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, established tsso. ( J. 11. K6TILL, Editor and Proprietor, f 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.