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( EeT.VIH.ISHE!> 1850. I
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BULLETS FROM BURGLARS
ONE POLICEMAN KILLED AND
ANOTHER WOUNDED.
Threats of Lynch Law at Alexandria,
Va-Mr. Justice Woods’ Funeral—
Where the Ceremonies Will Take
Place—The Bell Telephone Decision—
When it Will be Read.
Washington, May 15.—Policeman Ju
lian Arnold, of Alexandria, Va., was shot
dead, and Earnest I. Padgett, a companion,
was wounded in Alexandria shortly before
1 o’clock this morning, while attempting to
arrest two men whom they overheard plan
ing a robbery. The tragedy occurred near
the railroad depot in a recently vacated
circus ring. Near the circus lot was a
saloon kept by Sofer Blouse, who was re
ported to have large sums of money about
him, being afraid to entrust it to the banks.
It was known, moreover, that
Blouse has taken in considerable money dur
ing the circus. Between 10 and 12 o’clock
Policemen Arnold and Martin, observing
two men lurking in the neighborhood and
whispering suspiciously, crept up near
enough to overhear them plan the robbery
of Blouse’s saloon at 2 o’clock. While dis
cussing what it was best to do, the officers
were joined by another policeman and Pad
gett, who had been the unsuccessful candi
date for Police Superintendent at the last
election. It was agreed that two of the
officers should notify Blouse of the intended
robbery, while Arnold and Padgett should
come fi;om the direction opposite Blouse’s
saloon and thus the four should intercept
the burglars. In following out this plan
Arnold and Padgett discovered two men
lying flat on their backs in the ring.
SHOT TO DEATH.
They called to the suspected burglars to
surrender and rushed forward to capture
them. As they did so the two men drew
revolvers, and one of them shot Arnold in
the breast and escaped. Padgett knocked
the other man down with a stick, when a
life and death struggle ensued, the robber
endeavoring to kill or disable Padgett with
a revolver shot. One of the bullets fired in
flicted a scalp wound just over Padgett’s
ear, but he held on to his man until other
officers arrived and captured him. Arnold
was taken to Blouse's saloon, where he died
in about an hour, the bullet having passed
through both lungs.
BLOUSE WOUNDED.
It was then found that Blouse, who had
just been notified of the intended burglary,
had received a flesh wound in the thigh
from a stray bullet of the burglar. The
captured man was taken to tne station
house, where he was identified ns John Cur
ran, of IVashington, a well-known desperado.
The Coroner’s jury to-day found that Ar
nold came to his death from a wound inflicted
by an unknown person, and that Curran
was an accessory and an accomplice.
The murdered man had been on the
force sixteen years and was regarded
as a highlv efficient officer. When but 15
years old he left home and entered the Con
federate service in Stonewall Jackson’s
brigade. He leaves a wife and four chil
dren. Alexandria has been in a state of
feverish excitement all day, and threats of
lynching are being made on all sides. It is
reported that the policemen themselves
were prevented from lynching Ci'rran by
their superiors. 'Die escajied robber has not
leen captured, and owing to the darkness
but little information as to his appearance
can be given by Padgett or the other two
officers.
JUSTICE WOODS’ FUNERAL.
He Will be Buried at Newark, 0., the
Place of His Birth.
Washington, May 15.—The funeral of
the late Justice Woods will take place at
Newark, O. .Tuesday. The funeral arrange
ments will be in charge of the Supreme
Court of the United States, the Justices of
which will be honorary pall-bearers, while
the active pall-bearers, m accordance with
the established custom, will lie the messen
gers of the court. Private services will
be held at the house to-morrow
afternoon by Dr. Giesey, of the
Epipliiany Jjpiseopal church. Besides
members of the family, President
Cleveland, Gens. Sherman and Sheridan
and Justices of the Supreme Court will be
present. At 10 o’clock this evening the re
mains will be taken to Newark, 0., on a
special train for interment. The family
and all the Justices of the Supreme Court
except Harlan and Bradley will accompany
the bodv to its last resting place. The Su
preme Court room has been heavily draped
m mourning in respect to the memory of
the deceased.
THE TELEPHONE CASE.
It Is Believed the 801 l Company Will
Win It.
Washington, May 15.—The United
States Supreme Court has reached a decision
in the great telephone ease. The opinion
has been prepared. It would probably have
been read to-morrow had it not been that
the court will adjourn as soon as Chief
Justice. Waite announces the doath of Justice
Woods. As it is, the opinion in this ease
will lie read to-inorrow week. Lawyers who
have followed the ease closely predict gene
rally in favor of the Bell Telephone Com
pany, but some of them add that, while it
will lie technically favorable to the Bell
Company it will carefully limit the privi
leges of that company to the actual terms of
it* patents.
NEW YORK’S BLUE LAWS.
Enforcing' Them Makes the Barkeepers
Unhappy.
New York, May 15.—The blue laws were
eten more rigidly enforced to-day in this
*'ity than last Sunday. In consequence the
r-alfionkeepers on the New # Jcrsey side did a
rushing business. Thousands of people,
Gormans especially, crowded the ferry
ooats on their way to enjoy music and
beer. In the hotels the enforcement
°> the law ovokod much indignant
comment, as a relic of puritanical intoler
’•ix-". At the Brunswick, Delmonico’s and
other uptown hostleries intonsc stillness
reigned In the barrooms. At the Hoffman
House the bar was draped in black. Sixth
avenue was crowded with jieople all day,
but the saloons were desolate. Capt. Wil
luues’ usually lively precinct was barren of
iundent. In nil sixty-five arrests were
uuiae for violations of the excise law.
THE CROP SUMMARY.
***in Needed Badly In Many Locali
ties.
Chicago, May 15. —The weekly crop sum
ruary, printed by the Former*’ Review,
asjs: “Our reports for the past week show
’bat while some localities were favored with
reasonable rains others, and the greater
i -nilher, aro noeding rain, und that in its
‘‘'ntinuod absence crops will suffer seriously.
“*Porta on the condition of winter wheat
'Dntiuue fairly favorable, but throughout
i x' entire territory covered by our report*
we meadows and pasture are reported as
“telling rain.”
flhe illorninij
O’BRIEN’S TORONTO PROGRAMME.
An Immense Crowd Greets the Agita
tor at a League Meeting.
Montreal, May 15. —Mr. O’Brien had the
quietest time here yesterday that he has
had since he crossed the borders. He went
to high mass at St. Patrick’s church to-day.
There was an immense congregation and
when he left the church he was surrounded
by crowds who fairly took his breath away
in their efforts to embrace and shake hands
with him. In tho afternoon he attended a
National League meeting in St. Patrick’s
Hall, which was crowded by an audience
which cheered the Irish agitator and evicted
tenant, Mr. Kilbride, when they
entered. H. J. Cloran, presided,
and in a brief speech introduced
Mr. O’Brien, who, he said, “struck terror
into the hearts of Ireland’s enemies.” Mr.
O’Brien, upon rising, was received with
great enthusiasm. “We have,” said he,
“canned public opinion with us so far. We
have convinced every fair man that Lans
downe is lying under an accusation of the
most fearful gravity, cruelty and in
humanity, that imperatively demands an
answer. Otherwise Lansdowue is not en
titled to be the ruler of free people. Let him
answer us now, and not stab us in the back
when we return to Ireland. [Loud ap
plause.] I should be sorry to anticipate
what is going to happen in the province of
Ontario. The London Times is trying to
stir up strife, as it thrust the poisoned
dagger of slander at Parnell by a forged
letter. However, we are going to Toronto
[renewed applause] to-night or to-morrow,
not to insult or defy any section of the
Canadian people, but to tell of the victims
of Lord Lansdowne’s tyrannical oppression.
HE CAN’T BE BULLDOZED.
“We are not going to be intimidated in our
legal rights by threats of foolish persons
who refuse to listen to us, because they can
not answer. [Applause.] We shall go alone
and unarmed,’ with the fullest reliance upon
the fair play and love of liberty of the Cana
dian people, and also with full and firm
trust in the justice of our cause and in the
providence of Him who watches over the
poor and lowly, whose struggle we are fight
ing. And when our tom- is over I feel that
you will send Lord Lans.iowno home [ap
plause] with the stamp and brand of Cana
dian reprobation on liis brow.” [Loud and
prolonged applause.]
Earnest de Rosier, a prominent French
Canadian, also sjioke. “If Englaud treated
us through her representative, Lord Lans
downe,” he said, “as badly as he has treated
liis Irish tenants, our loyalty would be put
to severe strain.” Receptions were held and
speeches made at a number of other places.
Mr. O'Brien will leave here for Toronto to
morrow morning.
HOT WORDS AND PISTOLS.
They Bring a Rich Young Man of
Nashville to Grief.
Nashville, Tenn., May 15.—J. B. Hotch
kiss, a young man about 30 years of age,
and the head of a wholesale hardware firm
here, was badly wounded last night in a dif
ficulty next door to the house of his mis
tress. He and the owner of the premises,
upon which he had entered to get a bucket
of water, had warm words, which resulted
in a resort to pistols. Five shots were ex
changed at short range. Hotchkiss was shot
in the side. The other man, whose name is
Wilhelm, was not struck. The wounded
man walked to the room of his mistress, who
lives in the suburbs of the city in strict re
tirement, and two physicians were sum
moned. Every effort was made to conceal
his identity, he going so far as to beg to be
removed out of the city in his precarious
conffition. This, of course, was out of the
question. His physicians were put under
oath to conceal his name, but were
unable to prevent the press from
discoveringit. The news created groat ex
citement. Hotchkiss is a handsome, wealthy
and popular man, and strong in financial
circles as well as in society, where he is a
leader in fashionable circles. He was en
gaged to a beautiful young lady, a member
of one of the proudest families in the State.
His condition is such that he cannot be re
moved to bis residence, and he now lies at
the home of his mistress.
A HOME RULER ABROAD.
The American Common Schools Fill
Him With Surprise.
Birmingham, Ala., May 15.—W.
Mather, member of Parliament for one of
the Manchester boroughs, is sjiending a
few days here. He was one of the Royal
commission appointed in 1883 to look into
the American public school system. To a
reporter he said; “So far as technological
education is concerned there is little m it,
but your great common school system has
bred a race of men and women unequaled
on earth.” Mr. Mather is a home ruler,
and in sjieaking of British jiolities,
he said that the coercion bill would jiass,
but that the masses of the English jieople
to-day are in favor of Irish home rule. The
people of the British Isle, he said, compre
hend the animus of the London Times' at
tack on Parnell and knew it to lie a lie.
The Times , he said, does not represent jiopu
lar feeling. Mr. Mather sjient most of liis
time here in looking at coal and iron ore
dejiosits and expressed surprise at the re
sources of the country.
LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN.
They Aro Proud That They Are Not
Strikers.
New York, May 15.—The representa
tives of forty-eight lodges of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen in New England.
Middle and Atlantic States held a grand
union meeting this afternoon at Tammany
Hall. Addresses were made bv Mayor
Hewitt, Charles A. Dana, of the New York
Sun, and Cbauncey M. Depew. The Grand
Master of the order, F. P. Sargent, gave o
history of the order for nineteen years of its
existence. It now has a membership of
nearly 17,000, and has never engaged in a
strike. Its motto Is: “Charity, Bohriety and
Ind ustry.”
THE JUBILEE NOT POPULAR.
A Boycott Placed on the Cunard
Steamship Line.
Dublin, May 15.—The Mayor of Cork,re
plying to an invitation from the Lord Cha
mberlain to assist in the jubilee festivities,
says that in view of the crimes bill the invi
tation is little short of an outrage ujxm the
self-respect of the Irish people.
The Mitcholstown branch of the National
League has requested the jieople of that dis
triid to boycott the Cunard steamship line,
and the advice is being already followed.
A RIGHTEOUS VERDICT.
The Murderer of Robert Collier’s Son
Must Hang.
Chicago, May 15.—A special from Empo
ria, Kas., says that the arguments of the
attorneys in the cose of Yarliorough, who
killed the sou of Robert Laird Collier, oc
cupied tho entire day yesterday. The court
room was crowded. The jury returned a
verdict of guilty of murder in the flint de
gree.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MAY 1(>, 1887.
“WHAT OF THE NIGHT?”
REV. TALMAGE OUTLINES THE
DUTY OF THE MORAL TEACHER.
The Life and Brilliancy of the City in
the First Watch Depicted by the
Preacher- A Great Deal of What ia
Called Christian Work Not Practical
—The Sympathetic, Kind and Gen
erous Word Brings Back Ten Thous
and Echoes From Heaven.
Brooklyn, May 15.—At the Tabernacle
this morning, there were the same great
throngs of jieople os usual, overflowing the
main audience room into tho corridors, and
from the corridors into the street. This, the
largest church in America, is more and more
inadequate to hold the jieople, as the years
go by. All parts of the earth are repre
sented at every service. The jiastor, the
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., took for
his text this morning: “Watchman, what
of the night?” Isaiah xxi, 2. He said:
When night came down on Babylon, Nine
veh and Jerusalem, they needed careful
watching, otherwise the incendiary’s torch
might have been thrust into the very heart
of the metropolitan splendor; or enemies,
marching from the hills, might have forced
the gates. All night long, on top of the wall
and in front of the gates, might be heard
the measured step of the watchman on his
solitary beat; silence hung in air, save as
some jiasser-liy raised the question: “Watch
man, what of the night?”
It is to me a deeply suggestive and solemn
thing to see a man standing guard by night.
It thrilled through me, as at the gate of an
arsenel in Charleston, the question once
smote me: “Who comes there?” followed
by the sharp command: “Advance and
give the countersign."' Every moral teacher
stands on picket, or patrols the wall as
watchman. His work is to sound the alarm,
and whether it be in the first watch, in the
second watch, in the third watch, or in the
fourth watch, to lie vigilant until the day
break flings its “morning glories” of bloom
ing cloud across the arching trellis of tho
skv. .
The ancients Divided their nights into
four parts—the first watch, from oto 0; the
second, from 9 to 12; the third, from 12 to 3;
the fourth, from 3 to IS.
I sjieak now of the city in the third watch,
or from 12 to 3 o’clock.
IJicver weary of looking upon the life and
brilliancy of the city in tho first watch.
That is the hour when the stores are closing.
The laboring men, having quitted the scaf
folding and the shop, are on their way
home. It rejoices me to give them my seat
in the city car. They have stood and ham
mered away all day. Their feet are weary.
They are exhausted with the tug of work.
They are mostly cheerful. With appetites
sharpened on tho swift turner’s wheel and
the carpenter’s whetstone, they seek the
evening meal. The clerics, too, nave broken
away from the counter, and with, brain
weary of the long line of figures, and the
whims of those who go a-shopping seek the
face of mother, or wife and child. The mer
chants are unharnessing themselves from
their anxieties, on their way up the street.
The boys that lock up are heaving away at
the shutters, shoring the heavy bolts, and
taking a last look at the fire to see that all
is safe. The streets are thronged with young
men, setting out from the great centres of
bargain -making.
Let idlers clear the street, and give right
of way to the besweated artisans and mer
chants ! They have earned their bread, and
are now on then - way home to get it.
Tho lights in full jet nnng over ten thou
sand evening repasts—the parents at either
end of the table, the children between.
Thank God, “who settoth the solitary in
families.”
A few hours later, and all the places of
amusement, good and bad, aro in full tide.
Lovers of ait, catalogue in hand, stroll
through the galleries and discuss the pic
tures. The ball-room is resplendent with
the rich apparel of those who on either side
of the white, glistening boards, await the
signal from the orchestra. The footlights
of the theatre flash up; the bell rings, and
the curtain rises; and out from the gorgeous
scenery glide the actors, greeted with the
vociferation of the expectant multitudes.
Concert halls are lifted into enchantment
with the warble of one songstress, or
swept out on a sea of tumultuous
feeling by the blast of brazen in
struments. Drawing-rooms are filled
with all gracefulness of apparel, with
all sweetness of sound, with all sjilondor of
maimer; mirrors are catching up and mul
tijilying the scene, until it seems as if in in
finite corridors there were garlanded groujis
advancing aud retreating.
The outdoor air rings with laughter, and
with the moving to and fro of thousands on
the great promenades. The dashing span
adrip with the foam of the long country
ride, rushes past as you halt at the curb
stone.
Mirth, revelry, beauty, fashion, magnifi
cence mingle in the great metropolitan pic
ture, until tho thinking man goes home to
think more seriously, and the jireying man
to pray more earnestly.
A beautiful and overwhelming thing is
the city in the first and second watches of
the night.
But the clock strikes twelve, and the third
watch has begun.
The thunder of the city has rolled out of
the air. The slightest sounds cut the night
with such distinctness as to attract your at
tention. The tinkling of tho bell of the
street car in the distance, and the baying of
the dog. The stamp of a horse in the next
street. The slammfhg of a saloon door.
Tho hiccough of the drunkard. The shrieks
of tho steam whistle five miles away. O,
how suggestive, my friends, tho third
watch of the night.
There are honest men passing up and
flown the street. Hero is a city missionary
who has been carrying a scuttle of coal to
that poor family in that dark jilace. Hero
is im undertaker going up the stejis of a
building from which there comes a bitter
cry which indicates that the destroying
angel has smitten the first-born. Here is a
minister of religion who has been giving the
sacrament to a dying Christum. Here is a
physician jiassiug along in great haste, the
messenger a few step* uheml hurrying on
to the household.
Nearly all the lights have gone out in the
dwellings, for it is the third watch of tho
night.. That light in the window is the
lijlht of tho watcher, for the medicines must
lie administered, and the fever must be
watched, and tho restless tossing off of the
coverlid must lie resisted, and the ice must
bo kept on the hot temples, and tho jxsr
petual prayer must go up from hearts soon
to lie broken.
O, the third watch of the night! What a
stupendous thought—a whole city at rest!
Weary arm preparing for to-morrow’s
toil. Hot brain lieing cooled off. Rigid
muscles relaxed. Excite! nerves soothed.
The white hair of the octogenarian in thin
drifts across the pillow, fresh fall of flakes
on snow alii i . . n Childhood with Its
dinqilert hands thrown out on the pillow
and with every breath taking in anew store
of ftin and frolic. Third watch of the night!
God’s slum tier less eyes will hick. It one
great wave of refreshing slumber roll over
the heart of the groat town, submerging
care, and anxiety, and worriment, and pain.
Let the city sfoeji. But, my friends, be
not and( reived’ There will tie thousands to
night who will not sleep at all. Go uu that
dark alley, and be cautious where you tread,
lest you fall over the prostrate form of a
drunkard lying on his own doorsteji. Look
about you, Jest you feel the garrotter’s hug.
liood through the broken window-pane, and
see what you can see. You say: "Nothing.”
Then listen. What is it? “God helji us?”
No footlights, but tragedy ghastlier and
mightier than Riston or Edwin Booth ever
enacted. No light, no Are, no bread, no
hojie. Shivering in the cold, they have had
no food for twenty-four hours. You say;
“Why don’t they beg?” They do. but they
get nothing. You say; “Why don’t they
deliver themselves over to the almshouse?’’
All! you would not ask that if you over
heard the bitter cry of n man or a child
when told he must go to the almshouse.
“Oh!” you say, “they are vicious poor,
aud, therefore, they do not deserve our
sympathy.” Are they vicious? So much
more need they your jiity. The Christian
jioor, God heljis them. Through their night
there twinKles tho round, merry star of
hojio, and through the broken window-pane
they see the crystals of heaven; but the
vicious poor, they are more to be pitied.
Their last light has gone out. You excuse
yourself from helping them by flaying they
ore so bad, they brought this trouble on
themselves. I reply, where I give ten pray
ers for the innocent who are suffering I will
give twenty prayers for the guilty who are
suffering.
Tho fisherman, when he secs a vessel dash
ing into the breakers, comes out from his
liu’t and wrajSs the warmest fluimels around
those who are most chilled and most bruised
and most batten'd in the wreck; and I want
you to know that these vicious poor have
had two shipwreck*—shipwreck of the body,
shipwreck?of tha soul—amp-wreck for time,
shipwreck for eternity. Pity> by all means,
the innocent who are suffering, but pity
more the guilty.
Pass on through the alley. Opon the
door. “O,” you say, “it is locked.” No, it
is not locked. It has never been locked.
No burglar would be tempted to go in there
to steal anything. Tho door is never locked.
Only a broken chair stands against the door.
Shove it back. Go in. Strike a match.
Now look. Beastliness and rags. See those
glaring eyeballs. Bo careful now what you
say. Do not utter any insult; do not utter
any suspicion, if you value your life. Want
is that red mark on the wall? It is the mark
of a murderer’s hand!
Look at those two eyes rising up out of
the darkness and out from the straw in the
corner, coming toward you, and as they
come near you your light goes out. Strike
another match. Ah! this is a babe, not like
those beautiful children presented in baj>-
tisrn. This little one never smiled; it never
will smile. A flower flung on an awfully
barren beach. Oh! Heavenly Shejihord,
fold that little one in Thy arms. Wrap
around you your shawl or your coat tighter,
for the cold wind sweeps through
Strike another match. Ah! is it possible
that that young woman’s scarred and bruised
face ever was looked into by maternal ten
derness? Utter no scorn. Utter no harsh
word. No ray of hojie has dawned on that
brow for many a year. No ray of hope
ever will dawn on that brow. But the light
has gone dut. Do Mot strike another light.
It would be a mockery to kindle another
light in such a place as that. Pass out and
pass down the street. Our cities of Brook
lyn and New York and all our great cities
are full of such homes, and the worst time
the third watch of the nigljt.
Do you know it is in this third watch of
the night that criminals do their worst work ?
It is tne criminal’s watch.
At eight o’clock you will find
them in the drinking saloon, but toward
twelve o’clock they go to their gaireks, they
get out their tools, then they start on the
street. Watching on either side for the po
lice, they go to their work of darkness. This
is a burglar, and the false key will soon
touch the store lock. This is an Incendiary,
and before morning there will be a light on
the sky, and a cry of "Are! lire!” This is
an assassin, anil to-morrow morning there
will be a dead body in one of the vacant
lots. During the daytime these villains in
our cities lounge about, some asleep and
some awoke, but when the third watch of
the night arrives, their eye keen, their brain
cool, their arm strong, their foot fleet to fly
or pursue, they are ready.
Many of these poor creatures wore brought
up in that way. They were bora in u
thieves’ garret. Their childish toy was a
burglar’s dark-lantern. The first thing they
rememlter was their mother bauilaging the
brow of their father, struck by the police
club. They began by robbing boys’ pockets,
and now they have come to dig the under
ground passage to the cellar of the bank,
and are preparing In blast the gold vault.
Just so long as there are neglected chil
dren of the street, just so long we will have
these desperndtiee. Home one, wishing to
muke n good Christian paint and to quote a
passage of Scripture, expecting to get a
Scriptural passage in answer, said to one of
these poor lads, cast out and wretched:
“When your father mid your mother for
sake you, who then will take you up<” and
the boy said: “The perlice, the perlice!”
In the third watch of the night gambling
does its woist work. What though the
hours be slipping away, and though the
wife be waiting in the cheerless home! Htir
up the fire. Bring on more drinks. Put up
more stakes. That commercial house that
only a little while ago put out sign of co
partnership will this winter be wrecked on
a gumblers table. There will bo many a
money-till that will spring a leak. A metn
lier of Congress gambled with a ineuiber
elect and won one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars. The old way of getting a
living is so slow. The old way of getting a
fortune is so stupid. Come, let us toss up
and see who shall have it. And so the work
goes on, from the wheezing wretches pitch
ing pennies in a rum-grocery up to the mil
lionaire gambler in the stock market
In the third watch of the night, pass
down the streets of these cities, anil you
hear the click of the dice and the sharp,
keen stroke of the boll on the billiard table.
At these places merchant princes dismount,
and legislators tired of making laws, take a
respite in breaking them. All classes of
peoplo are robbed by t his crime—the im
porter of foreign silks and the dealer in
Chatham street pocket handkerchiefs. The
clerks of the store take a hand after the
shutters are put up, and the officers of the
court while away their time while the jury
is out.
In Baden-Baden, when that city was the
greatest of all gambling places on earth, it
Was no unusual thing the next morning,
in the woods around about the city, to find
the suspended bodies of suicides, whatever
be the splendor of surrounding*, there is no
excuse for this dime. The thunders of
eternal destruction roll in the deep rumble
of that gambling tenpin-alley, ana as men
come out to join the long procession of sin,
all the drums of death boat the dead-march
of a thousand souls.
In one year, In the city of New York,
there were seven million dollars sacrificed at
the gaining-table. Perhaps some of your
friend* have been smitten of this sin. Per
l:ai some of you have Isscn smitten by it.
Perhaps there may lie a stranger in the
house this morning come from some of the
hotels. Look out for those agencies of In
iquity who tarry about the hotel*, and ask
you: “Would you like to see tne city?”
“Yes.” “Have you ever seen that splendid
building up town f’ “No.” Then tbo
villian will undertake to show you what he
calls the “lions” and the “elephant*,” and
after a young man. through morbid curi
osity or through badness of soul, has seen
the “Uon” and the “elephant*,” he will bo
cm enchanted ground, took out for there
men who move around the hotels with sleek
hats—always sleek hats—and patronizing
air, and unaccountable interest about your
welfare and entertainment. You are a fool
if you cannot see through it They want
your money.
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, while I
was living in that city, an incident occurred
which was familiar to us there. In Chest
nut street a young man went into a gam
bling saloon, lost all his projierty, then blew
his brains out, and before the blood was
washed from tin floor by the maid the com
rades were shuttling raids again. You see
there is more mercy in the highwayman for
the belated traveler on whose body he
heajis the stones, there is more mercy in the
frost for the flower that it Rills, there ismore
mercy iu the hurricane that shivers the
steamer on the Long Island coast, than
there is mercy in the heart of a gambler for
liis victim.
In the third watch of the night, also,
drunkenness does its worst. The drinking
will lie respectable at 8 o’clock in the even
ing, u little (lushed at nine, talkative and
garrulous at ten, at eleven blasphemous, at.
twelve the hat falls off, at one tne man falls
to the floor asking for more drink. Strewn
through the drinking saloons ol' tho city,
fathers, brothers, husbands, sons as good as
you are by nature, jterhaps better.
In the high circles of society it is hushed
up. A merchant prinoe, if ho gets noisy
and uncontrollable, is taken by bis fellow
revelers, who try to get him to bed, or take
him home, where he falls flat in the entry.
Do not wake up the children. They have
had disgrace enough. Do not let them
know it. Hush it up. But sometimes it
cannot lie hushed up, when the nun touches
♦ho brain and the uiau becomes thoroughly
frenzied. Buck an one came home, having
hem absent for some time, and during his
absence his wife had died, and she lay in the
next room prepared for the obsequies, and
he went in and dragged her by the locks,
and shook her out of her shroud, and pitched
her out of the window.
Oh! when nun touches the brain you can
not bush it up. My friends, you see all
around alxiut you the need that something
radical be dona You do not see the worst.
In the midnight meetings at London a great
multitude have been saved. Wo want a
few hundred Christian men and women to
come down from the highest circles of so
ciety to toil aiuid these wandering and des
titute ones, and kindle up a light in the
dai'k alley, even the gladness of heaven.
Do not go wrapped in your fine furs and
from your well-filled tables with the idea
that pious talk is going to stoji tho gnawing
of an einjjtv stomach or to warm stocking
less feet. Take bread, take raiment, take
medicine as well as take prayer. There is a
griatdoal of com monsense in what thejxior
woman said to the city missionary when he
was telling her how she ought to love Goil
and serve Him. "Oh!” she said, “if you
were as poor and cold as I am. and as hun
gry, you could think of nothing else.”
A great deal of what is called Christian
work goes for nothing for the simple reason
it is not practical; as after the battle of
Antictam a man got out of an ambulance
with a bug of tracts, and lie went distribut
ing the tracts, and George Stuart, one of
tho best Christian men in this country, said
to him: “What are you distributing tracls
lor now? Here are’ three thousand men
bleeding to death. Bind up their wounds,
and then distribute the tracts.”
We want more common sense in Christian
work, taking the bread of this life in one
hand, anil the bread of the next life in the
other hand. No such iuajit work as that
done by the Christian man who, during the
last war, went into a hospital with tracts,
and coming to the bed of a man whose legs
have lieen amputated, gave him a tract on
the siu of dancing! I rejoice before God
that never are symjiathetie words uttered,
never a prayer offered, never a Christian
almsgiving indulged in, but it is blessed.
There is a plaoe in Switzerland, I have
been told, where the utterance of one word
will bring back a score of echoes; and I
have to tell you this morning that a sympa
thetic word, a kind word, a generous word,
a helpful word uttered in the dark places of
tho town will bring bock ten thousand
echoes from all the thrones of heaven.
Are there in this assemblage this morning
those who know by exjierienco the tragedies
in the third watch of the night? lam uot
here to thrust you back with one hard word.
Take the bandage from your bruised soul,
and put on it the soothing salve of Christ’s
gospel and of God’s compassion. Many
have come. I see others coming to God this
morning, tired of the sinful life. Cry up
the news to heaven. Het all tho bells ring
ing. Spread the banquet under the arches.
Let the crowned heads come down and sit
at the jubilee. I tell you there is more de
light in heaven over one man that gets re
formed by tho grace of God than over
ninety anil nine tnat never got off the track.
I could give you the history, in a minute,
of one of the best friends I ever had. Out
side ol my own family, I uover had a better
friend. He welcomed me to my home at
tho West. He was of splendid jiersoual aji
jmarance, but he had ail ardor of soul and a
warmth of affection that made me love him
like a brother,. I saw mon coming out of
tho saloons and gambling hells, and they
surrounded my friend, and they took him at
liis weak point, liis social nature, and Isa w
him going down, and I had a fair talk with
him—for I never yet saw a man you could
not talk with on the subject of his habits, if
you talked with him in the right way. I
said to him: “Why don’t you give up your
bail habits and become a Christian r I re
member now just how he looked, leaning
over his counter, as he replied: “I wish 1
could. Oh. sir! I should like to be a Chris
tian, but. 1 have gone so far astray I can’t
get back.”
Bo the time went on. After a while the
day of sickness came. 1 was summoned to
hi sick-bed. I hastened. It took me but a
very few moments to get there. I was sur
prised as 1 want in. F saw him in his ordi
nary dress, fully dressed, lying mi top of
tha bed. I gave Him my hand, and he seized
it convulsively, and said: “Oil, how glad I
am to see you! Sit down there.” I sat
down and ho said: "Mr. Talmage. Just where
you dt now my mother sat last night. She
has been dead twenty years. Now, I don't
wunt vou to think l am out of my mind, or
that lain superstitious; but, sir, she sat
there Inst night just as certainly as you sit
the.ro now—tho same cap and apron, and
spectacle*. It was my old mother—she sat
there." Then hv turned to bis wife, and
said: “I wish you would take these strings
off the bed: somebody is wrapping strings
around me all the time. I wish you would
stop that annoyance.” She said: “There is
nothing here.” Then I saw it was delirium.
He said: “Just where you sit my mother
sat, and sha said: ‘Roswell, T wish you
woukl do better—l wish you would do bet
ter.’ I said: ‘Mother, 1 wish I could do
liettar; i try to do Litter, but 1 can’t.
Mother, you used to help me; why can’t
you help me now? 1 Anil, sir, I got out of
bed, for it was a reality, and I went to her,
ami ttirew rnv ai ms around her neck, and 1
said, ‘Mother, I will do bettor, but you
must help; 1 can’t do this alone.” I knelt
down aud prayed. That night his soul
went to the Lord who made it.
Arrangements were made for the obse
quies. The question was raised whether
they should bring him to the church. Some
body said: “You cannot bring Mugg a dis
soluteinau as that into the batch,'' i
sail: “You will bring him in Uu
stood by me when lie was alive, ,4 I Yitt
stand by hifn win nhe is dead. lirltMj biyjj.,
A l -1 stooi lin the jmliiit and kuv fljjw
lying the body up the aisle, I felt ut
could ween tear* of blood. ’.JIB
On one side the pulpit sat his littlo child j
of S years, a sweet, beautiful little girl that j
I have seen him hug convulsively in his bet
ter moments. He put on her all jewels, all
diamonds, and gave her all pictures and |
toys, and then he would go away, as if |
hounded by an evil spirit, to his cups and
the house of shame—a fool to the correction
ol' the stocks. She looked up wonderingly.
She knew not what it ail meant. She was
not old enough to understand the sorrow of
an orphan child.
On the other side the pulpit sat the men
who had ruined him; they were the men
who hud poured the wormwood into the or
phan’s cup. They wore tlio men who had
bound him hana and foot. I knew them.
How did they seem to foal? Did they weep?
No. Did they say: “What a pity that
,so generous a man should be de
stroyed?” No. Did they sigh repentingly
over what they had done? No: they sat
there, lookiug as vultures look at the car
cass of ft lamb whose heart they have ripped
out. .So they sat and looked at the eomn-
Jid, and I told them the judgment of God
upon those who had destroyed their fellow's.
Did they reform? I was told they were in
the places of iniquity that night after my
friend was laid in Oak wood cemetery, and
they blasphemed, and they drank. Oil! how
merciless men are, especially after they have
destroyed you 1 Do not look to men for com
fort or help. Look to God.
But there is a man who will not reform.
He says: “I won’t reform.” Well, then,
how many acts aro there in a tragedy ? I
believe five.
Act the liist of the tragedy: A young man
starting off from home; parents and sisters
weeping to have him go. Wagon rising
over the hill. Farewell kiss flung back.
Ring the bell aud let the curtain foil.
Act the second: The marriage altar. Full
organ. Bright lights. Long wbito veil
trailing through the aisle. Prayer and con
gratulation, and exclamation of “How well
she looks!”
Act the third: A woman waiting for stag
gering steps. Old garment* stuck into the
broken window-pane. Marks of hardship on
the face. The biting of the nulls of bloodless
lingers. Neglect, and cruelty and despair.
Ring the bell and let the curtain drop.
Act the fourth: Three graves in a dark
place—grave of the child that died for lack
of medicine, grave of the wife that died of a
broken heart, grave of the man that died of
dissipation. On! what a blusted heath
with three graves! Plenty of weeds, but no
flowers. Ring the bell and let the curtain
drop.
Act the fifth: A destroyed soul’s eternity.
No light. No music. No hope. Anguish
coiling its serpents around the heart. Black
ness of darkness forever. But I cannot
look any longer. Woe! woe! I close my
eves to this last act of the tragedy. Quick !
Quick! Ring the bell and lei tlie curtain
tump. “Rejoice, O young man, hi thy youth,
and let thy heart rejoice in the days of thy
youth; but know thou that for all these
things God will bring you Into judgment.”
“There is a way that geemeth right to man.
but the end thereof is death.”
SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT.
Points About the Weather for the Past
Week.
Washington, May 18.—The signal office
has issued the following weather and crop
bulletin for the week ending May 14: “Dur
ing the current week the weather haR been
warmer ttian usual in all districts east of
tlio Rocky Mountains. The excess of tem
perature over normal for the week in the
wheat and corn regions of Ohio, upper Mis
sissippi and lower Missouri valleys ranged
from 50" to 75’ (a daily average of from
aliout 6* to 11* above normal).
This excess of temperature has
served to advance the season
over the region where a total deficiency in
temperature since January ranges from 100’
to 200". In the Gulf States, Tennes
see, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland
and Delaware the week was about 25’
warmer than usual, thus increasing the
excess of temfierature previously report
ed. In the cotton regions the rxeess of tem
perature for the season now ranges from 200’
to 800*. On the South Atlantic coast
the average temperature for tho week is
about normal, thereby changing but slightly
.he total deficiency of from 100“ to 200*, ns
noted in bulletin for the previous week.
During the past week there has been a de
ficiency of rain in all sections, ex
cept in the lower Rio Grande
valley, Delaware, Maryland, Ore
gon and Washington Territory, where
slight excesses are reported. A slight rain
fall during the week nas served to increase
the deficiency in the Southern States, where
the rainfall since Jan. I has been from fi to
10 inches less than the average. Generally
in the wheat anti corn regions of the North,
the week lias lieen exceptionally favorable.
Dry, warm weather continues in
tlio cotton regions cast of the
Mississippi, while rains west
of the Mississippi have been favorable to the
cotton crop. Although there is a lartre de
ficiency in the rainfall in tho cotton re-ion
recent showers have improved the oouuition
of the crops in the lower Mississippi valley,
while the weather in North and Honth Caro
lina and south Virginia is reported as fa
vorable for the growth of the plant.
“A. W. Ghkely,
“Chief Signal Officer.”
A TEXAS TRAGEDY.
Lynchers Make Bhort Work of a
Couple of Colored Men.
Willis, Tkx., May 13.—About 3 o’clock
tills morning a body of anned men sur
rounded the calaboose where two colored
men, Andrew McOeohe and J. B. Walker,
were confined im a charge of shooting young
Granville Powell while he was assisting
some young ladies on a passenger train Sat
urday evening. The mob overpowered the
guard, broke down the door and
told Walker’s wife, who was present,
to get out. Then they opened
11 ro on McGeche and Walker, who were
chained together. Five minutes after the
lirst gun wat fired the mob had disap
peared. At daylight McGeche was found
lying dead In hr cell with eight bullet holes
in his body. Walker was seriously wounded
in three places, but may recover. Ho and
his wife wrro taken in charge by Deputy
Sheriff Glare, who took them to Houston
to-day for safe-keeping. Tho Coroner’s
Jury rendered a verdict that McGeche
came to his death at the
hands of persons unknown. Powell
is iC.il] alive, but in a precarious condition.
Walker says McGeche told him while they
were lying" chained together iu the cala
boose that after young Powell hod seated
the ladies in the car he (Powell) name up
behind McGeche, who was standing in tho
it isle, and began stabbing him with a knife.
McGeche ran out on the platform, followed
by Powell, and turning on the latter, shot
him under tho ann. Walker states that
McGeche 5 * coat and shirt were gashed with
a knife.
A Texas Froutlet.
Lark do, Tex., May 15.—Hoavy rains
I fell throughout tho Rio Grande valley Inst
[night, continuing for torn - hours. The Rio
very rapidly about
nww to-duv had risen
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THEGORDON LANDGRANT
IT IS IN DANGER OF BEING FOR
FEITED BY THE STATE.
Bloxham and Perry Will Test Their
Strength to-Night- Salaries for the
Florida Railroad Commissioners Fix
ed-Other Bills of Importance Before
the Florida Legislature.
Tallahassee, Fla., May 15.—Gov. Gor
don, with his son Hugh, is here to defend
his international railway charter, which tlie
Legislature now seems disposed to declare
forfeited. The Governor states his reasons
why tho land grant given him should not
bo forfeited to be as follows: First, a for
feiture would be contrary to the constitution
of the United States, in that it would be a
violation of a contract; second, it would b
a violation of tlie good faith of the State,
and, third, it would do violence to the recog
nized policy of the State, w hich is to extend
tho time for constructing roads rather than
deprive them of their charters for technical
non-compliance with their contracts in point
of time. Tlie Senate takes action in the
matter to-morrow.
the senatorial contest.
Just what effect the withdrawal of Mr,
Pasco’s name from tho Senatorial race will
have uiion the solution of the deadlock can
not lie predicated, but it is quite certain
that both Perry and Bloxham will have to
retire unless the two-thirds rule is substi
tuted for tho majority rule. As no ballots
were token Friday night it is
not known which of tlie principal
and only remaining contestants
has the larger number of votes, One or the
other mnst have a small majority of the
votes in tho joint caucus, since those who
voted blank before Mr. Pasco entered the
race will now chose between Bloxham and
Ferry. The result of to-morrow night’s
caucus is awaited with great interest and
much impatience.
a dark non.SE.
Just now it certainly seems that a dark
horse would secure the Senatorial prize, a a
it is apparent, to all that a choice cannot be
made Between Bloxham and Perry, and the
legislators aro loth to go home without elect
ing someone. It may be said that this dark
horse is likely to be Chief Justice Mc-
Whorter, who is a strong friend of Perry
and a man of ability.
JACKSONVILLE’S DELEGATION.
There is a large delegation of citizen*
here from Jacksonville In the interest of
charters for Jacksonville and tho Sub-
Tropical Exposition and the Board of Health
bill now pending before the Legislature. It
is said lion Jamos M. Baker will be reap
pointed Judge and A. W. Owens State’s At
torney for the Jacksonville circuit.
THE COMMISSION BILL.
The Senate has fixed the salaries of the
Commissioners created by tlie railroad com
mission bill at $2,500 and traveling ex
poses. Tlie other provisions of the bill
have not been fully determined upon by
both houses, and the indications are that
ample protection will be afforded the rail
roads. The mechanics lieu law bill has
passed to its third reading in tho Senate and
will now be paaaed when reached in its
regular order.
A BOOM FOR MALLORT.
Since the withdrawal of Mr. Pasco from
the Senatorial race there has been consider
able talk of a compromise candidate, and
tho name most prominently mentioned
for tlie position is that of Stephen
R. Mallory, son of 8. B. Mallory,
who was United States Senator from 1851
to 1861, and Becretary of the Confederate
Navy during the war. He is said to be a
representative of the Nev> South school, an
able lawyer, a man of fine ability, the
choice of the young Democracy of tlie State
and possessing the confidence of the entire
party _ _
LUMBER BURNED.
A Negro Dangerously Injured— Rise la
the Fnce of Real Estate.
Austell, Ga., May 15.—Friday the large
lumber kiln of Aardage & Cos., containing
10,(XX) feet dressed flooring in process of
drying, was burned. The man who was
employed aa watchman to attend to the fires
left his post, and during his absence tho
flames reached the lumber .anil nothing
could lie done to prevent its being entirely
consumed.
Capt. S. E. Cook, one of the carpenter*
employed at the new pavilion, came very
near killing Muggins Baker, a 16-year-old
negro boy, Friday. The i>oy is a noted
vagabond, and wu* playing with Cook’*
tools. On being requested to leave the
grounds ho mails some impudent reply
which incensed Cork, who seized a piece of
scantling and struck Muggins on the head,
knocking him senseless. He is reported to
lie in a very serious condition.
Tho recent activity in real estate transac
tions, and the greatly increased valuation of
property, has created much excitement
among the people hero. Those who are for
tunate enough to own throe or four acres of
land are dividing it up into lots apd dis
posing of it at very remunerative figures.
Mr. N. A. Morse, who owns 100 acres just
inside the corporate limits, which he pur
chased for 91,500 five years ago, was offered
910,000 for the same by an Atlanta capitalist
last, week. There has not been a vacant
house in Austell for twelve months.
UNFOUNDED REPORTS.
Havana In About Her Normal Condi
tion of Health.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 15.—Report*
having gained currency here that th*
cholera, as well as yellow fever and small
pox, is prevalent at Havana, Dr. Neal
Mitchell, President of the County Board of
Health, telegraphed there for reliable infor
mation and received an answer from the
mast trustworthy source that the report* as
to cholera were unfounded and there were
only a few cases of yellow fever or small
pox. There are nearly always a few cose*
of yellow fever and small-pox in Havana.
A Row at a Negro Festival.
Boston, Ga., May 15.—There was a lively
row at a negro festival here Saturday night,
which resulted in two negro men and two
women being shot, one man and one woman
seriously. One party did all the shooting
mid soon had the house in which the festival
wan held empty. He enrap-d. The shoot
ing was caused by a negro who insulted the
sweetheart of another negro.
The Bricklayers’ Strike.
Chicago, May 15.—The Chicago Trade*
Assembly indorsed the bricklayers’ strike
to-day and formulated a circular on th© stubj
ject to be sent to assemblies in all the prin
cipal cities of tlie country. The circular
urge* that a hUvuuouh effort, be male to
dissuade workmen from coming to Chicago
•luring the present disturbance.
Dynamite's Work.
Paris, May 15.—At Toulon to-day on ex
plosion of dynamite destroyed the trout of
the police headquarters anil damagedu mini
her of adjacent he mm.