The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, August 01, 1887, Image 1

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, ESTABLISHED ISSO. ) 1 J. H. EBTILL, Editor and Proprietor. )' AUGUSTA IN WILD ALARM IHE BANK OP THE MAIN CANAL IN DANGER OF GIVING WAY. Ite Old Fire Bell Strikes Terror to tho Heart of the People—2,ooo Men Work Like Beavers with Pick and Eliovel and Ward Off the Danger- Heavy Financial Losses. At'orsTA, Ga., July 31. —This has been tn eventful day in the history of Augusta, nbile the loss has not been as great as in t-40, 1832 or in 1805, the scenes were as ex cithK- ’l 1 10 l os * however is heavy, and (alls mi that portion of the citizens least a l,l, to bean" it. From Schultz’s Hill to Har risburg hill, included Ix-twoen Gumming, t t je i-ivcr and the second lock of tho canal, t som . sheet of water. Foot travel is impos sible. and pedestrians have either to swim, wade, or ship. Newspapers wore not deliv ered in the city to-day. Ice men, milk men, cnoks, servants, waiters and stable boys, all (ailed to put in an appearance. SWIMMING IN THE STREETS. Proud street, Ellis street, Greeno street, Telfair, Walkin’, Cumniing, Bullock, Wat liinuuid Fenwick streets were navigable, mill bateaux and row boats went around with ease. Men and boys swam down the principal thoroughfares, and pleasure par tics dotted Greene and neighboring streets. The South Commons are one vast sheet of while bordering on the canals at, Jackson and Campbell streets are miniature lakes. Toe Augusta, Gibson and Sandersville railroad is blocked because the water is so l,jgli that It put out the Area of the engines The Georgia railroad is at a standstill. The Columbia loud is not running and the Bouth Carolina is uncertain, Tho Port Royal road has brought no trains in town to-day, mid the Augii'taand Knoxville is compelled to leave from the Sibley mills, the Hawks’ gulley trestling being washed away. THE RIVER RECEDING. At 10 o’clock to-niglit all was serene. It w;i- known that tlio river was receding four inches au hour and a feeling of quiet was restored. Intnntly, however, there was a panic. Big Steve is the huge bell in the tower on Jackson street. Since the adoption of tlio electric fire alarm system the bell has not been used, it being under stood that it would be left standing and used as a sigjial of danger. Shortly after 10 o'clock it sounded out stroke after stroke. Immediately the people were fren zied as if by an earthquake shock. A re port went round in the most rapid manner Ihut the main canal had given way, and that its miles of water would be in a few minutes rushing over the town. PEOPLE FRENZIED. People flew about tho streets, which were inundated, in a frantic manner, women shrieked and brave men grew pale. The Chronicle editorial, reportorial and mechanical force stampeded and visited their homes before they would return to work. Soon an explanation w-as given and all was quiet again. The canal bank was in great danger, and tho alarm signal was piv. u to entice a force to the spot to check the water. In less than thirty minutes 2,000 people had gathered at the spot, and all danger was obviated for the time. THE LOSSES. Hon. Robert H. May puts the loss to the city conn ration at s2r>,ooo, to the citizens ut tIOO,OOO. and competent people say that the loss to farmers along the river will ap proximate $2,000,000. Canal bridges, sewers, footways and causeways are torn to pieces, and tho streets arc knocked into a cocked hat. Houses and cellars are filled with water, and buildings in some places have left their foundations und are in danger of floating. The scones on upper Broad street during tho day were novel. Prominent citizens and their families gath ered on their balconies and watched the water and the gambolings therein, and told tale., of previous floods, etc. MOT IN DARKNESS. To-night the pis works are in working ordi r contrary to expectations, and the '•ridge across the river, though shakv, is not in a serious condition, a strong force wing at work upon it. The Mayor lias (.'ailed u meeting of the City Council for to morrow to take some action toward relieving the distress among the poor ivople, who are sufferers because of tne high water. One drowning only tins lieen reported, but the re|xirt cannot be verified. Hamburg, just across me river, has suffered more tlmti Augusta, it is po.-sible that there is not a house in that city that has not been inundated, and m I>* of the dozen merchants doing busi ngs there is very heavy. First floors in swne instances are completely covered. the ocmuloee’s mad pranks. Macon, Ua.. July 81.—The rivet is on the W boom ever known in its history. , j ; *' v ooen visited by thousands of citizens esitiiy of all classes, anxious to soe the mad nisluug torrent. The water reached its ugliest point to-day, rising eighteen indies lughcr than the famous freshet of 1878, tii "o't ls t *'° Centennial freshet. It began to 1 p lls afternoon and at this writing is "mt eight inches lower than this morning. i!! l i mning continues gradually. The m 'li °* Covington and Macon rail- T i ■?““ sustained considerable damage. ,V audrlle pier has settled about throe feet "! 1,1 Iruek is out of line nlxiut four foot, the washing away of 150 feet of embankment ou this sido. The trouble ui 'ii, however, as can lie easily repaired, 11 the schedules, which are entirely uow will be resumed in due A DRIFTING TREK. h , ? of precaution the authorities >pi. c ‘orb.dden travel across the city bridge. • s "lerniiig a large tree floated down tne t!J'" 11 ' s,l 'ek the middle pier, shattering , ' " "Rtherbonnling and demolishing a por ,l". thn roof. The same tree farther W, ■' '‘ lo stream bore away a portion of the '' 1 rti 1 niou lines, cutting off communl i,, " 11 With .Savannah by tliut line. At the ,'V 10 * s not u vestige of the fence • ’ind the mile track to lx.‘ seen, the entire water' 1 * about under the levee breaks. he levee broke in three places to-day. ~1, "’1 '*s the water subsides Mayor Price 1,.: , a large force of bands to work rc- j v i ;l " Hie damage. The levee will I"' j. tho height of 10 feet. Tlio trniu I ia' anmih on the Central duo here at tillin'" #v I*"* n °i> yet arrived, and no di.iT* , of 11 can obtained owing to the tli'.! ‘T'ndition °f the wires. Travel on ana r ' Bf ' n, “fsee, Virginia and Georgia ■r, ."'’"Wton roods is entirely suspended, tr.n foed is also badly crippled, no hiiuth are ''tuning on any of them. Tlio tv, Company’s wires are down be t!„,M 'i , , l, 'ta anil Augusta. The woitg is •1,, i'd’iij n 1 ' 1 ljo ov ***’, ulthough tlio rain is ... THE RAOINO OCONEE, hi, ;v N ' N '? Ll '“. Ga., July 81.—The old relia f',u t 'V" rn HT<'d ncconiutished a great ?’ I "“*<*ng one of the most extra tninii"'.. ’''au-fer, on record, thereby sus ll'ii.iiit 1,1 f "ell-earued reputation for re huiili. promptne-s in' running their "wady rains have fallen for two ' • a ' K ' the Oconee river is tl 'cot, bb r h<-r than was ever known. When trains Nos. 1 and 2, Conductors Powers and Beebe, reuched there to-day they found the road impassable for three miles. Unduunted, they made a transfer of the passengers, baggage and mails on pole cars in a pouring rain. The embankments and trestles were submerged in many places. Jim Shaw carried through the only passengers from this section, all tho other roads being im passible. The rains continue and the streams are rising rapidly. President riiomas, of the Wrightsville and Tennille railroad, left to-night on a special train with a largo force of hands to move the company’s property from Dublin before the water reaches that point. WILD EXCITEMENT AT WEST POINT. West Point, Ga., July 81.—The town is being flooded, and the crops are badly dam aged in this vicinity. Merchants are work - lug like beavers raising their goods above the high water mark. People living in the low part of town are either moving to the hills or packing up in readiness to decamp at any moment. It is impossible to move around without the aid of boats, and together with the rush of waters, hallooing of boat men and rattling of teams the scene is one of wild excitement. • STILL RAINING AT ATLANTA. Atlanta, Ga,, July 31.—The rains were heavy in this section last night, and there was a steady fall here this afternoon and to-night, with no signs of a change. THE DELUGE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston, S. C., July 31.—Heavy rains and rising rivers have caused some in jury to crops and mill dams. Tho injury to railroads is generally slight The rice crop is endangered, but the Santee planters have had abundant warning. PHILADELPHIA’S ROASTING. July Declared the Hottest Month In the City’s History. Philadelphia, July 31.—The last day of the month has been no exception in the matter cf hot weather. The month goes on record as the hottest ever known here. There have been but two cool days, and these were only cool in eonqiarison with sweltering days that had already been endured. The highest number of deaths from the effects of the heat <>n any one day was 83, on July 10, and there has been but few days when there was none re ]>orted, the numbers ranging from three to a dozen. To-day there were eight deaths and three cases of prostration. A heavy shower, accompanied by thunder and light ning passed over the city during tho after noon and evening, which afforded tempo rary relief, but after the storm had ceused the atmosphere became heavy and oppres sive. THE HEAT IN GOTHAM. New York, July 31.—The W orhl says there were more fatalities from the heat yester day than on any day this summer. Every day last week the number of white slips in the Coroner’s office which toll of sudden deaths grew larger and larger. To-day the record was broken. Nineteen persons are reported to have died without medical at tendance. A PRINCE FROM SIAM. The Half-Brother of the King Arrives at New York. New York, July 31.—Prince Krow Luang Devawogse Varoprakow, half brother of the King of Siam, and suite ar rived by the Umbria to-day. They were met by Collector Magone, Surveyor Beattie and Consul Genera! Smith of Siam on the revenue cutter Grant, taken up tho bay and shown the East River as far as Hell Gate. Then they went to quarters at tho Fifth Avenue ’Hotel, via Twenty-fourth street and the Nort h River, where the mun of-war Minnesota gave them a salute. Tho party consists, besides the Prince, of his cousins, Princes Kiliya, Robi, Pranit and Clura; the new Siamese Minister Count Phra Dasun Raksn. several aids, three tutors, Nui Chit, a student and an interpreter. The Prince is about 81 wars old and speaks English readily. He left Siam in May and has no definite plans of action in this country other than that lie will go to Washington from hero, thence west via Niagara and home via San Francisco. COLOB BLIND KNIGHTS. Tha Reading Road to Be Asked to Settle Grievances. Philadelphia, July 31.—A convention of delegates from tho various assemblies of tlio Kniglits of Labor, which embraces em ployes of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad, was held at Port Richmond to-day to consider the recent order for color blind and educational examinations. The meeting was a secret one, and lasted about two hours, during which the subject was fully discussed. Several resolutions were offered and debated, but the only tinul action taken was the appoint ment of a grievance committee with in structions to confer with the railroad officials and report the result. The feeling among the men is favorable to an early and amicable settlement of all tho present grievances by arbitration, and tho loaders assert that all peaceable measurerto retain their rights will lie used liefore a strike is ordered. It is believed the committee will present their claims to-mor row, and that all existing differences will be sottlod. BOTH ROBBED BY ONE MAN. Later Particulars of the Texas Stage Robberies. Galveston, Tex., July 31.—A special from Austin says: The mail coach going and one coming between Austin ami Fred ericksburg were stopped by u highwayman near Dripping Springs, Blanco county, Friday night, and the mail pouches roblied of their contents, with tlio exception of two registered puckages. which escaped the notice of tlio robber. The high" wavninn stopped the incoming driver, near where be was to meet tho outgoing coach. He kept nun bound and gagged until the other driver ui>, whi'ii lu* also Htoppcd nun. , * j ransacking the mail liouchcs the robber mounted his horse and gnUO]* off. The amount of bis Linty is not known. Neither of the drivers claim to be able to identify him, Ixiiug too busy watching tho six shooter levelled at their bends. TO EIGHT WITH PISTOLS. The Boulanger-Ferry Duel Expected to Occur To-Day. Paris, July 81.—The duel between Gen. Boulanger and ox-Premier Ferry will probably take place to-morrow. Gen. Boulanger allows M. Ferry the choice of weapons, mid pistols will probably be selected. The friends of Gen, Boulanger take a serious view of the affair. LAVER CHALLENGED. M. Delafoss denied the truth of Deputy Lauer’s accusation to the effect that he (Delafoss) mode overtures to Gen. Boulanger to head a eon it dVfrtl In favor of the ration of the monarchy. M. Delates* has ehallonged >l. Lauof to light n duel SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1887. EMPLOYMENT IN HEAVEN. REV. TALMAGE SCOUTS THE IDEA OF IDLENESS. The Ransomed Doing in Paradise Wliat They Did in Their Best Mo ments on Earth- -Incessant Singing and Perpetual Adornment With a Crown Considered Improbable. The Hamptons, July 31. —The Rev. T. DeWitt Tutelage's sermon for this morning was on the “Employments of. Heavenand his text Ezekiel i., 1: “Now it came to pass hi the thirtieth year, in tho fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened.” Ezekiel, with others, had lieen expatri ated, and while in foreign slavery was stand ing on the banks of the royal canal which he and other serfs had been condemned to ( hg by tho order of Nebuchadnezzar—this royal canal, in the text, called the river of Cliebar; tho illustrious exile hud visions of heaven. Indeed, it is almost always so tliut the brightest visions of heaven come not to those who are on mountain top of pros perity, but to some John on desolate Pat mos, or to some Paul in Maniertino dungeon, or to some Ezekiel standing on tho banks of a ditch he had been compelled to dig—yea, to the weary, to the heart-broken, to those whom sorrow has banished. The text is very particular to givo us the exact time of the vision. It was in the thirteenth year, and in tho fourth month, and in the fifth day of the month. So you have hud visions of earth you shall never forget. You remember the year, you re member the month, you remember the day, you remember the hour. Why may not we have some such vision this morning, and it be in the sixth month and in the fourth day of the month? The question is often silently asked.though perhaps never audibly propounded: “Wliat are our departed Christian friends doing now?" The question is more easily answered than you might perhaps 'suppose. Though there has cone no recent intelligence from the heavenly city, and we seem dependent upon the story of eighteen centuries ago, still I think we may from strongest infer ence decide what are the present occu pations of our transferred kinsfolk. After God has made a nature he never eradicates the chief characteristics of its temperament. You never knew a man phlegmatic in temperament to become san guine in temperament. You never knew a man sanguine in temperament to become phlegmatic in temperament. Conversion plants new principles in the soul, but Paul and John are just ns different from each other after conversion as they were different from each other before conversion. If con version does not eradicate tho prominent characteristics of the temperament neither will death eradicate them* You have. then, only by a sum in subtrac tion and a sum in addition to decide what are the employments of your departed friends in tho better world. You are to subtract from them all earthly grossaess tyid add all earthly goodness, and then you are to come to the conclusion that they un doing now in heaven what in their best mo ments they did on earth. The reason that so many people never start for heaven is be cause they could not stand it if they got there if it should turn out to be the rigid an 1 formal place some people photograph it. We like to come to church, but we would not want t > stay here to next Christmas. , Wo like to hear the hallelujah chorus, but wo would not like to hear it all tho time for fifty centuries. It might 1e on some great occasion it would be possibly comfortable to wear a crown of gold weighing several pounds, but if would be an affliction to wear such a crown forever. In other words, wo run the description of heaven into the ground while we mako that which was in tended as especial arid celnbrativo to be the exclusive employment of the heaven. You might as well, if asked to doseribe the habits of American society, describe a Decoration Day, or a Fourth of July, or an autumnal Thanksgiving, as though it were all the time that way. lam not going to speculate in regard to the future world, but 1 must by inevitable laws of inference and deduction, and com mon sense, conclude that in heaven we will lie just as different from each other as we arc are now different, und hence that there will lie al least as manvdifforenteniployinentsfn the celestial worbi as there are employments here. Clirist is to be the great love, the great joy, the grout rapture, the groat wor ship of heaven; hilt will that abolish em ployment? No more than loves on earth— paternal, filial, fraternal, conjugal love abolish earthly occupation. In the first place, I remark that all those of our departed Christian friends who on earth found great joy m the fine arts are now indulging their tastes in the same di reetion. On earth they had their giaildest pleasures amid pictures and statuary, and in the study of the laws of light and shade and perspective. Have you any idea that that affluence of faculty at death collapsed and perished? Why so, when there is more for them to look at, and they have keener appreciation of the beautiful, and they stand amid the very looms where tho sun sets and the rainbows and the spring morn- ings are woven! Are you so obtuse as to suppose that lio cause the painter drop* his easel und the sculptor lus chisel and tho engraver his knife, that therefore that taste, which he was enlarging and intensifying for forty or fifty years, is entirely obliterated,' These artists, or those friend* of art, on earth worked in coarse !iiatei'i:.l and with imper fect brain mid with frail band. Now they have carried their art into larger liberties and into wider circumference. They are at their old business yet, but without the fatigues, without tho limitations, without the I find ranees of the terrestrial studio. Raphael could now Improve u|ion Ills masterpiece of Michael the Archangel now that he has seen him, and could improve upon his masterpiece of the Holy Family, now that he has visited them. Michael Angelo could bettor present the List, Judg ment aft-T he has soon its flash und heard the rumbling battering-rams of its thunder. Exquisite colors here, graceful lines hero, powerful chin roeeuro here, but I am per suaded that the grander studios ami tho brighter galleries are higher up by the winding marble stairs of the sepulchre, and that Turner, and Holman, Hunt, ami Rem brandt, and Titian, and Paul Veronese, if they exercised Having faith in the Christ, whom they portrayed upon the canvas, are painters yet, but their strength of faculty multiplied ton thousand fold. The reason that God took away their eye and their hand, nnd their brain, was that He might give them something inoro limber, more wit-M v, more skillful, more umltiplltuiit. I)o not, therefore, lio molanc.lioly among the tapestries, and the bric-a-brtc, and tho embroideries, and the water colors, ami tho works of art, which your departed friends used to admire. Do not say: “I am sorry they had to leave all these tilings.” llutbcr say: "1 am glad they have gone up to higher artistic opportunity and appiccia tion.” Our friends who found so inueli ioy in the flue arts on earth me now luxuriating in Louvres and Luxembourg* celestial. 1 remark again, that all our departed Christian friends who in this world were liwwonately fond nl music are still rngulliig that taste in the world celestial. The Bible vi vs •*< inueli idwmt, t,li music of heaven that it cannot all be figurative. The Bible over and over again speaks of the songs of heaven. If heaven had no songs of its own a vast number of those cf earth would have been token up by the earthly emi grants. Surely the Christian at dentil ilixis not lose his memory. Then there must lie millions of souls in heaven who know “Coronation,” and "Antioch,” and “Mount Pisgah,” and “Old Hundred.” The leader of the eternal orchestra not'd only once tap his baton and all heaven will be ready for tho hallelujah. Can not the soul sing? How often wc compliment some exquisite singer by say ing: “There w as so much soul In her music.” In heaven it will be all soul until the body after a while comes up lu the resurrection and then there will bean additional heaven. Can not the soul hear? If it can hear then it can hear music. Do not, therefore, let it bo in your household When some member leaves for heaven as it is in some house holds, tliut you close the piano and unstring the harp for two years, because the lingers that used to play on them are still. You must remember that they' have better in struments of music where they are. You ask me: “Do they have real harps and real trumpets and real organs?” I do not know'. Some wiseacres say positively there are no such things in heaven. 1 do not know, but I should not bo surprised if the God who made all the mountains and all the hills and all the forests and nil the metals of the earth and all tho growths of the universe—l should not bo surprised if He could, if He had a mind to, mako u few harps and trumpets and organs. Grand old Haydn, sick alui worn out, was canned for the last time into the music hall and there he hoard his ow-n oratorio of the “Creation.” History says that as the orchestra came to that famous passage: “Let there bo light!” tho whole audience rose and cheered, and Haydn waved his hand toward heaven and said: "It comes from there.” Overwhelmed with liis own music, lie was carried out in his chair, and as he came to tho door bespread his hand toward the orchestra as in benediction. Haydn was right when he waved his hand toward heaven and said: “It conics from there.” Music was born in heaven and it will over have its highest throne in heaven; and I want you to understand that our de parted friends who were passionately fond of music here are now at the headquarters of harmony. I think that the grand old elmrch tunes that died when your grand fathers died have gonewitn them to heaven. Again, I remark that those of our de parted Christian friends who in this world had very strong military Spirit are now in armies celestial and out on bloodless battle. There arc hundreds of people bom sol diers. They cannot help it. They belong to regiments in time of peace. They cannot hoar a drum or file without trying to keep step to the music. They are Christians, und wiien they fight they light on the right side. Now when those, our Christian friends who iia l natural and powerful military spirit, entered heaven, they entered tho celestial army. Tne door of heaven hardly opens, but you bear a military demonstration. David eriisl out: “The chariots of (ted are 20,000.” Elisha saw the mountains filled with celes tial cavalry. St. John said: “The armies which are m heaven followed him on white horses.” Now, when those wh ■ had the military spirit on cart* ■■tvtffl? , "oterod glory, 1 suppose they right, away enlaced in some heavenly campaign, they volunteered right away. There must needs be in heaven soldiers with a soldierly spirit. There are grand parade days when the King reviews the troops. There must be armed escort sent out to bring up from earth to heaven those who were more than conquerors. There must he crusades ever being fitted out for some part of God’s dominion—battles, bloodless, groan lets, painless. Angels of evil to be fought down and fought back. Other rebellious worlds to be conquered. Worlds to be put to the torch. Worlds to b ■ saved. Worlds to lx- demolished. Worlds to bo sunk. Worlds to be hoisted. Beside that, in our own world there are batles for the right and against the wrong wlioro wc must nave the heavenly military. That is what keeps us Christian reformers so buoyant. So few good men against so many bad men, so few churches against so many grog-shops, so few pure printing presses against so many polluted printing presses; and yet wo are buoyant and cour ageous, because while we know that the armios of evil in tho world are larger in numbers than the army of the truth, there arc celestial cohorts in tho air lighting on our side. I have not so much faith in the army on the ground as I have in the army in the air. O, God I open our eyas that we may see them. The military spirits that went up from earth to join the military spirits before tho throne—Joshua, and (Jalob, and Gideon, and David, and Samson, and tho hundreds of Christian warriors who on earth fought with fleshly arm, and non' having gone up on high are coming down the hills of heuvf n ready to fight among ti e invisibles. Yonder they are—coming, com ing. Did you not hear them us they swept by? But what are oir mathematical friend, to do in the next world? They found their joy and their delight in mathematics. There was more poetry for them in Euclid than in John Milton, They were as passionately fond of mathematics as Plato, who wrote over Ins door: “Let no one enter here who is not acquainted with geometry.” Wliat are they doing now? They aie busy with figures yet. No place in all the universe like heaven for figures. Numbers infinite, distances infinite, calculation* infinite. The didactic Dr. Dick said he really thought that the redeemed in heaven spent some of their time with tho higher branches of math ematics. Some of our transfei-red and transport 1 metaphysicians. Wliat are they doing now? Studying the human mind only under Ut ter circumstances thun they used to study it. They used to study the mind sheathed in the dull, human body. Now the spirit unsheathed —now they are studying the sword outside the scabbard. Have you any doubt about what Sir William Hamil ton is doing in heaven, or wliat Jonathan Edwards is doing in heaven, or tho multi tudes on earth who hail a passion for meta physics sanctified bv the grace of God? No difficulty in guesnng. Metaphysics, glo rious metaphysics, everlasting metaphysics. What are our departed Christian friends who are explorers doing now? Exploring yet, but with lightning locomotion, with vision microscopic and telescopic at the same time. A continent at a glance. A world in a second. A planetary system in a day. Christian John Franklin no more in disabled Erebus pushing toward the North Pole, Christian De Long no more trying to fro blockaded Jeannette from tlie lee, Christian Livingstone no more amid African malarias trying to make revelation of a dark continent; nut all of them in the twinkling of an eye taking in that which was unapproachable. Mont Bianc scaled without alpenstock. The corn! depths of the ocean explored without diving I 1011. Tho mountains unbarred and oponixl without Sir Humphrey Davy’s safety lamp. What are our departed friends who found their chief joy in study doing now? Study ing yet, but instead or a few thousand vol umes on a few shelves, nil the volumes of tho universe open lie fore them—geologic, ormthnlogic, eonehoiogie, botanic, astro nomic, philosophic. No more need of Ley den-jurs. or voltaic plies, or electric batter ies. standing u* they do face to face with the facts of the universe. What are the historians doing now ? Studying history yet, but not the history of a few centuries of our planet, only, but the history of the eternities—whole millen niums before Xenophon, or Herodotus, or Moses, or Adam was born. History of one world, history of all worlds. Wliat are our departed astronomers do ing? Studying astronomy yet, but not through the dull lens of earthly observa tory, but with one stroke of wing going right out to Jupiter and Mars, and Mercury and Saturn, and Orion and the Pleiades— overtaking and passing swiftest comet in their flight. Horschel diod a Christian. Have you any doubt about what Hersehel is doing? Isnae. Newton died a Christian Have you any doubt about what Isaac New ton is doing? Joseph Henry died u Christian. Have you any doubt about vvliut Joseph Henry is doing? They were in discussion, all those astronomers of earth, about what the aurora bore ills was, and none of them could guess. They know now; they have been out thorn to sea for themselves. What are our departed Christian chem ists doing? Followiug'oiit their own science, following out anil following out forever. Since they died they have solved 10,000 questions which onco puzzled the earthly laboratory. They stand on the other side of the thin wall of eleetricitv, the wall that seems to divide the physical from the spir itual world, the thin wall of electricity, so thin tho wall that ever and anon it seems to be almost broken through—broken through from our side by telephonic and telegraphic apparatus, broken through from the other side by strange influences which men in their Ignorance call spiritualistic mani festations. All that matter cleared up. Agassiz standing amid his student ex plorers down in Brazil coming across some great novelty in tho rocks, taking off his fiat and saying: “Gentlemen, lot us pray; we must have divine illumination; we want wisdom from the Creator to study those rocks; He made them: let us pray”—Agas siz, going right on with his studies forever and forever. But wliat are the men of the law, who in this world found their chief joy in the legal profession—what are they doing now? Studying law in a universe where every thing is controlled by law from flight of hummingbird to flight of world—law, not dry and hard drudging, but righteous and magnificent law, before which man mid cherub, and seraph, nnil archangel, and God himself bow. The chain ol law long enough to wind around tho immensities and infinity and eternity. Chain of law. What a place to study law, where all tho links of the chain are in tho hand! What are our departed Christian friends, who in this world had their jov in the heal ing art, doing now? Busy at their old busi ness. No sickness in heaven, but plenty of sickness on earth, plenty of wounds in the different parts of Gixl’s dominion to be healed and to bo medicated. You cannot, understand why that patient got well after all the skillful doctors of New York and Brooklyn had said he must die. Perhaps Abercrombie touched him—Abercrombie, who, after many years doctoring the bodies and the souls of rieopl" in Scotland went up to God iu 1814. Perhaps Abercrombie touched him. I should not wonder if m V old friend Dr. John Brown, whodiodin Edinburgh—John Brown, tlie author of “Rub and His Friends”—John Brown, who was as humble a Christian as he was a skillful physician and world-renowned author—l should not wondor if he had Lien book again nnd again to see some of his old patient*. Those who had their joy in healing tho sickness and the woes of earth, gone up to heaven, are come forth again for benignant medica ment. But what are our friends who found their chief joy in conversation and in sociality doing now? Iu brighter conversation there audio grander soci.ilily. What a place to visit in, where your next door neighbors are kings and queens. You yours* Ives kingly and queenly. If they w ant to know more particularly about the first Paradise, they' hove only to go over and ask Adam. If they want to know now the *un and tlie moon halted, they have only to go over and ask Joshua. If they wmit, to know how the storm pelted Sodom, they have only to go over nnd ask Lot. If they want to Know more about tho arrogance of Ha inan, they have only to go over and ask Mordeoni, If they want to know how the Hod Sea boiled when it was cloven, thev have only to go over and ask Moses. If they want to know the particulars a I x>ut the Bethlehem advent, they have only to go over and ask the serenading angels who stood that Christmas night in Hie balconies of crystal. If they want to know more of the particulars of the crucifixion, tlioy have only to go over and ask those who were persona! spectators while the mountains crouched and tlie heavens got black in the face at the spectacle. If they want to know more about the sufferings of tiie Scotch Covenanters, they have only to go over and a.,k Andrew Melville. If they want to know more about the old time revivals, thev have only to go over und ask VV hitofiehl, and Wesley, and Livingston, and Fletcher, and Nettleton, and Finney. Oh, what a place to visit in. If eternity were one minute shorter ft would not be long enough for such sociality. Think of our friends who in tills world were passionately fond of flowers turned into Paradise! Think of our friends who were very fond of raising superb fruit turned into tho orchard where eacli tree has twelve kinds of fruit at onco, and bearing the fruit all the year round! What aro our departed Christian friends doing in heaven, those who on earth found their chief joy in the Gospel ministry? They aro visiting their old congregations. Most of those ministers have got their |x'oplo around thorn already. When I get. to heaven—-as by the grace of G< and I am des tined to go to that place - 1 will come and see you all. Yes, I will come to all the people to whom I nave administered in the Gosjxd, and to tho million of souls to whom, through tic kindness of the printing press, 1 am permitted to preach every week in this land and in other lands—letters coming from New Zealand and Australia and utter most parts of the earth, as well an from near nations, tolling mo of the souls I have helped—l will visit them all. I give them fair notice. Our departed friends of the ministry engaged in that delectable enter tainment now. But what are our departed Christian friends who in all depart meats of usefulness were busy, finding their chief joy in doing gissl—what are they doing now? Going right on with the work. John Howard visiting dungeons; the dead women of Northern nnd Southern Littlefields still nhroud looking for the wounded; George Poalvxly still watching the [Ksir; Thomas Clarkson still looking after the enslaved— all of those who did good on earth busier since death than before. The tombstone, not the terminus, but the starting-post. Whut are our departed Christian fr.ond* who found their chief joy in studying G >d doing now? Studying Gxl yet. No tioxl of revelation now, for un- Llanche 1 they an 1 face to face. Now they rati handle the omnipotent thundcrliolte just ns a child handles tlie sword of a father come back from victorious battle: They havo no .sin, nor four consequently. Studying Clirist, not through a revelation, save the revolution of tho sears, that, deep lettering which brings it all up quick enough. Study ing the Christ of the liethlebmii caravan sary, the Christ of the awful massacro with the hemorrhage of head and hand und font and side -the Christ of the shattered mauso leuni —Christ the sacrifice, the star. tltesiin. tho man, the God, the God-man, the man- God. But he.rk! the boll of tho cathedral rings —the cathedral bell of hoaveu. What is tho matter now i There is going to be a groat meeting iu tho temple. Wor shippers all coming through the aisles. Make room for the conqueror. Christ standing in the temple. All heaven gather ing around Him. Those who loved the beautiful como to look at tho Rose of HHu ron. Those who loved music come to listen to Ilis voice. Those who wore mathema ticians come to count the years of Ills reign. Those who were explorers come to discover the height and the depth, and tho length and tiie breadth of Ills love. Those who had the military spirit on earth sanctified, and tho military spirit in heaven, come to look at the Captain of their salvation. The astronomers come to look ut the morning star. Tho men of the law come to look af. Him who is the judge of tho quick and the dead. Tho men who healed (ho sick come to look at Hiui who wus wounded for our transgressions. All different and different forever in many respects, yet, nil alike in admiration for Christ, in worship for Christ, and all alike in joining in the doxology: “Unto Him who washed us from our sins in liis own blood, and made us kings and priests unto God, to Him bo glory in tho church throughout all ages, world without end!” Amen. M'GA RIGLE’S FLIGHT. He Reaches Canada After a Very Close Call from Being Captured. Chicago, July 81. —Sheriff Matson Ims received advices that the fugitive MoGuri gle has been landed at Point Edwards, Ont., which is nearly opposite Port Huron, Mich., from the schooner Marsh. This is the ves sel to which it was thought McUuriglo was transferred ut Mackinaw, a few days ago, from the schooner Blake. The information received by tlio Sheriff was very moagio and efforts arc now lieing made to have the report verified and details secured. A CLOSE SUAVE. Sarnia, Ont., July 31. Roodler Mc- Uariglo, of Chicago, landed here this morn ing from the schooner Kd. Blake. The Blake and Marsh wore in the same tow, and while in American waters tho tug Oriole, with Chicago detectives on board, steamed up to the Marsh apparently with the intention of liuving them drop the Blake's tow line. After a short conversation the Blake's tow line was let go, and at, the same time a yuwl loft the schooner with McGariglo and quickly rowed for the Canada side, landing at Point Edward. McGariglo at once drove to Court right, twelve miles down the river, ostensi bly to catch a Isiat. He was driven liuck, and is now hero. It is believed he Is ner vous over his safety iu Canada, as he keeps away from the river, apparently fearing attempts ut kidnaping. FLORIDA’S METROPOLIS. The Sunday Closing Law Strictly En forced by the Mayor. Jacksonville, Fla., July, 31.—Tho St. Charles Hotel in this city, was entered ' ’ thieves lost night, und a quantity of T etc. stolon. Philllf Young Green way’s father aud bre mt ion rived this afternoon from Baltimore i inunci charge of lho remains of the murdered \,J,ft Buy street the principal thoroughfare o, Jacksonville has presented a quiet upixiur anco to-day, owing to the fact that Mayor Burbridge is strictly enforcing the Sunday liquor law, and the old bums who generally were found collected around the different bar rooms in the city, sullenly staying at home. llow long the present state of tilings will continue is hard to determine as all previous Mayors in the city have tried to shut up the barrooms und prevent Sim day liquor selling, and all have fulled signally. Mayor Burbridge, in nn interview this morning, stated that he was determined to enforce the law, and that anybody break lug the ordinance would be severely hondli and by him. All the book stores and soda water stands were also notified yesterday that they should only keep their doors half open, and this order was carried out faithfully yester day, HEALTH OF HIE CONVICTS. Dr. Westmoreland Makes a Supple mental Report. Atlanta, G.v., July 31.—At the request of the investigating committee Dr. West moreland, the principal physician, has fur nished in a supplemental rejiort tho per centage of sickness and the death rate in tho penitentiary. Hince Ids annual report made to Gov. McDaniel in October, 18Mfl, the hospital register shows that from Oct. 1, lsso, to July 1, 1887, the number of convicts was iris and the deaths 33. Of this number 38 were from diseases and 4 from injuries received in the camps. The rejsirt shows a considerably smaller percentage of sickness than the previous year, and a slightly smaller death rate. Tho doctor reiterates the opinion in his report to Gov. McDaniel, which he says recent events confirm, that the police control of tho penitentiary by the (State Is very defective and that a physician a* a (State officer with full police authority should be stationed at each camp. FLAMES IN FACTORIES. Two Glass-Making Firms Burned Out at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa., July 81.—Fire occurred on the South Side at 0 o’clock this morning by which the glass manufacturing firms of 8. McKee & Cos. and King, Son & Cos. sus tained heavy losses. Tho fire started iu tho packing house of King s factory und quickly spread to the muciduo shops and mold rooms, destroying them all. It then coin-. mumcatul to the offices of 8. McKee & Cos., on the opposite side of tho street and in a short time had entirely consumed them, together with tho company's extensive warehouse, which was tilled with valuable stock. The fire is supposed to have origina ted from spurks from n passing lnooniothe. The total loss is about 8100,000 of which Me Koe <fc Cos., loose 1100,000 and King, Son <V Cos., $30,000. Tho insurance was about $75,000. Several hundred men ure temporarily thrown out of work. An Ordination In Mexico. City of Mexico, July 31. — Kov. Father Gillow, who wn . recently promoted to tho Episcopate, was ordained today at tho Church of Pruf<*Mu with splendid Corel nonius in the presence of renrosehtatlveof the l*wt society of the capital, among whom the dis tinguished clergyman has many friends, lb; is regarded ns markedly liberal in bis views olid is a warm friend of the American people. He Is of English descent und w:is educated abroad. Ills diocuej comprises the State of (mxaca, where Gun. Diuz aud President Juarez were born. Died from a Sunstroke. New York, July 31.— Oscar G. Sawyer, the newspa[)or correspondent who wn: Min struck ya-teislay. died in Chandlers Street Houpitul nti*cit IU o'clock last night, lie was comic cted with the New York iferald thirty veers, and had represented that uaper in ail I Marts of the world. 1 PRICE #IO 4 YEAR. I } a cents a copy, f CHOPS ANI) Tllli CLIMATE. THE WEEKLY BULLETIN OF THE SIGNAL OFFICE. Excessive Heat in Some Parts of th® Country and Cooler than the Aver age in Others—The Rainfall Exhibits Similar Eccentricities-Cotton In jured from Alabama Eastward. Washington, July 31.— Following is tho weather crop bulletin of the Signal Office for tho week ending July 30:’ TEMPERATURE. During the week the weather has been warmer than usual, from the Southern, Now England and Middle Atlantic States westward to tlip Rocky Mountains, the average daily excess being about 3°, It was slightly cooler than usual In the eastern portion of the cotton region and from Dakota westward to the Pacific coast. Dur ing the month of July the average daily temperature was about 3° above tho nor mal throughout the Northern State* and it was from 2’ to 3* cooler than usual in the Gulf States. During the season, from Jan. 1 to July 30, the season Ims been warmer than usual In the agricultural dis tricts cast of the Rocky Mountains, except in the South Atlantic States, Northern New England and near Lake Superior. In the last named districts tho daily temperature averaged from 2 to 4 below tho normal. RAINFALL. During tho week there bus been an excess of rainfall in the Stub's bordering on the Atlantic and in the East Gulf States, Mia* nessota, Dakota aad Northern Nebraska. Those excessive rains have been accompa nied by severo local storms, resulting in in jury to growing crops anil retarding the harvest. In tho central valleys and lake regions loss than the usual amount of rain occurred, and the drought continues in the corn lielt, extending from Ohio westward to lowa and Kansas. During the month of July tho rainfall was generally in excess in the States on the Atlantic coast, throughout the cotton bolt, in the extreme Northwest und in [x>r tious of the upt*r lake region. In other sections there hns boon less than tlio usual amount of rain during tho month, and probably less than one-half the usual amount throughout the corn bolt. The largo seasonal deficiency of rainfall in the cotton region east of the Mississippi has been greatly reduced during the month, while the seasonal deficiency in the Central Mississippi Valley has been increased. GENERAL REMARKS. The reports for the week show that the weather has been unfavorable for staple crops in many sections. Excessive rains ami severe local storms have probably re sulhxl in injury to the cotton crop from Ala bama eastward, but from Mississippi west ward and in North Carolina the weather was reported as favorable for this crop. Excessive heat and absence of rain throughout the earn belt has affected this crop unfavorab'g and reports from Ohio, 5 ichigan, Indiana and thence westward to ■ansas indicate that the drought has un -1 j vorahly affected the corn and ix <tn to crops. *<J in the middle Atlantic and New England ,states the weather has been favorable to u ‘ >ni, but excessive rains have injured the ay and oats. 1 In Minnesota, Dakota and Nebraska the weather has leen generally favorable to all crops and harvesting is in progress as far North as the forty-seventh parallel. A HOT-HEADED EDITOR. The Tiempo of Mexico Renews Its Attacks on the United btates. City ok Mexico, July 31. —The Tiempm to-day reopens its attacks upon Americans, although the editor-in-chief is still in jail. It says tiiut lorty years huve not been suili cient to extinguish the absorptionist views of the United Btates with regard to Mexico, and that the same greedy and hypocritical tendencies exist to-day. It condemns what It the terms the vile conduct of successive administrations in Mexico since 1H47 with regard to the United Btates. It is not, the Tiempo says, to lie wondered at thut a nation relatively wonk as is Mexico in comparison with the strength of a Co lossus should be a target for the srabition of its neighbor. The Tiempo assorts that the United Kitten counts on the Mexican Central railway as an avenue to Mexico and that its management is altogether more favorable to American interests tiian to those of Mexico. TWO MONSTER WAVES. The Umbria’s Decks Swept Clean la Mid-Ocean. Nkw York, July 31.—The steamer Um bria, of the Cunard lino, reached her pier to-day in a very dilapidated condition. Her forward docks were swept clean and her bridges washed away. Ou Tuesday last, while going at full sjieed in a hear# son, two huge waves said to hi about fifty feet nigh st ruck her and brnkt over the deck, ahead of the foremast. Tiii cabins and steerage were Hooded, and • panic occurred. The passengers put on lilt belts and prepared for the worst. The veil sel trembled violently when the masses of water deluged her decks. DAVISJFAVORS IiUM. He Declares that the World is Oov> erned too Much. Ft. Worth, Tex., July 31.—0n the o casion of tho nnti-prohibitlon state liarbooV here on July 20, u strong letter waf road from Jefferson Duvis to Ex-Gov* Lubbock, denouncing prohibition ot the ground that tiio world # goverrn* 1 too much. The Gatett* to-morrow will print a reply to Mr. Davis' letter from Senator John tl. Reagan, expressing sun prise and sorrow that Mr. Davis shoull have taken sides on the question. Senates Reagan says Mr. Davis’ letter has cost pro hibition thousands of votes in Texas. Reed’s Life In Danger. Nkw Yohk, July 31.—1-awyor Charlo H. lteed, the defeniler of Oniteuu, who i alleged to have attempted suicide liy jump ing from tls< Pennsylvania railroad ferrj boat yesterday, still lies in the Belle vu Hospital, and the doctor says his constitu tion is so far undermined by high livini that serious doubts of his recovery must b entertained. Ho is also suffering from mol anoholia. * Calhoun Ready to Lynch. Chattamoooa. July 31.—1n a difflcultj last night at Calhoun. Ga., lietween Browii low (white) und Abb Phillips (colored Urowidow was fatally stubbed. Phillis was captured here to-night. Lynching I probable at Calhoun. A Negro Shot. lIAHnKBViLLK. 8. C., July 81.-#Villuur Hinith, clerk at or near Levvs. had trouhl with a negro last night m the store. Tli negro pulled hl pistol ou the clerk. Th clerk tired at him in self-defuuso uud kilim the negro.