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FIGHT WITH THE POLICE.
an IRISH INDIGNATION MEETING
BROKEN UP.
Sir Wilfred Blunt Defies the Bluecoats,
Single-Handed, and is Finally Lodged
in Jail-The Meeting Called by the
British Home Rule League.
Dublin, Oct. 351. —Placards were posted
In Woodford, County Galway, this morn
ing, summoning an indignation meeting
under the auspices of the British Home Rule
Union. Sir Wilfred Blunt, a well-known
philanthropist and benefactor of Arabi
Pasha, who was formerly a Conservative,
but is now a Home-ruler, was anounced to
preside, supported by Mr. Rowlands
and other Engilsh members of Parliament.
The meeting was proclaimed by the govern
ment, and reinforcements of police and
troops arrived in the morning, and paraded
(liestreets. Thousands of persons flocked
into town. A platform was erected in
a Held behind the main street. When the
speaker mounted the platform Divisional
Magistrate Byrne forbade Sir Blunt to hold
the meeting.
OPEN HOSTILITIES.
Sir Blunt defied the magistrate, and the
police were ordered to clear the platform.
Several policemen seized Sir Blunt, and, al
though he violently resisted, threw him
from the platform. Sir Blunt returned to
the platform and was again thrown off.
Then, pale and breathless, he shouted: “Are
you such cowards that you dare not arrest
me?”
The District Inspector replied: “I arrest
you,” whereupon Sir Blunt was seized and
marched off under an escort, his wife fol
lowing.
The police charged upon the crowd that
followed and injured many persons.
A CHEERING CROWD.
Mr. Rowlands asked for three cheers for
Sir Blunt, which were given heartily. The
crowd was kept back by f usileers. Sirßlunt
was brought before a magistrate, and on re
fusing to promise to refrain from participa
ting in other meetings, he was retained in
custody. Sir Blunt and another prisoner
were conveyed to Loughrea jail this evening.
During the row Constable Conner re
fused to obey an order to charge the
crowd, and threw down his baton. He
was arrested. Two meetings were after
ward held on the outskirts of the town at
which the arrest of Sir Blunt was de
nounced.
A WRITTEN PROTEST.
This morning, before the meeting, Sir
Blunt handed to Magistrate Byrne a writ
ten protest against the government’s action
in proclaiming the meeting. Later Inspec
tor Murphy visited Sir Blunt and informed
him that no meeting would be allowed.
After the struggle on the
pint form Lady Blunt fainted and
lay on the grass unconscious for
some time. Mrs. Rowlands and several re
porters also suffered in the scuffle. Rev.
Mr. Fagan was arrested, but was afterward
released. Mr. Roche, a Poor Law
Guardian, was arrested for assault
ing the police. Ijady Blunt clung
to her husband’s arm, and refused to leave
him. Sir Blunt, when asked whether he
would give bail, replied that as an English
man he believed that the whole action of
the police was illegal, and he would rather
be imprisoned than give a pledge to the rep
resentatives to the Tory government.
SIR blunt’s letter.
Sir Blunt’s letter to Magistrate Byrne
guaranteed moderate language on the. part
of the speakers. He warned the magistrate
that he would hold him responsible it' he at
tacked an unarmed orderly meeting. Over
thirty persons were more or less seriously
injured. At Woodford the feeling against
the police runs very high. It is stated that
in many instances they had recourse to un
necessary brutality.
The news of the arrest of Sir Blunt caused
the greatest excitement in this city. A feel
ing of intense gratification prevails among
the Nationalists. Mr. Harrington to-night
said that he did not believe Sir Blunt would
be detained or prosecuted, “but,” he added,
“it will do good, and I should not wonder if
we hear more of it.”
William O'Brien was paying a visit to
Mr. Dillon when the news of Sir Blunt’s ar
rest arrived.
Both gentlemen expressed great concern
for the personal inconvenience to which Mr.
Blunt would be subjected, but could not
conceal their gratitude at the turn events
had taken. The interest was intensified
when it became known that the telegraph
wires between Portumna and Woodford
had been cut, and the service suspended for
several hours. The greatest activity pre
vailed at Dublin Castle, communications
being constantly sent and received.
The attempt to evict widow Foley at
Bally-Kerogue was resumed later on Satur
day, when tlie defenders of the house wore
arrested by the police.
IRELAND AND THE POPE.
Bomb, Oct. 2S. —Mgr. Persieo, the Papal
envoy to Ireland, has returned to this city.
It is stated that at an audience held with
Cardinal Rampella, Papal Secretary of
State, Mgr. Persieo declared that his recep
tion in Ireland could not have been more
satisfactory. The political situation in that
country, he said, was unchanged, the Roman
< atholic Bishops finding themselves unable,
even in the interest of the church, to alter
1 heir attitude toward the British govern
ment. It is reported that Cardinal Simeoui,
Prefect of Propaganda, Wgr Persieo and
Father Gerald, who accompanied the latter
" Ireland, will, however, continue to seek
•lata to serve as a basis of mediation which
the Pope is anxious to offer.
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS.
The Suez Canal and New Hebrides Is
lands Included.
Paris, Oct. 33.— The negotiations for con
ventions regarding the New Hebrides Is
land and Suez Canal have been concluded,
and the convention will be signed to
morrow. The Suez Canal convention pro
vides that the canal shall be kept open in
lime of war, that no act of hostility shall be
permitted ut, either of its approaches or on
its banks within a zone to be determined
I .v an international commission on super
vision; that belligerent powers shall neither
embark nor disembark troops nor war ma
terial on the canal or in its ports of en
trance, and that if Egypt proves unable to
compel respect for the treaty, she will ap
peal to Turkey, who, in concert with the
signatory powers, will take the neces
sary measures to enforce obedience. It is
reported that Germany, Austria and Russia
already approve the Suez convention.
Tlie New Hebrides Convention confirms
the agreements of 1878 and 1883, and pro
vides that any action necessary to maintain
order shall devolve upon English and
rrench men-of-war, and that France shall
evacuate her military posts.
Two Terms in Mexico.
City of Mexico, Oct. 38. —The constitu
tional amendment permitting an election to
toe Presidency for two consecutive terms
"iter having received the approval of both
houses of Congress, was officially promul
gated to-day with all the formalities pre
scribed bv law.
A MOB IN WESTMINSTER.
The Services Interrupted by Whistling,
Cheers and Jeers.
London, Oct. 38.—Several thousand of
the unemployed, with a red flag at their
head, marched in procession this afternoon
from Trafalgar square to Westminster Ab
bey, and although no invitation hadjbeen ex
tended, 1,300 of the crowd were admitted.
The flag was left in charge of
vergers, inside the abbey, while many of
the unexpected visitors remained covered
and indulged in whistling, while others
mounted the pedestals of various statuas, or
mingled with the decent people present,who
mostly left the building. The crowd, as a
rule, chewed tobacco and expectorated
everywhere, regardless of the sur
roundings, until the first lesson
was announced, when the reader
was so loudly jeered as to completely
drown his voice. The second lesson was
similarly read. Canon Prothers then
preached a sermon, tailing for his text
Romans, chapter xii., 1. In his discourse he
argued that punishment of the law-breaker
was necessary for the good of the community.
This was received with cries of “Oh, oh,”
and “bosh.” The preacher earnestly appealed
for order, and exhorted his hearens to try
aud uproot evil and plant good instead.
“That's what we are trying to do,” was
shouted and received with cries of “hear!
hear!” and cheers.
THE CANON ADDRESSES THE MOB.
Canon Prothers now threw his notes aside
and addressed himself directly to the
roughs. He said: “Legislation could alone
provide a remedy for hunger and suffering,
but everybody could express sympathy.”
[Loud laughter, followed by a voice,
“That’s all wo shall get.”]
Canonv Prothers continued: “Charitable
do much. [A voice: “We
don’t warn, charity. We want work.”]
The reverend gentleman enlisted the atten
tion of the mob when he advocated State
assistance in times of distress. At the close
of his remarks the mob hissed and marched
out of the Abbey, cordially cheered by their
comrades in waiting outside. The whole
mob then proceeded, shouting and hooting,
to Trafalgar square, where the leaders de
nounced the church and police. Several
arrests were made of brawling persons aud
thieves.
SHOT DOWN IN COLD BLOOD.
An lowa Demon Seized by a Desire
to Take Human Life.
Des Moines, la., Oct. 2*l.—A shocking
tragedy at Maxwell, Story oounty, last
night, has plunged that community into the
deepest gloom. It appears that Perry
Ackers, who committed the cowardly mur
der, started out last evening about 5 o’clock,
bent on destroying somebody. He bor
rowed a revolver from a hardware
store on the pretense that he wanted to
shoot a dog, but he went straight to the
office of Justice of the Peace Schmetzer,
and asking him if he was ready to take his
medicine, administered it without any fur
ther explanation, shooting him in the left
lower jaw, the ball passing down and out
by the shoulder-blade.
MURDERS THE MAYOR.
He next entered the office of Mayor
French, and stealing up behind him sent a
bullet into his brain. The Mayor never ut
tered a word, but died within an houi.
The murderer then passed into the street,
his crime as yet being unknown, and meet
ing several citizens talked in a threatening
manner about evening old scores, and
brandished his revolver freely.
SENDS HIMSELF TO HADES.
Passing on to the entrance to Odd Fellows
Hall he said good by to the Post master on
the way, remarking that he was going to
hell, and then shot himself, dying immedi
ately. Ackers was a shiftless fellow, who
had been for sometime an object of suspic
ion, but no one anticipated any such a
startling tragedy as came.
McGLYNN DENOUNCED.
Bishop McQuaid Gives the Ex-Priest
a Raking Over.
Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 38.—Bishop Mc-
Quaid to-day paid some attention to Father
McGlynn. During his sermon he said: “On
Thursday of last week an excommunicated
Catholic priest who is running about
turning the stone for the grinding of
politicians’ axes addressed a Rochester audi
ence, such as it was, of the men
who supported this unfrocked priest by
their presence, whose names are given in the
daily papers, itjis unnecessary to speak at
present. Political heresies of community in
land are as old as hell. He is a man who
for years accepted food and clothing of the
Propaganda, which he now calls the ma
chine, and this is the man who calls the
Cardinal who presided over him ‘A yellow
skinned Italian.”’
HIS CAREER AT ST. STEPHENS.
The Bishop then alluded to Dr. McGlynn’s
career at St. Stephens. He said that “Dr.
McGlynn found himself when a very young
man a priest over the largest Catholic con
gregation in the country. After nineteen
years the church found itself #145,000 in
debt, without schools and considerably dis
organized. He was either incapable or in
different to his work, and ought
to have been removed long before
he was. When a Catholic priest or any
instructed Catholic gore to hear this man it
is a sin, and ho is liable to excommunica
tion. If this thing goes on you will find
that I and other Catholic bishops will pro
nounce sentence of excommunication
against those who, not being ignorant,
hover about this man.”
CHICAGO’S ANARCHISTS.
State's Attorney Grinnell Summoned
to Washington.
Chicago, Oct. 33. —State’s Attorney
Grinnell received a telegram from Attorney
General Garland to-day requesting him to
come to Washington. Mr. Grinnell came
up to his office at once and packed up some
papers used when he when he was invited
into the State’s case by Attorney General
Hunt. Attorney General Garland says that
he wants Mr. Grinnell present while the
counsel for the Anarchists nihke their argu
ments so he can be enlightened on the points
raised.
A MEETING OF PROTEST.
Boston, Oct. 23. —Another meeting to
protest against the hanging of the Chicago
Anarchists, was held in Faneuil Hall this
afternoon, but the attendance was small.
Babcock, one of the speakers, said it would
be as much a crime to hang the Anarchists
as it was to hang witches in Salem, nearly
two centuries ago.
An Agreement Impossible.
San Francisco. Oct. 33.—The jury in
the Morrow ease last night reported that
they eleven for conviction and one for ac
quittal, with no possibility of agreeing.
Judge Sullivan ordered them discharged,
and released Morrow on §3,500 bail.
Two Bishops Back from Europe.
New York, Oct. 28. —Among the arrivals
from Europe to-day were Rt. Rev. C. T.
Quintard, Bishop of Tennessee, and W, S.
perry, Bishon of lowa.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1887.
SUNSET AND SALVATION
REV. TALMAGE TAKES A TEXT
FROM PAUL’S EPISTLE.
“Let Not the Sun Go Down on Your
Wrath”—Twelve Hours Long Enough
to be Cross About any Wrong In
flicted Upon Us—Good Temper an
Advantage.
Brooklyn, Oct. 23.—The Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, D.D., preached in the Brook
lyn Tabernacle this morning on the subject,
“Forgiveness Before Sundown.” After ex
plaining some passages concerning Heze
kiah, Dr. Talmage gave out the following
hymn, which was sung by the congregation:
“This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way,
While each iu expectation lives
And longs to see the day."
Prof. Henry Eyre Browne rendered on
the organ an aria with variations, by
Cramer. The text of the sermon was from
Ephesians iv., 35: “Let not the sun go
down upon your wrath.” Dr. Talmage said:
What a pillow embroidered of all colors
hath the dying day! The cradle of clouds
from which the sun rises is beautiful
enough, but it is surpassed by the many
colored mausoleum in which at evening it is
buried. Sunset among the mountains!
It almost takes one’s breath away to recall
the scene. The long shadows stretching
over the plain make the glory of the de
parting light, on the tip-top crags and
struck aslant through the foliage, the more
transpicuous. Saffron aud gold, purple and
crimson commingled. All the castles of
cloud in conflagration. Burning Moscow*
on the sky. Hanging gardens of roses at
their deepest blush. Banners of vapor, red
as if from carnage, in the battle of the ele
ments. The hunter among the Adirou
daeks, and the Swiss villager among the
Alps know what is a sunset among the
mountains. After a storm at sea
the rolling grandeur into winch the sun
goes down to bathe at nightfall is something
to make weird and splendid dreams out of
for a lifetime. Alexander Smith in his
poem compares the sunset to “the barren
beach of hell,” but this wonderful spectacle
of nature makes me think of the burnished
wall of heaven. Paul in prison writing my
text remembers some of the gorgeous sun
sets among the mountains of Asia Minor,
and how lie had often seen the towers of
Damascus blaze in the close of the Oriental
days, and he flashes out that moniory in the
text when he says: “Let not the sun go
down upon your wrath,”
Sublime and all-suggestive duty for peo
ple then and people now. Forgiveness be
fore sundown. He who never feels the
throb of indignation is imbecile. He who
can walk among the injustices of the world,
inflicted upon himself and others, without
flush of cheek, or flush of eye, or agitation
of nature is either in sympathy with wrong
or semi-idiotic. When Ananias, the high
priest, ordered the constables of the court
room to smite Paul in the mouth, Paul fired
up and said: “God shall smite thee, thou
whited wall.” In the sentence immediately
before my text Paul commands the Ephe
sians: “Be ye angry and sin not.” It all
depends on what you are mad at; and how
long the feeling lasts whether anger is right
or wrong. Life is full of exasperations.
Saul after David, Succoth after Gideon,
Korah after Moses, the Pasquius after Au
gustus, the Pharisees after Christ, and every
one has had his pursuers, and we are
swindled, or belied, or misrepresen
ted, or persecuted in or some way
wronged, and the danger is that healthful
indignation shall become baleful spite, and
that our feelings settle down into a pro
longed outpouring of temper, displeasing to
God and ruinous to ourselves, and hence the
important injunction of the text: “Let not
the sun go down upon your wrath. ” Why
that limitation to one’s auger ? Why that
period of flaming vapor set to punctuate a
flaming and sposition ? What has the sunset
got to do with one’s resentful emotions ?
Was it a haphazard sentiment written by
Paul without special significance ! No, no;
I think of five reasons why we should not
let the sun set before our temper sets.
First. Because twelve hours is long
enough to be cross about any wrong in
flicted upon us. Nothing is so exhausting
to physical health or mental faculty as a
protracted indulgence of ill-humor. It
racks the nervous system. It hurts the di
gestion. It heats the blood in brain and
heart until the whole body is first over
heated and then depressed. Beside that,
it sours the disposition, turns one aside
from his legitimate work, expends energies
that ought to be better employed, and does
us more harm than it does our antagonist.
Paul gives us a good, wide allowance of
time for legitimate denunciation, from six
o’clock to six o’clock, but says: “Stop
there!” Watch the descending orb of day,
and when it reaches the horizon take a reef
in your disposition. Unloose your cellar
and cool off'. Change the subject to some
thing delightfully pleasant. Unroll your
tight fist and shake hands wflth someone.
Bank up the fires at the curfew bell. Drive
the growling dog of enmity back to its ken
nel. The hours of this morning will pass
by, and the afternoon will arrive, and the
sun will begin to set, aud I beg you on its
blazing hearth throw all your feuds, invec
tives and satires.
Other things being equal, the man who
preserves good temper will come out ahead.
An old essayist says that the celebrated
John Henderson, of Bristol, England, was
at a dining forty where political excite
ment ran high, and the debate got angry,
and while Henderson was speaking, bis op
ponent, unable to answer his argument,
dashed a glass of wine in his face, when the
speaker deliberately wiped the liquid from
his face and said: “This, sir, is a digression;
now, if you please, for the main argument.”
While worldly philosophy could help but
very few to such compose of spirit, the
grace of God could help any man to such a
triumph. “Impossible,” you say, “I would
have either left the table in anger, or have
knocked the man down.” But I nave coiue
to believe that nothing is impassible, if God
help, since what 1 saw at Bcth
,shun faith cure in London, England,
two summers ago. While tho religious
service was going on Rev. Dr. Boardman,
gloriouß man! since gone to his heavenly
rest, was telling the scores of sick people
present that Christ was there as of old to
heal all diseases, and that, if they would
only believe, their sickness would depart.
1 saw a woman near me, with hand and arm
twisted of rheumatism, and her wrist was
fiery with inflammation, and it looked like
those cases of chronic rheumatism which
we have ail seen and sympathized with—
cases beyond all human healing. At the
preacher's reiteration of the words: “Will
you believe? Do you believe? Do you be
lieve now?” I heard this poor sir-k "woman
say, with an emphasis which sounded
through the building: “I do believe." And
then she laid her twisted arm and hand out
as straight as your arm and hand, or mine,
if I had seen one rise from the dead, I
would not have been much more thrilled.
Since then I believe that God will do any
thing in answer to our prayer and in answer
to our faith, and Ho can heal our
bodies, and if our soul is all twisted
and misshapen of revenge and hate
and inflamed with sinful proclivity, He
can straighten that also and make it well
and clean. Aye, you will not postpone till
sundown forgiveness of enemies if you can
realize that their behavior toward vou mav
lie put into the catalogue of the “all things”
that “work together for good to those that
love God.” I have had multitudes of friends,
but I have found in my own experience
that God so arranged it that the greatest
opportunities of usefulness that have been
o|>ened before me wore opened by enemies.
And when, years ago, they conspired
against me, that oppned all Christendom to
me as a field in which to preach the Gospel.
So you may harness your antagonists to
your best interests aud compel them to draw
you on to better work and higher charac
ter. Suppose, instead of waiting until six
minutes past 5 o'clock this evening, when
the sun will set, you transact this glorious
work of forgiveness before meridian.
Again: We ought not to let the sun go
down on our wrath, because we will sleep
better if we are at peace with everybody.
Insomnia is getting to be one of the most
prevalent of disorders. How few people re
tire at 10 o’clock at night and sleep dear
through to 6in the morning. To relieve
this disorder all narcotics, and sedatives,
and chloral, and bromide of potassium, and
cocaine and intoxicants, are used, but noth
ing is more important than a quiet spirit if
we would win somnolence. How is a man
going to sleep when he is in mind pursuing
an enemy? With what nervous twitch he
will start, out of a dream! That new plan
for cornering his foe will keep him wide
awake while the clock strikes eleven, twelve,
one, two, three, four. I give you an unfail
ing prescription for wakefulness: spend the
evening hours rehearsing your wrongs and
the best way of avenging them. Hold a
convention of friends on this subject in
your parlor or office at eight or nine o'clock.
Close the evening by writing a bitter letter
expressing your sentiments. Take from the
desk or pigeon hole the papers in the
case to refresh yoiu - mind with your even
ing’s meanness. Then lie down and wait
for the coming of the day, and it will come
before sleep comes, or your sleep will be a
worried quiescence, aud if you take the pre
caution to lie flat on your back, a frightened
nightmare. Why not put a bound to your
animosity? Why let vour foes come into
the sanctities of your dormitory? Why let
those slanderers who have already torn your
reputation to pieces or injured your
business, bend over your midnight
pillow and drive from you one
of the greatest blessings that
God can offer—sweet, refreshing, all-invig
orating sleep. Why not fence out your
enemies by the golden bars of the sunset?
Why not stand liehind the barricade of
evening cloud and say to them, “Thus far
and no farther?” Many a man and many a
woman is having the health of body as well
as the health of soul eaten away by a ma
levolent spirit. I have in time of religious
awakening had persons, night after night,
come into the inquiry room and get no
peace of soul. After awhile I have bluntly
asked her: “Is there not someone against
whom you have a hatred that you are not
willing to give up?” After a little confusion
ehe has slightly whispered, “Yes.” Then 1
said to her: “ You will never find peace
with God as long as you retain that viru
lence. ■’
A boy in Sparta linving stole a fox kept
him under his coat and, though the fox was
gnawing his vitals, he submitted to it rather
than expose his misdeed. Many a man with
a smiling face has under his jacket an ani
mosity that is gnawing away the strength
of his body and the integrity of his soul.
Better get rid of that hidden fox as soon as
possible. There are hundreds of domestic
cirles where that which most is needed is the
spirit of forgiveness. Brothers apart, and
sisters apart, and parents and children
apart. Solomon says a brother offended is
harder to be won than a strong city. Are
there not enough sacred memories of your
childhood to bring you together? The rab
bins recount how that Nebuchadnezzar’s
'son had such a spite against his father that
after he was dead, he had his father burnei
to ashes and then put the ashes into four
sacks and tied them to four eagles’
necks which flew away in opposite direc
tions. And there are now domestic antipa
thies that seem forever to have scattered all
parental memories to the four winds of
heaven. How far the eagles fly with that
sacred ashes! The hour of sundown makes
to that family no practical suggestion.
Thomas Carlyle, in his biography of Fred
eric the Great, says the old King was told
by the confessor he must be at peace with
his enemies if he wanted to enter heaven.
Then he said to his wife, the Queen: “Write
to your brother after 1 am dead that I for
give him.” Roloff, the confessor, said:
“Her majesty had better write him imme
diately.” “No,” said the king, “after lam
dead; that will be safer.” So he lot the sun
of his earthly existence go down upon his
wrath.
Again: We ought not to allow the sun set
before forgiveness takes place, because wo
might not live to see another day. And
what if we should be ushered into the pres
ence of our Malier with a grudge upon our
soul? The majority of people depart this
life in the night. " Between eleven o'clock
p. m. and three o’clock a. rn. there is some
thing in the atmosphere which relaxes the
grip which the body has on the soul, aud
most of people eater the next world through
the shadows of this world. Perhaps God
may have arranged it in that way so as to
make the contrast the more glorious. I
have seen sunshiny days in this world that
must have been almost like the radiance of
heaven. But as most people leave the earth
between sundown and sunrise, they quit this
world at its ilarkest, and heaven, always
bright, will be the brighter for that con
trast. Out of blackness into irradiation.
.Shall we then leup over the roseate bank of
sunset into the favorite hunting ground of
disease and death, carrying our animosities
with us? Who would want to confront his
God, against whom wo have all done meaner
tilings than anybody lias ever done against
us, carrying old grudges? How can we ex
pect HLs forgiveness tor the greater when
we arc not willing to forgive others the
4ess! Napoleon was encouraged to under
take the crossing of the Alps because Clrnrle
magne had previously crossed them. And
all this rugged path of forgiveness bears the
bleeding footsteps of Him who conquered
through suffering, and we ought to lie will
ing to follow. On the night of our de
parture from tin's life into the next, our ono
idea will have to be for mercy, and it will
nave to be offered in the presence of Him
who has said: “If you forgive not men their
trespasses neither will your heavenly Father
forgive your trespasses.” What a sorry
plight if we stand there hating this one, and
hating that one, and wishing this one a
damage, and wishing someone else a ca
lamity, ami we ourselves needing for
giveness for ten thousand times ten
thousand obliquities of heart and
fife. When our last hour comes,
wo want it to find us all right. Hardly
anything affects me to much in the uncov
ering of ancient Pompeii as the account of
the soldier who, after the city had for
many centuries lieen covered with the ashes
aud scoriae of Vesuvius, was found stand
ing in his place on guard, hand on spear and
helmet on head. Others fled at the awful
submergement, hut the explorer, seventeen
hundred years after, found the body of that
brave feliow in right position. And it will
be a grand thing u, when our last moment
comes, we are found in right position to
ward the world, as well as in right position
toward God, on guard and unaffrighted by
the ashes from the mountain of death. Ido
not suppose that I am any more of a coward
than most people, but I declare to you that
I would not dare to sleep to-night if there
were any being in all the earth with whom
I would not gladly shake hands, lest, during
tho night hours, mv spirit dismissed to other
realms, I should, because of my unforgiv
ing spirit, bo denied divine forgiveness.
"But,’’ says some woman, “there is a hor
rid creature that has so injured me that
rather than make up witti her I would die
first.” Well, sister, you may take your
choice—for one or the other it will be —your
complete pardon of her or God’s eternal
banishment of you. “But,” says some man,
“that fellow who cheated me out of those
goods, or damaged my business credit, or
started that fie atiout me in the newspapers,
or bv his perfidy broke up my domestic
happiness, forgive him I cannot, forgivo
him 1 will not." Well, brother, take your
choice. You will never be at peace with
God till you are at peace with men.
Feeling as you now do, you would
not get so near the harbor of heaven as to
see tho lightship. Better leave that man with
the God who said: “Vengence is mine, I
will repay.” You may say: “I will make
him sweat for that yet, I will make him
squirm,l mean to pursue him to the death,”
but you are damaging yourself more t han
you damage him, and you are making
heaven for your own soul an impossibility.
If he will not be reconciled to you, be re
conciled to him. In live or six hours it will
be sundown. The dahlias will bloom against
the western sky. Somewhere between this
and that take a shovel and bury the old
quarrel at least six feet deep. “Let not the
sun go down upon your wrath,”
“But,” you say, “I have more than I can
bear; too much is put upon me and I am
not to blame if I am somewhat revengeful
and unrelenting.” Then I think of the lit
tle child at the moving of some goods from
a store. The father was putting some rolls
of goods on the child’s arm, package alter
package, and someone said: “That child is
being overloaded and so much ought not bo
put upon her,” when the child responded:
“Father knows how much 1 can carry;”
and God, our Father, wifi not allow too
much imposition on liis children. In the
day of eternity it will be found you bail not
one annoyance too many, not one exaspera
tion too many, not ono outrage too many.
Your heavenly Father knows how much
you can carry.
Again: We ought not to allow the passage
of the sunset hour before the dismissal of
ail our affronts, because we may associate
the sublimest action of the soul with the
sublimest spectacle in nature. It is a most
delightsome thing to have our personal ex
periences allied with certain objects. There
is a tree or river bank where God first
answered your prayer. You will never
pass that place or think of that place with
out thinking of the glorious communion.
There was some gate, or some room, or
some garden walk, where you were affi
anced with tho companion who has been
your chief joy in life. You never speak of
that place but with a smile. Some of you
have pleasant memories connected with the
evening star, or the moon iu its first quar
ter, or with the sunrise, because you saw it
just as you were arriving at harbor after
a tempestuous voyage. Forever and
forever, O hearer, associate the sun
set with your magnanimous, out and
out, unlimited renunciation of all hatreds
and forgiveness of all foes. I admit it is
the most difficult of all graces to practice,
and at the start you may make a complete
failure, but keep on in the at tempt to prac
tice it. Shakespeare wrote ten play* before
he reached Hamlet, and seventeen plays
before he readhed Merchant of Venice, and
twenty-eight plays before he reached Mac
beth. And gradually you will come from
the easier graces to the most difficult.
Beside that, it is not a matter of personal
determination so much as the laying hold
of the almighty arm of God, who will help
us to do anything we ought to do. Remem
ber that in all personal controversies, tho
one least to blame will have to- take the
first step at pacification, if it is ever effec
tive. The contest between .Esc bines
and Aristippus resounds through history,
but Aristippus, who was least to blamo, went
to and said: “Shall we not agree
to be friends lief ore we make ourselves the
laughing stock of the whole country ?”
And HCschines said: “Thou art a far better
man than I, for I began the quarrel, but
thou hast been the first in healing the
breach,” and they were always friends after
ward. So let the one of you that is the least
to blame take the first step tow ard concilia
tion. The one most in the wrong will never
take it. Oh, it makes one feel splendidly to
be able by God’s help to practice unlimited
forgiveness. It improves one’s body and
soul. It wifi make you measure three or
four more inches around the chest, and im
prove your respiration so that you can take
a deeper and longer breath. It improves
the countenance by scattering the
gloom, ami brightening the fore
head, and loosening the pinched look
about the nostril ami lip, and makes you
somewhat like God himself. He is onnpo
tence, and we cannot copy that. He is in
dependent of all the universe, and we can
not copy that. Ho is creative, and we
cannot copy that. He is omnipresent, and
we cannot copy that. But ho forgives with
a broad sweep all faults, and all neglects,
and all insults, and all wrong-doing, and in
that we.may copy Him with mighty success.
Go harness that sublime action of your soul
to an autumnal sunset, the hour when the
gate of heaven opens to let the day pass into
the eternities and some of the glories escajie
this way througli the brief opening. VVe
talk about the Italian sunsets, anil sunset
amid the Appeuines, and sunset amid the
Cordilleras. But I will tell you how you
may see a grander sunset than any mere
lover of nature ever beheld; that is by
flinging into it all your hatreds, and ani
mosities, and let the horses of fire trample
them, and the chariots of fire roll over
them, and the spearmen of fire stab them,
anil the beach of fire consume them, ami
Ihe billows of fire overwhelm them. The
sublimest thing God does is the sunset. The
sublimest thing you can do is forgiveness.
Along the glowing banks of this aiming
eventide let the divine and the human be
concurrent.
Again: We should not let the sun go
down on our wrath because it is of little im
portance what the world says of you or does
to you w hen you have the affluent (tod of the
sunset as your providerand defender. Peo
ple talk us though it were a fixed spectacle
of nature and always the same. But no one
ever saw two sunsets alike, and if the world
has existed six thousand years there have
been about two million one hundred aud
ninety thousand sunsets, each of them as
distinct from all tlio other pictures in the
gallery of the sky as Titian’s “Last Sup
tier,” ltuben’s “Descent from the Cross,”
ltaphael’s “Transfiguration,” and Michael
Angelo’s “Last Judgment," are distinct
from each other. If that God of such in
finite resources that he Can put on the wall
of the sky each night more than the
lxmvre, and the Luxembourg, and
the Vatican, and the Dresden and
Venetian galleries all in one, is my God and
your God, our provider and protector, what
is the use-of our worrying about any human
antagonism? If we are misinterpreted, the
God of the many-colored sunset can put the
right color on our action. It He can afford
to hang such masterpieces over the outside
wall of heaveu and nave them obliterated
in an hour, He must be very rich in re
sources and can put us through in safety.
If all tho garnitures of the western heavens
at eventide is but the upholstery of one of
the windows of our future homo, wliat
small business for us to lie chasing enemies!
Let not this iSftbbath sun go down upon
your wrath.
Mahomet said: “The sword is the key of
heaven and hell, a drop of biood shed is bet
ter than fasting, and wounds in the Day of
Judgment resplendent as vermilion, and
odoriferous as musk.” But, my hearers, in
the Last Day we will find just the opposite
of that to U> true, and that the sword never
unlocks heaven, and that he who heals
wounds Is greater than he who makes them,
and that on the same ring are two keys:
God’s forgiveness of us and our forgiveness
of enemies, and these two keys uulock para
dise
And now I wish for all of you a beautiful
sunset in your earthly existence. With
some of you it has btsni a long day of
trouble, and with others of you it will be
far from calm. When the sun rose at six
o’clock it was the morning of youth, and a
fair day was prophesied, but by the time
the noonday of midlife hud come and the
clock of your earthly existence lmd struck
twelve, cloud racks gathered and tempest
bellowed in the track of tempest. But as
the evening of old ago approaches 1 pray
God the skies may brighten and the
clouds be piled up into pillars as
of celestial temples to which you go, or
move as with mounted cohorts come to take
you homo. Aud as you sink out of sight
below the horizon may there be a radiance
of Christian example lingering long after
you are gone, anil on the heavens bo writ
ten in letters of sapphire, and on the waters
in letters of opal, and on the hills in letters
of emerald: “Thv sun shall no mol's go
‘down, neither shall thy moon withdraw it
self, for tht> Lord shall be thine everlasting
light and the days of thy mourning shall be
ended.” So shall the sunset of earth become
the sunrise of heaven.
SIXTEEN NEW CASES.
Five Doctors Sick With the Fever, and
Four at Work.
Tampa, Fla., Oct. 28.—Sixteen new cases
of fever were reported to-day, but no deaths.
Drs Weedon, Jackson, Bruce, Benjamin
and Mac Arthur are down with the fever.
Dr. Wall has a carbuncle on his neck, caus
ing him much pain, but he keeps at work.
I)r. Machado, of Ybor City, the only local
physician able for active duty, and Dr.
Porter, of Key West, and Dr. Kilmer, of
Orlando, are necessarily overworked. Dr.
Wylly has been requested to send four phy
sicians and more nurses. There are thir
teen patients in the hospital. The County
Commissioners have placed SSOO at the dis
jiosal of the Bourd of Health. The weather
is cool. The outlook is not encouraging.
FROST AT JACKSONVILLE.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 23.—Anothor
light frost fell here this morning. Cool
clear weather has prevailed throughout the
State for several days.
No further cases nave occurred at Palat
ka, where the Taniiia refugee died of spo
radic yellow fever two weeks ago. These
facts with the raising of the quarantine that
lms been maintained against l’alutka
has completely restored confidence, and the
busy season is opening with great promise.
A strict cordon is still maintained around
Hillsborough county, in which Tampa is
situated.
A special from Tampa to the Timrx-Union
to-night says: “Six new cases have been re
ported in twenty-four hours, all of which
are light. No deaths have occurred. Fif
teen patients are in the hospital.”
MULDROW FOR SECRETARY.
Secretary Lamar Said to be Backing
Him for the Place.
Washington, Oct. 23.—The friends of
Assistant Secretary Henry L. Muldrow of
the Interior Department, seem confident
that he will succeed Mr. Lamar as Secreta
ry of the Interior. They say that he the
support of Secretary Lamar, who has a very
high opinion of him. Secretary Lamar
selected Mr. Muldrow for Assistant Secre
tary of the Interior, because he thought
him better fitted for the place than any of
the others mentioned for it, although some
of them were more distinguished men. He
lias left Mr. Muldrow in charge of the whole
department, when he himself had to be
absent, with entire confidence. Mr. Mul
drow' has shown a complete mastery of all
matters coming before him as Assistant
Secretary. The President, will probably
this week tender Mr. Umar the place on the
Supreme, Bench vacated by Judge Woods’
death. Secretary Lamar will accept. The
President will then consider the question of
Secretary Lamar's successor.
GARRETT EXCITED.
Ho Is Afraid Gould Will Capture the
Whole of Maryland.
Baltimore, Oct. 23. —Robert Garrett and
party started this morning on their trip to
the Pacific coast and Mexico. They go
through to Chicago without a stop. Just
liefore the train started, (Sergeant at Arms
Johnson, of the Philadelphia Common Coun
cil, had a few words of conversation
with Mr. Garrett, and those on the
platform were gi-eatly surprised
to hear the ex-Prosident of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, say in a low voice: “The
thieves, they stole my telegraph ” He was
much excited, and his friends hurried him
into the car, but just as the start was made
he called out to a friend: “Don’t let Jay
Gould capture Maryland before I get back.”
It is not known wlien Mr. Garrett will re
turn. _
A GALE ON LAKE HURON.
Fears That Shipping in Transit Will
Suffer Disaster.
Detroit, Oct. 23.—A furious gale, ac
companied by snow and rain, has beeu rag
ing on the lakes since morning, and it is
feared that the loss to shipping will be
heavy. A special to the Free Frees, from
Cheboygan, says: “A northwest
gaie, accompanied by a blinding
snow storm, has been sweeping over
Dike Huron and the straits since
daylight. The ground is covered with
snow, and if the storm continues until
morning the snow will be several inches
deep. It is feared that shipping in transit,
on account of the blinding snow, will
suffer disaster. It is the worst storm of the
season.” _
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Eighteenth Annual Session of the
Methodist National Committee.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 33.— The eighteenth
annual meeting of the National Comruitteeof
the Wonan’s Foreign Mission Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church has been in ses
sion here for three days. There are twenty
seven delegates present, representing the
nine districts into which the United States
are divided. The reports of the officers
show the society to l>e in a flourishing con
dition. The collections for the past year
amounted to $ 11)0,000, an increase of $23,000
over the previous year. The Convention
will remain in session during the whole of
this week.
Mr. Davis Starts.
Macon, Ga., Oct 23. —Mr. Northen,
President of the State Fair at Macon re
ceived the following dispatch this morning:
Mississippi City, Oct. 22, 1887. I leave
to-morrow night for Macon. I shall not be
able to goto Athens; my medical adviser
pronounces it injudiciously venturesome
for mo to do so. Jefferson Davis.
I PRICE JIIO \ YEAR I
1 .6 CEATB A COPY, f
A REVOLT IX THE RANKS.
DISSENTING KNIGHTS OF LABOR
ISSUE A CIRCULAR.
Thirty-five Delegates, Representing
Fifteen States in the Minneapolis
Convention, Meet at Chicago and De
termine to Bring About a Reorgani
zation of the Order.
Chicaoo, Oct. 23 —The dissenters from
the action taken at the Minneapolis conven
tion have declared open war with the Ex
ecutive Board of the Knights of Labor, and
have issued their declaration of independ
ence. On returning from the oonventicu
about thirty-five delegates, representing
fifteen States, stopjied in Chicago, and
determined to bring about a reorgan
ization of the order. They elected a pro
visional committee of five members, o{
which Charles F. Seib was made Secretary.
A long communication, which was drafted
at Secretary Seib’s office to-day, will lie
forwurded to-morrow in circular form to
the Knights of Lalior ail over the country.
Following is the communication:
Headquarters Provisional ( 'omsiittcf, i
Chicago, Oct. 28, issr. t
Circular No. 1;
To the Rank and File of the Order of the
Knight of Uibor:
Indignant at tlia usurpation of power ami
gross violet ioa of the laws of our order by (hos t
high in authority, disgusted with those who-.*
loyalty to the present ring has been gained lor
the pickings they receive as a reward for their
services, iuceuse.il at the fawning sycophant*
who crawl on their knees in slavish submission
to tho most corrupt, most hypocritical, ir.nsb
autocratic and tyrannical ring that has ever
controlled any labor organization, we therefore
affirm the motto of our order, that when bid
men combine, good must associate, else
they will fall one by one, an
impitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
We assert that the hour has come when, a*
honest men and women, we declare oursetve*
Independent of those who have abused the ion
fidonet' reposed in them by our order Our duty
to working men and women demands lh it w*
at once reorganize the order of the Knights of
father on a basis which will secure autonomy of
trades anil sovereignty of district* in all per
taining to their trade and local affairs, and pre
vent. it from being used in the future as a ma
chine to fill the coffers of designing and un
scrupulous men, as It Is by those now in power.
THE REASONS ALLEGED.
The circular t hen recites the reasons which
have compelled this serious action,"' and
which are that the general officers have or
ganized a conspiracy to enable them to hold
on to the salaried ofßces, which they use
for selfish purposes- that they have misap
propriated money of the order to pay fa
vored persons, general lecturers, general or
ganizers, etc., extravagant sums for useless
services; that the district and local assem
blies known to be hostile to the plans of
the conspirators have been suspended or ex
pelled; that tho records of the general
office have been fixed or doctored to admiC
or rule out, as the case might be General
Assembly representatives; that extravagant
hotel bills have l>een contracted; that funds
of the order have been donated and loaned
to officers and their families; that the con
stitution lias been altered in an illegal man
ner; that it has been tampered with and
measures inimical to tne interests of
the order at large have been
railroaded into what is called law; that war
has l>een waged by the administration ring
against trades unions and trades districts;
that the motto of the ring has lieen “Down
with trades districts, exterminate trades
unions;” this in spite of our obligation tn
extend a helping band to all branches of
honorable toil, and that finally as a result
of this blundering, w ity washy, incom
petent and stupidly arbitrary policy, tlio
membership of tho order has decreased
217,924 members in one year. Tbe
circular then requests all local and district]
assemblies in act rd with tho above declara
tion or desirous of information to please ad
dress Charles F. Seib, Secretary of the Pro
visional Committee.
CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR.
The Fight fop the Nomination a Tri*
angular One- Naming of the Demo*
cratic Candidate)*.
Charleston, Oct. S3.—The crop of
candidates for Mayor is growing finely.
The race for tho Mayoralty seem*
to have narrowed down to a trian
gular fight between Capt. George D.
Bryan, Alderman E. P. Rwoegan and Al
derrnan A. XV. Eckel, with tho fir*t named
far in the load, and with the possibility of a
<lark horse, who has not yet been named.
The dark horse, however, will not material
ize unless thero should be a deadlock in tb
convention, of which there are no indica
tions at this time.
Alderman Eckel is the representative of
the German element and has this al vantage,
that he will poll the, solid vote of the Ger
man population of tho city. The Germans,
as is their custom the world over, always
stick close together. But they have thia
feature against thorn: Many of them are
shopkeepers who don’t take enough interest
in polities to neglect their business in order
to'vote. C'npt. F. VV. Wage ler, the mer
chant prince of East Bay, could briug out a
very strong German vote—say about 500
if he should take up the cudgels for Dr.
Eckel, but ('apt. Wagoner has not yet taken
up the cudgels. He is at present pretty
well wrapped up in the Gala Week prepara
tions.
Alderman Rweegan lias served as Aider
man for many years as a representative
Irishman, but Alderman Rweegan nor any
body else cannot unite the Irish vote. Tha
Irish-American voters of the city are strou||
enough to exercise a very itent influence
In any election held here, but they are not
clannish. It is probab'le that in a push Capt.
Bryan would poll hs many Irish votes aa
Alderman Rweegan. Tho purely native
vote here has comparatively small strength
in conventions, principally because of its
indifference to political matters. Still there
are numbers or leading citizens who take
part in the campaign and whose influence
amounts to a good deal even in a convention
of politicians.
Altogether tho coming election promisee
to be exciting, exhilarating and interesting.
COTTON FIRES.
Charleston is congratulating herself on
the Immunity she has enjoyed thus far from
cctto 1 fires. Charleston's escape has been
pt.en mienul. Rince the opening of the cot
ton season there have been over a dozen cot
ton fires, but it has always occurred that
the circumstances were favorable to prevent
serious results. On one occasion a bale of
cotton caught fire at tho very moment it
was about being lowered into the hold of an
ocean tramp which had almost completed
its cargo. Had the flames broken out
twenty seconds later the whole of the ship's
cargo would have had to be ueluged. As it was
the burning bale was dumped overboard,and
a disaster averted. On another occasion a
fil e started in u warehoee in which there
were rearly 1,000 hales. By luck and good
management only forty bales were
damaged. The only severe fire thus far
was thut on the steamship Bothal. in thia
case the match had get in the hoid before it
exploded,and about !NX) bales wsro damaged.
Frost in Floriua.
Newnansville, Fla., Oct. 41.—We had
a light frost here yesterday morning, and
beaus were killed.