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t ESTABLISHED ISSO. J. 11. EBTILL, Editor juid Proprietor, j* 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-