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STRUCK DOWN BY THE SUN j
intense suffering caused all
OVER THE COUNTRY.
Sixty-Two People Carried to Hospitals
in Chicago as a Result of the Scorch
ing Weather—A Regular Typhoon at
New York—The Record of Thirty
Years Almost Outdone at Philadel
phia.
Chicago, July 17.—The hot weather Sat
urday was intensified to-day and there was
much suffering throughout the city. At
7 o’clock this morning the mercury had
reached 90° and by 11 it was at 100’. The max
imum was 102, and the hottest weather ex
perienced in Chicago for years, was reached
by 1 o’clock, and the temperature remained
nearly stationary until 5 o’clock. At 5
o’clock a furious squall swept down upon the
lake bringing with it a heavy rain which
lasted half an hour. From the time of the
storm the temperature began falling rapidly
and at 9 o’clock to-night it had|reached 79
degrees.
63 PEOPLE PROSTRATED.
Up to 11 o’clock to-night the latest returns
show that sixty-two persons have died
either in or on their way to various hospitals
in the city since Saturday morning. These
deaths were all the direct result of sun
strokes or heat prostration. A number of
patients in hospitals are in a state of como
to-night and the physicians consider their
cases hopeless. At tne county hospital the
physicians and nurses have been working
almost unceasingly for thirty-six hours.
Such a degree of heat has not been ex
perienced in Chicago in nearly thirty years.
A HORSE MADE MAD.
George Scott, a laborer, was bitten and
probably fatally injured last evening by a
horse which it is supposed has gone mad
through the intense heat. The heat in Gales
burg. 111., has been terrific for the past six
days, averaging 100° in the shade. To-day
it reached 10C and there were four deaths
from prostration.
At Joliet, 111., the thermometer registered
100 at daybreak and 113’ in the middle of
the day.
A BLOW AT NEW YORK.
New York, July 17.—The air was very
close this morning. Towards noon heavy
clouds filled the sky, and without any warn
ing a terrible wind and rain storm set in. It
lasted nearly half an hour and was accom
panied with rapid flashes of lightning and
heavy thunder. Trees were uprooted, win
dow shutters and signs were wrenched from
their fastenings,and several pedestrians were
injured. The wooden fence around Castle
Garden was blown dowu, as were also tele
graph and telephone wires. Along the river
front and bay the storm raged with great
fury. A police patroi boat steamed out into
the tray and rescued many persons who were
clinging to capsized sail boats. Dr.
Cyrus Edson, of the health hoard, was
among the rescued. During the squall
a schooner was driven against the steamer
Erin for Liverpool and stove a large hole in
her side above the water line. At Rocka
way much damage was done, many small
houses being wrecked or damaged.
PHILADELPHIA SWELTERING.
Philadelphia, Pa., July 17, —With the
single exception of July 8, 1876, to-day has
been the hottest for over thirty years, the
heat being even greater than that of yester
day. At 2 o’clock this afternoon the ther
mometer registered 102° in the shade, being
just one degree less than that of July 8,1876,
and one and a quarter degress greater than
yesterday. Up to a late hour tonight
there have been about thirty cases of
sunstroke reported, fourteen of which
resulted fatally. At 11 o’clock to-night the
thermometer stands 87°. Despite the swel
tering hi at Dr. McGlynn addressed a very
large audience in this city this evening, un
der the auspices of the Anti-Poverty So
ciety and was enthusiastically received. In
the hall where he spoke the thermometer
registered as high as 108°.
A SHOWER AT BALTIMORE.
Baltimore, July 17.—Intense warm
weather continued to-day. the thermometer
at " o’clock registering 99’. A rain storm
of short duration passed over the city about
4 o'clock, after which a pleasant breeze
from the northwest afforded grateful relief
to perspiring humanity. Up to midnight
six deaths from the effects of the heat were
reported. A number of cases of sunstroke
" p re also reported, several of which are
likely to prove fatal.
104” AT AUGUSTA.
Augusta, Ga., July 17.—This has been
the hottest day in years, the thermometer
indicating a maximum temperature of 104°.
a fatality at charleston.
Charleston, S. C., Julv 17.—1. D.
Budds was fatally prostrated liy asunstroke
here to-day.
CLEVELAND’S ESCAPE.
He Will Provide for the Family of the
Dead Engineer.
Utica, N. Y., July 17.—Soon after the
accident to the President’s excursion train
jat night, by the breaking of the connect
*nß ar , Mrs. Cleveland sent a telegram to
her mother, nt the Executive Mansion in
Washington, assuring her that both the
President and herself were not hurt. At
Alder Creek Mr. Cleveland iii
'lumd carefully into the facts,
i ''l regarding Perrique, the fireman who
shut off the throttle as the train was still
mining and the cab filled with steam, and
also learned the particulars regarding the
' "million and number of Engineer Reilly’s
Jt'-R'y- Ho then instructed Secretary Fair-
I, to look out handsomely for the
w.U’r. To-day the inquest was
c *umed, nnd the jury rendered
, v “T I *h't that Engineer Reilly came to his
1 father while attending to his duties ill
. or l, y jumping from the train. The
funeral will take place Tuesday.
Colquitt on Temperance.
Uhicago, July 17.—At the National Con
j'cation, of the Womens’ Christian Temjier-
V nion, at Take Bluff, to-day, Senator
J. Georgia, gave somo interesting
i' • '\°f " hat. prohibition has done and is
w' 1 hi tho South. In twelve Southern
tbo s ’ Rll *9< there were fewer saloons to
. Pf’pulation than in any other dozen
TANARUS/ i. fS ’ n excepting Maine and Kansas.
'.'P'ifni had been adopted in Georgia
eV| ry vv|| !' ma ’ un ‘* prohibition was a success
Death of a Boniface.
fcjA'WWOKw, July 17.—Stephen B. Uob
ripi;.; °‘ the firm of Holden & Robbins, pro
do'!i S the Metropolitan Hotel in this
p,,;,’. f’fi here Mils afternoon of general de
koJ-agefl 'M years. Ho had boon in tho
for, “ lw >neea nearly forty years, and was
H,, years proprietor of the Planters’
of Naohvij] ’ Ua.. and Overton House,
No Now Cases at Key West.
ff fmi Kla -* July 17.—N0 new cases
thr„ ! “* Ve developed since yesterday and
ropoli V( ' only t.wo deaths. The
iK.i* l!! w stands: Total cases to date, 119;
oU ’ '■ '***; *ick now, 57; discharged cured,
fPjc JBjcrfninij lictos.
HUNG IN A COURT ROOM.
Enraged Citizens of Union City End
the Career of a Black Brute.
Chicago, July 17.—A special from
Evansville, *lnd., says: At Union City
early in the week a negro named John
Thomas committed a brutal assault on a
little white girl. A posse was organized,
mid after a long search he was found at
Humboldt and brought back. His prelim
inary examination was held yesterday. A
large, angry and determined crowd"filled
the court room. He was positively
identified by his victim. At this point some
one in the crowd shouted, “Thats enough,
let s put him where he’ll do no more of the
devil’s work.’’ The entire court room of
men, numbering perhaps two hundred en
raged citizens, then rose to their
feet and with aii impulsive rush
surged over the posse of officers,
sweeping them aside, and despite their efforts
to save Thomas tho maddened throng seized
the trembling and panic-stricken wretch.
In an instant a good rope was procured, and
a noose deftly prepared, slipped about the
prisoner’s neck, willing hands threw the end
of the rope over a beam in the court room
and then the crowd walked away, leaving
the body swinging.
AN ASSASSINATION SCARE.
Rumors of a Plot to Take the Life of
Emperor William.
Paris, July 17.—La Intranzigeant an
nounces that the police at Grosgeren have
discovered certain documents which give
evidence of the existence of a Socialist plot
to murder Emperor William of Germany
while journeying to Gasteina. Many arrests
have been made of persons charged with
being implicated in the plot.
fails to materialize.
Berlin, July 17.—1n consequence of the
rumor that slips of paper had been found iu
several places through which the imperial
train would pass, endorsed “To night at
about midnight the Emperor’s train passes,
be ready,” a fictitious special train was dis
patched before the Envperor’s. The route
from Mayence to Darmstadt was lined with
police and gendarmes. Both trains passed
safely without incident.
TREVELYAN’S SUDDEN TURN.
Chamberlain Suggests Four Questions
to Gladstone.
London, July 17. —Mr. Chamberlain has
written a letter to the Radical Union, of
Birmingham, in which he expresses his be
lief that Sir George Trevelyan has accepted
the vaguest Glodstonian assurance
in order to get back into Par
liament. If the electors are in doubt,
he says, let them ask Mr. Gladstone to give a
plain answer to these four questions: “Will
he maintain the supremacy of the Imperial
Parliament?” “Will he retain the Irish
members at Westminister?” “Will he pro
tect the Protestant minority f’ “Will Par
liament retain all the powers necessary to
maintain law and order in Ireland!”
TEMPERANCE AT TAMPA.
A Gospel Mass Meeting Held and an
Election Expected.
Tampa, Fla., July 17.—A Gospel Tem
perance mass meeting, under the auspices of
the Womans’ 'Christian Temperance Union
of this city, was held this afternoon under
the large oaks at the Fort Brooke reserva
tion. The speakers were Gen. O. H. Brewst
er, of Lake Charm; F. W. Symons, of Tampa,
and Miss Mary Taylor, a talented young
lady of Tampa. There was a large and aj i
preciative audience, which shows that the
temperance cause is prospering in this city.
There is a great effort now being made by
the citizens to call an election upon the
whisky question, and it is thought the effort
will be successful.
Death of a Prominent Merchant.
Cincinnati, July 17.— William Glenn
died at his home in this city to-night. He
was born at Hillsboro, N. C., in 1800, nnd
has been a merchant for sixty-four years,
forty-three of which was in Cincinnati in
the establishment which now bears the
firm name of William Glenn & Sons.
He was once President of the
Ohio and Mississippi railroad after helping
it out of grave financial difficulty, and has
been identified at the same time with nearly
every railroad entering the city, either as
an early stockholder or a member of the
board of directors.
Southwestern Railroads.
New Orleans, July 17. —The fact was
developed yesterday ' that the Mississippi
Valley railroad has purchased a quarter of
a mile of river front above Carrollton, out
side of the city limits, upon which they will
build wharves and warehouses for the pur
pose of handling their through business.
The Texas freight war continues. The
Texas Pacific road announces an additional
cut of 10c. per ldO pounds to common Texas
points upon Western produce. A cut of
12>$c. on salt will also be made.
Fire at Peeksktll.
Peekskill, N. Y., July 17.—Naylor
Bros. & Allen’s machine shop, a coal yard,
a tenement and three wagons were burned
to-day. The loss is $50,000.
a hotel burned.
Hyannis, Mass., July 17. —The Cot
ochesett House at Osterville, Mass., was
totally burned this morning. The guests
saved most of their effects and most of the
hotel furniture was saved. The total loss is
estimated at *2s,Wit The property is well
insured.
Tennessee’s Press Association.
Johnson City, Tknn., July 17.— The
Tennessee Press Association yesterday at
Cloud Land, elected J. Harvey Mathes, of
Memphis, President ; R. M. Reamee, of Mc-
Minnville, J. R. Resor, of Paris, and C. H.
black of Bristol, Vice Presidents; Pitkin C.
Wright, of Nashville, Secretary, and W. A.
Wade, of Milan, Treasurer. Memphis was
chosen as the next place of meeting.
A Cracksman Caught in the Act.
Augusta, Oa., July 17. —At o’clock
this morning n man giving his name as
Ht/mt or Strout, and hailing from New
York was arrested at Grovo Town wnilo in
the at : t of boring into the safe of the post
master and express agent’s. He had a set of
hurzlar’s tools and was drilling to blow the
safe open with dynamite cartridges when
arrested.
A Cyclone In Wisconsin.
Waupaca, Wis., July 17.-A cyclone at
6 o'clock yesterday evening wrecked the
opera house in this city, unroofed two ho
tels blew down the Episcopal church steeple
and caused other havoc The Curran
House was struck by lightning but no one
was injured. Farmers in the vicinity suf
fered heavy losses.
Bicycle Racing.
London, July 17.-At Birmingham ye*
tordaV Temple won the half mile bicycle
championship and boat the quarter of a
mile Ora* record made at Norwich on
Thurdsday. Woodside lost the twentv-fl vc
mile championship race by a yard. In the
same race Morgan’s machine collapsed while
he was leading.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JULY 18, 1887.
A BIG SPECULATIVE BATTLE.
An Immense Cotton Deal That ie
Exciting Some Attention.
New York, July 16.— This is a year of
big speculative battles, each of which has
proved a commercial Waterloo. The issue
of the big cotton “deal,” which is now at
tracting so ninch attention, is awaited with
considerable interest. The deal is being run
by German houses, and others here and at
Galveston, New Orleans, and, as is also un
derstood, at St. Louis and Chicago. J ulius
Runge, of the firm of Kauffman & Runge,
of Galveston, is the Marshal Blueher of tne
German bulls, but whether he will meet
with the same success as his military proto
type remains to be seen. He is of medium
height, well built, with handsome, regular
features, a straggling light heard
and thoughtful grayish blue
eyes. Seen around the brass-railed pit of
tne Cotton Exchange, with its high white
arches and storied windows, he might bo
taken for a good-looking German peasant
suddenly raised to opulence, though the lat
ter impression might perhaps Vie modified
somewhat by the high black silk hat which
he wears in midsummer. Ho was in the big
coffee deal which collapsed some time ago
and he made $260,000. He is also under
stood to have been one of the leaders in the
recent June corner in wheat here, whereby
in a very short time the price was lifted
from 94 cents to $1.07 per bushel and several
million bushels were \cttled at the highest
point without taking account of tho
profits accruing from sales at a lower
range of quotations. In the cotton
deal the bull forces are said to rep
resent $15,000,000, and at one time they are
understood to have held 200,000 bales hero
and 100,000 in Liverpool. Like the wheat
and coffee speculations, which were started
months ago, the basis of the bull operations
in cotton was the cheapness of the article
and a bullish statistical exhibit. Mr. Runge
began to buy cotton in February when it
was very low, and continued to buy through
March. He cornered April and ran up the
price 100 “points,” or equal to le. a pound
or $4 50 a bale. Then he went on to manip
ulate the summer months, and pushed up
the market another cent or more, finally
fixing on August as tho month to lx:
squeezed and screwing up the price to 11 We.
Then the market began to recede, and by
July 1, August was down to 11-04 c., and
a few daya ago it touched 10.21 c.
ainid great excitement, growing out of ru
mors that the bulls were throwing over
their load. It was stated that bulls in Gal
veston and New Orleans were getting out of
the deal as fast as they could, and in two
days it was noticed that the sales of August
cotton were no less than 135,000 bales. At
one time the visible supply in this country
was more than 200,000 bales less than at the
same time last year, though the supply in
Europe was larger than ou the same date in
1886. Just now the supply in New York is
70,000 bales less than a year ago, but taking
the consolidated stock or the visible supply
in the United States there is a decrease com
pared with that of last year of only 54,000
bales, while the visible supply in the world
is 1,744,658 bales, against 1,723,978 last year,
or an actual increase at this date of a little
over 20,000 bales.
Orders to sell have latterly been received
here from all over the South, many small
holders becoming frightened by the break
of 50 points, or $2.25 a bale, within a few
days. One of the bear points was the re
port of tho Agricultural Bureau at Wash
ington, showing that the condition of the
crop was 97 per cent, against 83t£ a year
ago. The prospects of a big cotton crop, it
is averred, have not been so flattering for
ten years, and this is one of the reasons, it
is asserted, for the selling of long cotton.
A bear in New Orleans sends a despatch
that 50,000 bales of new cotton are expected
there in August, though the cotton year
does not begin till Kept. 1. This caused
selling because it was argued that it will be
harder to corner tne old crop if the now is
to come to market so early. It is, of course,
too early to make predictions us to the size
of the next crop, but somo of the more san
guine boars tielieve that it will lie unprece
dented. To show, however, how little reli
ance may bo placed oil the predictions of
either bull or bear prophets, it may be
stated tiiat the estimate of the next crop
range from 6,500,000 to 8,IKK),000 bales. The
biggest crop on record was that of 1882-3,
when it reached 6,950,000 bales.
Among the bulls is Solomon Ranger, once
known as the Napoloon of tho New York
cotton trade. Ho lost very heavily hy the
failure of his brother, Morris Ranger, in
Liverpool, some years ago, but in this cam
paign he is said to have iiecn singularly suc
cessful. He is a bom leader in speculation,
and is once more a power in the New York
market. He is at tho head of the American
Cotton Company here. He is short, thick
set, stolid, good-natured and popular. He
is a German of Hebrew birth, though with
out the facial characteristics of his ancient
race. Ho is a man who could stand up in
tho cotton ring and lose tho whole of his
fortune and never move a muscle. He is at
once cool, prudent and courageous.
Whether he has acted independently
as a free lance in the deal or has
joined forces with tho other German
houses are questions of dispute.
Other bulls among tlio German houses are
Walter & Fatman, 8. Grunor & Cos., and
Mohr, Haneman it Cos. Mr. Gruner was
formerly President of the Cotton Exchange,
ami Vice President of the Coffee Exchange.
He made a fortue in tho big bull deal in
coffee some time ugo, and also squeezed the
June shorts in wheat here, engineering that
deal, it is stated, for Mr. Runge and his
Galveston friends He is stout, ruddy cora
plexioned and jolly, a member of all the
German clubs here, socially inclined and
very popular. Mohr, of Mohr, Haneman
& Cos., is tall, sparely built, with grayish
side whiskers, and the German gray eyes.
He looks like a Hohenzollcrn or a Haps
hurg or a German Baron at least. At the
decline the big exiiort houses here have
bought the actual cotton freely. Ralli
Brothers, Faekeri & Cos., anil other Greek
firms being especially prominent in
the buying. Greek houses are very
important members of the trade bore.
Ralli Brothers, for instance, have
a capital of about £12,000.000 ster
ling nnd have houses all over Europe as
well us this country, and their annual pur
chases of cotton in this market alone reach,
it is stated, some 300,000 liales annually.
The house has always liecn ns invincible as
tjie Greeks of old at Halamis. American
mills are now buying more freely. They
were shut out by the nigh prices. In Eng
land a movement was ut one time started to
boycott American cotton 1 wscause of the cor
ner. There are ninny conflicting opinions
as to tho future action of the clique. Its
members were in some eases at one time
identified witii tho big Chicago wheat deal,
and some of the wheat peoplo in Chicago
aud St. Louis are interested in the i-otton
deal. Some think the clique has sold very
largely, others tiiat only tho “tailors” have
sold to anv large extent, others that the
clique will hold on and squeeze August
shorts, and still others that ttie buff phalanx
will watch its opportunity and get out with
as little loss and as soon as possible.
Oscar Willouhhby Riggs.
The failure of the house of Kauffman &
Runge was announced in our dispatches
yesterday morning.
Will Force Him to Decline.
London, July 17.—A dispatch from Bt.
Peteisburg so vs that In official circles there
it is firmly believed that the Oar will force
Prince Ferdinand, of Haxe-Cobura- to de
cline the Bulgarian throne
COME ALL YE Til HIST Y.
HOW TO QUENCH THE UNDEFINED
LONGING FOR SALVATION.
Talmage Takes a Lesson from Jacob
and Rachel at the Well—No Excuse
fora Failure to Reach the Well of
Religion—Changed Feelings Incident
to Advancing Years.
The Hamptons, July 17.—The Rev.
T. DeWitt Talniage, D. D., pastor of the
Tabernacle, continues to enjoy
the summer in this pleasant place. His ser
mon for to-day was on the text: “We cannot,
until all the flocks be gathered together, and
till they roll the stone from the well’s
mouth ; then we water the sheep."—Genesis,
xxix. 8.
A scene in Mesopotamia, beautifully pas
toral. A well of water of great value in
that region. The fields round about it
white with three flocks of slitep lying down
waiting for the watering. I hoar their
bleating coming on the bright air, and the
laughter of young men and maidens in
dulging in rustic repartee. I look off and I
see other flocks of sheep coming. Mean
while, Jacob, a stranger, on the interesting
errand of looking for a wife, comes to the
well. A beautiful shepherdess comes to the
same well. I see her approaching, followed
by her father’s flock of sheep. It was a
memorablo meeting. Jacob married that
shepherdess. The Bible account of it is:
“Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his
voice and wept.” It has always been a
mystery to mo what he found to cry about!
But before that scene occurred, Jacob ac
costs the shepherds aud asks them why they
postpone tho slaking of the thirst of these
sheep, and why they did not immediately
proceed to water them. Tho shepherds
reply to the effect: “We are all good
neighbors, and as n matter of courtesy we
wait until all the sheep of the neighbor
hood come up. Besides that, this stone on
the well’s mouth is somewhat heavy, and
several of us take hold of it and push it
aside, and then the buckets and the troughs
are filled, and the sheep are satisfied. We
cannot, until all tho flocks are gathered to
gether, and until they roll the stone from
the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.”
Oh, this is a thirsty world I Hot for the
head, and blistering for the feet, and parch
ing for the tongue. The world’s great want
is a cool, refreshing, satisfying draught.
We wimder around and we find the cistern
empty. Long and tedious drought has dried
up the world’s fountains, but nearly nine
teen centuries ago, a Shepherd, with crook
in the shape of a cross, and feet cut to the
bleeding, explored the desert passages of
this world, and one day came across a well
a thousand feet deep, bubbling, and bright,
and opalescent, and looked to the north, and
the south, and the east, and tho west, and
cried out with a voice strong and musical
that rang through the ages: “Ho, everyone
that thirsteth, come ye to the waters!”
Now, a great flock of sheep to-day gather
around this Gospel well. There are a great,
many thirsty souls. I wonder why the nocks
of afl nations do not gather—why so many
stay away thirsty: and while I am wonder
ing about it, my text breaks forth in the ex
planation, saying: “We cannot, until all
the Hecks be gathered together, and till they
roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then
we water the sheep.”
If a herd of swine come to a well they an
grily jostle each other for the precedence;
if a drove of cattle come to a well they hook
each other back from the water, but when
a flock of sheep come, though a hundred of
them shall be disappointed, they only ex
press it by sad bleatings; they come together
peacefully. We want a great multitude to
come around the Gospel well. I
know there are those who do not
like a crowd—they think a crowd
is vulgar. If they are oppressed for room
in church it makes them positively impatient
and belligerent. We have had people perma
nently leave our church because so many
other people come to it. Not so did these
oriental |.hepherds. They waited until all
the flocks were gathered, and the more
Hocks that came the better they liked it.
And so we ought to lie anxious that all the
people should come. Go out into the high
ways and hedges and compel them to come
in. Go to the rich and tell they are indi
gent without the gospel of Jesus. Go to
the poor and tell them the affluence there is
in Christ. Go to the blind and tell them of
the touch that gives them eternal illumina
tion. Go to the lame and tell them of tho joy
that will make the lame man leap like a
hart. Gather all the sheep off of all the
mountains. None so torn or the dogs, none
so sick, none so worried, none so dying, as
to lie omitted. Why not gather a great
flock? All Brooklyn is a flock; all New York
is a flock; all London is a flock; all
the world in a flock. This well of the Gos
jiel is deep enough to put out the burning
thirst of tho twelve hundred million of the
race. Do not let the Church, by a spirit of
exclusiveness, keep the world out. Let
down all the bars, swing open all the gates,
scatter all the invitations: “Whosoever will,
lot him fume.” Come, white and black.
Come, red men of the forest. Come, Lap
lander out of the snow. Come, Patagonian,
out of the heat. Come in furs. Come pant
ing under palm leaves. Come one. Come
all. Come now. As at this well of Mesopo
tamia, Jacob and Rachel were betrothed, so
this morning, at this well of salvation, Christ
our Shepherd will meet you coining up with
your long flocks of cares and anxieties, and
He will stretch out His hand in pledge of
his affection, while all heaven will cry out:
“Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out
to meet Him.”
You notice that this well of Mesopotamia
had a stone on It which must lie removed
before the sheep could lie watered; and I
And on this well of salvation to-day iinpedi
inents.and olistaeles, which must tie rempved
in order that you may obtain the refresh
ment and life of this Gospel. In your ease
the impediment is pride of heart. You can
not bear to come to so democratic a foun
tain ; you do not want to como with so many
others, it is to you like when you are dry,
coming to a town pump, as compared sit
ting in a parlor sipping out of a chased
chalice which has just lssn lifted from a
silver salver. Not so many publicans
and sinners. You want to get, to
heaven, but it must be in a special
car, with your foot on a Turkish
ottoman and a hand of music on lioanl the
train. You do not want to be in company
with rustic Jacob and Rachel, and to lie
drinking out of the fountain where ten
thousand sheen have been drinking liefore
you. You will havo to remove the olistacle
of pride, or never find your way to the well.
You will liave to come as we came, willing
to take the water of eternal life in any way,
and at any hand, and in any kind of pitcher,
crying out: “Oh, Lord Jesus, I am dying of
thirst. Give me the water of eternal life,
whether in trough or goblet; give me the
water of life; 1 core not in what it comes to
mo.” Away with all your hindrances of
pride from the well’s mouth.
Here is another man who is kept back
from this water of fife by the stone of an
obdurate heart, which lies over the mouth
of tho well. You have no more feeling upon
this subject than if God hail yet to do you
the first kindness, or you hail to do God the
first wrong. Seated on Hi* lap all these
years, His overlasting arms sheltering you,
where is your gratitude} Where is your
morning and evening prayer? Where are
vour consecrated live*? I say to you, as
Daniel said to Belshazzar: “The God in
whoso hand thy breath is, and all thy way,
thou hast not glorified.” If you treated
anybody as badly as you have treated God,
you would have made five hundred npolo
gies—yen, your whole life would have been
an apology. Three times a day you have
been seated at God’s table. Spring, summer,
autumn and winter lie has appropri
ately apparelled you. Your health from
Him, your companion from Him, vour
children from Him, your home from Him;
all the bright surroundings of your life from
Him. O man, what dost thou with that
hard heart? Canst thou not fi*el one throb
of gratitude toward tho Gixl that made you,
and the Christ who came to redeem you,
and the Holy Ghost who has all these years
been importuning you? If you could sit
down five minutes under the tree of a
Saviour’s martyrdom, and feel his warm
life trickling on your forehead, and cheek,
and hands, met.hlnks you would got some
appreciation of what you owe to a cruci
fied Jesus.
“Heart of stone, relent, relent,
Touched hy Jesus' cross subdued;
See His body, mutinied, rent,
Covered with n gore of blood.
Sinful soul, what host thou done?
Crucified the eternal Son.”
Jacob, with a good deal of tug and push,
took the stone from the well’s mouth, so
that the flocks might be watered. And I
would that this morning my word, blessed
of God, might remove the hindrances to
your getting up to the Gospel well. Yea, I
take it for granted that the work is done,
and now like oriental shepherds, I proceed
to water the sheep.
Come, all ye thirsty! You have an unde
fined longing in your soul. You tried money,
making; that did not satisfy you. You
tried office under government; that did not
satisfy you. You tried pictures and sculp
tures; but works of art did not satisfy you.
You are as much discontented with this life
as the celebrated French author who felt
that he could not any longer endure the
misfortunes of the world, and who said:
“At 4 o’clock this afternoon I shall put an
end to my own existence. Meanwhile I
must toil on up to that time for the susten
ance of my family.” And he wrote on his
book until the dock struck 4, when
he folded up his manuscript nnd, by
his own hand, concluded his earthly life.
There are men in this house who are
perfectly discontented. Unhappy in the
past, unhappy to-day, to he unhappy for
ever, unless you come to this Gospel well.
This satisfies the soul with a high, deep, all
absorbing, and eternal satisfaction. It
comes, and it offers the most, unfortunate
man so much of this world as is lies! for
him, and throws all heaven into the bar
gain. Tho wealth of Croesus, and of all
the Stewarts, and of all the Barings, and
all the Rothschilds is only a poor, miserable
shilling compared with the eternal fortunes
that Christ offers you to-day. In the far
East, there was a king who used once a
year to get on a scales, while on the other
side the scales were placed gold, and silver,
and gems; indeed, enough were placed
there to balance the King; then, at the
close of tho weighing, all those treasures
were thrown among the populace. Hut,
Christ to-day stein on one side the scales,
and on the other side are all the
treasures of the universe, and He says: “All
are yours—all height, all depth, all length,
all breadth, all eternity; all are yours.” Wo
don’t appreciate tlie promises of the Gospel.
When an aged clergyman was dying—a
man very eminont in the church —a young
theological student stood by his side, and
the aged man looked tip and said to him:
“Can’t you give me some comfort in my
dying hour?” “No,” said the young man,
“I can’t talk to you on this subject; you
know all about it, and havo known it so
long.” “Well," said the dying man, “just
recite to me some promises.” The young
man thought a moment, and he came to
this promise: “The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sin,” and the old man
claiqied his hands, and in his dying moment
said: “That’s just the promise I’ve been
waiting for. ‘The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sin.’” Oh, the warmth,
the grandeur, tho magnificences of the
promises!
Conn*, also, to this Gospel well, all ye
troubled. I do not suppose you have os
cajicd. Compare your view of this life at
fifteen years of age with w hat your view is
of it nt forty, or sixty, or seventy. What
a great contrast of opinion! Were you right
then, or are you right now? Two cups
placed in your hands, tho one a sweet cup,
the other a sour cup. A cup of joy anil a
cup of grief. Which has been the nearest
to being full, and out of which havo you
the more frequently partaken? What a dif
ferent plat* Green wood is from what it used
to be! Once it was to you a grand city im
provement, and you went out on the pleas
ure excursion, mid you ran laughingly up
the mound, and you criticised in a light way
the epitaph. But sinoo tho day you hoard
the I**ll toll at tho gate when you went in
with tho procession, it is a sail place, anil
there is a flood of rushing memories that
suffuse tho eye and overmaster tho heart.
Oh, you have had trouble, trouble, trouble.
God only knows how much you have had.
It is a wonder you have been able to live
through it. It is a wonder your nervous
system has not been shattered, and
your brain has not reeled. Trouble,
trouble. If I could gather all
the griefs, of all sorts, from this
great audience, nud could put them in one
scroll, neither man nor angel could endure
the recitation. Well, what do you want?
Would you liko to have your property bnck
again? “No,” you say, as a Christian man,
‘M was becoming arrogant, anil I think that
is why tho Lord took it away. I don’t want
to havo my proiierty bark.” Well, would
you have your iiepartod friends back again?
“No,” you say, “I couldn’t take the respon
sibility of bringing them from a tearless
realm to a realm of tears. I couldn’t do it.”
Well, then, what do you want'? A thousand
voices in the audience cry out: “Comfort,
give us comfort.” For that reason I have
rolled away the stone from the well’s mouth.
Come, all ve wounded of the flock, pursued
of the wolves, come to the fountain where
the Lord’s sick and liereft ones havo come.
"Ah,” says someone, “you are not old
enough to understand my sorrows. You
have not been in the world ils long as I have,
and you can’t Wilk to me al*iut my misfor
tunes in the time of old age.” Well, I may
not havo lived as long as you, but I have
been a great deal among old jieople, and I
know how they feel about their failing
health, and about their departed friends,
anil about the loneliness that sometimes
strikes through their souls. After two tier
sons linve lived together for forty or fifty
years, and one of them is taken uway, wbat
desolation! I shall not forget the cry of the
late Rev. Dr. Do Witt, of New York, when
he stood nt the open grave of tiis lieloved
wife, and, after the olisoquie* had ended, ho
looked down into the ow n place and said;
“Farewell, my honored, faithful and be
loved wife. Tho bond that bound us is sev
ered. Thou art in glory, and lam hero on
earth. We shall meet again. Farewell!
Farewell!” To lean on a prop for fifty
years, and then liave it
break under you! There were
only two jeurs’ difference between
the death of my father and mother. After
my mother’s decease, my father used to go
around as though looking for somethin"; lie
would often get up from one room wituout
any seeming reason and goto another mom;
and then lie would take his cane and start
out, ami someone would suy: “Father,
where are you going?” and he would an
swer: “I don’t know exactly where I am
going." Always looking for something.
Though be was a tender-hearted man, I
never saw him ery but once, and that was
at the burial of my mother. After sixty
years’ living together it was hard to part.
And there are aged people to-day who are
feeling just such a pang as that. I want to
tell them there is peaceful enchantment in
the promises of this Gospel; and I come to
them and offer them my arm, or I take
their arm and I bring them to this
Gospel well. Hit down, father or mother,
sit down. See if there is anything at the
well for you. Come, David, the I’salm
ist, have you anything encouraging
to offer them? “Yes," says the
psalmist: “They shall still bring forth fruit
m old age, they shall be fat and flourishing,
to show that the Lord is upright. He is
my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in
me.” Come, Isaiah, have you anything to
say out of vour prophesies for these aged
people? “Yes,” says Isaiah, “Down to old
ago I am with tins*, and to hoary hairs will
1 carry thee.” Well, if the Lord is going to
carry you, you ought not to worry much
about your failing eyesight and failing
limbs. You get a little worried for fear
sometime you will come to want, do you?
Your children and grandchildren sometimes
speak a little sharp at you liecause of your
ailments. The Lord will not speak sharp.
Do vou think you will come to wunt? Who
do you think the Lord is? Are His gran
aries empty? Will He feed the raven, and
the rabbit, and the lion in
the desert, and forget you) Why
naturalists tell us that the porpoise will
not forsake its wounded and sick mate. And
do you suppose the Lord of Heaven and
earth has not os mueh sympathy as the fish
of the sea) But you say: “I am so near
worn out, and I am of no use to God any
more.” I think the Lord knows whether
you are of any more use or not; if you
were of no more use Ho would have taken
you before this. Do you think God has for
gotten you because Ho has taken care of
you for seventy or eighty years) He thinks
more of you to-day than He ever did, be
cause you think more of Him. May the
God or Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob,
and Paul the Aged be your God forever.
But I gather all the promises to-day in a
group, and I ask the shepherds to drive
their flocks of lambs and sheep up to the
sparkling supply. “Behold, happy is the
man whom God correeteth.” “Though lie
cause grief, yet will he have compassion.”
“Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
but the Lord delivereth him out of them
all.” “Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh m the morning.” lam de
termined this morning that no one shall go
out of this house uncomforted. Yonder is
a timid and shrinking soul who seems to
hide away from the consolations 1 am utter
ing, as a child with a sore hand hides away
from the physician lest he touch the wound
too roughly, and the mother has to go and
compel the little patient to come out and see
the physician. Bo I come to your timid
and shrinking soul to-day, and compel
you to come out in presence of tne
Divine Physician. Ho will not hurt
you. Ho has been Healing wounds
for many years, and He will give you gentle
and omnipotent medicament. But people,
when they have trouble, go any where rather
than to God. DeQuiney took opium to get
rid of his troubles. Charles Lamb took to
punch. Theodore Hook took to*something
stronger. Edwin Forrest took to theatrical
dissipation. And men have run all around
the earth, hoping in the quick transit to get
away from their misfortunes. It has len
a dead failure. There is only one well that
can slake the thirst of an afflicted spirit,
and that is the deep and inexhaustible well
of the Gospel.
But someone says in the audience: “Not
withstanding all you have said this morn
ing, I And no alleviation for iny troubles.”
Well, lam not through yet. I have left
the most potent consideration for the Inst.
I am going to soothe you witli the thought
of heaven. However talkative wo may lie,
there will come a time when the stoutest
and most emphatic interrogation will evoke
from us no answer. As soon as we have
closed our lilts for the final silence, no
power on earth can break that taciturnity.
But where, O Christian, will be vour spirit?
In a scene of infinite gladness. The spring
morning of heaven waving its blossoms in
the bright air. Victors fresh from battle
showing their scars. The rain of earthly
sorrow struck through witli the rainltow of
eternal joy. In one group God and angels
and the redeemed—Paul and Bilan, Isitimer
and Ridley, Isaiah and Jeremiah, Payson
and John Milton, Gabriel and Micliael, the
archangel. Long lino of choristers reach
ing across the hills. Boas of joy dashing to
the white beach. Conquerors marching
from gate to gate. You are among them.
Oh, what a groat flock of sheep God will
gather around tne celestial wall. No stone
on the well’s mouth, while the shepherd
waters the sheep. There Jacob will recog
nize Rachel, the shepherdess. Ami stand
ing on one side of the well of eternal rap
ture, your children; and standing on the
other side of eternal rapture, your Christian
ancestry, you will lie bounded on all sides
by a joy so keen and grand that no other
world has ever tieen permitted to experience
it. (lilt, of that one deep well of heaven,
the Shepherd will dip re-union for the be
reaved, wealth for the poor, health for the
sick, rest, for the weary. And then all the
(lock of the Lord's sheep will lie down in
the green pastures, and world without end
we will praise the I/>rd that on this summer
Sabbath morning we were permitted to
study the story of Jacob anil Rachel, the
shepherdess, at the well in Mesojiotarnia.
SUNDAY CONCERTS.
A Prominent Preacher of Charleston
Objects to them.
Chaiu.ehton, July lti. —'The Rev. Dr.
Thompson, of the Scotch Presbyterian
church, has taken up the clerical cudgel
once more against people who go to sacred
concerts on Sunday and against the railroads
for running Sunday excursions. Since the
advent of the hot spell a good many people
in Charleston go out to the bridge
on the Ashley river. The Enterprise
Railway Company, which runs its tracks
to the bridge, hired a colored brass band
and advertised a grand sacred concert on
Sunday last. The musicians were nimble to
tackle anything of a high order of sacred
music. They could not give extracts from
“The Messiah,” or “Moses in Egypt,” or
“The Creation,” but they did the iiest they
could, and played all the hymns they knew,
and besides kept strictly to hymns. There
was an immense crowd on the bridge, and
hence I>l\ Thompson's sermon. Heprorniscsto
keep the war up too. Dr. Thompson is an
able divine and is almld fighter when helms
old Nick to deal with, an he used to Ik- when
lie followed the fortunes of the Southern
Cron.
There was promise last week of an official
rumpus between the legislative delegation
and the county commissioners owing to u
misunderstanding ns to the repairing of thu
county buildings. The delegation, how ever,
hastened to explain and to disavow any in
tention to reflect upon the board, und the
threatened war was averted.
Earthquakes In Italy.
London, July 17. —.Slight shocks of earth
quake wero felt in Sicily and along the
Italian coast at 8 o'clock tills morning.
Mount Etna is in a state of eruption. No
damage is reported.
A severe earthquake shock was felt to
day at Malta. A serious shock was also ex
perienced at Cairo, where one man was
killed and several injured. A number of
mosques were damaged. Shocks were also
felt at Ismaiiia and Alexandria.
| PRICE RIO A YEAR. >
I 5 CENT* A COPY, f
CROPS AND THE CLIMATE
WEEKLY WEATHER BULLETIN OP
THE SIGNAL OFFICE.
The Weather Generally Warmer Than
Usual During the Past Week—The
( Deficiency In the Rainfall Not Yet
Made Up—The Weather as a Rule
Favorable for Cotton.
Washington, July 17.—The following is
the weather crop bulletin of the Signal Of
fice of the War Department for the week
ending July hi.
temperature.
During the week ending July 16, 1887, the
weather lias lieen warmer than usual, ex
eept in the Gulf States, Northern New
England and on the Pacific coast, the aver
age daily excess ranging from 3’ to 8“ front
the Middle Atlantic States westward to the
Rocky Mountains. It has been slightly
cooler than usual in the cotton region and
on the Pacific coast tho daily average waa
from 3" to 5° below the normal.
The average daily temperature for
the season from Jon. 1 to July 16, 1887, dif
fers but slightly from the normal in the
agricultural districts, there being a daily
excess of about T in the Mississippi, f)hio
mid Missouri valleys. The season has been
slightly cooler than unsual on the South
Atlantic coast and from lake Superior
wesCTVanl to the Pacific coast.
RAINFALL.
Dnring the week there has been a defi
ciency in the rainfall generally throughout
all agricultural districts east of the Rocky
Mountains, except, in Minnesota, Northern
Wisconsin, Colorado and Eastern Dakota,
where slight exooane* are reported.
Tho rainfall has also been slightly
in excess at stations on the New England
coast. In the cotton region more than one
half the usual amount of rainfall occurred,
while in the corn and tobacco regions slightly
less t han one-halt the usual amount is re
ported. The large seasonal deficiency of
rainfall previously reported in tho cotton
region, and in the states of the upjier Missis
sippi and lower Missouri valleys has been
still further increased during the past week,
and it now ranges from ten to seventeen
inches in the cotton region and from five to
ten inches in Illinois and lowa.
( GENERAL REMARKS.
The reports received during the week in
dicate t hat the weather lias been favorable
for the cotton crop in tho eastern and cen
tral portions of the cotton regions but in
sections of the lower Mississippi valley the
conditions are variisl, some sections report
ing that more rain is needed while other*
report that eximssivo rains and low temper
atures linve nffected the rro|>s injuriously.
There has been an excess of temperature
and more than the usual amount of sun
slnno in the low regions, and these condi
tions combined with the deficiency
of rainfall for the week have
probably resulted in some injury to thi*
crop. Local showers have fallen in section*
of the corn belt, but not over the entire
area, and the rain was not in sufficient
quantity. The weather has lssen favorable
for tho harvesting of wheat, which has been
generally completed, except in Minnesota
and Dakota, where it is now in progres*
and where all growing crops were improved.
In New England and the Middle Atlantic
Btatos the weather has affected favorably
all growing crops. The indications at 7
o’clock this morning, July 17, are that
showers will occur in the next twenty-tour
hours in the western portions of the extra
belt, where they are greatly needed.
. DINING-ROOM RUMPUS.
A Miohisran Girl Hurls a Goblet at tho
Hoad of a Revere House Guest.
fVont )A Chicago Mail.
Late diners at the Rovere House last
night witnessed u peculiar slugging match
in one round, in which the participants wer*
a young woman and an old gentleman.
A number of weeks ago a lady, accompa
nied by two lovely naughters, arrived at
the Revere House. They registered a* Mrs.
Palmer, Miss Nellie Palmer, and Miss. Min
nie Palmer. After a short stay Mrs. Pal
mer returned to her homo in Michigan,
leaving her (laughters at the hotel, where
they had becomo the general favorites. It
was understood that they were t<> make the
hotel their home for a while, visiting among
their friends in the city. Among the other
guests at the hotel is Mnj. Wilson, a retired
real estate dealer about 50 yeans old. rich
and jovial. He was also a favorite. Maj.
Wilson is said to have been lately connected
with an English land syndicate in Central
Kansas.
Mai. Wilson is somewhat addicted to con
vivial habits, and with several friends suc
ceeded in getting quite merry before com
ing to the hotel dining-room for supper last
night. Ho to<>k his accustomed seat at tb
table with the Misses Palmer, with whom
he began to lnugh and talk. Miss Nellie In
particular attracted his attention. From a
friendly exchange of joke and small talk,
tho conversation became more serious.
High and indignant words finally resulted.
The gentleman was under the influence of
liquor, and soon liegan to use language un
fit for Indies’ cars at least. The young la
dies stood it for some time. Finally Mis*
Nellie found it unbearable, and remarking
that she “would lie no longer insulted," rose
from her chair and seizing a glass hurled it
full in the face of Wilson. The glass hit
him squarely in the right eye, cutting an
ugly gash, though not a serious one. He
was taken from tho dining-room to his par
lor, where the wound was dressed. It was
thought at first that he would loso his eye,
but an examination revealed the compara
tively trifling nature of the injury. Tho
affair caused much talk, but the sympathy
is generally with the young lady. Whila
her violence is scarcely indorsed as lady
like, the punishment of Wilson is considered
righteous, and there are few who blame
her.
Both parties to the affair are still atthe ho
tol, but the young ladies have declared their
intention of removing.
Prisoners to Print a Paper.
Stillwater, Minn., July 17.—The con
victs at the State prison will begin about
Aug. 8 the publication of a weekly four
coluinn folio newspaper called the Prison
Mirror, the object of the enterprise being
to benefit the prison library fund. There
are four practical printers who will attend
to the mechanical department, while pris
oner I-ew Bchonmaker will bo editor-in
chief. George P. Dodd, the prison store
keeper. has consented to act os treasurer
and buirill*** manager.
Mrs. Chanfruu Dead.
Asbury Park, N. J., July 17.—Mrs. Sa
die Chanfrau, aged 34 years, wife of actor
Harry T. Chanfrau, died this morning at
Long Branch. Mrs. ('tiaiifrau wgs former-
Iv Miss Sadie Fulton, daughter of a well
known hotel proprietor of Pittsburg.
A new novel entitled “At the Mercy of
Tiberius," by Augusta Evans Wilson, will
be published in September. For many
years Mix Wilson has l*n lining in seclu
sion in a lieat-iful suburban homo near Mo
bile, Ala., ai.d it lias been understood that
in obedience to her husband's wishes, sh
would never again resume her lituron
work.