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.1. 11. ICVI'IIJj, lidlloi' ictiJ Pruprli'ti'r. [
MILLIONS IN MINK HALS.
the value and amount of
LAST YEAR'S PRODUCTION.
, Notable Increase in Both Respects—
& Total Gain of $37,000,000 - Pig
;ron Takes a Big Jump to the Front-
Silver Shows a Slight Falling Off—
More Coal Produced, But Its Value
Decreased.
Washington, July 24.—The following
condensed statement of the production of
the more important minerals of the United
States in the calendar year 188(5 is issued by
tbe United States Geological Survey in ad
vance of a report on the mineral resources
of the United States, prepared by David
T. Day, Chief the Division of Mining Sta
tistics and Technology:
Notably increased production and also in
crease in value have been the general ehar
reteristics of the mineral industries during
BSti.
THE INCREASE IN VALUE.
The total value of the mineral products
increased in round numbers from $428,000,-
JOO in 1885 to $405,000,000 in 188(1. The im
portant factor in this gain of $37,000,000
was the increased production of pig iron
from 4,044,525 long tons in 1885 to 5,(583,320
long tons in 1880, and an appreciation of
75c. in the average value per ton, making a
total gain of $0(J,483,300 in this industry
alone.
SUMMARIZED INDIVIDUALLY.
The condition of the individual industries
is summarized as follows. The principal
iron statistics for 1880 were:
Domestic iron ore consumed, 10,000,000
ong tons; value at the mills, $28,000,000.
Imported iron ore consumed, 1,039,433
frog tons; total iron ore consumed, 11,039,-
33 long tons.
Pig iron made, 5,(583,329 long-tons; an in
rrease of 1 ,(538,803 tons, as compared with
*885; value at furnace, $95,195,7(50, or $30,-
483,3(50 more than in 1885.
Total spot value of all iron and steel in
the first stage of manufacture, excluding all
Implications, $142,500,000, an increase of
149.500,tX)0 as compared with 1885.
The total value of the gold produced in
1888 was $35,000,000, an increase of $3,199,-
000 over 1885.
A DECREASE IN SILVER.
The production of silver decreased from
$51,000,000 in 1885 to $51,000,000 in 188(5.
The production of copper in 188(5, includ
ing 45,000,000 pounds from imported py
-ites, amounted to 1(50,078,081 pounds, vei
led at $1(50.4(59,503, a decrease of 10,284,52(5
pounds and $1,823,496 in value from 1885.
The average price of copper in 1886 declined
to (or pound.
The total production of lead increased to
135,629 tons in 1.886, valued at $12,067,749 at
an average value of $93.40 per short ton in
New York.
WHITE LEAD’S PRODUCTION.
The product of white lead in 1886 is esti
mated at 69,000 short tons, worth, at
>er pound, $7,500,000.
The total valuo of the oxides of lead was
about $1,535,(XX).
The zinc production was 42,(541 short tons,
valued at SBB per sbort ton, an increase of
1,953 short tons, and $212,552 in value over
1885.
Zinc oxide (zinc white) was also made di
rectly from ores, to the amount of 18,000
short tons, valued at $1,440,000.
FLASKS OF QUICKSILVER.
In 1886 the production of quicksilver in
California was 29.981 flasks, or 2,291,547
pounds, valued at $1,060,000. This is a de
:rease of 2,092 flasks, but the total value
•hows an increase of SBO,BII, due to the in
:rease in pric*. The total production of all
kindsof coal in 1886, inclusive of that con
sumed at the mines, known as colliery con
sumption, was 107,(582,209 short tons, val
ued at $147,112,755 at the mines. The total
production of all kinds of coal shows a net
pun of 1,785,881 short tons compared with
885, but a lass in spot value of $5,419,420.
BRIG. GEN. DUNN DEAD.
A Successful Career In Politics and in
the Army.
Washington, July 24.—Brig. Gen. Wil
liam McKee Dunn, United States Army, re
tired, late Judge Advocate General, died at
hi* country residence at Maplewood, Fair
fax county, Va., this morning at 7:.'io o'clock,
in the 72d year of his age. Gen. Dunn was
horn Dee. Ui, 1814, in what was then In
liamt Territory, He received a classical
duration, graduating at the Indiana State
’ollege in 1832 and at Yale College in 1835.
A SUCCESSFUL LAWYER.
He then studied law and after being ad
fitted to the bar entered upon the practice
of his profession, in which he attained
prominence. In 1848 he was a member of
he State House of Representatives and in
’■'ill was a delegate to the State Constitu
tional Convention. Ho was elected re) ire
wntative from Indiana to the Thirty-Sixth
, ongmss as n Republican and was re-elect
to the Tliirty-Sevonth Congress. He
was the candidate of his party but wars de
bated for re-election to the
congress.
IN THE WAR.
He was an earnest supporter of the Union
Muse in the late war, ami while still n mem
ber of Congress served in West Virginia as
an aide on Gen. McClellan’s staff. In March,
he was commissioned as major and
imlgn advocate of the United State's Vol
auteers, and in June, 1804, was promoted to
colonel and assistant judge advocate in
the regular army. He was b revetted brig
wuer general in March, IW>, for faithful,
and distinguished service. In
1 11 ihe was a delegate to the Philadelphia
Loyalists" convention.
maoe judge advocate general.
On Dec. ]_ 1875, he was appointed Judge
Mvocate General of the Army, with tlie
;. B "k of llrigadier General. He held the of
.>,jptof Judge Advocate Genera! until Jan.
7*’’ •J* , U when he was placed on the retired
" 1 dig passed tins age of ii'J. In pri
,,l"° Gcu. Dunn was greatly esteemed
•ml beloved, and his death will fie mourned
■A V|, rv largo circle of friends, not only in
•Hshington, which )m<i lieen for many years
uu> home, but throughout tin* country.
CLEVELAND'S TRIP SOUTH.
Three Governors anti tlio'r Staffs to
Escort Him Rnroute.
Washington, July 23. —The details of
•i'e President's trip to Atlanta have lieen
*! r * n K*d, the special train will leave this
cty 011 Sunday night October Hi. and will
r, '"li Atlanta Monday night. The Presi
'/'"A ''dl spend Tuesday and Wednesday in
e ’"J 4 lie will i>e escorted through Vir-
VnfO, /? ov ' and his staff, through
fii* > _'' or °hnu by Gov. Hcales and
1 , 'if, and through South Carolina
,'"'’• Richardson and his stuff, all of
>. " !n w 'RI g" with him to Atlanta. At the
. * ! e will be met by Gov. Gor-
Sv uln s At Atlanta he will bo mot
■■ no Governors and Units-d States Semi
'■'‘rious Southern States. It is ex
L 'hut he will spend Tuesday looking
, "Motion, an,l on Wednesday will
wi ln^"‘ UU ' and nintv u short
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
Ruin Needed in a Considerable Portion
of the Cotton Bolt.
5\ AS KINGTON, July 24.—Following is tlie
weather crop bulletin of the Signal Office
for tho week ending July 23:
TEMPERATURE.
Tho temperature for the week ending July
23 has been nominal or slightly cooler than
usual in the New England States, upper lake
region ami Missouri valley. Elsewhere it
has been wanner, notable excesses ranging
from 4 daily in the Middle Atlantic States
to 6° or more in the Ohio valley. These
high temperatures have prevailed
over tho entire cotton, corn and
tobacco regions. Since Jan. 1 the temper
ature for the agricultural sections has close
ly accorded with the average, except over
the corn and wheat districts of tlie Ohio
Valley and Missouri where tho mean daily
excess of beat has been from 1° to 2°.
RAINFALL.
During the week ending July 23 the rain
fall has been excessive over the New Eng
land, Middle Atlantic States and the In
terior of the South Atlantic and East Gulf
States, as well as in the greater part
of Nebraska. The excess of rainfall
has come largely in severe thunderstorms,
especially in Pennsylvania and Maryland,
while Southern Michigan has been favored
by a slight excess. The Ohiii and Mississippi
valleys report for the week a defieent rain
fall, varying from one-third to three-fourths
of the usual amount. Marked seasonal de
ficiencies of rainfall yet obtain, amount
ing to ten inches or "more in lowa, the
Lower Mississippi valley, Alabama and
Georgia. In lowa this deficiency lias
steadily increased during the past, month,
but in the other regions named the deficiency
has slowly diminished.
GENERAL REMjVRKS.
The reports for the week show weather
favorable for the cotton crop, except in the
Carolinas, where many localities must need
the rain to-day predicted. 5Y bile the high
temperature tends to rapidly mature the
growing corn, yet more rain must be need
ful from Kansas and lowa eastward to In
diana. The great heat and had distribu
tion of rain may possibly nfifect the tobacco
crop in North Carolina, where, however, the
indications of this morning look to occa
sional rains.
AN OPEN SWITCH.
A Train Precipitated Down an Em
bankment With Loss of Life.
Pittsburg, July 24. —An accommodation
tram on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
ran into an open switch just alter
leaving the station this afternoon and
was precipitated over an embankment
twelve feet high. The engine, combination
baggage and smoking car, and one passenger
coach were almast completely wrecked, and
eight persons were injured. The train
was running only six miles an
hour, but went over the hillside
before the engineer could apply the brakes
on discovering that the train was off the
track. Engineer More and fireman Hughe.,
were thrown from the cab uud badly hurt.
The former was terribly scalded and died
in a hospital at midnight. Hughes had one
aim broken and was badly bruised. All
of the passengers escaped unhurt but six.
who jumped from the train when
it first left the track. Of the latter
the only one seriously injured
was a young girl named Katie Gilhooley,
who was rendered unconscious, and it is
feared has concussion of the spine. * Others
sustained slight cuts and bruises. It is not
known how the switch hap|iened to lie open,
hut it is believed to have been the work of
some malicious person, and the railroad
company will institute a vigorous investiga
tion.
ISLES OF THE PACIFIC.
The Rights of This Government to be
Clearly Defined.
Washington, July 24.—For some time
negotiations have been in progress between
Secretary Bayard and the resident Ministers
of Great Britain and Germany about the
rights of the United States in the islands of
the Pacific Ocean as related to those of
Great Britain and Germany. Tho object
of the conferences was understood
to be to secure tho private
interests of Americans in these islands, and
at the same time opimrtunlties for estab
lishing naval coal stations where they may
be needed by this government. Gov.
Thurston, of the Fiji Islands, is here to give
some information about tho condi
tion of nffuirs in the islands, coming
under his observation in connection
with these negotiations. He cannot, of
course, take part in the negotiations him
self, because the Fiji Islands are a British
possession, and he has no special diplomatic
[suvor, but he can give the British Minister
some valuable information about the islands
of the South Pacific.
COL. DON AN’S PARTY.
Minnesota Gives Them a Royal Wel
come and Good Time.
St. Paul, July 34.—The party of South
ern ladies in charge of Col. Pat Donan have
been the recipients of a welcome akin to
that given the Fitzhugh Lee party last win
ter. A welcome reached them long before
they arrived in the shape of telegrams, in
vitations and requests for engagements,
and every liny of their stay
at Lake Minnetonka lias lieen
filled with steamboat and yachting
excursions, receptions, hops, etc. News
papers publish their biographies mid alleged
portraits, and Col. Donan, Opie Read and
Eugene Field are besieged for introductions.
Tuesday they do St. Paul,and will he driven
out to Minnehaha and visit the Minnesota
regiment of militia camped at Fort Shell
ing. Later thv explore the park region
a limit Alexandria, and possibly will go to
Dakota.
LOST IN A FLOOD.
An Alarming Report Modified by Later
Details.
Springfield, Mass., July 24.—A special
from Great Barrington reports eighteen
lives Inst by a flood. Particulars havo not
been received. It i* reported that two
dams guvo way in Williamsburg this even
ing-
ONLY ONE LIFE LOST.
Boston, July 24.—A late dispatch from
Great Barrington to the Associated Pro
says that but one life was lost. Frank
Charles Drum climlied into a railroad tank
to escape the flood and was drowned.
Twenty-three bridges are gone, bo
sides grist mill*, dams and factories.
There are washouts in spots fifty feet long
and ten feet deep. Reports received from
Manchester. N. 11., Springfield and Lake
Pleasant, Mass., and New Haven, Conn.,
indicate that tho rain did considerable
damage to roods, buildings and o| in
those vicinities.
Tho Goneral Socloty of Cincinnati.
Newport, R. 1., July 24.—Tho triennial
meeting of tho General .Society of Cincinnati
of tho United States, will lie held with the
Rhode Island society at Newport ou July
27, 28 and 22.
SAVANNAH, GA„ MONDAY, JULY 25, 1887.
TORYISM’S DEATH BLOW.
Mr. O’Brien Sees Weakness Exposed
by Recent Events.
London, July 24.— An Interview was
had to-day with William O’Brien, member
of Parliament and editor of United Ireland,
on the subject of the Irish land hill. Mr.
O'Brien said that the first effect of tho meas
ure would he to bankrupt and destroy a ma
jority of the landlords m Ireland, and the
next effect to destiny the government, which
had purchased office with concessions de
structive to the Conservative party. After
the bitter st ruggle of six months, he said, the
ministry had adopted Mr. Parnell’s bill,
and it was tho plan of the campaign that
had forced them to pursue their present
course.
Earl of Aberdeen, who arrived at. Queens
town to-day, from Now York on the
steamer Servia, was interviewed on the
Irish question. He spoke in the highost
terms of the Irish all over the world.
a reduction accepted.
Dublin, July 23. —At a meeting of the
campaign tenants on the Vandoliow estate,
in West Clare, to day, it was decided to ac
cept the offer of a reduction of .50 per cent,
in rents.
A special issue of the Dublin Ga
zette announces that tho following
counties have been fully pro
claimed; Kings, Leitrim, Longford,
Sligo, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Glare,
Kerry, Cork, Limerick, Kilkenny, Queens,
Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, Donegal
and Monaghan, The counties partially pro
claimed arc: Armagh, Carlow, Down,
Cavan, Dublin, Kildare, Fermanagh, Lon
donderry, South Meath, Tyrone, West
Meath and Wicklaw. Tlie following towns
have also been proclaims 1: Dublin, Cork,
Limerick, Waterford, Londonderry, Kil
konnv, Drogheda, Belfast, Carriekfergns
and Galway.
Michael Davitt and wife attended a meet
ing at Bodyke today and made presents of
money and medals to a number of girls
who defended their home against the police
during the recent evictions.
A GLIMPSE OF MRS. JAY GOULD.
A Shy Woman Devoted to Her Family
and Domestic Affairs.
New York, July 23. —While Jay Gould’s
name is in everybody’s mouth how many
persons ever heard of his wife t Ilis sons
George and Edward are rapidly becoming
well known figures in Wall street, and in
daring they resemble their father. But
Mrs. Gould, ‘‘what is sho like?” “Is sin
pretty f’ “Does sho dress elaborately f”
These are some of the questions now asked
about the great, financier’s helpmeet. Hhe
is a gentle, affable, courteous, retiring
woman. She would not be called a hand
some woman, yet her face is more attractive
than many a beauty's. She is well educated
and possesses an air of refinement. She is
shy and does not care for society, yet she
convinces all who come within.the sphere of
her influence that through her retiridg na
ture she has deprived society of an impor
tant ornament. Her inclinations have made
her a devotee to her family; there is her
enjoyment, and she cares little for the pleas
ures that do not in some way tend to bring
the family together. She is the confidant
and constant companion of her daughter
Nellie, and passes several hours each day
with her two young boys, Frank and Har
old. Her son George is a source of great
pride to her. Mrs. Gould w-as a Miss Miller
whose father was a snceessiul grocer of New
York. She was brought up m a well ap
pointed home, and has been accustomed to
wealth and refinement since her childhood.
Mr. Gould was a liartnor of a Mr. Loupp in
the leather business at the time he married
Miss Miller, and she brought him a consid
erable fortune. The grocer’s daughter and
magnate’s wifjj cares nothing for society,
and takes no pleasure in entertaining be
yond a pleasant dinner party of a tew inti
mate friends. Yet the line residence and
great wealth of the Goulds well lit them to
entertain in an elaborate manner. Any
thing that savors of ostentation is distaste
ful to Mrs Gould. It is said that while
naturally of a retiring disposition, she be
came inure so at the time or her husband's
connection with tho late “Jim Fisk.’’ Fisk’s
blatant manner anil vulgar prominence,
his open carriage drawn by four horses, his
loud style of dress and display of jewelry,
were all very obnoxious to Mrs. Gould, and
the fact that her husband's name was so
continually linked with that of Fisk gave
her even a stronger desire to appear modest
to make a contrast. While Mrs. G uild pos
sesses some very valuable jewels, they are
unobtrusive, and sh is more apt to wear
them whon alone with her family than
when in public. In her dress she is modest
in color und style, although her costumes
are rich in material. Mrs. (ionld is very
fond of their country residence at Irving
ton, as tnere she can enjoy the society of
her husband, to whom she is greatly at
tached. Mr. Gould built bis tine green
houses particularly for his wife, who is fond
of flowers, and she spends a portion of each
dav among them. His conservatory cost
$500,U00. Anything that her lmsliand and
children can enjoy with her without intru
sion from outs.<lcrs is her special delight.
For this reason she is very fond of their
yacht Atalanta, aboard of which they can
sail beyond the roach of Wall street. Mrs.
Gould enjoys fine pictures, bronzes, bric-a
brac, and her houses are filled with the
finest. She is fond of music, and is there
fore giving her daughter Nellie a thorough
musical education. There is little doubt
that if she were asked what sho most de
sired in this world she would answer to
have her husband relinquish all business
cares and devote his time to home enjoy
ments with his family.
Nellie Gould is one of the brightest and
sweetest little ladies in the city. She
has been finely educated anil is highly ac
complished. She is an artist of no
mean ability and her collection of bric-a
brac which has been adorned by lier (>encjl
and brush Ims lienn greatly admired. Hhe
dreescs plainly but rlclily, and when in town
can be i***u any afternoon driving through
the park with one of her brothers. Hhe is
probably the nrlio t heiress in America,
anil at her father’s death will come in for
$29,000,000 or $30,009,(100. Like her mother,
she is not t/*i proud to wait ini herself, anil
there are no French molds in the Gould es
tablishment. Mrs. Gould and her daughter
go shopping the same us other women do
and return home with their arms filled with
bundles. They don't mind riding in horse
cars and they don’t put on nearly so much
style us the wife ami daughter of the gro
cery lnnii who serve* them with the neces
saries of lift-. Betsey O’Dowd.
Challenged to Fight a Duol.
Paris, July 24.—M. Cassagnac has pub
lished a flat denial of the story that eighty
four Generals proposed a coup d'etat
to Gon. Boulanger, and challenges
Ln France to publish their naiiies.
ha France asked Gen. Perron’s
permission to publish the names. After
denying the store, M. Cassagnac printed an
article headed, Coward! Liar! Tho result is,
that M. Laur, admitting himself to lie the
uuthor of the original letters referring to
tho matter, has challenged M. Casingnac
to tight u duel.
Bulgaria to Proclaim Independence.
Constantinople, July 24. Advices re
ceived here indicate that the Bulgarians ore
about to proclaim their independence.
TALMAGE ON PREACHING
OLD STYLE EXHORTATION AND
SERMONOLOGY USELESS.
Congregations of the Present Divided
Into Sleepers and Those Wanting to
Go Home by the Old-Timo Harangues
—A Living Christ in Contradistinction
to Didactic Technicalities to be a
Feature of Future Religious Dis
course.
The Hamptons, July 24.—The Rev.T. de
Witt Tahnage’s subject this morning was:
“Preaching, Touching and Exhortation,"
and liis text: Romans, xii, 7-8: “Or minis
try, let us wait on our ministering; or lie
that teochetli, on teaching; or ho that ex
horteth, on exhortation. ”
Before the world is converted tlie style of
religious discourse will have to lie converted.
You might as well go into the modern Sedan
or Gettysburg with bows and arrows instead
of rifies and bomlrohells and parks of art ill
ery, ns to expect to conquer tiiis world for
God by tlie old styles of exhortation and
sermouology. Jonathan Edwards preached
the sermons most adapted to the age in
which he lived, but if those sermons were
preached now they would divide an an li
enee into two classes, those sound asleep and
those wanting to go home.
But there is a religious discourse of tho
future—who will preach it I have no idea,
in what part of tho earth it will l* l born 1
have no idea, in which denominations of
Christians it will lie delivered I cannot
guess. That discourse or exhoi-tation may
lie born in the country mooting house on the
banks of the St. Lawrence, or the Oregon,
or tho Ohio, or the Totnbigbee, or the Ala
liama. The person who shall deliver it may
this moment tie in a cradle under the
shadow of the Sierra Nevad:is, or in a New
England farm-house, or amid the rice-fields
of Southern savanna®. Or this moment
there may be some young man in some of
our theological seminaries, in the
junior, or middle or senior ch ss,
shaping that weapon of p >wer. Or
there may lie coming some new baptism of
tlie Holy Ghost on the churches, so that
some of iis who now stand in the watch
towers of Zion, waking to a realization of
our present inefficiency, may preach it our
♦iidves. That coining discourse may not he
fifty years off. And let us pray God that its
arrival may lie hastened, while I announce
to you what I think will lie the chief char
acteristics of that discourse or exhortation
wlien it does arrive, and I want to make the
remarks of tho morning appropriate and
suggestive to all classes of Christian workers.
First of all I remark, that that future re
ligious discourse will be full of a living
( h -ist in contradistinction to didactic tech
nicalities. A discourse may bo full of
Christ though hardly mentioning His name,
and a sermon may be emnty of
Christ while every sentence is repetitious of
his titles. The world wants a living Christ,
not a Christ standing at tho head of a foV
mal system of theology, but n Christ who
means pardon find sympathy, mid condo
lence, and brotherhood, and life, add
heaven. A poor man’s Christ. A rich
man’s Christ. An overworked man's
Christ. An invalid’s Christ. A farmer’s
Christ. A merchant’s Christ. An artisan’s
Christ. An everyman’s Christ.
A symmetrical and ftmyworcled system of
theology is well enough for theological
classes, but it lias no more business ig a put
pit than have the technical phrases of an
anatomist or a psychologist or a Physician
in the sick room of a patient. Tlie world
wants help,- immediate anil world-uplifting,
and it.will come through a discourse in
which Ciirist shiill walk rigtjt dbwn into
the immortal soul and take everlasting p&e
session of it, filling it as full of light a-> is
this noonday” firmament.
That sermon or exhortation of the future
will not deal with men in the threadbifye iT
lustrations of Jesus Christ. In that coming
address there will ho instances of vicarious
suffering taken right out of every day life,
for thereat not a day is not dying
for As tho physician saving his diph
theritic patient by sacrificing his own life?
as the ship captain going down with his ves
sel while he is getting his passengers into
the lifeboat; as the fireman consum
ing in the burning building while h is
taxing a child out of a fourth-story window:
as in summer the strong wvirilnior at East
Hampton, or Long Branch: or Capo May, or
Lake George, himself iierisbed trying to res
cue the drowning; as the newspaphr boy one
summer, supporting his mother for some
years, bis invalid mother, whon offered by
a gentleman fifty cents to (get some especial
paper, and he got it, an 1 rfished up in his
anxiety to deliver it, and was crushed under
the wheels of tiik train, and lay on the grass
with only strength enough to say: “Oh,
what will become of my poor sick mother
now?’’
Vicarious suffering. The world is full of
it. An engin< er said to me on u locomotive
in Dakota: “We men seem to be coining to
l*‘tter appreciation than we used to. Did
you see that account the other day of an en
gineer who, to save his passengers, stuck to
bis place, and when he wns found dead in
the locomotive, which was upside down, he
was found stjll smiling, his hand on the
air-brakef And as the engineer said it to
me, ho put bis band on the air-brake to
illustrate his meaning, and 1 looked at him
and thought: “You would bo just ns much
of a hero in tho same crisis.”
Oh, in that religious discourse of the
future there will I** living illustrations
taken out from everyday life of vicarious
suffering—illustrations that will bring to
mind tho ghastlier sacrifice of Him who, in
the high places of the field, on the cross
fought our battles, and wept our griefs, and
endured our struggle, and died our death.
A German sculptor made an image of
Christ, and ho asked his little child two
years old who it was, and she said: “That
must be some very great man.” The sculp
tor was dlMplea-cd with tlie criticism, so lie
got another block of marble, and chiseled
away on it two or throe years, ami then lie
brought in his little child, four or five yoars
of age, and he said to her: “Who do you
think that is?” Hhe said: “That, must be
tho One who to il? little children in His arms
and blessed them. ” Then the sculptor
was satisfied. Oh, my friends, what the
world wants is not a cold Christ, not an in
tellectual Christ, not a severely magisterial
Christ, but a loving Christ, spreading out
His arms of sympathy to press tho wholo
world to His loving heart.
But, I remark ugain, that the religious
discourse of the future will lie short. Con
densation is demanded by tho ago in which
wo live. No more need of long introduc
tions mid long applications, ana so many
divisions to a discourse that, it may be said
to be hydra hcaoisi. In other day* men got
all their Information from tho (mlpit. There
were few lswks and there wore no news|>®-
iiors, and thorc was little travel from place
to place, and |ienpla would sit and listen swo
and a half honrs to a religious discourse,
and “sovontoenthly” would find them fresh
and chipjier. In those days thoro wns
enough time for a man to toko an hour to
warm himself up to tho subject and on hour
to ( -'I iff. Bill ivhut WM .o IMaaMttjr HM
is a superfluity now. Congregations are
full of Knowledge from books, from news
papers, from rapid and continuous inter
communication, and long disquisitions of
what they know already, will not be abided.
If a religious teacher cannot oom press what
he wishes to say to the people in the spaee
of forty-five minutes, bettor adjourn it to
some other tiny.
Tho trouble is we preach audiences into a
Christian fimne, and then we preach them
out of it. We forget that every auditor has
so much capacity of attention, and when
that he is exhausted lie is restless. That ac
cident on the Long Island railroad some
years ago came from the fact that tlio
brakes were out of order, and when they
wanted to stop the train they could not
stop, ami hence tho casualty was terrific.
In ail religious discourse we want locomo
tive jsiwcr and propulsion. We want ut the
same time stout brakes to let down at the
right instant. It is a dismal tiling after a
hearer has comprehended the whole subject
to hear a man say: "Now to recapitulate,”
and "a fow words by way of application,”
and "once more," and “finally," and “now
to conclude.”
Paul preached until midnight, and Euty
chus got sound asliep and fell out of a
window and broke his neck. Some would
say: "Good for him.” I would rather bo
sympathetic, like Paul, and resuscitate him.
That accident is often quoted now in re
ligious circles as a warning against somno
lence in church. It is just as much a warn
ing to ministers against prolixity. Kuty
ehus was wrong in Tiis somnolence, but Paul
made a mistake when he kept on until mid
night. He ought to have stopped at 1!
o’clock and there would pave been no acci
dent, If Paul might hive gone on to too
groat length, let all those of us who are now
preaching the Gospel remember that there
is a limit to religious discourse, or ought to
lio, and that in our time wo have no apos
tolic power of miracles,
Napoleon, in an address of seven minutt s,
thrilled his army and thrilled Europe.
Christ's sermon on the Mouut, the model
sermon, was less than eighteen minutes long
at ordinary mode of delivery. It Is not
electricity scattered all over the sky that
strikes, but electricity gathered into u thun
derbolt and hurled; and it is not religious
truth scattered over, spread out over a vast
reach of time, but religious truth projected
in compact form licit, Hashes upon tho soul
and rives its indifference.
When the religious discourse of the future
arrives in this land and in the Christian
church, the discourse which is to arouse tho
world and startle the nations and usher in
the Kingdom, it will be a brief discourse.
Hear it all theological students, all ye just,
entering upon religious work;all ye men
and women who in Sabbath soli >ols and
other departments arc toiling for < 'hrist and
the salvation of immortals. Brevity! Brev
ity !
But I remark also, that the religious dis
course of the future of which I speak will
lie a popular discourse. There are those in
these times who sjsiak of a popular sermon
as though there must 1h something wrong
,alnut it. As these critics arc dull them
selves the world gets the impression that a
sermon is g'*od in proportion as it is stupid.
Christ was the uiost popular preacher the
world ever sitw, and considering the small
number of the world’s population hail the
largest audiences ever gathered. He never
preached anywhere without making a great
s ii atiori. People rushed out in tho wilder
n, -.-s to hear him, reckless of their physical
necessities. Bo great was their anxiet y to
hear Christ that, taking no food with them,
they would liavo fainted ami starved had
not Christ performed a miracle and fed
them.
Why did so many people take the truth
at Christ’s hands! Because they all under
stood it. He illustrated his subject by a hen
and her chickens, by a bushel measure, by a
liaudful of suit, by a bird's flight and by a
lily’s aroma. All the neopt* knew what He
meant and they floc-kf dto Him. And when
the religious discourse of the future appears,
it will not lie Prinoetonian, not Rocneete
rian, not Andoverian, not Middletonian,
but Olivetic —plain, practical, unique, earn
est, comprehensive of all the woes, wants,
sins, sorrows and necessities of an auditory.
But when that exhortation or discourse
does come there will be a thousand gleaming
scimetars to charge on it. There are in so
many theological seminaries professors toll
ing young men how to preach, themselves
not knowing how, and lam told that if a
young man in some of our theological serni
navios says anything quaint or thrilling or
unique, faculty and students II v at him and
set him right, and straighten him out, and
smooth him down, und chop him off, until
he says everything just as everybody else
says it.
Oh, when the future religious discourse of
the Christian church arrives, all the churches
of Christ in our great cities will bo thronged.
The world wants spiritual help. All who
have buried their dead want comfort. AIJ
Know themselves to be mortal and to be im
mortal, ami they want to hear nlnut the
great future. I tell you, my friends, if the
people of our great cities who have had
trouble only thought they could get practi
cal and sympathetic help in the Christian
church, there would not tie a street in New
York, or Brooklyn, or Chicago, or Charles
ton, or Philadelphia, or Boston which would
be passable on thp Habbath day ii tnere
wore a church on it; for all the people would
pro.-* to that asylum of mercy, that great
house of comfort ami consolation.
A mother witli a dead Iwlie in her arms
came to the god Veda, and asked to have
her child restored to life. Tho god Veda
said to her: “You go and got a handful of
mustard seed from the house in which there
has been no sorrow, and in which there bus
tieeri no death, and I will restore your child
to life.” Hothe mother went out, and she
went from house to house, and from homo
to home, looking for a place where there
had been no sorrow and where there hail
heeu no death, but she found none. Klie
went hack to the god Vodu and said: “My
mission is a failure; you see I haven't
brought the mustard seed; 1 can’t find a
place where therd has been no sorrow and no
death.” “Oil,” says the god Veda, “under
stand your sorrows are no worse than the
sorrows of others; we all have our griefs,
anil all have our heurt-breaks.
Isiugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For 111" sail old earth must liorrow its mirth,
But baa trouble enough of its own.
Wo hear a great, deal of discussion now
all over tho land about why people do not
go to church. Some say it, is because
Christianity is dying out, and Ix-cause pco
pic do not believe in the truth of God’s
V/ord, and all that. They are fulso rea
sons. Tho reason is becuuac our sermons
and exhortations are not interesting, and
practical, and helpful. Someone might as
well toll the whole truth on thin subject,
and so 1 will tell it. The religious disdourM
of tho future, tlie Gos|*'l sermon to come
forth und shako the nations and lift the
!>oplo out of darkness, will he a popular
sermon, just for tho simple reason tiiht it
will incut the wixw. and the wants, and the
anxieties of the people.
Then: nro In all our denominations eccle
siastical inuininlei sitting around to frown
Upon the fresh young pulpits of America,
to owe them down, to cry out: “Tut! tutl
tut! Sensational!" They stand today
preaching in churches that hold u thousand
|*mple, and there am a hundred {arsons
present, and If they cannot have the world
mi ved in thofr way it seems a. if they do not
want it saved At. all.
J do not know but tin' old way of making
ministers of tlie (Papal is bettor—-o collegi
ate education and mi apprenticeship under
tlie care and borne attention oi souie earn
est, aged Christian ministar, tlie young mau
getting the patriarch's spirit, and assisting
him in Ills religion" service. Young law
ysi s study.with old lawyers, young pliysi
eians with old physicians, and I believe it
would tie it grout help if every young man
studying for the Gospel ministry could put
himself In the home, and heart, and sympa
thy, and under the benediction and perpet
uai presence of a Christian minister.
Rut I remark again, the religious dis
course of the future will be an awakening
sermon. From altar rail to the front door
stop under that sermon an audience will get
up and start for hepvon. There will lie in
it many a staccato passage. It will not lie
lullaby; it will be a battle charge. Men
will drop their sins for they will feel the
hot breath of pursuing retribution on the I
back of their necks. It will lie sympathetic
wit h ull the physical distresses as well as the
spiritual distresses of the world. Christ
not only preached tint He healed paralysis,
and He healed epilepsy, and He healed the
dumb and the blind and ten 1 end's.
That religious discourse of the future will
be an everyday sermon, going rigid, down
into every man’s life, and it will tench him
how to vote, how to bargain, how to plow,
how to do any work he is called to, how to
wield trowel ami pen and pencil and yard
stick and plane. And it will tench women
how to preside over their households, and
how to educate their children, and how to
imitate Miriam and Esther and Vashti and
Eunice, the mother of Timothy, and Mary,
the mother of Christ; and those women
who on Northern and Southern battlefields
well) mistaken by the wounded for angels of
mercy fresh from the throne of God.
Yes, I have to tell you the religious dis
course of the futuro will boa reported ser
mon. If you have any idea that printing
was invented simply to print secular books,
and stenography and phonography were
contrived merely to set forth secular ideas,
you are mistaken. The printing press is to
be the great agency of gospel proclamation.
It is high time that good men, instead of de
nouncing tile press, employ it to scatter
forth the gosjiei . J Jesus Christ, The vast
majority of people in our cities do not come
to church, and nothing but the printed ser
mon can reach them and call them to pax
don, mid life, and pence, and heaven.
fjo 1 cannot understand the nervousness of
some of my brethren the ministry.
When they see a newspaper man coming In
they say: “Alas, there is a reporter.” Every
added reporter is ten thousand, fifty thou
sand, a hundred thousand immortal souls
added to the auditory. The time will come
when all the village, town, and city news
pajiei'S will reproduce the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, and sermons preached on the Hub
bath will reverberate all around the world,
and, some by type, and some by voice, all
nations will Is) evangelized.
The practical bearing of this is upon
those wno are engaged in Christian work,
not only uiion theological students anil
young ministers, but upon all who preach
the gospel, and nil who exhort in meetings,
mid that is all of you if you nro doing your
duty. Do you exhort In prayer meeting I
Re short and be spirited. Do you teach in
Hiblo class? Though you have to study
every night lie interesting. Do you accost
people on the subject (if feligion in their
homes or in public places? Study adroit
ness and use common sAtise. Tlip most
graceful and mo.it beautiful thing on earth
is the religion of Jesus Christ, and if you
awkwardly present it, it is datamation. We
must do our work rapidly, and wo must do
it effectively. Boon our time fdT work will
ho gone.
A ilviiig Christian took out his watch nijd
give it to a friend and said: “Take t <t*
>vatcji, I have no more use for it; time is
ended for me and eternity liegins.” Oh, my
friends, when our watch lias ticket! away
for us the lust moment, and our clock bos
struck for us the last hour, may it lie found
we did our work well, that wo did it in the
very best, way, and whether we preached
the Gospel in pulpits or taught Sabbath
classes, or administered to the sick as physi
eians, or bargained ns merchants, or plead
tlie law as attorneys, or wero busy as arti
sans, or as husbandmen, or as mechanics,
or wero like Martha called to give
a meal to a hungry Christ, or like
Hannah to make ,a coat for a prophet, or
like Deborah t 6 rouse the of some
timid Rarak in the Lord’s conflict, wo did
our work in such a way that it will stand
the test of the Judgment. And in the long
procession of the redeemed that march
around the throne, may it bo found there
are many there brought ti > (lorl through our
instrumentality, anil in wfttwe rescue we ore
exultant.
Rut, O ye unsaved, wait not for that re
ligious discourse of the future. It may
come after your otisequies. It may come
after the Ntono-cut.ter has chiseled our name
on the slab, fifty yenrH before. Do not wait
for a great steamer of the Cunard or White
Star line to take you off the wreck, but hail
the first craft, with however low ament, and
however small a hulk, and however ipoor a
rudder, and iunvpver weal* b captain.
Rotter a disabled schooner that comes up in
time than a full rigged brig that comes up
after you have sunken.
Instead of waiting for that religious dis
course of the future —it may bo fftrty, fifty
yogi's off toko this plain invitation of a
man who, to hove given you (spiritual eye
sight, would lie glad to be called the spittle
by the hand of Christ pitt on the eyes of a
blind man; and who would consider the
highest compliment of this service, if at the
close five hundred men should start from
these doors, saying: “Whether he be n
inner or no, I know not. This one thing I
know, whereas I was blind now I see.”
Swifter than shadows over the plain,
quicker than birds in their autumnal night,
hastier than eagles to their prey, hie you to
a sympathetic Christ. The orchestras of
heaven have already strung their instru
ments to celebrate your rescue.
“And many were the voices around the throne;
Rejoice, for the Lord brings bock his own.”
AMERICA’S YACHT.
The Volunteer Weighs Anchor and
Hob a Brush With tho Priscilla.
M a milk Heap, Mass., July 34.—The
Volunteer weighed nnrhrtr early this morn
ing, and hail a brush with the Priscilla,
which was a mile ahead, bound for Ntfw
Ixmdon to prepare for tho New York
Yacht Club cruise. Tho wind was light ttu
til noon, when rain fell in torrents, nil'll tho
breeze died out completely. (4sn. Pnin4
said tiiat be stood off in the Pi iscilla’scigirtsV
for about twenty-five nines. He appeared
pleased at the performance of his new boat,
as did also Mr. Burgess and the vessel's
crow.
Bherman Booming Himself.
Cincinnati, July 34.—A Mansfield, 0.,
special snyli thut the Richland county con
vention yesterday chose Senator John Sher
man as tjie leader of tho Hichland county
delegation to the Ohio Htftto Republican
convention. The convention also adopted
a rfwoltilihn instructing tho delegates to in
dons' Mr. Sherman as tho candidate for
President.
Key West’s Rooord.
Kkt West, Fla., July 34.—There have
lieen three new cases of fever and three deal la
singe yi util's lay. The record now standit:
ToQtl cases to date 153 deaths 39, sick vow
05, discharged cured 58. The deaths fiV
yesterday were Mr. Robinson, a transient
jaunter, Mr. Butts, a transient carpenter,
and an infant.
All Saved but Six.
Calcutta, July 38. —All on board the
steamer Makratia, which foundered off
Hoogly Point, were saved except six. in
cluding the chief engineer.
t PRIC E ftl( A YEAR I
} 5 CENTS A COPY.f
CONVICT COMPETITION.
ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE COMMI3
SIONER OF LABOR.
The Prison Population of the Countrj
04,340—T0n Men In Stripes to Everj
Woman in Similar Garb 45,277 o
the Prisoners Engaged in Productiv*
Labor.
Washington, July 34. —Tho Commis
sinner of Lnlior has just received from th
Public Printer advance copies of his repor
on the convict labor in tho United Suites
The total number of prisoners, of all grades,
employed in tho institutions comprehend,*)
in the rei*>rt is 64,349, the males numbering
58,454 and the females 5,805. Of this total
number, 45,377 nro engaged in productiv.
lalior of some kind, 15,100 are engaged ii
prison duties mid 8,972 are sick or idle. O’
the total number, 14,837 are employed undo
the public account system, 15,(>70 under tin
contract system, 5,67(1 under tho piece pric*
system, and 9,104 under the lease system.
new yokk ahead.
The Btate having the largest number ot
convicts in the institutions considered 0
New York, its total lieing 9,703. Include*
in these computations are 1,340 prisoner- ol
the United Htatos, Hentenissl to the dif
ferent penal institutions of the SQ'ergi
States and Territories. The prison, pnfuiia
tian of the classes pf institutions treated oi
is as stated, 64,840, a proportion of the pop
ulntion of the United States, as at present
estimated of one in 980; but the propt'rtios
of those engaged in mechanical, agYjaffl
tural and mining pursuits in the tho \thtih
country ir about one convict to every 301
jiorsons employed.
WHAT THEY PRODUCED.
The total value of the goods made and thi
work done by productive laiior in the sever
nl institutions of the whole country is S3B,
753,999. It took 45,377 convicts one year to
produce this total value. It would liavi
taken 85,584 free laborers to produce tin
same quantity of gooils in the same time, or
in other words, a free Inborer is equal tf
1.27 convict, or, to reverse the statement,
one convict is equal to .78 of a free laborer
Tho number of free laborers necessary to
perform the same lnlior has been figured
from tiie estimates of prison officials and
others familiar with the work.
TIIE PRODUCT BY STATES.
The Btato producing tho largest, nmomx
of convict-made goods is New York, th!
value there being (6,286,267 worth of con
vict, made goods. Indiana comes next with
product of the value of $1,570,1X11, while
Ohio stands next with product of the valui
of $1,368,122. Then comes Missouri with
$1,843,030, then Pennsylvania with
$1,317,365, Kansas with $1,370,575,
Tennessee with .inly $1,143,(X)0, then Michi
gan with $1,087,781, and last of the Htatei
producing over u million dollars worth, New
Jersey with $1,019,608. Each of the othei
Btates and Territories drop below the mil
lion dollar point, Dakota coming at tli!
bottom of the list with a product or $11,577,
OBJECTIONS TO THE SYSTEMS.
The Commissioner discusses at length tlw
systems of employing convicts now in vogue
In each of these serious faults are found, til!
principal one lieing thut by either of them,
convict labor is brought into direct oompo
tition with free lnlior. The plea which find!
most favor with the Commissioner is that oi
hard Intsir under tiie public account system.
Of this plan he Hays: “It involve!
tho carrying on of industrial
of prisons for the benefit
of the Rtiitii but without the use of powel
machinery, tools and hand machines onlj
ticing allowed, the goods to tie made to con
sist of such articles as boots and shoes
coarse woolen and cotton cloth, needed fol
the institution or for sale to other institu
tions, harness and saddlery and many other
goods now made by machinery or not now
made at all in prisons.
WOULD LESSEN THE COMPETITION.
“With such a plan in vogue throughout
the United Btates, or in tho majority of th*
.Staten, there would lie no complaint as U
the effects of convict lalior upon the rati* ol
wages or upon the sale of goo.Lk, either ix
pfijye or in quantity. Theconviots could Is
constantly employed under the directioi
and sup rvision entirely of prison officer*
None of tiie objections or disadvantage!
arising under the contract system, or pieo*
•price modification thereof, or under thl
public account system with power uiachin
ery, can be raised against this plan."
FLORIDA’S METROPOLIS.
The Saloons in the City Closed, Bu
Those at LaVilla Wide Open.
Jacksonville, Fla., July 2-I.—A mai
named llmTis, from Cincinnati, while bath'
ing at Pftblo Beach yesterday, becamt
[larnlyzed ill the water and would hav
droWtted had not Col. J. M. Kreamer, en
ginctir of the Okeechobee Drainage Com
pany, rescued him.
J. G. O’i lonian, fonnerly Assistant Rig>
rial OtaePVerht Atlanta, arrived at Jack,
sonville to-day, and in an interview stater!
that he was enrouto to Key West, wiiere tli<
American Governrpeut in connection witi
the British Government will establish t
Carrier Pigeon depot l*t\troen Key West
and the Wist India Islands, where no tele
graphic communication exists. Owinjj
bdTvever to the prevalence of yellow favei
Mr. O'Donnell will remain at Jucksonvills
until the fever shturidcs.
SALOONS CLOSED.
To-day Mayor Burbridge kept all thr
salixitia closed, hut in LaVilla, an adjoining
town, every *al<*m was open ruid did a
thriving business. (Juite a sensation wa<
causrsl by Ia Villa's action, as it is reported
that Acting Mayor Kpcaring (colored) had
promised Mayor Burbridge that he woule
close the sahibns, but Muyor Bowden hav>
ing retarped to-rluy trsik exruptions to
B| van Mg’s action and informed all the
snlfjrmkArpers that they could keep open if
they liked, Mayor Bowden’s action is se
verely criticised by the iiest citizens in hot)
town*.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
moved into (handsome new orfirwi ou Vim
street this evening. Their quarters are ele
guntly furnished and outsidci-s say the oltkx
is ttai handsomest in the South.
TEMPERANCE AT TAMPA.
Another Open Air Meeting Booms tbi
Good Cause.
Tampa, Fi.a., July 24.—Another open ail
temperance meeting was held at the Fort
Brooke reservation this afternoon undei
the auspice* of the Young Women’s Chris
tian Temperance Union. The exeroisre wen
opened witli singing by some of the beat
talent *n the city. During the o[tenljig ex
crews a thunder and wind storm came up,
which drove the crowd to the fort, whsn
Uiff programme was concluded. An appro
prlato reciUWion was rendered byiMiss Rom
(ijaiin. The address was deliveredr hy thr
Ils\ Mf. Gfwn, of Colorado. It wosloudlj
afipUMJcLd ani highly appreciated. Thr
Voutfjy Women's Christum Temperate*
JJjpou Jturrvi* much credit for its clforto
id tiiis city, ami especially it* Prasidwut
Mis* M.u v I'avlor.