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PRAISES OF QUEEN TIC.
JUBILEE CHORAL SERVICES IN
NEW YORK.
Thousands Unable to Gain Admission
to the Spacious Church-Eloquent
and Stirring Sermon of Rev. Dr.
Morgan-The Queen Described in the
Words of Solomon.
New York, June 19.—Jubilee choral ser
vices, in celebration of the fiftieth anniver
sary of the accession to the throne of Queen
Victoria, were held this afternoon in
Trinity church. The spacious edifice was
completely filled with people, and several
thousand gathered outside, as it was im
possible to get in. The service, as a whole,
was conducted by the Rev. J. W. Hill.
Rev. Dr. Dacosta, one of the chaplains of
Bt. George’s Society, read the first lesson;
Rev. Mr. Turner, of Brooklyn, the second,
while Bishop Potter read the closing col
lect and pronounced the benediction. A
feature of the service was the sermon
by Rev. D. Morgan, rector of the Church of
the Heavenly Rest, and chaplain of St.
George’s and St. David's. His text was
Proverbs xxxi.. 30—“A woman thatfeareth
the Lord she shall be praised.” “Such an
one.” said the preacher, ‘‘is England's Queen,
and as such we are gathered here to cele
brate the jubilee of her reign to
day.” The speaker alluded to victoria
as ” one who, regarded as a Queen
or a woman, would be spoken of
with affection and respect to the end of his
tory, aud of her and to her, he used the
words of Solomon, “Many daughters have
done virtuously, but thou exeellest them
all.”. The Prince of Wales was referred to
as proving himself more and more worthy,
as years go by, of the mother who bore
him, and more becoming better fitted for
the responsibilities that one day would be
imposed on him.
OTHER JUBILEE SERVICES.
Jubilee services were also held at the
Church of St. John, the Evangelist. The
sermon was taken from the text, Proverbs
xi., 18, “A gracious woman retaineth
honor.”
In Brooklyn similar services were held at
the Church of the Atonement and the
Church of the Incarnation. ,
LIVERPOOL’S JUBILEE RIOT.
Londox, June 19.—A riot occurred during
the jubilee celebration at Liverpool to-day
between a party of Orangemen and a crowd
of Socialists. Sticks and stones were freely
used, and many of both sides received seri
ous cuts and bruises. The police dispersed
the rioters and arrested five of the leading
'participants.
' ENGLAND’S ROYAL VISITORS.
The Prince of Wales and his sons met the
Duke of Aosta, the Grand Duke of Saxe-
Coburg-Gotha, and Prinoe Herman Hohen
lohe. on their arrival in London yesterday’.
The streets of the city were thronged to
day with people eager to see the jubilee
preparations and to catch a glimpse of the
1 oreign royal visitors. The German Crown
Prince and his family passed the day’ at
Marlborough House with the Prince of
Wales. They . attended divine service in
the Chapel Royal, where the most of the
jubilee guests met.
* A nation’s jubilee.
Jubilee service, were held throughout the
kingdom to-day. The Marchioness of Lon
donderry’ will present to the Queen a casket
containing 150,000 signatures and £8,000,000
in cash, a jubilee offering from the Irish
women. The leading European newspapers
contain articles reviewing Queen Victoria’s
reign. The German papers are especially
warm in their comments. The warm tradi
tional friendship between the two courts,
and the sympathy’ awakened in Germany by
the Queen’s sincere affection for the Fri nee
Consort, naturally bringing the festival
closer to the hearts of the Germans than to
any others.
O’BRIEN CHEERED.
Enthusiastic Reception Extended by
the Citizens of Dublin.
Dublin, June 19. —Mr. William O’Brien
arrived here this evening, and was received
with the greatest ovation witnessed in many
years. He was met at the railway station
by the Lord Mayor and the corporation, and
by Messrs. Davitt, Kenney, and others.
Mr. O’Brien entered the Lord Mayor's car
riage, which was then dragged along by a
crowd of citizens, the horses having been
detached. A procession followed, composed
of thousands of citizens with bands, banners,
etc.
A deputation of the Gaelic Athletic So
ciety, comprising several hundreds of the
members, all dressed in costume, joined the
procession. The route of the procession,
extending two miles, was densely packod
with people, aud all the windows
along the lino were crowded. Having
arrived at the hotel, th Lord Mayor,
from a balcony on Sackville street,
proposed cheers for Mr. O’Brien, Mr.
Davitt, the Bodyke tenants and Mr. Glad
stone and groe.us for Lord Landsdowno, all
rack renting landlords and Lord Salisbury.
Theresponses were lusty. Mr. O’Brien
spoke briefly, his voice failing to reach more
than a small part of the assemblage. The
crush of people was so gival that many per
sons fainted.
0 The Hungarian Election.
Pesth. June 19. —The elections have re
sulted in the return of Liberals, 38
Moderate Oppositionists, 59 Independents,
9 anti-Semitics and 15 members ,of no par
ticular party.
PILGRIMS ON A LONG PILGRIMAGE.
Of the party of Pilgrims who, while cross
ing the Danube at 1 ’alts, were thrown into
the water by the capsizing of the boat, 127
wei*e rescued and flf are still missing, and
the bodies of 101, who were drowned, have
been recovered.
ELECTION niOTS IN HUNGARY.
Vienna. June 19.—At Matterdorflf, Hun
gary, Saturday, a body of gendannie was
attacked by Cretin n electors aud the gend
armes, firing on the mob, shot live dead,
l’he election was suspended.
No New Cases at Key West.
Key West,' June 19. —No new cases of
yellow fever have appeared in the city since
Yesterday, but the three sailors sick with
he disease on board the British hark
“Brothers and Sisters” have been removed
to the hospital. There have been two deaths
nt the hospital since yesterday, namely: Ed
ward Dietrick auu Bred Woman. The
record up to date stands ns follows: cases 34,
deaths 13, discharged cured 7, remaining
lick 14.
The Veterans Homeward Bound.
Boston. June 19. —The Robert E. Leo
camp of Confederate veterans, of Rich
mond. Vn., were this afternoon divided into
several parties and driv en to various points
of interest in the suburbs by the members
of the Grand Army of the Republic. On
returning to the city they ware dined at fhc
Fremont House, after whieh they wore es
corted to the Old Colony railroad station
bv Post No. IS. Here they took the rt
o'clock train for New York on their return
borne.
Wh 'tertis
A MANIAC’S FEROCITY.
An Escaped Lunatic Tries to Murder
His Wife and Her Brother.
Chicago, June 19.—A special from St.
Joseph, Mo., say’s: James B. Molcow, an
insane patient, escaped from State Asylum
No. 2, last evening and way to his
home near Gower, twenty miles distant,
arriving there about 11 o’clock. His wife
had retired, but her brother, a Mr. Allen,
was up. The crazy man silently
entered a rear door, struck Allen a terrible
blow on the head with a liar of iron, pro
ducing insensibility. He then entered his
wife's bedroom and awoke her. He had a
pistol, which he presented to her
“®®d and bade her follow him.
Tne frightened woman obeyed, and he
led her to the orchard. He commanded her
to take a position with her back against a
tree. The woman complied, and the maniac
then drew from his pocket a number of
stones, which he bad picked up on the wav,
and with the revolver in .his left hand
pointed at the woman, began to pelt her with
them. When she turned to run into the
house the maniac opened fq-c on her
with the pistol, but did not
succeed in hitting her. In the meantime
Allen had returned to consciousness, and
hearing the shooting rushed to the spot
armed with a Winchester rifle. It was very
dark and before he knew it the maniac was
within ten feet of him and began firing.
Allen raised his rifle and fired, Molcow fall
ing to the ground with a shot through his
thigh.
STRUGGLING FOR LIFE.
Thinking he had fatally injured the man.
Alien dropped his rifle and went to his as
sistance. Just as he <Vus stooping to raise
him up the maniac caught him about the
neck and then ensued a life and death strug
gle. The great strength of the crazy man
soon overpowered Allen, and just as he was
giving up Mrs. Molcow came up and struck
her husband on the back of the head,
knocking him senseless. Soon after the
Sheriff and his deputies arrived and ironed
the maniac, who is now safely lodged in the
asylum hospital.
AN UNRULY ELEPHANT.
Fatal Circus Panic—Death by a Mis
placed Switch- Drowning Accident.
Chicago, June 19.—During the perform
ance of*a circus at New Lisbon, 0., last
night, a panic occurred. An elephant
which was performing became unruly ard
attacked the clown, injuring him badly. The
trainer who was coining into the ring with
another elephant, hastened to the clown's
assistance when the other animal
also started on a rampage, causing a stam
pede. The confusion tor a time was terrible,
men, women and children yelling and
crowding for the entrance. When quiet
was restored it was found that one young
lady's leg had been broken and several
women and children were badly’ bruised.
One of the lady equestriennes
during the excitement fell in the midst of
the foiu’ horses she was riding, and was
terribly hurt about the head and chest. Her
condition is precarious.
THE FATAL MISPLACED SWITCH.
A misplaced sw itch caused a switch en
gine to collide with the out-bound passen
ger train oii the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad, in the yards at Western
avenue, this morning. The smoking car of
the passenger train was badly wrecked. It
had no occupants.
An unknown laborer riding on the plat
form was killed and Engineer Venara re
ceived serious injuries. The passengers es
caped with a severe shaking up.
THREE ME}’ DROWNED.
Three young men, named Baker. Miller
and Clark, were caught by a squall and
drowned while boating on the lake to-day.
CANON WILBERFORCE.
He Addresses an Immense New York
Audience on Temperance.
New York, June 19.—A large audience
gathered in Chickering Hall this afternoon,
to greet Canon Wilberforce, of England,
who was announced to speak under the
auspices of the National Temperance So
ciety. Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage pre
sided, and many clergymen of various de
nominations, known in connection with the
temperance cause, had seats on the plat
form. In introducing the speaker, Dr.
Talmage said the audience were glad to
welcome the canon, not because he was a son
of Bishop Wilberforce, not because he was a
grandson of William Wilberforce, the great
English emancipator, but because ho was
as g;>cd and us strong as either. At the
reverend doctor’s appearance, the people
rose in their seats and waved their handker
chiefs at the visitor, “in Christian saluta
tion.” Canon Willberforce spoke energeti
cally and rapidly for an hour and awoke
great enthusiasm.
CHICAGO CROP REPORTS.
Wheat in Good Condition, Also Corn,
But the Oat Crop is Damaged.
Chicago, June 19.—The weekly crop
summary of the Farmer’s Review says: At
this date the winter wheat crop in all sec
tions has so nearly reached the state of ma
turity that reports show no change In its
condition, and none will take place unless
hail, insects or rust should damage the
ripening of the grain. Eight winter wheat
growing States report an average condition
of the crop of 89 per cent. The condition of
the oat crop from drought and insects is
everywhere below the average.
Com products are first-class; lmv and
grass short from the drought, and the fruit
prospects fair.
ROARING A N D SH AKING
Real Estate Pretty Lively at Sum
merville.
Charleston, S. C.. June 19.—A special
to the Sewn and Courier rejwrts a startling
shock of earthquake at Summerville at 10:37
this morning, accompanied by the most pro
longed roaring beard since Oct. 32,
of last year. The shock caused a sensible
vibration of the houses and furniture, but
was not sufficient to do any injury or cause
groat alarm. The roar was faintly heard by
some persons in Charleston, At Summer
ville the roar seemed to come from the
southwest.
Calhoun’e Busy Boom,
Calhoun, Ga., June 17. Calhoun is still
on a boom. Nix new houses are being
erected. Col. A. N. Starr is putting up a
nice residence, J. M. Ballew two neat tene
ment houses. J. M. Smith one neat dwelling,
and J. B. Johnson a two-story brick, cover
ing the corner fronting Railroad and Court
House streets, the first floor to have two
storerooms, 30 by 00 feet, and a hall up-
Htuirs for theatrical troupes 00 by 00 feet.
The crops hiv looking fine. There are no
peaches, but blackberries are plentiful.
Washburn Only a Pile of Ashes.
Chicago, June 19.—The village of Wash
burn, Woodford county, was wiped out by
tire yesterday. Seventeen of the business
houses were completely destroyed The
village had no fire protection. The loss will
approximate 890,000, on which there is
about *40,000 insurance.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1887.
WEEKLY CROP REPORTS.
Seasonable Rains and Good Weather
Have Effected Crops Favorably.
Washington, June 19.—The signal office
has issued the following weather crop bul
letin for the week ending June 18:
TEMPERATURE.
During the week the weather has been
warmer than the average for the month,
except at stations on the Atlantic and Gulf
coast, in the West Gulf States and on the
Pacific coast, north of San Francisco. In
the wheat and corn regions in the North the
excess of the temperature for the W’eek has
been from 25° to 70° on an average, a daily
excess above the normal of from 4” to ID 3 .
The grc-itest excess of temperature occurred
in the Northwest, and the weather condi
tions of the week are reported as specially
favoraJaloJor corn and wheat, except in sec
lions of Illinois, lowa and Eastern Missouri,
where all the crops, except corn, have been
more or less injured by the drought. In the
cotton regions the temperature has differed
but slightly front the normal, except in Ar
kansas and Texas, where the daily average
has been from 2' to 3° cooler than the usual.
In the tobacco region west of the
Alleghenies the daily’ excess of
.temperature ranges from 3° to 4°,
while to the eastward it has differed but
slightly from the normal for the week. The
temperature for the season, from Jan. 1 to
June 18, in the cotton and corn regions, has
been in excess, the daily average ranging
from 1° to 2°, while on the South Atlantic
and North Pacific coasts and in Northern
California the temperature for the season
has been slightly below the normal.
RAINFALL.
During the week there has been a defi
ciency of rainfall generally throughout the
agricultural regions east of the Rocky
Mountains, except in sections of Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kan
sas, where slight excesses are reported. The
greatest deficiency of rainfall occurred in
the Southern States, in the lower Ohio and
the central Mississippi valleys. This de
ficiency in the cotton region has probably
not as yet affected that crop unfavorably,
owing to the numerous and well distributed
showers of the previous week.
But reports generally show
that more rain is needed
in that section. Slight deficiencies of rain
fall are also reported in New England, but
generally throughout the Northern Stales
numerous and well distributed showers have
occurred, except in Illinois, where rain is
much needed. The large seasonal deficiency
of rainfall in the Southern States has been
increased during the week, and now ranges
from 10 to Ifi inches in the cotton regions.
The seasonal deficiency in lowa, Illinois and
Southern Wisconsin exceeds 5 inches, while
an excess of 5 inches is reported from the
North Pacific coast and the Upper Ohio val
ley.
GENERAL REMARKS.
The week has been generally favorable
for staple crops. There has been more than
the average amount of sunshine in the cen
tral valley, mid the weather has been es
pecially favorable for harvesting, which has
been largely completed for wheat and hay
in the Southern States and now extends to
the forty-second parallel in many sections of
the wheat region.
A FLORIDA ELOPEMENT.
A Fond Husband Loses His Wife and
a “Friend ’ the Same Day.
Windsor, Fla., June 18.—Mrs. T. M.
King, of this place, left her. husband a few
day’s since, pretending that she was going to
visit relatives in Columbus, Ga. Mr. G. W.
Lewis, a single man, disappeared next day,
and it was not until some time had elapsed
that the unsuspecting husband found notes
in his house from Lewis to the unfaithful
wife, of a very affectionate character, aud
assuring her that he would meet her at the
appointed place; that they would soon be be
yond danger, etc.
On looking further he found n note writ
ten bv his wife to Lewis that convinced
him that she was unfaithful and that they’
had eloped. He found she had taken his
money and most of his valuables, but very
wisely concluded, notwithstanding his miss
ing jewelry, that he was very fortunate in
getting rid of her. King is from Columbus,
(fa. He has been living here for one year,
and says he lias been married eight years.
Lewis is from Alabama, was in business at
Rochelle for three years and came here one
year ago and established a fishery’.
FOUR HIGH STANDARDS.
Judge Lochrane’s Standards of Merit
—Funeral Services.
Atlanta, Ga., June 19.—An immense
crowd filled the First Baptist church this
morning at the funeral of Judge Lochrane.
Dr. Hawthorne delivered a discourse from
the words of Jonathan to David: “Thou
sbalt be missed, for thy seat shall be empty,”
highly eulogizing the deceased as a lawyer,
jurist, statesman and Christian. Henry W.
Hilliard followed him in a short address of
eulogy. The remains were interred at Oak
land.
A SHREWD NEGRO.
He Knew Money Would Carry Him
Where Passes Wouldn’t.
Jacksonville, Fla., June 19. —Capt.W.
B. Watson’s residence in this city was en
tered by a thief last evening and 845 in
money and a number of railroad passes were
extracted from his pocket. This evening a
negro called at the Captain’s house with the
passes, stating that fie found them on the
street, but before the negro could Ik; arrested
he sloped.
Slight Accident on the Central.
Millen, Ga., June 19.—Fire early this
morning burned down a tree, near the
thirty-eighth mile post, on the Cflpt ral road,
which fell across the
train No. 1, west-bound
ran int > tho tree, breaking the of
the engine, also breaking the gl&in the
engine cab. Of the two coach*-sßteadod
with colored excursionists, one
woman, rut, about tho facte
only one that was hurt, 'iy 1 olht
could have stopped the train, but owiffijfo
so much smoke from the woods being on
fire, he did not see the tree until
he was nearly to it. The damage to the
train is. very small and caused no delay.
Sad Drowning at ThomasvlUe.
Tuomasvillk, Ga., June 19.—Lee Smith,
a young type setter in the Enterprise office,
was drowned ut Trout Luke last night.
Smith, with several young companions, as
bathing in the lake. They took a boat and
went out in deep water. The boat capsized,
and young Smith, being unable to swim,
was drowned. The poor boy cried
loudly for Help, but none present
could swim well enough to save him.
The body was recovered this morning, and
the iunoral occurred this afternoon. The
death is a sad one, the drowned lad being
the only son of a widowed mother who was
dependent upon his la lair for her support.
Over Niagara Falls.
Niagara Falls, N. Y., June 19. —An
unknown map, supposed to be F. Trigg, of
Washington, D. C., jumped from the bridge
leading to the Three Sisters’ Islands to-day
[siid was carried over Horseshoe Fall.
HOW TO SAA K THE CITIES
REV. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON
MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION.
The Kinds of Salt Needed for the Puri
fying Process—The Influence of the
Press Upon the Morals of a Commun
ity-Education and the Gospel of
Christ a Remedy.
Brooklyn. Jumb 19.—This morning at
the Tabernacle the Rev, T. DeWitt Talmage
read, previous to the sermon, portions of
Scripture descriptive of ancient cities, uud
gave out the hymn:
“Fields are white the harvest waiting,
Who will bear the sheaves away?”
His text was: “And the men of the city
said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the
situation of this city is pleasant, as my
Lord seeth; but the w ater is naught , and
the ground barren. And he said, Bring me
anew cruse, and put salt therein. And
brought it to him. And ho went forth
ulo the spring of the waters, and cast the
salt in there, and said, Thus said the Lord,
I have healed these waters; there shall not
be from thence any more death or barren
land. So the waters were healed unto this
day.”—2 Kings ii., 19-22. Dr. Talmage
said:
It is difficult to estimate bow much of the
prosperity’ and health of a city are dependent
upon good water. The time when, through
well-laid pipes and from safe reservoir, an
abundance of water, from Croton, or Ridge
wood, or Schuylkill, is brought into the
city, is appropriately celebrated with ora
tion and pyrotechnic display. Thank God
every day for clear, bright, beautiful, spark
ling water, as it drops in the shower, or
tosses up in the fountain, or rushes out at
the hydrant.
The city of Jericho, notwithstanding all
its physical and commercial advantages,
was lacking in this commercial element.
There was enough water, but it was dis
eased, and the people were crying out by r
reason thereof. Efisha the prophet comes to
the rescue. He says: “Get me anew cruse;
flil it with salt and bring it to me.” So the
cruse of salt was brought to the prophet,
and I see him walking out to the general
reservoir, and he takes that salt aud throws
it into the reservoir, and lo! all the impuri
ties depart, through a supernatural and di
vine influence, and the waters are good and
fresh and clear, and all the people clap their
hands and lift up their faces in the gladness.
Water for Jericho—clear, bright, beautiful,
God-given water!
At different times I have pointed out to
you the fountains of municipal corruption,
and this morning I propose to show you
what are the means for the rectification of
those fountains. There are four or five
kinds of salt that have a cleansing tenden
cy. So far as God may help me, I shall
bring a cruse of salt to the work, and empty
it into the great reservoir of municipal
crime, sin, and shame, ignorance and abomi
nation.
In this work of cleansing our cities, I
have first to remark, that there is a work
for the broom and the shovel that nothing
else can do. There always has been ah inti
mate connection between iniquity and dirt.
The filthy parts of the great cities are al
ways the most iniquitous parts. The gut
tei-s and the pavements of the Fourth ward,
New York, illustrate and symbolize the
character of the people in the Fourth ward.
The first thing that a bad man does when
he is converted is thoroughly to wash him
self. There were, this morning, on the way
to the different churches, thousands of men
in proper apparel who, before -their conver
sion, were unfit in their Sabbath dress.
When on the Sabbath I see a man uncleanly
in his dress, my suspicions in regard to his
moral character are aroused, and they are
always well founded. >So as to allow no ex
cuse for luck of ablution, God has cleft the
continents with rivers and lakes, and has
sunk five great oceans, and all the world
ought to be clean. Away, then, with the
dirt from our cities, not only l>ecau.se the
physical health needs an ablution, but be
cause all the great moral and religious in
terests of the cities demand it as a positive
necessity. A filthy city always has been
and always will be a wicked city.
Through tho upturning of the earth for
great improvement our city could not be ex
pected to boas clean as usual, but for tho
illimitable dirt of Brooklyn for the last six
months there is no excuse. It is not merely
a matter of dust in the eyes, and mud for
the shoes, and of stench for the nostrils, but
ol morals for the soul.
Another corrective influence that we
would bring to t>ear upon the evils of our
groat cities is a Christian printing-press.
The newspapers of any plats' are the test of
its morality or immorality. The newsboy
who runs aloug the street with a roll of
papers under his arm is a tremendous force
that cannot be turned aside nor resisted,
anil at his every step the city is elevated or
degradod. This hungry, all-devouring
American mind must nave something to
read, and upon editors, and authors, and
book publishers, aud purents aud teachers
rest the responsibility of what they shall
read. Almost every man you meet has a
I took in his hand or a newspajter in his
pocket. What book is it you have in your
hand# What newspaper is it you have
in your pocket# Ministers may preach,
reformers may plan, phiianthriipists may
toil for the elevation of the suffering and
the criminal, but until all the newspapers of
the laud and all the booksellers of tho land
set themselves against an iniquitous litera
ture —until then we shall be fighting ngainst
fearful odds. Every time tho cylinders of
our great publishing houses turn they make
the earth quake. From them goes forth a
thought like an angel of light to fed and
bless the world, or like an angel of darkness
to smite it with corruption and sin and
shame and death. May God by His om
nipotent spirit purify and elevate the
American printing press!
I go on further und say that we must de
pend upon the school fora great deal of
correcting influence. Community can no
more afford to have ignorant men in its
midst than it can afford to have uncaged
hyenas. Ignorance is the mother of hydra
headed crime. Thirty-one per cent, of all
the criminals of New York (State cau neither
read nor write. Intelligent darkness is gen
erally the precursor of moral darkness. I
know there are educated outlaws - men who,
through their sharpness of intellect, are
made more dungerons. They ease their fine
penmanship in signing other people's
names, aud their science in ingenious
burglaries, and their fine manners in
adroit libertinism. They go their round
of sin with well-cut apparel, and
dangling Jewelry and watches of eighteen
carats, and kid gloves. They are refined,
educated, magnificent villains. But that is
the exception. It is generally the caw tlmt
the criminal classes are as ignorant Os they
are wicked. For the proof of what I say, go
into the prisons and the penitentiaries, and
look upon the men and women iimarcerated.
The dishonesty in the eye, the low passion
in tho lip, nre not more conspicuous than
tho ignorance in the forehead. The ignor
ant classes are always the dangerous classes.
Demagogues marshal them. They are
helpless, aud are driven before the gale.
It is high time that all city and State au
thority, as well as the Federal gofflvamont,
appreciate the awful statistics that while
years ago in this country there was set ai*rt
forty-eight million* of acres of land for
school purposes, there are now in New Eng
land one hundred and ninety-one thousand
jieople who can neither read nor write, and
in the State of Pennsylvania two hundred
and twenty-two thousand who can neither
rend nor write, and in the State of Now
York two hundred and forty-one thousand
who can neither rcaifcnor write, while in the
United States there are nearly six millions
who can neither read nor write. Statistics
enough to stagger and confound any man
who loves his God and Ids country. Now, in
view of this fact, I am in favor of com
pulsory education. When parents ore so
bestial as to neglect this duty to the child, I
say the law, with a strong hand, at the
same time with a gentle hand, ought to lead
these little ones into the light of intelligence
and good morals. It was a beautiful tab
leau when in our city a swarthy policeman
having picked up a lost child in the street,
was found appeasing its cries with a stick
of candy he had bought at the apple stand.
That was well done, and beautifully done.
But, oh! these thousands of little ones
through our streets, who are crying for the
bread of knowledge and intelligence. Shall
we not give it to them# The officers of the
law ought to go down into the ccllais, und
up into the garrets and bring out these be
nighted little ones, and put them under
educational influences; after they have
passed through the bath and under the
comb, putting before them the spelling-’
book, and teaching them to read the bonus
Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs i
the kingdom of heaven.” Our city ought
to be father and mother both to these
outcast fittle ones. Asa recipe for the cure
of much of the woe and want, and crime
of our city, I give the words which Thor
wnldsen had chiseled on the open scroll in
the hand of the statue of John Gutenberg,
the inventor of the art of printing: “Let
there be light!”
Still further: Reformatory societies are
an important element in the rectification of
the public fountains. Without calling any
of them by name, 1 refer more especially to
those which recognize the physical as well
as the moral woes of the world. There was
pathos and a great deal of common sense in
what tho poor woman said to Dr. Guthrie
when he was telling her what a very good
woman she ought to lie. “Oh," she said,
“if you were as hungry and cold ns I am,
you could think of nothing else,” I believe
the great want of our eitv is the Gospel and
something to eat! Faith and repentance
are of infinite importance; but they cannot
satisfy an empty stomach! You luive to go
forth in this work with the bread of eternal
life in your right, hand, and the bread of
this life in your left hand, and then you can
touch them, imitating the Lord Jesus Christ,
who first broke the bread and fed the multi
tude in the wilderness, and then began to
preach, recognizing tho fact that while
!>eople are hungry they will not listen, and
they will not repent. We want more com
mon sense in the distribution of our chari
ties; fewer magnificent theories, and more
hard work.
Still further: Tho great remedial influ
ence is the Gospel of Christ. Take tiiat
down through the lanes of suffering. Take
that down amid the hovels of sin. Take
that up amid the mansions and palaces of
your city. That is the salt that can cure all
the poisonous fountains of public iniquity.
Do you know that in this cluster of three
cities, New York, Jersey City and Brooklyn,
there are r great multitude of homeless
children? You see I sjieak more in regard
to the youth and tlie children of the coun
try, because old villains are seldom re
formed, and therefore I talk more about the
little ones. They sleep under the stoops, in
the burned-out safe, in the wagons in the
streets, on the barges, wherever they can
get a board to cover them. And in the sum
mer they sleep all night long in the parks.
Their destitution is well set forth; by an in
cident,. A city missionary asked one of them:
“Where is your home#" Said he: “I don’t
have no home, sir.” “Well, where are your
father and mother?” . “They are dead, sir."
“Did you ever hear of Jesus Christ?” “No
I don’t think I ever beard of Him?” “Did
you ever hoar of God#” “Yes. I’ve heard
of God. Some of the poor people think it
kind of lucky at night to say something over
about that before they go to sleep. Yes, sir,
I’ve heal’d of Him.” Think of a conversa
tion like that in a Christian city.
How many arc waiting for you to come
out in the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ
and rescue them from the wretchedness
here! Oh that the <,'hureh of God had arms
long enough and hearts warm enough to
take them up! How many of them there
are! As I was thinking of the subject this
morning it seemed to tne as though there
was a groat brink, and that these little ones
with cut and torn feet were coming on to
ward it. And here is a group of orphans.
O fathers and mothers, what do you think
of these fatherless and motherless little
ones# No hand at home to take care of their
apparel, no heart to pity them. Said one
little one, when the mother died: “Who
will take care of my clothes now#’’ The lit
tie ones are thrown out in this great, cold
world. They are shivering on the brink
like lambs oh the verge of a precipice. Docs
not your blood run cold ns they go over.it#
And here is another group that come on
toward the precipice. They are the chil
dren of besotted parents. They are worse
off than orphan*. Look nt that pale cheek;
woo bleached it. Look at that gash across
the forehead; tho fattier struck it. Hear
that heart-piercing cry; a drunken mother’s
blasphemy compelled it. And we come out
and we say: “O ye suffering, peeled aud blis
tered ones! we come to help you.” “Too
late!” cry thousands of voices. “The path
we travel is steep down, and wo can't stop.
Too late!” and wo catch our breath and we
make a terrific outcry. “Too late!” is
echoed from the garret to the cellar, from
the gin-shop and from the brothel. “Too
late. It is too late, and they go over.
Hen' is another group, an army of neg
lected children. They come on toward the
brink, and every time they step ten thou*
and hearts break. The ground is red with
the blood of their feet. The air is heavy
with their groans. Their ranks are l*>injr
(tiled up from ail the houses of iniquity ami
shame. Skeleton Despair pushes them on
toward the brink. The (loath-knell has
already begun to toll, and t he angels of (rod
hover like birds over the plunge of a
cataract. While these children are on the
brink they halt, anrl throw out their hands
an.t cry: "Help! help!” O church of Ciod,
wdl you help! Mo* and women bought by
the blood or the Hon of God, will you help?
while Christ cries from the heavens: “Save
them from going down: I am the ransom."
I stopped on the street arid just looked at
the face of one of those little ones. Have
you ever exa mined tue faces of the neglected
children of the poor? Other children havo
gladness in their faces. When a group of
them rush across the road it scorns as though
a spring gust had unloosened an orchard of
apple blossoms, But these children of the
poor. There is but little ring in their
laughter, and it stops quick, as though some
hitter memory trloped it. They have an
old walk. They do not skip or run up on
the lumlicr just for the pleasure of leaping
down. They never tiathod in the mountain
stream. They never waded in the brook for
pebble*. Thev never chased the butterfly
across the lawn, putting their hat right
down where it was just liefore. T'hildhood
has been dashed out of them. Want waved
its wizard wand above the manger of their
birth, and withered loaves are lying where
tfod intended a budding giant of battle.
Once in a while one of these ehildred get*
out. Here Is one, for instance. At ten years
of age be is sent out by his parents, who say to
'him: “Here is <t lev '•"* 'o " • >"'n>rlb:"
nrxi steal.” The boy says: “I can't steal.”
They kick him into a corner. That night he
puts his swollen heart into the straw; but a
voice comes from heaven, saying: “Courage,
poor boy, courage|” Covering up his heart
from the bestiality, anrt stopping his ears
from the cursing, he gets on up lietter anrt
better. He washes his face clean at the
public hydrant. With a lew pennies got at
running errands, he gets a lietter coat.
Hough men, knowing that he comes from a
low street, say: “Back with you, you little
villain, to the place where you come from.”
But that night the boy says; “ffort help
me, I can't go back;” anrt quicker than ever
mother flew at the cry of the child’s pain,
the lord responds from the heavens: “Cour
age, poor boy, courage!” His bright face
gets him a position. After a while he is
second clerk. Years pass on, anrt he is
first clerk. Years pass on. The glory of
vouug manhood is on him. He comes into
the firm. He goes on from one business
success to another. He has achieved
great fortune. He is the friend of the
church of God, the friend of all good insti
tutions, and one duy he stands talking to the
Board of Trade or to ttie Chamber of Com
merce. People say: “Do yon know who
that is? Why, that is a merchant prince,
and he was born on Elm street.” But Goa
says in regard to him something better than
that: “These are they which came out of
great, tribulation, and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood of the
Lamb.” O, for someone to write the history
of boy heroes and girl heroines who have
triumphed over want and starvation, and
tilth nurt rags! Yea, the record has already
been made —made by the hand of God, and'
when these shall come at last with songs
and rejoicing, it will take a very broad hau
ner to hold tne names of all the battlefields
on which they got, the victory.
Home years ago a roughly-clad, ragged
boy came into inv brother’s office in New
York, and said: ‘'Mr. Tnhnage,lend me five
dollars." My brother sain: “Who are
you!” The boy replied: “I am nobody,
lend me five dollars.” “ What do you want
to do with flvo dollars?” “Well, the hov
replied, “my mother is siek and poor, and I
want to go into the newspaper business, and
I shall get a home for her, and I will pay
you back.” My brother gave him the five
Hollars, of course never expecting to see it
Again; but ho said: “When wifi you pay
it?’ The l>oy said: “I will pay it in six
months, sir." Time went, by, and one day a
lad came into my brother’s office, and said:
“There’s your five dollars.” “VVhnt do
you menu? What, five dollars?” inquired
my brother. “Don’t you remember that, a
hov came in here six months ago and
wanted to borrow five dollars to go into the
newspaper business?" “0, yes, I remember;
are you the lad?” “Yes," he replied, "I
have got along nicely. I have got a nice
home for my mother (she is siek yet), and I
mn as well clothed as you are, and there’s
.. A I 11 . II 1.. _ A A L
your five dollars.” O, was he not, worth
saving? Why, that lad is worth fifty such
hoys as I have sometimes seen moving in
elegant circles, never put to any use for God
or inan. Worth saving 1 Igo farther than
that, and tell you they are not
only worth saving, but they are being
saved. One of these lads nicked up from
our streets, and sent West by a benevolent,
society, wrote East, saying: “I am getting
along first rate. lam on probation in the
Methodist church. I shall lie entered as a
member the first, of next month. I now
l oach a Sunday school class of eleven boys.
I get, along first rate with it. This is a
splendid country to make a living in. If
the boys running around the street with a
blacking-box on their shoulder, or a bundle
of papers under their arms, only knew what
high old t imes we boys have out here, they
wouldn’t hesitate about coming West, but
come the first, chance they got.”
So some by one humane and
Christian visitation, and some by
another, are being rescued. In one reform
school, through which two thousand of the
little ones passed, one thousand nine hun
dred and ninety-rive turned out well. In
other words, only five of the two thousand
turned out badly. There are thousands of
them who, through Christian societies, have
been to beautiful homes all
over this land, and there are many who,
through the rich grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, have already won the crown. A
little girl was found in the streets of Balti
more and taken into one of the reform so
cieties, and they mid to her: “What is your
iiainer’ Hbe said: “My name is Mary.”
“What is your other name?” (She said: “I
don’t know.” So they took her into the re
form society, and as they dirt not know her
last name they always called her “Mary
Lost,” since sin- had been picked up out of
the street,. But she grew on, and after
awhile the Holy Spirit came to her heart,
and she became a Christian child, and she
changed hpr name; mid when anyboily
asked her what her name was, she said: “It
used to be Mary Lost; but now, since I have
become a Christian. it is Mary Found.”
For this vast multitude, are we willing to
go forth from this morning’s service and
see what we can do, employing all the agen
cies l Lave spoken of for the roetification of
the poisoned fountains? We live in a beau
The lines have fallen to us in
pleasant placos, and we have a goodly heri
tage; and any man who does not like a resi
dence in Brooklyn, must be a most uncom
fortable and unreasonable man. But, my
friends, the material prosperity of a city
is not its chief glory. There may be fine
houses, and beautiful streets, and that all lie
the garniture of a sepulchre. Some of the
most prosperous cities of the world have
gone down, not one stone left upon another.
But a city may lie in ruins long liefore
a tower has fallen, or a column has
crumbled, or a tomb has been
defaced When in a city the churches of
God are full of raid formalities and inani
mate religion, when the houses of com
meice are the alsxle of fraud and uriholv
traffic; when the streets are tilled with
crime unarrested, and sin unenlightened, and
helplessness unpitied—that city is in ruins,
though every church were a Bt. Peter’s,
and every moneyed institution were a Bank
of England, ana every library were a Brit
ish Muteum, and every house’had a porch
like that of Rhelrns, and a roof like that of
Amiens, and a tower like that of Antwerp,
and trace nod windows like those of Frei
burg.
My brethren, our pulses beat rapidly the
time away, and soon we shall be gone; and
what, we nave to do for the city In which we
live we must do right speedily, or never do
It at all. In tliat day when those who have
wrapped themselves in luxuries and despised
the poor, shall come to shame and everltfbt
ing contempt, 1 hope it may be said of you
and me that we gave broad to the hungry,
and wiped away the tear of the orphan, and
upon tne.wanderer of the street we oiiened
the brightness and benediction of a Chris
tian home; and then, through our instru
mentality, it shall be known on earth
and in heaven that Mary Lost became Mary
Found!
Wilson Arrested in Canada.
Toronto. Ont., June 19.—James Alex
ander H. Wilson, the Philadelphia forger,
was arrested in this city last night. He no*
tss-n living herewith bis wife and family
under an iiosumod name for the (>ast two
months, ilis defalcations are reported to
amount to SHOQ,OUU.
Anew discovery is that by the use of
citric acid or citrate of silver seawater may
be made drinkable. By this means chloride
of silver is precipitated and a harmless
mineral water is produced. An ounce
of citrate makes a half pint of water drink
able.
(PRICE *IO * YEAR.?
( CENTS A COPY, f
COLLEGE LIFE IS OVER.
FREEDOM FOK MANY JOLLY LADS
AND LASSES.
Baccalaureate Sermons at Rutgers,
Prlnceton, Harvard, Bowdoin, Wells,
and Massachusetts’ Agricultural Col*
lege, and the Rochester Military
Institution Mrs. Cleveland Review*
ing Scones at Wells.
New Brunswick, N. J., June 19. —The
class of ’ST of Rutgers College received its
parting spiritual instruction this evening
from Rev. D. Waters, of the North Re
formed Church, Newark, who delivered the
Imccalaureate sermon to the alumni under
graduates, and a throng of the towns
jieople, in the First, Reformed Church of
this city. His text was: “Ray not thoti
what is the cause that former day* wera
better than these, for thoju dost not enquire
wisely concerning the matter.” —Eocl.viL, Ilk
PRINCETON’S "87 CLASS.
Princeton, N. J., Juno 19. - Marquami
Chapel was this morning crowded with th
relatives and friends of the class of 'B7. a a
well as the lower classes. President McCosh
preached the baccalaureate sermon, taking
for his text Acts xvii, 18.
HARVARD BOYS LEARN OF DISCIPLINE.
Boston, Mars., June 19.—Prof. F. G,
Peabody, of Harvard College, to-day do.
livered the baccalaureate sermon, taking
for his text Matthew, viii., 8-9: “The Cen
turion answered and said. Lord I am no*
worthy that, thou shouldst come under m f
roof, but, speak the word only and my,ser
vant, shall n healed, for I am a man under
authority, having soldiers under me a rut
1 say to this man go, and hi
goeth, and to another come, and ho
rometb, ami to my servant do this, and h
doeth it.’ When Jesus heard it he mar
velled and said to them that followed,
‘Verily I say unto you, I have not found so
great faith, no, not'in Israel.’ ” From tin*
the preeoher entered upon an interesting
sermon, in which the subject of obedience
to superior authority was clearly dwell
upon and the subject of discipline thor
oughly discussed.
IN PINK AND WHITE AT WELLS.
Rochester, N. Y., June 19.—The com.
mencement at Wells College, Aurora. N. Y.,
liegan this evening, when the baccalaureate
sermon, was delivered at the Presbyterian
church by Dr. Edward 8. Frisby, President
of the college. His subject was “The re
sponsibility of the educated in view of tbs
opportunity of the present, day.” The
church was packed. Mrs Cleveland was
present and also attended divine services la
the morning at the same church when Dr.
J. T. Wells, the pastor, preached before the
college girls and the cadets of the military
academy.
REVIEWING OLD SCENES.
Mrs. Cleveland is looking in excellent
health, and is evidently having a very en
joyable visit. Her time is spent in visiting
with her old friends, strolling about tbs
grounds of the college, which Is her alms
mater, with an occasional ride to and frotq
the depot and the dock in the college bus.
AN AGRICULTURAL QUESTION.
Ajehert, Mass., June 19.—The bacca
laureate sermon was delivered at the Mas
sachusetts' Agricult,urrti College, to-day, by
Rev. Charles 8. Walker, professor of men
tal and political science His text was,
Matthew vii, 12, “How much then is a man
better than a sheep.”
HONORS FOR THE BOWDOIN BOTS
Brunswick, Me., June 19.—Preaiden*
William DeWitt, Hyde delivered the bacca
laureate sermon before the graduating class
of the Bowdoin College In the Congrega
tional church this evening.
WHEN TO WEAR JEWEL.B.
A Few Hints that Might be Taken
With Advantage.
New York, June 18.—Since the sale ot
the Crown jewels of France, many of
which are destined to adorn American
lienuty, conversation has leaned in the
direction of precious sfconei. A few words
may therefore not be out of place in regard
to the (iroper time and manner of wearing
them. It is an unfortune ie custom in the
United Ktatee for women to wear jewels at
all times; at breakfast, in going to market,
for visiting, for every possible occasion, iq
fact. I know one laay, the happy possessor
of an exquisite pair of solitaire diamond
earrings, who never takes them out of her
oars. This is not only foolish but in execrable
taste. In Europe—that is, on the Continent
—ladies wear jewels ail day long. But then,
these fair foreign damte are not housekeep
ers. They never go to market, the kitchen
in a fine establishment, is an unknowq
quantity, milady does not tramp about tha
streets looking for bargains and arrayed in
an ugly tailormiuie costume, or a still uglier
thing called an ulster. The ways of living
abroad differ essentially from our own. I
do not say that they are better but tha*
they are different. In America women
walk a greet deal, and to the promecoders
i-specially, I would say leave your jewels, if
you have any, at home. Nothing is more
ridiculous than to see a woman in a coarse
serge gown, 6ven made by the best tailor,
stout walking boots, perhaps covered by
muddy overshoes, and with diamond* blaz
ing in her cars. For paying visits in the
afternoon, if one go in a carnage, a few
jewels may appropriately be worn with a
silk or velvet costume. In any event, never
put on such abominations as imitation
precious stones. No woman of real refine
ment is ever seen in them. They are only
tit for the rabble who seek to ape their
(letters. If you cannot afford to purchase
the “real thing” go without.
Clara Uanza.
A FUNNY MISTAKE.
A Man Who Took Out a Dog Llcene*
to Get Married.
Prom the Chicago News.
“Is this the place to get a licenser*
asked a timid young man, nervously, of
Officer Spencer in the collector's office yes
terday. , _ .
“Yes; right at the window. You 11 bav*
to wait your turn.”
The youth got into line and in the coum
of half an hour reached the window.
“What’s your name and residence?" asked
the busy clerk.
“E. Walters, 958 Clybourn avenue.”
“Well, here you are—l3, please."
The young man paid the money, seized the
paper, and hastened out of the room. Officer
SjM'ucer, noticing the glad light in his eye*
as he passed, remarked to himself:
"That young feller must be a valuable ani
mal. I’ll ttet it ud break his heart if it ate
some pizened meat.’’
As soon as he hail reached th* corridor
AValtei-s pulled out his license to look at it.
“Holy smoke! What’s this? Dog?
Marry a dog! By George! What will
Annie say?”
He was paralyzed. He stood as if dazed
for some moments, uncertain what to do.
Finally he sheepishly went liars to Officer
Bpenrer, who, when he heard the young
man's explanation, interceded for him, got
bis $3 back, and directed him tp tha
hymeneal window iu the county clerk's
office, where he succeeded in getting the
proper license. As he walked away he could
not (Hv> smiling to himself.