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( EeT.VIH.ISHE!> 1850. I 1 J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor, j 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 "’Wf {Mmb* thi' 1 , tit aUsank : J PRICE ftlO A YEAR. 1 1 S CENTS A COPY, f 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.