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