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I ESTABLI&HEBM>. ) 1 J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor. f 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.