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IRISH POLICE USE CLUBS.
many people hurt in a crowd
AT LIMERICK.
They Were Holding a Demonstration
in Honor of the Manchester Martyrs
—A Statue Was to Have Been Un
veiled—Gladstone Indorses Wilfrid
Blunt’s Course.
Limerick, Nov. 27.—An attempt made
in this city to-day to hold a demonstration
in honor of the Manchester martyrs, Allen,
Larkin and O’Brien, was suppressed by the
police. The unveiling of a statue to com
memorate the hanging of the men was set
down as a portion of the programme. Fear
ing interference with the statue guards sur
rounded it during the night. Mr.
Mclnerney, of New York, who had
been chosen to preside at the
demonstration, was on the ground and
addressed the people. The police then drew
their batons, and made an onslaught upon
the crowd. This was answered by stone
throwing. The crowd was dispersed. Sub
sequently, wherever groups were found as
sembling the police charged upon them and
seized their flags. In the encounters a num
ber of people were hurt. Troops now oc
cupy the thoroughfares. The Mayor and
other municipal officers are actively engaged
in quieting the people.
A ROW AT NIGHT.
A serious disturbance occurred to-night.
A crowd stoned and hooted the police who
tried to clear the streets with batons and
bayonets, but met with great resistance.
Many civilians and constables were injured.
The wounded men were conveyed to the
hospital. The police acted in a reckless
manner. The windows of the hotels on the
streets where the trouble occurred were
filled with on-lookers. Many of these per
sons taunted the police, who replied by
throwing stalls and stones, breaking a large
number of windows. Thirty persons had
their wounds dressed at the hospital. At 11
o'clock to-night the town was quiet.
A MEETING AT QUEENSTOWN.
Dublin, Nov. 27.—The largest National
ist meeting ever held in Queenstown took
place to day. Many English and Irish mem
bers of Parliament were present. Mr. Lone,
member of Parliament for Cork, in a speech
said that under no circumstances would
they advise the non-payment of rent, and
that any men giving such advice was no
Iriends of Ireland. Resolutions protesting
against the treatment of Mr. O’Brien were
adopted.
Two news venders of Killarney have been
summoned to answer for selling United
Ireland, Mr. O’Brien's paper.
The meeting announced to take place at
Macroom to-day to celebrate the twentieth
anniversary of the execution of the Man
chester martyrs was proclaimed by the
government, but the people assembled at
Kilmurry, five miles distant, and carried
out their intention. A collision with the
police resulted, and many persons were
clubbed.
GLADSTONE INDORSES BLUNT.
London, Nov. 27.—Mr. Gladstone, re
plying to an invitation to preside at a ban
quet to be given to Wilfrid Blunt by the
London members of the Irish National
League, says that he is under strict orders
from his medical advisor not to attend any
meetings unless there is special necessity
for doing so. He says that he highly ap
preciates Mr. Blunt’s public spirit and can
not see how his conduct in Ireland placed
him in conflict with the law.
Charles Carmichael Laeaita, member of
of Parliament for Dundee, Liberal and
Home Ruler, lias resigned. He says he
wishes to retire from Parliament because
he cannot steadily support Mr. Gladstone,
who, he said, by his immoderate attitude hin
ders the granting of home rule to Ireland.
THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICA.
St. Louis, Nov. 27.—The National Ex
ecutive Committee of the laish National
league of America held a meeting yester
day, and the question of the next national
convention was put into the hands of acom
mitteeot'seven, with President Fitzgeraldjas
chairman. Resolutions were adopted which
appeal to the liberty-loving people of En
gland, Scotland and Wales, and also to the
people of Irish birth and extraction in
America, for moral and material aid in tie
lialf of Ireland in her struggle for homo rule.
They tender sympathy to all now suffering
in prison for their devotion to the cause of
Irish liberty: denounce the coercive meas
ures of the British government; thank the
people for their support, and eulogize Mr.
! Gladstone.
GREVY’S RESIGNATION.
His Message Will be Sent to the
Chambers Thursday.
Paris, Nov. 27. —M. Grevy to-day for
mally informed M. Rouvier of his resolu
tion to resign the Presidency, and said he
would send a message to the Senate and
Chamber of Deputies on Thursday next. M.
Rouvier proceeded at once to the residence
of M. Floquet to announce the resignation
of the President. Motions to adjourn until
Thursday will be made in both houses to
morrow.
M. Rouvier visited President Grevy again
this evening, and at 10 o'clock to-night
bad a conference with the other members of
the Cabinet. Anatole de la Forge has
formally refused to be a candidate for the
Prasideucy. He advocates a revision of the
eonstitution and the abolition of the Senate
und Presidency. The Revolutionists held
meetings today, and speeches were made
denouncing President Grevy and the sup
porters of M. Ferry.
Col. Webb, an American resident of
Paris, has refused, in consequence of the re
cent scandals, to accept the Cross of the
Bpanish Order of Isabella the Catholic, for
which he had promised to pay S7OO. A man
who obtained the decoration thereupon sued
the Colonel for the amount named. The
case came up for trial yesterday, and was
promptly dismissed, the court holdirmthat
the contract was an immoral one.
M. Clemenceau and Gen. Boulanger have
become reconciled. They breakfasted to
gether to-day.
M. Lorontz exhibited himself in a cafe in
Rue Gay Lussac, to-day. Mme. Limouzin
gave a reception to the students. They
listened to her for some time, and then, be
coming disgusted at her adverse remarks on
Gen. Boulanger, they preceded to smash
glasses, tables, windows, etc. The women
of the cafe were rescued by the police and
put into a cab, in which they wore driven
away. A mob of students followed and
smashed the cab, and ill treated Mine. Li
mousin.
GREVY DESTROYED TWO LETTERS.
LondoNj Nov. 27.—The Post's correspond
ent at Paris asserts that the following is the
true Rtory of the forged Wilson letters: “All
the documents seized in Mme. Limousin's
bouse were shown to President Grevy, who
destroyed the two words ‘Grevy et inoi.’
When the Parquet discovered the abstrac
tion a scene occurred nt the Elysees palace,
and two letters were written to remedy the
mischief.”
It is announced that Baron Bellicre is
Koing to Paris to testify against M. Wilson.
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GERMANY’S EMPEROR.
A Speech to the President and Vice
Presidents of the Reichstag.
Berlin, Nov. 27. —Emperor William to
day received the President and Vice Presi
dents of the Reichstag, who came to express
the sympathy of that body with the Crown
Prince. The Emperor, replying to their
address, said the ailment of the Crown
Prince was a severe visitation, especially in
view of his high position and his great abili
ties for continuing and directing the policy
of Austria and Germany in a manner
which would have enabled the Emperor ta
close his eyes in peace. What Providence
might further decree, none could tell, but
it was the duty of all to bow to God's in
scrutable will. The universal sympathy
which had been shown in such a remarka
ble degree, was a great consolation. He
regretted that he was unable to open the
Reichstag in person. He would have liked
himself to have told the world he desired
peace, although Germany was perfectly pre
pared to meet attacks. He next alluded to
tho satisfactory state of the country’s finan
ces, which, he said, was also manifest in the
individual Slates of the Empire. In tho
course of a few words on the general polit
ical situation, he expressed regret at the
proposed resignation of M. Grevy.
Referring to the previous Reichstag’s re
jection of till military bill, the Emperor
said that the condition of Europe was such
that he had only asged an indispensable in
crease of tho army. The uncertain state of
affairs in France now especially excited ap
prehension. M. Grevy had shown great
activity and in the truest sense had displayed
conservatism in support of the republic.
FERDINAND’S MOTHER.
Sofia Gives Her and the Prince a Warm
Welcome.
Sofia, Nov. 27.—Princess Clementine,
accompanied by her son, Prince Ferdinand,
arrived here to-day. On their entrance
into the city they were welcomed by the
municipal authorities. Troops lined tho
route to the palace and flags were displayed
on buildings on the various streets. Arriv
ing at the palace they were received by the
Cabinet Ministers and members of the
Sobranje. Prince Ferdinand subsequently
appeared on the balcony and thanked the
people for the warm reception accorded to
Princess Clementine and himself.
Tippoo Tib’s Failure.
London, Nov. 27. —The last mail advices
received from the Upper Congo says that
Tippoo Tibb had not yet sent the promised
carriers to Stanley’s rearguard at Yambuya
to convey stores to Emin Bey, and that
Stanley had proceeded without them. Many
men had died of starvation.
Maj. Bartlett, in a letter“dated Aug. 17,
gives reassurances that Stanley and Si the
members of his party wore well up to July
8. The Major's camp was revictualed anil
he was on good terms with the natives. A
party of marauding Arabs had arrived in
the vicinity. He was not certain whether or
not they were the carriers whom Tippoo Tib
had promised to send. He was ready to fol
low Stanley as soon as the carriers arrived.
China Negotiates a Loan.
Shanghai, Nov. 27.—1 tis stated that the
Chinese government has arranged for a
loan of 6,000,000 taels at 5% per cent, for
twenty years with' the Hong Kong and
Shanghai Bank.
It is probable that Nankin will be opened
as a treaty port.
All Quiet at London.
London, Nov, 27.—London was quiet to
day. There was no attempt to hold any
meetings at Trafalgar square. A small
number of persons assembled in Hyde park,
but good order was. preserved.
WHOLESALE BLOODSHED.
Three Lives Lost in an Attempt to Ar
rest a Horse Thief.
Fort Smith, Ark., Nov. 27.—Another
bloody tragedy occurred in the Indian Ter
ritory to-day. Deputy Marshal Frank
Dalton and J. R. Cole passed the river into
the Cherokee Nation, and taking positions
on two sides of the tent of a horse thief and
whisky peddler named Smith, called to him
to come out. He rushed out with a revolver
and shot Dalton, whose pistol enught
at the half cock. Cole then shot Smith
dead but tripped and fell when be was
in turn shot through the breast by a man
named Dixon, who with his wife and child
had come out of the tent. Cole returned
the fire, shooting Dixon in the shoulder, and
then sought shelter. In the fight that then
ensued Dixonls wife was accidentally killed.
Cole escaped. Dalton, who was too disabled
to move, was killed in spite of his piteous
appeals by one Lowry. Dixon was cap
tured and is in jail. Lowry is still at large.
A HALL BLOWN DOWN.
Five Colored People Killed Outright
and Twenty Injured.
Galveston, Nov. 27.—A special from
Mineola, Tex., says: “Late last night a
heavy windstorm visited this town, blowing
down a hall during the progress of a dance
held by colored people. Five persons were
killed, and about twenty injured. The
building, a large two story frame
is a total wreck. About seventy
persons were in tho hall when it
collapsed. Six of the injured have arms or
logs broken. The killed are Thomas Harde
man, Jack Wilson, Reuben Garrett, Fannie
Benson and Rose Benson. The store rooms
below the dance hall were occupied by R.
P. Glenn & Cos., L. A. Denson and N. S.
Kodak son, Whose aggregate loss on groceries
and general merchandise exceeds $10,000.”
Levelled by the Flames.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 27.—The
main building of Nelson, Matten & Co.’s
furniture factory was burned this morning.
Thu loss is $200,000. The insurance is $l5O, ■
000. Five hundred men are thrown out of
employment.
A TANNERY BURNED.
Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 27. —A large three
story brick tannery at Acmetoua, Pa., was
destroyed by fire tiiis morning. The loss is
$75,000, and the insurance $50,000. One
hundred men are thrown out of employ
ment.
Given a Fight On a Foul.
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 87.—Willie
Clark and Charlie McCarthy, pugilists,
who recently defeated Jim Conners of New
York, fought sixteen rounds with skin
gloves in a club house on the Delaware last
night Clark was given the fight on a foul
in the sixteenth round.
Suicide at Jacksonville.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 27.—A. H.
Peck. 25 years old, an operator in the Florida
Railway and Navigation Company’s office,
died in this city to-day from taking mor
phine and laudanum, lb is conceded to lie a
case of self-destruction. No reason is
assigned for the rash act.
A Negro Bhoots Hie Wife.
Boston, Ga., Nov. 27.—Daniel Hagan, a
negro, living near here, shot and seriously
wounded his wife last night on account, cif
domestic troubles. He is at large.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1887.
THIRSTING IN A CAVERN.
DAVID’S RETREAT TO THE CAVE
OP ADULLAM.
Dash of Three Brave Officers to the
Well by the Gate of Bethlehem—Rev.
Talmage Draws Water from the
Spiritual Well to Slake the Thirst of
His Hearers.
Brooklyn', Nov. 27. —This morning at
tho Tabernacle, after explaining appropri
ate passages of Scripture, the Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, D. D., gave out the follow
ing hymn, that was sung by the congrega
tion. with great heartiness:
“Buried in sorrow and in sin
At hell’s dark door we lay;
But we arise by grace Divine,
To see a glorious day."
The subject of tho sermon was “Thirst in
a Cavern,” ami tho text: “Oh that one
would give me drink of tho water of the
well of Bethlehem, which is by tho gate!”
11. Samuel xxiii, 15.
War, always distressing, is especially ruin
ous in harvest time. When the crops are
all ready for the sickle, to have them trod
den down by cavalry horses and heavy sup
ply trains gullying the fields, is enough to
make any man’s heartsick. When the last
great war broke out in Europe, and France
and Germany were coming into horrid col
lision, I rode across their golden harvests,
and saw the tents pitched, and the trenches
dug in the very midst of the ripe fields, the
long scythe of battle sharpening to mow
down harvests of men in great winrows of
the dead. It was at this season of harvest
that the Philistines came down upon Beth
lehem. Hark to the clamor of their voices,
tho neighing of their chargers, the blare of
their trumpets, and the clash of their
shields!
Let David and men fall back !
The Lord’s host sometimes loses the
day. But David knew where to hide.
Ho had been brought up in that country.
Boys are inquisitive, and they know all
about the region where they were born and
brought up. If you should go back to the
old homestead you could, with your eyes
shut, find your way to the meadow, or the
orchard, or the hill back of the house, with
which you were familiar thirty or forty
years ago. So David knew the cave of
Adullam. Pernaps in his boyhood days he
had played “hide-and-seek” with his com
rades ail a! kiut the old cave, and though
others might not have known it, David did.
Travelers sav there is only one way of get
ting into that cave, and that is by
a very narrow path; but David
was stout and steady-headed and
steady-nerved, and so, with his three
brave staff-officers, he goes along
that path, finds his way into the cave, sits
down, looks around at the roof and the dark
passages of the mountain, feels very weary
with the forced march; and water he must
have, or die. Ido not know but there may
have been drops trickling down the side of
the cavern, or that there may have been
some water in the goat-skin slung to his
girdle; but that was not what he wanted.
He wanted a deep, full, cold drink, such as
a man gets only out of an old well with
moss-covered bucket. David remembered
that very near that cave of Adullam there
was such a well as that, a well to which he
used to go in boyhood—the well of Bethle
hem; and he almost imagines that he can
hear the liquid plash of that well, and his
parched tongue moves through his hot lips
as he says: “Oh, that one would give me
drink of the water of the well of Bethle
hem, which is by the gate!”
It was no sooner said than done: The
three brave staff officers lxmnd to their feet
and start. Brave soldiers will take even a
hint from their commander. But between
them and the well lay the host of the Phil
istines; and what could three men do with a
great army? Yet, where there is a will
there is a way, and with their swords slash
ing this way and that, they make their path
to the well. While the Philistines are
amazed at the seeming foolhardiness of these
three men, and cannot make up their minds
exactly what it moans, the three men have
come to the well. They drop the bucket.
They bring up the water. They pour it in
the pail, and then start for the cave. “Stop
them!” cry tho Philistines. “Clip them
witn your swords! Stab them with your
spears! Stop those three men!” Too late!
They have got around the hill. The hot
rocks are splashed with the overflowing
water from the vessel ns it is carried up the
cliffs. The throe me 1 go a long the dangerous
path, and with cheeks flushed with the ex
citement, and all out of breath in their
haste, they fling their swords red with the
skirmish, to the side of the cave, and cry
out to David, “There, captain of the host, is
what you wanted, a drink of the well of
Bethlehem which is by the gate.”
A text is of no use to me unless I can find
Christ in it, and unless I can bring a gospel
out of. these words that will arouse and
comfort and bless, I shall wish I had never
seen them; for your time would lie wasted,
and against my soul the dark record would
be made that this day I stood before a great
audience of sinning, suffering and flying
men and told them of no rescue. By tho
cross of the Hon of God, by the throne of
tho eternal judgment, that shall not be!
May the Lord Jesus help mo to tell you the
truth to-fiay!
You know the carrier pigeons have some
times letters tied under the wing, and they
fly hundreds of miles —one hundred miles in
an hour—carrying a message. Ho I have
thought I would like to have it now. Oh,
Heavenly Dove! bring under thy wing to
day to my soul, and to the souls of this peo
ple, some messago of light, and love, and
peace!
It is not an unusual thing to see people
gather around a well in summer time. The
husbandman puts down his cradle at the
well curb. The builder puts down his
trowel. The traveler puts down his pack.
Then one draws the water for all the rest,
himself taking the very last. The cup is
passed around, and the fires of thirst are put
out; the traveler starts on his journey, and
the workman takes up his burden.
My friends, we come to-day around the
fospol well. We put down our pack of
unions and our implements of toll. Ono
man must draw the water for those who
have gathered around the well. I will try
and draw the water to-day; and if, after!
have poured out from this living fountain
for your soul, I just taste of it myself, you
will not begrudge me a “drink from the
water of the well of Bethlehem, which is
by the gate.”
This gospel well, like the well spoken of
in the text, is a well of Bethlehem. David
had known hundreds of wells of water, but
ho wanted to drink from that particular
one, and he thought nothing could slake his
thirst like that. And unless your soul and
mine can get access to the fountain open
for sin and uncloanncss, we must die. That
fountain is the well of Bethlehem. It was
dug in the night. It was dug by the light
of a lantern—the star that hung down over
the manger. It was dug not at the
gate of Catsar’s palaces, not in the
park of a Jerusalem bargain
maker. It wits dug in a barn. The cam
els lifted their weary heads to listen as the
work went on. The shepherds, unable to
sleep, because the heavens were filled with
bands of music, came down to see the open
ing of the well. The angels of (Jo(l, at the
first gush of the living water, dipped their
chaJices of joy into it. and drank to the
health of earth and heaven, os they cried,
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace.” Sometimes in our modern barns
the water is brought through the pipes of
the city to the very nostrils of the horses or
cattle; but this well in the Bethlehem barn
was not so much for the beasts that perish
ns for our race thirst-smitten, desert-trav
eled and siuioon-struck. Oh, my soul, weary
with sin, stoop and drink to-day out of that
Bethlehem well!
“As the heart panteth after the water
brook, so my soul panteth after Thee, O
God.” You would get a better understand
ing of this amidst the Adlrondaeks in sum
mer-time. Here comes a swift-footed fleer.
The hounds are close on the track; it has
leaped chasms and sealed cliffs; ii is fagged
out; its eve* are rollbig in death; its tongue
is lolling from its foaming mouth. Faster
the deer, faster the dogs, until it plunges
into Sohroon lako and the hounds can follow
it no farther, and it puts down its head and
mouth until the nostril is clean submerged
in the cool wave, and I understand it: “As
the heart panteth for the water-brook, so
panteth my soul after Thee, O God.” Oh,
bring me water from that well! Little
child, who has learned of Jesus in the Sab
bath school, bring me some of the living
water. Old man, who fifty years ago didst
fi id the well, bring me some of that water.
Stranger in a strange land, who used to
hoar sung amidst the highlands of Scotland,
to the tune of “Bonnie Doon,” “The Star,
the Star of Bethlehem,” bring me some of
that, water. Whosoever drinketb of that
water shall never thiist. “Oh, that one
would give me drink of the water of the
well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate.”
Again, this gospel well, like the one
spoken of in the text, is a captured well.
David remembered the time when that good'
water of Bethlehem was in the possession of
his ancestors. His father drank there. His
mother drank there. He remembered how
the water tasted when he was a boy, and
came up there from play. We never forgot
the old well we used to drink out of when
we were boys or girls. There was some
thing in it that blessed the lip, and refresh
ed the brow better than any thing we have
fonnd since, As we think of that
dear old well, the memories of
the past flow into each other like crys
talline drops, sun-glinted, and all the
more as we remember that the hands that
used to lay bold the rope, and the hearts
that beat against the well curb are still
now. Wo never get over these remin
iseenses. George P. Morris, the great song
writer of this country, once said to me that
his song, “Woodman Spare that Tree,” was
sung in a great concert hall, and the
memories of early life were so wrought
upon the audience by that song that, after
the singing was done, an aged man aroso in
the itudieuce, overwhelmed with emotion,
and said, “Sir, will you please to tell me
whether the woodman really spared the
tree?” Wo never forget the tree under which
we played. We never forget the fountain
at which we drank. Alas for the man who
has no early memories.
David thought of that well, thnt boyhood
well, and he wanted a drink of it, but he
remembered that the Philistines bad cap
tured it. When those three men trio<l to
come up to the well in behalf of David,
they saw swords gloaming around about it.
And this is true of this gospel well. The
Philistines have at times captured it. When
we come to take a full, old-fashioned drink
of pardon and comfort, do not their swords
of indignation and sarcasm flash? Why,
tho skeptics tell us that we cannot come to
that fountain 1 They say the water is not
fit to drink anyhow. “If you are really
thirsty now there is the well of philosophy,
there is the well of art. there is the well of
science.” They try to substitute, instead of
our boyhood faith, a modern mixture.
They say a great many beautiful things
about the soul, and they try to feed our
immoral hunger on rose leaves, and mix a
mint-julep of worldly stimulants, when
nothing will satisfy us but “a drink of the
water of the well of Bethlehem, which is at
the gate.” They try to starve us on husks,
when the Father’s banquet is ready, anti
the best ring is taken from tho casket, and
the sweetest harp is struck for tho music,
and the swiftest foot is already lifted for
the dance. They patronize heaven and
abolish hell, and try to measure eternity
with their hour-glass, and the
throne of the great God with
their yard-stick! I abhor it. I tell
vou tho old Gospel well is a captured well.
I pray God that there may bo somewhere
in the elect host three anointed men, with
courage enough to go forth in the strength
of the omnipotent God, with the glittering
swords of truth, to hew the way back again
to that old well. I think the tide is turn
ing, and that the old Gospel is to take its
place again in the family, and in the uni
versity, and in the legislative hall. Mon
have tried worldly philosophies, and have
found out that they do not give any com
fort, and that they drop an arctic midnight
unon the death-pillow. They fail when
there Is a dead chill in the house; and when
the soul cumes to leap into the fathomless
ocean of eternity, they give to the man not
so much as a broken spar to cling to. De
pend upon it, that well will come into our
possession again, though it has
been captured. If there be not
three anointed men in the Lord’s
host with enough consecration to do the
work, then the swords will leap from Jeho
vah’s buckler, and the eternal Three will de
scend —God the Father, God the Son, God
the Holy Ghost —conquering for our dying
race the way hack again to “tho water of
the well of Bethlehem, which is by the
gate.” “If God be for us, who can be
against us?” “If God spared not His own
Son, but freely gave Him up for us all, how
shall He not with Him also freely give usall
tilings?” “For I am'persauded that neither
height nor depth, nor angels, nor principali
ties, nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come,” shall take from us, into
final captivity, the Gospel of my blessed
Ixird Jesus Christ.
Again, the gospel well, like the one spoken
of in my text, is a well at the gate. The
traveler stops the camel to-day, and gets
down and dins out of the valley of the East,
some very beautiful, clear, bright water,
and that is out of the very well that David
longed for. Do you know that that well
was at the gate, so that nobody could go
into Bethlehem without going right past it ?
And so it is with this gospel well—it is at
the gate. It is, in the first place, at the gate
of purification. We cannot wash away our
sins unless with that water. I take the re
sponsibility of saying that there is no man,
woman, or child in this house to-day that
has escaped sinful defilement. Do you say
it is outrageous and ungallant for me to
make such a charge ? Do you say. “I have
never stolen —I have never blasphemed—l
have never coirimittid unchastity—l have
never lieen guilty of murder J” I reply,
you have committed a sin worse than blas
phemy, worse than unchastity,
worse than theft, worse than mur
der. We have all committed it. We
have by cur sin re crucified the Lord, and
that is deicide. Anil if there bo any who
dare to plead “not guilty” to the indictment,
then the hosts of heaven will be impaneled
as a jury to render a unanimous verdict
against us; guilty one, guilty all. With
w hat a slashing stroke that one passage cuts
us away from all pretensions: “There is
none that doeth good—uo, not one.” “Oh,”
says someone, “all we want, all the race
wants, is development." Now I want to tell
you that the race develops without the Gos-
El into a Sodom, a Five Points, a Great
It Lake City. It always develops down
ward. and never upward, except as tho
grace of God lays hold of it. What, then,
is to become of our soul without
Christ? Banishment. Disaster. But I
bless my Lord Jesus Christ, that there is a
well at the gate of purification. For great
sin, great, pardon. -For eighty years of
transgression, an eternity of forgiveness.
For crime deep as hell, an atonement high
as heaven; that where sin abounded, so grace
may much more abound; that as sin reigned
unto deuth, even so may grace reign through
righteousness nuto eternal life by .Tosus
Christ our tord. Angel of the Covenant,
dip thy wing in this living fountain to-day,
and wave it over this solemn assemblage,
that our souls may be washed in “the water
of the well of Bethlehem, w hich is by the
gate.”
Further, I remark that this well of the
Gospel is at the gate of comfort. Do you
know where David was when ho uttered the
words of the text? He was irt fho cave of
Adullam. That is where some of you are
now. Has the world always gone smoothly
with you? Has it never pursued you with
slander? Is your health always good? Have
your fortunes never perished? Are your
children ail alive ana well? Is there one
dead lamb in the fold? Are you ignorant of
the way to the cemetery? Have you ever
heard the bell toll when it seemed as if ev
ory stroke of the iron clapper beat your
heart? Are the skies as bright when you
look into them as they used to be when
other eyes, now closed, used to look into
them? Is there some trunk or drawer in
your house that you go to only on anni
versary days, when there comes beat
ing against your soul the surf of a great
ocean of agony? It is the cave of
Adullam! The cave of Adullam 1 Is there
some David here whose fatherly heart way
ward Absalom has broken? Is there some
Abraham bore who is lonely because Sarah
is dead in the family-plot of Machpelah*
After thirty or forty years of companion
ship, how hni-d it was for them to part?
Why not have two seats in the Lord’s
chariot, so that both the old folks might
have gone up at once? My aged mother,
in her last moment, said to my father,
“Father, wouldn’t it lie nice if wo could
both go together?" No, no, no. We must
part. And there are wounded hearts here
to-day. The world cannot comfort you.
What can it bring you? Nothing. Noth
ing. The salvo they try to put on your
wounds will not stick. They cannot, with
their bungling surgery, mend the broken
bones.
Zoppar the Naamathite, and Bildad the
Shuhite, and Eliphuz the Tonmuite, come in,
and talk, and talk, ami talk, but miserable
comforters are they all. They cannot pour
light into the cave of Adullam. They can
not bring a single draught of water from
“the well of Bethlehem, which is by the
gate.” But glory be to Jesus Christ, there
is comfort at the’gate! There is life in the
well at the gate. If you give me time I
will draw up a promise for every man,
woman and cliild in this houso. Ay, I will
do it in two minutes. I will lay hold the
rope of the old well. What is your trouble?
“Oh,” you say, “lainsosiok.so weary of life
—ailments after ailments.” I will draw ud a
promise: “The inhabitants shall never say
‘I am sick.’” What is your trouble? “Oh,
it is loss of friends—bereavement,” you say.
I will draw you up a promise, fresh and
cool, out of the well: “I am the resurrection
and the life; he that believeth In me, though
he were dead, yet shad he live.” What
is your trouble? You say it is the
infirmities of old ago. I will draw you up a
promise: “Down to old age I am with
then; to hoary hairs will I carry thee.”
What is your trouble? “Oh,” you say, “I
have a widowed soul, and my children cry
for bread.” I bring up this promisor “Leave
thy fatherless children. I will preserve
them alive, and let thy widows trust in Me.”
I break through the armed ranks of your
sorrows to-day and bring to your parched
lips “a drink of the water of the well of
Bethlehem, which is by the gate.”
Again, the Gospel well is at the gate of
heaven. I have not heal'd yet one single in
telligent account of the future world from
any body who does not believe in the Bible.
They throw such a fog about the subject
that Ido not want to go to the skeptic’s
heaven, to the transcendentalist’s heaven,
to the worldly philosopher’s heaven. I
would not exchange the jioorest room in
your house for the finest heaven tiiat Hux
ley, .Stuart Mill, or Darwin, ever dreamed
of. Their heaven has no Christ in it; and a
heaven without Christ, though you could
sweep the whole universe into it, would be a
hell! Oh, they tell us there are no songs
there; there are no coronations in heaven—
that is all imagination. They tell us we
will do there a I .out what wo do here, only
on a larger scale—geometrizo with clearer
intellect, and with alpenstock go clamber
ing up over the icebergs in an eternal vaca
tion. Rather than that. I turn to my Bible,
and I find John’s picture of that good land
—that heaven which was vour lullaby in
infancy —that heaven which our children in
the Sabbath-school will sing about this n£
ternoon —that heaven which lias a “well at
the gate.”
After you have been on a long journey,
and you come in, all bedusted and tired, to
your" home, the first thing you want is re
freshing ablution; and lam glad to know
that after we get through tho pilgrimage of
this world—the hard, dusty pilgrimage—wo
will find a well at the gate. In that one
wash away will go our sins and sorrows. I
do not care whether cherub or seraph, or my
own departed friends in that blessed land
place to my lips the cup, the touch of that
cup will to life, will to heaven I 1 was read
ing of how the ancients sought for the foun
tain of perpetual youth. They thought if
they could only find and drink out of that
well, the old would become young again,
the sick would to cured, and everybody
would have eternal juveneseence. Of course
they could not find it. Kureka! I have
found it! “the water of the well of Bethle
hem, which is by the gate.”
I think we ha 1 better make a bargain
with those who leave us, going out of this
world from time to time, as to where we
will meet them. Travelers parting appoint
a place of meeting. They say: “Wo will
meet at Rome, or we will meet at Stock
holm, or Vienna, or Jerusalem, or Bethle
hem.” Now, when wo come to stand by the
death-pillow of those who are leaving us
lor tlio far land, do not lot us weep as
though we would never see them again, but
let us, there standing, appoints place where
we will meet. Where shall it to? Shall it
to on the banks of the river? No. The
banks are too long. Khali it to in the tem
ple? No; no. There is such!a host there—
ten thousand times ten thousand. Where
shall we in<t our loved ones’ tot us make
an apisiintment to meet at the well oy the
gate. Oh heaven! Sweet heaven! Dear
heaven! Heaven, where our good friends
are! Heaven, where Jesus isl Heaven!
Heaven!
But while I stand here there comes a re
vulsion of feeling when I look into your
eyes and know there are souls here dying of
thirst, notwithstanding the well at the gate.
Between them and the well of heaven there
is a great army of sin; and though Christ is
ready to clear'a way to that well for them,
they will not have his love or intercession.
But lam glad to know that you may
come yet. -The well is here—the well of
heaven. Come; Ido not care how feeble
you are. tot me take hold of your arm,
and steady you up to the well-curb. “Ho,
every one that thirstetb, come.” I would
rather win one soul to Christ this morning
than wear the crown of the world’s do
ndnion. Do not let any man go away ami
eay I did not Invite him. Oh, if you could
only just look at my Lord once; if you |
could just see him full in the face: ay, if
you could only do as that woman did whom
I rend about at the beginning of the ser
vices—just come up to hind Him and
touch his feet —metninks you would live.
In Northern New Jersey, one winter, three
little children wandered off from home in a
snow storm. Night came on. Father and
mother said, “Where arc the children?”
They could not. to found. They started out
in haste, and the news ran to the neighbors,
and before morning it was said that there
were hundreds of men hunting the moun
tains for those three children, but found
them not. After a while a man imagined
there was a place that had not been looked
at, and lie wont and saw the three children.
He examined their bodies. He found that
the older boy hail taken off his coat and
wrapped it nround the younger one,
tile baby, and then taken off his
vest and put it around tho other
one: and there they all died, he probably
the first, for ho had no coat or vest. Oh, it
was a touching sceno when that was
brought to light! I was on the ground a
little while after, and it brought the whole
scene to my mind; and I thought to myself
of a more molting scone than that: it is that
Jesus, our elder brother, took off the robe of
His royalty, and laid aside the last garment
of earthly comfort, that He might wrap our
poor souls from tho blast. Oh, the height,
and the depth, anil tho length, and the
breadth of the lovo of Christ 1
CHARLESTON ITEM3.
The Interest in Local Politics—The
Bcheme for a Soldiers’ Home.
Charleston, Nov. 37. —Public interest
here is divided between the coming munici
pal election, the illness of Gen. W. N. Taft,
vt ho is about the solo surviving Republican
carpet-bagger left in tho State, and the
work of the Legislature, which met in
Columbia on Tuesday last. There has been
no change in the political situation during
the week.
TALK Or AN INDEPENDENT TICKET.
There has boon some talk of running an
Independent ticket by dissatisfied Demo
crats, with ex-Alderman E. F. Sweegan at
its head, uiul the newspapers have been in
dustriously engaged in running Mr. Kwee
gnn to earth. Mr. Sweegan, however, is an
astute politician, having, according to his
own statement, held public office of sonic
kind or other for thirty years or more, and
Mr. Sweegan declines to say whether he
will outer the field as an Independent or not.
Mr. Sweegan is rather of tho hull-dog spe
cies, and lie has been considerably “nagged"
of late. Mr. Sweegan has too great a regard
for public office to commit political liari
kari, but if the newspaper reporters keep
on “nagging” him it is just possible that
there will to an Independent ticket.
The illness of ex-Postmastor Taft has
rather demoralized the g. o. p. Taft is one
of the very few carpet-baggers left here
who came in with reconstruction. Most of
tho big guns have gone away or gone to the
dogs, and male ducks and drakes of their
riches. Taft remains, and until his illness,
prospered in spite of the loss of his office.
He was a sharp, shrewd Rhode Islander,
without education. In the twenty odd
years of his residence here, however, ho
picked up considerable education. He was
temperate in his habits, and was, in fact,
one of the last persons one would
suppose would to subject to insanity.
Koine years ago ho was shot at
by a man in the Charleston Hotel lobby, a
man with whose wife he was accused of hav
ing been too intimate. The toll inode a
scalp wound very slight, and caused no in
convenience at the time. Taft’s friends think
it possible that this might have caused a de
pression of the skull by means of a tumor,
and that this might be the cause of his in
sanity. He has been taken to the asylum
at Columbia. A good deal of sympathy is
felt for his wife and family. Ho married a
daughter of ex-Gov. F. I. Moses of this Slate.
Rhe was at, the time of her mai.-iage
to him the widow of ex-Kheriff C. C. Bowen,
a man who at one time was the most power
ful Radical politician in South Carolina.
Taft had a great many friends even among
his political opponents, and during bis ad
ministration or tho affairs of the jsjst office
was very popular with the business portion
of tho community because of his admirable
management of its affairs.
THE LEGISLATURE.
The General Assembly has done nothing as
yet of a revolutionary character. The cal
endars are flooded with bills and it is prob
able that the statute books will, by Christ
mas, have about two hundred more laws ir_-
gcrilxsl upon them. Among other subjects
that will be of interest is a proposition to
provide a support for disabled Con
federate soldiers and seamen. Several
bills have already been introduced,
one of winch was reported unfavorably yes
terday. This was a bill to provide for a
soldiers’ home, at a cost of $25,000 per an
num, the building and grounds to be fur
nished by the town or county in which the
home is to to located. The scheme is vision
ary and impracticable, and will not to
adopted. It is probable, though, that soma
provision in the nature of a pension will be
made.
ATLANTA’S ELECTION.
Thera is Not Much Probability of a
Contest.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 27.— There is little
probability of a contest over the election.
A few talk of it, but the body of the Pro
hibitionists are disposed to accept and abide
by the result. The Ordinary will foot up
tho total vote from tho official returns at 12
o'clock to-rnorrow, and unless notice of a
contest is given, will officially declare (to
results. The Ordinary informed the News
correspondent that, according to his inter
pretation of the law, tho declaration will at
once obliterate prohibition, Saloons will
open ns soon as the City Council fixes the
license. There is already talk of a high
license. It is proposed to call
a public meeting of conservative
citizens of both sides and discuss tho license
and restrictions on tho traffic with a view
of making recommendations to the Council
which will Insure the proper control of the
wbiskv question. The wholesale trade will
probably begin business at once, as it is only
necessary to get a county license, which can
to had without delay.
ROUGH ON LIBERIA.
Minister Taylor Says the Civilized Ne
groes Are Worse Than Savages.
Washington, Nov. 27.—Charles H. J.
Taylor, Minister of the United States to
Liberia, has tendered his resignation, to
take effect in January next. He is now in
this city on a leave of absence. One reason
for bis resignation, he said, was tho tlanger
ously unhealthy climate. He hud also been
disappointed in the character of the civilized
negroes sent over there. He said: “Instead
of a majority of the civilized negroes being
honest, sober, industrious and self-reliant, I
found a condition of things that diplomatic
reserve will not allow me to describe. The
native Africans are superior in every way
to the civilized negroes there and are
susceptible of the verv highest civilization.”
“The country,” he further said, "is a rich
one, abounding in grain, timber and
minerals, but the condition of things is such
that no wide awake man would care to live
tin.re longer than two weeks.”
JPBICESIO 4 YEAH. I
i maxm Atun. f
GOVERNMENTALREPORTS
FACTS ABOUT POST OFFICEB AND
POSTMASTERS.
3,043 Now Offices Established During
the Past Year and 1,500 Discon
tinued 13,078 Postmasters Ap
pointed During the Twelve Month*—
Pennsylvania the Most Numerously
Supplied State.
Washington, Nov. 27.— The annual re
port of First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Stevenson shows that the number
of post offices established during the past
fiscal year was 3,043, a decrease of 430 os
compared with the previous year, and that
the number discontinued was 1,500, au in
crease of 380 over tho year ended June 80,
1886. The whole number of post offices in
operation June 30. 1887 was 55,157.
Appointments of postmasters were made
during the year as follows: On resignations
and commissions expired, 6,863; on removals
and suspensions, 2,584; on deaths of post
masters, 580; on tlio establishment of new
offices, 3,043. The total number of appoint
ments made during the year was 13,078, a
net decrease of 9,670 as compared with last
year.
Tho largest increase in the number of
offices in any of the H ates and Territories
during tho year was as follows: Pennsvlva
nia 118, Georgia 93, Texas 77 and Vir
ginia 74.
There were seven States which, on June
30, contained more than 2,000 offices each,
as follows: Pennsylvania 4,119, New York
3,248. Ohio 3,834, Virginia 2,355, Illinois
2,226, Missouri 2,117, and North Carolina
2,110, making altogether more thau one
third of the whole number of offices in the
U nited States.
The number of money order offices in
operation J une .80, was 7,745, an increase of
481 over the previous year.
GOLD AND SILVER.
The Annual Report of the Director of
the Mint.
Washington, Nov. 27.— The Director of
the Mint has submitted to the Secretary of
the Treasury his annual report for 1887.
The value of the gold and silver received at
the mints and assay offices during the year
was greater than in any previous year sinc e
1881. The value of tho gold deposited was
$68,223,072. In addition there were re-de
posits of the value of $15,193,706, making
tho total value of the gold deposited
$83,416,770, against $49,606,534 in 1886.
The value of the silver deposited and pur
chased was $47,756,918. In addition tWe
were re-deposits of silver amounting to
$402,113, maging the total, calculated at the
coining rate, $48,219,031 against $37,917,026
in the preceding year.
Of the gold deposited $32,973,027 was of
domestic production, $22,571,326 of foreign
gold bullion, $9,896,512 of foreign gold coin.
$514,984 of United States gold coin, and
$2,265,219 of old material.
Tho Director estimates the stock of gold
and silver coin in the United States Nov. 1,
1887, to have been: Gold, $574,927,873: sil
ver dollars, 277,110,157; subsidiary silver,
$75,758,186; total coin, $927,796,216.
SOUTH CAROLINA TAXES.
A Bill to Abolish Them on Real and
Personal Property.
Charleston, Not. 27.—A bill will be In
troduced in the Legislature to-morrow to
abolish all taxes on real and personal
property. The proposition is for the State
to repeal all privileges to dredge phosphate
rocks in navigable waters for which miners
now pay a royalty of (1 per ton
and to undertake the work of
mining of phosphates and manufacture
of fertilizers through a commission ap
pointed for the purpose. The expenses of
the State government amount to about
$1,000,000 annually, which amount is raised
by taxation. The phosphate royalty yields
about $200,000. The promoters of the move
ment claim that more than $1,000,000 can
lie raised by the State taking charge of the
phosphate Industry. The scheme looks wild
but it has its supporters.
CEDAR KEYS CHIPS.
How Thanksgiving' Was Observed-
Prosperity of the Town.
Cedar Keys, Fla., Nov. 27 —Thanks
giving day is post, and. upon the whole, has
been well spent. Clerks and employes gen
erally had an enjoyable holiday. Some
went out Wednesday night on camp bunts
and other parties followed in the morning.
The weather was delightful and not at all
cold. The Cun Club shot two match scores,
Mr. Dozier’s party gaining one and Mr.
Morris’ party the other.
Ce<lar Keys has much to be thankful for.
Her schools are prospering, the trustees of
School No. 8 find it necessary to enlarge the
rooms, and add another teacher. A com
munication to the Morning News some
months since stating that this school needed
a first-class teacher, wus replied to by Prof.
Carr, of Calvert, Tex., who was accepted
by the trustees, and is now in charge and
doing splendid work.
The new Methodist church rapidly ap
proaches completion and it is hoped will be
ready by Christmas.
The Morgan line steamers reach this port
weekly from New Orleans on Friday, and
from Havana Saturday. The steamer Gov,
Halford is on her usual run to Tarpon and
Manatee, leaving every Monday and Thurs
day.
The nevr ice factory is arriving and will
lie erected at once.
Tourists and visitors arrive by every
train.
The movement of fruit is quite heavy,
and the freight business taxes the railroad’s
capacity. The fish and oyster business is
also greater than ever before.
The cwlar pencil factories are constantly
increasing their output, and have no time
to spare, the pressure at the Engle factory
being too great to stop, even for the obaerv
ance of the national holiday.
The health of the city is better than ever
before, very few cases of illness having oc
curred during the year.
Cedar Keys does not want a boom, but
unless all signs fail, she will be in the midst
of one before the present winter is over.
The government contractors, R. Moore &
Cos., of Mobile, have completed the work of
dredging a cut through the middle ground,
and the dredge has been towed to Galveston.
There is now fourteen feet of water on the
bar at high tide.
The old reliable Morning News, the pa
per that has never learned to sling mud, is
nighly appreciated by the people here, and
is growing in favor and in worth.
Brunswick’s Journal.
Brunswick, Ga., Nov. 27.—Henry
Moore, of Augusta, has taken editorial
managementof the Daily Journal. The
Journal will now be runjaa a strictly Demo
cratic paper, and will advocate tariff re -
form. A handsome new building, corner of
F and Newcastle streets, has been rented,
and the Journal will move into its new
quarters Dec. L