The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, October 24, 1887, Image 1

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

i ESTABLISHED I*so. ) \ ,1. ||. EhTILL, Editor and Proprietor. | 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.