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OLD COUNTRY TROUBLES.
FRANCE’S NEW MINISTRY FORMED
AT LAST.
Gen. Boulanger Asks for a Furlough
Disastrous Floods in Hungary
A Steamer Missing With 750 Pas
sengers Earthquakes in Italy
Reports From the Glasgow Mine
Disaster.
Paris. May 21*.—At midnight to-night it
i* semi-officially stated that the ministry is
still incomplete. The war and ministry
portfolios are still unallotted. It is proba
ble that Gen. Ferron will accept the war
portfolio.
FIVE COMMUNISTS ARRESTED.
A seuftlo took place to-day between the
Communists and the police in the cemetery
it Pere la Chaise. Five arrests were made.
THE NEW MINISTRY ANNOUNCED.
Paris, May 2it, 10 p. m.— The following
Cabinet is now announced: M. Rouvier,
President of the Council, Minister of Fi
nance and Minister of the Posts and Tele
graphs; M. Flourens, Minister of Foreign
Affairs; M. Fallieres, Minister of the Inte
rior, M. Bolts:fuel, Minister of Justice; M.
Spueler, Minister of Public Instruction;
M. Heredn, Minister of Commerce; M.
Biu-be, Minister of Agriculture, and Gen.
Saussier, Jilin is ter of War. No one has
been chosen yet for the Marine portjolio.
REQUIEM SERVICES AT NOTRE DAME.
The Archbishop has offered the Church of
Notre Dame for the requiem services to be
held over the remains of those who perished
in the Opera Coniique conflagration instead
of the Church of the Madeline. The inter
ments will take place in the
new Paulist cemetery. The Arch
bishop will preside at the special service at
St. Rocb on Wednesday. The donations for
the sufferers have already reached 1,500,000
francs. Comte de Paris subscribed 10,000
francs and Baron Rothschild gave 15,000
francs. The total number of bodies
now recovered is ninety-one. Several
of those who have been working
in the ruins have been taken into custody,
charged with stealing jewelry and other
valuables found in the debris.
EMPLOYES BLAMED.
The firemen in charge of the theatre were
greatly to blame, all proper precautions
having been neglected by them. An official
inspection of ali the theatres in the city was
begun yesterday.
GEN. BOULANGER DESIRES A REST.
Paris, May 29.—Gen. Boulanger has asked
for a furlough on account of ill health.
LIMITING THE SUFFRAGE IN BELGIUM.
Brussels, May 29.—At the Progressist
Liberal conference here to-day the resolu
tion against universal suffrage was adopted
by a vote of ill?' to 217. The conference,
by a vote of 879, against 45, pronounced in
favor of granting the franchise' to all citi
zens able to road and write.
THE THISTLE WINS THE RACE.
London, May 29. —The yacht Thistle ar
rived at Harwich, after her fifty-mile race,
far ahead of all others. The Thistle passed
the line at 10:52 Saturday uight, the Geues
ta at 1:84 Sunday morning, the Frex at 1:47
Sunday morning, the Sleuthhound at I:4i>,
the Wendurat 2:43, the Sybil at 2:37, and
the Mary at 2:51.
CARDINAL GIBBONS SAILS FOR HOME.
London, May 29. Cardinal Gibbons
sailed from Queenstown to-day for New
York.
The Cardinal said that his mission had
been successful; that the Pope had yielded
much and regarded the Knights of” Labor
favorably.
THE GLASGOW HORROR.
Glasgow, May 29. — Forty bodies have
lieen recovered from the lldston coal pit at
Biantyre. Queen Victoria has sent a dis
patch expressing her sympathy with the
families of the dead mineiu Most distress
ing scenes were witnessed at the pit as the
bodies were brought up. There is no hope
that others in the mine can be saved.
IN A STATE OF MEIGS.
Brussels, May 29. — The report is current
here that Hainault will bo placed in a state
of seige if the strike now in progress is pro
longed.
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS IN ITALY.
Rome, May 29.—Four shocks of earth
quake were felt to-day at Tesi, one being of
great violence. The shocks were also ex
perienced at Ancora.
STEAMER MISSING.
Calcutta, May 29.—The name o! the
steamer with 750 persons on board, which
“®- s been missing since the recent cyclone, is
the Sir John Laurence.
SANK WITH ALL HANDS.
London, May 20.—The tug Retriever,
"’bile towing the Godiva, sank with uil
hands. The Godvia is safe.
FLOODS IN HUNGARY.
Pesth, May 29.—The river Theiss has
broken the dykes at Csongrd and has hum
anted 15,000 acres of land: The ’femes and
Bega have overflown their banks, submerg
ing 100 square miles of fields and twelve
'mages.
THE ELBE AND VISTULA RISING.
London, May 29. --Several German riv
er* are rising, especially the Elbe and the
Vistula, threatening serious damage.
IRISH MATTERS.
Editor O’Brien at Boston—Troubles at
Westropp.
Boston, May 29.—Mr. William O’Brien
arrived here to-day, uiul was entlmsiasti
rally received. He spoke to-night in the
Boston Theatre, which was crowded to
Overflowing.
FATHER KELLER HONORED.
Dublin, May 29.—Father Keller, who
ms recently released from prison, was jire
v ,?!■, J'fth an address at Youglial to-day
Lie local branch of the National League,
ti taid Be would rather he in
Kmuamlmm Jail, great as was bis
I [ or of imprisonment, than to witness the
I w'tatrociou. eviction on the Pousouby
Saturday last peasants attacked the re-i-
KV) 06 Callaghan, at VVertropp, where
''ORLffed in evictions are
TANARUS„, , Many of the windows were broken.
Wf '*ve arrests wore made.
MEXICOS CAPITAL SHAKEN.
T *° Earthquake Shocks Cauna Thou
sands to Tremble With Affright.
, f l ’ rY or Mexico, May 20.—Two severe
ocks of earthquake were felt at 2:50 o’clock
.' ls m °rniug. They created a general cx
m, iT' en *’ thousands of persons dressed
km /‘ malnef l up the remainder of the uight,
no one was hurt ns far as known.
DECORATING Tf-IK GRAVES.
Yesterday’s Observances at the Na
tional Cemetery at Memphis.
p‘, EMPHIS , Mny —The graves of the
I I ra ‘ dead in the National cemetery were
to-<lay with the usual ceremonies.
L. C. Houck delivered theoru-
IMofning ftfeto?*.
THE WASHINGTON DRILL*
An Unfounded Rumor as to the With
drawal of the Vicksburg Southrons.
I\ ashington, May 29. A rumor
was in circulation to-night that
the Vicksburg Southrons had withdrawn
from the dress parade to-day on account of
a coloi-ed company. The report was caused
by the fact that the Southrons withdrew
from the drill grounds just before the drill
commenced.
Aljt. Gen. Camahau to-night authorized
a denial of the report, ami said that the
Southrons were in the Fourth battalion,
w inch was not on parade to-day. That bat
talion had been excused this morning from
appearing, but the Vieksbtirgs had beeu
ordered last night to be ready for dress pa
rade with their battalion this evening, and
had reported accordingly. When they dis
covered that their battalion would not
parade they had simply withdrawn to their
quarters.
ANpTHER ACCOUNT.
The Vicksburg Southrons and the Mem
phis Merchants’ Zouaves made themselves
conspicuous this morning again. This time
they had the countenance and assistance of
other organizations. After Mr, Talmage had
finished nis sermon there was a dress parade
on the grounds. The Vicksburg Southrons
and the Memphis Merchants’ Zouaves had
uot been ordered to take any part in this
parade, according to the Adjutant General
of the di-ill, but they marched out on
the green with the others. When,
however, they saw that there were
some corn panics of colored troops in the line
they withdrew to their quartere again,
"hey were followed by the Lomax Rifles,
the Belknap Rifles, the Louisiana Rifles and
the Sun Antoiiio Rifles, who were ail in tho
parade. Their commanders all gave the
same explanation: “We saw these niggers ”
they said, “and vve could not stay. We
didn’t come here to parade with niggers.”
PHOTOGRAPH PRESENTATION'.
Cant. Hackett, of Company A, Fifth
Rhode Island Battalion, this evening pre
sented a handsomely framed photograph of
the drill company of the battalion to the
Washington Cadet corps (colored) as a
recognition of then- courtesy towards the
command on their arrival at tho camp
ground and during their stay. In
his presentation speech Capt. Hackett
said: “Although a Democrat myself,
and although the majority of tho men of
our battalion are Democrats, we have no
sympathy with and nothing but condemna
tion for the insult placed upon your men by
some organizations from the South, and it is
to us a matter of great surprise that any
set of men could so forget themselves.”
THE PRESBYTERY ADJOURNS.
Committee on Organic Union Ap
pointed bv an Unwilling Moderator.
St. Louis, May 29.—At last night's
session of tho Presbyterian General
Assembly Rev. Mr; Hoge presented tho
protest of the Synod of North Carolina in
the Robinson matter. It was numerously
signed by the members of the assembly and
was spread upon the record. The modera
tor then announced the committee ou
organic union. He said the
task was one he would
gladly have avoided. He did not appoint
extremists on either side, but men who
could bo depended upon to discuss the\or
ganic union calmly and fairly. He did not
know the feelings of any of the members of
the committee on the subject. The assem
bly then closed up its business and ad
journed to meet in Baltimore next year.
THE COMMITTEE.
The committee appointed by the modera
tor of the Southern Presbyterian General
Assembly to confer with a similar commit
tee of the General Assembly of the Presby
terian Church of the United States on the
subject of union or co-oiiei-ation is compost'd
of the following named gentlemen: Revs.
M. D. Hoge, of Virginia; J. C. Wilson, of
Nashville. Tenn.; T. C. Witherspoon, of
Louisville, Ky., and W. T. Junkin, of South
Carolina; Elders W. M. MePheeters, of St.
Louis; T. P. Carter, of Texas; R. T. Simp
son, of Alabama, and W. S. Primrose, of
North Carolina. Five members of the com
mittee will constitute a quorum.
ALL ‘'COPY" IN.
Ben: Perley Poore's Remains Taken to
Boston for Interment.
Washinuton, May -30.—The relatives
and friends of the. late Ben: Perley Poore
left this city with the remains of the dead
journalist at It o’clock this afternoon for
Boston. The funeral party comprised the
wife and three sisters of the deceased, Mr.
Appleton, of Boston, a nephew, and a few
friends.
Ben; Porley Poore, whose death occurred
last niehfc, was the oldest and best known of
the Washington correspondents. Ho was
about 65 years of age and has been a well
known correspondent for over forty years.
During the later years of his life he was so
heavy that it was with considerable diffi
culty that he was able to get about. He
was on very intimate terms with the older
Senators, and was a great friend of the
late Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island. His
newspaper work was largely confined to
letter writing and to reminiscences. He had
charge of the Congressional Directory, and a
very good directory lie made. He was an
old landmark at Washington and will lie
greatly missed.
A BLAZEJN ATLANTA.
Mrs. Thompson’s Residence Destroyed
—Accident to the Firemen.
Atlanta, Ga., May SO.— A fire this after
noon burned the frame bouse on the corner
of Thompson and Brotherton streets occu
pied by a widow lady named Thompson.
The loss was several thousand dollars and
the insurance light. While .Toe Cady mid
William Watkins, firemen, were standing
on tlie front porch throwing water on the
fire it fell, wounding the party of men, but
not dangerously.
TOBACCO WAREHOUSE BURNED.
Milwaukee, May 311.—The largest to
bacco warehouse in the Prate was partly
di*troved by fire at Stoughton, Wis., to
day. The loss is #IOO,OOO. The loss falls
heaviest on Miller & Putnam and Atkinson
Bros., of Stoughton
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS
Hold Their Annual Meeting at Colum
bus, Ohio.
Columbus, 0., May ‘.JO.—The Interna
tional Brotherhood of I/woniotive Engineers
held their union meeting here to-day, with
1,600 engineers present and 6,000 visitors.
An executive session was held, at which busi
ness of importance only to the order was
transacted. A general parade fal
lowed, with over thirty divisions in
the line. An open meeting was held
at the opera houso in the afternoon,
with addresses of welcome by Gov. Fo raker,
the Mayor <>f the city and Congressman
Outhwaife. The principal add res of the
day was that delivered by the Grand Chief
Engineer, 13.l 3 . M. Arthur, of Cleveland, who
gave a detailed sketch of the organ i rati on
and its history aud the work which it has
done and tirouoses to accomolisb.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MAY 30, 1887.
A SERMOX_ TO SOLDIERS.
REV. TALMAGE’S DISCOURSE AT
THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT.
Perfection in Drill a Necessary Requi
site for the Nation’s Defense The
Military Science of the Bible The
Review of All the Armies at the Day
of Judgment.
Washington, May 29.— Soldiers of the
national drill listened this afternoon to a ser
mon by the Rev. T. DeWitt Talniage, D. D.
Soldiers from thirty-one States and Terri
tories were present, and nineteen Governors
and their staffs. Washington is full of
strangers attendant upon the national drill,
having for its object improvement in mili
tary science, which began May 28 and will
close to-morrow. The music before and
after the sermon this afternoon was con
ducted by military* bands. Dr. Talmago’s
texts were taken from I. Chronicles xii.; 33:
“Fifty thousand which could keep
rank,” and Judges xx., 15: “Everyone could
sliug stones at a hair-breadth and not miss.”
The preacher said:
Companies of infantry, cavalry, artillery
and zouaves, please notice the first Scripture
passage applauds tho soldiers of Zebulun lie
cause they were disciplined troops. They
may have been inefficient at the start and
laughed at by old soldiers because they
seemed so clumsy in tho line, but it was
drill, drill, drill until they could keep step as
oue man. “Fifty thousand which could
keep rank.” The second Scripture passage
applauds a regiment of slingers in the tribe
of Benjamin because they are dexterous
marksmen. When they first enlisted they
may have been an awkward squad and all
their fingers wore thumbs, but they prac
ticed until when they aimed at a mark they
always hit it. “Every one could sling
stones at a bair-breadth and not miss.”
Both texts combining to show us that if we
must fight we should do it well.
There is something absorbing in the mili
tary science of the Bibie. In olden times all
the men between 20 and SOyeareof age were
enrolled in the army and then a levy was
made for a special service. There were only
three or lour classes exempt; those who had
built a house and had not occupied it; those
who had planted a garden and had not
reaped the fruit of it; those who were en
gaged to be married and yet had not led the
bride to the altar; those who were yet in the
first .year of wedded life; those who were so
nervous that they could hot look upon an
enemy but they fled and could not look upon
blood but they fainted.
The army was in three divisions—the
centre and right and left wings. The wea
pons of defense were helmet, shield, breast
plate, buckler. The weapons of offense were
sword, spear, javelin, arrow, catapult—
which was merely a bow swung by ma
chinery, shooting arrows at vast distances,
great arrows, one jn-ow as large as several
men could lift, and ballista, which was a
sling swung by machinery, buriing great
rocks and large pieces of lead to vast dis
tances. The shields were made of woven
willow-work with three thicknesses of hide
and a loop inside through which the arm of
the warrior might be thrust; and when these
soldiers were marching to attack an enemy
on the level, all these shields touched each
other, making a wall moving but impene
trable ; and then when they attacked a fort
ress and tried to capture a battlement, this
shield was lifted over the head so as to resist
the falling missiles. The breastplate was
made of two pieces of leather, brass covered,
one piece falling over the breast, the other
falling over the back. At the side of the
warrior the two pieces fastened with but
tons or clasps.
The bows stout and stiff and
strong that warriors often challenged each
other to tend one. The strings of the bow
were made from sinews of oxen. A case
like an inverted pyramid was fastened to
the back, that case containing the arrows,
so that when the warrior wanted to use an
arrow he would put his arm over his
shoulder and pull forth the arrow for the
fight. The ankle of the foot had ail iron
boot. When a wall was to be assaulted a
battering ram was brought up. A batter
ing ram was a great team swung ou chains
in equilibrium. The battering ram would
lie brought close up to the wall and then a.
great number of men would take hold of
this beam, push it buck as far as they could
and then let go, and the beam became a
great swinging pendulum of destruction.
Twenty or forty men would stand in a
movable tower on the back of an elephant,
the elephant made druak with wine, and
then headed towai-d the enemy, and what
with tho heavy l'eet and the swinging pro
boscis and the poisoned arrows shot from
the movable tower, the ilortru 'tion was ap
palling. War chariots were in vogue and
they wore on two wheols so they could
easily turn. A sword was fastened to the
pole between the horses so when they went
ahead the sword thrust and when they
turned around it would mow down. The
armies carried flags beautifully embroidered.
Trite of Judah carried a flag embroidered
with n lion; tribe of Reuben, embroidered
with a man; trite of Dau, embroidered with
cherubim. The noi' eof the host as they
moved on was overwhelming. What with
the clatter of shields and the rumb
ling of wheels and tho shouts of the cap
tains, and ti e vociferation of the entire
hast, the prophet says it was like the roar
ing of the sea. Because the arts of war
have been advancing all these years you are
not to conclude that these armies of olden
times were an uncontrollable mob. I could
quote you foui- or five passages of Scripture
showing you that they were thoroughly
drilled; they marched step to step, shoulder
to shoulder, or, ns my texts express it. they
were “Fifty thousand which could keep
rank,” and “Every one could sling stones
at a hair-breadth and not miss.”
Nothing could be more important than
thin groat national encampment. Undrilled
troops can never stand iieiore those which
are drilled. At a time when other nations
are giving such care to military tactics, it
Is-hooves this netion to lack nothing in skill.
We shall never have another war between
North and South. The old decayed bouo of
contention, American tlavery, has boon cast
out. although lit re ami there a depravod
politician takes it up to see if he can gnaw
something off of it. We are floating off
further and further from the possibility of
sectional strife, but, about foreign invasion
I ora not so sure. There is absolutely no
room on this continent lor any other nation.
I have been across the country again aud
again and I know that we have not a half
inch of ground for the gouty foot of foreign
despotism to stand on. Ido not know but
that a half dozen nations envious of oQr
prosperity may want to give us a
wrestle. ’ During our civil war there were
two or throe nations that, could hardly keep
their hands oil’ of us. It is very easy to pick
notional quarrels, and if our nation’ escapes
it much longer it will be the exception. If
a foreign foe should come we want men like
those of 1813, and like those who fought on
both sides in 1662. We want them all up
and down the coast, Pulaski end l’ort Hum
ber in the same chorus of thunder as Fort
Lafayette and Fort Hamilton, men who will
not only know how to fight, but how to die.
When such a time comes, if it ever does
come, the generations on tlie stage of action
will say: “My country will care for my
family as they did m the soldiers' asylums
for the oruhans in the civil war. and mv
country will honor niv dust as it honors
those who preceded me in patriotic sacrifice,
and once a year at any rate ou Decora
tion day I shall be resurrected into the re
membrance of those for whom I died. Here
Igo for God and my country.” If foreign
foe should ever come all sectional animosi
ties would be obliterate; i. Here go our
regiments into the battlo side by side, Fif
teenth New York Volunteers, Tenth Ala
bama Cavalry, Fourteenth Pennsylvania
Riflemen, Tenth Mnssnclm-elta Artillery,
Seventh South Carolina Sharpshooters. ” I
have no faith in the cry: "NoNerth.no
South, no East, no West.” Let all four
sections keep theii- peculiarities and their
preferences, each doing its own work and
not interfering with each other; each of the
four carrying its part in the groat harmony
—the bass, the alto, the tenor, the soprano
in the grand march of the Union.
I congratulate you, the officers aud soldiers
of this national encampment, that if a for
eign attack should at any time te made, you
would be ready, and there would te millions
of the drilled man of North and South, like
the men of my first text, which could keep
rank, and like the men of my second text,
that would not miss c. hair-breadth.
At this national drill, when thirty-one
States of the Uniou are represented, and
between the decorations of the graves of the
Southern dead, w’uioh took place a few days
ago, and the decorations of tho graves of
the Northern dead, which shall take place
to-morrow, I would stir the Christian pa
triotism and gratitude not only of this sol
diery hero present, but of all the people, by
putting before them tho difference between
these times, when the soldi ere of all sections
meet in peace, and the times when they met
in contest. Contrast the feeling of sectional
bitterness in 1862 with tho feeling of sectional
unity in 1887. At the first date the South
had banished the national air, “The Star
Spangled Banner,” and the North , hail
banished the popular air of “Way Down
South in Dixie.’ 1 The Northern
people were “mudsills” and the Southern
people were “white trash." The more South
ern people were killed in battle the tetter
the North liked it. The more Northern peo
ple were killed in battlo the tetter the South
liked it. For four yeans the head of Abra
ham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis would have
beeu worth a million dollars if delivered on
either side the line. No need now, standing
in our pulpits and platforms, of saying that
the North and South did not hate each
other. To estimate how very dearly thev
loved each other, count up tho bombshells
that were burk'd and the carbines that were
loaded; and the cavalry horses that were
mounted, North and South, facing pach
other, all armed, in the attempt to kill. Tho
two sections not only marshaled all their
earthly hostilities, tart tried to reach up and
get hold of the sword of heaven, ami the
prayer. of the Northern and Southern
pulpits gave more information to the
heavens about the best mode of settling this
trouble tlum was ever used. For four years
both sides tried to get hold of the Lord's
thunderbolts, but could not quite reach
them. At the breaking out of the war we
had not for months heard of my dear uncle,
Samuel J. Talniage, Fresuleut of the Ogle
thorpe University, in Georgia. He was
about the grandest man I ever knew, and as
good as good could te. The first we heard
of him was his opening prayer in tho Con
federate Congress in Richmond, which was
reported in the New York napere, which
pruyerif answered would, to say the least,
have left all his Northern relatives in very
uncomfortable circumstances. The ministry
at the North prayed one way, and the min
istry at the South prayed the other way.
No use in hiding the fact that the North and
the Soutn cursed each other with a wither
ing and all-consuming curse.
Beside that antipathy of war time I place
the complete accord of this time. Not long
ago a meeting in New York was held to
raise money to build a home at Richmond
for crippled Confederate soldiers, the meet
ing presided over by a man who lost an arm
and a leg in fighting on the Northern side,
and the leg not lost so hurt that it does not
amount to much. The Cotton Exhibition
held not long ago at Atlanta, was attended
by tens of thousands of Northern people,
and by Gen. Sherman, who was greeted
with kindness, as though they had never
seen him before. At the New Orleans Ex
hibition, held two years ago, every North
ern State was represented. A thousand fold
kindlier feeling after the war tlinu before
the wait No more use of gunpowder in this
country, except for rifle practice, or Fourth
of July pyrotechnics, or a shot at a roebuck
in the Adirondack3. Brigadier Generals in
the Southern Confederacy making their for
tunes as lawyers in tho Northern cities. Rivers
of Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina
turning mills of New England capitalists.
The old lions of war—Fort Sumter, and
Moultrie, aud Lafayette, and Pickens, and
Hamilton, sound asleep on thoir iron paws,
and instead of raising money to keep ene
mies out of our New York barter, raising
money for the Bartholdi Statue on Bodloe’s
Island, figure of Liberty with uplifted torch
to light the way to all who want to come in.
Instead of war antipathies, when you could
not cross the line tetweeu the contestants
without fighting your way with keen stool,
or getting through by passes carefully scru
tinized at every step by bayonets, you need
only a railroad ticket from New York to
Charleston or New Orleans to go clear
through, and there is no use for any weapon
sharper or stronger than a steel pen. Since
the years of time tegan their roll, has there
ever been in about two decades such an
overmastering antithesis ns between the war
time of complete bitterness, and this time of
complete sympathy*
Contrast also the domestic life of those
times with the domestic life of these times.
Many of you were either leaving home or
far away from it, communicating bv uncer
tain letter. What a morning that whs
when you left home] Father and mother
crying, sisters crying, you smiling outside
but cry ing inside. Everybody nervous ami
excited. Boys of the blue and gray! whether
you started from the banks of the Hudson,
or the Savannah, or the Androscoggin, don’t
you remember the scenes at the front door,
at the rail car window, on the steamboat
landing? The huzza could not drown out
the suppressed sadness. Don’t you remem
ber those charges to write home often, and
take good care of yourself, be good hoys,
and the good-by kiss which they thought,
might be forever. Then the home sickness
as you paced the river bank on a starlight
night on picket duty, and the sly tears which
you wiped off when you heard a group
at the camp fire singing the plantation
song about the old folks at home. The din
ner of hardtack on Thanksgiving day, and
the Christmas without any presents, and the
long nights in the hospital so different from
the sickness when you were at home with
mother and ski ter at the bedside and the
clock in the hall giving the exact moment
for the medicine; and that forced march
when your legs ached, and your head ached,
and your wounds ached, and more than ali
youi- heart ached. Homesickness which had
in it a suffocation and a pang worse than
death. You never got hardened os a guards
man m the Crimean war. who heartlessly
wrote home to lita mother:
"I do not wont to see any more wring
letters come to the Crimea from you. Those
I have received 1 put into my rifle after
loading it, and have lire! them at the Rus
sians, Isieause you apjiear to have a strong
dislike of tiicrn. If you have seen os many
of them killed as I have you would not have
os many weak ideas as you now have."
You never felt like that. When a sol
dier’s kmqwiaoK was found after bis death in
the American war there was generally a
careful omskace containing a Bible, a few
photographs aud letters from home. On
the other hand, tens of thousands of homes
waited lor news. Barents saying: “Twenty
thousand killed? I wonder if our boy was
among them.” Fainting dead away in post
offices and telegraph stations. Both the
ears of Gref tilled with the sobs and agonies
of kindred waiting for news, or dropping
under tho announcement of bad news.
Speak, swamps of the Cbickahomiuy, and
midnight lagoons, and fire-rafts of the Mis
sissippi, and gunboats before Vicksburg,
and woods of Antietam, and tell to all the
mountains and valleys" and rivers and lakes
of North and South, jeremiads of war times
that have never been syllabled.
Beside that domestic .perturbation and
homesickness of those days, put the sweet
domesticity of to-day. The oiily camp-fire
you uow ever sit at is the one kiudied in
stove or furnace or hearth. Instead of a
half-ration of salt, pork, a repast luxuriant
because imrtaken of by loving family circle
aud in secret confidences. O, now I see who
those letters were for, the letters you, the
young soldier, took so long in your tent to
write, and that you were so particular to
put in the mail without anyone seeing you
lest you te teased by youy comrades. God
spared you to got back, and though tho old
people have gone, you have a home of your
owu construction, and you often contrast
those awful a teeners and filial mid
brotherly and loverly heartbreaks with
your present residence, which is
the dearest place you will find
this side of heaven. The place where your
children were born is the place where you
want to die. To write' the figures of 1868, I
set up four crystals, crystals of tears. To
write tho figures of 1887, 1 stand up four
members of your household; figures of rosy
cheeks au k flaxen hair, if I can get them to
stand still tong enough.
Contrast also tho religious opportunities
of twenty years ago with now. Often on
the march from Sunday morn till night, or
commanded by officers who considered the
names of God and Christ of no use except, to
swear by. Sometimes the drum-head, the
pulpit standing in heat or cold, all
the surroundings of military life having a
tendency to make you reckless. No privacy
for prayer or Bible reading. No sound of
church bells. Sabbaths spent far away from
the place whore you were brought up. Now
the choicest sanctuaries, easy pew, all Chris
tian surroundings, the air full of God and
Christ, and heaven and doxology. Three
mountains lilting themselves into the Holy
light—Mount Sinai thundering its law.
Mount Calvary pleading the sacrifice. Mount
Fisgay displaying the Fromised Land.
Contrast of national condition: 1862,
spending money, by the millions, in devast
ation of property and life; 1887, the
finances so r<>constructad that all the stock
gamblers of Wall street combined cannot
make a national panic; 1862, surgeons of
the land setting broken bones, and ampu
tating gangrened limbs, and studying gun
shot fractures, and inventing easy ambu
lance* for the wounded and dying; 1887,
surgeons giving their attentions to those in
casualty of agriculture, of commerce or
mechanical life, the rushing of the ambu
lance through our streets, not suggesting
battle but quick relief of someone
fallen in i>eaceful industries; 1862, thirty
live millions inhabitants in this land;
1887, ftitv-ftfty millions; 1862, wheat, about
eighty million bushels; 1887, the wheat will
be nteut five hundred million bushels: 1862,
Faeific coast live weeks from the Atlantic;
1887, for three reasons, Union Faciflo,
Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific, only
seven days across. Look at the long line of
churches, universities, asylums and houses
with which during the last few years this
land has teen decorated.
Living soldiers of the North and South,
take new and special ordination at this sea
son of tiie year, to garland the sepulchres of
your fallen comrades. Nothing is too good
for their memories. Turn all the private
tombs and the national .cemeteries into gar
dens. Ye dead of Malvern Hill, and Cold
Harbor, and Murfreesboro, and Manasses
Junction, and Cumberland Gap. and field
hospital, receive these floral offerings of the
living soldiers.
But they shall come again, all the dead
troops. We sometimes talk about military
reviews, such ms took place in Paris in the
time of Marshal Ney, in London in the
time of Wellington, and in our own land,
but what tame things compared with the
final review, when all the armies of the ages
shall pan for divine ami angelic inspection.
St. John says tho armies of heaven ride on
white horses, aud I don't know but many of
the old cavalry Jiorso* of earthly battle,
that were wounded aud worn out in service,
rimy have resurrection. It would te only
fair that, raised up and ennobled, they
would be resurrected for the grand review
of the judgment day. , It would not take
any more power to reconstruct their bodies
tlian to reconstruct ours, and I should te
very glad to see them among the white
horses of Apocalyptic vision. Hark to the
trumpet blast, the reveille of tho last judg
ment! They come up. All
the armies of all lands and
all centuries, on whichever side they
fought, whether for freedom or despotism,
for the right or the wrong. They come I
They come! Darius, and Cyrus, and Sen
nacherib, and Joshua, and David, leading
forth the armies of scriptural times; Hanni
bal and Haniilcar lending forth the armies
of the Carthaginians; Victor Emanuel aud
Garibaldi leading on the armies of the
Italians: Tamerlane and Ghongis Kiinu fol
lowed by the armies of Asia; Gtistavus
Adolphus, and Ptolemy Fhllopator, and
Xcrxi-s. and Alexander, uud Sinurmnis, and
Washington, leading battalion after bat
talion. The dead American ai-mies of 1776
arid 1812, and one million of Northern and
Southern dead in our civil war. They come
up. They pass on in review. The six
million fallen in Napoleonic battles, tho
twelve million Germans fallen in tho Thirty
Years War, the fifteen million fallen in the
war under Hesostris, the twenty million
fallen in tho wars of Justinian, the twentv
five million fallen in Jewish wars, the
eighty million fallen in the Crusades, the
one hundred and eighty million
fallen in the wars with Sara
cens and Turks; the thirty-five billion men
estimated to have fallen in battle, enough,
according to one statistician, if they stood
four abreast, to retch clear around the
earth 442 times.
But we shall have time to see them pass
in review before the throne of Judgment,,
the cavalrymen, tho artillerymen, the spear
men, the infantry, the sharpshooters, tho
gunners, the so|>pers, the miners, the
archers, the skirmishers, men of all colors,
of ail epaulets, of all standards, of all
weaponry, of all countries, tet the earth
te especially balanced to lieur their tread.
Forward! forward! Let the orchestra of
the heavenly galleni* play the grand
march, joined by ail the filers, drum
mers and military bands that ever
sounded victory or defeat nt
Eylau or Borodino, Marathon or
Thermopylae, Bunker Hill or Yorktown,
Holferirio or Balaclava, Solan or Gettys
burg, from the time when Joshua halted as
tronomy above Gils ■oil and Ajalon till the
last man surrendered to Garnet. Wolseley at
Tel-el-Kebir. Nations, companies, battal
ions, ages, centuries and the universe! For
ward in the grand review of the judgment?
Forward! Gracious and eternal God! on
that day may it te found that we are all
marching in the right regiment and that we
carried th right standard, and that we
fought under the right commander, all
heaven, some on amethystine battlement
and others standing in the shining gates,
some ou pearly shore and others on turreteu
heights, giving us the resounding million-
voiced chom". “Lo hitn that overcoroeth!”
Blessed lx* the Lord God of Israel from ever
lasting to everlasting, and let the whole
earth bo filled with His glory. Amen and
amen!
The Marine Band, which led with a volun
tary. gave a sacred concert after the sermon,
and at 5 o’clock the troops were brought on
for the dress parade. About 1,000 men
were in line. The weather was tine and
everything combined to make it the most
brilliant pageant of the entire encampment.
It was witnessed by over 2.‘>,000 people.
BIONAL SERVICE REPORT.
Detailed Statement of Weather Con
dition for the Pact Week.
Washington, May 29.— The following is
the weathor and crop bulletin issued to-duy
by the signal office for the week ending
May 28:
THE TEMPERATUItH.
During the week ending May 2$ the
weather has been slightly warmer than
usual in the Mississippi valley, and from
southern New England westward over New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The week
has been slightly cooler than usual in Wis
consin, Minnesota, Virginia and the South
Atlantic Hlates, but in all the agricultural
districts east of the Hooky Mountains the
average temperature differs slightly from
the normal. The season from Jan. 1 to
May 38 lins been slightly warmer than
usual in the grain and tobacco regions,
while the average doily excess in the cotton
region has beeu from 1.5 to 2.0 degrees.
THE RAINFALL.
During the week the rainfall has been
sligntiy in excess of the average in the cot
’ ton regions, trom Texas east to Georgia and
generally in New England, New York,
Pennsylvania and Virginia. Frequent
showers occurred in the corn and wheat
regions, where the total rainfall for the
week, although well distributed, was slightly
lielow the normal. Kansas has been favored
by a rainfall in excess of the normal, owing
to the favorable distribution of the rainfall
The seasonal deficiency of ten to fifteen
inches, appeal's, as yet, uuinjurious to the
cotton regions.
GENERAL REMA.RKB.
Throughout the agricultural districts the
woafther has proved especially favorable for
the growing crops, and the reports of Sun
day, May 21), show that the favorable con
ditions of the rainfall and temperature yet
continue, except in Michigan, Illinois and
Southern Minnesota, where needed showers
are to-day predicted.
EX-GOV. SHEPPARD HURT.
A Fractious Horae Causes Him a Severe
Blow on the Head.
St. Lons, May 21).—A special from Chi
huahua, Mex., says: A gentleman just in
from the El Paso mining districts re)x>rts
that ex-Clov. Sheppard recently met with a
severe accident while riding on horsolwu-k
through one of the tunnels. His horse Up
coming frightened in jumping caused the
forepart of the Governor’s head to strike
with great force against the roof
of the tunnel, cutting a long and deep gash.
He was conveyed to his residence, where
upon erysipelas s.-t in, and he is now lying
in a very critical condition. Mi's. Sheppard
and a prominent physician were sent for,
and they are now on their way from Wash
ington to the mines.
"FISHERMAN’S LUCK" SO FAR.
How the President Spends His Time
in the Adirondack.
Prospect House. N. Y., May 30.—1n
spite of the most dismal woat her the Presi
dent made his first fishing excursion yester
day. He returned, however, unsuccessful.
To-day he strolled about tho hotel, chatted
with the guests, aud rested quietly at his
cottage until 3 o’clock, when he and his
l>art y joined the other guests in the goneral
dining-room. There were no fishing excur
sions to-day. The ladies went to a little
chapel, not far from the hotel, and In the
absence of a clergyman, held a little singing
service for an hour. The President exjiecth
to have some good sport to-morrow.
THE ALTOONA WRECK.
Coroner’s Verdict of Cause of Death
is “Unavoidable Accident.”
Altoona, Pa., May 39. —The wounded
persons of tho fast lino wreck are doing
well, and several will resume their journey
to-morrow. Miss Puckett, of Alexandria,
Va., is the only one in a .serious condition.
It is thought that ouo of her legs will have
to tie amputated, as otherwise she wiJl die.
The Coroner impaneled two sets of jury
men, and the verdict rende red in each case
was as follows: “After examining the wit
nesses, we, the following jurors, do return
the following verdict: That the deceased
came to his death by an unavoidable aooi
dent, one which human forethought could
not prevent.”
WESTERN CROP PROSPECTS.
Favorable Chicago Reports of Winter
Wheat.
Chicago, May 39.—Tho Former’* Review
says: ‘‘Our reports this week indicate that
the local rains throughout the Western
Htates have more or less broken up the
drought. A more improved condition of
a.(fairs is noticeable in relation to winter
wheql iu Indiana ami Ohio, and wtiile other
(States have suffered from lack of rain, it
seems probable that should present condi
tions continue the damage will lie leas than
was CTpeclod. More rain is generally need*
ed except in thc*Houthern States.”
OUR NAVY HEARD FROM.
A Schooner Run Into by tho United
States Steamer Richmond.
New York, May 39. —Tho schooner De
catur Oakes, Capt. linker, from Norfolk for
this port with lumber, at 3:80 a. m. to-day,
while off Bnrriegat during a heavy squall,
was run into by the United States steamer
Richmond. The schooner's bowsprit, jib
boom, sam.son post and windlass were car
ried away. She was taken is tow by the
Richmond end brought to this port.
Interceding for Mexican Officers.
St. Lotus, May 29.—A special from tho
City of Mexico says the Secretary of Foreign
Afiairs, Mr. Monacal, has addressed a reply
to the inquest made by tho United States
government that the death sentence pro
tiountwi against Col. Arvisxa and his com
panion, on account of the part they took in
a recent violation of American territory at
Nogales is' commuted. He states that the'
limiter has l*en reported to the President.
He also st-atcM by direction of the President
that the humane sentiments of tl.e United
States officials are duly appreciated, ami
that they will be homo iu mind in case the
sentence against the Nogales offenders
should l>e confirmed.
Peter Henderson, liolleving that the cab
bage fly (the pirent of the cahl>agn maggot)
is attracted to the cabbage roots by the
scent of the manure, is going to trv oottou
k.l and meal which is odorless, aa a fertiliser,
mid thinks he may be able to mttwtt the tty,
audthu-. secure exemption fruni tho ravages
of its progeny, the maggot. jlNtfHMkl
1 PRIC E #lO A YEAR. I
| a CENTS A COPY, f
DfSSTOFS WORK PRAISED
LANDS RECLAIMED BY THE DRAIN.
AGE COMPANY.
Favorable Report by the Legislative
Investigating Committee Recom
mendation That the Work Be Puehed
to Speedy Completion—lmportant
Legislation Still Untouched—Liberal
Appropriations.
Tallahassee, Fla., May 39.—-The Leg
islative Committee, appointed to visit the
Okeechobee drainage district and report as
to the condition of the lands drained by the
Philadelphia company, refs'rt that they
found the water in Lake Tohopckaliga eight
feet below its original levt 1. The lands that
were formerly impassable for the water and
marsh and valueless are rendered exceeding
ly valuable, and fine crops ore growing
there on them now. The committee con
clude that the immense value of tlw re
claimed lands to the State, and the imruens*
revenue to bedorived from their cultivation,
make it of the utmost importance to
tho State, and particularly to the
Southern companies that the drainage
scheme be carried to a speedy completion.
“We therefore recommend that such legis
lative action he had during the present sua
sion as will authorize the Board of Interna-
Imnrovrments to act promptly and efficient
ly m seeming the completion of the work.”
The Senate has piased. the bill authorizing
the trustees to make terms with the Drain
age Company for the completion of th*
drainage scheme begun by them.
NECESSARY LEGISLATION.
The Legislatim' will adjourn next Friday,
JuneS. Before that time, however, there
are measures not yet considered, that the
constitution commands the legislative Ixxly
to euact, so as to put the organic law into
successful operation. These matters have
beeu deferred from day to day on various
pretexts, hut now the time has about ex
pired and they must be attended to, even
though they receive no part of the careful
consideration their impirtanee deserves.
New election laws are absolutely no
sary, but have not been touched as yet. Ths
Governor has signed about twenty lulls of
no great importance, hut the appointment
of judges and other officials still remain to
la* made. Altogether this legislature and
its attendant circumstances are not such as
to give Floridians the pleasure of [Miinting
with pride to the good works that spring
from them.
LIBERAL APPROPRIATIONS.
The bill providing for a general display of
Florida products at the Bun-Tropieal Expo
sition at Jacksonville contains an appro
priation of s2,(Fit), and it is hoped that the
judicious expenditure of this amount will
lie the moans of bringing the great resources
of the Blate to the attention of the thousands
of persons who visit Jacksonville at all sea
sons of the V'nr. Ample appropriations
have been made for the East. Florida Semi
nary at Gainesville and tho Agricultural at
Italic City, and when the location of the
normal schools is determined u[ionthey will
be abundantly provided for by the State.
Ex-Gov. Bfoxham has boon quite ill at his
residence in this city, but is rapidly recov
ering and is able to take short rides on
horseback. Unit'd States Senator PaitoO
still remains at the capital and aids mate
rially in framing the measures acted upon
by the legislature.
AN EVENING WITH A KING.
, A,,... , ...
Festive Days of Kalakaua In New
York
New York, May 28.—Now that Queen
Kapiolani has left our shores, after enjoying
her fortnight*sojourn In New York in a
stylo surpassing oven her experiences in Bos
ton and San Francisco, there is no impro
priety in mentioning tho fact that her royal
spouse, King Kalakaua, who is said to be in
appreciative of her merits, spent some very
festive days when in this city alxmt a dozen
years ago. There would, in truth, have l>een
no impudence in speaking of the fact even
while she was here, as she is ail too well
aware of his renown as aroystering blade in
Honolulu, where he reigns King of tho Can
nibal Islands.
1 i[ient nu evening in company with KaU
kaita among a group of friends, when he was
in this city, the only evening J ever crossed
legs under tho table with a king. He
qunited with glee, moderation and dignity,
sometimes through a straw, tho fragrant
beverages that were mixed for his pleasure,
and ho mingled the moments with sallies
ami good humor that gave zest to bis com
panionship. I venture the remark that ha
is tho most democratic of kings, though, as
I have said, my acquaintance with royalty
has been limited to himself. In the course
of the evoning I found myself alone with
him at a table over which blent the smoke
of our cigars. 1 drew out the
King as he 101 l Into a thoughtful mood
and became talkative, A- few questions
about his country put him at his best in a
few moments. His discourse was a revela
tion and a surprise to mo. I found him to
be a man of many accomplishments and
something of a savant. His conversation
was full of knowledge and intelligence, not
only regarding affairs, hut also other mat
ters in tho realm of science. He spoke of
the natural history of the seven islands over
which he reigns, and with which he had the
familiarity that could cotne only through
acute olieervation mid study. He spoke of
the native race to which he belonged, and
interested me especially with the idea which
he developed, that the race wax
not of Asiatic origin, but had
immigrated or drifted at some unknown pe
riod of Lime from the West coast of Mexico,
and belonged, perha.s, to the primitive stock
from which sprang the Joltecs or Aztecs.
He loin ted out certain varial analogies,
traced the relations of certain customs, ana
referred to some traditions among the peo
ple of his native isle. He showed, as he pro
ceeded, a remarkable knowledge of ethnol
ogy, linguistics and customs, and talked
like a scholar, as well as a gentleman, from
flrsf to last. m
In short. I found King Kalakaua to bo
not only a long-headed politician, but ansan
of varied accomplishments. 8o that his no
toriety as roysterer ought to lie supple
mented by another reputation which I found
him deserving.
John Hwinton.
There is a* much danger of hurting ths
brain by idleness us bv overwork. Accord
ing to a writer in Faith and I York, Dr.
Farquharson argues that intellectual pows*
is lessened by the Ustlessnes* in which the
well-to-do classes generally spend their Uvea
Under such couditiona the brain gradually
loses its health, and, although equal to the
demands of a routine existence, is unable to
withstand the strain of sudden emergency.
80, when a load of work is utmxjieetedly
thrown on it in its unprepared state, the
woiwt consequences of what, may lie called
overwork snow themselves. Similarly a
man accustomed to sedentary pursuits it
liable to lie physically injured by taking
suddenly too violent exorcise Dr.
Farqulmrsnn further says that s > long oh a
bram-worker can sleep well, eat well, and
take a fair proportion of out-door
exercise he is sate to keep on. When
an v of these conditions (ail it is Unto to cry a
liolt-