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ROME SET AT DEFIANCE.
excommunication not herald
ed FROM THE PULPIT.
Dr. McGlynn’s Former Flock Would
have Left St. Stephens in a Body had
the Announcement been Made -An
Ovation to the Ex-Priest at the Anti-
Poverty Meeting.
Mew York, July 10.—It was expected
(hat the excommunication of Rev. I)r. Mc-
Glynn would be announed to-day from the
pulpits of the several Catholic churches
throughout the diocese to-day, but no such
announcement was made. A number of
parishoners of St. Stephen’s church, of
which Dr. McGlynn was pastor, said that if
the announcement of his excommunication
was made they would rise and leave the
church.
The Anti-Poverty Society’s meeting to
night was the largest yet held, many per
sons being drawn thither, no doubt, in view
of the recent ex-communication of Dr. Mc-
Glynn. The Academy of Music was
crammed and the management found it
necessary to hire Irving Hall, directly op
posite, for an overflow meeting. This, too,
was soon packed, and hundreds were turned
away, unable to find admission. James J.
Galian, of the Catholic Herald,
presided over the meeting in the
Academy of Music and John
Feeney, of St. Stephen’s parish, took charge
of the meeting in Irving Hall, and then
came a scene that must have thrilled all
present, whether there as Dr. McGlynn’s
adherents or as pleasure-seekers. The cheers
and applause swelled until nearly 4,000 per
sons were upon their feet and a thunderous
roar went out to those in the streets and was
there taken up and spread to Irving Hall,
and word went through the multitude that
I)r. McGlynn was before the people and that
he was even the!) waiting a pause in their
applause to begin his speaking.
A WARNING TO ROME.
Chairman Gahan, in his introductory re
marks, said: “We are here to-night to lot
Rome know in matters political, not one jot
of our allegiance is rendered to any power
nr potentate, but in its entirety is given to
the laws and .constitution of the United
States. [Cheers], All of you went to your
several churches this morning; in not one
church did any one dare to stand up and
read the decree of Michael Augustine Cor
rigan. [Hisses and cat cails.] When the
church authorities attack and depose a
holy man whose very shoo latchets they are
unworthy to untie, they go to the press to
promulgate their edicts. They do not pub
lish them from their holy pulpits.”
m’olynn’s contriteness.
Dr. McGlynn was received with uproar
ions applause. In the course of his speech
he said: “It is wonderful evidence of the
wisdom and goodness of the God we adore,
that in tiie midst of the trials and perplexi
tyof life, while our minds are troubled
and our heartstrings torn, that there is yet
one clear and simple guide, which is given
to every lieing, and which if followed and
obeyed by him, will lead to a satisfactory
and perfect deliverance. It is a wonderfully
simple thing. It resides within him, and
its only requirements are a perfectly hum
ble obedience to that conscience which
teaches me to do only what is right. This
is the natural law of truth which of neces
sity precedes all real law.
MERCIFUL AS WELL AS WISE. '
“Our God is a merciful as well as a wise
one. He well never condemn any being
who follows the dictates of his conscience,
even be that conscience an erring one. In
obeying it he is forever obeying the will of
God, and according to all Christian philoso
phy and tenchiug a man who goes against
his conscience, sins against the Holy Ghost.
If a man does or says anything in obedience
so any jiower or authority, even that of the
Pope, and in so doing goes against his con
science ne sins.
DEFIANCE A DUTY.
“Even if the high Roman tribunal sum
mons a man before them for teaching the
truth which he knows to exist, and that
tribunal condemn his doctrines without
giving them a trial, and command him to
retract them, it is his duty before God b)
refuse to do so. (Cheers prolonged.) And
if it was in their power, ns it one
time was, but thank God no
longer is, to imprison the person of
those who have read of God's word lb
nature before they have been able to see it.
■should they summon him and command him
to retract, under the penalty of imprison
inunt, it is tiis duty to resist, and oven be
hurnerl alive at the stake rather than com
mit the unpardonable sin against the Holy
Ghost of declaring what his conscience be
lieved to bo false.”
RAIN AND TEMPERATURE
The Weather Crop Bulletin of the Sig
nal Office.
" ashington, July 10. —Following is the
weather crop bulletin of the Signal Office
for the week ending July 9.
THE TEMPERATURE.
Luring the week the weather has lieen
warmer than usual generally throughout
tli" Northern States ami on the Pacific coast,
the average daily excess being about three
degrees from New England westward to the
f I'per M ississippi Valley and about seven de
gieoson the Pacific coast. It was cooler
Gian usual throughout the Southern States,
md m the cotton region the daily average
[*•’ dxiut three degrees below normal. The
. temperature throughout the
• "( them States during the past two weeks
md the cool weather in the Southern States
i.ring the same period leaves the average
“my tunqicrature for the season from Junu
‘ to July ;) about normal, the differ-
J * the daily average from normal
" mi: generally lass than one degree through
u the ug i icultuml regh tnu,
lIIK rainfall.
I here has lieen an excess of rainfall in the
inut hern States and thence northward to
i, 1 " "de region, including the southern por
dn "i New England and the Middle Atlan
, ‘dotes, while there Ims been less than the
’j dl amount of rainfall in the States of the
, "‘iri Valley. Numerous and abundant
'"P 'iceurrcd in the cotton region and
>1 "‘t portion of the com region cast of the
| oppi previously threatened with
" M 1 bit. For the season from Jan.
„ . July 9, a large deficiency
■rn y! lla continues throughout the Kouth-
V i lt '' : < uriil Mississippi valley, but the
J ' 1 during the past two weeks has
■' dmed the season’s deficiency, and,
nlhu.i'L 1 ! 1 ®' 1,1 u d'itieul period, has probably
, ' 1 ln °st beneficially corn and cotton.
general remarks.
”” weather generally during the past
- has greatly itnprovisl the condition of
jrewmgero,*. Both grain and hay har
ii'iiii, ~ l" ‘ well advanced in the extreme
i i''" 1 P° r| ions ot the country, though it
L.i , n retarded in some sections by severe
uuu storms.
Five New Cases.
Fla., July 10. -There have
ji,,,. dew cases of favor and two deaths
Total Tho record now Stands:
Hl.l ■'**!?,' *’ deaths, 87; sick at tho hos
• *5 discharged cured, 33.
<£lic Morning
FRANCE'S CONQUERING HERO.
Clermont-Ferrand Welcomes Bou
langer to Its Walls.
Paris, July 10.—Gen. Boulanger made an
imposing entrance into Clermont-Ferrand
yesterday. The houses along the route
taken by him were gayly decorated, and
the streets were lined with troops. The city
wits full of visitors. The General rode a
handsome black charger, and was preceded
and followed by a military escort. All
along the route he was greeted with shouts
of “Vive Boulanger.”
In replying to the address of welcome pre
sented by the municipality, Gen. Boulanger
said: “Yes, lam a Frenchman, and I am
deeply interested in the welfare of the army
and the greatness of the country.”
M. Hpuller, Minister of Public Instruc
tion, in distributing the prizes at the meet
ing of the Philoteclinicai Societies, made a
covert attack upon Gen. Boulanger. “Educa
tion,” he said, “ought to be devoted to form
ing republicans and men incapable of bowing
down before idols. You would lie unworthy
of your ancestors were you to throw your
selves under the chariot wheels of the hero
of a single hour.”
LIBERAL GAINS.
Tho Coventry Success Cheering Up
the Party’s Spirits.
London, July 10. —The Pont, in comment
ing upon tiie Coventry elections, again urges
upon the government tho necessity for
stronger measures with regard to Ireland,
and an official coalition between the Con
servatives and Unionists.
The News says: “Could Mr. Gladstone
have known tho result of tho Coventry
elections he might still further have en
forced his remarks to Ins American visitors
yesterday. Everywhere tho Liberals, whom
at Mr. Gladstone’s requent, we no iongex'
nickname ‘Gladstonians,’ are coming back
to their allegiance, and the question will
soon be whether the Liberals or Conserva
tives will carry home rule.”
The Daily ieic.yrii/jli and Chronicle both
contain elaborations with a view to showing
that the result of the Coventry election.'
could have lieen foreseen, hut that it
demonstrates the need of better organization
of the Unionist party.
RAILWAY RATES.
A Decision Which Will Conflict With
the Interstate Law.
St. Louis, July 10.—The representatives
of the railways in the territory south of tho
Ohio river and between the Mississippi
river and the Mobile and Ohio railway, who
were hero two or three days last week ar
ranging rates, completed the work last
evening. All of this territory be
ing so surrounded and entered by
waterways and the competition being so
sharp between the railroads and steamboats,
it was decided when advantageous that a
less rate to competitive than to local points
would lie made. The rates on flour were
advanced from 7c. to 10c., and on packing
house products 3c. The appointment of a
commissioner to whom rates shall be referr
ed was discussed but not decided upon. The
steamboat interest was not represented at
the meeting.
COLLAPSE OF A BRIDGE.
Two Men Killed Outright and Three
Badly Injured.
Chicago, July 10. —The trestlework
bridge in course of construction on the
Illinois Central railway, near the suburban
town of Lombard, collapsed last night, kill
ing Joseph Fox, of Oswego, N. Y., and
Charles Clark, of Chicago. Fox’s son, Ed
ward, was mortally wounded. Albert Bay
ers and another sen of Mr. Fox re
reived serious, but not necessarily fatal
injuries. Joseph Fox, who was in charge of
the work, was an experienced bridge bonder.
The structure had just been passed upon
favorably bv the railroad company’s chief
engineer. I,ess than fifteen minutes’ work
remained to be done, when all at once the
heavy beams trembled and went down of
their own weight, burying all hands be
tween masses of trestlework.
Bulgaria’s Regents Resign.
Tirnova, July 10. riui regents have
tendered their resignations to tiie Hobranjc
on the ground that their task was completed
by the election of Price Ferdinand of Saxe
Coburg to . the Bulgarian throne. The
Sobranje refused to accept the, resignations,
desiring to await the return of the delegates
who started to-day to visit Prince Ferdinand
at Vienna
All the Ministers have officially resigned.
The new Cabinet lias not jet been forme i.
FERDINAND GOES TO ST. PETERSBURG.
London, .Inly 10.—Dispatches from Vi
enna to tho Chronicle says Prince Ferdi
nand, of Saxe-Coburg, started for St.
Petersburg Saturdaj to solicit, tho Czar’s
consent to his acceptance of tho Bulgarian
throne.
A Steamer Ashore.
Boston, July 10. —A special from Hali
fax, N. S.. says: “The steamer Merrimack,
from Halifax for Boston, is ashore on Little
Hope Island, sotno miles off. The
passengers, 100 in number, were
all got ashore safely and will lie token to the
mainland in a sailing craft. From the
nearest telegraph station it is twenty miles
to the scene of the wreck. The vessel will
be a a total loss. Tho Merrimack is anew
iron steamer of over 3,000 tons."
A Park for Louisville.
Louisville, Ky., July 10.— Yesterday
Dr. E. B. Htnndford, one of the wealthiest
and most public spirited of the citizens of
Louisville, tendered the city 140 acres of
valuable land conveniently located and
splendidly adapted for park purposes. The
donation’is a good one, and will lie accepted
at tho next meeting of tho City Council.
Valencia’s Riot.
Madrid. July 10.—There was further
rioting nt Valencia to-day in consequence of
attempts to collect the octroi tax. Tiie
military fired ou the crowd, killing four
persons. Reinforcements have been sent to
the town.
London's “Times” Sued for Ljbel.
London, July 30.— Prank Hugh O’Don
nell lias commenced a libel action against
the Times, claiming damages boruuse of
charges made against him by that journal
in its articles hi “ParneUisin and Crime.”
Cholera’s Ravages.
London, July 10.—There have lieen 40
cases of cholera and 15 deaths among the
troops at Cut an in. Three Cutanians have
died of cholera at Palermo. The alarm is
spreading. _ _____
Tremors in South Carolina.
Charleston, 8. C.. July 10.—-Slight
earthquake trenioi* wore felt nt different
]K>int in lower South Carolina this after
noon.
Cleveland Off for a Week.
Washington, July 10.—The President
and Mr- I and Col. Lament will
leuve Washington tomorrow for a stay of
about a week ill Now York Htato.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JULY 11, ISB7.
DUNGEON TO PALACE.
COFFIN AND HEARSE BLOCK THE
WAY OUT OF THE WORLD.
The Spiritual Body in Prison while on
Earth but in Heaven when in Eterni
ty—Paul’s Departure from the Mam
ertine Prison—Talmage’s Longing to
Unravel the Mysteries of the Here
after.
The Hamptons, July 10.—The Brooklyn
Tabernacle being closed for enlargement,
Rev. T. DeWitt Talinage, D. D., pastor,
spends his first Sabbath away from his
flock tho present season, at this summor
home. His subject for to-day was: “From
Dungeon to Palace,” and his text: “The
time of my departure is at hand.”—ll. Tim
othy iv., 0.
The way out of this world is so blocked
up with coflin and hearse, and undertaker’s
spade ami screwdriver, that tho Christian
can hardly think as he ought of tho most
cheerful passage in all his history. Wo
hang black instead of white over the place
where tiie good man gets his last victory.
Wo stand weeping over a heap of chains
which the freed soul has shaken off, and wo
say: “Poor man! What a pity it was he
had to come to this!” Come to what? By
the time tho people have assembled at the
obsequies, that man has been three days so
happy that all the joy of earth accumulated
would be wretchedness beside it, and he
might better weep over you because
you have to stay, than you weep over him
because lie has to go. It is a
fortunate thing that a good man does not
have to wait to see his own obsequies, they
would lie so discordant with his own expe
rience. If tho Israelites should go back to
Egypt and mourn over the brick-kilns they
once left, they would not be any more silly
than that Christian who should forsake
heaven and come down and mourn because
he had to leave this world. Gur ideas of
the Christian’s death are morbid and sickly.
We look upon it as a dark hole in which a
man stumbles when his breath gives out.
This whole subject is odorx>us with varnish
and disinfectants, instead of lieing sweet
with mignonette. Paul, in my text, takes
that great clod of a word “death,” and
throws it away, and speaks of his “de
parture”—n beautiful, bright, suggestive
word, descriptive of every Christian’s re
lease.
Now, departure implies a starting-place
and a place of destination. When Paul left
tliis world, what was the starting point?
It was a scene of great physical distress.
It was tho Tullianum, the lower dungeon of
the Mamertine prison. The top dungeon
was had enough, it having no moans of
ingress or egress but through an opening in
the top. Through that the prisoner was
lowered,and through t hat came all the food,
and air, and light received. It was a terri
ble place, that tipper dungeon; hut the Tul
lianum was the lower dungeon, and that
was still more wretched, the only light and
the only air coming through the roof, and
that roof tho floor of the upper dungeon.
That was Paul’s Inst earthly residence. It
was a dungeon just six feet nnd a half high.
It was a doleful place. It had the chill of
long centuries of dampness. It was filthy
with the long incarcerations of miserable
wretches. It was there that Paul spent his
last days on earth, and it is there that I see
him to-day, in the fearful dungeon, shiver
ing, blue with tho cold, waiting for that old
overcoat which he had sent for up to Ti nas,
and which they had not yet sent down, not
withstanding he had written for it.
If some skillful surgeon should go into
tlwt dungeon where Paul is incarcerated,
we might find out what are the prospects of
Paul’s living through the rough imprison
ment. In the first place, lip is an old man,
only two years short of soventy. At that
very time when he most needs tho warmth,
and the sunlight, and the fresh air. he is shut
out from the sun. What are those scars
on his ankles? Why, those were gotten
when he was fast, his feet in the stocks.
Every time he turned tho flash on his ankles
started. What are those scars or his back?
You know he was whipped five times, each
time getting thirty-nine strokes—one hun
dred and ninety-five bruises on tho back
(count them) made by the Jews with rods of
elmwood, each one of the one hundred and
ninety-five strokes bringing the blood. Look
at Paul’s face and look at his arms. Where
did he get those bruises? I think it was
when he was struggling ashore amidst the
shivered timbers of the shipwreck. I seo a
gush in Paul's side. Where did ho get that?
I think lie got that in the tussle with high
waymen, for he hud been in peril of rob
bers, ami he had money of his own. He was
a mechanic as well us anajmstle, and I think
the tents he made were as good as his sor
mons.
There is a wanness about Paul’s looks.
What makes that? I think a part of that
came from the fact that lie was for twenty
four hours on a plank in the Mediterranean
sea, suffering terribly, liefore lie was res
cued; for he says positively: “I was a night
nnd adiy in tho deep. ” Oh, worn out,
emaciate I old man! surely you must lie
melancholy; no constitution could endure
this and be cheerful. But I press my way
through the prison until I como up close to
where h i is, and by the faint, light that
streams through the opening 1 seo on his
face a supernatural joy, and I bow before
him an I I say: “Aged man, how can you
keep cheerful amidst all this gloom?” His
voice sturtlcM the darkness of the place as ho
cries out: “I am now ready to ho offered,
and tho time of my departure is at hand.”
Hark! what is that shuttling of fret, in the
upper dungeon? Why, Paul has an invita
tion to a banquet, amt lie Ik going to dine
to-duy with the king. Those shuffling feet
are the fe-t of the executioners. They come
and they cry down through the hole
of the dungeon: "Hurry up, old man.
Gome, now; get yourself ready.” Why,
Paul was ready. He had nothing to pack
up. He had no baggage to take. He hud
been ready a good while. I sec him rising
up and straightening out his stiffened limbs,
and pushing back iiis white hair from his
creviced forehead, and see him looking up
through the hole in the roof of tiie dungeon
into the face of his executioner, and near
him say: “I uni now ready to be offered,
ami tiie time of my departure is at hand.”
Then they lift him out of tiie dungeon, and
they start with lilni to the place of execu
tion. They say: “Hurry along, old man,
or you will feel the weight of our spear.
Hurry along.” “How far isit,” says Paul, “wo
have to travelf” “Three mile*.” Three miles
is a good way for au old man to travel after
lie has been whipped and crippled with mal
treatment. But they soon get to the place of
execution —A -quie Salvia—and ho is fas
tened to the pillar oi martyrdom. It does
not take any strength to tic him fast. He
makes no resistance. O Paul! why not
strike for your life? You have u great
many friend* here. With that withered
hand just launch the thunderbolt of the p-o
--pie upon those Infamous soldier*. No!
Paul was not going to interfere with hi
own coronation. Ho was too glud to go.
I see him looking up in tho face of his exe
cutioner, nnd. a: the grim official draw* tho
sword, Paul calmly says: “I am now ready
to be offered, and the time of iny departure
is nt hand.” But I pul iny hand over my
eves. , I want not to * that last, struggle,
line sharp, keen stroke, and Paul doe* go
to the bouquet, and Paul does dine with the
King.
What a transition it was! Prom the ma
laria of Rome to the finest climate in ail tho
universe—the zone of eternal beauty and
health. His ashes were put in tho cata
combs of Rome, but in one moment the air
of heaven bathed from liis soul tho last ache,
li’rom shipwreck, from dungeon, from tho
biting pam of the elm wood rods, from the
sharp sword of the headsman, ho goes into
the most brilliant assemblage of heaven, a
king among kings, multitudes of tho saint,
hood rushing out and stretching forth hands
of welcome; for I do really think that ns on
the right hand of trod is Christ, so on the
right hand of Christ is Paul, the second
great in heaven.
He changed kings likewise. Before the
hour of death, and up to the last moment,
lie was under Nero, the thick-necked, the
eruel-eyod, the filthy-lipped—the sculptured
features of that man bringing down to us
to this very day tho horrible jiossibilities of.
iiis nature—seated as he was amidst pic
tured marbles of Egypt, under a roof
adorned with mother-of-pearl, in a dining
room which, by muchinery, was kept whirl
ing day and night with most bewitching
magnificence; his horses standing in stalls
of solid gold, ami the grounds around his
palace lighted at night by its victims, who
had been daubed with tar and pitch and
then set on fire to illumino the darkness.
That was Paul’s King. But the next mo
ment he goes into the realm of Him whose
reign is love, and whose courts are paved
with love, and whose throne is set on pillars
of love, and whose sceptre io adorned with
jewels of love, and whqso palace is lighted
with love, and whose lifetime is an eternity
of love. When Paul was leaving so much
on this side the pillar of martyrdom to gain
so much on the other side, do you wonder at
tiie cheerful valedictory of the text, “The
time of in£ departure is’at hand?”
Now, why cannot all the old people of this
congregation have the same holy glee os
that aged man had? Charles 1., when he
was combing his head, found a gray
hair, anil he sent it to tho Queen as
a great joke; but old age is really
no joke at all. For the last forty years yon
have been dreading that which ought to
have been an exhilaration. You say you
most fear the struggle at the moment the
soul and body party. But millions liavo en
dured that moment, and why not we as
well? They got through with it, and so can
we. Besides this, all medical men agree in
saying that there is probably no struggle at
all at the last moment—not so much pain as
the prick of a pin, the seeming signs of dis
tress being altogether involuntary. But you
say: “It is the uncertainty of the future.”
Now, child of God, do not play the infidel.
After God has filled the Bible till itcan hold
no more with stories of the good things
ahead, better not talk about uncertainties.
But you say: “I cannot bear to think of
parting from friends here.” If you are old,
you have more friends in heaven than here.
J list take the census. Take
some large sheets of paper and begin to
record the names of those who have emi
grated to the other shore; the companions
of your school days, your early business as
sociates, the friends of mid life and those
who more recently went away. Can it be
that they have been gone so long you do not
care any more about them, and you do not
want tlieir society? Oh, no! There have
been days when you have felt that yon
could not endure it another moment away
from their blessed companionship. They
have gone. You say you would
not like to bring them back to
this world of trouble, even if you had tho
power. It would not do to trust you. God
would not give you resurrection power.
Before to-morrow morning you would be
rattling at the gates of the cemetery, cry
ing to the departed: “Como back to the
cradle where you slept! come back to the
hall where you used to play! come book to
the table where you used to sit!” anil there
would be a great burglary in heaven. No,
no! God will not trust you with resurrec
tion power; but lie compromises tho matter,
and says: “You cannot bring them where
you are, but you can go where they are.”
They are more lovely now than ever. Were
they lieautiful here, they are more beautiful
there.
Beside that, it is more healthy there for
you than here, aged man; lietter climate
there than these hot summers and cold win
ters anil late springs; better hearing, bettor
eyo-siglit; more tonic in the air; more per
fume in the bloom; more sweetness in the
song. Do you not feel, aged man, some
times, as though you would like to get your
arm and foot free ? Do you not feel as
though you would like to throw away spec
tacles and canes and crutches ? Would you
not like to ieel the spring and elasticity and
mirth of an eternal boyhood ? When the
point at which you start from this world is
old uge, and the point to which you go is
eternal juvencscenoe, aged man, clap your
hands at the anticipation, and say, in per
fect rapture of soul: “The time of my de
parture is at hand.”
I remark, again, all those ought to feel
this joy of the text who have a holy curiosi
ty to know what is beyond this earthly ter
minus. And who has not any curiosity
about it? Paul, I suppose, had the most
satisfactory view of heaven, and he says:
“It doth not yet appear what was shall be.”
It is like looking through a broken tele
scope: “Now wo sea through a glass dark
ly.” Can you tell me anything about that
heavenly place? You ask me a thousand
questions about it that I can not answer. I
ask you a thousand questions ulsmt it that
you can not answer. And do you wonder
that Paul was so glad when martyrdom
gave him a chance to go over and make
discoveries in that bloused country?
1 ho;* some day, by the grace of God, to
go over unil see for myself; but not now.
No well man, no premiered man, I think,
wants to go now. But the time will come,
1 think, when 1 shall go over. 1 want to
see whnt they do there, mid I want to seo
how they do it. Ido not want to bo look
ing through the gates ajar forever. 1 want
them to swing wide open. There ure ten
thousand things 1 want explained—about
you. aliout myself, alsmtthe government of
this world, about God, aliout everything.
We start in it plain path of what we know,
uinl ia a minute oomo up against u high
wall of wo do not know. I wonder
how it looks over there Homebody tells
me it is like a paved city—paved with gold;
and another man tells me it is like a foun
tain. and it is like u tree, and it is like a tri
umphal precision, mid tho next man 1 meet
tells mo it is all figurative. 1 really want to
know, after the liody is resurrected, what
they wear and wlmt they ret; and 1 have an
immeasurable curiosity to know wlmt it is,
and liow it is, and where it is. Columbus
risked his life to liml this continent, and
shall we shudder to go out on a voyage of
discovery which shall reveal a vaster and
more hrilliuut country? John Franklin
risked hi* life to find a passage between
iceberg*, and shall we dread to find a pas
sage to eternal sumnihr? Men in (Switzer
land travel up tho heights of the Matterhorn
with alpenstock, and guides, and rockets,
uml ropes, and, getting half way up, stum
bio and fall down in a horrible massacre.
They Just want to sav they have boon on the
tops’ of those high peaks. Ami shall we fear
to go out for tho ascent of the eternal hills
which start a thousand miles beyond where
stop the big last peaks of the Alps, and when
in that ascent there is no peril. A man
doomed to die stopped an the scaffold, and
said in Joy: “Now, In ton minutes I will
know the great secret." One minute after
the vital functions ceased, the little child
that died last night in Montague street
knew morn than Jonathan Edwards, or Bt.
Paul himself, before ho died. Friends, too
exit from this world, or death, if you please
to call it, to the Christian is glorious expla
nation. It is demonstration. It is illumina
tion. It is sunburst. It is the opening of
all the windows. It is shutting up the oato
ohism of doubt, and the unrolling of all the
scrolls of positive and accurate informa
tion. Instead of standing at the foot
of the ladder and looking up, it
is standing at the top of the
ladder and looking down. It is the lust
mystery taken out of botany, and geology,
and autronomy, and theology. O, will it
not Vie grand to have all questions answered?
The perpetually recurring interrogation
]K>int changed for the mark of exclamation.
All riddles solved. Who will fear to go out
on that discovery, when all the questions
are to bo decided which we have been dis
cussing all our lives? Who shall not clap
his hands in the anticipation of that blessed
country, if it lie no lietter than through
holy curiosity, crying: “Tho time of my
departure is at hand ?”
I remark, again, wo ought to have the joy
of the text, because, leaving this world, wo
move into the best society of the universe.
You seo a great crowd of people in some
street, and you say: "Vvlio is passing
there? What, general, what prince is going
up there?” Well, I see a great throng in
heaven. 1 say : “Who is the focus of all
that admiration? Who is the centre of that
glittering company?” It is Jesus, the
champion of all worlds, the favorite of all
ages. Do you know what is the first ques
tion the soul will ask when it comes through
the gate of heaven? I thinlt the first ques
tion will be: "Where is Jesus, the Saviour
that pardoned rny sin; that carried my sol
row's; that fought my battles; that won my
victories?” O radiant One! how I would
like to see Thee! Thou of the manger, but
without its humiliation. Thou of the cross,
but without its pangs; Thou of the grave,
but without its darkness.
The liihlo intimates that we will talk with
Jesus in Heaven just as a brother talks with
a brother. Now what will you ask Him
first? Ido not know. I can think what I
would ask Paul first, if I saw him in Heaven.
I think 1 would like to hear him doseribo
the storm that came upon the ship when
there were 275 souls on tho vessel, Paul be
ing the only man oil board cool enough to
describo the storm. There is a fascination
about a ship and tho sea that I shall never
get over, and 1 think I would like to hear
him talk about Hint, first. Hut when I meet
my Lord Jesus Christ,of what shall I first de
light to hear Him speak ? Now I think what
it is. I shall first want to hear tho tragedy
of His last hours: and then Luke’s account
of the crucifixion; and Mark’s ac
count of the crucifixion, and John’s
account of tho crucifixion will bo nothing
while from the living lips of Christ tho story
shall bo told of the gloom that fell, and the
devils that arose, and the fact that upon His
endurance depended tho rescue of a race;
and there was darkness in the sky, and there
was darkness in the soul, anil the pain be
eamo more sharp, and tho burdens became
more heavy, until the mob began to swim
away from the dying vision of Christ, and
the cursing of the mol) came to His ear more
faintly, anil His hands were fastened to the
horizontal piece of the cross, and His feet
were fastened to tho poniendieular
piece of the cross, and liis head
fell forward in a swoon as He uttered tho
last moan and cried: “It is finished!” All
heaven will stop to listen until tho story is
done, and every harp will lie put. down, and
every lip closed, and all eyes fixed upon tho
divine narrator, until the story is done;
and then, at the tap of the baton, the eter
nal orchestra will rouse up; finger on string
of harp, and lips to the mouth of trumpet,
there shall roll forth the oratorio of tho
Messiah: “Worthy is the Lamb that was
slain to receive blessing, and riches, and
honor, and glory, and power, world with
out end!”
“What he endured, oh, who can tell.
To save our souls fr .m death and hell.”
When there was between Paul and that
magnificent personage only the thinness of
the sharp isige of the sword of the execu
tioner, ao you wonder that lie wanted to
go? O, my Lord Jesus, lot one wave of
thfttglory roll over this auditory! Hark! 1
hear the wedding-bells of heaven ringing
now. Tlie marriago of the Lamb has come,
and the bride hath made herself ready.
ST. AUGUSTINE’S REGATTA.
List of the Yachts Entered Other Fes
tivities of the Week.
Bt. Augustine, Fla., July 10.—Extensive
preparations are lieing made for the regatta
to take place on July 13, 14 and 15, and
judging from present indications there will
lie an unusually large number of visitors in
attendance.
The races will be over a fifteen-mile course
each day, best corrected time in 45 miles to
win, for the following cash prizes, first,
S3OO, second .$l5O, third SIOO, fourth $75.
Tho following yachts have been entered:
From Jacksonville -Chernaun, owned by
W. A. Gilbert; Hero, by F. V. Wightriian:
Little Illossie, by Tillman White; Arthur
P., owner unknown.
From St. Augustine—Maude, by A. V.
Monson: Undine, by W. S. M. Pinkham;
Arrow, by A. Iwanowski; San Marco, by
McGuire & McDonald; Seminole, by John
Gallic.
From Indian River —Arrow, by Mr.
Canova; Coquette, by F. Hams.
There will lie several more lmats from the
Indian river. There will also lie a swim
ming match fqr prizes of $5 and $lO.
On tiie evenings of July 11 and 15 the
cantata “Queen Esther” will tie given at
Genovar’s Opera House.
On the evening July 14 “Meg’s Diver
sion” will be presented by members of tiie
Young Men’s Christian Association.
On the evening of July 15 a grand equal
ic concert will lie 'given by the Military
Hand, which will also give promenade con
certs at Old Fort Marion, on tho evenings
of July 13 ami I t.
The St,. Augustine Guards have lieen re or
ganized in accordance witli the State rnilitia
law iKtMsod by the last Legislature, and liavo
lieen assigned to the West Florida Battalion
us a company of artillery with tiie follow
ing commissioned officers: Captain, Wil
liam Moody; First Lieutenant, W. 11. At
kina; Second I .lieutenant, Lee Beasley.
COMMENCEMENT AT ATHENS.
Rev. Dr. Ford Preaches the Sermon-
Fine Music.
Athens,Ga., July 10. The commencement
sermon of tiie University of Georgia was
preached this morning in tho college chapel
by Rev. Dr. Ford, of LaGrauge, who took
for his subject, “Christ, tho Heal Man,” as
found in Ephesians, iv., 13. Though the
chapel win crowded to its utmost, the beau
tiful language and graceful delivery of Die
Doctor hold the undivided attention of the
whole congregation, who scarcely stirred ia
their seats during the entire sermon. The
music was composed of the following selec
tions:
1. “Oh, Zion, That Tells Us Good Tidings,"
bv Dudley Buck; 3. Hymn, “The Lord
My Pastures Hliall Prepare.” by H. Jackson;
8. Hymn; “Rock of Ages," arranged by M.
E. B. Miller; 4. Anthem: “Lift Thine Eyes
to the Mountains," by Mendelssohn. The
choir eonsisUs 1 of several young ladies and
gentlemen from the eitv, under the direc
tion of Miss Elten Melland. assisted by
Wurm’s orchestra from Atlanta.
This evening at H o’clock Dr. Ford made
a short address before the Young Men-
Christum Association of Die University
MRS. JAS. BROWN POTTER’S HOME.
The Reason Why She Failed on Her
First Appearance.
London, June 29.—The home in London of
Mrs. James Brown Potter—or as she habit
ually signs herself, Cora (Jrquhart Potter —
is in Stafford Terrace, an umbrageous street
in the old Court suburb of Kensington,
whereat Queen Victoria was born. An air
of secluded refinement distinguishes the
locality, and the very spirit of peace nnd
tranquillity seems to lie brooding over the
widespreadiug tree-tops and vernal
exuberance which hereabout abound.
But for a woman who has entered
upon the dramatic life there is no
such thing us peuee. Let her live
where she may, the exigencies of the pro
fession she lias chosen require of her an
amount of physical exertion which no one
would credit who Ims not had a glimpse
behind the scenes of the player’s existence.
Calling by appointment on Mi’s. Potter tho
other afternoon 1 was greeted with hearty
welcome by her mother, who begged me to
excuse her daughter’s not being aide to seo
me, as she was thoroughly tired out and was
lying down to rest a bit before proceeding
to a night rehearsal. Night and day an
actress must bo on her feet, and the worst
of it is, us poor Adelaide Neilson used to say
to me, when at length the performance is
over, and after midnight the player is free
to sleep, the sweet restorer will not visit tho
throbbing und excited brain, anil additional
fatigue is incurred by the restless tossing of
tile heroine of the mimic tragedy, or comic
complication, until the very peep o’ duy.
Mrs. Browu Potter’s mother is one of the
prettiest of petite, old Indies, with nil
elderly edition of Ist Potter’s beautiful
mouth, and a warm Southern manner,
siudi ns is often seen among wellbred women
south of Mason and Dixon's line. Her wuvy
hair is us white ns the driven snow and she
has it becomingly coilfed in the prevailing
mode. She was gowned in a lilacU dress of
softest china crapo and wore a few well
chosen ornaments. She attributes her
daughter’s failing to strike the note of
]Hipulnr success m her initial appearance
entirely to the lack of suitability of the
part. Undoubtedly Mrs. Potter, tioth in
America and in England, has habitually
frequented the most elegant society, and
her role in “Mun and Wife” wan that of
that most neutral and characterless of
dependent*, tho English governess. Wo
have in America no exact counterpart of
this unfortunate bread winner, this wage
earner, who must lie at once a Indy and not
a lady, and who is accorded—except under
exceptional circumstances, when there is
personal affection between employes
nnd employed—no consideration in tho
drawing room and no respect in
tho servants’ hall. An English
governess is a living representative of
Mahomet’s eoflln, hanging midway lietween
the heaven of high life and tho other thing
of low. It was inability to strike this
neutral note which—or so Mrs. Urquliart
think*—caused the dissatisfaction of the
critics. Tho accomplished (Jnquelin Ims
shown us, in his recent writings, that only
artists of the greatest power kuow how to
lie to-night the |sior hunchback, to-morrow
the handsome duke; tnis week the valiant
soldier and anon the arrant knave. Long
practice only will enable the delicate
American, Cora Urquhart Potter, to repre
sent with equal fidelity to nature tile abject
dependent and the haughty dame; the
lierxoeuted innocent and the pitiless Borgia,
tut she is young and comely. Time and
the hour are in lier favor.
Olive Logan.
CHARLESTON ITEMS.
A Good Year for Truck Farmers—Talk
of Courtenay for Governor.
CHARLESTON, July 9.— The truck farmers
of this vicinity liavo hail at length a lucky
year. Tliey have to take lug odds. Their
produce has to l<o raised for the Northern
markets, and has to compete with Wilming
ton, and Norfolk, und Florida, and so it has
to be planted early anil the planter has to
take the chances on the lute spring frost. It
is somewhat remarkable that although
there wore several very heavy frosts
this year, the Charleston truck farmer
has made money. In fact, he owes his suc
cess to the frost, for it extended to Florida,
where the crops, being further advanced,
were more seriously damaged, and hence
the competition from Florida was not great.
It is too early to give the figures, but it is
known that most of the farmers have had n
successful season. The new bridge across
the Ashley has opened a lurge territory, and
tile area in berries and vegetables will bo
largely increased next year.
A POLITICAL RIPPLE.
There was a ripple in political circles
caused by the nomination bv the Augusta
Chronicle of Cant. F. W. Wagoner for
mayor of the city, but he promptly declined
awl things have resumed their usual quiet.
Mayor Courtenay has positi vrly declined a
third term, which he could very easily get,
for in spite of MeElree’s onslaughts and in
spite of the fact that the Mayor is not very
popular with the “machine,” the people of
Charleston know a good tiling when they
get it, and would bo glad to have his ser
vices for another term. A city government
conducted strictly on business principles is
a luxury that taxpayer do not often enjoy
und Hint they cannot get t<x> much of.
COURTENAY FOR GOVERNOR.
There is some talk in the up(sir counties
of the Htate of making Mayor Courtenay
Governor—of course after the present in
cumbent is out of tho way—for nobody has
a hard word to say of Gov. John I'eter
Richardson. I don't know whether Mayor
( iiurtenuy has thought of it. but it is eer
lain that a hint from him that he would
serve would at once bring him a jiowerful
support even from tho up-ixiuntry, where,
strange to say, Charleston Is not much con
sidered.
LYNCHED AT CRAWFORD.
Ross Griffith Pays the Penalty of a
Criminal Assault.
Athens, (la., July 10.—Rom Griffith,
the negro fiend who attempted to outrage
Miss Hally highly respected
lady of Crawford, last Friday night was,
Isitween 2 and il o'clock this morning, taken
from the jail mul hung. About 200 men
were in the crowd, and the Hhorilf, after a
fearful struggle, was forced to give up the
key to the Jail. Griffith was taken to the
old gallows, on which Jones, tho wife mur
derer, was hung only a few
months ago, and before ho could
roaliw) his fated conditiou the
rope was fastened around his neck nnd the
doomed man fell through the trap and the
sentence of Judge Lynch was executed. Tho
body was left hanging nil night and this
morning about 9 o'clock it was cut down
and un imiuust held. Following is the ver
dict: “Vve, of the Coroner’s jury, find
that Ross Griffith, (c-olored) met his death
at the hands of parties unkiinwn to t he j ury."
A Chapel at Parte.
Paris, July 10.—Lord Lyons, tho British
Ambassador, laid .lie foundation stone of
the Victoria chapol to-day In the Rue Des
Resins ill honor of the IJiieen's jubilee. The
Bishop of ToifncHHMo officiated. United
.Htaies Minister McLane and many Arneri
vans were uresent at the ceremonies.
( PRICE iIO A YE AR. I
1 5 CENTS A COPY, f
BURN ED IN A PLAY HOUSE.
SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST IN TH®
THEATRE AT HURLEY.
The Flames too Fierce for the Fire De
partment and Whole Blocks of Busi
ness Houses Swept Away—Two of
tho Actresses Appear at Upper Win
dows.
Milwaukee, Wis., July 10.—A Hurley,
Wis., dispatch says: Fire broke out on the
stage of the Alcazar Theatre at 8 o’clock
last night, and within an hour the entire
business part of the town was in flames,
while eleven persons hail perished in the
theatre. The charred remains of nine people
have been taken from the ruins. The loss is
fully $..'>00,000. The Alcazar was a variety
t heatre, chiefly frequented by miners ami
was ono of the resorts of unsavory
repute, associated with the notorious
dunce houses of the mining regions. Only
a small audience had gathered when the th e
broke out and they went out in a hurry.
Several of the actors, however, rushed
upstairs tn save their wardrolie, and when
they sought to escape found that they were
hemmed in on all sides, the flames having
spread through the wooden building with
incredible rapidity.
TWO AT A WINDOW.
How they struggled to flee will never be
known, as none of them, except Sadie We Us
imd Mattel Powers, were ever seen again.
The former appeared at a second-story
window and called piteously upon the
crowd outside to save her. Before a hand
could be raised the flames reached her and
communicated to her clothing. She made a
frantic effort to jump through the window,
and then with a piercing shriek fell into the
furnace tielow. Maliel Powers had reached
a third-story window. She jumped und
was so Iwnlly injured that her recovery is
doubtful.
SOME OF THE DEAD.
Among those who perished in the theatre
were:
Frank Young, Sadie McCabie and Jack
son, colored comedians.
Tillie Moore, a song and dance artist.
Maliel Goodrich and her husband.
Sadie Wells.
Mrs. Fenton,
And two or threo others whose names are
not known.
The Alcazar was in tho very heart, of the
city. It was a mass of flames in a very
short time. The tire seemed to leap from
liuildiug to building, until several blocks
became it rearing oven. It was not long
before every business building between
Third and Fifth avenues was
in flames. All tho efforts to get
the lire under control were fruitless. The
fire department, reinforced by scores of
volunteers, sent its puny streams against the
advancing walls of flame, but had tore
treat us the fire swept resistlessly oa. It
did not stop until material for it to feed
upon was lacking.
THE DEATH LIST INCREASED.
Chicago, Jillv 10. 11 p. m. —A special
from Iron wool, Mich,, across the river
from Hurley, Wis., says: “.Seventeen peo
ple lost their lives in the Alcazar. The fol
lowing additional names of dead are given:
J. W. Vanquick.
Samuel Ilaley.
Laurie Bi ninerd.
It is probable that John Jarrett, the stage
carpenter, will die from his Injuries.
Jennie Sheridan, the actress who leaped
from the third story, is also severely hurt.
She says she tried to iiersuade several others
to jump but they delayed and the floor fell
in, taking them with it.
ALMOST WIPED OUT.
This fire, together with the one of the pre
vious week, destroyed nearly all of the busi
ness portion of the town, leaving only a few
stores standing. Both sides of Silver and
Copper streets were burned for a distance
of three blocks. The losses aro partially
covered by insurance of about SSO, •
000. The loss by the two
tires will amount to fully SOOO,OOO. About
300 persons suffered from the conflagration,
and many of them huvo lost their ull. being
virtually homeless. A large, number are
living in tents. The work of rebuilding
the burned district wus liegun to-day. The
Benton House had a very narrow escape.
It was badly scorched.
A DRUG STORE ABLAZE.
Galveston, Tex., July 10—This after
noon lire broke out in the rear portion of
Stuart's drug store ut Bryan. The build
ing, together with that occupied by William
Koppe’s dry goods house, was consumed
and adjoining projierty was damaged. The
loss is $40,000.
A PHYSICIAN’S SUICIDE.
He Cut a Vein and Bled to Death on the
Eve of Hte Intended Marriage.
New Orleans, June 7. —Last night Dr.
John Cullon, one of the leading physician*
of Avayelleu parish, committed suicide.
The suicide was cleverly done and as none
but a physician could have done it. A vein
had been cut in such a way that the
doctor hail bled to death, with every
appearance of its being an accident,
a hemorrhage or a blood vessel
broken. W hat made it seem an accident,
however, was the fact that Cullon was to
have been married to-day to an interesting
and beautiful girl, to whom ho was devo
tedly attached anil who was as much devo
ted to him. He had left her house an hour
liefore the suicide in the very lx*t of spirits,
having arranged all the details of the wed*
ding, which was to have come off to-day.
There were no letters in his room—nothing
to show the cause of the suicide. He was
certainly not insane, ns he was in good eir
eumstancew financially, with a handsome
resident*) and a fine practice in the country.
Not until late tonluy did tho police solve
the mystery of the suicide. An autopsy
showed that Dr. Cullon was the victim of
an incurable disease, anil that his death
from it was a question of a few montlis
only. Knowing this he hesitated whether
to marry or not, and seems to have wavered
in doubt up to the very last moment, when
he solved the problem by suicide. In hi*
imoket wim found the wedding ring which
lie hail purchased that very day. The young
lady whom he was about to marry was
much pros t rats si by the shook of his death.
Senator Brown’s Lotter.
Atlanta. Oa., July 10. —Senator Joseph
E. Brown’s letter asking Gov. Gordon to ap
point a commission to make a settlement be
tween the Htate ami lessees of the Atlantic
and Western railroad, and notifying the
Governor that if he did not do so tile lessees
would initmxlmtely reduce their stock to
what it was when they received the rood
from the Htate, has occasioned a great dual
of comment.
Gen. Whitaker Dead.
Louisville, Ky., July 10.—Gen. Walter
C. Whitaker, who served with the Union
army during the war, died in Lyndon, iq
this county, Katurilay night, aged t'4.
Five Days More Granted Turkey.
I/ONDON, July 10.—'The government has
allowed the Hultan five days longer in which
to consider the ratification of the Egyptian
convention.