the beat thing I can wish for
you, sod tbe best thing 1 can wish for my.
self, is that we may be found ills warm
and undisguised and enthusiastic friends
in that hour when God shall rise aud His
enemies shall be soattered.
tPKICE SIO A TEAR.)
I 5 CENTS A COPT. 1
BLUECOATED BRUTALITY.
ONE OF THE FINEST KILLS A!)
INOFFENSIVE GROCER.
Tim Old Mn Ae*ln Anultd Aftk
Heine Tut in a Phymclt*n Care and
Then Dr isgrd to a Police Station-**
The Outrage the Outgrowth of R#j'|
Attempt to Steal Fruit.
New York, Oot. B.—Max Aronson, fit
years old, a Hester street grocer, was
brutally clubbed by Policeman Wood, of
this city, in bis store on Wednesday last
and died to-day. A Coroner wa(|
summoned to take his ante-mortem state,
moot, but fouttd tbe old man unconscious
and dying. According to the statement
of his son and the physician the clubbing
was one of the worst cases of police bru>
tality reported tor years. They say a boy
tried to steal some fruit, but was ordered
away ny tbe old grocer. Tbe boy’s mother
interfered and created a row.
THE BRUTAL BATON.
Policeman Woods took the woman's
part and accused Aronson of striking her,
billowing Ins words by dubbing him.
His skull was fractured. Two sons in.
terferad, and driving the officer away
called a physician. While the physician
was caring for the old man, Policeman)
Woods returned with another of.
tioer and brutally clubbed the
old man again. The two were driven out
but returned and took the old man away
from the physician and locked him up
with his whole family for forty-live hours.
The old man was not allowed medical at.
tendance. Alter their release on ball
Max Aronson began to sink and died to.,
day.
NKW YORK’S EI.ECTIOV.
Hornet liinjg About the
Oamliilute for Mayor.
New York, Oct. 2.—The local election
in New York this fail will be the mos|
momentous political event in the history
of the city. For the first time the work*,
ingmen have set themselves squarely i*
opposition to the old political parties that
have always been profuse in their pror*i<
hus of assistance, but conspicuous in tbei|
failure to fulfill those obligations. Henry
George, who is tbe standard bearer of tbs
workingmen in this canvass, and who it
their candidate for Mayor, is not a protest
sional politician, nor a mere theorist, a*
lie ban been often called, bat Is eatltled
to be regarded as one ot tbeii
number. Personally he is below
medium height. bald beaded, red<
bearded, clear eyed, quick and alerl
in manuer, anil he is (load in earnest. 1
never mol a man who impressed me mori
deeply with his sincerity and truthfulness
than Henry George. With a man like
this for a leader,a man wholseonductins
his canvass open l v and without whispered
conferences with ward heelers, saloon
keepers and political bummers, a man
who has been a wage earner for nuaeb
his life and knows the needs nr the laborer?
the campaign opened bv the workingmen
will be vigorous. Within the present
month we may look to seethe fahormove,
incut fostered hv the Itopublionns la tbs
bopeot widening the breach that Ift is al
leady making in tile Democratic party*
and incident to this method of campaign
ing the HcDUbllcans may suffer a slight
loss themselves.
Mr. George, when seen at his political
headquarters the other day, expressed his
satisfaction with the “run”’ that wag
about beginning. He considers him sell
advantageously sltuatufl In being a
stranger to politicians, for, if elected
Mayor, be is determined on ridding tha
city departments as far as possible ol tbe
corruptionists who hold places there,
the idlers who are paid large salaries fori
holding down easy chairs, of the Incom
petent and weak, who have been put tit
positions ol trust through “political in.
flooenoe.” “New York is reputed to bo
badly governed,” said he, “and wy first
duty would be to ascertain how and in.
wnat departments bail government ex.
ists. If 1 found that than*
were going on In the Dock
Department, lor instance, or black,
mail in tbe Police Department, or that in*
Justice was being done by the Assessors,
you may be sure that 1 would do my best
toielicve tbe present incumbents of tbeii
trust and nut In honest men. To that end
1 must have liberty of action, and tbe city
must secure thorough sell-government,
l cun hardly expect to nut my land then
rles into practice in tbe city of New York
just yet,” be added with a smile, “but
there me abuses that ory largely for re
form. The tenement system should be
abolished, or mitigated; court procedure*
should be simplified; the work of tbe san.
itary officials should be more thorough
and impartial, and there are many thing*
looking to the health, oommrt and eujoys
ineut of the people than will receive at
tention.”
ilenrv George Is utterly tearless, and
he means what he says. Though bo Is de
vo'.d of political ambition in the ordinary
sense of the term—his desire to effect re
forms taking precedence over bis desire
to work them out hiotself—tbe Mayoralty
of New York is not likely to be his stop
ping place.
Henry Ward Beecher’s holiday, if such
it can be called, since it Involves constant
lecturing and preselling, will last for,
nearly a month longer, but he may be
able to occupy his pulpit on tbe last Sun
day of the month. Much Indignation has
been aroused among bis parishioners and
friends by the reports from various quar
ters on “tbe other side” of tbe failure of
his lectures and public indifference to his
preaching. He enjoys tbe enmity of some
Hiltons, tiut he has gained the esteem and
friendship of thousands of others. A gen
tlemun who returned to New York a'few
days ago reports that at every Becobei
meeting he attended in Hngiaud the ball
was crowded to the doors, and that tbd
attention and enthusiasm were spontane
ous.
Dr. B. S, Storrs, who resumed his pulpit
in Brooklyn on a recent Sunday, and who
is a man ot twice the learning and half
the popularity of the pastor of Plymouth,
still leads tue conservative element lr. tbe
Congregational church, ns Beeober leads
the liberal. It is doubtful if the breach
hetweon these eminent divines will be
narrowed before tbe death of either—an
event that may be looked for in the near
future, though Mr. Beecher rosenis with
spirit the appellation of “venerable.”
There was a touch of humor and a touch
of pathos iu the pulpit announcement by
Mr. Ileecber ol a missionary meeting in
his rival’s church just beiore his depart,
urn for Bnglaud. “I hope you’ll all con
sider yourselves at liberty to go,” be said,
duly. “I should like to be allowed to go
myself.” C. M. Skinner.
M, KATKorr, editor of the most moortanc
of tbe Russian new-pupers. Is classed by (he
fall Mall Gazette ns “one of the two rnie sof
Kus'ss.” The c<iar U ttn)t. ot course, out M.
Ka koff (whose name sennits fuuuy only to
weak-minded Americans and the British) is
ihe very brain of the Great Bear. The > sir
but 1 itely honored M. Katkoff with deaera
tion. and then pointed to him with the Unger
ol sffrciiun as the expounder of the Slavonic
policy.